新编英语教程7Unit10.pptVIP

Unit 10Text I Fear of Dearth Carll Tucker Carll Tucker（1951-- ） The author— Carll Tucker（1951-- ），U.S. writer, is a graduate of Yale University(1973), where was a Scholar of the House and Phi Beta Kappa. He is now Director of Caranoor Center for Music and Arts, and president of Tucker Communications(1986- ). He has written for such publications as Village Voice, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Arts and Leisure section, and the New Republic. From 1977-1981 he was editor of Saturday Review; there he wrote a popular column called “The Back Door”. “Fear of Dearth”, from that column, represents his amusingly philosophical style of comment as he analyzes the various reasons why people have taken up jogging. Fear of Dearth Fear of (being worried about) Dearth (lack/shortage) Dearth (lack/shortage): in the text, “the loss/exhaustion of natural resources” Being worried about losing natural resources 自然资源枯竭之忧 虑及自然资源之枯竭 为自然资源之枯竭而忧虑/担忧 What are the natural resources for the human beings? Rivers, lakes, forests, oceans, mountains… natural resources of human beings: land resources 土地资源 mineral resources 矿藏资源 water resources 水利资源 ocean resources 海洋资源 forest resources 森林资源 biological resources（animals plants） 生物资源 … ▲What is the nearest natural resource for each of us? Our physical health. Pre-Reading Questions: 1. Why do we do physical exercises(e.g. running, jumping, ball games, Kungfu, Qigong, Taijiquan, Taiji soft ball太极柔力球 tennis racket )? 2. Why does the author relate jogging to a fear of dearth (the loss/exhaustion of natural resources)? 1. Death is natural. Birth, old age, sickness and death(生老病死), all of them are unavoidable/natural for a person, all of them happen very naturally. So generally we do not fear death. The major reasons why we do physical exercises are to keep fit and to prolong our lives. 2. What is the relation between jogging natural resources)? What is the purpose of the essay? To express a fear of de