Unit-2-How-Readng-Changed-My-Life-第二版-现代大学英语精读.ppt

wander the world commit sth to memory He committed the notes of that meeting to memory and then burned them. aspire to sth; aspire to do sth Different people aspire to different things. Mary is ambitious enough to aspire to conversational fluency in Chinese in two months. We aspire to be the best within our field. Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Words Expressions (1) Word-formation: undersung underestimated underdeveloped underdone underfunded undermanned undernourished unerpaid underpopulated underused under- + past participle: not enough Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Words Expressions (2) Fill in the blanks. In one corner of the living room______ a club chair. I used to _______ on it, reading with my skinny legs ___________one of its arms. Of course, I had clear memories of normal childhood, ______ the rocks in the creek that ____________ Naylor’s Run to _______ for crayfish and laying pennies on the tracks of the trolley and running to _____ them when the trolley ___________. Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part I: Exercise sat sprawl slung over lifting trickled through search fetch had passed 1. What bias do people have against those who read much? Lazy, Aimless dreamer, Loner, Arrogant 2. What is the something in the American character that is hostile to the act of aimless reading? Reading is nothing more than a tool for advancement Sociability and community Go-out-and-get-going ethos Admiration of men of action Pragmatic tradition in America character →Pragmatism Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part II: Discussion Pragmatism Key tenets of pragmatism Primacy of practice Concrete thinking rather than conceptualization Naturalism Scientific methods Skepticism Prominent figures Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey Text Analysis Detailed Analysis 3. Why can an executive learn far more from Moby-Dick? 4. What do you think of books on success? Text A