turn round= turn around: (cause sb./ sth. to ) face in a different direction ---Turn round and let me look at your back. 转过去，让我看看你的后背。 ---Turn your chair round to the fire. 把你的椅子转向炉火一边。 turn to: sb./ sth.: go to sb./ sth. for help
---The more depressed he got, the more he turned to drink. 他情绪越是低落越借酒浇愁。 ---The child turned to his mother for comfort. 那孩子向母亲寻求安慰。
8) Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. 成功人士是那些自己想出什么事却让其他人忙着去做的人。 think about : 考虑 / think of 想起
---Jane is thinking about quitting her job.
---Whenever he thinks of the sad experience, his heart sinks. (Page16-3)
1) While farming, Benneker pursued his mathematical studies and taught himself astronomy. 干农活时，贝纳克继续学习数学，并自学了天文学。 2) Misused words often generate misleading thoughts. 词的误用常常导致思想的误导。
3) Lafayette Hotel is patronized by international celebrities drawn to its French food and service. 拉法耶特饭店的法国菜及服务吸引了不少国际名人经常光顾。
4) A person who thinks that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
认为金钱万能的人很可能被怀疑其所做的所有事情都是为了金钱。
5) A person surely has to face a good many bitter disappointments before he gets through life. 人生过程中人们肯定要面临很多让人痛苦失望的事情。 (Page17-4)
1) Seeing that more and more people are concerned about the quality of their indoor environment, John is considering starting an interior decoration business. It seems certain to earn a profit, but he does not yet have enough money invest in it. 由于看到越来越多的人关心室内环境的质量，约翰琢磨着要开办一家室内装修公司。看起来这一行肯定能带来丰厚的利润，但他目前还没有足够资金可以投入。
2) This device is primarily used for the improvement of the sound quality of electronic media. It was invented in the US, but now it is used on a global scale.
这一装置用于改善导电介质的声音质量。它是美国发明的，但现在使用范围已经遍及全球。 3) When the first settlers came to America, their household utensils consisted of a few pots, pans and some bowls stacked in one corner of the house. There wasn’t much material temptation around them. They never dined out in a restaurant as we often do nowadays. 最初移民来到美洲时，他们所携带的家具用品包括一些罐、锅和碗，这些东西就堆放在屋角。他们周围没有多少物质诱惑。他们从不像我们现在这样常出去吃饭。 2. Confusable Words
1). home : a place where one lives; a dwelling place together with the family that occupied it. ---My home is in Shanghai.
---The nurse visits patients in their homes. house: a building for people to live in
---The Smiths used to live in a big house in the country.
family: a basic social group consisting of parents and their children and/ or other members related
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by blood or marriage
---The little girl was welcomed into the family as if she had been their own child. household: the occupants of a house regarded as a unit
---To count the number of households in the country, a national survey will be conducted soon. 2). suspect : believe to be true or probable; believe to be guilty; have doubts about or distrust. ---I suspect that rain is going to spoil our picnic. ---The police suspected him of stealing the money.
---They suspected his words because he had lied before. doubt: consider unlikely; feel uncertain or undecided about
---She said she would help me with my work, but I doubt whether she was in earnest. ---It is raining so hard. I doubt that John will come.
---No one doubted his ability to lead his people through the crisis. (Page18-1) home, house, family, household
1) I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful and more attractive skins, but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. 我住在房子里如同我存在于皮肤里一样：我知道有更美丽迷人的皮肤，但如果要我与之交换的话，我会感到不自在的。
2) Home is the place where we are treated the best, but complain the most. 家是款待我们最好的地方，也是我们抱怨最多的地方。
3) The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
我生命中最幸福的时光就是全家人共享天伦之乐的时候。
4) The number of cars owned by each household in the local area averaged 1.5 in 2001. 2001年本地家用汽车平均数为1.5辆。 (Page18-2) suspect, doubt
1) Mary has been told by her boss to finish two reports within 24 hours. I doubt if she can finish the work in time.
玛丽的老板告诉他在24小时内完成两份报告，但我怀疑她是否能够按时完成。
2) My neighbor was arrested this morning because the police suspected him of carrying out two bomb attacks.
今天早上我的邻居被捕了，因为警方怀疑他涉嫌两起爆炸袭击案。
3) People never doubted his sincerity as a public servant; for he had long devoted himself to the struggle for the independence of his nation.
人们从未怀疑他作为人民公仆的真诚，因为长期以来他一直投身于争取国家独立的斗争中。 4) I considered Roy my friend and never suspected that he has just taking advantage of me to obtain his selfish goals.
我把罗依当作朋友，从未怀疑过他利用我来谋私利。
5) Don‘t employ someone you suspect, nor suspect someone you employ. 疑人不用，用人不疑。 3. Word Formation Conversion
Conversion is one of the word-formation processes in English. It is done when a word changes its class without any change of its form. Typical cases of conversion include noun→verb, adjective→verb, verb→noun and adjective→noun. Sometimes, conversion can also be observed
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when an auxiliary verb, an adverb or conjunction is used as a noun or a verb.
e.g. Besides the usual household routine, she oversees the garden and beehives, bakes bread, cans and freezes, drives the kids to their music lessons, practices with them, takes organ lessons on her own, does research and typing for me, writes an article herself now and then, tends the flower beds, stacks a little wood and delivers the eggs. (Line27, Text A, Unit1, Book III) …(look at the text book on Page 19)
---This book is a must for students of history.
---The world is full of excuses, so don‘t but me so many buts. ---They downed a few beers and began to sing loudly.
1) For the past two decades there has been a rise in the number of single-parent families because of the ever-rising divorce rate in the country. (rise: verb→noun)
在过去20年里，由于该国的离婚率上升，单亲家庭的数量有所增加。
2) As one of the best football teams in the country, our team got all the way to the final before being beaten. (final: adjective→noun)
作为全国最好的球队之一，我们一路杀入决赛，直到最后才被击败。
3) My father is a regular in that restaurant, and all of the waiters know him. (regular: adjective→noun )
我父亲是那家餐馆的常客，所有的服务员都认识他。
4) Most hotels allow their own guests to cash their checks for small amounts, but guests have to go to the banks for larger ones. (cash: noun→verb)
大多数旅馆允许顾客用支票兑换小额现金，但如果金额较大就得去银行。
5) To protect our environment, it is important to let everybody know the hows and whys of recycling. (how / why: interrogative adverb→ noun )
为了保护我们的环境，要让每个人都知道回收利用的方法和原因，这很重要。
6) Inflation has upped the price of everything from food to industrial products. (up: adverb→ verb) 通货膨胀已提高了从食品到工业产品所有物品的价格。
7) Professor Smith is reading a very old book, the pages of which are yellowed from age. (yellow: adjective→verb ) 史密斯教授正在阅读一本非常古老的书，书页因为年久而发黄了。
8) This wine was produced in France, but it was imported in large containers and bottled in China before it was sold. (bottle: noun→verb)
这种葡萄酒原产于法国，用大桶出口到中国后再装瓶出售。
9) He needed money but would not lower himself to picking up coins on the street. (lower: adjective→verb) 他需要钱，但决不会沦落到街上捡钱的地步。
10) Life is a search for the true self and there is no easy access to that kind of truth. (search: verb→noun ) 生活就是寻找真正的自我，要达到目的没有坦途。 Comprehensive Exercises 1. Cloze (A)
(1) gets by (2) temptation (3) get through (4) picked up (5) improvements (6) aside from (7) suspect (8) supplement (9) profit (10) primarily (11) spraying (12) stacking 2. Translation
A decade ago, Nancy did what so many Americans dream about. She quit an executive position and opened/ set up a household equipment store in her neighborhood. People like Nancy made the decision primarily because of/ owing to/ due to their desire to improve the quality of
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their lives.
But, to run a small business is by no means an easy job. Without her steady income, Nancy had to cut back on her daily expenses. Sometimes she did not even have the money to pay the premiums for the various kinds of insurance she needed. Once she could not even pick up the phone bill and had to ask her parents to loan her some money.
Fortunately, through her own hard work, she has now got through the most difficult time. She is determined to continue pursuing her vision of a better life.
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Teaching Plan for Unit 2 College English Integrated Course III
---- Civil-Rights Heroes 章节 教学目的 和要求 Text A The Freedom Giver 1. understand the main idea (early civil-rights struggles in the US, esp. the Underground Railroad); 2. learn to use library resources and other resources for information; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text; 4. conduct a series of reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities related to the theme of the unit. Vocabulary & Structure abolish; authorize; capture; compel; confident; conviction; decade; disguise; exploit; historic; impose; liberate; mission; religious; terminal; as for; at risk; make the best of; on the side; pass for… 1).come to do sth. 重点 难点 Part One (Paras1-5): It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves by forging the Underground Railroad in Text Organization the early civil-rights struggles in America. Part Two (Paras6-23): By citing examples the author praises the exploits of civil-rights heroes who helped slaves travel the Underground Railroad to freedom. Skills 1. learn to use library resources and other resources for information; 教学进程(教学内容、学时分配) 1st period: Pre-reading; 2nd period: Pre-reading (Cloze B); While-reading (natural division, Part I –Part III); 3rd period: While-reading (continued); 4th period: Post-reading; Check on students‘ home reading (Text B); Theme-Related Language Learning Tasks 5th period: Focus Listening 作业布置 1. Do the rest of the after-text exercises in their spare time 或思考题 2.Read the Text B and finish the exercises 3.Do part IV: Theme-related Language Learning Tasks in class 4.Prepare the next unit: 教学手段 多媒体教学 参考资料 《全新版大学英语（教师用书）》；《全新版大学英语》导读本 《修订版大学英语听力（教师用书）》； An English-Chinese / English-English Dictionary for Cet-4 Bible； Uncle Tom’s Cabin College English Grammar The New Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary
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