英语培优外刊阅读回忆录话题学案高考英语一轮复习.docxVIP

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜奥巴马出版《应许之地》，或成历史最畅销总统回忆录 近日，奥巴马出版了回忆录《应许之地》。在这部700页的长篇巨制之中，这位美国前总统以审慎、克制的文风回顾了自己执政时期的点点滴滴。《纽约时报》发表书评，对这部回忆录进行了详细点评。这部作品有何过人之处？刚刚结束了新一届总统大选的美国社会对这部作品又会有何反响？ In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term By Jennifer Szalai The most audacious thing about Barack Obama’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” is the beaming portrait on its cover: There he is, the 44th president, looking so serenely confident that it’s as if the book weren’t arriving on the heels of a bitter election, amid a cratering economy and a raging pandemic. The ebullient image also stands at odds with the narrative inside — 700 pages that are as deliberative, measured and methodical as the author himself. Obama says that he initially planned to write a 500memoir and be done in a year; what he ended up with instead is a hefty volume that stops in May 2011, shortly after his roasting of Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30 and the killing of Osama bin Laden the day after. This isn’t to say that “A Promised Land” reads like a dodge; if anything, its length testifies to what seems to be a consistently held faith on the part of the former president — that if he just describes his thinking in sufficient detail, and clearly lays out the constellation of obstacles and constraints he faced, any reasonable American would have to understand why he governed as he did. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.audacious [???de???s] adj. ______________________________ 2.memoir [?memwɑ?r] n. ______________________________ 3.beaming [?bi?m??] adj. ______________________________ 4.portrait [?p??tre?t] n. ______________________________ 5.serenely [s??ri?nli] adv. _____________________________ 6.heel [hi?l] n. ______________________________ 7.bitter [?b?t?] adj. ______________________________ 8.crater [?kre?t?] n. ___________________；v. _________________ 9.raging [?re?d???] adj. ___________________________