基础英语第4册Unit1课后答案.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 9NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER, NEVER, NEVERWinston Churchill Cultural InformationWinston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 — 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII) and his success in leading his country from the brink of defeat to victory. He served as Prime Minister twice (1940 — 1945 and 1951 — 1955) and is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He is a noted statesman and orator, historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to have been recognized as an honorary citizen of the United States.Winston Churchill was born to an aristocratic family, with renowned ancestors and a politician father. As a prolific writer, he wrote a novel, two biographies, three volumes of memoirs, and several histories in addition to his many newspaper articles. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values”.Structural analysisThis text is an inspiring speech made by Winston Churchill, Great Britain’s then Prime Minister, when he visited Harrow Paragraph 1: Some opening remarks, in which Churchill summarized the events that had happened since his last visit to Harrow. Paragraphs 2 — 5: The body of the speech, in which Churchill drew the lessons to be learned from the past year. Paragraphs 6 — 8: The concluding part, in which, by changing a word in the additional verse of the school song, Churchill expressed his conviction that the entire nation was blessed with the chance to display its courage to the full in what was, as he elsewhere put it, its finest hour. As a representative piece of oration by the great orator Churchill, this speech was made eloquent and encouraging by employing many rhetorical dev