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Unit 4 Society of Humanity Warm-up Questions 预热提问 1. It is said humanity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and sympathetic towards others. Do you agree? What’s your opinion? 2. Nowadays Monday seems the hardest time for people to spend during a week. Are you feeling depressed on Monday? Does “Blue Monday” really exist? Section A Read Fast 一睹为快 Passage A Topic-oriented Lead-in 抛砖引玉 Happy time is always short and fleeting. After the relaxing weekends, Monday is often regarded as a blue day by office workers among whom there are a bit of strange depressing bitterness in their mind. Nowadays, Monday seems the hardest time for people to spend during a week, which is vividly described by net friends as: “Monday again, in such situation, the feeling to go to work with burden in heart is just like going to visit a grave to honor the memory of the dead.” Are you feeling depressed on Monday? You are really happy today when you get rid of yesterday’s depression! But perhaps it is the most depressing day for you to face up tomorrow. Monday is not as hard to spend as expected in our mind. In fact, depression is always full of our daily life. For most people Monday means again stepping into a familiar depressing situation with great pressure and a lot of things to do in their work. Why are you often feeling much more depressed and nervous on Monday? What should we do to make Monday a pleasant day to enjoy? The answer is never to give up to it. There is nothing except our courage to hold a piece of clean, enjoyable sky with a lot of pleasure. Does “Blue Monday” Really Exist? Bank of New Words 词库宝典 1. wretched / ret?id / adj. very unhappy; in a very low spirits不幸的；沮丧的 I feel really confused and wretched. 我觉得十分迷惘，难过极了。 The wretched look on the little girls face made him sorry. 小女孩脸上痛苦的表情让他很难受。 2. dismal / dizm?l / adj. lacking hope or happiness；gloomy 凄凉的；忧郁的 It was a dismal failur