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新视野英语读写教程 第二册 （Unit one – Unit five）
Unit One
Section A Text A
The First McDonald's Restaurant
1. Even though the first McDonald's restaurant sold only hamburgers and French fries, it still became a cultural symbol. Now, in the Southern California city of Downey, people are trying to save the first McDonald's restaurant in history. McDonald's, though, says the building should be torn down.
2. Built in 1953, the restaurant in Downey, California, is the oldest of all the Golden Arches in America, and has the earliest McDonald's building design.
3. Many people have good memories of that old McDonald's. These people are angry that the building is now in danger of being destroyed, along with their memories.
4. McDonald's explains that the building was damaged in an earthquake, and therefore needs to be torn down. Many people in the town of Downey don't agree with this line of thinking, though. 5. One woman says, \lie.\
6. Another Downey resident remarks, \haven't even tried. They could do some small repairs and make it a good restaurant again.\
7. McDonald's managers say the restaurant is losing money at that location. There is no room for a drive-thru window, or for seating inside. After the earthquake, they say it was impossible to fix. The managers want to build a copy of this building at another location instead.
8. Building inspectors, on the other hand, say that the structure can be repaired, but that it will be expensive. Many people say that McDonald's can certainly afford to pay that amount. Some think that McDonald's real reason for wanting to close down the restaurant has nothing to do with money.
9. Modern McDonald's restaurants often have a sign claiming that a man named Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's restaurant in Illinois in 1955. The truth, however, is that Mr. Kroc actually learned the fast food business from Dick and Mac McDonald in Downey. Later, Mr. Kroc bought their restaurants. Thus, many people in Downey think McDonald's is trying to change history, though the company denies this.
10. To local historians, this explanation makes total sense. One historian said, \rewrite the past. Ray Kroc did not invent McDonald's. The McDonald brothers did.\
11.These days, a group of historians want the building to be added to the National Register of Historic Places so that the city of Downey will be able to stop McDonald's from tearing the building down. The McDonald's managers are very angry, and have abandoned the structure.
12. Everyone hopes that the McDonald's managers and the people of Downey will soon find peace. The building is still there, but boards cover the windows. Even so, people drive by to remember their McDonald's, taking pictures of a moment in history before it gets taken away.
Read the questions and complete the answers according to the text. 1. Where and when was the first McDonald’s built?
2. Why does McDonald’s want to tear down the restaurant? 3. Why do some people want to save the first McDonald’s?
4. According to the local historians, what is McDonald’s real purpose to tear down the restaurant? 5. What is the author’s purpose of writing this article?
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新视野英语读写教程 第二册 （Unit one – Unit five）
Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. There are more words in the list than you need.
damage deny public inspect actually location structure claim register amount 1.Bees communicate by dancing: for example, they do a kind of dance to tell other bees about the _________ of flowers.
2.It was said that Nancy was going to marry a rich Englishman, but she ________ it.
3.We need a huge __________ of money to build a new high school for the children in this area. 4. Since you broke the window, you should pay for the ___________.
5. People who fish and sail sometimes _____to have seen strange animals in the sea. 6.He looks young, but _________ he is much the elder of the two. 7. The guard walked through the train __________ everyone’s ticket.
8.The New smart _________ could be very expensive to build. However, they would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.
Fill in the each f the blanks in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb. 1.People who smoke are ______ danger of developing lung disease from heavy smoking. 2.The matter has nothing to do _____ him; he was just doing his job.
3. If you are interested in this line ______ thinking, please read this book for more details. 4. We should try our best to stop young people _______ smoking. 5. The factory closed _______ and she lost her job.
6.These books are for reading in the library, and may not be taken ______ .
7. I definitely agree _______ you that young girls shouldn‘t wear that much makeup(化妆品). 8. They’re tearing ________ these old houses to put up a new office building.
Unit One
Section B Text B
Disney Mirrors American Culture
1. Last fall, the Walt Disney company did something rare: it admitted defeat in its fight to build a history theme park in Virginia. The park was going to be called “Disney’s America”.
2. Some people might be wondering,however, if Disney lost the battle but won the war, as it seems is living in Disney’s America these days.
3. With its purchase of Capital cities/ABC Inc.last month, the company founded by Walter Elias Disney in 1923 deepened its claim on American culture. In fact, it would be hard to find another company so widely respected—even loved—by Americans.
4. Americans rushed out to see Disney films, and then replay them—on videotapes; they read Disney books to their children; they watch Disney shows on Disney TV; they make trips to Disneyland and Disney world, where they stay in Disney hotel and eat Disney food;Americans buy Disney products at Disney stores, and listen to Disney records of Disney songs.
5. The world of Disney is becoming anything but small.
6. All this makes some people more than a little upset. Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale University, provides an examination of the cultural history of Western society.
7. “At the end of this road lies cultural uniformity of the worst kind. Its just terrible.” 8. This is becoming a popular opinion in universities around the world.
9.“Disney products,” said Paul Fussell, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, “have always seemed to me seriously sub-adult.
10. Those who oppose Disney (and there are many) see its films and by-products as sexist,
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新视野英语读写教程 第二册 （Unit one – Unit five）
racist and as simpler, cheered-up accounts of American history and folklore.
11. “There’s a kind of protection at work here,” said Henry Giroux, a professor at Penn State University. Like all those opposed to Disney, he can list, in detail, Disney’s many crimes against culture: he is very angry, for example, about the treatment of American Indians in Pocahontas.
12. “I mean, the entire history of what happened to the Indians, which some people would call the murder of their people, is sort of played out as a love story,” he said angrily.
13. Giroux said he believes that Disney has become a basic educator of America’s children, most of whom will be able to perform every word of the Lion King long before they even learn US President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Gettysburg Address.
14. However, even the most strongly opposed are quick to note that Disney has many positive values– cheerfulness, good –hearted fun, and a tradition of artistic quality– that help explain its success. Critical or not, most of those who oppose the company are Disney customers themselves.
Choose the best answer for the following questions
1.What rare thing did the Walt Disney company do last autumn? A. It planned to build a history theme park in Virginia. B. It admitted that their plan to build another park failed. C. It bought a big company.
D. It claimed to be the mirror of American culture.
2.People are influenced by Disney in many ways. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text ?
A. People eat Disney food.
B. People love to see Disney films.
C. People listen to Disney songs on Radio Disney. D. People visit Disneyland and Disney World.
3. According to Professor Bloom, what will happen if people continue to be influenced by Disney in such a way?
A. Children can learn a lot before they go to school.
B. People will have many different forms of entertainment.
C. People will find themselves in the same culture all over—Disney’s culture. D. People will become sexist or racist.
4. According to the text, what is wrong with Disney films? A. Some films are love stories and are not good for children. B. Some films are not good in quality. C. Some films are too cheerful to be true. D. Some films are not true to the history. 5. What is the main idea of the text?
A.Walt Disney Company is a successful company.
B. Disney is the symbol of American culture, though some people don’t like it. C. Disney is not good because it gives false accounts in its films. D. Disney is good because it brings people fun.
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新视野英语读写教程 第二册 （Unit one – Unit five）
Fill in the blanks with the words given below.Change the form where necessary. there’re more words in the list than you need.
critical defeat uniform oppose admit value treat provide purchase murder 1.Among the decision that most people make,____ a house is perhaps the biggest one. 2. Don’t be ________ about him; he is a beginner.
3. Their basketball team had bad luck yesterday: it was their third __ in four matches.
4. It is human nature to be _________ to change because it requires us to cross into the unknown. 5. His works mirrored such positive ________as cheerfulness and kindness. 6. We must always try to ________ the highest level of service to our customs.
7. The teacher was very popular among the students because he ________ them as his own children. 8. When I asked the students if they’d like to have the lesson near the lake, I got a ______answer: “Yes!”.
Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb.
1. The sick child fell into sleep soon after he took the medicine– obviously the medicine was ___ work.
2. The story about the country teacher and her 18 students was played ____ and soon the film became very popular.
3. He has made several business trips ___ New York so far.
4. The fire fighters rushed ____ of the building just before it burnt down.
5. More and more trees are being cut down, and it’s time for us to stop this crime _______ nature. 6. Tom’s uncle suddenly came back from the U.S and made a claim _____ the house Tom is now living in.
7. Mr. Thomson is strongly opposed ____ the idea of building a power station near the town. 8. I have heard that you are going to build a new school. Could you tell me the plan ___ detail?
Unit Two
Section A Text A
Our changing Lifestyle: Trends and Fads
1. These days, lifestyles have a tendency to change so fast. It is more than just clothing and hairstyle that are in style one year and out of date the next; it’s a whole way of living.
2. One year, people wear hats and blue jeans;they drink white wine and eat at Japanese restaurants: for exercise they run several miles a day. The next year, however, everything has changed: women wear long skirts; people drink expensive water from France, and eat at Italian restaurant: everyone seems to be exercising at health clubs.
3. Almost nothing in modern life gets away from the influence of fashion: food, music, exercise , books, language , movies, furniture, and even names go in out of fashion. The interests that people follow can change very quickly.
4. In the United States, even people can be “in”or “out”. American enjoy following the lives of famous people: actors, sports heroes, well-known artists, politicians and the like.But Americans also pay a lot of attention to people who have no special ability at all. In 1981, for example, an unknown elderly woman appeared in a TV advertisement in which she looked at very small hamburger and complained loudly, “Where’s the beef?” These three words made her famous. Suddenly she appeared in magazines and newspapers, and on TV shows. She was immediately popular. She was “in”. However, this kind of fame does not last long. Such people are famous for a very short time– they are fads.
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