Unit2TheStruggletoBeanAll精选.ppt

FEN-NAV Further Enhancement Lead-in Questions Text II Text Comprehension Questions for Discussion Fun Time and Memorable Quotes FEN-T2-lead-in Text II Reading Lead-in Questions Discussion: How does the title of Text II strike you? What story would it be? FEN-T2-P1 NO NAME WOMAN Maxine Hong Kingston 1. You must not tell anyone, my mother said, what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born. Text II Reading FEN-T2-P2 2. In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated seventeen hurry-up weddings — to make sure that every young man who went out of road would responsibly come home-- your father and his brothers and your grandfather and his brothers and your aunts new husband sailed for America, the Gold Mountain. It was your grandfathers last trip. Those lucky enough to get contracts waved good-bye from the decks. They fed and guarded the stowaways and helped them off in Cuba, New York, Bali, Hawaii. Well meet in California next year, they said. All of them sent money home. Text II Reading FEN-T2-P3 3. I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing; I had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach. But I did not think, Shes pregnant, until she began to look like other pregnant women, her skirt pulling and the white tops of her black pants showing. She could not have been pregnant, you see, because her husband had been gone for years. In early summer she was ready to have the child, long after the time when it could have been possible. Text II Reading FEN-T2-P4 4. The village had also been counting. On the night the baby was to be born the villagers raided our house. Some were crying. Like a great saw, teeth strung with lights, files of people walked zigzag across our land, tearing the rice. Their lanterns doubled in the disturbed black water, which dra