新视野大学英语第二版第二册5单元A复习

1.Vocabulary development:1) words:literally, noticeable, slim

2) Expressions:tossed close at hand, be grateful for, harden oneself against doing sth., with glowing eyes, be dressed in, coupled with, smoke like chimneys, win over sb.

get hooked by/on, leave sb. low, lean on sth., gain a couple of pounds, directed at, drag away, over time

starve sb. of sth./starve for sth., a bunch of cigarettes, a feeling of uselessness, struggle to do sth., a no smoking zone,

2. Translationto weep for 1.为…而哭泣 2.一包(香烟) a package of (cigarettes) 3.嘴里叼着烟 with a cigarette in one’s mouth glowing eyes 4.炯炯有神的眼睛 5.身穿黑色燕尾服 dressed in a black dress coat 6.起初不明显 unnoticeable at first 7.吞烟吐雾 drag away / smoke like chimneys

8.在一次家庭聚会上 at a family reunion 9.在他生命结束前 near the very end of his life a form of self-battering 10.一种自我毁灭 harden oneself against 11.硬着心肠不做 12.过滤嘴香烟 filtered cigarettes toss carelessly close at hand 13.随手扔在近旁 14.无可救药地患上烟瘾 be hopelessly hooked by cigarettes 15.使…虚弱不堪 to leave sb. low 16.袖手旁观；守护照料 to sit by

Summary of the text

In the third World, the woman saw many people like her father and daughter. All of them were attracted by huge advertisements showing beautiful ________girls worldly dragging away. As in American and confident men ________ cities and reservations, money intended for food was over spent on tobacco so that ________time people starve _____ for food and air, weaken and hook their children and _________ eventually kill themselves. She read in the newspaper that cigarette ends are so poisonous that if it is __________ swallowed by a baby, it is likely to die;

and in the gardening magazine, that water from a bunch of boiled ends is an _______insecticide. effective uselessness She feels a deep hurt, a feeling of _________as she remembers how carefully she ate when pregnant, how patiently she taught her daughter to cross a street safely. “for what?” she sometimes wonders. “so that my daughter can breathe struggle to ________most of her life, feel half die of her strength, and then ________self-poisoning, like her grandfather?” She likes a quotation battered from a ________women’s shelter:

“Peace on earth begins at home.” she believes everything does, so she thinks of a quotation for people to stop smoking: “Every ________ home is a no smoking zone”. She views smoking as self-battering which also batters those who _________ helplessly watch. As a child, this mother sat by through the years, and ________ literally watched her father kill himself. Surely, she thinks, to lose one family member to the ____________ prosperous tobacco companies is enough.