《现代大学英语精读第四册课件lesson1》.ppt

Unit One: Thinking as a Hobby Thinking Hobby William Golding (1911-1993), a remarkable British novelist, is never likely to be remembered for his social portraiture, which is not the essence of his work. He was a writer trained in a grand metaphysical Christianity who could address questions of good and evil in a corrupted and Godless age. Lord of the Flies (1954) The novel was one of the great novels of the Fifties, yet in no obvious sense was it a Fifties novel; one reviewer would find in Golding ‘a sullen distaste for the contemporary’. The novel was an ironic rewriting of the Victorian boys’ book tradition. The original story was R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), the story of a highly resourceful group of British boys, led by Ralph Rover, who are shipwrecked on an isolated Pacific island, whose lives are threatened by savages but are rescued by a missionary. Background A good liberal arts education must include good training in logical and critical thinking. You should play with ideas the way you play with balls. Three grades: Grade-three thinking: was no thinking at all, but a combination of ignorance, prejudice and hypocrisy. Most people belong to this category (according to the author). Grade-two thinking: People can detect the contradictions of grade-three thinkers’ beliefs. They can see their ignorance, prejudice, hypocrisy and lack of logic, which gives them great delight and satisfies their ego. Grade-two thinking had nothing constructive to offer. It destroys without the power to create. Therefore the satisfaction it brings the thinker is limited and does not last. Grade-one thinking: People who set out to find the truth and get it. TEXT ORGANIZATION P1 -p15 Prelude/ Introduction P16-p24 Grade Three Thinking P25-p29 Grade Two Thinking P30-p35 Grade One Thinking nothing but(p2): nothing except;only His parents care nothing but his scores at school. One was a lady wearing nothing but a bath towel. Venus In Roman mythology, Venus was the g