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Unit 2
Part 1 Language Skills Development
1. Starter A. Look at the following pictures. Think over these questions.
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1. What ways of getting rich do these pictures suggest?
Reference answer： The four pictures represent four different ways of getting rich. The first picture suggests that one can get rich quick by buying stocks. The second picture shows that people can become rich through inheritance of fortunes, either of their own parents, or of some wealthy persons. The third picture indicates that marriage could be a passport to the kingdom of wealth. That is to say, a man or a woman could be a rich person if his or her spouse is rich. The fourth picture tells people that lotteries make millionaires. 2. Which do you think is the quickest way to get rich?
Reference answer： All these four methods of getting rich quick could turn a penniless guy into a millionaire overnight, but it seems to me that winning a lottery is the quickest way of making people rich. Just pay a dollar or two and you could become a rich person overnight! But on the other hand, such an opportunity is very rare.
B. Listen to the story Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Part 1) and answer the following questions.
1. What were the magic words used to open and close the cave?
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They were \2. What did Ali Baba find in the cave?
He found rich silks and carpets, gold and silver ware, and great bags of gold. 3. What did Ali Baba take from the cave? Many of the bags of gold.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
In a town in Persia there lived a poor woodcutter named Ali Baba. One day, Ali Baba was working deep in the forest. Suddenly he heard the noise of many horses. He tied up his two mules behind some high rocks. Then he climbed into a tall tree to hide.
From up high in the tree, Ali Baba saw forty men on forty horses. Each man wore a saber and a dagger in his belt. They looked very fierce. Ali Baba could see at once that they were thieves.
The forty thieves dismounted in front of a huge rock, and one, who seemed to be captain, said, \them.
Ali Baba could hardly believe what he had seen! He did not dare to climb down from his tree—the thieves might come out at any moment and find him. He waited a long time.
At last the door opened, and the forty thieves came out. Their captain said, \door closed, and the forty thieves rode away.
When they were out of sight Ali Baba came down from the tree. He walked up to the huge rock and said, \Ali Baba stepped inside. He found himself in a large cave, lighted from a hole in the top, and full of all kinds of treasure—rich silks and carpets, gold and silver ware, and great bags of gold. He loaded his two mules
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Persia n. mule n.
波斯（现称伊朗） 骡子
下马，下（自行、摩托）车 with as many of the bags of gold as they could carry, dismount vi.
and, after closing the door by saying, \ sesame n. 芝麻 made his way home.
2. Text Info Box 1. Mark Edgemon Mark Edgemon has been writing for 30 years. He writes and publishes short stories, articles, poetry and scripts, as well as, produces audio comedy productions for over 700 radio stations nationwide. The works of Mark Edgemon can be found at http://www.all-creatures.org/stories/edgemon.html. 2. The Egyptian Pyramid The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry (砖石结构) structures located in Egypt. There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt. Most were built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs (the rulers who were the religious and political leaders of ancient Egypt) and their consorts (配偶) during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The best known Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built. The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial (原始的) mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created. The shape is also thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone (石灰石), in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance. 精选
The Egyptians believed the dark area of the night sky around which the stars appear to revolve was the physical gateway into the heaven. One of the narrow shafts that extend from the main burial chamber through the entire body of the Great Pyramid points directly towards the center of this part of the sky. This suggests the pyramid may have been designed to serve as a means to magically launch the deceased Pharaoh's soul directly into the abode (住所) of the gods. All Egyptian pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile, which as the site of the setting sun was associated with the realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology. 3. Egypt and Asyut Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers. Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the pyramid complex and the Great Sphinx (狮身人面像). Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East. Asyut is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate, Egypt. The city of Asyut has almost 400,000 inhabitants. It is home to the University of Asyut, one of the largest universities in Egypt. Every Orifice Needs a Stone by Mark Edgemon
每个小孔都需要一颗宝石
1 Getting rich quick is nice if you can do it, but the phrase
1 一夜暴富当然不错。但这常常意
usually implies acquiring great sums of wealth with very 味着大量财富唾手可得。如果想以此致little effort. If that is the method of study, I wouldn't hold 富的话，我认为希望渺茫。 your breath.
2 然而，这种想法非常普遍，否则
2 However, if that weren't a popular notion, millions of 每次彩票抽奖也就不会有数以百万计dollars wouldn't roll in every time there was a lottery 的美元滚滚而来。 somewhere.
3 城里正在巡展古埃及文物，许多
3 An Egyptian archeological exhibit was touring through 有趣的手工艺品让公众大饱眼福。尤其town with many interesting artifacts for the public to see. 是其中一份古埃及文献，被认为揭示了One in particular, was an ancient document believed to 获取财富的神秘方法。 uncover a mysterious formula for acquiring wealth.
4 在当地的早报上读到这则新闻之
4 Having read about this ancient document in the early 后，约翰·霍利戴便从邻居家借来了相edition of the local newspaper, John Holiday borrowed his 机，以便拍下这份文献，供日后研neighbor's camera for the purpose of taking a snapshot of 究。 the document, so he could study it later.
5 拍了一张十分清晰的文献照片之
5 After getting a very clear image of the document, he 后，他便前往图书馆，开始阅读有关现went to the library and started reading books on ancient 已消亡的古代语言的书籍。奇怪的是，languages that are now dead. Strangely enough, John 约翰居然在语言上有潜在的天赋。他从had a hidden talent for languages. He never developed 来没有开发过自己的语言或者其他的this or any other talent, because he was lazy. He would 天赋，因为他很懒惰，不管什么事都喜always look for the easy way to do everything he had to 欢走捷径。但是，一夜暴富对他来说极do in life. However in this case, a shot at sudden wealth 具诱惑，是一次不能放过的机会。 was too much of an incentive for him to pass up.
6 他花了几小时就弄清楚了这种语
6 In a few hours, he figured out the code of the language 言代码，并开始解读这份古文献。这份and began to decipher the ancient text. It told of a statue, 文献说，埃及中部有一座上千年的雕thousands of years old, in the central part of Egypt, 像，藏在距一座大金字塔几英里的洞穴hidden in a cave miles from a large pyramid. The text 中，还说这座雕像身上有8个小孔，寻
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