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1、Unit Five,Remote Control,Background Information,About the author and the text The Washington Post,About the author and the text,This classic Dave Barry Column was originally published on Feb. 27, 2000 in the Miami Herald. For 25 years Dave Barry has been a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in
2、 more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.,Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected,
3、his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.,The Washington Post,The newspaper is one of the citys oldest papers, first published in 1877. Perhaps the most notable incident in the Posts history was when, in the early
4、 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the medias investigation of Watergate. This played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency.,Language Points,How the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. (Para. 1) How the appliance makers are making us mad.,insane
5、,adj. mad, senseless. We never do anything like this in our hometown. We are all so controlled, and this is insane.,you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office” “transmits your weight to the gym.” (Para. 2) You could live in a home in which you can turn on the dishwa
6、sher when you are working, and the fridge will tell you when there is no milk inside, and your weight will be sent to the gym when you weigh yourself on the bathroom scale.,transmit,V. pass or hand on; send on The survivors of the shipwreck transmitted a distress signal every hour.,I frankly wonder
7、whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack. (Para. 3) Bearing my respect for the appliance manufacturers in my mind, I frankly want to know if they are crazy.,due: adj,1) suitable, right, proper After due consideration, the committee agreed to accept his resig
8、nation. 2) (of payment) required at a certain time The wage due to them will be paid no later than tomorrow. 3) (to be) expected; appointed or agreed (for a certain time or date) The shuttle bus is due in 15 minutes.,If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave d
9、irty dishes on the kitchen counter(Para. 4) If you want to make dishwashers more advanced, give us a dishwasher which will automatically realize that there are some dirty dishes left by the owner on the kitchen counter, and then give some signal.,What we could use is a refrigerator that refuses to l
10、et us open its door when it senses that we are about to consume our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in two hours. (Para. 5) The fridge we use is the one that will lock itself automatically when we attempt to eat more pudding snack in two hours, i.e., a fridge can forbid us to take too much food (and thu
11、s keep our figure).,We dont want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs! (Para. 6) We dont want to know our own weight ourselves.,What if, God forbid, our refrigerator found out what our weight was! Wed never get the door open again! (Para. 6) What if, I hope that will never really happen. Our f
12、ridge, which is intelligent, will lock its door forever owing to our overweight!,God/Heaven forbid,Used to express a fervent wish that sth does not happen God forbid that anything awful should have happened to her. God grant ; By God,God grant:,used to express a wish that sth should happen God grant
13、 us success/ God grant we may take taxi.,By God, we never observed it.God helps those who help themselves: 自助者天助之。,This phone probably can communicate with the dead, but I dont know how to operate it, just as I dont know how to operate my TV, which requires three remote controls. (Para. 7) This phon
14、e is perhaps capable of communicating with the dead, but I dont know how to operate it. This is also true with my TV, which needs three remote controls.,So when I want to watch TV, Im confronted with a total of 120 buttons, identified by such helpful labels as PIP, MTS, DBS, FZ, JUMP and BLANK. (Par
15、a. 8) So when I want to watch TV, I need to deal with 120 buttons in total with some very confusing terms, such as PIP, MTS, DBS, FZ, JUMP and BLANK.,Confrontwith,face up to When confronted with the evidence of her guilt, she confessed and then was sentenced to death.,And if you want to try to make
16、the refrigerator stop, youll have to decipher Owners Manual instructions written by and for nuclear physicists. (Para. 9) And if you want to stop the fridge (from reporting the condition of the celery), you have to read the instructions on the Owners Manual, which is very difficult for anyone except a nuclear physicist to read and write.,decipher,find the meaning of (sth written in cipher, bad hand-writing, sth puzzling or difficult to understand) I can not decipher what is inscribed by the child on the pillar.,
