名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选AwayinaManger学案-2023届高三英语二轮复习培优.pdf
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1、高三英语培优 名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Away in a Manger 心灵鸡汤精选 Away in a Manger 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 生命体悟 五星 1016【文章梗概】圣诞前的一次全家出行,五岁的儿子问父亲:“怎么从未见父亲哭过?”这一问题引出了父亲对于男人惯有的坚忍克己的反思。他并不希望自己的下一代压抑他们的情绪,便告诉孩子:“眼泪是好事,是上帝治愈悲伤的方式。”平安夜,父亲在儿子美妙的歌声里泪流满面。仪式之后,儿子看到父亲湿润的眼睛并告诉他:“有时生活太美妙,我们不得不流泪!”Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy,forgivene
2、ss.To an opponent,tolerance.To a friend,your heart.To a customer,service.To all,charity.To every child,a good example.To yourself,respect.Oren Arnold One afternoon about a week before Christmas,my family of four piled into our minivan to run an errand,and this question came from a small voice in the
3、 back seat:“Dad,”began my five-year-old son,Patrick,“how come Ive never seen you cry?”Just like that.No preamble.No warning.Surprised,I mumbled something about crying when he wasnt around,but I knew that Patrick had put his young finger on the largest obstacle to my own peace and contentment the dra
4、gon-filled moat separating me from the fullest human expression of joy,sadness and anger.Simply put,I could not cry.I am scarcely the only man for whom this is true.We men have been conditioned to believe that stoicism is the embodiment of strength.We have traveled through life with stiff upper lips
5、,secretly dying within.For most of my adult life,I have battled depression.Doctors have said much of my problem is physiological,and they have treated it with medication.But I know that my illness is also attributable to years of swallowing rage,sadness and even joy.Strange as it seems,in this world
6、 where macho is everything,drunkenness and depression are safer ways than tears for many men to deal with feelings.I could only hope the same debilitating handicap would not be passed to the next generation.So the following day when Patrick and I were in the van after playing at a park,I thanked him
7、 for his curiosity.Tears are a good thing,I told him,for boys and girls alike.Crying is Gods way of healing people when theyre sad.“Im glad you can cry whenever youre sad,”I said.“Sometimes daddies have a harder time showing how they feel.Someday I hope I do better.”Patrick nodded.In truth,I held ou
8、t little hope.But in the days before Christmas,I prayed that somehow I could connect with the dusty core of my own emotions.“I was wondering if Patrick would sing a verse of Away in a Mangerduring the service on Christmas Eve,”the church youth director asked in a message left on our answering machin
9、e.My wife Catherine and I struggled to contain our excitement.Our sons first solo.Catherine delicately broached the possibility,reminding Patrick how beautifully he sang,telling him how much fun it would be.Patrick himself seemed less convinced and frowned.“You know,Mom,”he said,“sometimes when I ha
10、ve to do something important,I get kind of scared.”Grown-ups feel that way,too,he was assured,but the decision was left to him.His deliberations took only a few minutes.“Okay,”Patrick said.“Ill do it.”From the time he was an infant,Patrick has enjoyed an unusual passion for music.By age four he coul
11、d pound out several bars of Wagners“Ride of the Valkyries”on the piano.For the next week Patrick practiced his stanza several times with his mother.A rehearsal at the church went well.Still,I could only envision myself at age five,singing into a microphone before hundreds of people.When Christmas Ev
12、e arrived,my expectations were limited.Catherine,our daughter Melanie and I sat with the congregation in darkness as a spotlight found my son,standing alone at the microphone.He was dressed in white,with a pair of angel wings.Slowly,confidently,Patrick hit every note.As his voice washed over the peo
13、ple,he seemed a true angel,a true bestower of Christmas miracles.There was eternity in Patricks voice that night,a beauty rich enough to penetrate any reserve.At the sound of my son,heavy tears welled at the corners of my eyes.His song was soon over,and the congregation applauded.Catherine brushed a
14、way tears.Melanie sobbed next to me.After the service I moved to congratulate Patrick,but he had more urgent priorities.“Mom,”he said as his costume was stripped away,“I have to go to the bathroom.”As Patrick disappeared,the pastor wished me a merry Christmas,but emotion choked off my reply.Outside
15、the sanctuary I received congratulations from fellow church members.I found my son as he emerged from the bathroom.“Patrick,I need to talk to you about something,”I said,smiling.I took him by the hand and led him into a room where we could be alone.I knelt to his height and admired his young face,th
16、e large blue eyes,the dusting of freckles on his nose and cheeks,the dimple on one side.He looked at my moist eyes quizzically.“Patrick,do you remember when you asked me why you had never seen me cry?”He nodded.“Well,Im crying now.”“Why,Dad?”“Your singing was so wonderful it made me cry.”Patrick smi
17、led proudly and flew into my arms.“Sometimes,”my son said into my shoulder,“life is so beautiful you have to cry.”Our moment together was over too soon.Untold treasures awaited our five-year-old beneath the tree at home but I wasnt ready for the traditional plunge into Christmas lust yet.I handed Ca
18、therine the keys and set off for the mile-long hike home.The night was cold and crisp.I crossed a park and admired the full moon hanging low over a neighborhood brightly lit in the colors of the season.As I turned toward home,I met a car moving slowly down the street,a family taking in the areas Chr
19、istmas lights.Someone inside rolled down a window.“Merry Christmas,”a childs voice yelled out to me.“Merry Christmas,”I yelled back.And the tears began to flow all over again.【词汇过关】请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。1.errand ernd n._ 2.preamble pri:mbl n._ 3.mumble mmbl vi._ 4.moat mt n._ 5.stoicism stszm n._ 6.embo
20、diment mbdimnt n._)7.physiological fzildk()l adj._ 8.medication medken n._ 9.attributable trbjtbl adj._ 10.rage red n._ 11.macho mt n._ 12.debilitating dbltet adj._ 13.handicap hndikp n._ 14.broach brt vt._ 15.frown fran vi._ 16.assured d adj._ 17.deliberation dlbren n._ 18.pound pand vt._ 19.stanza
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