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1、Unit Five,Remote Control,Background Information,About the author and the textThe Washington Post,About the author and the text,This classic Dave Barry Column was originally published on Feb.27,2000 in the Miami Herald.For 25 years Dave Barry has been a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in mor
2、e than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad.In 1988,he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.,Dave has also written a total of 25 books,although virtually none of them contain useful information.In his spare time,Dave is a candidate for president of the United States.If elected,his highest
3、 priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.,The Washington Post,The newspaper is one of the citys oldest papers,first published in 1877.Perhaps the most notable incident in the Posts history was when,in the early 1970s,reporte
4、rs Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the medias investigation of Watergate.This played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency.,Language Points,How the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.(Para.1)How the appliance makers are making us mad.,insane,adj.mad,senseless.
5、We never do anything like this in our hometown.We are all so controlled,and this is insane.,you could have a home where the dishwasher“can be turned on from the office”“transmits your weight to the gym.”(Para.2)You could live in a home in which you can turn on the dishwasher when you are working,and
6、 the fridge will tell you when there is no milk inside,and your weight will be sent to the gym when you weigh yourself on the bathroom scale.,transmit,V.pass or hand on;send onThe survivors of the shipwreck transmitted a distress signal every hour.,I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturer
7、s,with all due respect,have been smoking crack.(Para.3)Bearing my respect for the appliance manufacturers in my mind,I frankly want to know if they are crazy.,due:adj,1)suitable,right,properAfter due consideration,the committee agreed to accept his resignation.2)(of payment)required at a certain tim
8、eThe wage due to them will be paid no later than tomorrow.3)(to be)expected;appointed or agreed(for a certain time or date)The shuttle bus is due in 15 minutes.,If you want to improve our dishwashers,give us one that senses when people leave dirty dishes on the kitchen counter(Para.4)If you want to
9、make dishwashers more advanced,give us a dishwasher which will automatically realize that there are some dirty dishes left by the owner on the kitchen counter,and then give some signal.,What we could use is a refrigerator that refuses to let us open its door when it senses that we are about to consu
10、me our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in two hours.(Para.5)The fridge we use is the one that will lock itself automatically when we attempt to eat more pudding snack in two hours,i.e.,a fridge can forbid us to take too much food(and thus keep our figure).,We dont want our weight transmitted to our own
11、eyeballs!(Para.6)We dont want to know our own weight ourselves.,What if,God forbid,our refrigerator found out what our weight was!Wed never get the door open again!(Para.6)What if,I hope that will never really happen.Our fridge,which is intelligent,will lock its door forever owing to our overweight!
12、,God/Heaven forbid,Used to express a fervent wish that sth does not happen God forbid that anything awful should have happened to her.God grant;By God,God grant:,used to express a wish that sth should happenGod grant us success/God grant we may take taxi.,By God,we never observed it.God helps those
13、who help themselves:自助者天助之。,This phone probably can communicate with the dead,but I dont know how to operate it,just as I dont know how to operate my TV,which requires three remote controls.(Para.7)This phone is perhaps capable of communicating with the dead,but I dont know how to operate it.This is
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