Comprehension
Questions
1.Why the
author got the answer so quickly.
2. In a class of 60
seniors at a private college where he recently taught, not one student could
write a short paper without misspellings.
3. Because he didn’t
want to have to compete with Asians. His attitude suggest he is lazy and tired
of study.
4. Planes
will crash. Computer will jam. Cars will break down.
5. A movie, or TV
series, dramatizing just how difficult it was for this country to get where it
is-and how easily it could all be lost.
6. When
reading a book, The Wealth of Nations,
he found it boring and fell sleep.
7. Because
he cannot write and read and cannot get a job with steady wages. His children.
8. He
works as a clearer in a factory owned by the Japanese.
9. Because
he has no useful skills. Machines built in Japan do all the complex work, and
there is little manual work to be done. Witout education, without discipline,
he cannot earn an adequate living wage.
10.There
is gunfire all day and all night.people pay no attention to politics, and
government offers no services to the working class.
11. He
explains that when a man has no money, education can supply the human capital
necessary to start to acquire financial capital. Hard work, education, saving
and discipline can do anything
12. He
gets to know the importance of hard work, education, saving and discipline.
Key words
for discussion
1. The young Americans will have to
compete with Asians whether they want to or not. They cannot live forever on
the financial, material and human capital accumulated by their ancestors. At some
point soon, their intellectual laziness will seriously affect their way of
life. A modern industrial state cannot function with idle, ignorant labor
force. Plant will crash. Computers will jam. Cars will break down.
2. We ought to study hard.
3. Yes. Because if a man doesn’t
properly use his intellect. He will
affect the rest of us.
Text
organization
Part one
1-10 Teenagers’ ignorance and idleness will seriously affect their lives and
society as a whole.
Part two
11-24 Kevin 1990 realize through his dream that lack of education costs
greatly, his forebears, himself, his children and the society they live in and
how important it is to study hard.
Part One
Cause -
Effects
Teenagers’
intellectual laziness and ignorance----------------All people will be seriously
affected. A modern industrial state will stop functioning.
Lack of
education------------------Kevin 1990, and his forebears, excluding his
industrious father, and his children lead a miserable contemptible life. America is on
the decline and there is no law or discipline. American children could not
receive a good education. Business and industry are owned by Europeans and
Asians.
1.
1. drive home
2. idle
3. is functioning
4. searched
5. scared
6. handful
7. luxury
8. ability
9. woke up
10. slice
11. miracle
12. has broken down
13. was jammed
14. faculties
15. humble
2.
1. to be seriously affected by the rise in gas
prices.
2. decline in the number of people
3.made a suggestion
4.was astonished when they heard
of a plan
5.had run out of water by
3.
1. complex in can’t compete with
2. was very upset make a living by swore
was much better off adequate
3. acquired…Ignorant of…paintings
summed up
II.
1. made $ 5
2. made you change your mind
3. make a good lawyer
4. make it vomit
5. makes interesting
6. makes ten
7. make 20
8. make it to the top
III.
1. developing
2. develop
3. development
4. develop
5. developing/developed
2
1. amazed
2. amazes
3. amazingly
4. amazing
5. amazement
Structure
1.With the help of a bank loan,
2.Without first-hand knowledge
3.With support from the trade nion,
4.Without trying hard to build up a large vocabulary
2.
1.While I admit that
2.While reading the newspaper
3.while Jane is ready
4. While she is a likeable girl.
I. Cloze
Decline
Complex/complicated
Idle make a living
Accumulated
Affect
Function
Faculties
Ignorance
Compete
Wake up
(B)
Half
Ever
During
When
From
Enough
Since
And
Marrying
About
None
Whom
Writing
If
Sound
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