新标准大学英语第二版综合教程2Unit6A篇练习答案及课文翻译.pptxVIP

第1页/共151页新标准大学英语第二版综合教程2Unit6A篇练习答案及课文翻译第2页/共151页Warming UpWatch the clip of the movie Meet the Parents and answer the questions.1. Do you think the men unlucky? 2. How many unlucky things can you find in the film? 3. Do you believe one bad leads to another? 4.Have you ever run into any unlucky things?Key第3页/共151页Warming Up1. Do you think the men unlucky? Yes.2. How many unlucky things can you find in the film? First, they lost their way. Second, they had the wrong map. Third, they ran into the cop …3. Do you believe one bad leads to another? Open answer.4. Have you ever run into any unlucky things? Open answer.第4页/共151页TextCan bad luck be explained?第5页/共151页TextCan bad luck be explained?1 Toast always lands butter side down. It always rains on bank holidays. You never win the lottery, but other people you know seem to ... Do you ever get the impression that you were born unlucky? Even the most rational person can be convinced at times that there is a force out there making mishaps occur at the worst possible time. We all like to believe that Murphy’s Law is true (“if it can go wrong, it will”).第6页/共151页Text2 Part of the explanation for bad luck is mathematical, but part is psychological. Indeed there is a very close connection between people’s perception of bad luck and interesting coincidences.3 For example, take the belief that “bad things always happen in threes” (just like buses ...!) This popular notion would be unlikely to stand the scrutiny of any scientific study, but it must have some basis in experience, otherwise the phrase would never have arisen in the first place. What might be the rational explanation?第7页/共151页Text4 The first question is “what is bad?”5 Some things are only marginally bad, for example the train arriving five minutes late. Some are extremely bad, such as failing an exam or being sacked. So badness is much better represented as being on a spectrum rather than something which is there or not there.6 A particular event may only be a