新世纪英语专业综合教程第二版第4册Unit7试用版

1、the monsterunit 7unit 7the monsterthroughout his career, truman capote remained one of americas most controversial and colorful authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the glittering world of high society. watch the movie clip and discuss the following questions.audiovisual supplement

2、cultural informationhe did not seem to be the person that you will make a friend with. from the way he carries himself and the way he speaks, we can probably draw the conclusion that he is a gay. he paid the train conductor to compliment him, which shows that he is vain and flamboyant. 1. how would

3、you describe capote? audiovisual supplementcultural information2. will the knowledge of capote being an outrageous and offensive person have any effect on your impression of his novels?yes. a great writer should first of all be a great man. capote in private is quite different from the one that is b

4、ehind the public mask. with this understanding in mind, i will have a different perspective when reading his novels. no. although he was a social climber, a back stabber, and his behavior was frequently offensive if not downright disgusting, he was also a writer of uncommon grace and sensitivity, wh

5、o has created many unforgettable images of people and places.a.b.audiovisual supplementcultural informationfrom capoteaudiovisual supplementcultural informationi figured youd missed it.im sorry.thats all right. i thought i was heading to kansas by myself.god, im glad you agreed to come. youre the on

6、ly one i know with the qualifications to be both a research assistant and a personal bodyguard.thank you.now im nervous. yes?mr. truman capote and miss nelle harper lee?thats us.nelle: capote: nelle: capote: nelle: capote: train conductor:capote:audiovisual supplementcultural informationwhere would

7、you like these, sir?you can put that right there between the doors.what all did you bring?just a few things.thank you greatly, sir.thank you.youre welcome.its an honor to have you with us, sir. and i hope you wont mind me saying, but i thought your last book was even better than the first.thank you.

8、train conductor: capote: nelle: capote: train conductor: nelle: capote: train conductor:capote: audiovisual supplementcultural informationi mean, just when you think theyve gotten as good as they can get.thank you very much.maam.youre pathetic.what?you paid him to say that. you paid him to say that.

9、how did you know?“just when you think theyve gotten as good as they can get”?i thought that was a good line. do you think that was too much?yeah, a bit.train conductor: capote: train conductor: nelle: capote: nelle: capote: nelle: capote: nelle: 1. list of some common musical instruments audiovisual

10、 supplementcultural information1) stringed instruments 弦乐器弦乐器 viola 中提琴中提琴cello 大提琴大提琴 guitar 吉他吉他violin 小提琴小提琴 harp 竖琴竖琴2) keyboard instruments 键盘乐器键盘乐器 piano 钢琴钢琴 pipe organ 管风琴管风琴audiovisual supplementcultural information3) percussion instruments 打击乐器打击乐器 triangle 三角铁三角铁 drum 大鼓大鼓 cymbal 钹钹 gong

11、锣锣 tambourine 铃鼓铃鼓 xylophone 木琴木琴 dulcimer 扬琴扬琴 chimes/tubular bell 管钟管钟 4) wind instrument 管乐器；吹奏乐器管乐器；吹奏乐器 brass instruments 铜管乐器铜管乐器 french horn 法国号法国号bugle 单号单号/军乐号军乐号 cornet 短号短号 trumpet 小号小号audiovisual supplementcultural informationwoodwind instruments木管乐器木管乐器clarinet 单簧管单簧管 bassoon 低音管低音管/巴松管

12、巴松管flute 长笛长笛 oboe 双簧管双簧管saxophone 萨克斯萨克斯 accordion 手风琴手风琴harmonica 口琴口琴 audiovisual supplementcultural information2. list of some musical terms this is a list of musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. cycle 套曲套曲: a set of songs intended

13、to be performed as a groupsuite 组曲组曲: an instrumental piece consisting of several shorter pieces sonata 奏鸣曲奏鸣曲: a piece of music for one instrument or for one instrument and piano, usually divided into three or four parts audiovisual supplementcultural informationsymphony 交响曲交响曲: an elaborate musica

14、l composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements, at least one of which is traditionally in sonata form concerto协奏曲协奏曲: a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scaleoverture 序曲序曲: an orchestra

15、l piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended compositionaudiovisual supplementcultural informationprelude 前奏曲前奏曲: an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugueim

16、promptu 即兴曲即兴曲: a short piece of instrumental music, especially a solo, that is reminiscent of an improvisationaccompaniment 伴奏伴奏: the part of a piece of music that supports the tune or someone singingsolo 独奏；独唱独奏；独唱: a piece of vocal or instrumental music or a dance, or a part or passage in one, fo

17、r one performeraudiovisual supplementcultural informationensemble 重奏；重唱重奏；重唱: a group of musicians, dancers, or actors who perform togetherchamber music 室内乐室内乐: music for a small ensemble of instruments, intended for performance in a room or chamber, as opposed to a church or larger buildingduet 二重奏

18、二重奏: a piece of music written for two performers. on the piano such a piece would involve two players on one instrument.trio 三重奏三重奏: a composition designed for three players or the name of a group of three playersquartet 四重奏四重奏: a composition for four players or the name for a group of four playerst

19、he text argues that richard wagners monstrous behavior can be forgiven because of his miraculous achievements in music.structural analysisgeneral analysisrhetorical featuresstructural analysisgeneral analysisrhetorical featurespart i(paragraphs 1 9): this part describes a man who seems to have rolle

20、d all kinds of demerits into one, a real monster. this essay on a famous man, whose name is not revealed until almost the end of the piece, is a study of monstrous conceit. filled with biographical details that keep the reader guessing to the last moment, the essay concludes with a challenging view

21、on the nature of genius: if a genius was so prolific, “is it any wonder that he had no time to be a man?”the text can be divided into three parts: structural analysisgeneral analysisrhetorical featurespart ii (paragraph 10): this part serves as a transitional paragraph, which clarifies who this mons

22、ter really is, i.e. a famous musician by the name of richard wagner. part iii(paragraphs 11 13): the last part justifies all the peculiar behavior of richard wagner.structural analysisgeneral analysisrhetorical featuresthe repetitive use of the third person pronoun he creates suspense in the readers

23、 mind. this is one of the effective ways to hold the readers attention and make them read on. if we use the terminology of functional linguistics and discourse analysis, this use of he is cataphoric in nature. another typical example is “hes the biggest slob i know. hes really stupid. hes so cruel.

24、hes my boyfriend, steve.”moreover, a series of the superlative forms of adjectives and inverted sentences are used to emphasize the extreme extent of his peculiar conceit. structural analysisgeneral analysisrhetorical featuresfor example:he believed himself one of the greatest dramatists in the worl

25、d, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers. (paragraph 2)never for one minute did he look at the world or at people, except in relation to himself. (paragraph 2)practice: find more examples of superlative forms of adjectives and inverted sentences. structural analysisgeneral

26、analysisrhetorical features1. he was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived. (paragraph 2)2. the slightest hint of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for hours, (paragraph 3)3. it never occurred to him

27、that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. (paragraph 4)4. not for a single moment did he ever compromise with what he believed, with what he dreamed. (paragraph 13)1 he was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his

28、 body a sickly little man. his nerves were bad. he had skin trouble. it was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk. and he had delusions of grandeur.detailed readingthe monsterdeems taylordetailed reading2 he was a monster of conceit. never for one minute did he look at th

29、e world or at people, except in relation to himself. he believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers. to hear him talk, he was shakespeare, and beethoven, and plato, rolled into one. he was one of the most exhaust

30、ing conversationalists that ever lived. sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. but whether he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. what he thought and what he did.detailed reading3 he had a mania for being in the right. the slightes

31、t hint of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for hours, in which he proved himself right in so many ways, and with such exhausting volubility, that in the end his hearer, stunned and deafened, would agree with him, for the sa

32、ke of peace.detailed reading4 it never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. he had theories about almost any subject under the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support o

33、f these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books . thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hundreds of pages. he not only wrote these things, and published them usually at somebody elses expense but he would sit and read them aloud, for hours, to his friends, and his family.detailed readi

34、ng5 he had the emotional stability of a six-year-old child. when he felt out of sorts, he would rave and stamp, or sink into suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the east to end his days as a buddhist monk. ten minutes later, when something pleased him he would rush out of doors and run around

35、 the garden, or jump up and down off the sofa, or stand on his head. he could be grief-stricken over the death of a pet dog, and could be callous and heartless to a degree that would have made a roman emperor shudder.detailed reading6 he was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility. he was con

36、vinced that the world owed him a living. in support of this belief, he borrowed money from everybody who was good for a loan men, women, friends, or strangers. he wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling without shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege o

37、f contributing to his support, and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the honor.detailed reading7 what money he could lay his hand on he spent like an indian rajah. no one will ever know certainly he never knows how much money he owed. we do know that his greatest benefactor gave him

38、$6,000 to pay the most pressing of his debts in one city, and a year later had to give him $16,000 to enable him to live in another city without being thrown into jail for debt.detailed reading8 he was equally unscrupulous in other ways. an endless procession of women marched through his life. his f

39、irst wife spent twenty years enduring and forgiving his infidelities. his second wife had been the wife of his most devoted friend and admirer, from whom he stole her. and even while he was trying to persuade her to leave her first husband he was writing to a friend to inquire whether he could sugge

40、st some wealthy woman any wealthy woman whom he could marry for her money.detailed reading9 he had a genius for making enemies. he would insult a man who disagreed with him about the weather. he would pull endless wires in order to meet some man who admired his work and was able and anxious to be of

41、 use to him and would proceed to make a mortal enemy of him with some idiotic and wholly uncalled-for exhibition of arrogance and bad manners. a character in one of his operas was a caricature of one of the most powerful music critics of his day. not content with burlesquing him, he invited the crit

42、ic to his house and read him the libretto aloud in front of his friends.detailed reading10 the name of this monster was richard wagner. everything i have said about him you can find on record in newspapers, in police reports, in the testimony of people who knew him, in his own letters, between the l

43、ines of his autobiography. and the curious thing about this record is that it doesnt matter in the least.detailed reading11 because this undersized, sickly, disagreeable, fascinating little man was right all the time, the joke was on us. he was one of the worlds greatest dramatists; he was a great t

44、hinker; he was one of the most stupendous musical geniuses that, up to now, the world has ever seen. the world did owe him a living. what if he did talk about himself all the time? if he talked about himself for twenty-four hours every day for the span of his life he would not have uttered half the

45、number of words that other men have spoken and written about him since his death.detailed reading12 when you consider what he wrote thirteen operas and music dramas, eleven of them still holding the stage, eight of them unquestionably worth ranking among the worlds great musico-dramatic masterpieces

46、 when you listen to what he wrote, the debts and heartaches that people had to endure from him dont seem much of a price. detailed reading13 what if he was faithless to his friends and to his wives? he had one mistress to whom he was faithful to the day of his death: music. not for a single moment d

47、id he ever compromise with what he believed, with what he dreamed. there is not a line of his music that could have been conceived by a little mind. even when he is dull, or downright bad, he is dull in the grand manner. listening to his music, one does not forgive him for what he may or may not hav

48、e been. it is not a matter of forgiveness. detailed reading it is a matter of being dumb with wonder that his poor brain and body didnt burst under the torment of the demon of creative energy that lived inside him, struggling, clawing, scratching to be released; tearing, shrieking at him to write th

49、e music that was in him. the miracle is that what he did in the little space of seventy years could have been done at all, even by a great genius. is it any wonder he had no time to be a man? does the mans appearance, described in the first paragraph, give one any impression of “grandeur”? (paragrap

50、h 1)no. he was a little man with signs of ill health, sick in both body and nerves. this is by no means an appearance that may bring one a sense of grandeur. then what makes a man with such a poor look have “delusions of grandeur”? the only explanation is that “he is a monster of conceit”. detailed

51、readingwhat further evidence is provided of the monsters conceit? (paragraph 2)to prove his conceit, the second paragraph describes him as so egocentric that he cared about nothing but himself; he had such a strong sense of self-appreciation that he saw himself not just as the greatest musician, pol

52、emist and philosopher, but also as the worlds finest living poet and playwright. and the third paragraph tells that he never expected criticism or allowed disagreement.detailed readingwhat facts are given to show that he was a versatile man? (paragraph 4) he had theories about almost any subject und

53、er the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support of these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books . thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hundreds of pages.detailed readinghow does the writer describe him as an emotional person? (paragraph 5)he had a

54、mood as changeable as a six-year-old child. for example, he would get mad when something was against his desire, and forget all about it when something pleasant happened. and he would be grieved on one occasion but become merciless on another. detailed readinghow was he financially supported? did he

55、 earn himself a good living with his great talents? (paragraph 67 )he lived on others money. throughout his life, he found many benefactors, among whom king ludwig ii and otto wesendonck were two of the most generous ones. in 1864 king ludwig ii, his greatest benefactor, invited him to settle in bav

56、aria, near munich, discharging all his debts and providing him with money. another generous patron otto wesendonck, whose wife was stolen away by wagner, supported him economically by buying the publishing rights of his works. however, later it turned out that he had to give up his publishing rights

57、 because wagner had sold them again to others.detailed readingalthough these benefactors had provided him with a great sum of money and never got any repayment, wagner kept living in debt and had a narrow escape from being thrown into jail for debt because he was such a lavish spender.detailed readi

58、ngwhat was his attitude toward love? (paragraph 8)it seems that he was a playboy. he divorced his first wife minna planer after 26 years marriage (18361862) and stole away other peoples wives, e.g. jessie laussot, mathilde wesendonck, cosima von blow, the last one was the wife of the conductor hans

59、von blow, and liszts daughter. detailed readingwhy do you think wagner made so many enemies? (paragraph 9)this was also due to his conceit. he could not tolerate anyone who disagreed with him, even over some trivial points like weather. he was under such a delusion of grandeur that he would do anyth

60、ing to defeat them in order to defend his image as a perfect genius rather than keep them as friends.detailed readinghow does the author justify wagners arrogance and extravagance? (paragraph 1112)the author says that wagner was among the greatest dramatists, the greatest thinkers and the most treme