Unit2 Text 1

The Company Man

Warm-up Activity

B What U Wanna Bdoctor, actor, lawyer or a singerwhy not president, be a dreameryou can be just the one you wanna bepolice man, fire fighter or a post man

why not something like your old manyou can be just the one you wanna bedriver, actor, lawyer or a singer why not president, be a dreamer you can be just the one you wanna be

why not something like your old manyou can be just the one you wanna bedriver, actor, lawyer or a singer why not president, be a dreamer you can be just the one you wanna be

Chinese version

医生，演员，律师或歌唱家为什么不是总统？做一个有梦想的人你可以成为任何一个你想成为的人警察，消防员或者邮递员为什么不是像你父辈一样的人？你可以成为任何一个你想成为的人医生，演员，律师或者歌唱家为什么不是总统？做一个有梦想的人你可以成为任何一个你想成为的人。

Pre-reading questions

2.2.How important do you believe work is How important do you believe work is to a person? How should one strike the to a person? How should one strike the right balance between work and right balance between work and leisure?leisure?

3. Many college students wish to become 3. Many college students wish to become “white collars” in the future .What do you “white collars” in the future .What do you know about the life “white collars” ?Do know about the life “white collars” ?Do you like the way they have ?you like the way they have ?

1.What do you think is an ideal life?

Words and ExpressionsWords and Expressions Words and ExpressionsWords and Expressions

board v . pay to sleep and eat meals in sb’

E.g. Can you board and lodge me?你可以供我膳食和住宿吗？She found board and lodging in the house of her pupils' parents.她在她学生的家长家里搭伙寄宿。

b. n. : 木板 甲板The carpenter grooved the board.木匠在木板上开槽。

conceivably: a. ad . in a manner that can conceivably: a. ad . in a manner that can be imagine or believedIbe imagine or believedI

E.g.Six months, a year - five years, conceivably.六个月，一年，五年，都想象得出来

Conceivable: within the bounds of what may be conceived within the framework of nature

E.g. Indeed it is conceivable that a bank could be recapitalised over a weekend.

短期之内实现银行资金结构的调整还是可以想象得到的。

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survive: v. a. continue to live E.g. Even on the worst days, we were able to

survive.即使是在最糟糕的日子里，我们也能够生存。b. Live longer than; outlive E.g. She survived her husband by twenty years.

她丈夫去世后她又活了二十年。

survive on 靠…活下来；靠…生存

lineup: n. a line of people that is formed for lineup: n. a line of people that is formed for inspection or identification.inspection or identification.

E.g. The original Assurance

model lineup was launched in 2008.

保证模型的原始阵容，是在 2008 年推出。

Phrases: cabinet lineup 内阁阵容

；内阁成员Chain Lineup 连锁布阵Product Lineup 推出产

品线Programming lineup 付

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Workaholic: n.a person who works obsessively and find it difficult to stop

E.g. She is a really workaholic.她真是一个工作狂。

holic : 上瘾的人E.g.cyberholic 上网成瘾的人

executive n. a person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization

E.g.She says executive function skills

can be improved.她说执行功能技能是可以改善的。

实行（ execute ）；实行的（ executive ）

Text StructureText Structure

Part I (para. 1) Obituary of Phil’s death ,which Part I (para. 1) Obituary of Phil’s death ,which is the starting point of all the following events.is the starting point of all the following events. Part II (paras. 2-6) Phil’s working environment.Part II (paras. 2-6) Phil’s working environment. Part III (paras. 7-13) The rest part of Phil’s Part III (paras. 7-13) The rest part of Phil’s world ---his family , where the problems are no world ---his family , where the problems are no less serious than those in his job.less serious than those in his job. Part IV (para.14-15)The reason why Phil Part IV (para.14-15)The reason why Phil died. died. Part V (para. 16) The beginning of another Part V (para. 16) The beginning of another tragedy.tragedy.

Main Idea of the TextMain Idea of the Text

By describing different people’s responses to Phil who had died for the hard job in a mockingly serious manner, the author wants to make the readers see the absurdity of a society that produces such a tragic as Phil.

Phrase ParaphrasingPhrase Paraphrasing

1. He worked himself to death ,finally and precisely ,at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning.

died from self-motivated overwork

2.He is survived by his wife ,Helen ,forty-eight years old ,a good women of no particular marketable skills ,who worked in an office before marrying and mothering.

with no special skills wanted by employers

3. In the day and a half before the funeral ,he went around the neighborhood researching his father ,asking the neighbors what he was like.

trying to discover facts about his father

4. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural

a person who is subject to the heart diseasea person who is subject to the heart disease

Sentence Paraphrasing

1. He had no outside “extracurricular interest,” unless ,of course , you think about a monthly golf that way.

He had dedicated all his time to his work and had to hobby at all ,except that he played a golf game every month which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway.

2.She had , according to her daughter ,given up trying to compete with his work years ago , when the children were small.

Their daughter said that ,when they were still small her father had become a company man and her mother had given up any attempt to keep him at home .

Sentence TranslationSentence Translation

1. He had no outside “extracurricular interest,” unless, of course, you think about a monthly golf that way .

如果不把每月一次的高尔夫球算作业余爱好的话，他就没有什么工作以外的“业余爱好”可言了。

2. “Missing him all these years ,” she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man .

“这些年来他不在身边” ，她一定早已放弃了曾经有过的对丈夫的深深牵挂。

3. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tired to mean enough to him to keep the man at home .

就是他，还想方设法把父亲从工作中“抓”出来，让父亲来疼爱自己，待在家里。

Grammatical PointGrammatical Point

E.g. “Missing him all these years ,”she must have given up part of herself which had cared too much for the man .

现在完成体的用法 .1. “ ” 表示 已完成 指动作或过程发成在说话之前某个没有明确说出的过去时间 , 现在已经完成了，并与现在情况有关。 E.g. He has turn off the light .( 含义：灯在一个过去的时间被关掉，说话时仍开着。 )2. “ ”表示 未完成 指动作或状态从过去的某时开始，继续到现在，可能持续下去，也肯能刚刚结束。E.g. He has lived here since 1960.( 含义：他从1960 年来到这里居住，至今还住在这里，偶尔也可根据上下文理解为刚刚搬走。 )

ExercisesExercises

1. I have travelled a lot in America. (=I know America)

2. I have been reading your book. (=I haven’t finished it .)

3. I have read your book. (=I have finished it .)4. I have been reading all day (and I am tired

out.)5. Peter has been injured in his ankle.(=His ankle

is still bad.)

Writing practice

Recently an information company in Beijing did a survey of student life among more than 700 students in Beijing, Guangzhou Xi’an, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shenyang . The results have shown that 67 percent of students think that saving money is a good habit while the rest believe that using tomorrow’s money today is better, what do you think?