1、unit 5 straight-a illiteracy,the meaning of the title: straight: adv. 1. lets get straight down to business. 咱們直接談正題。 2. we can meet straight after lunch.我們午飯后馬上見面。 3. he has been without sleep now for three days straight. 連續(xù)地 4. i cant think straight. 清楚地 5. tell sb straight 坦率地告訴某人,adj. 1. im tryi

2、ng to get the room straight.整齊的（不用于名詞前） 2. be straight with sb; a straight answer; straight talk 誠實的，真實的 3. get it straight 弄清楚事實 4. get/put/set things straight(between)說明情況；理順與某人的關系,straight-a student: he/she is a student who gets as for all the courses he/she takes. illiteracy: someone who has not

3、 learned to read or write.,library work 1. 1) an allegory is a form of imaginative literature constructed in such a way that their readers are encourage to look for meanings hidden beneath the literal surface of the fiction. 2) an allegory is a narrative in which the characters, events, and setting

4、represent deeper truths or generalizations than those suggested by the surface story. 3) an allegory is a broad term covering any piece of writing or image which has meanings additional to the literal sense.,when the author calls his student mr. bright allegorically, he does not mean to refer to thi

5、s particular straight-a student only. he is using the term to cover all those students, college seniors, and ph.d.s who may seem bright when judged by their academic records, but who nevertheless fail to detect gibberish in their own writings or in those of others.,2. man is both a biological animal

6、 and social being. in keeping with his biological endowment, man tends to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. this truism is known as the “pleasure principle”.,teaching points 1. plight: a sad or unfortunate situation. eg: the plight of the disabled children moved her to tears. be in a sorry plight 處境困

7、窘 2. as often as not: quite frequently; at least half the time. eg: as often as not, he would go to the old womans home and help her clean up the place.,3. interrogate: v. ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information.訊問，審問，盤問 eg: he refused to be interrogated about his

8、friends. 4. articulate: able to express thoughts and feelings clearly and effectively. eg: she is among the few articulate children in the nursery.,5.coveted: (adj.) eagerly wished for or desired. eg: she won the coveted first prize at the speech contest, much to our surprise. covet v. have a very s

9、trong desire to have sth that someone else has 垂涎，覬覦,6. contingent adj. dependent on sth else, conditional 根據(jù)某些未知條件而定的 uncertain, accidental 偶然發(fā)生的 eg: the arms sales is contingent on the approval of congress. 7. decode: change a coded message into intelligible language.,8. affliction: 1) (in this co

10、ntext) trouble 2) (literary meaning) something that causes pain or suffering. eg: a feeling of isolation is his chief affliction.,9. inexorably: inescapably. eg: new technology marches on inexorably. 10. profundity: profoundness; great depth of knowledge or thought. eg: we didnt realize that the modest and unassuming man who talked to us a while ago was a scholar of great profundity.,11.jargon: n. technical or specialized words used by a particular group