广州大学一年学费-卫风木瓜
Unit 2
How Reading Changed My Life
1. Glossary
Word list:
1. comprise; 2.
curled; 3. discontented; 4. dishearten;
5. flatten;
6.
perplexed; 7. plummet; 8. prize; 9. subculture;
10. supplant;
2. Key
words:
suspect/imagine
3.
Phrase, idioms and expressions
Aspire
to sth, in the equivalent of, at the end of, in
the former/latter half of the century,
at the heart of, interfere with, attend
to, lead to sth, bang on the door, leave sth for,
be
a solace to, major in, be couched
as/in, make up sth, be out of print, not in the
least, be
suspicious of sth, over
lunch, book after book, pay lip service to sth,
bring sb/sth to
life, plummet into,
commit sth to memory, potray sb as, divide into,
prefer doing sth
to doing sth else,
dream of, save sb from despair, from place to
place, search for, have
a claim to sth,
sit in the glare of the sun, in certain circles
suspect sb of, in one’s mind,
turn into
4. Word formation:
1) under-; over-;
2)
v.- n.; n.- v.
3) whatever; however;
whenever; wherever
5. Grammar:
1) four idioms with if: if only; if
not; only if; what if
2) a few uses of
there as a function word
6. Background
Information:
1) Author
2)
Litrary Classics:
Middlemarch
A little Princess
Anne
Karenina
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
Anne of
Green Gables
Heidi
The Great
Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe
Moby-Dick
To Kill a Mockingbird
7.
Text structure and the main idea of this passage
8. Preview questions about the text.
1) What do you think is the author
trying to tell us? Do you find anything she said
in
the essay particularly interesting
and thought-provoking?
2) Why does she
read? Does she read for any special purpose? For
advancement or
learning?
3)
How has reading changed her life? Do you believe
that people might love reading
for its
own sake? What do you think of these people?
4) Do you have any comments to make on
the issue of reading? Do you agree that the
golden age of book-reading is now gone
for ever?
5) Are you familiar with the
novels and stories mentioned in the text? Go over
the
notes carefully and be ready to
share with your classmates anything you know about
any of these books.
9.
Rhetorical device
Alliteration: hale
and hearty; safe and sound; pots and pans; bread
and butter; vice and
virtue; part and
parcel
10. Sentence paraphrase
1) One poem committed to memory in
grade school survives in my mind. (4)
2) Perhaps restlessness is a necessary
corollary of devoted literacy. (5)
3)
There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then
there were books…(7))
4)
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my
great invincible companion.
(9)
5) I realized that while my
satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had not
abated in the
least, the world was
often as hostile, or as blind, to that joy as had
been my girlfriends.
(10)
6) For many journalists, reading… was
most often couched as a series of problems to
be addressed…(13)
7)
…we are what the world of books is really about.
(15)
8) We are the prople who
saw to it that Pride and Prejudice never went out
of
print.(15)
9
. It was still in the equivalent of the club chairs that we found one another…(16)