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1、Unit 7Text APre-reading ActivitiesBefore you listen to the passage1. Take a minute with a partner to match the sports in Column A with the playing areas in Column B. Then in Column C, list all the things (equipment, special clothing, etc.) that are necessary to each of the sports.Column Abaseballbow
2、linggolfrunningsoccer (football)tennisColumn Balleycoursecourtdiamondfield (pitch)trackColumn CNow listen to the passage2. Which sport is it about? Compare your equipment list with the equipment mentioned on the tape. What attracts you to the activities that you enjoy in your spare time? How importa
3、nt is it to you to do them rightH?So Whats So Bad About Being So-So?Lisa Wilson StrickThe other afternoon I was playing the piano when my seven-year-old walked in. He stopped and listened for a while, then said: You don*t play that thing very well, do you, Mom?HNo, I dont. My performance would make
4、any serious music student weep, but I dont care. Fve enjoyed playing the piano badly for years.I also enjoy singing badly and drawing badly. Im not ashamed of my incompetence in these areas. I do one or two other things well and that should be enough for anybody. But it gets boring doing the same th
5、ings over and over. Every now and then its fun to try something new.Unfortunately, doing things badly has gone out of style. It used to be a mark of class if a lady or a gentleman sang a little, painted a little, played the violin a little. You didnt have to be good at it; the point was to be fortun
6、ate enough to have the leisure time for such pursuits. But in todays competitive world we have to be nexpertsn even in our hobbies.You can*t tone up your body by pulling on your gym shoes and jogging around the block a couple of times anymore. Why? Because youll be laughed off the street by the nser
7、ious runners” the ones who run twenty miles or more a week in their sixty-dollar running suits and fancy shoes. The shoes are really a big deal. If you say youre thinking about taking up almost any sport, the first thing the serious types will ask is what you plan to do about shoes. Leather or canva
8、s? What type of soles? Which brand? This is not the time to mention that the gym shoes you wore in high school are still in pretty good shape. As far as sports enthusiasts are concerned, if you dont have the latest shoes you are hopelessly committed to embarrassing yourself. The runners arent nearly
9、 so snobbish as the dancers, however. In case you didnt know, Hgoing dancing no longer means putting on a pretty dress and doing a few turns around the dance floor with your favorite man on Saturday night. Dancing” means squeezing into tights and leg warmers, then sweating through six hours of warm-
10、ups, five hours of ballet and four hours of jazz classes. Every week. Never tell anyone that you nlike to dancen unless this is the sort of activity you enjoy.Have you noticed what this is doing to our children? nWe dont want that nerd on our soccer team/ I overheard a ten-year-old complain the othe
11、r day. HHe doesnt know a goal kick from a head shot. As it happens, the nnerdn that the boy was talking about was my son, who did not - like some of his friends - start soccer instruction at age three. Fm sorry, Son, I guess I blew it. In my day, when we played baseball, we expected to give a little
12、 instruction to the younger kids who didnt know how to play. It didnt matter if they were terrible; we werent out to slaughter the other team. Sometimes we didnt even keep score. To us, sports were just a way of having a good time.I dont think kids have as much fun as they used to. Competition keeps
13、 getting in the way. The daughter of a neighbor is a nervous wreck worrying about getting into the best tennis school. nI was a late starter J she told me, and I only get to practice five or six hours a week, so my technique may not be up to their standards.n The child is nine. She doesnt want to be
14、 a tennis player when she grows up; she wants to be a nurse. I asked what she likes to do for fun in her free time. She seemed to think it was an odd question. Well, I dont actually have a lot of free time/ she said. nHomework and tennis and piano lessons kind of eat it all up. I have piano lessons
15、three times a week now, so I have a good shot at getting into the all-state orchestra.Ambition, drive and the desire to excel are all great within limits, but I dont know where the limits are anymore. I know a woman whos been complaining for years that she hasn*t got the time to study a foreign lang
16、uage. Ive pointed out that an evening course in French or Italian would take only a couple of hours a week, but she keeps putting it off. I suspect that what she hasnt got the time for is to become completely fluent within one year - and that any lower level of accomplishment would embarrass her. In
17、stead she spends her evenings watching TV and tidying up her closets - occupations at which no particular expertise is expected.I know lots of other people, too, who avoid activities they might enjoy because they lack the time or the energy to tackle them seriously.0 It strikes me as so silly. We ar
18、e talking about recreation. I have nothing against self-improvement. But when I hear a teenager muttering practice makes perfect1 as he grimly makes his four-hundred-and-twenty-seventh try at hooking the basketball into the net left-handed, I wonder if some of us arent improving ourselves right into
19、 the insane asylum.I think its time we put a stop to all this. For sanity*s sake, each of us should vow to take up something new this week - and to make sure we never master it completely. Sing along with grand opera. Make peculiar-looking objects out of clay. I can tell you from experience that a h
20、omemade cake still tastes pretty good even if it doesnt look perfect. The point is to enjoy being a beginner again; to rediscover the joy of creative fooling around. If you find it difficult, ask any two-year-old to teach you. Two-year-olds have a gift for tackling the impossible with enthusiasm; re
21、peated failure hardly discourages them at all.As for me, Im getting a little out of shape, so Im looking into golf. A lot of people I know enjoy it, and it doesnt look too hard. Given a couple of lessons, I should be stumbling gracelessly around the golf course and playing badly in no time at all. (
22、1,050 words)New Words so-soa.& ad.(infml) neither very bad(ly) nor very good/well 不好也不坏的(地)momn.(美口)妈妈incompetencen. the lack of skill or ability to do a task successfully 不胜任，不称职* competencen. skill or ability to do a task successfully 能力；称职boringa. dull and uninteresting乏味的；令人厌倦的leisuren. time fre
23、e from work or other duties; spare time 闲暇gymn. (infml) (=gymnasium) a room or hall with apparatus for physical exercise 体操馆； 健身房gym shoen.体操鞋，球鞋solen. the bottom part of a shoe or sock 鞋底； 袜底a. being the only one; belonging to one and no others 唯的； 独占的enthusiastn. a person who is very interested in
24、 sth. 热衷于的人squeezevt. 1. force or press (sb. or sth. into a small space) 硬塞, 硬挤2. press firmly from two sides 挤压，榨n. 1. an act of pressing in from two sides 挤压, 榨2. tight economic circumstances 经济困难；拮据tightsn.复女用(连)裤袜leg warmersn.复暖腿套warm-upn. an act or a period of preparation for physical exercise,
25、 a performance, etc. 准备;舌 动；准备练习overhearvt. hear (sb., a conversation, etc.) without the knowledge of the speaker(s); hear bychance偷听到；无意中听到goal kickn.球门球* slaughtervt. 1. kill (an animal), esp. for food; kill (people or animals) violently and in largenumbers屠宰；屠杀2. (infml) defeat (sb.) badly in spo
26、rts or games (口)使惨败wreckn. 1. (usu. sing) (infml) a person whose health, esp. mental health, has been seriously damaged受到严重损害的人2. a ship lost at sea; a plane, car, etc. which is badly damaged in an accident 遇难船 只；失事飞机等的残骸vt. cause (a ship) to be destroyed; (fig.) destroy, ruin 造成(船舶等)失事；(喻)破坏orchest
27、ran. a (usu. large) group of people playing various musical instruments together 管弦乐 队limitn. (oft. pl.) the greatest extent of sth. that is possible or allowed 限度； 范围vt. keep within a certain size, amount, number, area, or place; restrict 限制； 限定limiteda. small in amount, power and not able to incre
28、ase 有限的tidyvt. make (sb. or sth.) neat or in order 使整洁，使整齐a. neat and in order; liking things to be neatly arranged 整洁的； 爱整洁的* recreationn. an activity done for enjoyment when one is not working 肖遣, 娱乐self-improvementn. improvement of ones character, mind, etc., by ones own efforts 自我改进，自我修养grimlyad
29、. in a determined manner 坚定地； 不屈地* insanea. 1.精神病患者的；为疯人而设的2. (of people or their acts) mad (患)精神病的；精神失常的asylumn.收容所；精神病院insane asylumn. a mental hospital 精神病院sanityn. the state of having a normal healthy mind; the state of being sensible or reasonable;good sound judgement神智健全；清醒，明智operan.歌剧peculiar
30、-lookinga.奇形怪状的peculiara. 1. odd, strange奇特的，古怪的2. (to) belonging, relating only (to a particular person, place or time) 独有的，特有的clayn.黏土homemadea. made at home, rather than in a shop or factory 家制J 的；做得简单粗糙的discouragevt. take away (sb.s) confidence or (sb/s) hope of doing sth.使泄气，使灰心* stumblevi. 1.
31、walk in a clumsy way 跌跌撞撞地走2. speak or perform with many mistakes or hesitations 结结巴巴地说话gracelesslyad. not attractively or elegantly; in a clumsy manner 不优美地，笨拙地gracen. 1. elegance in movement or behaviour 乡亡美； 风度2. kindness; willingness to do what is right 善意； 体谅gracefula. 1. (of movement or shape)
32、 attractive to see 优美的(of a speech or feeling) suitably and pleasantly expressed 。亡雅的； 得体的* graciousa. polite, kind and pleasant, esp. to people of a lower social position 亲切的， 和蔼的Phrases and Expressionstone upmake (ones body) stronger, fitter, etc,使更强壮，使更健康pull onput (sth.) on by pulling 穿上，戴上a big
33、 dealsth. important 了不起的事，大事take upstart to learn or practice (a hobby) 开始从事in good shapein good condition处于良好状况be committed tocare a lot about (a cause, ones job. etc.); be loyal to (a particular ideal) 献身于，忠诚 于squeeze intoforce or press into a narrow or restricted space 硬塞进，硬挤入.as it happens(used
34、before saying sth. surprising) actually; in fact 碰巧，偶然blow it(俚)把这事弄得一团糟keep score(在比赛中)记分get in the way (of sth./of -ing); get in sb/s wayprevent or interfere with sth.; prevent sb. from doing sth.; block sb/s progress 妨碍；挡道kind of(infml) somewhat; to some extent (口)有 点儿； 可以这么说eat upuse (sth.) in l
35、arge quantities 消耗； 用完have a shot at(infml) attempt to do (sth.) (口)尝试；试着去做(某事)put offdelay (doing sth.) 推迟； 拖延tidy upmake (sb./oneself/sth.) neat and orderly 整理，收拾put a stop toensure that a process, habit, etc., ends and will not be repeated 制J止， 使停止make sth. out ofconstruct, create or prepare sth. by combining materials or putting parts together用做出fool aroundbehave in a manner that isn*t serious; waste time; do sth. just for fun (口)闲荡，混 日子out of shapenot fit处于不良的(健康)状况in no timevery quickly 立亥U，马上Proper NamesLisa Wilson Strick莉莎威尔逊斯特里克（女子名）