综合英语II 第二册参考书 Unit 2 Text A Less Is More.docVIP

Unit Two Text A Less is More Detailed Study of the Text: I could never understand how my eating all of the food on my plate would help the starving children in African. (para.1) In this sentence, “my” is the logic subject of the gerund “eating”, more examples: I appreciate your coming to see me. The president’s attending the meeting himself gave them a great deal of encouragement. Europe and American waste enough food to feed the world 3 times over. (para.3) In Europe and American, people waste so much food that is enough to feed more than three times the world population. … grabbing a quick bite from a fast food joint, but never get around to fixing the food I bought. (para.5) … eating something quickly at a fast food restaurant, but never find time cooking the food I bought. grab a quick bite: to eat sth. in a hurry, e.g. Americans living at a fast pace often just “grab a quick bite”. I skipped lunch today, so I need to grab a quick bite. joint: a cheap place where people go for some form of entertainment, e.g. a hamburger joint 汉堡包店 get around to (doing) sth.: to try to find time doing sth., e.g. I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it. Ive got bags of photographs and one day Ill get around to putting them in an album. Pay attention to the different meanings of the word fix in different contexts, e.g. …why someone wasn’t fixing the problem. (para.1) (to solve) Too often we expect everyone else to fix the world. (para.12) (to make … more beautiful) Let me fix you a drink. (to make; to prepare) Harry tried to fix the car, but he was all thumbs. (to repair) It’s fixed. He is going to meet us at the airport. (to arrange) She kept her mind?fixed on the practical problems which faced her. (to give full attention) The government has really got itself into a?fix. (a difficult situation) … let alone the sad fact that in this day and age we still have people star