语境识词导学案
1.【Classical sentences】
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
--A Tale of Two Cities
2.【A short story】
2.1Chunks
bring up _________________
permit sb to do _________________
stare at _________________
account for _________________
take a chance _________________
a large amount of _________________
on the contrary _________________
be spotted by... _________________
by accident _________________
be in rags _________________
as for __________________
2.2Listen and fill in the blanks
Sailing Home
This novel was about an_______________ but ____________ adventure. Its author was a black businessman who was _________ _____ in America. In 1956, he visited Africa, his_______. One day, when he was_____________ on the pavement near the bay enjoying the sea________, he lost his money and passport that he kept in an_________. So he went to the embassy to _______help, but the ambassador with _______ ________didn’t________ his staff to help though he bowed to him. ________ _____ his_________face, he understood that it was the ______of his skin colour that _______ _____their rejection. So he decided to _______ ____ ________to sail on a small boat home.
He met __ _____ _____ ___difficulty but was never stopped. ______ _____ ______, difficulty pushed him to go ahead harder. Three months later, he was ________ by a ship ____ _________. He was in rags indeed. A maid even__________ when bringing him a steak and pineapple dessert. Aboard, he earned his passage by working as a barber and got home finally. ____ _____ the name of his novel, he couldn’t think of a better one than the phrase “Go Ahead”.3.【Classical reading】
The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two and to be burdened with a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.
Jim stopped inside the door with his eyes fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments（情感）that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar（特别的）expression on his face.
"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice--what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously（艰难地、辛苦地）.
"Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"
Jim looked about the room curiously.
"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy(白痴).
"You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.
"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."
White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic（狂喜地）scream of joy; and then, alas!
For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshiped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair.
She hugged them to her bosom（胸口）, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"
And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. "Isn't it smart, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch（坐到沙发上）and put his hands under the
back of his head and smiled.
"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep them a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. Let’s have some dinner."
-----The abstract of The Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry
3.1 Appreciate the above underlined beautiful sentences
1.It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments（情感）
that she had been prepared for.
2. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without
giving you a present.
3.For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshiped long in
a Broadway window.
4.Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch（坐到沙发上）and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.
3. guess the word in context
4.。
