现代大学英语精读I课件概要.ppt

Contemporary College EnglishBook One Unit 8 My Personal Manager Background Margaret Goff Clark is a productive author. She wrote stories about teenagers. Different themes: mysteries, science fiction, human relationship and wild animals. Theme one: mysteries Who Stole Kathy Young?It is about two girls who are cousins named Meg and Kathy. Meg and Kathy both live in Texas. The story is set in summer and Meg and Kathy always the tourists that come for vacation. They saw two tourists that seemed a bit weird to them but didnt really think anything of it until they began to follow them. Next Meg sees Kathy a little further down he road being shoved into a van. Meg automatically thinks it must be those two tourists that they had seen earlier. Police search parties are sent out searching for Kathy but they cant find her. Meg decides that just waiting isnt helping so she starts to search for Kathy herself with a boy named Julian. While all of this searching for Kathy is going on, Kathy herself is trying to escape. Theme two: science fiction Barney and UFO Barney on Mars Theme three: human relationship This book is a historical fiction about a family helping slaves escape to Canada. Theme four: wild animals The Endangered Florida Panther There is a good mix of high-interest anecdotes about the panther and the people who study and safeguard it, and of facts and photos that present basic information about the species and its ecological role. Habits and habitat are briefly discussed; history focuses on the panthers endangered status and the efforts to protect it. The Threatened Florida Black Bear In this companion book to The Endangered Florida Panther (1993) and The Vanishing Manatee (1990, both Cobblehill), Clark gives basic historical and scientific facts interspersed with eyewitness accounts of the wildlife biologists who study and protect the animals. It is these anecdotes that create a sense of excitement and convey the tragedy of habitat loss that puts