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1、Unit10Unit 10 The Idiocy of Urban Life第1页Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions.1.What is Dougs compliant?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationDoug feels guilty for his family because he is too overworked and overscheduled to find
2、time for his wife and kids,let alone for himself.He is becoming resentful about the heavy burden.Dr.Leeds offers a solution:Doug obviously needs to be cloned.2.What is Dr.Leeds solution to Dougs problem?第2页Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual supplementCultural information第3页Do
3、ug:Then I get resentful because I feel like I should have,you know maybe a little time for myself.Its like work is first,my family is a close second and Im a distant third,bringing up the rear.You know?Is that crazy?Dr.Leeds:I dont know.Im not a psychiatrist.Anyway,you dont need one.If the problems
4、on your mind are real,that requires real solutions.Doug:Well,then.What do you do?Dr.Leeds:I told you.I make miracles.I create time.I make clones.Doug,sit down.Im a geneticist.Fifteen years ago I started cloning viruses.And then,ten years ago,I cloned an earthworm.Doug:God bless you,sir.Video Script1
5、Audiovisual supplementCultural information第4页Dr.Leeds:And then.a chimp.And last year.Last year.Man#1:Hi there.Dr.Leeds:Just in time.Man#1:Hello.Dr.Leeds:This is Doug Kinney.He is doing our new offices.Man#1:Oh,sure,I know Doug.You know,he and I went over the plans one day.Dr.Leeds:Oh?Man#1:You were
6、sailing.Doug:Wait,wait,wait Dr.Leeds:You understand what Im suggesting?Doug:Yeah,sure.Whats not to understand?You xerox people.Video Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural information第5页Video Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationDr.Leeds:In a way.Man#1:Sort of.Dr.Leeds:The procedure takes
7、 about two hours.It takes more or less two hours.And in the end,you have everything you need.What is it that,you know,I need?Doug:Time!Dr.Leeds:All you need.For everything.Doug:Say,Im interested,you know.What would a.you know,nothing fancy,just a basic,you know,just a basic.you know clone-job cost?第
8、6页1.The author Henry Fairlie Cultural information 1Audiovisual supplementCultural information Henry Fairlie(19241990)was a British expatriate journalist and social critic.He spent 36 years as a prominent freelance writer on both sides of the Atlantic,appearing in The Spectator,The New Republic,The W
9、ashington Post,The New Yorker,and many other papers and magazines.He was also the author of five books,most notably The Kennedy Promise,an early revisionist critique of the U.S.presidency of John F.Kennedy.In,Bite the Hand That Feeds You:Essays and Provocations,was published as an anthology of his w
10、ork.He wrote in a manner that was often“tongue-in-cheek”(intended to be humorous and not meant seriously)to point to some of the amusing things about city life.第7页2.Thoreaus WaldenCultural information 2Audiovisual supplementCultural information Modern people have long been tired and bored by the idi
11、ocy of city life.So they seek other possible ways of living away from city life.Thoreaus Walden is an influential work of this type,in which the author isolates himself from society to gain a more objective understandingof it.Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreaus other goals,and the whole
12、 project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy,a central theme of the American Romantic Period.Through the following quote,we may see his stance better.第8页Cultural information 2Audiovisual supplementCultural information “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,to front only
13、the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not,when I came to die,discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life,living is so dear;nor did I wish to practise resignation,unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out al
14、l the marrow of life,to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life,to cut a broad swath and shave close,to drive life into a corner,and reduce it to its lowest terms,and,if it proved to be mean,why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it,and publish its meanne
15、ss to the world;or if it were sublime,to know it by experience,and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”第9页Structural analysis This text falls in the generic category of argumentation.Most argumentation consists of three parts:the thesis of the author,the evidence to support th
16、e thesis,and the summary or conclusion of the argument.This text follows this pattern too.Part I(Paragraphs 1 2):The author presents the thesis of his argument:aggressively individualistic and atomized urban life today goes against both the purpose of the city and human nature,and thus is foolish.Rh
17、etorical featuresStructural analysisPart II(Paragraphs 3 9):The author provides evidence for the idiocy of urban life,such as people living outside the city boundaries,maintaining the pointless frenzy of their work hours in their hours off,and isolating themselves from nature.第10页Structural analysis
18、Rhetorical featuresStructural analysisPart III(Paragraph 10):The author reiterates his point.第11页Rhetorical Features 1 In any argumentation,the author has a thesis of his own.So does the author of this text.We can see from the title and the text proper that he takes a negative attitude towards urban
19、 life by using a lot of attitudinal words and expressions.Rhetorical featuresStructural analysis The Idiocy of Urban Life Urban life is aggressively individualistic and atomized.Cities are not social places.lunacy of modern city life create simulations of it(rural life)a pretence to bosky woodlands
20、City dwellers take their filth with them.The following italicized words and expressions are used to express the authors attitude towards city life:第12页Rhetorical Features 1Practice:Can you find more such expressions?Rhetorical featuresStructural analysis.they maintain the pointless frenzy of their w
21、ork hours in their hours off.work at their play with the same joylessnessThese windows are a scandal.the urban worker has no knowledge of the seasons.fetid central heatingno true sense of the rhythms of the seasonsThe city dweller reels from unreality to unreality.city dwellers dont know it(a Dougla
22、s fir)once had roots.第13页Detailed reading1Detailed readingTHE IDIOCY OF URBAN LIFEHenry Fairlie1 Between about 3 a.m.and 6 a.m.the life of the city is civil.Occasionally the lone footsteps of someone walking to or from work echo along the sidewalk.All work that has to be done at those hours is usefu
23、lin bakeries,for example.Even the newspaper presses stop turning forests into lies.Now and then a car comes out of the silence and cruises easily through the blinking traffic lights.The natural inhabitants of the city come out from damp basements and cellars.With their pink ears and paws,sleek,well-
24、groomed,their whiskers combed,rats are true city dwellers.Urban life,during the hours when they reign,is urbane.第14页Detailed reading2Detailed reading2 These rats are social creatures,as you can tell if you look out on the city street during an insomniac night.But after 6 a.m.,the two-legged,daytime
25、creatures of the city begin to stir;and it is they,not the rats,who bring the rat race.You might think that human beings congregate in large cities because they are gregarious.The opposite is true.Urban life today is aggressively individualistic and atomized.Cities are not social places.第15页Detailed
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