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Russell Baker Group members:黄山英 刘鸿燕 雷伟霞廖雅桂陈晓珍 About the author: Russell Baker Born in Virginia in 1925 A columnist for the New York Times Won a Pulitzer Prize(in 1979) (The present text is from his 1982 autobiography Growing Up, which became a bestseller and received critical acclaim.) Theme The problem of old people Generation gap Discussion 1. Do you know something about the old people’s life? 2. Is the generation gap a serious problem today? 3. What should we do about the generation gap? 4.Have your parents ever shared their experience in the past? Structure Part one (paras 1—37) Part two (paras 38—45) Part three (paras 46—55) Part one …traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science. (para 1) There had always been a fierceness in her. It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.(para 10) And so she was, a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, determined to bend those who opposed her.(para 14) Life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the mind, the drugstore cowboy, the mush-mouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind.(para 15) Part two For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had been turning to a rage against the weakness, the boredom, and the absence of love that too much age had brought her.(para 38) The common problems of old people Now…she seemed to have broken chains that imprisoned her in a life she had come to hate and to return to a time inhabited by people who love