BTLEW Discovery of a Father Sherwood Anderson Book ３ Lesson 2

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Discovery of a FatherDiscovery of a FatherSherwood Anderson

Book Book ３３Lesson 2

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Part One: Warm-up

Part Two: Background Information

Part Three: Text Appreciation

Part Four: Language Study

Part Five: Extension

Book Book ３３Lesson 2

Contents

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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father

Part OnePart One

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Discovery of

a Father

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Warm-upWarm-up

I. Discussion

II. Enjoy a Poem

III.Listen to a Song

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My Hero

II. Enjoy a PoemII. Enjoy a Poem

As I ponder the love that I saw in his eyes,

A Godly love, given without compromise.

I recall many times that he stood by my side,

And prodded me on with great vigor and pride.

His voice ever confident, firm yet fair,

Always speaking with patience, tenderness and care.

Read the following

poem.

To be continued on the next page.

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My Hero


The power and might of his hands was so sure,

I knew there was nothing we couldn’t endure.

It’s true, a few other provided insight,

Yet, he laid the foundation that kept me upright.

He’s the grandest of men to have lived on this earth.


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My Hero


Although he’s not royal by statue or birth,

He’s a man of great dignity, honor and strength.

His merits are noble, and of admirable length.

He’s far greater than all the other men that I know,

He’s my Dad, he’s my mentor, my friend and hero.

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III. Listen to a songIII. Listen to a song

When I think back on these times

And the dreams we left behind

I’ll be glad ‘cause I was blessed to get

To have you in my life

When I look back on these days

I’ll look and see your face

You were right there for meTo be continued on the next page.

There You’ll Be

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III. Listen to a III. Listen to a songsong

In my dreams

I’ll always see your soul above the sky

In my heart

There always be a place for you for all my life

I’ll keep a part of you with me

And everywhere I am

There you’ll be


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Well, you showed me

How it feels to feel the sky within my reach

And I always will remember all the strength

you gave to me

Your love made me make it through

Oh, I owe so much to you

You were right there for me


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‘Cause I always saw you

My light, my strength

And I want to thank you

Now for all the ways you were right there for me

You were right there for me

For always

The end of Listen to a Song..

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Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood

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Discovery

of a

Father

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I. Author

II. The American Civil War

Background Background informationinformation

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Sherwood Anderson (Sep. 13,

1876–March 8, 1941) was a

great American writer, the

author of 27 works and seven

novels. He was also a poet and

a playwright, a newspaper

editor and a political journalist.


I.I. Author Author


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Sherwood Anderson was born

in Camden, Ohio, the third of

seven children. His father had

served in the Union Army in

American Civil War and later

declined from the harness

business into odd jobs of

house and sign painting.


I. Author—his family I. Author—his family backgroundbackground


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Anderson influenced a younger

generation of important writers,

including Faulkner, Hemingway,

Steinbeck and others. He made

his name as a leading naturalistic

writer with his masterwork,

WINESBURG, OHIO (1919).


I.I. Author—his Author—his influenceinfluence


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Windy McPherson's Son, 1916 Marching Men, 1917 Mid-American Chants, 1918 Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 Poor White, 1920 The Triumph of the Egg, 1921 Horses and Men, 1921 Many Marriages, 1923 A Story Teller's Story, 1924 Dark Laughter, 1925 The Modern Writer, 1925 Sherwood Anderson's Notebook, 1926 Tar: A Midwest Childhood, 1926


I.I. Author—his Author—his worksworks


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A New Testament, 1927 Alice and the Lost Novel, 1929 Hello Towns!, 1929 Nearer the Grass Roots, 1929 The American County Fair, 1930 Perhaps Women, 1931 Beyond Desire, 1932 Death in the Woods, 1933 No Swank, 1934 Puzzled America, 1935 Kit Brandon, 1936 Plays, Winesburg and Others, 1937 Home Town, 1940 Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs, 1942


I.I. Author—his Author—his worksworks

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a giant in American literature,a renowned Mississippi writer,Nobel Prize winner for literature, acclaimed throughout the world as oneof the twentieth century’s greatestwriters.

Representative Works:The Sound and the Fury (in 1929)Go Down, Moses (in 1942)As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! （— the greatest novels ever

written by an American ）


William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner


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Representative Works:

The Sun also Rises

A Farewell to Arms

The Old Man and the Sea

For Whom the Bell Tolls


Ernest Ernest HemingwaHemingwayy


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American novelist, story writer,playwright, and essayist,Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in1962, best remembered for The

Grapesof Wrath (1939), a novel widelyconsidered to be a 20th-centuryclassic.

Other Works:Of Mice and Men (1937)The Moon is Down (1942) The Pearl (1947)…


John John SteinbeckSteinbeck


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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the greatest war and the only war fought on American soil. 3,000,000 people fought—600,000 people died. It brought an end to the constitution of slavery and paved the way for the capitalist development in America.


II.II. American Civil American Civil WarWar


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The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events.

At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States.


II. American Civil War—the II. American Civil War—the CausesCauses


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At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings, eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by which five slaves counted as three free men toward that representation. By the end of the convention, the institution of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the Constitution.




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In 1808, Northern and Southern members of Congress voted together to abolish the importation of slaves from overseas, but the domestic slave trade continued to flourish. The invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South. The slave became an ever more important element of the southern economy, and so the debate about slavery, for the southerners, gradually evolved into an economically based question of money and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect.




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But even as the need to protect it grew, the ability, or at least the perceived ability of the South to do so was waning. In 1800 half of the population of the United States had lived in the South. But by 1850 only a third lived there and the disparity continued to widen. While northern industrial opportunity attracted scores of immigrants from Europe in search of freedom, the South's population stagnated. Even as slave states were added to the Union to balance the number of free ones, the South found that its representatives in the House had been overwhelmed by the North’s explosive growth. The South found itself at the mercy of a government in which it no longer had an effective voice.




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Nothing but bitterness and bad feeling could come of it. From such a position it was a short step to the proposition that if a state or section of the country no longer felt itself represented in, or fairly treated by the Federal Government, then it had the right to dissolve its association with that government. It could secede from the Union.




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The whole mess went up in smoke in the presidential election year of 1860. The Democratic party split badly. Stephen Douglas became the nominee of the northern wing of the party. A southern faction broke away from the party and nominated Senator John Breckinridge of Kentucky. The remnants of the Whig party nominated John Bell of Tennessee.




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Into this confusion the new Republican party injected its nominee, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a moderate Republican. As such he was a compromise candidate, everybody’s second choice. He was convinced that the Constitution forbade the Federal government from taking action against slavery where it already existed, but was determined to keep it from spreading further. South Carolina, in a fit of stubborn pride, unilaterally announced that it would secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected.




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To everyone’s amazement Lincoln was victorious. He had gathered a mere 40% of the popular vote, and carried not a single slave state, but the vote had been so fragmented by the abundance of factions that it had been enough.



Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States


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South Carolina, true to its word, seceded on December 20, 1860. Mississippi left on January 9, 1861, and Florida on the 10th. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

On Feb 9, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.



Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States


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At 4:30 a.m., April 12, 1861, the Confederate army opened fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter ( 萨姆特炮台 ) in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War broke out.




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"... but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.” Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

(the Union Army)

Jefferson Davis

(the Confederate Army)


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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a FatherII. American Civil WarII. American Civil War— — Northern & Southern Northern & Southern Leaders in the Civil WarLeaders in the Civil War


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Davis

Grant

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Lee

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On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The Union of the North finally succeeded.


II. American Civil War—the II. American Civil War—the EndEnd

The end of American civil war.

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Part ThreePart Three

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Text Text AppreciatiAppreciationon

I. Text Analysis 1. General Analyses2. Theme3. Structure4. Analysis of Father’s Image

5. The Use of Symbols

II.Writing Devices1. Syntactic Anaphora2. Syntactic Epiphora


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Plot of the story

Setting of the story

Protagonists of the story

Writing techniques of the story

Theme of the story

I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisHave you

got the key elements in the story?


General Analyses

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Plot : the discovery of a father

Setting : on a rainy night

Protagonists : “I” and “ father”

Writing techniques : go to Writing devices

Theme of the story: go to the next page

I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

The end of General Analysis.


General Analyses

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Theme of the storyThe theme is summed up at the very end.

The end of Theme.


This is a story about an interesting character

told by his son who later became a well-known

writer. With well-selected anecdotes and using

the tone of a little boy, the author gives a vivid

character sketch of his father whom he used to

despise but gradually learns to understand and

appreciate when he grows up.

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Part 1 (paras. ) about:

Part 2 (paras. ) about:


Structure of the text

1–25

26–41

Description of father’s

image before the discovery.

How the boy “discovered” a

father.

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisAnalysis of Father’s Image

Scan the text and list out the related information.



in the eyes of the son in the eyes of others

a failure

a clown a loafer a windbag

popular with othersmother’s pride instead of complaint

d

iscovery of a father

generous

kind-hearted a natural actor a born-story-teller

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The Use of SymbolsScan the text and list out the related information.



Two Symbols: 　

symbol one: the setting

symbol two: swimming in the dark

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisThe Use of Symbols



Symbol 1: the setting

a wet night

father coming back after being away for two or three weeks

clothes dripping

Symbolic meanings

in terrible financial difficulties again

not having much luck in getting help from his friends

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Description of father

sitting in a chair for a long time with the saddest look

not uttering a word

looking at his son closely and seriously

What suddenly dawns

on the boy

not the irresponsible happy-go-lucky person he used to be

not a windbag any more

father loves him

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Symbol 2 : swimming in the dark

Symbolic meanings

father and son completely naked

striking out together in the dark

a man who is

dignified

powerful

loving

ready to face the

harsh life

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Description of father

communicating with the son

trying to give him courage and strength

What suddenly dawns

on the boynot foolishnot a clown not a windbagjust too generoustoo kind-heartedloving life and peoplea natural actor, a born story-teller, a bornwriter

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

Syntactic Anaphora (Repetition of Beginning Words)

It was a feeling of closeness. It was something strange. It was as though there were only we two in the world. It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father.

This is the most common kind of sentence repetition.

More examples



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Tenderly will I use you curling grass,

It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,

It may be if I had known them I could have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps.

And here you are the mothers’ laps.

(Walt Whitman: Song of Myself)

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Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg, from whom an awful promise had been extracted;…

(C. Dickens: Great Expectations)

The repetition of the words brings out vividly the extent of the boy’s terror, increased by the fear that he might not succeed in keeping his promise.



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Syntactic Epiphora (Repetition of Ending words)

It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father.

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And then suddenly the machines pushed them out and they swarmed on the highways. The movement changed them; the high ways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them; the endless moving changed them. They were migrants. And the hostility changed them. They welded them, united them…

(John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath)


The end of Writing Devices

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I. Word Study

II. Phrases and Expressions

III. Word Building

IV. Grammar

Language Language StudyStudy

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I.I. Word StudyWord StudyWord list:

1. bitter

2. broke

3. cover

4. credit

5. drip

6. druggist

13. shed

14. smash

15. strike

15. surrender

16. sympathize

7. glimpse

8. harness

9. intimate

10. lick

11. loaf

12. momentary

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study1. bitter: adj.

• Good medicine tastes bitter.

Word formation

n. bitterness

• That failure was a bitter experience for him.

2. hard to bear; causing sorrow

3. filled with or showing envy, hatred, remorse or disappointment

bitter quarrels/words/enemies/tears

1. not sweet, tasting like beer


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I.I. Word StudyWord Study

bitter:

a bitter wind

• fight to the bitter end 战斗到底

• take the bitter with the sweet 接受顺境也接受逆境

4. piercing cold

Antonyms

grateful

thankful

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study2. broke:

• He went broke.

Cf.

broken• a broken home

• a broken promise

• a broken spirit

• broken English

broken

adj. without any money

破裂的家庭

背弃的诺言

消沉的意志

蹩脚的英语

Synonyms

bankrupt penniless

impoverished

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study3. cover: v.

• He had to cover his ears when the noise became

really unbearable.

Cf.

coverage

uncover

• This national park covers roughly 400 square miles

of beautiful land.

2. to have… in size

1. to place or hide sth. over in order to hide or protect


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I.I. Word StudyWord Study cover:

• By sunset they had covered 30 miles.

• The 700-dollar rent does not cover water, electricity

and telephone service.

4. to include

3. to travel a certain distance


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I.I. Word StudyWord Study cover:

• He began to move towards the house carefully,

and Bob covered him.

• $1,000 will cover his needs for the journey.

6. (of money) to be enough for

5. to protect sb. by aiming a gun at the enemy

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study4. credit: n.

• He bought this car on credit.

• The bank refused further credits to the company.

• We must give her credit for our discovery.

• I think that he deserves all the credit for lifting the

villagers out of poverty.

2. praise 光荣；功劳

1. delayed payment 赊帐；信贷


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3. sth. that can bring honor or pride to sb.

• These Olympic gold medalists are no doubt a

great credit to our country.

• The professor decided to give him full credit for the

exam.

4. recognition for a successfully completed

course at the university

credit:


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5. money shown as owned by a person, company in a bank account

• You have a credit balance of $500.

• The rumor is gaining credit.

6. belief; trust; confidence

credit:

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study5. drip

• The tap is dripping.

• His paintbrush is dripping.

• It’s so hot that he’s dripping with sweat.

• There was no noise except for the drip, drip, drip

of water.

v. to fall or let sth. fall in very small drops

n. the drop-by-drop falling of a liquid

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study6. druggist: n.

take/use drugs

drug abuse

drug addiction/addict

drug dealer

miracle drug

drugstore

Synonyms

chemist; pharmacistdrug

吸毒

滥用毒品

毒品上瘾 / 上瘾者

毒品贩子

有奇效的药物

药店；杂货店

sb. who is trained to prepare drugs and medicines and works in a shop

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study7. glimpse: v.

• I glimpsed her face in the crowd, but then

she was gone.

Cf.

glance

n.

• get/catch a glimpse of

• a glimpse of what life might be like in the future

to see sb or sth. for a moment without getting a complete view of them

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study8. harness:

• He runs a harness shop.

• They tried to harness the wind to generate

electricity.

n. a piece of equipment for controlling a horse worn over the horse’s head and shoulders

v. to control and use the natural force of sth.

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study9. intimate: adj.

• They are intimate friends.

• She’s on intimate terms with important people

in the government.

Word formation

intimately adv. intimacy n.

1. having an extremely close relationship


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intimate:

• tell a friend the intimate details of one’s life

• an intimate knowledge of Greek philosophy

2. private and personal

3. resulting from close study or great familiarity

Antonyms

distant

formal

remote

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10. lick: v.

• The cat was licking its paws.

2. (esp. of flames, waves) to touch lightly

• He dashed into the house to save the child despite

the licking flames.

他不顾四下乱窜的火舌，冲进屋里抢救那个孩子。

1. to pass the tongue over or under


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I.I. Word StudyWord Study lick:

• Well, that licks everything!

那真是闻所未闻、见所未见的事。

3. (sl.) to overcome; to triumph over

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11. loaf: v.

• Don’t loaf about while there’s so much to be done.

• Don’t loaf away your time.

loafer n. a person who loafs 游手好闲者

Half a loaf is better than none.

聊胜于无。

to waste time; to spend time idly

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12. momentary: adj.

• There was a momentary pause.

• She paused momentarily and glanced over her

shoulder.

• Mr. Johnson will be with you momentarily.

Cf.

momentous

momentum

momentarily: adv.

(AmE.)very soon

Antonyms

lasting; permanentlasting for a very short time

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study13. shed: n.

tool-shed

wood-shed

coal-shed

cattle-shed

bicycle-shed

工具房

柴房

煤房

畜棚

自行车棚

building, roughly made structure, used for

storing things


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shed: v. to let fall; to let come off

shed tears

shed crocodile tears

shed blood

shed skin

shed light on

流泪

假慈悲

流血

蜕皮

阐明

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14. smash: v. to break into small pieces, usually violently

smash a window

smash a record

smash the enemy

smash up the furniture

smash up a monopoly

Synonyms

shatter

destroy

break into pieces打破窗户

打破纪录

击溃敌人

捣毁家具

打破垄断

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15. strike: v.

• How did the movie strike you?

• He struck me as a very hard-working student.

• The new labor law allows workers to strike in

privately-owned enterprises.

2. to stop working

1. to give sb. a particular impression


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3. to hit

• Strike while the iron is hot.

• The clock has just struck twelve.

4. to cause to sound

strike:


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5. to put sb. suddenly into a particular state

be struck blind/dumb/silent

strike fear/terror/alarm into sb.

6. to fill with fear etc.

strike:

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study16. surrender: v.

• We advised the hijackers to surrender to the police.

Synonym

yield (to)

• We shall never surrender our liberty.

2. to yield up or abandon possession of

3. to yield or give way to (a habit, emotion, etc.)

• He surrendered himself to despair.

1. to say officially that you want to stop fighting

because you know you cannot win

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study17. sympathize: v.

• She sympathized with him in his sufferings.

• Tom’s parents do not sympathize with his

ambition to become an actor.

2. to give approval or encouragement to

1. to feel sorry for sb. because you understand their problem


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I.I. Word StudyWord Studysympathy: n.

• I have no sympathy for those people. They deserve

their punishment.

• We are all in sympathy with your proposals.

• sympathetic face/words/looks

• be sympathetic to

sympathetic: adj.

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List:

1. a flow (of)

2. be ashamed (of)

3. be thick with

4. be up

5. be up to

6. call it quits

7. cling to

8. be down and out

9. fool around/about

10. hush sth. up

11. liven up

12. slip off

II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions

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1. a flow of (pride)

Other phrases


a continuous stream, movement, or supply of sth.

During the tourist season, the flow of traffic usually

doubles.

Thanks to a steady flow of foreign capital, they are

able to expand their economy rapidly.

They know they are going to face a terrible flow of

refugees if nothing is done to prevent this

humanitarian disaster.


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a flow of angry words

a flow of spirits

a flow of eloquence

a flow of news of victories

flowchart

flowmeter

滔滔的怒言喜气洋洋流利的口才频传的捷报流程图流量表

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2. be ashamed (of)


He should be ashamed of what he has done.

She felt ashamed that she had done little to help them.

He was ashamed to ask for help.

Cf. shameful conduct 可耻的行为

a shameless exploiter 无耻的剥削者

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3. be thick with


The air was thick with dust.

1. abounding or packed with

John is very thick with Anne now.

2. be intimate with

as thick as thieves: very friendly

through thick and thin: under any kind of conditions,

good or bad

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4. be up


What’s up?

You’re up early today.

The game is up.

When is your leave up?

The river is up.

He is up a few pounds.

Put the sentences into Chinese. Cf.

be up to

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5. be up to


What’s he up to?

1. be occupied or busy with

He’s not up to this job.

I don’t feel up to going to work today.

2. be equal to

He is up to his neck in debts.

3. as far as

It’s up to us to give them all the help we can.

4. required as necessary

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6. call it quits


Will you call it quits if I pay you twenty dollars?

Let’s do one more exercise, and we’ll call it quits.

(infml.) to agree that a debt or an argument is settled; to agree to stop doing sth.

Cf.

call it a day

Let’s call it a day. 今天就干到这里，收工吧。

to decide that what has been done is enough for one day

call it a day

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7. cling to


cling to one’s view

cling to one’s hope that…

to hold tight

The child clung to his mother’s skirt.

Into English ：那个孩子紧紧抓着他妈妈的裙子。

坚持己见始终抱着…… 的希望

Synonym

stick to

hold to

keep to

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8. be down and out


He was down and out in the last hit.

1. (boxing) to be knocked out, unable to resume the fight

2. (fig.) to be beaten in the struggle of life;

to be unemployed and without money

His father was down and out at that time.

Into English:

那时候他父亲穷困潦倒。

Cf.

be down with

be down to


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Into English:

我们班上几乎四分之一的同学都得流感病倒了。

Cf.

be down with

be down to

Into English:

我们只剩下最后五百块钱了。我们得向银行贷款。

Nearly a quarter of our class were down with flu.

We were down to the last 500 yuan. We had to raise a loan from the bank.

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9. fool around/about


He spends so much time fooling around that he

never accomplishes anything.

to trifle; to be idle and silly

Stop fooling around and do something useful.

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10. hush sth. up


He gave her a lot of gifts just to make her hush it

up.

She tried unsuccessfully to hush up the fact that her

husband was an ex-convict.

prevent sth. from becoming public knowledge

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11. liven up


How can we liven things up?

His humorous speech livened up our class.

The party is becoming to liven up.

That little performance was the only thing that

livened up the otherwise hopelessly boring party.

to make or become lively

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12. slip off


The general used to slip off and have a quiet drink in

the bar.

to go off quietly or secretly without being noticed or caught

Other phrases


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slip a coat on/off

slip into/out of a dress

slip a coin into one’s hand

slip through one’s fingers

let sth. slip

slip one’s mind

a slip of the tongue / pen

迅速穿上 / 脱下上衣迅速穿上 / 脱去衣服把一枚硬币迅速塞入某人中未抓住；未把握住放手；放过；错过（某事）被忘记口误 / 笔误

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III.III. Word BuildingWord BuildingList:

1. Derivation Prefix – un Prefix – super Suffix – ize

2. Conversion

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1. Derivation — prefix: un- ( 不；无；非）

III.III. Word buildingWord building


affected

available

adaptable

approved

easy

employed

unaffected

unavailable

unadaptable

unapproved

uneasy

unemployed

adj. adj.

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lock

button

tie

zip

pack

cover

unlock

unbutton

untie

unzip

unpack

uncover

v. v.

1. Derivation — prefix: un- ( 不；无；非）


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1. Derivation — prefix: super- ( 上…… ; 超…… ; 过分 )


superstructure

superscribe

supernatural

superpower

superheat

supercool

superabundant

superfluous

上层建筑

写在（信封、包裹）上

超自然的

超级大国

过热

过冷

过剩的，过多的

过剩的，多余的


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1. Derivation — suffix -ize (使之……）


modern

national

social

hospital

fertile

sympathy

computer

adj./n. v.

modernize

nationalize

socialize

hospitalize

fertilize

sympathize

computerize


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2. Conversion: a word-formation process whereby a word of a certain word-class is shifted into a word of another word-class without the addition of an affix.


The end of Word Building.

house

book

chair

shoulder

weed

fish

head

mushroom

house the poor

book a ticket

chair a meeting

shoulder the responsibility

weed the garden

fish in troubled waters

head a delegation

factories mushroom

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IV.IV. GrammarGrammar

1. “be + doing” structure

Continuous tense is sometimes used together

with adverbs like always, constantly, forever to

express the speaker’s strong approval or

disapproval.


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Example

It seemed to me that he was always showing off.


past continuous tense with adverbs of frequency denoting a habitual action, especially an annoying one

other examples

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He was always telling stories about himself.

Jim is constantly forgetting to clean the test

tubes after experiments.

My old jeep is forever breaking down as I have to

rush somewhere.

That old man is always helping others.


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2. as + adj. + a /an + as structure

In the above structure, the indefinite article is put

between the adjective and the noun.


Examples: as intelligent a student as Mary

as interesting a novel as Oliver Twist

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3. You hear it said that fathers want their sons to

be what they feel they cannot themselves be,

but I tell you it also works the other way.

anticipatory “it” as object of “hear”

objective clause of “hear”

Para. 1

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4. Sometimes he’d stay away for weeks,

mother working to keep us fed, and

then home he’d come bringing, let’s say,

a ham.

an abstract structure of present participle

present participle used as an adverbial

compound connecting the two clauses

parenthesis

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5. To protect my mother I’d make up stories of a secret

marriage that for some strange reason never got

known.

subject of the attributive clause

Para. 24

adverbial in the attributive clause

verb of the attributive clause

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6. It was as it was earlier, in the kitchen, a face filled

with sadness

subject

Para. 36

link verb predictive

adverbial clause

past participle used as an attribute

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I. Oral work

II. Quiz

III.Listening lab


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I.I. Oral WorkOral Work

1. What does the author mean that “ fathers

want their sons to be what they cannot themselves be, but it also

works the other way?”

2. What kind of father did the author wish to have as a child? Did his

father meet his requirements? How did he feel about his father at

first? What qualities did his father have that made the author

particularly unhappy? Give three examples.

Questions to help comprehension and appreciation of the text.


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3. How did the author as a child describe his father? Why did he think

of him as foolish and ridiculous— a windbag and a good-for-

nothing? Was his father really showing off all the time? Why was he

so popular among the villagers including the local celebrities? Why

did the author’s mother have no complaint about him?

4. Why did the author’s father go broke? What did that reveal about his

character?


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5. Retell the anecdote of the author’s father and general Grant in the

wood the day the general was to meet Robert Lee as imagined by the

author’s father.

6. What happened one day that changed the author’s opinions of his

father completely? Why was it such an important turning point? Why

did his father do this? Did the author understand at that time? Why

did he say that from that time on he no longer wanted another father?


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II.II. Quiz Quiz

List:

1. Quiz 1

2. Quiz 2

3. Quiz 3

4. Quiz 4

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II.II. Quiz 1Quiz 1

The end of Quiz 1.

Put the phrases into English.

1. 经营一家五金店2. 变得不名分文3. 避免张扬4. 同情某人5. 活跃气氛6. 吓某人一跳7. 拒绝赊帐8. 忍受侮辱9. 打碎玻璃10.负责指挥部队

Keys

1. run a hardware store

2. go broke

3. hush it up

4. sympathize with sb.

5. liven up the atmosphere

6. startle sb.

7. refuse credit

8. stand the insult

9. smash the window

10.take charge of the army

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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2

The end of Quiz 2.

Put the phrases into English.

1. 拉开夹克的拉链2. 打开行李3. 解开绳子4. 卸下船上的货5. 拔掉收音机电源6. 刮去鱼鳞7. 将酒装瓶8. 跟踪某人9. 骑自行车上学10. 用好奇的眼光看人

Keys

1. unzip the jacket

2. unpack the luggage

3. untie the rope

4. unload the ship

5. unplug the radio

6. scale the fish

7. bottle the wine

8. tail after sb.

9. bike to school

10. eye sb. with curiosity

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3

1. Is there anything you want from town? I am going to

get _______.

A. to mail those letters

B. these letters mailed

C. mailed letters

D. those letters to mail

2. His remarks left me ______ about his real purpose.

A. wondered

B. wonder

C. to wonder

D. wondering

B


D

Complete the following sentences with best choice.

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3

3. Don’t put the TV set in ______ place.

A. a such warm

B. what warm a

C. how warm a

D. too warm a

4. Exercising is ______ as any to lose unwanted weight.

A. as a good way

B. so a good way

C. as good a way

D. too good a

D


C

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 35. The output of steel in this year is ______.

A. three times as high as that of 1990

B. three times high as 1990

C. as three times higher as that of 1990

D. as high as three times as that of 1990

6. We often advise him not to drink more wine ______ is

good for his health.

A. as

B. than

C. that

D. but

A


B

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 37. ______ about the bookkeeper’s honesty, the company asked him to resign. A. There be some questions B. Thee were some questions C. There have been some questions

D. There being some questions

8. The children went there to watch the iron tower _____.

A. to erect

B. erecting

C. be erected

D. being erected

D


D

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 39. With the development in science and technology, man can make various flowers ______ before their time. A. be bloomed B. blooming

C. bloom D. bloomed

10. Melted iron is poured into the mixer ______ tea is

poured into a cup from a teapot.

A. in the same way like

B. in the same way which

C. in the same way

D. in the same way as

C


D

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 311. I will not spend so much money on that fur coat, for I don’t think it is ______. A. worth buying B. worth of C. worthy D. worthwhile

12. All the parts of this washing machine are ______, so

that it is very convenient to replace them.

A. normalized

B. modernized

C. mechanized

D. standardized

A


D

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 313. The novel contains some marvelously revealing ______ of rural life in the 19th century. A. glances B. glimpses

C. glares D. gleans

14. He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on working. A. glanced B. viewed C. glimpsed D. saw

B


A

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3

15. He was ______ of having asked such a silly question. A. sorry B. for students’ being C. ashamed

D. miserable

16. Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not ______ to close examination. A. look up B. pay up C. keep up D. stand up

C


D

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 317. It’s usually the case that people seldom behave in a ______ way when in a furious state. A. stable B. rational C. legal D. credible 18. He moved away from his parents and missed them ______ enjoy the exciting life in New York. A. enough to B. too much to C. very much to D. much so as to

B


B

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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 319. The heart is ______ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain. A. not so B. much more C. not more

D. no more 20. The children had never been subject to any discipline and so were completely ______. A. out of hand B. out of place C. out of season D. out of action

D

A

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II.II. Quiz 4Quiz 4

The end of Quiz 4.

Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

1. She looks _________ in those tight jeans. (ridicule)

2. Will the bus workers strike in _________ with the railway

workers? (sympathize)

3. That was a wonderful ________ of luck. (strike)

4. He ________ his voice to a whisper. (low)

5. The doctors said that her recovery was a ________.

(miraculous) 6.You should ________ yourself against loss of heat by having double glazing. (sure)

ridiculous

sympathy

stroke

lowered

miracle

ensure

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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.

By Augustus J. Bullock

When I was growing up, I was ___________ to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would feel _______ at the unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on.

It was difficult to coordinate our steps — his halting, mine impatient—and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the pace. I will try to _______ to you.”

embarrassed

uneasy

adjust

Fill out the blanks while you are listening.

III.III. Listening LabListening Lab

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IV.IV. Listening Lab Listening Lab




Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was

how he got to work. He went to work sick, and despite

nasty weather. He almost never _______ a day, and would

make it to the office even if others could not. A matter of

pride.

missed

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When there was snow or ice on the ground, it was

impossible for him to walk, even with help. At such times,

my sisters or I would ______ him through the streets of

Brooklyn, N.Y., on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance.

Once there, he would ______ to the handrail until he

reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept

ice-free. In Manhattan the subway station was the

basement of his office building, and he would not have to

go outside again until we met him in Brooklyn on his way

home.

cling

pull

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When I think of it now, I _______ at how much courage

it must have taken for a grown man to subject himself to

such ________ and stress. And at how he did it—without

________ or complaint.

He never talked about himself as an object of pity, nor

did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What

he looked for in others was “ good heart”, and if he found

one, the owner was good enough for him.

bitterness

indignity

marvel

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Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know _______ what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I don’t have one myself.

Unable to engage in many activities, my father still tried to _________ in some way. When a local baseball team found itself without a manager, he kept it _______. He was a knowledgeable baseball fan and also liked to go to dances and parties, where he could have a good time just sitting around and watching.

participate

precisely

going

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I now know he participated in some things just through

me, his son. When I played ball, he “played” too. When I

joined the Navy, he “joined” too. And when I came home

on leave, he “saw to it that I visited his office”. Introducing

me, he was really saying, “This is my son, but it is also me,

and I could have done this, too, if things had been

different.” Those words were never said aloud.

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IV.IV. Listening Lab Listening Lab A Good Heart to Lean on

More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.By Augustus J. Bullock

He has been gone many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he sensed my _________ to be seen with him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him how sorry I was, how ________ I was, how I regretted it. I think of him when I complain about trifles, when I am envious of another’s fortune, when I don’t have a “good heart”.

At such times I put my hand on his arm to ______ my balance, and say, “You set the pace. I will try to adjust to you.”

unworthy

reluctance

regain

The end of Listening Lab.

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