(课外作业，下次课给答案)

    Directions: You are going to read a text about For better or Worse but Not for Lunch l, followed by a list of statements.

    Choose the best statement from the list A-F for each numbered subheading (41-45). There is one extra statement which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

    “For better or worse but not for lunch” is not a laughing matter for our friend Sue. “When Elliot retired, he spent the first week reorganizing my kitchen and putting all my canned goods and spices in alphabetical order,” Sue said. “This wasn’t the kind of togetherness I wanted!”

    One challenge of retirement is managing all that extra time together. If you have just retired—or are contemplating retirement—here are some tips to start out right.

(41) Make a plan.

(42) Talk it out.

(43) Balance times together and times apart.

(44) Learn to work together and share responsibility.

(45) Serve others.

[A] Too much togetherness can be too much. You need some personal space. But you also need to reconnect.
[B] Share your expectations with each other. Let go of unrealistic expectations and accept each other as a packaged deal. If you keep the communication lines open and positive, you can foster a loving spirit of cooperation.
[C] Divide up the work so you are both contributing. For instance, at the Arps. Dave does the dishes and is affectionately called the kitchen elf. In the morning, Claudia gets up and has a hot pot of coffee ready for Dave, who isn’t the morning person.
[D] Realize that change is coming and greet it with a spirit of adventure. Be willing to try new things.
[E] It’s time to celebrate! Anything goes, from dinner at your favorite restaurant to climbing a mountain together or taking a cruise.
[F] Retirement offers you the opportunity to make a difference in your world by serving others. Consider volunteering at your church or local ministry, or becoming marriage mentors for younger couples.

III. English-Chinese Translation  

    In the two decades between 1929 and 1949, sculpture in the United States sustained what was probably the greatest expansion in sheer technique to occur in many centuries. There was, first of all, the incorporation of welding into sculptural practice, with the result that it was possible to form a new kind of metal object. 1) For sculptors working with metal, earlier restricted to the dense solidity of the bronze cast, it was possible to add a type of work assembled from paper-thin metal sheets or sinuously curved rods. Sculpture could take the form of a linear, two-dimensional frame and still remain physically self-supporting. Along with the innovation of welding came a correlative departure: freestanding sculpture that was shockingly flat.

    Yet another technical expansion of the options for sculpture appeared in the guise of motion. 2) The individual parts of a sculpture were no longer understood as necessarily fixed in relation to one another, but could be made to change position within a work constructed as a moving object; motorizing the sculpture was only one of many possibilities taken up in the 1930’s. Other strategies for getting the work to move involved structuring it in such a way that external forces, like air movements or the touch of a viewer, could initiate motion. 3) Movement brought with it a new attitude towards the issue of sculptural unity: a work might be made of widely diverse and even discordant elements; their formal unity would be achieved through the arc of a particular motion completing itself through time.

    Like the use of welding and movement, the third of these major technical expansions to develop in the 1930’s and 1940’s addressed the issues of sculptural materials and sculptural unity. 4) But its medium for doing so was the found object and item not intended for use in a piece of artwork, such as a newspaper or metal pipe. To create a sculpture by assembling parts that had been fabricated originally for a quite different context did not necessarily involve a new technology. 5) But it did mean a change in sculptural practice, for it raised the possibility that making sculpture might involve more a conceptual shift than a physical transformation of the material from which it is composed.                          (377 words)

    Notes: sculpture雕塑，雕刻； with the result that 因此；correlative 相关的，关联的；呼应的；sinuously 弯曲地，曲线地；linear 线型的；guise 外观，外形；motorize 给…装发动机。

IV. Writing Practice

Directions:

    You are planning to start a new training program and are in need of some information on textbooks. Write a letter to the circulation department of a publishing company to:

    1) ask for relevant information about the books you want,

    2) inform the company of your plan for the books,

    3) ask for additional materials.

Letter of Request

Dear Sir / Madam

    I would appreciate it very much if you would send me some information about the textbook Practice, Plan and Write, which your company published last year. I would like to know how much the book costs, 每周计划上几个小时的课, and whether a teacher's manual is available. 我正在考虑把这一课本用在我们成人英语教学计划中。

    除了上述信息，能否请您寄给我有关英语作为第二语言的课本目录。

    I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Li Ming

作业：

1. 认真复习本单元内容。
2. 注意完形填空的命题思路和应试对策。
3. 复习英译汉材料，注意长难句的语法结构分析。
4. 做“复习指导”中的相关练习。

赠言：荣誉与安逸很少两得。（Honor and ease are seldom bed-fellows.）