Unit One

Working with words and expressions

1. 1)weighed 2)submit 3)register 4)alert 5)outraged

6)integral 7)illustrates 8)critique

2. 1)dress up 2)type up 3)drifted away 4)put on

5)under way 6)fallen behind

Cloze

1)traditional 2)challenge 3)via 4)regular 5)illustrating

6)clear 7)interaction 8)integral 9)critical 10)willing

11)community 12)discipline 13)involved 14)drift 15)flexibility

Translation

When I first came into contact with online teaching, I had questions about the validity of this instructional medium. I would not know whether the student submitting the work was the same person who registered for the course.

Online teaching also required rethinking how I deliver the subject matter. Without face-to-face communication, can I, via computer, make the students feel the same kind of enthusiasm and appreciate my sense of humor?

My shy daughter’s experience proved to be very inspiring. She never spoke in class, but in the two online courses she took, she dived into discussions and posted her opinions.

The online course began and things ran better than I had expected. The sutdents all followed the directions well, and the discussion board was lively. I’ve never met any of my students but I got to know them by their work and I saw their learning attitudes develop before my eyes.

I found that online education worked best with students who were very comfortable with the computer and willing to become part of a community built around the subject matter. And it required teachers to be willing to help build that sense of community and make the students feel the teacher was always there.

Unit Two

Working with words and expressions

1. 1)merely 2)charitable 3)sentimental 4)salvage 5)clippings

6)Reclining 7)sloppy 8)meticulously

2. 1)pile up 2)part with 3)rinse…off 4)set up 5)toyed with 6)cut down on

7)finished with 8)get…over with 9)cutting a swath through 10)at heart

Cloze

1)meaner 2)heart 3)process 4)vision 5)immediate

6)wasteful 7)economics 8)ambitious 9)someday 10)attitudes

11)vicious 12)insensitive 13)toy 14)clutter 15)attention

Translation

Sloppy people are not really sloppy. It is just that the plan they carry in their mind’s eye is too precise, too stupendous and too perfect to be achieved in this world or the next. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file ad order. When they finally set about handling things, sloppy people just can’t bear to part with anything. After hours of work, the place looks exactly the same. So sloppy people never get neat.

Neat people place neatness above everything else. They like results and don’t care about process. They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions. If anything collects dust, it’s got to go. The are incredibly wasteful. Anything that is not of immediate use goes into the trash. They are insensitive and there is no sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying ever wrote. Neat nepole operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away. So the only thing messy in a neat person’s house is the trash can.

So neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people. The distinction between them is moral.

Unit Three

Working with words and expressions

1. 1)bunch 2)addicted 3)abuse 4)reunion 5)suppressed 6)sown

7)venture 8)liberated 9)starved 10)statistics

2. 1)coupled with 2)wondering aloud 3)best of all 4)close at hand

5)crossed his mind 6)sit by

Close

1)coupled 2)puff 3)glamorous 4)dapper 5)addicted

6)ghettoes 7)instead 8)self-poisoning 9)futility 10)empathy

11)venerated 12)captured 13)suppressed 14)redeem 15)slogan

Translation

Her daughter smoked and she felt a deep hurt as her mother. She remembered how as a child she sat by, through the yards, and watched her father, who smoked like a chimney, wheeze through most of his life feeling half his strength, and she remembered how carefully she ate when she was pregnant, how patiently she taught her daughter how to cross a street safely. She had a feeling of futility when she saw her daughter repeating the mistake of her grandfather.

She did not want to see in the family another victory for the tobacco companies, but she was faced with powerful rivals: the tobacco industry and Hollywood. The two collaborated to win over completely people like her father and made them hopelessly addicted to cigarettes.

It is not easy to quit smoking, but things may become easier if smokers realize that smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by, and if we can really make “every home a smoke-free zone.”

Unit Five

Working with words and expressions

1. 1)steering 2)panic 3)refrained 4)intrude 5)unify

6)desperation 7)assert 8)squeeze 9)overload 10)recurring

2. 1)mistook…for 2)came apart 3)in relation to 4)put up with

5)cut out 6)in waves 7)in the vicinity of 8)leave…out

9)mulling over 10)engage in 11)gathered up 12)out of commission

Close

1) admit 2)incapable 3)relation 4)simple 5)understandable

6)refrain 7)wrote 8)squeezed 9)assertion 10)slip

11)solitaire 12)shifting 13)various 14)distribute 15)sanity

Translation

Do you have this lingering doubt that you won’t be able to write something when you need to? Do you feel it’s like a constant fog or static that clouds the mind and you can never get out of its clutches?

As a matter of fact, it is possible to write something ---- not something great or pleasing but at least something usable, workable ---- when your mind is out of commission.

The trick is to do all your cooking out on the table because your mind is incapable of doing any inside.

Try simply to steer your mind in the direction or general vicinity of the thing you are trying to write about and start writing and keeping writing. Be as loose, drifting, quirky and jerky as possible when you write. Don’t think about what you are writing or what you have written or else you will overload the circuit again.

Then take some little pieces of paper and simply read over from the beginning of what you wrote, and see if you can gather up something useful into one sentence and write it by itself o a little sheet of paper. Then, read through the little slips of paper a number of times and build a relationship among them until they get into different piles. At this point, you can finally begin to think, and that lab report which has been occupying your mind is no longer unreachable.

Unit Seven

Working with words and expressions

1. 1)resolve 2)potential 3)fated 4)restored 5)consolidate

6)muttering 7)offend 8)consumed 9)brilliance 10)internal

2. 1)clawed his way 2)leave…behind 3)started out 4)come to terms with

5)sit back 6)to tell the truth 7)a string of 8)every now and then

Close

1)dislikable 2)species 3)ambition 4)cheated 5)luck

6)reason 7)disappointed 8)consumed 9)on 10)miserable

11)slogging 12)gratification 13)desirable 14)limit 15)potential

Translation

I’ve always liked ambitious people, because I find people with grandiose dreams entertaining, interesting to talk to, and fun to watch. I don’t really like very specific, attainable ambitions. What I mean by ambition is dreaming big dreams, putting no limits on your expectations and your hopes.

As you grow up, you become more realistic, wiser about your potential, your abilities, and the number of things your life can hold. Back when I was in college, I wanted ot live a wild, adventurous life, to travel alone to all the most exotic parts of the world, but this ambition didn’t pan out, because I found that I was not fated to live such a life.

Now, in my thirties, I no longer pretend that there is room in my life for any and every kind of ambition I can imagine. Yet, even though I have to come to terms with limitations, I will never completely abrogate my own ambition, and plan my life according to the external yardsticks of the world. I’m glad to find that little internal voice still there, whispering to me, “You are supposed to do it better and get further.”

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