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1、1英语阅读（一）Teacher:何莎2012年9月2Course descriptionl英语阅读（一）是为培养和检验学生的英语阅读能力而设置的一门实践基础课程，本课程的重点是提高应试者的阅读理解能力，使应试者通过大量阅读，扩大词汇量和知识面，复习和巩固已学过的词汇及基本语法知识，增强语感，逐步提高阅读速度、技能和理解能力。l参考教材参考教材：英语阅读（一）（2005年版），韩新民主编，光明日报出版社3objectivesl通过对逐篇课文的讲解、对课文内容进行分析总结，对课文中的知识点进行梳理，着重讲解考点，分析难点。目的是帮助应试者通过本课程考试，达到考试要求。l重点词汇、短语：大纲要求考生

2、能够认知5000-6000个单词，熟练掌握2000-2500个常用词即重点词汇,考试高频词；l阅读技巧：大纲要求考生能够掌握基本的阅读方法和阅读技能，阅读速度达到每分钟80-100个单词，了解中心大意，抓住主要论点，熟悉文章篇章结构，对文章进行分析、归纳、推理，领会作者的态度和观点。掌握四种基本的阅读方法：预览（previewing)略读（skimming），寻读（scanning），快速阅读（speed reading），精读（intensive reading）；l常用专业词汇及文化背景知识：涉及不同专业领域的科普词汇，对于增强了解文化背景知识、不同领域的发展，扩大知识面大有裨益，以此提高

3、阅读的理解能力，也丰富了课外知识，生活常识，社会阅历。4syllabus授课时间： 16 周 每周4学时 Week one: A Days WaitlWeek two: The Open WindowlWeek three: Bringing up ChildrenlWeek Four: American Social Relationsl.l.5lRead for informationlRead for knowledgelRead for fun6How will you choose to spend your last hours when you have 24 hours to

4、live?lA Days Wait by Ernest Hemingway7 Helen Keller （海伦（海伦 凯勒）凯勒） Three Days To See三天光明三天光明 Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a

5、vigor and a keenness of appreciation. 有时我想，如果我们度过这一天时都假有时我想，如果我们度过这一天时都假定明天即将去世，这是个极好的准则。这定明天即将去世，这是个极好的准则。这样的处事态度会明显突出生命的价值，我样的处事态度会明显突出生命的价值，我们就会高雅的，朝气蓬勃的，感受强烈的们就会高雅的，朝气蓬勃的，感受强烈的来度过每一天。来度过每一天。8A Days Wait by Ernest Hemingway 1.Introduction to the author2.Reading through the short story for a brief

6、 understanding (summary, whats the story about)3.Analyzing the text (language using, vocabulary, etc)4.Evaluation of the text (theme, point of view, writing style)5.Exercise 9lErnest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated s

7、tyle had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. 101112lAbout the Author:lErnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was born in Chicago. He was one of the most famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist, whose decep

8、tively simple prose style have influenced wide range of writers. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following is some of his novels:lThe Sun Also Rises太阳照常升起太阳照常升起lA Farewell to Arms永别了，武器永别了，武器 lthe lost generation 迷惘的一代迷惘的一代lFor Whom the Bell Tolls丧钟为谁而鸣丧钟为谁而鸣lThe Old Man

9、and the Sea老人与海老人与海lA man may be destroyed, but not defeated.l -Ernest Hemingway13You are all majoring in English education now, so can You are all majoring in English education now, so can you tell the difference between Fahrenheit and you tell the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius Scale?Ce

10、lsius Scale? Fahrenheit is used in everyday temperature measurement in the USA and some other English-speaking countries. On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32and its boiling point 212.Celsius, or Centigrade,is used throughout most of the world. On the Celsius scale, the freezin

11、g point of water is 0and its boiling point 100.14SummarylIn the story A Days Wait a nine-year-old boy living in America falls ill with influenza and has to stay in bed. The father calls for the doctor who takes the boys temperature, which turns out to be one hundred and two degrees. He is given medi

12、cine and is told that there is nothing to worry about unless the fever goes over one hundred and four degrees. The boy stays in bed, but does not pay any attention to his surrounding, he does not listen to the story his father reads to him. He only stares at the foot of the bed, looking very strange

13、ly. 15lHis father goes out to hunt for a while and tells the boy to sleep, but when he returns from hunting he is informed that the boy would not let anyone enter the room because he is afraid that they will get what he himself got.16lThe father goes to his son and finds him in the same position as

14、he left him. Again he takes his temperature and it is still one hundred and two, nothing to worry about. So he tells his son to take it easy. The son agrees but suddenly asks the question how long it will take until he will die. The father is shocked and explains to the son that people never die fro

15、m a fever of one hundred and two.17lAfter a while the son tells the father that he heard from a boy in France that people will die when they get a fever over 44 and he himself has one hundred and two. The father explains to him that there is a difference between the thermometers in America and Europ

16、e, which is the same with kilometers and miles. The boy relaxes and the next day he begins to complain about little things that are of no importance. 18lSummary on the text：The story is about an incident that happens between a father and his son. The small boys misunderstanding of the difference in

17、measuring temperature on a Fahrenheit and a Celsius Scale causes him to believe that he is dying of a high fever. He spends a day bravely waiting to die before his father discovers and corrects his mistake.19Essential words and phrasesl1） shiver （v） 因恐惧、寒冷等而颤抖，哆嗦 2） miserable （a）悲惨的，可怜的 3） prescribe

18、 （v）开（药方） 4） covey（n）一小群，一队 5） thermometer （n）温度计 6） slack （a）懈怠的，无精打采的7） detach from 分开某物，对-漠然置之8） keep from 克制不做某事9） take it easy 放松，不要放在心上10） commence to 开始做某事11） live with 接受并忍受某事物12） gaze at凝视，注视20以下词汇能够正确读出，知道其表意即可：1. purgative 泻药，通便的；l 2. influenza 流行性感冒； l3. pneumonia 肺炎4. lightheaded眩晕的 l5.

19、 setter蹲伏猎狗21lHe came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.“Whats the matter, Schatz?”“Ive got a headache.”“You better go back to bed.” “No. Im all right. ”“You go t

20、o bed. Ill see you when Im dressed.”But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I know he had a fever.“You go up to bed,” I said, “youre sick.”“Im all right,” he said.When the doctor came he t

21、ook the boys temperature. “What is it?” I asked him.l1. take ones temperature 量体温22l“One hundred and two.”Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to overcome

22、 an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic (流行性的）of flu and there was no danger if

23、you avoided pneumonia(肺炎）.Back in the room I wrote the boys temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.l2. write down/make a note of/put down 记下，写下3. various /all kinds of动词：vary 名词variety23l“Do you want me to read to you?”“All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His

24、 face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.4. lie laylain lying （躺着）lie liedlied lying （撒谎）lay laidlaid laying （放置） 24lI read aloud from Howard Pyles Book of Pirates but I could see he was not following what

25、I was reading.“How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him.“Just the same, so far,” he said.I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the be

26、d, looking very strangely.l5. at the foot of 在脚下，在尾部25l“Why dont you try to sleep? Ill wake you up for the medicine. ”“Id rather stay awake.”6. would rather 宁愿lAfter a while he said to me, “You dont have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”“It doesnt bother me.”“No, I mean you dont hav

27、e to stay if its going to bother you.”I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven oclock I went out for a while.26lIt was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet(冻雨） that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare（光秃的） trees,

28、the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. （冰漆的）I took the young Irish setter（猎犬） for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek(小溪）, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I fell

29、 twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.l7. glassy 象玻璃一样的8. have sb/sth do 使某人/某物做某事have sth done 使被做某事27lWe flushed（赶） a covey（群） of quail（鹌鹑） under a high clay（粘土） bank with overhanging （悬着的）brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank.

30、 Some of the covey lit (停落）in trees, but most of them scattered into brush （灌木丛）piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds（土堆） of brush several times before they would flush（惊起飞走）. Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy（有弹力的） brush they made difficult shooti

31、ng and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.28lAt the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.“You cant come in,” he said; “You mustnt get what I have.”I went

32、 up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.1. with + n + 表伴随He likes sleeping with his eyes open.He is standing there with his arms crossed29I took his tem

33、perature.“Something like大约 a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four-tenths.“It was a hundred and two,” he said.“Who said so?”“The doctor.”“Your temperature is all right,” I said. “Its nothing to worry about.”“I dont worry,” he said, “but I cant keep from thinking.”2. keep from ：to pre

34、vent oneself from doing sthEg: He cant keep from thinking about his exam.“Dont think, “I said. “Just take it easy.”3. take it easy 放松30lIm taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.“Take this with water.”“Do you think it will do a

35、ny good?”l4. do good/harm to 对有好处/坏处 hold onto:控制，克制l“Of course it will.”I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.5. commence to 开始做31l“About what time will it be before I die?”“You arent going to die. Whats the matter with you?”

36、“Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two.”“People dont die with a fever of one hundred and two. Thats a silly way to talk.”“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you cant live with forty-four degrees. Ive got a hundred and two.”l6. live with sb: live together with sblive with

37、 sth: endure sth32l“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. Its like miles and kilometers. You arent going to die. Thats a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind its ninety-eight.”“Are you sure?”“Absolutely,” I said. “Its like miles and kilometers. You kn

38、ow, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car.”“Oh,” he said.But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance. l7. be of +

39、n.= adj.33lExerciseSome of these statements are true （T）, and some are false （F）, can you tell which are true and why the others are not?1. The time of day was early in the morning at the beginning of the story.2. The boy pretended to be listening attentively while his father was reading to him.3. T

40、he boy preferred to stay awake because he thought there wouldnt be too much time left for him.(T)(T)(F)344. The father did not realize what the boy was really thinking about and went out hunting in the woods.5. The author described the hunting scene for the reason that it diverts the readers attenti

41、on so that the boys real thoughts will be a greater surprise when they are revealed.(T)(T)356. The child kept tight control over himself throughout the day because he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death. 7. The boy refused to let anyone come into the room becaus

42、e he complained that they did not understand his terrible tension inside.8. What led the boy to think that he was going to die was that he mistook the Fahrenheit scale for the Celsius one.(T)(F)(T)369. The father made an analogy between the difference of two thermometers and that of miles and kilome

43、ters.10. The next day the boy cried easily at trifling matters. The reason for this is probably that as a spoilt boy, he often complained about unimportant things.(F)(T)37男孩的行为男孩的行为(the boys action ):1.Why did the boy shut the windows while his parents were still in bed? Because he did not want them

44、 to fall ill like him.2. Why did he prefer to stay awake? Because he was afraid if he fell asleep, he might never be awake again.3. Why did the boy keep tight control over himself throughout the day? Because he did not want to be a bother to others.4. The next day why did he cry very easily at trifl

45、ing matters? Because he had been so tense the previous day that he couldnt control his emotions when he finally relaxed. 38lUse each of the following terms in a sentence1.to bring down2.to keep from3.to prescribe 4.would rather5.to flush6.to bother7.to be detached from8.to make9.something like10.to

46、hold tight onto oneself39QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS & APPRECIATION1. In whose point of view is the story told?The boys father.2. What is the purpose of the author in writing about the doctors visit? The doctor told the boys temperature which caused his misunderstanding.3. What conclusion can you

47、draw from the hunting scene about the fathers character and his influence upon his son? The father is very tough, very calm and positive which influences his son.404. What does the title of the story probably mean? The boy had thought he would die and he waited for a whole day for the coming of deat

48、h.5. What is the theme of the story? The author depicted a little hero who is calm and tough in face of death though its caused by his misunderstanding.6. Hemingway often thought of courage as a persons ability to be calm and controlled in the face of death. What do you think of such a definition of

49、 courage? We agree with his point of view. 417. Hemingway is noted for writing short, simple sentences. Look at the text closely and decide whether this is true of the language in this story.Except some long and complicated sentences, the language in this stories generally is simple and short, so it

50、 is a typical Hemingway style.8. The story is built around the misunderstanding between the father and his little son. Can you find some examples in which the father and his son are each thinking of different things in the conversation?42两处误解两处误解(two misunderstanding):1. “ You dont have to stay in h

51、ere with me, Papa, if it bothers you.” “It doesnt bother me.”2. “Your temperature is all right,” I said. “Its nothing to worry about.” “I dont worry,” he said, “But I cant keep from thinking.” “Dont think,” I said. “ Just take it easy.” “I am taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead. Disea

52、se Death 43lObviously there is an invisible wall between father and his son. They talk about two different things, the father about the disease and the son about his death but they do not know that they misunderstand each other. 44lThe hunting sceneIn the story A Days Wait there is a story in a stor

53、y. In this part of the story the father goes out to hunt for a while while his son is in bed thinking about death. In the passage there is a description of nature which is covered with a glassy surface: you can see it, but you cannot touch it. This is the same as in the story, the father sees that his son feels bad, but he does not know why. In the hunting scene the circle of life appears. The quails are shot by the