大学英语之泛读教程第二册unit 4.pptVIP

Passage 15, Fast Reading Y, N, N, NG, Y, N, Y Lifelong education new-media the personal touch Passage 15, Cloze O, J, D, L, B, N, C, G, H, E Careful Reading – Passage 15 What is the passage about? How is the passage developed? What: Denise Simmons – the nation’s first black and openly lesbian mayor How: three main points How: three main points Paras. 1 – 4: Denise’s own comment on her being the first black mayor Paras. 5 – 9: Marian’s comment on Denise’s political work Para. 10: extra background info. about Denise Text 1 Author About the author Albert DiBartolomeo He is on the Auxiliary Faculty at Drexel University, where he teaches courses in the Department of English and Philosophy, including Writing Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and courses in the Freshman Writing Program. Professor DiBartolomeo is also the Editor-in-Chief of ASK, the journal of Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Founding Editor of the Drexel Online Journal. Works: Albert DiBartolomeo is the author of the novels The Vespers Tapes and Fools Gold. His short stories have appeared in Italian Americana and VIA. He has written commentaries for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Newark Star-Ledger and personal essays for Philadelphia Magazine and Readers Digest. Several of his pieces have been anthologized in two volumes of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, as well as Human Ecology. He received his M. A. in Creative Writing from Temple University, and has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is currently working on a novel titled Cruel Spring.  (1) The Vespers Tapes (Blood Confessions): Organized crime boss Carmine Tucci is dying and wants to tell his story so that his only child will understand his life. He hires Vincent Vespers, schoolteacher and brother of Tuccis right-hand man, to record his memories on tape. Members of the gang, as well as other crime lords, get nervous about what he is revealing, placing Vespers in a very dangerous