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1、Unit 6Being ThereConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension1. Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose.A. To give a brief account of the history of travel.B. To present a picture of Americans traveling overseas.C. To e xplain people s unarticulated desires for travel.Key: C 2
2、. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1) . Travel is a meansto escape what weare tired of in the modern world. T 2) . Whenwe travel abroad, we tend to put on a maskso that nobodycan recognize us. F 3) . One of the pleasures during your travel is the fact
3、thatyou can see things you are familiar with. F 4) . According to the author, the various reasons for our travel are the sources for the survival of travel books. T 5) . The classical ruins of antiquity enable some travelers to feel the ecstasy of spoliation. F 4. Explain in your ownwords the follow
4、ing sentences taken from the text.1) Whenwe travel, we are not so much on the alert or less wary of what might happen to us, instead we show keen interest in what happenedin the past. Werelease our desires that have long been suppressed.2) Whenwe travel,we normally moveout to see the exotic world,bu
5、t now the traveler himself becomes something exotic in the place he visits, and modern travel books may focus on what we have “eliminated or edited out ” , just as traditional travel books focus on what is still there.II. Writing StrategiesStructurally, the essay develops along the thread that begin
6、s with an examination of conventional motivations for traveling, then moves on to a discussion of travel writings that offer useful insights into travelers psychology, and ends with a description of an unusual approach somecontemporary travelers adopt. Nowtry to find the cohesive devices the author
7、employs to connect these three sections.Paragraph 12 serves as a transition from the examination of travelers motivations to a discussion of travel books. The first sentence “Because we tr avel for so many reasons some of them contradictory travel writing is like a suitcase into which the writer tri
8、es to cram everything ” establishes a cohesive tie between this and the preceding paragraph.Paragraph 15 indicates the author s move to the n ext topic. Cohesion is realized by the last sentence, “He underestimated the variousness of our reasons for traveling,” which nicelyconnects with what the rea
9、der will immediately come across inthe subsequent paragraph:There have always been travelerswho went to look for the worst .”III. Language Work1) Explain the underlined part(s) in each sentence in your own words.2) . We re going to see in Europe everything we have eliminated or edited out of our own
10、 culture in the nameof convenience .have removed from; for the sake of3) . . the lack of money and leisure had all restrained curiosity until the seventeenth century, when under pressure of scientific discoveries, the physical world began to gape open.inhibited; open widely4) . The frenzied shopping
11、 of some travelers is an attempt to buy a new life.spending sprees/wild shopping5) . The places we visit are gold-plated by the sun.beautified6) . We cling to the belief that other peoples are more passionate than we are.cherish/adhere to7) . There have always been travelers who went to look for the
12、 worst, to find rationalizations for their anxietyordespair .find reasons or excuses for8) . Why else would Paul Theroux go to South America, which heso obviously detestedFor what other reason; disliked9) . Shiva Naipaul s worst fears were confirmed in Africa .proved to be well-grounded10) Graham Gr
13、eene spent four months traveling in the Liberian jungle as a private penance.way to punish himself for the wrong things he had done11) . Perhaps in the future we shall have to travel like JamesHolman, who, after being invalided out of the British navybecause he had gone blind, set out in 1819 to see
14、 the worldleaving the British navy because he was an invalid; started traveling2. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.1) . In the film, he is able to depict the sense of otherness (other) and alienation that many teenagers feel.2) . The sophistication (sophisticate) of c
15、omputers is increasing as their size decreases.3) . Don t be so impulsive (impulse) think before you act.4) . The father-daughter relationship is a recurrent/recurring (recur) theme in her novels.5) . I keep getting contradictory (contradict) advice- somepeople tell me to keep it warm and some tell
16、me to put ice on it.6) . Talking about our past family reunions has made me feel quite nostalgic (nostalgia).7) . The group has always been characterized by an uncompromising militancy (militantly).8) . She has the distinction (distinct) of being one of the few people to have an honorary degree conferred on her by th
