研究生英语阅读教程(提高级-第三版)-教学课件Lesson15.pptVIP

Advanced Reading Revised Edition  ;策 划：鞠方安 商希建 顾 问：李光立 主 编：刘兰芝 董敬一 副主编: Gerald Zimmerman 杨真真 任林静 制作人：段艳丽;Lesson Fifteen;Catalogue;Background Information;A son of Russian Jews, Malamud was educated at the City College of New York (B.A., 1936) and Columbia University (M.A., 1942). His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a fable about a baseball hero who is gifted with miraculous powers. The Assistant (1957) is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer. The Fixer (1966) takes ;place in tsarist Russia. The story of a Jewish handy- man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Christian boy, it won Malamud a Pulitzer Prize(普利策奖 ). His other novels are A New Life (1961), The Tenants (1971), Dubins Lives (1979), and Gods Grace (1982). ;Warm-up Activities;Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men ______ them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for ________nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be ______, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be ______only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.　 ;Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the ____ important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a _____man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great _______; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.;III. Questions 1. When and where did this story take place? 2