《基础英语》课件 Unit One Thinking as a Hobby.pptVIP

Global Reading Questions Answers 1. What do you think about the structure of the text? (1) How does the author begin the text? The author gives us a brief introduction: There are three kinds of thinking and I myself could not think at all. (2) What can we learn from paras 2—14? The headmaster’s criticism of the writer for being unable to think. (3) What can we learn from paras 15—21? The writer’s observation of his teachers to find out about thought. (4) What can we learn from paras 22—24? The writer’s conclusion about grade-three thinking: feeling rather than thought, full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy. (5) What is the main idea of para 25? Grade-two thinking: the detection of contradictions but unable to offer anything constructive. It destroys without the power to create. Therefore the satisfaction it brings the thinker is limited and does not last. (6) What does the author tell us in paras 26—28? A typical grade-thinker: the writer in youth. (7) What can we conclude from paras 30—32? Grade-one thinkers aim to find truth, and the writer wishes to become a grade-one thinker. (8) How does the author develop the whole passage to the end? The author’s conversion into a grade-one thinker. Structure of the Text : Part I: Introduction (para 1) Part II: The three grades of thinking (paras 2—32) a. Grade-one thinking (paras 2—24) b. Grade-two thinking (paras 25—29) c. Grade-three thinking (paras 30—32) Part III: Conclusion (paras 33—35) Detailed Reading But, alas, instead of relying on the Holy Spirit to convert me, Ruth was foolish enough to open her pretty mouth in argument. (para 26) 1) Paraphrase: But, unfortunately, it is foolish for Ruth to argue with me instead of depending on the Holy Spirit to persuade me to become a follower. 2) Culture: In the Christian religion, the Holy Spirit refers to God in the form of spirit. Holy Spirit指圣灵。基督教中有圣父( God the Father)、圣子(God the Son)和圣灵之说。 She claimed that the Bible