【精品】高中英语(人教大纲)第三册：Unit10 American literature(备课资料)

Unit 10 American LiteratureTeaching aims:1.Goals:◆Talk about American Literature◆Practise predicting and describing what a story might be about◆Review all the verb tenses◆Write a book review2.Special focus:Improve reading skills and Enlarge vocabulary.a.Direct Ss to read the 3 passages on the text book;b.Guide Ss to learn to use the following words and expressions:Contribute to, adapt to, get accustomed to, garment, shabby, take pridein, attend to, etc.Period 1 ReadingA Sacrifice for Love (1)Step 1. Warming upTask 1. guide the students to get to know some famous American writers and their works by the forms of a petition:The Adventure of Tom Sawyer ---- Mark TwainThe Beast in the Jungle ----Henry JamesA Farewell to Arms ----- Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea ----- Ernest HemingwayAdventures of Huckleberry Finn ----Mark TwainThe Gift of the Magi ---- O. HenryThe Call of the Wild ----Jack LondonThe Scarlet Letter ---- Nathaniel HawthorneStep 2. ScanningTask 2. Read the passage and try to answer the questions:What’s the story about?What are Jim’s wages?What price does Della pay to buy her present?What are the couple’s two most precious possessions?Step 3. While-reading:Ask students to fill in the chart to see if they have got a general understanding of the whole passage.beautiful hair to buy her husband a Christmas present ---- a gold watch chain. Step 4. Post-readingTask 3: Answering the questions on P85.Step 5 HomeworkFinish all the exercises on Word Study and Grammar on p86-87.Period 2.Integrating Reading SkillsA Sacrifice for Love (P89)Step 1. Revision1.Check the Ss how further they understand the American literature.2.Check the homework. If necessary, give some examples to review the differenttenses of verb.Exercise 1 &2 on p220-221 is specially designed to check the Ss if they are familiar with the Grammar.Step 2. Scan the passage and find the main idea, then analyze the passage if possible. Task: Read the passage in three minutes, and sum up every paragraph with one sentence:P1: Della was anxious to wait for Jim and was afraid that Jim’s love would go without her beautiful long hair.P2: Jim was burdened with the family and had no money to buy even e new overcoat or gloves.P3: Jim stared at Della with a strange expression on his face.P4: Della explained why she had her hair cut off.P5: Jim was still confused.P6: Jim was awake and expressed nothing could make him love Della any less.P7: Della was so happy when she sea a set of beautiful and expensive bs Jim bought her.P8: Della showed him her gift---- a gold watch chain that was worthy of his gold watch.P9: Jim told Della he sold his watch for her bs.Step 3. Read the passage again and appreciate the “love〞 again, and then finish the exercises attached to the passage.Step 4.Extensive reading:Ask the students to find more short stories by American writers to read after class.Period 3. Integrating Reading and Writing SkillsRegret (p221-222)Step 1. Warmming-upTask 1 :◆ Do the oral pratice on p218, and enable the students to practise predictingand describing what a story might be aboutStep 2. ReadingTask 2: Read the passage and finish the exercises. If possible, guide the students to analyze some long and plex sentences.Task 3: Guided WritingGive Ss 20 minutes to finish the writing assignment on p224,Then ask Ss to score their work according to the following chart.3 pluses & 1 wishNote: How to use this chart effectively?Ask the student to read his/her deskmate’s writing carefully, and then find 3 valuable things (structure, passage arrangement, sentence, diction, etc) and give 1 suggestion. And then feed the message back. Next, ask the Ss to correct their work according to the chart.Period 4:Deal with some language points and difficult points if necessary.If possible, guide the students to analyze some long and plex sentences. The following sentences in this unit are very important:✓Expenses had been greater than she had calculated.✓She hesitated for a minute and stood still while a tear or two fell on the worn red carpet.✓There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out.✓It was worthy of the watch.✓It’ll grow again--- you won’t mind, will you?✓I’m me without my hair, aren’t I ?。

看，这就是美国文化几乎所有的人都认为，美国是一个最功利的国家。

可不是吗？“麦当劳叔叔〞左手给你递上汉堡、薯条这些食品，右手就会把你的钱收进钱箱；一瓶可口可乐的成本也许只有5美分，却让人“乐得买，买得起，哪里都买得到〞；好莱坞电影即使进入批量生产的年代，也不愁换不来节节高攀的票房；“后街男孩〞这样已经算不上男孩的“老帮菜〞乐队，走到哪儿都会把痴迷者的眼泪和钱包通通榨干……美国人也很幼稚。

说幼稚并不太妥当，只是再成熟的美国人，心里也一定有那么一点童话情结；再为现实所累的美国人也不愿放弃自己精神家园的那最后一片绿地。

于是，再怎么以挣钱为目的的文化经营背后，总会透露着那么一点对美国人精神上的鼓舞。

美国亿万富翁迈克尔·斯塔德瑟写了一部叫作《大宝藏》的童话书。

书中的每个字、每一幅插图，或许都会成为一个至关紧要的线索。

循着这条线索，读者可以在全美12个地方各找到一个18克重的叶状金币，每块金币价值1000美元，上面印有书中森林动物的图像。

寻宝者可以用一枚金币兑换一个与币上动物图形相同的珠宝饰物———这些饰物从8500美元的瓢虫到45万美元的蓝宝石蜘蛛不等。

如果12枚金币都被找到，那么将可以兑换到超过100万美元的珠宝饰物。

这部书成了全美国人的寻宝游戏。

售价近30美元的《大宝藏》几次在亚马逊网上书店销售告罄。

《大宝藏》官方的点击率已经超过10万次，众多网友在上面交流寻宝线索。

美国人为什么如此热衷于此？也许是因为童年听过的寻宝故事至今没有忘怀，也许是因为这个游戏像赌博一样，让人不能断定成败几何。

这本书的出现，美国人压抑已久的童话情节终于有了宣泄之处。

你尽可以把自己想成勇士或探险家，尽可以去体验现实生活中几乎不可能的经历，而且最大的好处在于，这样做的成本并不算太高。

美国文化部门在经营文化事业的时候，也会注重从精神层面影响人，这也是美国价值观形成的一种手段。

不久前轰动一时的动画电影《极地快车》是根据一部只有29页的迷你小说改编的。

高中英语第三册(全一册)Unit 10 American LiteraturePeriod 1listen and speakPart 1 Sample Teaching PlansGoals◆Talk about American literature◆Practise predicting and describing what a story might be about◆Review all the verb tenses◆Write a book reviewPeriod 1 listen and speak!Goals◆Talk about poems◆Practise predicting and describing what a story might be aboutProceduresStep 1: Reading a poemGood morning, class. Today we are going to take up Unit 10 American literature. Please look up at the screen and read aloud the poem entitled Ancestors.1.What kind of text is the one you have just read?2.What is it about and what does it mean?3.Can you tell something about the writer?4.Why is this probably American literature?Dudley Randall (1914 2000) was an African-American poet and poetrypublisher from Detroit, Michigan. He operated a publishing companycalled Broadside Press from 1965 to 1977, which published manyleading African-American writers. Randall's most famous poem is “TheBallad of Birmingham”, written during the 1960s, about the 1963bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama. Randall’s poetry ischaracterized by simplicity and realism.Step 3 Learning about another poemChairman Mao Zedong is also a poet, a great Chinese poet. Now read aloud tounderstand the following poem in Chinese.忆秦娥娄山关1935年2月西风烈，长空雁叫霜晨月。

惠特曼的诗AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERV ALSAGES and ages returning at intervals,Undestroy'd, wandering immortal,Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,I, chanter of Adamic songs,Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself, Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,Offspring of my loins.WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'DWE two, how long we were fool'd,Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks,We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbit and stellar, weare as two comets,We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving over-head,We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again,we two,We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.O HYMEN! O HYMENEE!O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?O why sting me for a swift moment only?Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH LOVEI AM he that aches with amorous love;Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?So the body of me to all I meet or know.NA TIVE MOMENTSNA TIVE moments&emdash;when you come upon me&emdash;ah you are here now,Give me now libidinous joys only,Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,The echoes ring with out indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done,I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,I will be more to you than to any of the rest.ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITYONCE I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,Day by day and night by night we were together else has long been forgotten by me,I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,Again we wander, we love, we separate again,Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.I HEARD YOU SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGANI HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,Winds of autumn, as I walked the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORESFACING west from California's shores,Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,Long having wandered since, round the earth having wandered,Now I face home again, very pleased and joyous,(But where is what I started for so long ago?And why is it yet unfound?)AS ADAM EARL Y IN THE MORNINGAs Adam early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower refreshed with sleep,Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.。

2019-2020年高中英语（人教大纲）第三册：Unit10 Americanliterature(第二课时)(3.Train the students’How to improve the students’2.Careful reading to get the detailed3.Question-and-Step Ⅰ GeetingsStep Ⅱ Revision and Lead-inT:In the last period,we discussed some questions about a story.As we know,an interesting story should have an exciting plot.There are some characters in it.It tells us when and where the story takes place.Today we are going to read a love story.After you read the story,I’m sure you will beStep Ⅲ Pre-readingT:OK.Please look at the sWhat’s the title of the story? A Sacrifice for LoveWhat is the story about? It’s about a young couple who love each otherdeeply.What are Jim’s wages? 20 dollars a week.How much is the rent of the flat per week? 8 dollars.What price does Della pay to buy her present? 21 dollars.What are the couple’s two most preciousJim’s gold watch and Della’s hair. possessions?(Teaching shows the questions on the left side of the screen and gives students some more minutes to scan the text.Then teacher asks students to give the answers.At the same time,teacherT:Now you’S1:When Jim saw that Della’S2S1S2S1:It’s so moving a story that we want to know what Jim is going to do when he sees Della withT:I see.But I’m sorry to tell you that we can only read Part 1 of the story ter we canStep Ⅳ ReadingT:We’ve read the story and have the general idea of it.Now let’s listen to the tape.While listening,pay attention to the useful phrases and important sentence patterns in the text.Please underline the difficult points that you don’(APhrases:attend to,worthy of,take pride in,do up,search...for,turn...inside outT:Please look at the screen.I’2....with which to buy Jim a4.take pride in sb./e.g.She takes great pride in her son’s success.e.g.Ine.g.She turnwith+Object+O.C.(adj./v.-ing/p.p./pre.-He lay on the grass with his arms crossed under his hHe was seated on the bench,with his arms resting on his knees.Step Ⅴ Post-readingT:Now we’ve read the passage carefully and also learnt the usages of some phrases and sentence patterns.Next let’s have a discussion about the three questions.You can discuss them in(Teacher shows the questions on the screen.)3.Can you predict what will happen in the second part of the story?T:Who’S3:She wants to buy a Christmas gift for her husband Jim,but she doesn’t have enough money.SoS4:As Della doesn’t have enough money to buy Jim a present,she thinks of selling her hair to get some money.But her hair is one of their two possessions.It is long and beautiful and Della loves itS5:I’ll try.Della has sold her hair to buy her husband Jim a present,but Jim won’t accept it.He feels very sT:You did well.If you want to know exactly what will happen next,you can read the story “A Sacrifice for Love(2)”.Now look at the screen.Please decide whether the sentences are true or false according to the passage we’（）((()4.Della thinks having a haircut will make Jim happy()5.Della loves Jim.Step Ⅵ Summary and HomeworkT:In this class,we’ve read part of a story.we’ve also learned some useful expressions and sentence patterns.After class,read the text again and write a short description of Della.You can use the answers in post-reading to help you.And don’t forget to preview Word study and Grammar in the next period.Well,that’s all for toStep ⅦBlackboardUnit 10The Second Period1. ...with which to buy Jim a pres3.With that chain on his watch Jim might be....Step Ⅷ Record after Teaching_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __2019-2020年高中英语（人教大纲）第三册：Unit10 Americanliterature(第五课时)1.Review the usages of the Present Indefinite,the Present Continuous,the Present Perfect,the Past Indefinite,the Past Continuous,the Past Perfect,the FutureMaster the structures and theThe differences between the Past Indefinite and the Past Perfect;the differences between the PastTeac1.a puterStep Ⅰ GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step Ⅱ RevisionT:In the third period,we’ve done some exercises to revise all the verb tenses,including the Present Indefinite,the Present Continuous,the Present Perfect,the Past Indefinite,the Past Continuous,the Past Perfect,the Future Indefinite and the Future Past.Now I want some one of you to write down(One of the studT:(After that) Quite right.Thank you.You can go back to your seat now.Well,let’s revise the usagesStep Ⅲ Explanation of the Verb TensesChoo1.(NMET xx)The reporter said that the UFO________2.(NMET xx春季，北京）Old McDonald gave up smoking for a while,but soon________to his oldA.returned C.was returning3.(xx年春季，上海）The new suspension bridge________D.would be designed4.I________ten minutes to decA.gave C.was giving5.My brother________while he________6.The Police found that the house________and a lot of things________7.(NMET 1994)I don’t really work here,I________until the ne8.(NMET 1994)—I’—Oh,not at all.I________A.have been C.was9.New problems________A.deal with10.How many students in your class________D.would takT:Now let’s do the exercises on the screen.Who’S:I’S:I think in this sentence there are two actions.The past continuous “was travelling” here is used in a sentence together with the past action “saw”.When this happens,the past continuous usually refers to a longer “background”action or situation.The Past indefinite usually refers to a shorter action or event that happened in the middle of the longer oneT:Very good.Now let’S:I’ll try.The best answer is also A.I think there are two actions in this sentence.The first action happened first and then the other happened.So we should use the past indefinite tense in theT:Good.Now,let’3.(B) The Past Perfect Passive should be used in this sentence.From the adverbial in this sentence “by the end of last month”,we know that the action “design”takes place before the adverial of time.Besides,“bridge”is the subject of this sentence,and “design” is the verb,so the Passive V oice should b4.(B) From the subject and verb,we know that the Passive V oice should be used.This is a very mon5.(A) In this sentence there are three actions.“Fell” and “hurt”happened during the peri od when he6.(B) From the verb “found”,we know that neither A nor C is correct.And we know that the subject of the object clause is “the house”,and the verb is “break into”,so the Passive Voice should7.(C) The sentence talks about the action and the situation that are already going on at the moment8.(A) The Present Perfect is used to talk about actions and situations which began in the past and have continued up to the present when we speak or just before9.(C) From the adverbial “every day”,we know that present indefinite should be used in this10.(C) The adverbial “next week” tells us that the action “take part in” h appens in the future.So the Future Indefinite is used here.If we want to say “He told me that the majority of students in his class would take part in the sports meet to be held the next week,”we should use the past future tense.The adverbial in this senteStep Ⅳ Practice and ConsolidationT:Now,let’s do more exercises to review the verb tenses of different kinds.Please look at the exercise on the screen.It is an interesting story about the word “freeze”.Please read t he passageThere is one word which you must learn before you________ (visit) the USA.That is “Freeze!”If you________ (not hear) the word in an American movie,this is what it________ (mean).It (mean) “Stand still and don’t move.”Police officers________when they ________ (be) ready to use their guns.If the person________ (not obey) the order and (move),he or she ________One evening in Los Angeles,someone________ (ring) the bell of a house.It________ (be) a dangerous area at night,so the owner of the house________ (take) his gun with him when he (answer) the door.He________ (open) the door and________ (see) a person,who________ (turn) round and________ (start) walking away from the house.The owner________ (cry)“Freeze!”,but the man ________ (go) on walking.The owner(think) he________ (try) to escape,so heLater,the sad story ________ (discover).The dead man________ (be) a Japanese student.He (go) to visit a friend,but he________ (can) not remember the number of the house.When he(realize) that he________ (go) to the wrong house,he ________ (turn) round to leave.He________ (not know) much English and so he________rang;was;took;answered;opened;saw;turned;started;cried;went;thought;wastrying;shot;was discovered;was;had gone;could;realized;had gone;turned;didn’t know;didn’t understandStep Ⅴ Summary and HomeworkT:Today we have reviewed eight kinds of verb tenses.(Write them on the blackboard).And we have also done some exercises to consolidate them.After class,you need to do more exercises toSs:See you!Step ⅥBlackboardam/is/areshould/would keepStep Ⅶ Record after Teaching_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __。

欧·亨利欧·亨利（1862—1910）是美国小说家，原名威廉·西德尼·波特，生于北卡罗莱纳州一个医生家庭。

少年时代，他当过学徒、牧童；后又做过会计、制图员和银行出纳等工作。

他创办过周刊《滚石》，担任过《休斯顿邮报》专栏作者，还曾因故入狱，并因此而接触了形形色色的人们。

获释后，他开始在纽约从事创作，以笔名欧·亨利发表短篇小说。

欧·亨利共创作了三百多篇短篇小说，分别收入《白菜与国王》（1904）、《四百万》（1906）、《西部之心》（1907）、《市声》（1908）和《滚石》（1913）等集子，其中以描写曼哈顿市民生活的作品最为著名。

欧·亨利（1862—1910）是美国小说家，原名威廉·西德尼·波特，生于北卡罗莱纳州一个医生家庭。

少年时代，他当过学徒、牧童；后又做过会计、制图员和银行出纳等工作。

他创办过周刊《滚石》，担任过《休斯顿邮报》专栏作者，还曾因故入狱，并因此而接触了形形色色的人们。

获释后，他开始在纽约从事创作，以笔名欧·亨利发表短篇小说。

欧·亨利共创作了三百多篇短篇小说，分别收入《白菜与国王》（1904）、《四百万》（1906）、《西部之心》（1907）、《市声》（1908）和《滚石》（1913）等集子，其中以描写曼哈顿市民生活的作品最为著名。

其中《最后一片藤叶》、《带家具的房间》、《警察与赞美诗》和《麦琪的礼物》等都是脍炙人口的短篇小说。

欧·亨利创作风格独特，善于捕捉生活中令人啼笑皆非而富有哲理的戏剧性场景。

笔触简洁而形象生动。

他注重小说情节，故事发展节奏较快，常常出现出人意料的结局。

他擅长使用双关语、谐音和讹音，作品充满活力与幽默。

高三英语Unit 10—American literature人教版【本讲教育信息】一. 教学内容：Unit 10—American literature二. 课文难点句解析：A sacrifice for love1. Pennies saved one or two at a time by bargaining at the grocery, at the bakery and the butcher’s until one’s cheeks burnt这些硬币是在杂货店，面包房和肉店讨价还价争得面红耳赤从而一分，两分省出来的。

at a time：每一次。

以time为核心的短语还有：at one time：曾经；从前；at the time：在那时；at times：有时；at no time：决不2. There was an electric bell that did not work , with a card next to it bearing the name “Mr. James Dillingham Young.”还有一个不能用的电铃，旁边挂着一张卡片，上面写着“Mr. James Dillingham Young.”work：起作用，奏效；正常运转You should check that smoke alarm is working properly.You need to find which method works best for you.bearing 在此表示：写着，=showing; reading3. Della finished crying and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.Della哭完了，用粉饼在面颊上抹了一点粉。

attend to处理；照顾；I may be late. I have got one or two things to attend to.Are you being attended to, sir ?4. She had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present.现在她只有一元八角七分钱给Jim买礼物了。

American CultureThe US claims to be the greatest success story of the modern world - a nation fashioned from an incredibly disparate population who, with little in common apart from a desire to choose their own paths to wealth or heaven, rallied around the ennobling ideals of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to forge the richest, most inventive and most powerful country on earth.Despite polemicists who justly cite the destruction of Native American cultures, racism and imperialism at the top of a long list of wrongdoings, half the world remains in love with the idea of America. This is, after all, the country that introduced the world to the right to the pursuit of happiness, free speech, electric light, airplanes, assembly-line automobiles, the space shuttle, computers, blues, jazz, rock & roll and movies that climax at the high-school prom.On a short trip, it can be hard work dismantling your preconceptions. So much of the country has been filmed, photographed, painted and written about that you need to peel back layers of representation to stop it from looking like a stage setting. This worldwide representation can make the country seem strangely familiar when you first encounter novelties like 24-hour shopping, bottomless cups of coffee, 'Have a nice day,' drive-thru banks, TV evangelists, cheap gasoline and newspapers tossed onto lawns. But you'd be foolish to read too much into this surface familiarity, since you only have to watch Oprah for half an hour to realize that the rituals and currents of American life are as complex, seductive and bewildering as the most alien of cultures.Come prepared to explore the USA's unique brand of 'foreignness' rather than stay in the comfort zone of the familiar. You'll discover several of the world's most exciting cities, some truly mind-blowing landscapes, a strong sense of regionalism, a trenchant mythology, more history than the country gives itself credit for and, arguably, some of the most approachable natives in the world.Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, followed with a highly publicized spate of anthrax-laced mailings that exposed government workers, media personnel and mail carriers to the deadly disease, the entire USA has been on a heightened state of alert. Add to this rampant rumors of repercussions for the bombing of Afghanistan, and you're dealing with one nervous country.While your chances of falling victim to shady terrorist plots are probably pretty slim (though you never know; perhaps packing that lucky penny isn't such a silly idea), you are very likely to experience a variety of potentially annoying security protocols, particularly surrounding airline travel. Make sure all your identification and other documents are up-to-date, confirm reservations and bag-checking procedures ahead of time, and arrive at the airport at least an hour before your flight departs.No matter what form of transportation you're using to navigate the USA, however, it behooves the careful traveler to keep an eye on current events during these very interesting times.CultureGive me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,' reads the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. And the world did, fueling the dynamism of America with waves of ambitious immigrants from everydowntrodden corner of the globe. Immigration is one of the defining characteristics of America's national identity, though calling the US a 'nation of immigrants' neatly sidesteps Native Americans (already here) and African American slaves (brought against their will).In the past 30 years, the old notion of America as a melting pot - a stew in which immigrants' individual differences are lost in uniformity - has given way to the salad-bowl model, in which the individual pieces still retain their flavor while contributing to the whole.Americans are constitutionally guaranteed freedom of worship; dominant faiths include Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism, among others. There are plenty of indigenous faiths as well, such as Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.American English encompasses a multitude of regional accents of differing degrees of intelligibility. Spanish has effective dual-language status in parts of southern California, New Mexico, Texas and Miami. There are 400,000 speakers of Native American dialects.Modern American culture is a juicy burger of mass culture garnished with 15 minutes of fame. It owes as much to marketing savvy, communications technology and mass-production techniques as it does to artists and entertainers. If you can name it, American companies have invented, packaged and disseminated it to as many consumers as cheaply and conveniently as possible.The elusive concept of 'American-ness' is often defined by cinema and television. The advent of TV in the 1950s shook Hollywood's hegemony to its core, but both forms of media have managed to coexist, even operating synergistically. The global distribution of American movies and TV shows hasshaped the world's perception of the country to a high, if not completely accurate, degree.The American music industry is the world's most powerful and pervasive, though groundswell movements remain the driving force of American pop. African Americans' influence, including blues, jazz and hip-hop, can hardly be exaggerated.Rap, America's inner-city sound, places an equal emphasis on an ultraheavy beat, sound montage, street cred and macho posturing. Its appeal to middle-class white America will no doubt bemuse sociologists for decades.The US has churned out a veritable forest of literature. The illustrious lineup begins with Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Henry James and Edith Wharton, and moves into the modern era with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Jack 'Backpack' Kerouac, Arthur Miller, both the Williamses, Saul Bellow, John Updike and Toni Morisson..After WWII, the focus of the international art world shifted from Paris to New York. Artists leaving war-torn Europe brought the remnants of surrealism to the Big Apple, inspiring a group of young American painters to create the first distinct American painting style, abstract expressionism.The relentless ascendancy of mass media gave birth to pop art. Slick, surface-oriented and purposely banal paintings like Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are now American icons.When we think of US cities, we think of skyscrapers, those architectural testaments to market forces and American optimism. Chicago isa living museum of high-rise development. New York boasts its fair share of stunners too. Despite increasing homogenization, rural America retains its idiosyncrasies, and distinctive vernacular architectural styles persist in New England (clapboard), California (Spanish Mission) and New Mexico (adobe).American sports developed separately from the rest of the world and, consequently, homegrown games such as baseball, football and basketball dominate the sports scene. Soccer and ice hockey are runners-up to the Big Three. Urban America also invented the great indoors: aerobics and the gym, indoor skiing and rock-climbing - examples of what can go wrong when too much disposable income hits up against too little leisure time.。

高中英语第三册(全一册)Unit 10 American Literature 重难点讲练(词汇学习)重难点讲练Part 3 Language study and practice（一）词汇学习1.furnishvt. to equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for布置家具;配备家具The room was completely furnished. 房间里有舒适的家具。

The room was furnished with the simplest necessities, a bed, a chair, and a table. 房间里只布置了最简单的必需品,一张床、一把椅子和一张桌子。

The new guest hotel’s finished，but it’s not yet furnished.新的招待所已建成,但家具还没有布置好。

2.shabbyadj. (1). showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out 肮脏破旧的, 破烂不堪的a shabby old hat 破旧的帽子(2). wearing threadbare clothing衣衫褴褛的,寒酸的 a shabby old man 一位衣衫褴褛的(3). despicable; mean低劣的, 卑鄙的, 不公平的What a shabby trick, driving off and leaving me to walk home!多卑劣的恶作剧, 把车开走了让我走路回家。

3.possessionn. (1). [C] something possessed or property拥有物，财产He lost all his possessions in the big fire. 在那场大火中他失去了所有的财产。

高中英语第三册(全一册)Unit 10 American Literature 重难点讲练(词义辩析)重难点讲练Part 3 Language study and practice（三）词义辩析1. possession; propertypossession 和property都可表示“财产,所拥有的东西”,但possession 常作可数名词, 有复数形式,而property当“财产”讲时,用作不可数名词,例如:Don’t touch the car, which is my pe rsonal property.别碰那辆车, 那是我的私人财产。

The police found some stolen property hidden in the chief’s house.警察发现一些赃物。

That picture is valuable possession to him.那张照片对他来说是一件宝贵的财富。

2. cry; weepcry 和weep都指发出表示悲伤、不高兴或痛苦的口齿不清的声音，并且cry 和weep 都与流眼泪有关。

cry 则更强烈地表示伴随的声音。

When he died the little children cried in the streets.当他死时，小孩子们在街上大声哭喊起来。

I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone.我为我孤独时的样子而哭泣。

3. astonish ;surprisesurprise是一般用语，指的是因其出乎意料或非同寻常而使人突然充满好奇和不相信。

语气比较弱。

They will surprise you with their ingenuity他们的足智多谋将会令您惊讶。

astonish 指由于不合常理或不可理解的事而产成的较强烈的惊异的感觉，表示难以抵御的惊讶。

比surprise 所表示的情感强，等于surprise greatly。