新视角研究生英语读说写2六单元课后练习答案.ppt

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1、,Preparing to Read,Task 1,Task 2,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,1.Ambition is defined in the dictionary as“the desire or determination to be successful,rich,powerful,etc.”(Oxford Advanced Learners English-Chinese Dictionary).Do you think you are an ambitious person?Whats your ambi

2、tion?Or in other words,what do you want to do or achieve?Try to imagine and describe to the class what you will be doing twenty years later.,Task 2,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,2.The following are some famous sayings and quotations about ambition.Explain each of them and then put them into two categorie

3、s:one that praises ambition and one that condemns ambition.Which of the two views do you agree with?,Without ambition one starts nothing.Without work one finishes nothing.(RalphWaldo Emerson)Make no little plans.They have no magic to stir Mens blood.(David Hudson Burnham)In men of the highest charac

4、ter and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour,command,power,and glory.(Cicero),To be continued.,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,How helpless we are,like netted birds,when we are caught by desire!(Belva Plain)He who desires is always poor.(Claudianus)Achievement provides the on

5、ly real pleasure in life.(Addison)The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.(Harold Taylor)Dont bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.Try to be better than yourself.(William Faulkner)No matter how good you get you can always get

6、better and thats the exciting part.(Tiger Woods),To be continued.,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,There are only two tragedies in life:one is not getting what one wants,and the other is getting it.(Oscar Wilde)It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats,to hide the truth in their breasts,and

7、show,like jugglers,another thing in their mouths,to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest,and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.(Kenneth Tynan)Shoot for the moon.Even if you miss,youll land among the stars.(Les Brown)We never reflect how pleasan

8、t it is to ask for nothing.(Seneca),To be continued.,Unit 6:Preparing to Read,One must not lose desires.They are mighty stimulants to creativeness,to love,and to long life.(Alexander A.Bogomoletz)There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.(Lao-tzu)Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.(Lao-tzu),