a) popular factions? anxiety 焦虑情绪 添字

5. ..at Hollywood High School the student body represents 32 different languages. (8.4)

a) student body ? b) represent?

Senior high school Junior high school

6. The critical mass of teenagers—800 million in the world—with time and money to spend is one of the powerful engines of merging global cultures. (9.1) a) critical mass of teenagers 重要的青少年mass 青少年这一 重要群体

b) engine

7. They‘re called ―cool hunters‖; and Amanda Freeman took me in hand one morning to explain how it works. (9.8) a) cool hunters 猎酷者 head hunter parody

b) take me in hand

to deal with sb in a strict way in order to improve their behaviour

8. But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them. (8.1) a) resourceful 随机应变 b) resilient 富有弹性

c) unpredictable 难以预测

9. it is also played by rich society women at country clubs in Beverly Hills and in apartments on Manhattan‘s Upper West Side. (14.7) a. society women ? society ＝high society

10. …he told me with that detached friendliness of those whose true connection is with machines. (16.1) Split

He told me with friendliness and detachedness a. detached friendliness

he told me in a friendly and detached way

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他很客气的和我说，不带任何感情……

B．词汇扩展

1. Telegraph, telephone, radio, and television tied tighter and more intricate knots between individuals and the wider world. (2. 6) a) intricate

synonyms： complex； complicated； sophisticated；involved

The plot was so involved that very few people knew what was going on.

2. Then we wander through a few of the thrift shops. (11.10) a) thrift shop: a shop that sells used goods, especially clothes, often in order to get money for a charity flea market yard sale garage sale

vintage shop二手服饰店

one dollar shop convenience store C-store 喜士多 dime store

five-and-dime （store） ten-cent store

3. ―If it‘s not going to be affordable, ― Amanda remarks, ―it‘s never going to catch on.‖ (11.3) a) catch on

1.to become popular to be in

Speed dating is in in China. He is in again. Inmate to be in vogue 2. to understand

Tom is slow to catch on.

4. This being America, he has found a way to marry these two passions and sell the result. (14.2) a) marry：（formal ） to combine two different ideas, designs, tastes etc together The building's design marries a traditional style with modern materials Divorce： （formal） to separate two ideas, subjects etc completely

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It is difficult to divorce sport from politics.

5. …and the fierce concentration of the players. Collocation a) fierce concentration fierce pride fierce wind fierce dog fierce attack/opposition/criticism fierce competition tough competition

cut-throat competition throat-cutting

dog-eat-dog competition

It’s dog eat dog world outside there.

(罗马学者马库斯曾在公元前43年提出Canis caninam non est（Dog does not eat dog）的说法，认为即使是像狗这样的“低等生物”行事都有原则和限度，不会毁灭和吞食同类，何况是人类。)

6. TJ‘s online too, she‘s the one from Wales---a real night owl. a. night owl

all-nighter

I pulled an all-nighter last night.

Phoning anyone during an all nighter is a very bad idea The early bird catches the worm cool cat 冷静的人 lucky dog fox

网络上的英语陷阱 老牛吃嫩草 rock the cradle rob the cradle

let the cat out of the bag pig in the poke

What if the car you buy turns out to be a pig in a poke/lemon? lemon

social butterfly watchdog He is a \

实验品/小白鼠 Guinea pig

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7. He, an American playing a Chinese game with people in Germany, Wales, Ohio, and Minnesota, was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. (19.1) a) cybersphere:cyberspace cyberpunk 数字朋克 cyber-chat

网吧 cybercafé cyberfraud cyberwidow cyberstalking; cyberstalker cyber watchdog /Internet watchdog

C. 搭配

1. In the 19th century the postal service, newspapers, transcontinental railroads, and great steam-powered ships wrought fundamental changes. a) wrought fundamental changes work

work wonders work miracles work /weave one‘s magic

The warm weather and the beautiful scenery began to work their magic and she started to relax.

b) 取得成就 record achievements 学习知识 learn knowledge (错) Gain/obtain/acquire

深化改革 deepen one‘s commitment to reform 解除制裁 lift sanction

D．句子理解

1. Modern industry has established the world market. All old-established national industries are dislodged by new industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants we find new wants, requiring the products of distant lands and climes. (1.4) for their satisfaction 2. Humans have been weaving commercial and cultural connections since before the first camel caravan ventured afield. (2.3)

3. …a sort of cultural cloning will result from what they regard as the ―cultural assault‖ of McDonald‘s, Coca-Cola, Disney, Nike, and the English language itself—more than a fifth of all the people in the world now speak English to some degree. (4.2)

4. Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western –often equated with American—influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big ―McWorld‖. (4.5)

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