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Foreign Languages CollegeUnit 1Unit 1Understanding Chinese Culture and TraditionLead-in ActivitiesCultural BackgroundVocabulary and StructureText Analysis-Text OrganizationWriting SkillsText Analysis-Language FocusForeign Languages College1.American best hope is to adopt a more Confucian lifestyle:more focused on education,more respectful to old people,better able to subordinate private needs to public goods,more responsible to the needs of family,more polite in our daily lives,and more hardworking.Paraphrase:What the American hope most is to have a life in a traditional Chinese way(the so called Confucian way):moreconcentration on education,higher social position for the old,sacrificing private needs for bigger needs,more responsibility to family,more courtesy in daily routines,and being more industrious.Text analysis Language focus Foreign Languages College2.Confucianism does not have a monopoly on hard work or care for families.(Para 2)Paraphrase:Such virtues as hard work and care for families are not exclusively advocated by Confucianism.Monopoly:n.the complete control,possession or use of sth;a thing that belongs only to one person or group and that other people can not share.e.g.The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.No country has a monopoly on morality or truth.Text analysis Language focus Foreign Languages College3.Underlying these values is an even more fundamental value that permeates every one of them.Paraphrase:There is a more essential value beneath all these values which actually affects every part of them.underlie:v.to be the basis or cause of sth e.g.We discussed the principles that underlay their methods.fundamental:adj,serious and very important;the most central and important parts of sth;basice.g.a fundamental truth/concept/beliefbeliefs that are fundamental to our society The revolution brought about a fundamental change in the country.Text analysis Language focus Foreign Languages College4.The harmony is not sameness.It is not a collapse of everything into one thing.(Para 6)Paraphrase:Harmony does not require that everything be the same.Trying to make everything fit into one mold will have a destructive effect on harmony.Collapse:n.a sudden and complete breakdowne.g.He warned that such measures could cause the economy to collapse.Text analysis Language focus Foreign Languages College5.He sees harmonious intensity and intense harmony as the happiness-the satisfaction which all living beings seek at every moment of their lives.Paraphrase:He thinks mutual respect for the co-existence of differences will lead to strong,ever-lasting harmony.Intense:adj.very great;very strong;extremeintense=extreme heat/cold/pain/pressure e.g.Intensity:the state of quality of being intensee.g.the intensity of the suns rays the intensity of the argumenthurricanes of different intensitiesText analysis Language focus