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1、1大学英语专科第三单元大学英语专科第三单元Warm-Up Questions热身问题1. Do you often call your parents? What do you usually talk about with your parents on the phone? 你经常给你的父母打电话吗？ 电话里你和他们通常谈什么呢？ Yes, I often call my parents. On the phone, I always ask how they are getting on these days. And I often是的，我经常给我父母打电话。在电话上，我总是问他们现在
2、过得怎么样。 而且我经常 ask them to tell me the news of the big family since my parents have their own brothers and sisters, and 要他们告诉我大家族的消息，因为我的父母有他们自己的兄弟和姐妹，而他们 they usually exchange information. Of course I am always the topic of the conversation on the phone. My 他们经常交换信息。 当然我一直是电话上谈话的话题。 我 parents always
3、want to know more about my life on campus, and my study as well. They always want to 的父母经常想知道更多有关我大学校园的生活，还有我的学习。 他们总是想知道 know more details, even if I have had enough food in the morning. From the call, I can feel their deep 更多细节， 即使我在早上已经吃了足够多的食物。 从电话上， 我可以感觉到他们 love. 深深的爱。2.Do you know your parent
4、s birthdays? What do you usually do to celebrate their birthdays? 你知道你父母亲的生日吗？ 你们通常怎样庆祝他们的生日？I know the birthdays of my parents. To celebrate their birthdays, we usually have a family 我知道我父母的生日。 要庆祝他们的生日， 我们经常举行家庭 get-together. If it is a special birthday, for instance, my parents 50th birthdays, we
5、 will invite all the 聚会。 如果是一个特别的生日，比方说，我父母 50 岁的生日， 我们将会邀请所有的 relatives and their intimate friends to attend their birthday party. My brother will buy a big cake and I will 亲戚和他们的挚友来参加他们的生日聚会。 我兄弟将会买一个大蛋糕而我会 prepare a large meal. Sometimes we celebrate their birthday out. The activities include a m
6、eal at a famous 准备一顿丰盛的饭菜。我们有时不在家庆祝他们的生日。 生日庆祝活动包括在一家有名气的餐 restaurant and a film or Karaokey. 馆吃饭并且看一部电影或者唱卡拉 OK。3.Suppose your mother were fifty tomorrow. What birthday present would you send her? 假设明天是你母亲五十岁生日， 你会给她什么生日礼物？ If tomorrow were my mothers 50th birthday, my birthday present would be two
7、 travel tickets to 如果明天是我妈妈 50 岁的生日， 我的生日礼物将会是给她和我父亲两张去往香港的旅游 Hongkong for her and my father. I know my mother likes traveling but for the sake of the whole family, she 票。 我知道我的母亲喜欢旅游，但是为了整个家庭的缘故， 她 has always been strict with herself. She has done so much and sacrificed so much for me and my brothe
8、r. 总是对自己要求很严格。 她为我和我兄弟做了很多，也牺牲了很多。2Therefore, on that special occasion, Id like to do something for compensation. A weeks travel to Hongkong 因此， 在那个特殊的场合， 我想要做某件事情来补偿。 我认为去香港旅行一周是一 is a good idea, I think. By the way, I know that she cannot go alone, since she always wants to share her 个好主意。 顺便说一句，我
9、知道她不可能单独去的，因为她总是想要和她爱的人一起 happiness with the one she has loved. 分享她的快乐。Unit 3 第三单元 They say that blood is thicker than water, that our relatives are more important to us than others. 有人说，血浓于水，我们的亲属对我们而言比别人重要得多。 Everyone was so kind to the old lady on her birthday. Surely her daughter would make an e
10、ven bigger effort 老奶奶身边儿的每个人在她过生日这天都对她很好，可想而知，她的女儿将会做出更大的努力来回 报 to please her? 她吗？The Present 礼物 1. It was the old ladys birthday.今天是这位老奶奶的生日。 2. She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when 她很早就起了床，等着邮件的到来。 从三楼房间里，当邮递员沿街而来时她一眼便能看见。 he came dow
11、n the street, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on the rare occasions老太太极少收到信，偶尔有信时，楼下的小男孩便给她送上来。when anything came. 3. Today she was sure there would be something. Myra wouldnt forget her mothers birthday, even if今天，她确信会有什么东西寄来。 迈拉绝不会忘记她妈妈的生日， 尽管她she seldom wrote at ot
12、her times. Of course Myra was busy. Her husband had been made Mayor, and Myra很少在其它时间写信。 当然， 迈拉她很忙， 她丈夫被选为市长， 而迈拉herself had got a medal for her work for the aged.自己也因为为老年人工作出色而获得奖章。 4. The old lady was proud of Myra, but Enid was the daughter she loved. Enid had never married, but 老太太为迈拉而感到骄傲， 但她爱的女
13、儿是伊妮德。 伊妮德没有结过婚， 但她 had seemed content to live with her mother, and teach in a primary school round the corner. 似乎很乐意和她妈妈住在一起， 并在附近的一所小学里教书。 5. One evening, however, Enid said, ”Ive arranged for Mrs. Morrison to look after you for a few days, 然而一天晚上， 伊妮德说：“我已安排好莫里森太太照顾你几天，Mother. Tomorrow I have to
14、go into hospitaljust a minor operation. Ill soon be home.”妈妈， 明天我要住院只是一次小手术，我很快就会回来的。 ”6. In the morning she went, but never came backshe died on the operating table. Myra came to the 那天早上她走了， 但再也没有回来她死在了手术台上。 迈拉来参加了葬礼，3funeral, and in her efficient way arranged for Mrs. Morrison to come in and ligh
15、t the fire and give the old并以她那讲究效率的方式安排好莫里森太太来给老太太生火，准备早餐。lady her breakfast. 7. Two years ago that was, and since then Myra had been to see her mother three times, but her 那是两年前的事。 自那以后，迈拉来看过她母亲三次， 但她丈夫 husband never. 从没来过。8. The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhapsperhaps Myra might come.今天是老太太八十岁生日， 她穿上了最好的衣服。 也许 也许迈拉会来，毕竟八十岁 After all, eighty was a special birthday, another decade lived or endured just as you chose to look at it. 是一个特殊的生日。过去十年是活过来的还是熬过来的，全由你
