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第五册新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材Unit OneThe Fourth of JulyNational Days of Some Other CountriesCountries National Days U.S.A. Fourth of July Russian Federation Twelfth of June (Former Soviet Union) Seventh of November P.R. China First of October Republic of China Tenth of October U.K. Birth of Current Kingor Queen (Twenty-firstof April) France Fourteenth of July Federation Republic Third of Octoberof Germany Japan Eleventh of February Republic of Korea Fifteenth of August D.P.R.K. Ninth of September Australia Twenty-sixth of January Pakistan Twenty-third of March India Fifth of August Afghanistan Nineteenth of August Israel Fourteenth of May (Jewish calendar)综合教程About the authorAudreLordePage 8: note 1Text explanationsThis is a piece of narrative writing in which first –person narration is employed.The whole text may be mainly divided into four parts.Structure of the TextPart one: Paragraph 1Back ground of the story, introducing the main characters, the place and time of the major event.Part two: Paragraph 2-6All the necessary preparations, especially the different kinds of food the writer’s mother had prepared for their Washington trip.Part three: Paragraph 7-17The most important section of this narrative text. It concentrates on the major event of the text –the injustice with which the writer and her family members were treated.Part four: Paragraph 18-19Some of the writer’s visits and her psychological