上外课件：Unit15_A(第六册.ppt

Unit 15 On Reading  Text Explanation Part I About the Author W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is noted for his clarity of style and skill in storytelling. His best-known works include Of Human Bondage(1915), THe Moon and Sixpence(1919), Text Structure Section 1: Paragraph 1 the scope of this passage Section 2: Paragraphs 2-3 the readers and the selection of books Section 3: Paragraphs 4-5 the relationship between intellectual pleasure and teh habit of reading Section 4: Paragraph 6 the skill of skipping Text Analysis In this essay, the author focuses exclusively on one point: Reading should be enjoyable. With neatly knitted development the author apporaches the theme from two perspectives -- what to read and how to read. He points out that both should fit the readers own fancy. Paragraph 1 (Part 1) The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course， there are many books that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without tedium. Such books we read with resignation rather than with alacrity. extract (v.) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; 2. get something despite difficulties or obstacles; 3. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); 4. obtain by the process of distillation; 5. separate (a metal) from an ore; 6. obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; extraction: the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means extrative, extractability,extractor tedium (n.)1. the feeling of being bored by something tedious; 2. dullness owing to length or sl