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1、Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundU8Additional lnformation for the Teachers ReferenceText The Business World as a Hunting GroundWarm-up ActivitiesFurther ReadingSpeaking SkillsAdditional WorkUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundWarm-up ActivitiesWarm-up 1.How do you understand the

2、 title of the text?2.What do you think is the most important thing in a womans life?3.What kind of woman do you think a successful man usually marries?Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting Ground Esther Vi1ar was born of German parents in 1935 in Buenos Aires and was educated at the University of B

3、uenos Aires.After moving to Munich,she practiced as a physician and now works as a free-lance writer.This selection from The Manipulated Man has as its thesis that men from earliest childhood are manipulated by women,first by their mothers,then by their wives.Vi1ar claims that only women can break t

4、his vicious cycle of exploitation.But they will not break it,for they have no rational reason for doing so.Thus,the world will continue to sink into a barbaric,and feebleminded morass of femininity.Offices,factories,and universities are viewed as hunting grounds by predatory women looking for male“s

5、laves”.AIFTTR1Additional lnformation for the Teachers Reference1.Esther VilarUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.12.The Second World WarIt was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the year 1939-1945.The principal belligerents were the Axis powers Germany

6、,Italy,and Japan and the Allies France,Great Britain,the United States,the Soviet Union,and,to a lesser extent,China.The war was in many respects a continuation,after an uneasy 20-year hiatus,of the disputes left unsettled by World War I.German bitterness over their defeat in World War I and the har

7、sh terms of the Treaty of Versailles,together with the social unrest and political instability that beset the Weimar Republic,resulted in the coming to power of Adolf Hitler,leader of theUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.2intensely nationalistic and anti-Semitic National Socialist

8、(Nazi)Party.Given dictatorial powers in 1933,Hitler began the secret rearmament of Germany almost immediately.Playing on the reluctance of other European powers to actively oppose him,he ordered the military occupation of the Rhineland,in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles,in March 1936.Later

9、 that year Benito Mussolini,the fascist dictator of Italy,who had already embarked on aggression in Ethiopia,declared a Rome-Berlin Axis;the next year Italy joined the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan.Germany and Italy both intervened,in the name of anticommunism,in the Spanish Civ

10、il War from 1936.In March 1938 Hitler sent German troops to occupy Austria,which was promptly incorporated into Germany.Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.3By a combination of external and internal pressures he succeeded in annexing or neutralizing all of what had been Czechoslovak

11、ia by March 1939.In April 1939 Italy annexed Albania.On September,secure behind the new German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact that had stunned the world in August,Hitler began an invasion of Poland.Great Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.By the end of 1939 Germany and the Soviet U

12、nion had divided Poland between themselves,and the Soviets had occupied Estonia,Latvia,and Lithuania and had attacked Finland,which they finally defeated in March 1940.For some months Germanys main activities were at sea,including an effective submarine campaign against merchant Unit 8 The Business

13、World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.4shipping bound for Britain.In April 1940 Germany occupied several Norwegian ports and all of Denmark.On May 10 the major German offensive in the west began with a lightning weep through the Netherlands and Belgium into France;by June 22 three-fifths of France,includ

14、ing Paris,was occupied,and the rest had become a neutral state with its government at Vichy.During August-September the German Luftwaffe(Air Force)launched massive bombing raids on Great Britain in an attempt to soften it up for a cross-Channel invasion.The Battle of Britain was won by the Royal Air

15、 Force,however,and Hitler postponed the invasion indefinitely.Following Italys abortive invasion of Greece in November 1940,Hitler drew Hungary,Romania,and Slovakia into the Axis;Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.5Bulgaria joined in March 1941.In April Germany attacked Yugoslavia

16、and Greece,both of which were overrun by the end of the month.In June Hitler abandoned the Nonaggression Pact of 1939 and launched a massive surprise invasion of the Soviet Union.German armoured units drove deep into Soviet territory and at one point reached the outskirts of Moscow before Soviet cou

17、nterattacks and winter weather slowed the offensive to a halt.Japan,the other Axis member,had meanwhile been tiring of its long,unproductive war in China and decided to take advantage of the situation in Europe to seize European colonial holdings in the Far East.To cripple what it foresaw would be i

18、ts main opponent in a Pacific war of aggrandizement,Japan attacked United States installations at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii,and Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.6the Philippines on Dec.7-8,1941.Within days the United States was at war with all the Axis powers.Japan swiftly invaded and

19、occupied the Philippines,most of Southeast Asia and Burma(Myanmar),the Netherlands East Indies(now Indonesia),and many Pacific Ocean islands.Despite the enormous initial advantage gained by its sudden offensives,Japan lost the crucial sea battle of Midway in June 1942.The American strategy in the Pa

20、cific was to use naval and amphibious forces to advance up the chains of islands toward Japan while smaller land forces cooperated with Chinese and British efforts on the Asian mainland.Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.7 In North Africa the British,who in 1940-1941 had defeated m

21、uch larger Italian forces,were locked in a seesaw battle with the Germ November 1942 the first Allied offensive began with U.S.and British landings in North Africa.German forces were gradually squeezed into Tunisia and were finally eliminated in May 1943.In July Allied troops from North Africa lande

22、d in Sicily and thence invaded Italy in September.The fascist government was overthrown,and in October,Italy joined the Allies;fighting against German troops continued in Italy for the rest of the war.After a bitterly opposed and finally unsuccessful attack on Stalingrad(August 1942 February 1943),G

23、erman forces in the Soviet Union lost momentum,and,as the Red Army continued toUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.8draw on its huge manpower reserves,it began during 1943 to push the Germans back from the western portion of the Soviet Union.Germany was meanwhile preparing for an ex

24、pected Allied invasion of western Europe.The invasion came on June 6,1944 D-Day on the beaches of Normandy in northern France,where 156,000 British,Canadian,and U.S.troops under the command of the U.S.general Dwight D.Eisenhower were landed.With command of the air the Allies quickly consolidated the

25、ir foothold and began the advance eastward that ended in the occupation of the German homeland in March April 1945.Meanwhile,the Soviet forces in 1944 had pushed the Germans completely out of the Soviet Union and had advanced into Poland,Czechoslovakia,Hungary,and Romania.In early 1945 they occupied

26、 the easternUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundAIFTTR2.9one-third of Germany.At the climax of the German collapse,with Berlin encircled by Soviet troops,Hitler committed suicide on April 30;on May 8 the surrender of all German forces was signed.In the Pacific the“island-hopping”strategy of

27、 the U.S.general Douglas MacArthur led to the Allied invasion of the Philippines by October 1944.The naval battle in Leyte Gulf that followed all but eliminated the Japanese navy.The capture,after bitter fighting,of the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Marchand June of 1945 opened the way for both

28、 the heavy strategic bombing of Japan itself and a possible invasion.The war in the Pacific came to a sudden and dramatic close after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9,1949;Japans formal surrender was signed on September 2.Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundTex

29、t The Business World as a Hunting GroundNotesIntroduction to the Author and the ArticlePhrases and ExpressionsExercisesMain idea of the TextUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundMIOTT1Main idea of the Text In the text,Esther Vilar describes how men,before and after their marriage,are manipula

30、ted by women,first by their female colleagues,then by their wives.She claims that women have a common proclivity to the exploitation of men.They regard the business world as a hunting ground where they can capture prospective breadwinners as their future husbands so that they can be provided for wit

31、hout exerting themselves.This evil intention is well displayed in offices and factories where women merely serve to falsify statistics with no sense of commitment,and in colleges and universities where they just mark time without real pursuit of knowledge.Vilar claimsthat only women can break this v

32、icious cycle of exploitation.Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundMIOTT2But they will not break it,for they have no rational reason for doing so.Thus,the world will continue to sink into a barbaric and feebleminded morass of femininity.Offices,factories,anduniversities will continue to be vi

33、ewed as hunting grounds by predatory women looking for male“slaves”.Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting Ground Esther Vilar(1935-)was born of German parents in 1935 in Buenos Aires and was educated at the University of Buenos Aires.After moving to Munich,she practiced as a physician and now works

34、 as a freelance writer.This selection is chosen from The Manipulated Man which has as its thesis that men from earliest childhood are manipulated by women,first by their mothers,then by their wives.Vilar claims that only women can break this vicious cycle of exploitation.But they will not break it,f

35、or they have no rational reason for doing so.Thus,the world will continue to sink into a barbaric,and feebleminded morass of femininity.Offices,factories,and universities are viewed as hunting grounds by predatory women looking for male“slaves”.Introduction to the Author and the articleIntroduction

36、to the Author and the ArticleUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundPart2_T1 There are many women who take their place in theworking world of today.Secretaries and shop assistants,factory workers and stewardesses not to mention thosecountless hearty young women who populate the colleges and un

37、iversities in ever-increasing numbers.One might even get the impression that womans nature had undergone Esther VilarThe Business as a Hunting GroundTextUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting Grounda radical change in the last twenty years.Todays young women appear to be less unfair than their mothe

38、rs.They seem to have decided perhaps out of pity for their victims not to exploit men any more,but to become,in truth,their partners.The impression is deceptive.The only truly important act in any womans life is the selection of the right partner.In any other choice she can afford to make a mistake.

39、Consequently,she will look for a man where he works or studies and where she can best observe and judge the necessary masculine qualities she values.Offices,factories,colleges,and universities are,to her,nothing but gigantic marriage markets.Part2_T2Unit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundPart2

40、_T3 The particular field chosen by any young woman as a hunting ground will depend to a large extent on the level of income of the man who has previously been her slave,in other words,her father.The daughters of men in the upper income brackets will choose colleges or universities.These offer the be

41、st chances of capturing a man who will earn enough to maintain the standards she has already acquired.Besides,a period of study for forms sake is much more convenient than a temporary employment.Girls from less-well-off homes will have to go into factories,shops,offices,or hospitals for a time but a

42、gain with the same purpose in mind.None of them intend to stay in these jobs for long.They will continue only until marriage or,in cases of hardship,till pregnancy.ThisUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundPart2_T4offers woman one important advantage,any woman who marries nowadays has given u

43、p her studies or her job“for the sake of the man of her choice”and “sacrifices”of this nature create obligations.Therefore,when women work and study,it merely serves to falsify statistics and furthermore to enslave men more hopelessly than ever,because education and the professions mean something ve

44、ry different when applied to women as opposed to men.When a man works it is a matter of life and death,and,as a rule,the first years of his life are decisive.Any man of twenty-five who is not well on his way up the ladder can beUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundPart2_T5considered,to all i

45、ntents and purposes,a hopeless case.Atthis stage,all his faculties are being developed,and the fight with his competitors is a fight to the death.Behind a mask ofbusiness friendship,he is constantly on the watch for anysign of superiority in one of his associates,and he will noteits appearance with

46、anxiety.If this same associate shows signs of weakness or indecision,it must be taken advantage of at once.Yet man is only a tiny cog in a gigantic business machine,he himself being in effect exploited at every turn.When he drives others,he drives himself most of all.His orders are really orders fro

47、m above,passed on by him.If the men at the top occasionally take time to praise him,it is not in order toUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting GroundPart2_T6make him happy;it is only to spur him on,to stimulate him to greater effort.For man,who was brought up to be proud and honorable,every working

48、 day is merely an endless series of humiliations.He shows enthusiasm for products he finds useless,he laughs at jokes he finds tasteless,he expresses opinions which are not his own.Not for a moment is he allowed to forget that the merest oversight may mean demotion,that one slip of the tongue may sp

49、ell the end of his career.Yet woman,who is the prime cause of all these struggles,and under whose very eyes these fights take place,just stands aside and watches.Going to work means to her flirting and dates,teasing and banter,with the odd bit of “labor”done for the sake of appearances work for whic

50、h,as a rule,she hasUnit 8 The Business World as a Hunting Groundno responsibility.She knows that she is only marking time,and even if she does have to go on working for one reason or another,at least she has had years of pleasant dreams.She watches mens battles from a safe distance,occasionally appl