新标准大学英语综合教程4UNIT2课件汇总.ppt

Cancer Ward Active reading 1: Resources A semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955, in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. It explores the moral responsibility—symbolized by the patients‘ malignant tumors—of those implicated in the suffering of their fellow citizens during Stalin’s Great Purge(大清洗). For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway File Notable awards Born Occupation Notable works Active reading 1: Resources More Died July 21, 1899; Oak Park, Illinois July 2, 1961; Ketchum, Idaho Novelist, correspondent The Sun Also Rises Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1853 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954 For Whom the Bell Tolls Active reading 1: Resources told primarily through the thoughts and experiences of Robert Jordan, an American who travels to Spain to oppose the fascist forces of Francisco Franco, a character inspired by Hemingways own experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan was ordered to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a bridge, using the aid of a group of guerrillas who have been living in the mountains nearby. graphically describes the brutality of civil war. Our Man in Havana Active reading 1: Resources James Wormold, a vacuum-cleaner salesman, takes the offer to work for the British secret service in Havana. For lack of any real information, he deceives them by claiming that he has a network of agents. London then sends him a secretary, Beatrice Severn, and a radio assistant. On arriving, Beatrice announces that she has orders to take over his contacts. Her first request is to contact the pilot Raúl. Under pressure, Wormold develops an elaborate plan that would eventually result in the death of Raul. But to his surprise, Raul, a real pilot, has an accident and dies on his way to the airport. Beatrice an