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1、Book6 Module2 Vocabulary and ReadingThe Story of and Harry Potter (P22)the main idea with each paragraphpara 1.a. She met some difficulties while writing.para 2.b.She overcame the difficulties and published the first book.para 3.c.Rowling, Harrys creator came up with theideapara 4.d.The books appeal

2、 to readers of all ages.para 5.e.The effect of the books are great.para 6.f. It took her ten years to complete the successful books.2. Divide the passage into three parts.Parti (Para.) How did she overcome difficulties and succeed?Part2(Para.) What makes her books so important?Part3(Para.) What is t

3、he Harry Potter effect?3. Guess the meaning of the words.wordspart of speechdefinitionClueanecdotestubbornadjustmentrenewedrestrictSupplementary ReadingExtract from Rowlings Lecture at HarvardLooking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-

4、year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoveris

5、hed backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk(怪癖)that would never pay a mortgage(按揭),or secure a pension.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was r

6、eached that satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modem Languages. Hardly had my parents car rounded the comer at the end of the road than I threw away German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point

7、of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for guiding you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves,

8、 and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty involves fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride

9、yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lecture

10、s, I had a knack(诀窍)for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet prot

11、ected anyone against the caprice (多变)of the fate, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what makes up failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if

12、you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without bein

13、g homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that

14、there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant

15、 stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one

16、arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail o

17、n the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.Failure gave me an inner security (安全)that 1 had never attained by passing

18、 examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.The knowledge that you have come out wiser

19、 and stronger of setbacks means that you are, ever after, confident in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by failure. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth mo

20、re than any qualification I ever earned.So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV(简历)，are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and old

21、er who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyones total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its ups and downs.1. Work out the format of the passage.Para povertyPara failurePara attitude towards failurePara the truth of life2. Guess the meaning of the words.wordspart of speechdefinitionCluecompromiseinessentialinevitablesetbacks3. Read and answer.(1) What difficulties did have on her way to success?(2) How does she view failure?4. Discuss in groups.(1) How do you view failure?What can we learn from the