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Literature（part 2） MOCK BATTLEⅡ 实战练习Ⅱ A: Do you know who is the author of the American Declaration of Independence ? B: No, I don’t know. A: Have you ever heard of Thomas Jefferson? B: Yes, he was the third president of the United States. A: He was the author of the American Declaration of Independence, too. B: How much do you know about him? A: He was born in Virginia in 1743. He was taught to read Greek and Latin when he was young. He was sent to Philadelphia as a delegate from Virginia and was asked to draw up the important document “The American Declaration of Independence”. B: Anything else? A: He was elected governor of Virginia after he returned. B: When was he made president of the United States? A: When he was 57. And he was in office for two terms. A：你知道谁是《美国独立宣言》的作者吗？ B: 不知道。 A: 你听说过托马斯杰弗逊吗？ B: 是的，他是美国第三任总统。 A: 他也是《美国独立宣言》的作者。 B: 关于他的情况你知道多少？ A: 他于1743年出生在佛吉尼亚。当他小的时候，他就是学希腊语和拉丁语。他作为佛吉尼亚州的代表被派到费城，起草重要的文献《美国独立宣言》。 B: 还有别的吗？ A: 从费城回来后他被选为佛吉尼亚州的州长。 B: 他什么时候被选为美国总统的？ A: 当他57岁时，而且他连任两届总统。 MOCK BATTLE Ⅲ实战练习Ⅲ A: Have you read some novels of the Lost Generation? B: Lost Generations? A: Yeah, haven’t you heard of them before? B: Nope, tell me something about that. A: Ok, the term Lost Generation was first generated by Gertrude Stein, the author of The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas. She once said to Hemingway, “You are all a lost generation.” B: And what’s the feature of that literary trend? A: Their works seem to be bitter, critical, rebellious, iconoclastic, experimental, often absurd, more often misdirected. B: Oh, that sounds quite bewildering. A: Sometimes. you know F.Scott Fitzgerald? He is the representative of Lost Generation. B: Er…the author of The Great Gatsby? A: Yes, that’s him. You know what, there’s an anecdote about him. B: What sort of anecdote? B: Once Fitzgerald fell in love with the daughter of a prominent judge, Zelda Sayre , who promised to marry him only when he became rich enough to support her very well. He went to New York, but only fo