大学英语读写课第四册textaUnit8Contents.ppt

Unit 8 Literary Appreciation,Contents,Please review text A and answer following questions.,1.What happened to Mr.Mallard in the story?,2.What was Mrs.Mallards first reaction towards her husbands assumed death?,3.When she was alone in her room,Mrs.Mallard realized that”there was something coming to her and she was waiting for it,fearfully.”What was coming to her?,4.Did Mrs.Mallard live a happy life before her husbands assumed death?,5.What caused Mrs.Mallards death,according to the doctor?,1.What happened to Mr.Mallard in the story?,At the beginning of the story,it was announced that Mr.Mallard was killed in a train accident.However,Mr.Mallard turned out to be alive,far away from the scene of the accident,and he did not have the faintest idea of the accident.,2.What was Mrs.Mallards first reaction towards her husbands assumed death?,After hearing her husbands assumed death,Mrs.Mallard wept in grief and then locked herself in her room alone.,3.When she was alone in her room,Mrs.Mallard realized that”there was something coming to her and she was waiting for it,fearfully.”What was coming to her?,The sense of freedom and the prospect of a new,happy and meaningful life of her own were coming to her.,4.Did Mrs.Mallard live a happy life before her husbands assumed death?,No,she did not. Living as a subordinate to her husband,Mrs.Mallard suffered from severe depression and did not look forward to a long life with her husband.,5.What caused Mrs.Mallards death,according to the doctor?,According to the doctor,Mrs.Mallard died of heart failure caused by the joy of seeing her husband still alive.,Part Division of the Test,Mrs .Mallard was very sad about her husbands death.After an abandoned weep ,she locked herself in a room with a dull stare gazing one of patches of blue sky.,There was something subtle and vague coming to her . She felt restless but she would live for herself freely during the coming years . As the mean while, she had a kind of guilty sense .,Mrs.Mallard decided to open the door and descended with her sister. She had a pleased mind. But she still died of her husbands unpredictable appear.,True or False,1.Mrs.Mallard was longing for a happy life and her ordinary life is not satisfying.( ) 2.Mrs.Mallard was trying her best not to have that kind of feeling with her will, but she failed.( ) 3.People always believed that the husband had the right to impose ones own will upon the wife, and now such powerful will still existed.( ) 4.When the feeling finally came,she said the word“free“ loudly for only once.( ),T,T,F,F,Paragraph4.5.8,Para.10and she was striving to beat it back with her will.hands would have been.,Para.14,No,she said it again and again in a whisper.para16,Cloze,It was said that Mr.Mallard has been died in a train accident. As Mrs.Mallard was a_ with a heart trouble, her sister Josephine toled her the news gently. She w_ at once, with sudden,wild a_ in her sisters arms. Then she kept silence , and went away to her room along. She sat quite motionless with her head thrown back upon the c_of the chair,which facing the open window,a comfortable, r_armchair.She just gazed one of patches of blue sky with d_stare in her eyes. While her bosom rose and fell impulsively, she was beginning to recognize this thing that was a_to possess her. Its free.She knew that she would live for herself d_ the coming years.And now , she decided to be free, body and soul free.,fflicted,ept,bandonment,ushion,oomy,ull,pproaching,uring,She opened the door at l_,and she carried herself as a goddess of Victory with feverish t_in her eyes.But , it turned out Brently Mal