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1、WhatisPC?UnitOneEnglishUsage Text1“PoliticalCorrectness”BillBrysonWhatiswrongwiththefollowingexpressions?女人真是头发长见识短。真是个民工！黑鬼。真是个侏儒！BiasprejudicediscriminationPoliticalcorrectness:theavoidanceofformsofexpressionoractionsthatexclude,makelittleof,orins
2、ultcertainracial,cultural,orothergroups.VideoEg.Forthesakeofpoliticalcorrectness,let’schangetheword“spinster”into“singlewoman”.Forthesakeofculturesensitivity,let’saddressthatblackasanAfro-American.Introductionexcerpt(n/v):ashortparttakenfromaspeech,b
3、ook,film,etc.tackle:totakeactioninordertodealwithbalanced:fair,just,reasonableabalancedjudgmentawell-balancedarticleawell-balancedmeal/dietawell-balancedindividualAscanbeseeninthetext,hissarcastic….doesnotruncountertohissupport….A:hissarcastictreatme
4、nttoexcessivePC;B:hissupportforrespectabilityindiscourse;C:AandBdon’truncountertoeachother;D:thiscanbeseeninthetext.sarcastic(adj)：(adj):sayingthingsthatclearlymeantheoppositeofwhatisfelt,especiallyinordertobeunkindoroffensiveinanamusingway.(sarcasm.
5、n)excessive(adj):toomuch;toogreat;goingbeyondwhatisreasonableorright.(excess.n/excessively.adv)runcounterto:tobetheoppositeof;toconflictwithdiscourse:connectedlanguageinspeechorwritingas(conj):inthewaythatsomeonesaysorthatsomethinghappens,orinthecond
6、itionsomethingisinThehotelisquitecomfortableassuchestablishmentsgo.就设备而言，这个旅馆相当舒适。Shewaslateasusual(=inthewaythatsheusuallywas).Thesunishot,aseveryoneknows.Asisoftenthecasewithchildren,……respectability:thequality,state,orcharacteristicofbeingrespecta
7、bleorbeingsociallyacceptable.respectable:(ofperson)ofgoodcharacterandgoodsocialpositiondeservingrespect(contemptible)respectful:showingrespect.respective:belongingtoeachofthoseinquestion.Fillinblankswithrespective,respectable,respectful:Itishardly___
8、___toattendafuneralinheavymake-up.Whentheprofessorenteredtheauditorium,everyonestoodupandkepta______distance.Earninga______incomeiseveryone’sdream.Candidateswillbeelectedforthecommitteeaccordingtotheir______strengths.Question1Howdoestheauthorintroduc
