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1、Unit 1Big Bucks the Easy WayJohn G. Hubbell DiscussionLook at the following pictures. Talk about the pictures in small groups. And answer these questions.1. What is happening in each picture?2. If you want to have a part-time job, which of the following do you like best? Why?3. Do your parents encou
2、rage you to get a part-time job? Why or why not?4. Whats your opinion about part-time job?1. Father found the ad _. A) in the newspaper B) on the doorknob C) in the magazines D) on the bag 2. The ad _. A) showed a way to avoid the indignity to ask for money B) offered an easy job for college student
3、s C) offered a way to make money easily by delivering ads D) taught children how to ask for money from their parentsGlobal ReadingKEY KEY Multiple Choice3. Father advised his two college-age sons to think about taking a job because_. A) his sons had asked for too much money B) his sons asked for mon
4、ey without minding the indignity ndgnt C) he could not support his family D) he was pained to see his sons response to his suggestion4. What was Mothers attitude towards her husbands suggestion? A) She disliked it at all. B) She was neither for nor against it. C) She was all for it. D) She was pleas
5、ed with it.Global ReadingKEY KEY 5. Why were the boys overjoyed to take the job? A) Because they liked the job very much. B) Because they could visit 4,000 families. C) Because they could buy many pieces of cake. D) Because they thought they could get a lot of money with ease.Global ReadingKEY Discu
6、ssion1. What caused the two youngest sons to offer their entire library “for sale or rent”?2. Why does the author mention the two youngest sons story at the end of the passage?Two college-age boys (,unaware that making money usually involves hard work,) are tempted (by an advertisement that promises
7、 them an easy way) to earn a lot. The boys soon learn that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. 两个大学男孩，不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动，被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。男孩们很快就明白，如果事情看起来好得不像真的，那多半确实不是真的。 Big Bucks the Easy WayJohn G. Hubbell“I dont mind the indignity,” the older one answered.“I can live with it,” h
8、is brother agreed.“But it pains me,” I said, “to find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.”看到你们俩伸手讨钱讨惯了一点也不感到尴尬的样子，真使我痛心“You ought to look into this,” I suggested to our two college-age sons. “It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for mon
9、ey all the time.” I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag (someone had hung on our doorknob. )A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work (“Big Bucks the Easy Way!”) of delivering more such bags.塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。(“轻轻松松赚大钱!”)“I dont mind the indignity,” the
10、older one answered.“I can live with it,” his brother agreed.“But it pains me,” I said, “to find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.”Detailed Reading1. Do you think these two “it”s have the same meaning?No.2. If not, what do they refer to respectively? The f
11、irst “it” refers to “indignity” while the second all the words after “said” in this sentence.The boys said they would look into the magazine-delivery thing. Pleased, I left town on a business trip. By midnight I was comfortably settled in a hotel room far from home. The phone rang. It was my wife. S
12、he wanted to know how my day had gone.“Great!” I enthused. “How was your day?” I inquired.“Super!” she snapped. “Just super! And its only getting started. Another truck just pulled up out front.”“Another truck?” “The third one this evening. The first delivered four thousand Montgomery Wards. The sec
13、ond brought four thousand Sears, Roebucks. I dont know what this one has, but Im sure it will be four thousand of something. Since you are responsible, I thought you might like to know whats happening.” Montgomery Ward & Company蒙哥马利沃德公司（美国芝加哥的一家大百货公司）Founder: Ward, (Aaron) Montgomery (1843-1913) 1)H
14、e is an American merchant who established the mail-order business that bears his name（以他的名字命名） in 1872.2)His policy in doing business is “Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back”.Montgomery Ward & Company is a United States retail and mail-order concern. Across the United States the company has m
15、ore than 500 retail stores and 700 catalog ktlg stores(通过商品目录订购的商店）. The company was founded as a mail-order business in Chicago in 1872 by A. Montgomery Ward, who adopted the policy “Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back”. The first retail store was established in 1926. Today, Montgomery Ward
16、& Company ranks as the second largest mail-order firm in the world. Sears, Roebuck & Company Sears Tower: Erected between 1970 & 1974 for Sears, Roebuck and Company, the Sears Tower opened in Chicago, Illinois ilini(z)（伊利诺伊州）; with 110 stories and 443 m/1,454 ft high, it was the worlds tallest offic
17、e building until 1996.Founder: Sears, Richard Warren (1863-1914) 1) In 1886, he founded his mail-order business in North Redwood, Minnesota, U.S.A.2) In 1893, he joined merchant Alvah C. Roebuck to establish Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago, Illinois.Rank:It ranks as the largest mail-order firm i
18、n the world. Detailed ReadingWhat can we infer from this word “snapped”? Since “snap” means “say sharply”, it makes it clear that she was saying this in an ironical tone. As a matter of fact, her day was just awful.What I was being blamed for, (it turned out,) was a newspaper strike which made it ne
19、cessary to hand-deliver the advertising inserts that normally are included with the Sunday paper. （由于发生了一起报业工人罢工，通常夹在星期日报纸里的广告插页，必须派人直接投送出去。）The company had promised our boys $600 for delivering these inserts to 4,000 houses by Sunday morning.“Piece of cake!” our older college son had shouted.“Six h
20、undred bucks!” His brother had echoedko, “And we can do the job in two hours!”“Both the Sears and Ward ads are four newspaper-size pages,” my wife informed me. “There are thirty-two thousand pages of advertising on our porch. Even as we speak, two big guys are carrying armloads of paper up the walk.
21、 What do we do about all this?”“Just tell the boys to get busy,” I instructed. “Theyre college men. Theyll do what they have to do.”At noon the following day I returned to the hotel and found an urgent message to telephone my wife. Her voice was unnaturally high and quavering. There had been several
22、 more truckloads of ad inserts. “Theyre for department stores, dime stores, drugstores, grocery stores, auto stores and so on. Some are whole magazine sections. We have hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of pages of advertising here! They are crammed wall-to-wall all through the house in stacks
23、taller than your oldest son. Theres only enough room for people to walk in, take one each of the eleven inserts, roll them together, slip a rubber band around them and slide them into a plastic bag. （从十一种插页中各取一份，卷在一起，套上橡皮筋，再塞进一只塑料袋内）We have enough plastic bags to supply every takeout restaurant in A
24、merica!” Her voice kept rising, as if working its way out of the range of the human ear. “All this must be delivered by seven oclock Sunday morning.”“Well, you had better get those guys banding and sliding as fast as they can, and Ill talk to you later. Got a lunch date.”Detailed ReadingDetailed Rea
25、ding1. Whats the meaning of this sentence? I have got a lunch appointment with others.2. Why does “Father” say so?Because he didnt want to have a talk with his wife any longer then.Detailed ReadingWhen I returned, there was another urgent call from my wife.“Did you have a nice lunch?” she asked swee
26、tly. I had had a marvelous steak, but knew better by now than to say so.“Awful,” I reported. “Some sort of sour fish. Eel, I think.”“Good. Your college sons have hired their younger brothers and sisters and a couple of neighborhood children to help for five dollars each. Assembly lines have been set
27、 up. In the language of diplomacy, there is movement. ” “Thats encouraging.”“No, its not,” she corrected. “Its very discouraging. Theyve been at it for hours. Plastic bags have been filled and piled (/pail/)to the ceilingsil(天花板), but all this hasnt made a dent, not a dent, in the situation! Its alm
28、ost as if the inserts keep reproducing themselves!”“Another thing,” she continued. “Your college sons must learn that one does not get the best out of(发挥.的最大功效） employees by threatening them with bodily harm.”Detailed Reading1. Do you think his wife was happy when she asked this question? Absolutely
29、 not.2. If not, why does the writer use the word “sweetly”?In spite of the fact that the wife suffered a lot at home, she sounded sweetly because she thought if she did so her husband might tell her the truth.Detailed ReadingObtaining an audience with son No. 1, I snarled, “Ill kill you if you threa
30、ten one of those kids again! Idiot! You should be offering a bonus of a dollar every hour to the worker who fills the most bags.”“But that would cut into our profit,” he suggested. “There wont be any profit unless those kids enable you to make all the deliveries on time. If they dont, you two will h
31、ave to remove all that paper by yourselves. And there will be no eating or sleeping until it is removed.”There was a short, thoughtful silence. Then he said, “Dad, you have just worked a profound change in my personality.”“Do it!”“Yes, sir!”Detailed Reading1. Paraphrase this part. Getting a chance t
32、o talk to my oldest son.2. What can we infer from the word “obtaining” and “No. 1” here?From “obtaining” we can know that his oldest son was reluctant to talk on the phone. Then from “No. 1” we can guess that the oldest son is the most important person in the delivery business in the household for t
33、he time being since “No. 1” means “the chief person in an organization.”By the following evening, there was much for my wife to report. The bonus program had worked until someone demanded to see the color of cash. Then some activist on the work force claimed that the workers had no business settling
34、 for $5 and a few competitive bonuses while the bosses collected hundreds of dollars each. The organizer had declared that all the workers were entitled to（有权享有） $5 per hour! They would not work another minute until the bosses agreed. 到第二天傍晚，我妻子就有许多事报告了。奖金计划行之有效，到第二天傍晚，我妻子就有许多事报告了。奖金计划行之有效，可后来有人对能否兑
35、现表示怀疑，提出把钱拿出来给大家看看。可后来有人对能否兑现表示怀疑，提出把钱拿出来给大家看看。接着工人队伍里的一位活动家声称，老板每人拿几百块钱，工接着工人队伍里的一位活动家声称，老板每人拿几百块钱，工人们绝没有理由满足于每人五块外加一点点竞争性的奖金。人们绝没有理由满足于每人五块外加一点点竞争性的奖金。劳工组织人宣布，所有工人都应该得到每小时五块钱的工资劳工组织人宣布，所有工人都应该得到每小时五块钱的工资! !在老板答应之前，他们不再干活儿，一分钟也不干。在老板答应之前，他们不再干活儿，一分钟也不干。The strike lasted less than two hours. In medi
36、ation miden, the parties agreed on $2 per hour. Gradually, the huge stacks began to shrink.As it turned out, the job was completed three hours before Sundays 7 a.m. deadline. By the time I arrived home, the boys had already settled their accounts: $150 in labor costs, $40 for gasoline, and a like am
37、ount for gifts boxes of candy for saintly neighbors who had volunteered station wagons and help in delivery and a dozen roses for their mother. This left them with $185 each about two-thirds the minimum wage for the 91 hours they worked. Still, it was “enough“, as one of them put it, to enable them
38、to “avoid indignity” for quite a while.除去以上开支，他们每人得到185元大约相当于他们所干的91小时应得的最低工资的三分之二。虽然如此，可正如一个儿子所说，那还是“足够”他们花一阵子，使他们“避免那种有失尊严的事”。All went well for some weeks. Then one Saturday morning my attention was drawn to the odd goings-on(奇怪的举动） of our two youngest sons. They kept carrying carton after carton
39、from various corners of the house out the front door to curbside. I assumed their mother had enlisted them to remove junk for a trash pickup. Then I overheard them discussing finances.“Geez, were going to make a lot of money!”“Were going to be rich!”Investigation revealed that they were offering “fo
40、r sale or rent” our entire library.“No! No!” I cried. “You cant sell our books!” “Geez, Dad, we thought you were done with them!”“Youre never done with books,” I tried to explain.“Sure you are. You read them, and youre done with them. Thats it. Then you might as well make a little money from them. W
41、e wanted to avoid the indignity of having to ask you for .”Detailed Reading1. What is the last word his two youngest sons didnt speak out?Money.2. what can we infer from this sentence?What we can infer from the sentence are as follows:1. The two youngest sons have learnt a lot from what their elder
42、brothers did. They also want to be independent.2. The author just wants to tell readers making money by doing some extra work is good for college students.3. The two youngest sons are too naive to know life.1.伸手向人要钱伸手向人要钱2. 我不在乎我不在乎3. 使我痛心使我痛心4. 某人出差某人出差5. 在在住下来住下来6. 棒极了棒极了! !7. （车）停下（车）停下8. 某人因为某人因
43、为被指责被指责ask for moneyI dont mind It pains me that sb. be / go on a business tripbe settled in Super! Just super!(a car) pulls upsb. be blamed for Useful Expressions After Reading9. 事情原来是这样事情原来是这样 / / 结果结果It turns out After Reading紧急留言紧急留言廉价商店廉价商店外卖餐厅外卖餐厅学乖了，不去做学乖了，不去做某人在做某人在做还没有进展还没有进展an urgent messa
44、gedime storetakeout restaurantknow better than to do sb. hasnt made a dent in 不费吹灰之力的事不费吹灰之力的事(a) piece of cake对某人奖励一块钱对某人奖励一块钱offer a bonus of a dollar to sb.减少利润减少利润按时投送按时投送cut into ones profitmake a delivery on time10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.After Reading没有理由做没有理由做通过调解通过调解结帐结帐最低工资最低工资have no busi
45、ness doing in mediationsettle ones accounta minimum wage奇怪的举动奇怪的举动某人某人有权利做有权利做odd goings-onsb. be entitled to (do) 偷听某人做偷听某人做赚大钱赚大钱overhear sb. doing make a lot of money19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.Summary WritingAfter Reading Two college-age boys undertake (投递投递) of ad inserts (为了避为了避免老是向人讨钱而有失尊严免老是向人讨钱
46、而有失尊严)At first, they think it is (轻而易举的事轻而易举的事) just like the message printed on the bag (“轻轻松松赚大钱轻轻松松赚大钱”) “ ”. But it turns out to be a hard job. They have to finish the delivery before the (规定的时间规定的时间) , so they hire their younger brothers and sisters and neighborhood children to help for five do
47、llars an hour. Yet soon the children (罢工罢工) and demand more and see the color of cash. To get them to return to work, the college men agree to (增加每小时一块钱奖金增加每小时一块钱奖金) to the “worker” who fills the most bags, even though this will (减少他们的利润减少他们的利润) . The job is finally (做完做完) . After (结完帐结完帐) with the
48、children, they find they have to settle for the (九十一个小时艰苦劳动的最低工资九十一个小时艰苦劳动的最低工资) the delivery_to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time_.a piece of cake_Big Bucks the Easy Way_deadline_go on strike_offer a bonus of a dollar every hour_cut into their profit_done_settling their ac
49、counts_minimum wage for91 hours of hard work_.After ReadingTalking About the Pictures After ReadingWriting Practice For this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic My View On Part-time Jobs. You should write at least 150 words based on the outline given in Chinese below: Directions:1有些人认为大学生参加兼职工作有很多益处。有些人认为大学生参加兼职工作有很多益处。2另些人觉得大学生参加兼职工作有很多弊端。另些人觉得大学生参加兼职工作有很多弊端。3我的观点是我的观点是