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1、二课课前预习1 Still waters run deep.流静水深流静水深,人静心深人静心深 Where there is life,there is hope。有生命必有希望。有生命必有希望2022/11/10 2022/11/10Life experience bBorn into a poor family in southern Ohio,the third of seven children in a family The family was forced to move shortly after Sherwood was born because his fathers sm

2、all business had failed.They finally settled permanently in Clyde,Ohio in 1884.Due to the financial difficulties,Andersons father began drinking heavily.When he was 12 years old,he began to take on odd jobs.He finally left high school before graduating.2022/11/10He worked as a manual laborer until e

3、nrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.When he returned to the states,he completed his high school education.This led to a new job in Chicago as an copywriter and solicitor.During this time,he wrote and published numerous essays on a variety of topics,ranging from b

4、usiness to literature.In the following years,he married,had three children,and became a successful businessman.2022/11/1036,Anderson stopped his work,left his office and never returned.He is quoted as writing,I was a business man and got sick of it,and went into writing,not to make a success,but to

5、give myself an interest in life He divorced and remarried for four times.On March 8,1941,on his way to a goodwill tour of South America,Anderson died.He had swallowed a bit of a toothpick at a farewell party,which then penetrating his intestines,causing the peritonitis that killed him.2022/11/10His

6、Literary Career The literary output of Sherwood Anderson is abundant.He published eight novels,four collections of short stories,three books of poems and plays,more than 300 articles,reviews and essays,and three volumes of autobiography.Sherwood Anderson left behind a substantial amount of work,incl

7、uding short fiction,novels,plays,essays,and memoirs.He is best known for his work Winesburg,Ohio(1919),a collection of stories about characters in a fictional small town.2022/11/10American Civil War TheAmerican Civil War(18611865),in theUnited Statesoften referred to as simply theCivil Warand someti

8、mes called the War Between the States,was acivil warfought over thesecessionof theConfederate States.Eleven southernslave statesdeclared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America(the Confederacy);the other 25 states supported the federal government(theUnion)

9、.After four years of warfare,mostly within the Southern states,the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.Issues that led to war were partially resolved in theReconstruction Erathat followed,though others remained unresolved.2022/11/10His influence on other writer

10、sFor Hemingway,Anderson served as his stylistic guide for some time.As for Faulkner,the younger writer expressed his respect for the older more than adequately when he stated that Anderson was“the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing which our successors

11、will carry on.”Anderson has been called“a writers writer.2022/11/10(n.)A_of water fell from the tap.The patient is on a_.Dont be such a _!Come and join in the fun.(v.)As water continues to _,the icicle grows.They_in fat,and they do nothing._2022/11/10(adj.)He was born in the purple and was brought u

12、p in the_palace.(n.)The piano soon developed into the contemporary nine-to ten-foot concert_.Itll cost you 50_.2022/11/10(adj.)The magazine published_details of their affair.(vt.)They would not_how the problem could be solved.(n.)Sir Reginald was known to his_as Porky.2022/11/10Momentary，Momentous两个

13、词都来自名词moment。Momentary:transitory or lasting only for a moment，其后常跟pain、interruption、expectation、happiness、emotion等词，其同义词是transient/ephemeral；反义词是lasting.Momentous:of great consequence。其后常跟events、news、moments、date等词，其同义词是important、highly significant；反义语是trifling。2022/11/10They can only secure moment

14、ary happiness.It is a momentary reaction.Hong Kongs return to China is a momentous event in 1997.This news is momentous to you.Structure&Main ideaStructure:Part 1(Para.1-25)(Description of his father and the disappointment at him)Para.1-7Para.8-22Para.23-25 Disappointed at fathers showing offInteres

15、ting stories told by his fatherMothers understanding and my dislike of the fathers irresponsibilityPart2(Para.26-41)Final understanding of my father through a swimming experience on a rainy nightThis is a story about an interesting character told by his son who later became a well-known writer.With

16、well-selected anecdotes(奇闻轶事)and using the tone of a little boy,the author gives a vivid character sketch(速写,素描)of his father whom he used to despise but gradually learns to understand and appreciate when he grows up.Main idea:Analysis of Fathers Imagein the eyes of the son:a failure;a clown (小丑小丑);a loafer;a windbag（饶舌的人;空谈者）in the eyes of others:popular with others;mothers pride instead of complaintDiscovery of a father:generous;kind-hearted;a natural actor;a born-story-teller