高级英语(1)9课PPT

Lesson Nine The trouble with Television一、Words and expressions1. absorb –absorbable v.—adj.v. take in 吸收absorb heat 吸热Plants absorb oxygen. 植物吸收氧气。

absorb knowledge 吸收知识absorbing 吸引人的attractiveabsorptionn. 吸收，专心致志2. allot vt. 分配，分派(-tt-)allot sth. to sb. 把——分配给某人Who will she allot the easy job to? 她把轻活分给谁了？allotmentn. 分配，拨款3. apt adj. –aptlyadv.apt 适当的，恰当的suitable, appropriatean apt quotation 恰当的引用Ⅰ. be apt at doing sth. = be good at sth.He is very apt at programming a computer. 他善于编电脑程序Ⅱ. be apt to do sth. = have a tendency to do sth.易于做什么事情，有做某事的倾向性My pen is rather apt to leak. 我的钢笔爱漏水。

aptly: suitably, appropriately4. august adj. 常作定语，令人敬畏的，威严的full of respect, awe, majestic and imposing5. bequeath: v. bequeath sth. to sb. 把某物遗赠给某人He bequeathed 1000 pounds to charity. 他把1000英镑遗赠给慈善事业。

bequestn. 遗赠，遗产，遗物6. coherent—coherenceadj.—n. 有条理的，前后一致的coherent analysis, argument, descriptionThe government lacks a coherent economic policy. 政府的经济政策缺乏一致性。

Lesson 9 Mark Twain---Mirror of AmericanI.Teaching Objectives:1.To comprehend the whole text2.To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions3.To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences4.To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.II.Teaching Hours:1.The first 2 hours: introduction of background information & detailed study ofpara. 1-32.The second 2 hours: detailed study of para. 4-93.The third 2 hours: detailed study of para.10-154.The fourth 2 hours: detailed study of para.16-225.The fifth 2 hours: classroom discussion and exerciseIII.Teaching Methods:1.Prepare and review on the part of the students2.Warm-up activities3.Detailed explanation and interpretation4.Classroom discussionIV.Background Information:1.National Geographic Magazine, with a circulation of more than 10 millioncopies annually, is the third biggest only next to TV Guide and Reader's Digest (more than 16 million). It is a monthly journal run by the National Geographic Society based in Washington DC, a non-profit scientific and educational organization.2. A brief outline of Tom: Tom lives with his younger brother Sid and AuntPolly in St. Petersburg, a remote town on the banks of the Mississippi river.While his brother Sid is a “model” boy, Tom is quite the opposite of his brother. At school he disobeys his teacher and always busies himself with outside matters at the lessons. Tom’s bosom friend is Huck Finn, a boy deserted by his drunkard of a father and looked upon as an outcast in the town.But Tom has read many books and wants to make his life just as bright as it is depicted in the stories. He devises games in which the boys play the role of brave outlaws and warlike Red Indians who are the terror of the rich and the oppressors. One night the boys involuntarily witness the murder of Dr.Robinson. An innocent man is charged with the crime. But on the day of the trial Tom fearlessly exposes the real criminal the Indian Joe who escapes through an open window of the courtroom. Another night, the boys went out to dig for hidden treasures near a deserted house three miles from town. There they almost fall into the hands of the murderer who accidentally finds a box filled with gold coins. Shortly after the incident Tom goes to a picnic with a party of schoolmates. Exploring a cave, he gets lost with Becky Thatcher, the daughter of the Judge. Tom behaves like a brave boy, calms Becky’s fears and finds the way out of the cave. In a few days’ time Tom and Huck return to the cave. They find the dead body of the murderer, who could not have found the way out of the cave and also the hidden treasures.3. A brief outline of Huck: Tom and Huck find the money. They each get sixthousand dollars, which they deposit with Judge Thatcher. The Widow Douglas takes Huck for her son and tries to “civilize” him. In the meantim e, Huck’s father tries to get the money and succeeds in kidnapping the boy and imprisons him in a lonely cabin. To free himself from both the boring widow and the brutal father, Huck runs away to a deserted island in the middle of the Mississippi river. In doing so, he makes it appear that he has been murdered by some robbers. On the island he meets Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave, and the two become close friends. They started down the river, come across all sorts of people and have lots of fun and adventures. Toward the end of the novel Jim is caught and imprisoned at a farm, and Huck and Tom make aspectacular but unsuccessful attempt to rescue him. At last it turns out that Huck’s father has died and Miss Watson has also died, but not before setting Jim free in her will.V.Detailed Study of the Text:1.Writing style:A biography is, by definition, an account of someone's life that has been writtenby someone else, or a written history of someone's life. Generally, a biography is about sb. who enjoys certain reputation, who has acquired certain fame by his / her success in certain area. The protagonist can be a positive or negative character.2.Paraphrase (difficult sentences)1) A man who become obsessed with the frailties of the human race.2)Mark twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with theworld as lecturer and writer.3)The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich andvaried- a cosmos.4)Mark twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporterand humorist.5)Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.3.Rhetorical devices1)Metaphor:Mark Twain --- Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nation's heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand......the epidemic of gold and silver fever...Twain began digging his way to regional fame...Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles......took unholy verbal shots...2)Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of......a memory that seemed phonographic3)Hyperbole:...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...The cast of characters... - a cosmos.4)Parallelism:Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.5)Personification:the river had acquainted him with ......to literature's enduring gratitude...the grave world smiles as usual...Bitterness fed on the man...America laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.6)Antithesis:...between what people claim to be and what they really are......took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land......a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever7)Euphemism:...men's final release from earthly struggle8)Alliteration:...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...with a dash and daring......a recklessness of cost or consequences...9)Metonymy:...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxenguage points1)idyllic: [i / ai] a simple happy period of life, often in the country2)cruise: A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship and visit lotsof places. When it is used as a verb, it means to move at a constant speed that is comfortable and unhurried.3)cynical: A cynical person believes that all men are selfish. He sees little or nogood in anything and shows this by making unkind and unfair remarks about people and things.4)obsess: to worry continuously and unnecessarily.5)frailty: a weakness of character or behaviour.6)prospector: a person who examines the land in order to find gold, oil, etc.7)delta country: Delta is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet, which is shapedlike a triangle. Therefore anything in the shape of a delta, esp. a deposit of sand and soil formed at the mouth of some rivers is called a delta.8)drain: to cause to become gradually dry or empty9)cast of characters: the cast of a play or a film consists of all the people who actin it10)flotsam: rubbish, wreckage such as bits of wood, plastic, and other wastematerials that is floating on the sea, parts of a wrecked ship or its cargo found floating in the sea11)perceive: realize, notice, see or hear sth. esp. when it is not obvious to otherpeople12)succumb: a. (fml) stop resisting (temptation, illness, attack, etc)13)mining strike: sudden discovery of mine14)scathing: (of speech or writing) bitterly cruel in judgement, sharp and hurtful;cutting, scornful15)debunk: (infml) to point out the truth about (over-praised people, ideas, etc).16)四书（大学，中庸，论语，孟子）: The Four Books (The Great Learning, TheDoctrine of Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius)五经（诗经，书经，易经，礼记，春秋）: The Five Classics (The Book of Songs, The Book ofHistory, The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites, and The Spring and AutumnAnnals)17)panorama: a complete view of a wide stretch of land; continuously changingview or scene; a thorough representation in words or picture5.Structural Analysis1.Part 1: (the first para.) Introduction2.Part 2: (Tramp printer...renew our edges)Section 1. (Tramp printer... the settled United States)the setting, background knowledgeSection 2. (Young Mark...that invented retreating)early years of life on the Mississippi and as a Confederate guerrillaSection 3. (He went west...best-seller.)On his way to success.Section 4. (At the age...renew our edges.)Comment on his best works.3.Part 3: (Personal tragedy...forget them forever.)Personal tragedy and conclusion.VI.Classroom Discussion:Why does the writer consider Mark Twain a mirror of America?VII.Assignment:Write a summary of the life to Mark Twain within 200 words.。

Lesson1The Middle Eastern BazaarII .1)Iittle donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people.答：little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another2)Then ai you penetrate deeper into the bazaar,the noise of the entrance fades away,and you come to the muted cloth-mar-ket. 答：Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.3)theynarrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down.答：they drop some of items that they don't really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price.4)he will price the item high,and yield little in the bargaining.答：He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount.5)As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing be-gins to impinge on your ear.答：As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear.X．1)一条蜿蜒的小路隐没在树荫深处。