Love of Reading 研究生英语教材.ppt

;; ; Reading Is a Good Hobby;Reading Is a Good Hobby; About the Author;b. Her book The Optimists Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. C. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. ; Reading Tasks;suggested answer: a. “writer’ can help to establish Welty’s professional identity. ; Reading Tasks;Parts ; Language Points; Language Points;Para 2. I cannot remember a time…and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. I cannot remember a time that I don’t love books, love their cover…and I was engrossed in them and fascinated by them.;Still illiterate, I was ready for them ,committed to all the reading I could give them. Even if when I was unable to read and write, I was eager to read books and I tried my best to prepare myself to read all the books.; Part Two ;Para 4 …and I did, reading them all alike and as they came, straight down their rows, top shelf to bottom. … And I did started reading them, going along each row reading every book in turn, one row after another form top to bottom.;My mother read secondarily for information. For my mother, reading for information was not the most important concern.;Question; What kind of person do you think the author’s mother is ? Use some adjectives to describe the mother. ;Para 6. Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating with dramatic scenes—anger and rescue allotted to rich and the poor respectively.;In this book, you will meet the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher, among whom there were long conversations. Besides, dramatic scenes happen alternately to them, that is, how both the rich and the poor boy were seized by anger and were saved. ;Para 7. This book was lacking its front cover, the back held on by strips of pasted paper, now turned golden