A Comprehensive Course I
Book A
Lesson 1
1. If you don’t make time for you, it will work against you. (Time is dangerous because if you don’t make it for you, it will work against you.)
2. Sunday seems to be the best day because it is a good day to catch up on back reading and other assignment. (Sunday can be used as a good day to catch up on back reading and other assignment.)
3. It is important that you re-plan your time in a weekly basis so that you can make certain changes when necessary.
4. Once a weekly study plan is prepared, follow the same pattern every week.
5. “Time Message” tells us that time is today, not tomorrow or next week.
6. In “Time Message”, you are required to start your plan at the beginning of the term.
7. Plan at least one hour of study for each classroom hour.
8. Wasting time is like drug because the more time you waste, the easier it is to go on wasting time.
9. In learning to control time, you must become the master of time, not its servant.
10. A good plan must be a little flexible because it’s easier to re-plan the time and make certain changes when necessary.
11. Time is tricky because it is difficult to control and easy to waste.
12. The time message is written for college student.
13. When you plan time for a short essay or an exam, it is important to be realistic because you know from experience how long it takes to write a short essay or an exam.
14. As a first-year college student time management will be your number one problem.
Lesson 2&3
1. Andersen was born into a poor family.
2. Andersen was very clever. He could put so much of everyday life into the wonder of his fairy tales. (The genius of Andersen is that he put so much of everyday life into the wonder of his fairy tales.)
3. Andersen’s tales are a poet’s way of telling us the truth about ourselves.
4. When the Prince of Denmark asked Hans Christian Andersen what he wanted, he said that he wanted to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater.
5. Andersen’s fairy tales were full of everyday truth, of wonder, of sad beauty, of humor.
6. When his first book of fairy tales was published in 1835, Andersen didn’t think it would be successful, but children read the stories and wanted more.
7. If Andersen had learned a trade as the Prince told him, he would never have been the prince of fairy tales.
8. In Copenhagen, Christian Andersen made friends with a few kind people.
9. In Copenhagen, Andersen soon found new friends who admired his genius.
10. A music teacher decided to help Andersen because he had a beautiful high, clear voice.
11. Andersen told a story so vividly that you could see and hear toy soldiers marching and toy horses galloping.
12. ‘The Little Match Girl’ by Andersen is bases on his mother’s life story. (‘The Little Match Girl’ is based on Anderson’s mother.)
13. In “The Ugly Duckling”, Andersen is bases on his own life.
14. In the Emperor’s New Clothes, Andersen laughs at the kind of people who pretend to be something that they are not.
15. The greatest writers of the day, from Dickens to Victor Hugo, looked upon Andersen as one of themselves.
16. When Andersen returned to the “duck-yard”, nearly 50 years after he had left it, he was warmly welcomed.
17. Andersen at last happily learnt that it doesn’t matter if you were born in a duck-yard, as long as you came from a swan4’s egg.”
18. What was then in his full heart was best expressed in his own words: ”To god and man, my thanks, my love.”
19. ”It doesn’t matter if you are born in a duck-yard, as long as you come from a swan’s egg.”This sentence means no matter what family you are born into, as long as you’ve got ability and do your best, you will succeed.
20. When Hans Andersen went to ask a favor of the prince of Denmark, the Prince advised him to learn a useful trade like shoemaking.
21. The prince told Andersen to learn a useful trade like shoemaking because he didn’t like a writer or an actor.
22. Andersen’s fairy tales are loved by children and adults because it has a poetic way to tell the truth.
23. Hans Christian Andersen’s own life story was like a fairy tale because he managed to become a famous writer even though he was born in a shoemaker’s family.
24. Andersen’s tales are a poet’s way of telling us the truth about ourselves. For example, we remember The Emperor’s New Clothes every time people pretend to be something that they are not.
25. Andersen was born in the town of Odense in 1805.
Lesson 4
1. The director told Sidney Poitier to get off the stage because Sidney was no actor and didn’t even know how to read. (The director told Sidney Poitier to get off the stage, because he is no actor. He doesn’t know even how to read.)
2. Sidney’s main problem in his reading was that he ran across a lot of words he didn’t understand.
(When he try to read newspaper, his main problem was that he often ran across a lot of words he didn’t understand.)
3. After explaining the meaning of the word and giving the pronunciation, the old Jewish man would send Sidney back to the sentence so he could understand the word in context.
4. Sidney would take the paper away with him, and reread and reread the article so that the meaning of those words would get locked into his memory.
5. Sidney has never been able to thank the Jewish man properly because he never knew then what an enormous contribution he was making to his life.
(The author of This Life, Sidney Poitier, thought he owed a lot to the old Jewish man who made an enormous contribution to his life.)
6. Sidney owed a lot to the old Jewish man. He learned from him a way to study and a way of life.
7. In The Life, the old Jewish man at the waiters’ table offered to help Sidney Poitier to explain the meaning of the words he did not understand.
8. The first time when Sidney was on a stage, the director told him to read the part of “John” in the script.
9. After Sidney Poitier finished his work in the restaurant he would read the newspaper.
Lesson 5
1. An elderly man had collapsed while crossing the street and was rushed to the hospital.
(While crossing the street, the elder man had collapsed and an ambulance rushed him to the hospital.)
2. When he came to now and again, the old man repeatedly called for his son.
3. An emergency room nurse learned that the old man’s son was a Marine stationed in North Carolina from a worn letter found in his pocket. (The old man was seriously ill and called for his son who was a Marine stationed in North Carolina.)
(The nurse found out that the old man’s son was a Marine by reading letter in the old man’s pocket.)
4. The wrong Marine had become the right son at the right time.
5. The young marine proved, in a very human way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
6. In Night Watch, the nurse did not know that the Marine was not the old man’s son until the death of the old man. (After the old man died, the Marine told the nurse that the old man wasn’t his father.)
7. The Marine didn’t leave the old man who was not his father because the old man’s son was not there but the old man needed his son.
8. The story of Night Watch tells us that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
9. In the text Night Watch, someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record because there are two Marines with the same name and similar numbers in the camp.
10. The old man didn’t know the Marine wasn’t his son because he was too weak to tell whether or not the Marine was his son.
11. The story, Night Watch, began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner.
12. In “Night Watch”, the kind-hearted Marine had the same name as the old man’s son did.
Lesson 6
1. It is widely believed that dictionaries and grammar books are the highest authority.
(People generally look up dictionaries as the highest authority in matters of meaning and usage.)
2. Let’s see how dictionaries are made and how the editors arrive at definitions.
3. The dictionary editor cannot be influenced by what he thinks a given word ought to mean.
4. The task of writing a dictionary begins with a large amount of reading.
5. The writer of a dictionary is a historian not a lawgiver.
6. In the United States, a person would be regarded as out of mind if he is willing to quarrel with the dictionary.
7. The writing of a dictionary, therefore, is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one’s ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past.
8. According to ”How Dictionaries Are Made”, the writing of a dictionary is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of recording what various words have meant.
9. By describing how dictionaries are made, the writer meant to tell us not to regard a dictionary as an authority.
10. The first step in making a dictionary is to read huge amounts of the period or subject that the dictionary is to cover.
Lesson 7
1. In the text ”Love of Life”, we get to know what the man showed in loving life is that we should never give up even in the worst situation.
2. Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream.
3. It was nothing but hunger which made him go on until darkness fell.
4. The man stopped laughing suddenly and turned away. How could he laugh about Bill’s bones and take his gold.
5. The Love of Life, the strange thing after the man was rescued was that he seemed to be afraid that there wasn’t enough food on the ship.
6. Through his restless sleep he dreamed of banquets and food.
7. Only love of life gives the man enough strength to kill the wolf.
8. The barriers were tasteless, and did not satisfy, but he knew he must eat them.
9. The man in Love of life wasn’t worried when he was left alone because he knew the way to their camp.
10. The man in Love of Life was alone in the empty land.
Lesson 8
1. Special Agent X had come to get Cal Richards, an armed and dangerous killer.
(Special Agent X came to the cabin to arrest Cal Richards, an armed and dangerous killer.)
2. He felt sweat on his forehead, but he took the violin from the wall as if he were a welcome visitor.
3. The cabin was filled with glorious sound, Pappy Richards stood enchanted, the defiance in his eyes giving way to a look of wonder.
4. Agent X told Pappy that the longer it took the government to get the man, the worse of he was.
5. The killer’s father Pappy invited Agent X to stay for dinner because he wanted to listen to more tunes played by Agent X.
6. The killer’s father decided to have a talk with his son and persuade him to give himself up.
7. The killer’s father trusted Agent X because he thought he was a decent man.
8. In the story “A Fiddle and the Law”, Cal Richard’s father told Agent X that he liked the way he talked and the way he fiddled. He guessed that the agent was a decent person.
9. When Agent X began to play an old American folk song, Pappy stood enchanted, the defiance in his eyes giving way to a look of wonder. Later he pointed his gun toward the floor and then placed it in a corner.
10. When Agent X saying goodbye, Pappy’s friend asked:”How about Cal? You want him, don’t you?”
Lesson 9
1. The (secret of) happiness lies in the contribution towards the happiness of others.
2. Many highly-paid managers and entertainers only look successful outwardly, but deep down they are miserable.
3. The author believed that long-term happiness was a process of moving towards worth while goals and contributing towards the welfare and happiness of others.
4. The four things Long-term happiness is based on honesty, productive work, contribution, and self-esteem.
5. You can fool others, but you can never fool yourself.
6. If you have both self-esteem and money, according to the author, you are well in the way to happiness.
7. In the short term, you can start practicing being happy right now without any obvious reason.
8. According to the author of Happiness, many successful people feel miserable because they know they are contributing very little of real value and live in fear of being exposed as cheats.
9. “There’s no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. ” These statements mean that happiness is not an end but a process.
Lesson 10&11
1. Henry had invested his money wisely and actually possessed a large sum of money.
2. Henry Ground played a practical joke on twelve best friends of his in order to tell them that their love of laugher should overcome their love of money.
3. Henry was born into an unimportant but well-to-do family.
4. Henry loved eating, drinking, laughing, talking and a thousand other things which didn’t make money or improve human life.
(Henry was lazy good-for-nothing, he spent his time eating, drinking, laughing, talking and a thousand other activities which didn’t make money or improve human life.)
5. Henry’s elder brothers all made a success of their lives, but Henry turned out to be a lazy good-for-nothing.
6. When the waiter in the restaurant served him only a drop of wine, Henry put his fingers into the glass and then put them to his ear as if listening to the wine.
7. The day before the modern painting exhibition, Henry managed to get in and turned all the paintings upside down.
8. One thing was sure: you couldn’t help liking Henry Ground and his talents for making you laugh.
9. The funeral breakfast was attended by twelve of his closest friends.
10. When people heard that Henry had left a large sum of money, they were very surprised.
11. The requirement of the competition set by Henry is for each one in turn to tell the funniest joke he or she can think of and the one who gets the most laughter will get his money.
(According to Henry’s wishes, each of his friends should in turn tell the funniest joke he or she could think of and the one who got the most laughter would get the money.)
12. Henry’s twelve friends laughed at themselves as they realized that Henry had led them into his last joke, setting their need to laugh against their desire for money.
13. Henry played his last practical joke on his best friends because he wanted them to see that laughter was more important than money.
14. In the Joker, people were laughing and telling jokes to each other at Henry’s funeral.
15. In his will, Henry Ground left all his money to twelve of his closest friends.
16. In the Joker, the other’s buried their faces in their handkerchiefs coughed pretended to sneeze dropped pencils under the table.
Lesson 12
1. In Little Things Are Big the writer told himself if he was ever in a similar situation again, he would offer his help no matter how the offer was going to be received.
(1.The Puerto Rican felt that he had done something wrong and he promised that if he was ever in a similar situation again, he would offer his help no matter how the offer was going to be received.)
(2.He made a promise to himself then and here if he would be faced with a situation like that again, he would offer his help regardless of whether the offer was going to be received.)
2. The story of “Little Things are Big” happened late at night on the eve of Memorial Day.
3. At Nevins Street Station, Brooklyn, the young black saw the lady preparing to get off at the next station.
4. At the time the young lady was to get off, the author was also preparing to get off, with nothing to take care of – not even the usual customary book under his arm.
5. It was racism and prejudice and chauvinism that made the Puerto Rican hesitant to offer his help to a white lady.
6. The Puerto Rican did not help the white woman because he was afraid that she might be prejudiced against black people.
(In the Little Things Are Big, the author dared not help the white woman because he was afraid that the woman would have prejudice against him.)
7. She tried hard to push herself in with a baby on her right arm, a traveling bag in her left and two children following after her.
8. The issue that Little Things Are Big puts forward is racial discrimination/ alienation.
9. In Little Things Are Big, the young man was not a white American, but a Negro and Puerto Rican.
Lesson 13
1. In the Hobbyist, Sangstorm wanted to kill his wife.
2. Sangstorm come to the druggist for completely undetectable poison.
3. In Hobbyist, when the druggist said ”I must be convinced that you deserve what I can give you”, he meat that he must be convinced that Sangstorm should be poisoned.
4. Sangstorm followed the druggist through the doorway to a back room ringed by shelves of bottles from to ceiling.
5. (The druggist’s word)”…a man must live. Even if his hobby is preventing murders, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t make money at it.”
6. (The druggist’s word) “One never knows, Mr. Sangstorm. The life you save, if you have any enemies, just might be your own.”
7. The little druggist told Sangstorm that he occasionally gave out an undetectable poison freely if he thought the case was deserving.
8. The druggist insisted that Sangstorm, just in case Sangstorm decided to kill him or his own wife write a confession of his intention.
(The druggist told Sangstorm to write a confession his intention to murder his wife.)
9. The druggist asked Sangstorm to write a confession of his former intention in order to protect himself and Sangstorm’s wife.
10. The druggist insisted that Sangstorm tell him whom he wanted to kill and why because he had to be convinced that Sangstorm deserved what he could give him/ the drug.
11. The druggist’s friend would keep the confession as evidence. This is for the safety of Sangstorm’s wife and the druggist himself.
12. In the story “Hobbyist”, the druggist claimed that his hobby was preventing murders.
13. In Hobbyist the poison was free but there is a price for antidote one thousand dollars.
Lesson 14
1. In the Mystery of the Silver Box, it is important for Mr. Grayson to keep his plans secret, because his plans are large and he has millions of dollars at stake, if his competitors know his plans he will lose his customers and it will cost him million of dollars.
2. Before the Thinking Machine went to see Miss Winthrop, he addressed an envelop, got a sheet of paper and placed it inside and sealed the envelop.
3. In The Mystery of the Silver Box the Thinking Machine was actually a clever and knowledgeable detective.
4. Mr. Grayson said that he had millions of dollars at stake, so the need for secrecy was great.
5. At first Mr. Grayson’s business was a great success; the factory owners truly liked his on-the-spot service and bought everything the salesman demonstrated.
6. The thinking Machine figured out that a careful person, knowing the content of all those letters, could have worked out what Mr. Grayson intended to do.
7. In the Mystery of the Silver Box, Mr. Grayson wanted The Thinking Machine to find out how and when information was leaking from his office.
8. There had been an information leak at his office, for his business plans became known to his competitor almost as soon as he had made them.
9. Before the day ended, he received phone calls from his two managers informing him of the unbeatable offers from his competitor.
10. Suspecting that the secretary might have something to do with the leak, the detective arranged for a secret telephone connection to Miss Winthrop’s phone to check her out.
11. Mr. Grayson’s company suffered greatly from information leak. Wherever his salesmen went, they found his competitor’s salesmen had arrived earlier and offered lower price for the same goods.
12. The Thinking Machine found out the secret about the box by arranging for a secret extension to be attached to Miss Winthrop’s phone.
(The Thinking Machine arranged for a secret extension to be attached to Miss Winthrop’s phone.)
13. The Thinking Machine found out the secret of information leak lay in the silver box beside Miss Winthrop’s telephone.
Lesson 15
1. Dr. Applebaum’s recent study on television
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