综合英语三

王志丽

目录

  • 1 Unit 1（综合英语三）
    • 1.1 Introduction to the topic
      • 1.1.1 Pre-reading discussions
      • 1.1.2 Myths and Facts Regarding College Experience
      • 1.1.3 On Seasons in College
    • 1.2 Background information
      • 1.2.1 About the author ----- Bob Hartman
      • 1.2.2 Erik H. Erickson
      • 1.2.3 Basic Theory
    • 1.3 Text analysis
      • 1.3.1 Theme of the text
      • 1.3.2 Purpose of this essay
      • 1.3.3 Structure of the text
      • 1.3.4 Skimming the Text and Find the Key Changes
    • 1.4 Detailed language study
    • 1.5 Writing devices
    • 1.6 Grammatical structure
    • 1.7 Assignment
  • 2 Unit 2 (综合英语三）
    • 2.1 Warming-up activities
    • 2.2 Background information
    • 2.3 Text analysis
    • 2.4 Assignement
  • 3 Unit 3 (综合英语三）
    • 3.1 Pre-reading discussions
    • 3.2 Background Information
      • 3.2.1 About the author ----- Katherine Mansfield
      • 3.2.2 Kew Gardens
      • 3.2.3 The Volga
    • 3.3 Text Analysis
      • 3.3.1 Title Understanding
      • 3.3.2 Plot of the story:
      • 3.3.3 Setting of the story
      • 3.3.4 Protagonists
      • 3.3.5 Structure of the Story
      • 3.3.6 Theme of the text
    • 3.4 Detailed Study
    • 3.5 Character  Analysis
    • 3.6 Writing Devices
      • 3.6.1 Symbolism
      • 3.6.2 Metaphor
      • 3.6.3 Irony
    • 3.7 Assignment
  • 4 Unit 5 (综合英语三）
    • 4.1 Pre-reading discussions
      • 4.1.1 I. Environmental protection organizations
      • 4.1.2 Discuss Issues On Environment
    • 4.2 Background Information
      • 4.2.1 The author
      • 4.2.2 Silent Spring
    • 4.3 Text Analysis
      • 4.3.1 Theme of the text
      • 4.3.2 Structure of the text
      • 4.3.3 Before & After the use of chemicals
    • 4.4 Detailed Study
    • 4.5 Writing Devices
      • 4.5.1 Antithesis
      • 4.5.2 Alliteration & assonance
      • 4.5.3 Rhetorical question
      • 4.5.4 Metaphor
      • 4.5.5 Parallelism
    • 4.6 Further Discussion on the Text
    • 4.7 Assignment
  • 5 Unit 8(综合英语三）
    • 5.1 Warming-up
    • 5.2 Background Information
      • 5.2.1 The author
      • 5.2.2 Russell Baker’s memoir Growing up
      • 5.2.3 The Great Depression
      • 5.2.4 Guy Fawkes Day
    • 5.3 Text Analysis
    • 5.4 Detailed Study
    • 5.5 Writing Techniques
    • 5.6 Grammatical structure
      • 5.6.1 preposition + which/whom
      • 5.6.2 absolute construction
    • 5.7 Assignment
  • 6 Unit 9(综合英语三）
    • 6.1 Warming-up
    • 6.2 Background Information
      • 6.2.1 The author
      • 6.2.2 The Asian Financial Crisis
      • 6.2.3 The European Union
      • 6.2.4 The World Bank
      • 6.2.5 The World Trade Organization
    • 6.3 Text Analysis
      • 6.3.1 Genre: Argumentative Writing (AW)
      • 6.3.2 Theme of the text
      • 6.3.3 Structure
    • 6.4 Detailed Study
    • 6.5 Writing Techniques
    • 6.6 Grammatical structure
    • 6.7 Assignment
  • 7 Unit 11（综合英语三）
    • 7.1 Warming-up
      • 7.1.1 Pre-reading discussions
      • 7.1.2 Quiz
    • 7.2 Background Information
    • 7.3 Text Analysis
    • 7.4 Detailed Study
    • 7.5 Writing Techniques
    • 7.6 Grammatical structure
    • 7.7 Assignment
  • 8 Unit 12 （综合英语三）
    • 8.1 Warming-up
    • 8.2 Background Information
    • 8.3 Text Analysis
    • 8.4 Detailed Study
    • 8.5 Writing Techniques
    • 8.6 Grammatical structure
    • 8.7 Assignment
  • 9 Unit 15
    • 9.1 Warming-up
    • 9.2 Background Information
      • 9.2.1 About the author
      • 9.2.2 Cry, the Beloved Country
      • 9.2.3 Apartheid
      • 9.2.4 A Brief History of South Africa
    • 9.3 Text Analysis
    • 9.4 Detailed Study
    • 9.5 Writing Techniques
    • 9.6 Grammatical structure
    • 9.7 Assignment
  • 10 Unit 16(综合英语三）
    • 10.1 Warming-up
    • 10.2 Background Information
    • 10.3 Text Analysis
    • 10.4 Detailed Study
    • 10.5 Writing Techniques
    • 10.6 Grammatical structure
      • 10.6.1 Subjunctive Mood
      • 10.6.2 Gerund
    • 10.7 Assignment
    • 10.8 新建课程目录
  • 11 国家精品在线开放课 程资源
    • 11.1 新建课程目录
Background Information

 

1. About the author ----- Richard Connell (1893—1929 )

His life:

Age 10: covered baseball games for the newspaper, Poughkeepsie News-Press at the payment of 10 cents for each game.

Age 16: became city editor of the paper.

Age 22: graduated from Harvard.

Age 26: married and turned a professional writer.

His works:

The Most Dangerous Game: ( his fame rested on it, which was published in 1924 and made into Hollywood movies in many versions.)

(1924) Won the O’Henry Memorial Prize, the top short story prize in America.

Included as a classic into American primary school and high school textbooks and the world’s best short fiction anthologies.

Adapted into a dozen of films—the latest one: Lethal Woman (1998); the best-known one: The Most Dangerous Game (1932).

NOVELS

Mad Lover, (1927)

Murder at Sea (1929)

Playboy (1936)

What Ho! (1937)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Tales (1922)

Apes and Angels (1924)

Variety (1925)

Ironies (1930)

His achievements:

• One of the most prolific short story writers of the 20th century.

• Successful screenwriter and novelist.

• Many of his stories are made into movies and TV series.

2. Introduction to the Story

First published in 1924, the story has been frequently anthologized as a classic example of a suspenseful narrative loaded with action. Connell's story raises questions about the nature of violence and cruelty and the ethics of hunting for sport.

"The Most Dangerous Game" gained favorable recognition upon its initial publication in 1924, winning the prestigious O. Henry Memorial Award for Short Fiction. Its popularity was further established when the first film version of the story was produced in 1932.

Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney sailed into the darkness of the of sea. They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt vicious animals such as Jaguars. They sailed to an island called Ship-Trap Island. Sailors felt this island frightening. The sky was dark and everything was shrouded in darkness when suddenly he heard three gunshots. Then he heard a scream while smoking a pipe. Suddenly the pipe fell and as he tried to reach out for it he fell off the board into the sea and the waves swallowed his screams. Nobody could hear his cry for help. His only chance of survival was to swim. Rainsford swam towards the screams and found himself on the Island. He walked along the shoreline and later found a place that looked like a mansion. There he met General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. He was indeed a sportsman who invented a new hunting game. His game was to train those men whose ships were wrecked, and provide them with food and a knife for three days. Once they were trained they were led out into the island while Zaroff chased after them and tried to hunt them. If they survived during those three days they had won the game and they were let free but otherwise they would be killed. Zaroff never lost the game because if one of the men being hunted  was about to survive he would release the hounds to chased after them.  Rainsford was invited to play the game with Zaroff. This time he became the hunted instead of the hunter…

3. The Fox and the Cat

There are two versions for the fable. One is Aesop’s version, and the other is Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s version.

Aesop’s Version

A fox was boasting to a cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies.

"I have a whole bag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies."

"I have only one," said the cat. "But I can generally manage with that."

Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming towards them, and the cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs.

"This is my plan," said the cat. "What are you going to do?"

The fox thought first of one way, then of another, and while he was debating, the hounds came nearer and nearer, and at last the fox in his confusion was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen.

Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said, "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Version

It happened that the cat met Mr. Fox in the woods. She thought, "He is intelligent and well experienced, and is highly regarded in the world," so she spoke to him in a friendly manner, "Good-day, my dear Mr. Fox. How is it going? How are you? How are you getting by in these hard times?"

The fox, filled with arrogance, examined the cat from head to feet, and for a long time did not know whether he should give an answer. At last he said, "Oh, you poor beard-licker, you speckled fool, you hungry mouse hunter, what are you thinking? Have you the nerve to ask how I am doing? What do you know? How many tricks do you understand?"

"I understand only one," answered the cat, modestly.

"What kind of a trick is it?" asked the fox.

"When the dogs are chasing me, I can jump into a tree and save myself."

"Is that all?" said the fox. "I am master of a hundred tricks, and in addition to that I have a sackful of cunning. I feel sorry for you. Come with me, and I will teach you how one escapes from the dogs."

Just then a hunter came by with four dogs.

The cat jumped nimbly up a tree, and sat down at its top, where the branches and foliage completely hid her.

"Untie your sack, Mr. Fox, untie your sack," the cat shouted to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and were holding him fast.

"Oh, Mr. Fox," shouted the cat. "You and your hundred tricks are left in the lurch. If you had been able to climb like I can, you would not have lost your life."

4. Madame Butterfly

Nagasaki, Japan, the end of the Nineteenth Century. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton (Richard Troxell), a young American lieutenant, buys a home and a geisha-wife (Butterfly), 15 years old. Sharpless (Richard Cowan), the U.S. consul, warns him that what for him is an exotic, passing fling, for Butterfly has serious consequences, having broken her ties with her family, culture and religion. Pinkerton goes back to his ship and his commission, to return three years later with an American wife. Butterfly, who has borne him a son and has rejected an offer of marriage from a rich nobleman, feels obliged to sacrifice her life in order to safeguard her honor.