1、BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Listening Task - After ListeningWrite down your answers to the following questions.1. Is the hero a student or an employee?An employee. 2. What was he doing when the boss came in?Surfing the Net. 3. How did he act in front of his boss?He acted all surprised, as if he didnt know why
2、 the computer had died suddenly.An employee.Surfing the Net.He died suddenly.BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Content QuestionsOne of you asks the first six questions and the other answers. Starting from question 7, change roles. When you have finished, the teacher may want to put some of the quest
3、ions to you to check your progress.1. What did the author do three years ago and what is she doing now?She used to be a television producer, but now she is a writer. 2. How does the author work nowadays?She writes and edits articles online, submits them via email, and communicates with colleagues vi
4、a the Internet, too. She used to be a television producer, but now she is a writer.She communicates with colleagues via the Internet, too.BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Content Questions3. How does the author manage her daily life?She could stay computer-assisted at home for weeks, going out only
5、 to get mail, newspapers and groceries. 4. What are the symptoms shared by people who live a virtual life?They feel as if they had become one with the computer, and life seems to be unreal. 5. What is the Net critics worst nightmare?That people who grew used to a virtual life would feel an aversion
6、to outside forms of socializing. 6. How does the author behave when she is suddenly confronted They seems to be unreal.That to outside forms of socializing.BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Content Questionswith real live humans?She gets overexcited, speaks too much, and interrupts others. Now switc
7、h roles.7. How does the author behave on line? Why?She is bad-tempered, easily angered, and attacks everyone in sight, all because she has long become separated from others and lacks emotional face-to-face exchanges with people. 8. How does virtual life affect her relationship with her boyfriend?She
8、 fights her boyfriend, misinterpreting his intentions because of the lack of emotional cues given by their typed dialogue. She gets overexcited, speaks too much, and interrupts others.She lacks emotional face-to-face exchanges with people.She the lack of emotional cues given by their typed dialogue.
9、BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Content Questions9. According to the author, why are co-workers important to a human being?Because we rely on co-workers for company. 10. What does the author do to restore balance to her life?She calls people, arranges to meet the few friends remaining in the City,
10、 gets to the gym, arranges interviews for stories, doctors appointments anything to get her out of the house and connected with others. 11. Does the author feel happy when she returns to the real world? Why or why not?Because we rely on co-workers for company.She connected with others.BOOK 2 - Unit
11、4 - Comprehension - Content QuestionsNo, she doesnt feel happy. She feels being face to face is intolerable. 12. What does she do then?She makes her excuses and flees, re-enters her apartment, runs to the computer, clicks on the modem, and disappears into the virtual world again.No, intolerable.She
12、world again.BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Text Organization1. In terms of content the 12 paragraphs in this essay could be regrouped under four headings as shown in the table below. Read the essay once again and see which heading each paragraph in the essay falls under. Paragraphs 2-3 have been
13、done for you.1. Descript of the authors virtual life 2-32. How she feels about it after staying on the Net for a while 1, 4-10, 133. What she does to return to the real world. 114. How she feels about the real world. 121, 4-10, 131112BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Comprehension - Text Organization2. Compare the
14、first paragraph with the last, and think about their role in the essay. The first paragraph describes the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells of the authors escape back into it. Together, they bring out the dilemma people at present are in: Because of modern technology, we have
15、a choice between a virtual life and real life, but find both unsatisfactory. life and real life, but find both unsatisfactory.BOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Language Focus - Vocabulary1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given below. Change the form where necessary.1) He would have preferred his wife not to
16、 work, but conversely he was also proud of what she did.2) Things are much cheaper here than in New York, but then, our average salary is much smaller.3) His forgetfulness may be a symptom of brain trouble.4) The small boy started spitting blood and his mother panicked (惊慌失措 ).converselybut thensymp
17、tomspittingBOOK 2 - Unit 4 - Language Focus - Vocabulary5) These laws are intended to prevent government officials from abusing their power.6) “Go to the bathroom and wash your hands,“ the nurse told the children in a commanding tone.7) Mary, a Harvard Law School graduate, was a very capable (能干的 ) lawyer and our firm took her in as a partner.8) The article is interesting, but it needs some editing before it can be published.abusingtonetook her inediting
