Unit 03

Unit 3 Page 30 READING Exercise 3 AN EMBARRASSING DAD If you think you have the world's most embarrassing dad, then think again. American teenager Rain Price was waved off to school from the bus stop outside his house, by his dad, every day for a whole school year. OK, so that doesn't sound too bad, but this was no ordinary goodbye, because each day Rain's dad did it while wearing a different fancy-dress costume! It all started on 16-year-old Rain's first day of high school. Like many proud parents, Rochelle and Dale, Rain's mum and dad, sent him off to school with a big wave from the doorstep. That evening Rain made the mistake of complaining about how embarrassing they were, which gave Dale a great idea. The next morning, as Rain stepped onto the bus outside his house, he could hear all of his school friends laughing at something. He turned around and to his horror, there was his dad waving him off, dressed as an American football player, complete with ball and helmet. But that was just the beginning. For the next 180 school days, come rain or shine, Dale waved goodbye to his son dressed in a different costume. One day he was a king waving his sword and shield, the next a chef in his hat and apron, the following a pirate. Then there was Elvis and Wonder Woman. Dale even got other members of the family involved, using Rain's younger brother to play Batman alongside his Robin. Amazingly, Dale only spent $50 on all of the costumes. He got loads of costumes from the family fancy-dress collection and then there were several friends and neighbours who were happy to help. Some of Rain's friends didn't find it funny, but most of them looked forward to seeing what Dale would be wearing every day. And Dale found an international audience for his dressing up, too, as each day Rochelle took a photo of her husband in fancy dress and put it on their blog, waveatthebus.blogspot.com, which became a hit on the internet. Even Rain was eventually able to see the funny side and realised that his dad was pretty cool after all. For the final farewell on the last day of school, Dale dressed up as a pirate and stood next to a sign which said: 'It's been fun waving at the bus. Have a great summer.' But all good things don't always come to an end. The new school year began, and Dale was there again, in fancy dress, to wave at the bus.

第三单元 第30页阅读 练习3 尴尬的爸爸 如果你认为你有世界上最尴尬的爸爸，那就再想一想。 美国少年Rain Price的爸爸在他家外的公交车站挥手送他去学校， 整个学年的每一天。 好吧，这听起来不太糟糕，但这不是普通的再见， 因为Rain的爸爸每天都穿着不同的化装服！ 这一切都始于16岁的Rain高中的第一天。 像许多自豪的父母一样，罗谢尔和Rain的父母Dale， 在门口挥手送他去学校。 那天晚上，Rain犯了一个错误，抱怨他们有多尴尬，这给了Dale一个好主意。 第二天早上，当Rain踏上他家门外的公共汽车时， 他能听到他所有的同学都在笑。 他转过身，令他惊恐的是，爸爸挥手示意他离开， 打扮成美式橄榄球运动员，戴着球和头盔。 但这仅仅是个开始。 在接下来的180个上学日里，无论晴天还是雨天， 戴尔向穿着不同服装的儿子挥手告别。 有一天，他是一位挥舞着剑和盾牌的国王， 下一个是戴着帽子和围裙的厨师，下一个则是海盗。 然后是埃尔维斯和神奇女侠。 戴尔甚至让其他家庭成员也参与其中， Rain的弟弟和他的罗宾一起扮演蝙蝠侠。 令人惊讶的是，戴尔在所有服装上只花了50美元。 他从家族的奇装异服收藏中获得了大量的服装 然后有几个朋友和邻居很乐意帮忙。 Rain的一些朋友觉得这并不好笑， 但他们中的大多数人都期待着看到戴尔每天穿什么。 戴尔的打扮也吸引了国际观众， 罗谢尔每天都会拍一张丈夫穿着奇装异服的照片，并把它放在他们的博客上， waveatthebus.blogspot.com在互联网上大受欢迎。 就连Rain最终也看到了有趣的一面，并意识到他的爸爸毕竟很酷。 在学校最后一天的最后告别， 戴尔打扮成海盗，站在一块牌子旁边，上面写着： “在公共汽车上挥手很有趣。祝你夏天过得愉快。” 但所有美好的事物并不总是会结束。 新学年开始了，戴尔又来了，穿着奇装异服，在公共汽车上挥手。

Page 33 LISTENING Exercise 8 & 9 Hello, and welcome to True Tales. I have a very moving story to share with you today. It's the story of an American father from Michigan, Ricky van Beek, and his thirteen-year-old daughter Madison. The two share a love of the outdoors and they have competed in many outdoor races together. Now, I know this may sound like an average father and daughter story, but it is much more than that. Madison has cerebral palsy and van Beek is a devoted father who has carried his daughter across many miles of land and water. Together they have completed some of the most difficult triathlons. When they began training for their first marathon, in 2008, van Beek was a heavy smoker and very unfit. But seeing just how much joy Madison got from being bumped along roads in a buggy, really motivated him to get fit. For them both, the Grand Rapids Marathon was a life-changing event. Van Beek gave up smoking and Madison found something that she truly loved. Madison was diagnosed when she was just two months old and learning that his daughter would never walk or talk was heart-breaking for Ricky. It was in fact one of the worst days of his life. Since then, he has been her legs and she has been his motivation. The Sanford and Sun sprint triathlon of 2012 is one of many events they have competed in together as 'Team Maddy'. Van Beek swam 0.3 miles, pulling his daughter through the water behind him in a kayak. He completed the 12.4-mile bike ride pulling Madison behind him in a cart. He then ran 3.1 miles pushing Madison in a buggy. Seeing them participate together has been an inspiration to loads of people. Together, they have competed in more than seventy events, some half-marathons, some triathlons, all very intense and all with one aim – to make Madison happy. This devotion and love for his daughter has resulted in people calling van Beek 'the father of the century'. For van Beek, the motivation is love and he says, 'That will never fade. She is my heart and I am her legs, though someday she might not physically be able to be there with me, she will always be in my heart, quietly cheering me on.' Their story has touched many people and I think you'll agree, his determination to make his daughter happy is an inspiration to us all.

第33页列表 大家好，欢迎来到《真实故事》。 今天我有一个非常感人的故事要和大家分享。 这是一个来自密歇根州的美国父亲Ricky van Beek和他13岁的女儿Madison的故事。 两人都热爱户外运动，他们一起参加了许多户外比赛。 现在，我知道这听起来像是一个普通的父女故事，但它远不止于此。 麦迪逊患有脑瘫 范·比克是一位忠诚的父亲，他带着女儿穿越了数英里的陆地和水域。 他们一起完成了一些最困难的铁人三项。 2008年，当他们开始为第一场马拉松训练时， 范·比克是个烟瘾很大的人，非常不健康。 但看到麦迪逊坐着马车在路上颠簸时有多开心， 真的激励他健身。 对他们俩来说，大急流城马拉松是一场改变人生的赛事。 范·比克戒烟了，麦迪逊找到了她真正喜欢的东西。 麦迪逊在她只有两个月大的时候就被诊断出来了 得知女儿永远不会走路或说话，瑞奇心碎了。 事实上，那是他一生中最糟糕的日子之一。 从那以后，他一直是她的腿，她一直是他的动力。 2012年桑福德和太阳短跑铁人三项赛 这是他们作为“麦蒂队”共同参加的众多赛事之一。 范·比克（Van Beek）划着皮划艇游了0.3英里，把女儿拉过身后的水面。 他把麦迪逊拉在车里，完成了12.4英里的自行车骑行。 然后，他驾驶四轮马车推着麦迪逊跑了3.1英里。 看到他们一起参与，对很多人来说都是一种鼓舞。 他们一起参加了70多个项目的比赛， 一些半程马拉松，一些铁人三项，都非常激烈，都有一个目标——让麦迪逊开心。 这种对女儿的忠诚和爱使人们称范·比克为“世纪之父”。 对于范·比克来说，动机是爱，他说：， “这永远不会褪色。她是我的心，我是她的腿， 虽然有一天她可能无法和我在一起， 她将永远在我心中，默默地为我加油 他们的故事感动了很多人，我想你会同意的， 他让女儿快乐的决心激励着我们所有人。

Page 34 READING Exercise 2 TO SHARENT OR NOT TO SHARENT 'I can't believe you put that photo of me on Instagram!' Does this sound familiar? Do your parents post photos of you online? Are there photos out there that you really don't want the world to see? We all know that parents just want to do their best for their children. However, parents around the world are creating a digital footprint for their children before they can give consent. Future employers might be able to access those images online. French police have warned that parents could face future lawsuits from their children for violating their privacy. Under French privacy law, you are currently not allowed to publish a photo of someone without their consent. Some children have publicly asked their parents not to share photos on Instagram or on their blogs. Children grow up fast and parents must respect that. 'Mom, we've discussed this. You may not post anything without my consent.' Apple Martin famously wrote the above comment under a selfie taken by her famous mother, Gwyneth Paltrow, of the two of them skiing, and a media storm followed. The daughter of Christie Tate, a mummy blogger, found lots of essays and photos of herself online when she googled herself. She did ask her mother if the content could be taken down, but her mother refused. Ray Fitzgerald, a parenting coach, advises his followers to stick to the 'three P rules of posting': ●PRIVACY – Make sure private images stay private and check that your privacy settings are as tight as possible. ●PERCEPTION – If you were a teenager, would you like your parents to share that picture of you online? If the answer is no, then don't post it. ●PERMISSION – Always ask a teenager's permission before posting an image. I asked some teenagers and here are some of their comments: 'I don't usually mind. My mum and dad have given me a very happy childhood. They've been great parents. But then last week my mum shared a picture of me and her in the park. It was such a bad picture. I was so embarrassed. Sharenting is bad news.' SAM 'My mum has so few followers, I don't mind. But it's different if your parents are famous or have thousands of followers. Gwyneth Paltrow is very famous and so many people saw that skiing picture. I do think her daughter was right to be angry.' JACK 'I did see the picture and I do follow Gwyneth Paltrow. I didn't think the picture itself was so terrible. However, I do understand her daughter's anger,' JENNY After much discussion, most people seem to agree that it's time to stop sharenting when your children are about 12 or 13. The pictures can be so embarrassing and they're out there forever. Where do you stand on this issue? Page 35 PRONUNCIATION Exercise 1 & 2 Hannah's such a good tennis player! Did you see the match yesterday? Yes! It was so exciting! She didn't win, but she did play really well. It was such a pity she lost! She tried so hard. Yes, it was such a difficult match. I know. Anyway, I do think she's amazing! Page 35 PRONUNCIATION Exercise 3 Hannah's such a good tennis player! Did you see the match yesterday? Yes! It was so exciting! She didn't win, but she did play really well. It was such a pity she lost! She tried so hard. Yes, it was such a difficult match. I know. Anyway, I do think she's amazing!

第34页阅读 练习2 分享或不分享 “我不敢相信你把我的照片放在Instagram上了！” 这听起来熟悉吗？ 你父母会在网上发布你的照片吗？ 有没有你真的不想让世界看到的照片？ 我们都知道，父母只想为孩子尽最大努力。 然而，世界各地的父母在孩子同意之前，都在为他们的孩子创建数字足迹。 未来的雇主可能能够在线访问这些图像。 法国警方警告称，父母未来可能会因侵犯其隐私而面临子女的诉讼。 根据法国隐私法，未经他人同意，您目前不得发布他人的照片。 一些孩子公开要求父母不要在Instagram或博客上分享照片。 孩子们成长得很快，父母必须尊重这一点。 “妈妈，我们已经讨论过了。未经我同意，你不得发布任何内容。” Apple Martin在她著名的母亲Gwyneth Paltrow拍摄的自拍照下写下了上述评论， 他们两人一起滑雪，随后引发了一场媒体风暴。 木乃伊博主克里斯蒂·泰特的女儿， 当她在谷歌上搜索自己时，在网上发现了很多自己的文章和照片。 她确实问过妈妈是否可以删除这些内容，但妈妈拒绝了。 育儿教练雷·菲茨杰拉德建议他的追随者坚持“发布的三个P规则”： ●隐私– 确保私人图像保持私密，并检查您的隐私设置是否尽可能严格。 ●感知—— 如果你是一个十几岁的孩子，你想让你的父母在网上分享你的照片吗？ 如果答案是否定的，那就不要发布。 ●许可– 在发布图片之前，一定要征得青少年的许可。 我问了一些青少年，以下是他们的一些评论： “我通常不介意。 我的父母给了我一个非常快乐的童年。 他们是很棒的父母。 但上周，我妈妈分享了一张我和她在公园里的照片。 这张照片太糟糕了。我很尴尬。 分享是个坏消息。山姆 “我妈妈的粉丝很少，我不介意。 但如果你的父母很有名或有成千上万的追随者，情况就不同了。 格温妮丝·帕特洛非常有名，很多人都看过那张滑雪照片。 我确实认为她女儿生气是对的。杰克 “我确实看到了这张照片，我确实关注了格温妮丝·帕特洛。 我没想到照片本身这么糟糕。 然而，我确实理解她女儿的愤怒，珍妮 经过多次讨论，大多数人似乎都同意是时候停止分享了 当你的孩子大约12或13岁时。 这些照片可能很尴尬，而且它们永远都在那里。 你在这个问题上的立场是什么？ 第35页项目 汉娜网球打得真好！ 你昨天看比赛了吗？ 对！太令人兴奋了！ 她没有赢，但她打得很好。 她输了，真可惜！她非常努力。 是的，这是一场艰难的比赛。 我知道。不管怎样，我确实觉得她很棒！ 第35页项目 练习3 汉娜网球打得真好！ 你昨天看比赛了吗？ 对！太令人兴奋了！ 她没有赢，但她打得很好。 她输了，真可惜！她非常努力。 是的，这是一场艰难的比赛。 我知道。不管怎样，我确实觉得她很棒！

Page 36 Literature Exercise 2 About a Boy by Nick Hornby Marcus is a schoolboy who lives with his mum, who is depressed. Marcus has a hard time at school – he gets bullied quite a lot, especially because of the clothes his mum makes him wear. Recently, Marcus has started to become friends with Will, a rich, lazy man who buys him new trainers. Here, Marcus and his mum are going home after visiting Will at his flat. 'You're not going round there again,' she said on the way home. Marcus knew shed say it, and he also knew that he'd take no notice, but he argued anyway. 'Why not?' 'If you've got anything to say, you say it to me. If you want new clothes, I'll get them.' 'But you don't know what I need.' 'So tell me.' 'I don't know what I need. Only Will knows what I need.' 'Don't be ridiculous.' 'It's true. He knows what things kids wear.' 'Kids wear what they put on in the mornings.' 'You know what I mean.' 'You mean that he thinks he's trendy, and that [...] he knows which trainers are fashionable, even though he doesn't know the first thing about anything else.' That was exactly what he meant. That was what Will was good at, and Marcus thought he was lucky to have found him. 'We don't need that kind of person. We're doing all right our way.' Marcus looked out of the bus window and thought about whether this was true, and decided it wasn't, that neither of them were doing all right, whichever way you looked at it. 'If you are having trouble, it's nothing to do with what shoes you wear, I can tell you that for nothing.' 'No, I know, but – ' 'Marcus, trust me, OK? I've been your mother for twelve years. I haven't made too bad a job of it. I do think about it. I know what I'm doing.' Marcus had never thought of his mother in that way before, as someone who knew what she was doing. He had never thought that she didn't have a clue either; it was just that what she did with him (for him? to him?) didn't appear to be anything like that. He had always looked on being a mother as straightforward, something like, say, driving: most people could do it, and you could mess it up by doing something really obvious, by driving your car into a bus, or not telling your kid to say please and thank you and sorry (there were loads of kids at school, he reckoned, kids who stole and swore too much and bullied other kids, whose mums and dads had a lot to answer for). If you looked at it that way, there wasn't an awful lot to think about. But his mum seemed to be saying that there was more to it than that. She was telling him she had a plan. If she had a plan, then he had a choice. He could trust her, believe her when she said she knew what she was doing [...] Or he could decide that, actually, she was off her head [...] Either way it was scary. He didn't want to put up with things as they were, but the other choice meant he'd have to be his own mother, and how could you be your own mother when you were only twelve? He could tell himself to say please and thank you and sorry, that was easy, but he didn't know where to start with the rest of it. He didn't even know what the rest of it was. He hadn't even known until today that there was a rest of it.

第36页文献 练习2 关于一个男孩 尼克·霍恩比 马库斯是一名男生，和他沮丧的妈妈住在一起。 马库斯在学校很难相处——他经常被欺负， 尤其是因为他妈妈让他穿的衣服。 最近，马库斯开始和威尔成为朋友，威尔是个有钱又懒惰的人，他给他买了新的运动鞋。 在这里，马库斯和他的妈妈在拜访威尔的公寓后要回家。 “你不能再去那里了，”她在回家的路上说。 马库斯知道她会这么说，他也知道他不会在意，但他还是争辩了。 “为什么不呢？” “如果你有什么要说的，就告诉我。 如果你想要新衣服，我会买的。” “但你不知道我需要什么。” “那么告诉我。” “我不知道我需要什么。只有威尔知道我需要什么。” “别开玩笑了。” “这是真的。他知道孩子们穿什么。” “孩子们早上穿什么就穿什么。” “你知道我的意思。” 你是说他认为自己很时髦，而且他知道哪些运动鞋很时髦， 尽管他对其他事情一无所知 这正是他的意思。 这就是威尔擅长的，马库斯认为他很幸运能找到他。 “我们不需要那种人。我们做得很好。” 马库斯望向车窗外，思考这是不是真的，然后决定不是， 不管你怎么看，他们俩都做得不好。 如果你遇到麻烦，那与你穿什么鞋无关， 我可以免费告诉你。” “不，我知道，但是——” 马库斯，相信我，好吗？ 我做你妈妈已经十二年了。 我做得还不错。 我确实考虑过。我知道我在做什么。” 马库斯以前从未这样想过他的母亲，因为她知道自己在做什么。 他从未想过她也毫无头绪； 只是她对他做了什么（为了他？对他？） 看起来并不像那样。 他一直认为做母亲是直截了当的，比如开车： 大多数人都能做到，而你做一些非常明显的事情可能会把事情搞砸， 把你的车开进公共汽车，或者不告诉你的孩子说“请”、“谢谢”和“对不起” （他估计，学校里有很多孩子，他们偷窃、咒骂太多、欺负其他孩子， 他们的父母有很多事情要负责）。 如果你这样看，就没什么好想的了。 但他的妈妈似乎在说，事情远不止如此。 她告诉他她有一个计划。 如果她有一个计划，那么他有一个选择。 他可以相信她，相信她说她知道自己在做什么[…] 或者他可以决定，事实上，她疯了[…] 不管怎样，这都很可怕。 他不想忍受现状， 但另一个选择意味着他必须做自己的母亲， 你十二岁的时候怎么能做自己的母亲呢？ 他可以告诉自己说“请”、“谢谢”和“对不起”，这很容易， 但他不知道从哪里开始剩下的。 他甚至不知道剩下的是什么。 直到今天，他才知道还有剩下的。