新编英语教程Book4Unit11文档格式.docx

1、Script （From Another Cinderalla）-Mary? The twins are turning 16 next week.- Didnt they turn 16 last year?-Yes, and theyll keep turning 16 until I tell them to stop. Were having a big party and I need this house to be spotless.-But Tami and I are going to the ball tonight. Plus Ive cleaned every room

2、 in this house.-Not.my bedroom.-Youre kidding me, right?-Im clubbing with Paris tonight. Its my turn to throw the after-party. Dont step on my hair. When I get home at midnight, this room will be pristine.-Dominique, Id need heavy equipment. For example, a flamethrower.-Dont you sass me, smarty pant

3、s. Ill revoke your school privileges. You could say goodbye to those trendy friends. Or shall I say friend, Little Miss Not-So-Popular? Oh, and clean up these fish sticks. Theyve been there since Lent.-Tami, I cant go to the ball. “Domifreaks” making me clean her bedroom.-Youre in her lair?-There ar

4、e species of bugs in here still unknown to science. Theres no way Ill finish in time.-Wait, what if.? -Who are you talking to? When I said no phone privileges, that included the landline.-Im sorry. I have to go.-Ugh.-Manson, weve been looking for you since Christmas, boy. Youre free, boy. Go. Go, go

5、. Go, Manson, go. Youre free. Oh, hey. Gosh, look, I just found Manson. And please tell me those arent our dresses.-I cant. Because they are. Were going to the ball.-Tami, what part of “Domifreaks making me clean her bedroom” did you not understand?-What would you say if I told you I could clean up

6、the mess for you.and Dominique would never know?-Id say youre my hero, but theres no way, and you have to go to the ball. Plus, you cant clean this mess up alone. - Well, who said I was alone?- Hi, Mary. - Hey.-You did this for me?-Mary, meet my sisters boyfriends cousins. Cousins, this is Mary.-Hel

7、lo, hello. You go to dance? Very nice. House clean by midnight? No problem. Like van say, “No mess too messy.”-Okay.-This mess is too messy.- Lee-Ha, you promised. - Is there a problem?-Im on it. Get started and hide the van.Read the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favori

8、te. State your reasons.The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotics Notebook, 1960What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan SontagYou never know till you try

9、to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.Henry Ward Beecher,Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.Francois duc de la RochefoucauldYou can discover more about a pe

10、rson in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.PlatoBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.Oscar WildeIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says,

11、 All right, then, have it your way.C.S. LewisThere are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.Douglas H. EverettGod must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.Abraham LincolnText1. Text I （1） Pre

12、-Reading Questions（2） General Reading（3） Background（4） Text（5） Comments on the Text（6） Exercises2. Text II（1） Text（2） ComprehensionText I1. Pre-Reading QuestionsLooking at the title of the text, you may well predict that the writer is going to compare and contrast two classes of people, the neat and

13、 the sloppy. In your opinion, what is the difference between neat people and sloppy people? Whats your opinion of neat people and sloppy people?For your referenceThis is an open question. Discuss with your classmates.2. The Main IdeaRead the text rapidly to find out the writers opinion of sloppy peo

14、ple and neat people.Answers:According to the writer, sloppy people value objects and correspondence, are careful and take the long view, while neat people are callous, wasteful and selfish.3. Background NoteNever-Never LandNever-Never Land（also Never Never Land, Neverland or Never Land） is a fiction

15、al place featured in the works ofJ. M. Barrieand those based on them. It is the dwelling place ofPeter Pan,Tinker Bell, the Lost Boysand others. Although not all people in Never-Never Land cease to age, its best known residents famously refused to grow up, and it is often used as a metaphor for eter

16、nalchildhood（and childishness）, immortality, andescapism. It was first introduced as “the Never Never Land” in thetheatre playPeter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Upby Scottish writerJ. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904.4. TextNeat People vs. Sloppy PeopleIve finally figured out the difference betwee

17、n neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral （1）rectitude. Sloppy people （1）carry in their minds

18、 eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so （2）stupendous, so perfect, it cant be achieved in this world or the next.Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their （2）mtier. Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and set up home catalogs. Someday they will go throu

19、gh their wardrobes and mark certain items for （3）tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dried corsage from their senio

20、r （3）prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchases at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the （4）back issues of The New Yorker.For all these （4）noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They ai

21、m too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and （5）straighten out the world. But while these ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper and closet, the family （5）mem

22、entos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under （6）mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.Sloppy people cant bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say theyre going to tackle the surface of

23、a desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is （7）meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and （8）scrupulously stoppi

24、ng to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just （9）bulldoze the desk. Neat people are （6）bums and clods at heart. They have （7）cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family （10）heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them. If anything

25、 collects dust, its got to go and thats that. Neat people will （8）toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the house just to cut down on the clutter.Neat people dont care about process. They like results. What they want to do is （9）get the whole thing over with so they can sit down and watc

26、h the rasslin on TV. Neat people operate on two （11）unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.The only thing messy in a neat persons house is the trash can. The minute something comes to a neat persons hand, he will look at it, try to decide if it has immediate use

27、 and, finding none, throw it in the （10）trash.Neat people are especially （12）vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are （11）standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions, church

28、bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purposes. （12）Thats it. （13）No s

29、entimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.（14）Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through the den. I knew a neat person

30、once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash. And neat people sell their furniture when they move. They will sell a La-ZBoy recliner while you are reclining in it.（15）Neat people are no good to borrow from. Neat people （16）buy everything in expensive little single portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags. They wouldnt consider clipping a coupon, saving a leftover, reusing （17）plastic nondairy whipped cream