上海财经大学英语综合教程.ppt

上海财经大学英语综合教程 Book 4, Unit 8 教辅材料 任课教师：张卫婷 制作：财大英语教研室 2006年10月7日 Book 4, Unit 8 About the author Amazon Power words Key sentences Comprehension Discussion questions Exercises for structure and vocabulary Supplementary materials for listening and oral practice Writing skills and drills 上海财大 Text A In the Jungle About the authorAnnie Dillard(1945-) Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became active since 1965 in literature as journalist, natural scientist, poet and essayist in USA. won Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) in 1975 click to learn more about Annie’s personal information on her official website /  Text A In the Jungle Works by the author Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, reviewed by Eudora Welty (1974)There is an ambition about her book that I like, one that is deeper than the ambition to declare wonder aloud. It is the ambition to feel. This is a guess. But if this is what she has at heart, I am not quite sure that in writing this book she wholly accomplished it. Living by Fiction (1982). . . a stimulating book, one of those in which quality of thought and felicity of prose seem consequences of one another. Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)She is a fine wayfarer, one who travels light, reflective and alert to the shrines and holy places after first carefully selecting them for herself. She sets out again and again, seeking other landscapes, other encounters. An American Childhood (1987)Dillard has written an autobiography in semimystical prose about the growth of her own mind, and its an exceptionally interesting account. She is one of those people who seem to be more fully alive than most of us, more nearly wide-awake than human beings generally get to be. The Writing Life (1989)This is a tricky review for me to write. Annie Dilla