阅读教程1Unit 7-1.ppt

Unit 7 Culture and Customs Lecture One Quotations The explanation of the quotations 1. Culture is not only the positive result of meaningful education, but also the results of people’s feeling, judgment about things and ways of behaving. 2. Culture is not only reflected in books and architectures, but also in our clothing , gestures as head movements and postures as the way we walk and so on. 3. People tend to satisfied with the most ordinary things around them; they make few impressions of beautiful and perfect things though they should appreciate those to keep their feelings alive. Everyone ought to do these things everyday, such as hearing a little song, reading a good poem, see a fine picture and possibly, speaking a few reasonable words. READING ONE Background information Donner Pass party The Donner Party was made up of eighty-seven migrants [?maigr?nt] in 23 wagons heading to the modern-day American state of California from Sangamon County, Illinois(伊里诺斯州桑加门县). The Donner Party was two families: the Donners and the Reeds. They left Illinois in 1846 and had much difficulty passing the Great Salt Lake in the modern-day state of Utah. By November they were trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains(内华达山脉). They were forced into camping at a small lake (now called Donner Lake). Reports seem to vary, but a party of perhaps sixteen or twenty eight attempted a crossing of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Ultimately this party landed in deep. Impassable snow, their supplies running low and they were reported to have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive the winter. Reputably nine men died and seven were eaten by hungry companions. Seven (five women, two men) reached safety over the mountains in February. 1847, naked and frostbitten. Reading one Check your comprehension A 1. What people eat, when they eat and how they eat are patterned by culture. Some edibles are ignored, others tabooed. T