新融合大学英语综合教程2拓展材料-Unit 1
Part I Pre-reading
Section C Recitation
Directions: Read the article and try to recite it.
Online Shopping
Online shopping has a lot of advantages over going in person to the shops.
Shoppers can check reviews and recommendations on the Internet before they make their decisions, without having someone sort of breathing down their necks. Online shopping is truly global so people can buy the best products from Europe, America, or Africa, depending on what their speciality is.
Distance is no longer a problem. Most sellers provide an express service. Goods get delivered straight to the door quickly. Shoppers don’t even need to step out of the house and go to the shops. They can stay at home with a nice cup of tea and buy their shopping online.
However, there are certain disadvantages too. Some people don’t buy stuff online because of security reasons. Compared to traditional business,e-business is very easy for people to hack into sites and get details.
Section D More fun
Directions: Appreciate the funny story.
It was Christmas and the judge was in a benevolent mood as he questioned the prisoner.
“What are you charged with?” he asked.
“Doing my Christmas shopping early,” replied the defendant.
“That’s no offense,” replied the judge, “How early were you doing this shopping?”
“Before the store opened,” countered the prisoner.
新融合大学英语综合教程2拓展材料-Unit 2
Part I Pre-reading
Section C Recitation
Directions: Read the short essay and try to recite it.
English as a Crazy Language
Let’s face it — English is a crazy language. There is neither egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposite? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
Section D More Fun
Directions:Appreciate the quotations.
1. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
—Frank Smith, American psycholinguist
第一门语言置你于生命的长廊中，第二门语言帮你打开沿途的各个大门。
——美国语言心理学家，弗兰克•史密斯
2. Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
—Rita Mae Brown, American writer
语言有一种潜在的力量，就像月亮对于潮汐的那种力量。
——美国作家，丽塔•梅•布朗
3. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British
philosopher
如果我们说不同的语言，或许我们将看到不同的世界。
——英国籍奥地利哲学家，路德维希•维特根斯坦
4. To have another language is to possess a second soul.
—Charlemagne, King of the Franks
掌握了另一种语言就是拥有了第二个灵魂。
——法兰克王国国王，查理大帝
5. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet
语言是灵魂之血，在思想中流淌，在成长中渗出。
——美国诗人，奥利弗•温戴尔•霍姆斯。