新视野大学英语读写教程4unit5预习资料.docVIP

Unit 5 section A 1. English Equivalents of Chinese 征服广袤的荒野 to tame the great wild areas 最有用的东西 a major commodity 自视甚高 to speak highly of oneself 毫无疑问 no doubt about it 蹑手蹑脚地走开 to creep away 交通繁忙的大路 a busy road 有人为伴 to have company 某人主要的高洁之处 the main point of one’s nobility 砍柴 to chop wood 洗衣服 to do a laundry 以……为伴 to have … for company 随意 as you please 熬夜 to stay up late 详细叙说 to talk at length 快乐的结局 a happy ending 2.Compound Dictation I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in [S1] ________, even with the best, is soon [S2] _________ and dissipating (散伙). I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so [S3] ______________ as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our [S4] _________. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that [S5] ________ between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as [S6] _______ as a dervish (托钵僧) in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel [S7] ________, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the [S8] ______ of his thoughts, but must be where he can “see the folks,” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate (酬劳) himself for his day’s solitude; and [S9] ________________________________ __________________________ and most of the day without ennui (厌倦) and “the blues”; but [S10] ___________________________________________ ____________________________, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and [S11] _______ _______________________________________ 3. Structure Analysis Our topic today is “living alone”. Like it or not, it is true of the American life that many people live alone. For most of them, living alone is a compelled choice, whereas, for som