上海建桥学院大学英语制作

1. Book Three 上海建桥学院大学英语制作

2. Unit Four Extraterrestrials

3. Text A The Watery Place

4. Content • Background Information • Warm-up Activity • Text organization • Sentence study • Words and Phrases • Abstract

5. Background Information

6. Background Information Extra-terrestrial life( E.T.) It is the life-forms that may have evolved on other planets. There is no solid evidence at present that life exists other than on the Earth.

7. The Planets Background Information Our solar system has nine planets within it. These planets are : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto back

8. Background Information Venus Venus is the second major planet in order of distance from the Sun and nearest to the Earth of all the planets in the solar system. Also known as Hesperus, the evening star when it is in the west at sunset, or Phosphorus, the morning star when it appears in the east at sunrise, Venus can be the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon and follows a near-circular path some 106 million kilometers from the Sun, taking 225 days to complete one orbit.

9. Brief Introduction to the Author Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is a Russian-born American writer and scientist. He was a distinguished biochemist, but is more widely known as the author of many works of science fiction, books on science for non-scientists, and essays on a wide variety of subjects. Among his best-known science fiction are I, Robot (1950) and the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953). Building on Karel Capek’s concept of the robot, in 1941 Asimov coined the term robotics. The text is taken from The Complete Stories (volume 1) published by Doubleday in 1990.

10. Warm-up Activity

11. Warm-up Activity 1. Have you ever seen some movies or read some science fictions about ET? 2.Do you believe there are lives on other planets, say, Mars or Venus? Could you imagine their appearance? 3.If there were to be space visitors to the earth, how would they come ? Would you welcome them or drive them away?

12. Text organization

13. Text organization This passage is a narration. The narrator first presents a thesis, an overall theme for the story. Then, the story unfolds, in chronological order, with sufficient detail and description that readers can experience the events along with you.

14. Text organization The text is arranged by time order The narrator claims that no ET will ever land on earth (paras1~3) Before the ET’s arrival(paras4~5) The landing of the flying saucer.(paras6-11) An account of the encounter with ETs ,making it clear that they will never return. The meeting with the ET(paras12~34) After the ET’s departure(paras35~48)

15. Text organization

16. Sentence study

17. 【解析】 句中 “light”是“启发，了解”的意思。其他含有类似light用法的短语有： come/bring to light 成为人所周知 see the light 了解真相；接受看法 throw/shed light on 解释，使显得清楚 Sentence study 1. You could see the light break in on Cameron (L.54) 你可以看到卡默伦脸上开始显出领悟的神情。

18. Sentence study 新证据最近才为人所知。 New evidence has recently come to light. 她没向他们提供任何有关她丈夫下落的线索。 She has told them nothing that could shed light on her husband's whereabouts.

19. 【解析】 句中 “ go for ” 的意思是“ be attracted by, like or prefer ”。 “not having met many outside the army” 这个现在分词的完成式做插入语，补充说明他没怎么见过外国人这一情况。 Sentence study 2. Cameron didn’t go much for foreigners, never having met many outside the army, but generally he tried to be fair.(L.55-56) 卡默伦不怎么喜欢外国人，退伍后就没怎么见过外国人，不过总的来说他尽力做到为人公正。

20. Sentence study 许多年轻人都喜欢流行音乐。 Many young people go for pop music. 说到唱歌，你今晚愿意和我一块去音乐会吗？ Talking of singing, will you go to the concert with me tonight?

21. 【解析】 “do not as/so much as do sth” 表示“ do not even do”,这句话中表示“ 我甚至不会摔倒”。 Sentence study 3. …but I couldn’t as much as fall down if someone had pushed the chair out from under me.(L.69-70) …可此刻若有人从我身后把椅子抽开，我也不会摔倒在地。

22. Sentence study 约翰走了过去，看都没看我一眼。 John walked by without so much as giving me a glance of recognition.

23. 【解析】 “wit” 表示“quick understanding; intelligence”, 其他wit的短语还有：at one’s wit’s end 智穷计尽；collect/gather one’s wits使自己镇定下来； display/exercise one’s wits；展露才智/动脑筋；rack one’s wits 绞尽脑汁。 Sentence study 4. He was too surprised to resist and when he recovered his wits enough to make like he was going to knock me down, he caught sight of what was going on outside the window and the breath went out of him. (L.102-104) 他在震惊之下都没有反抗，等他回过神来似乎想要把我击倒时，正好看见窗外的情景，顿时气都喘不出来了。

24. Sentence study 1.I'm at my wits' end worrying about how to pay the bills. 2.The little girl was terrified out of her wits. 3.Generations of urban living sharpened their wits.

25. Words and Phrases

26. Words and Phrases • disable • vt. make ( a person) unable to use his / her body properly 使残废 那个腿部受伤致残的士兵正沉浸在悲哀之中。 The soldier disabled by wounds in his leg is buried in sadness.

27. Words and Phrases 2. bug vt. open wide, cause to stick out; annoy 张大，使突出，打扰 n. 臭虫, 窃听器, [计算机]漏洞 他恐惧地张大了双眼。 His eyes bugged with horror. 别拿琐碎的细节问题来烦我。 Don’t bug me with petty details.

28. Words and Phrases 3. isolate vt. set apart; cut off from others 使隔离，使孤立 科学家们已分离出引起这种流行病的病毒。 Scientists have isolated the virus causing the epidemic.

29. Words and Phrases 4. adopt vt. take over and use as one’s own; take into one’s family and make legal son or daughter 采用，收养 我们采用了新的酿酒方法。 We adopted the new method of making wine. 红十字会在阿富汗收养了大批无家可归的孩子。 The Red Cross has adopted a lot of homeless children in Afghanistan.

30. Words and Phrases 5. blink v. shut and open the eyes quickly; flash on and off 眨（眼），闪烁 亮光照射着她时，她眨了眨眼睛。 She blinked (her eyes) as the bright light shone on her. 灯光在地平线上闪烁着。 The lights were blinking on the horizon.

31. Words and Phrases 6. at sb’s service willing to help sb. 愿意为某人效劳 其他service 的搭配还有： be of service to sb (对某人）有好处，能帮忙 On service 在职，在服现役 in/ out of service (尤指车辆等）在使用中/ 已不能用 In service (of) 在（为…)服役

32. Words and Phrases “Would you fetch me my glasses from the kitchen, Bob?” “At your service, madam.” Don’t thank me—I’m glad to be of service.

33. Words and Phrases 7. Come around visit someone at their house; become conscious again; 顺便走访, 复苏 其他表示“走访”“顺便来访”的短语还有： Call at/ on 短暂拜访 Call in 顺路到某处/某人家里 Drop in ( on sb) 顺便走访某人 Stop by/ in 顺便走访

34. Words and Phrases I've been so sorry you couldn't come around this week. It was three weeks before she came around.

35. Words and Phrases 8. heave v. raise or lift; rise up 举起，升起 他们把钢琴抬到了舞台上。 They hove the piano onto the stage.

36. Words and Phrases • fade out • disappear gradually 逐渐消失 • 其他fade的搭配有： • Fade away 逐渐凋谢，慢慢减弱 • Fade in （使）淡入，渐显 这个想法似乎被淡忘了，俱乐部始终没有建立起来。 The idea seemed to fade out and the club was never formed.

37. Abstract

38. Summary The Watery Place is a science fiction short story. It is narrated by the unnamed deputy sheriff of Twin Gulch, Idaho, who opens the story by claiming that extraterrestrials will never land on earth. This, he says, is due to his boss, Sheriff Bart Cameron. The deputy explains that Cameron is an impatient man generally, and becomes particularly impatient when he's working on his income taxes. It was the world's bad fortune that the first extraterrestrials to land on Earth happened to arrive in Twin Gulch, Idaho on the evening of 14 April, 1956.

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