1、cover,上海外语教育出版社 南京信息工程大学 刘杰海,Unit 10The New Immorality,Contents page,Contents,Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement,Learning Objectives,Rhetorical skill:#compare and contrast Key languagegrammar points Writing strate
2、gies:#argumentative writing Theme:#the crisis of morality,Learning Objectives,Pre-R:#picture activation,Picture Activation|Pre-questions,As saying goes,“Honesty is the best policy”.Well,what do you think of this motto?#,Pre-R:#Q1,1.You must have heard of Mr.Fang Zhouzi(方舟子),a heroic warrior against
3、academic corruption,who has laid bare quite a number of scandals among some intellectuals.Are you for or against what he has been doing in this respect?#,Picture Activation|Pre-questions,Open to discussion.,Pre-R:#Q2,2.Academic corruption makes the upright scholars very much depressed and frustrated
4、.What measures can be taken to prevent academic corruption from spreading?#,Picture Activation|Pre-questions,Open to discussion.,G-R:#text introduction,The New Immorality,a revealing argumentative essay,exposes,analyzes,and criticizes the new immorality prevalent in our age.,Text Introduction|Cultur
5、e Notes|Author|Structure,G-R:#culture note-1,Swift,Jonathan(Paragraph 6)(1667-1745),Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer,considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension.Among his many works,Travels into Several
6、 Remote Nations of the World,more popularly titled Gullivers Travels,was his masterpiece.,Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure,G-R:#culture note-2,the mass man(paragraph 11)a hypothetical average man,especially one regarded as lacking individuality and being dominated by the mass media,T
7、ext Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure,G-R:#author,Krutch,Joseph Wood(1893-1970),American critic,educator,and naturalist,was born in Knoxville,Tennessee.He was the drama critic of the liberal weekly The Nation and taught drama at Columbia University and other schools.He published biographie
8、s and essays on drama,science,and nature.His most important works include The Measure of Man(1954),Edgar Allan Poe(1926),The Modern Temper(1929),The American Drama Since 1918(1957),and The Best Nature Writings of Joseph Wood Krutch(1970).,Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure,G-R:#structu
9、ral analysis,Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure,Part 1,(1-3)the beginning part,illustrates a paradox of our age,Part 2,(4-10)the body of the text,first illustrates tendency to accept personal dishonesty,and next analyzes the social and psychological ground for the behavior,attitude,and
10、 defense of the dishonest people.Then,the writer presents his own opinions about the great significance of the concept of personal honor.,Part 3,(11)presents the writers idea of what an honest and honorable person ought to do no matter how bad the world may become.,DR-p1 text,THE NEW IMMORALITYJosep
11、h Wood Krutch1.The provost of one of our largest and most honored institutions told me not long ago that a questionnaire was distributed to his undergraduates and that 40 percent refused to acknowledge that they believed cheating on examinations to be reprehensible.,Detailed Reading,DR-p2 text,2.Rec
12、ently a reporter for a New York newspaper stopped six people on the street and asked them if they would consent to take part in a rigged television quiz for money.He reported that five of the six said yes.Yet most of these five,like most of the college cheaters,would probably profess a strong social
13、 consciousness.They may cheat,but they vote for foreign aid and for enlightened social measures.,Detailed Reading,DR-p3 text,3.These two examples exhibit a paradox of our age.It is often said,and my observation leads me to believe it true,that our seemingly great growth in social morality has oddly
14、enough taken place in a world where private morality a sense of the supreme importance of purely personal honor,honesty,and integrity seems to be declining.Beneficent and benevolent social institutions are administered by men who all too frequently turn out to be accepting gifts.The world of popular
15、 entertainment is rocked by scandal.College students,put on their honor,cheat on examination.Candidates for the Ph.D.hire ghost writers to prepare their theses.,Detailed Reading,DR-p4-5 text,4.But,one may object,havent all these things always been true?#Is there really any evidence that personal dis
16、honesty is more prevalent than it always was?#5.I have no way of making a historical measurement.Perhaps these things are not actually more prevalent.What I do know is that there is an interesting tendency to accept and take for granted such personal dishonesty.The bureaucrat and disk jockey say,Well,yes,I took presents,but I assure you that I made just decisions anyway.The college student caught cheating does not even blush.He shrugs his shoulders and comments:#Everybody does it,and besides,I cant see that it re
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