Unit 1 Looking forwards Understanding ideas 语言点课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Facing the Future Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961) was an American novelist and short-story writer who came to literary prominence following the First World War, as a member of the so called “Lost Generation ”in the 1920s. Sherlock Holmes Para.1: For many of us, it’s something we already have experienced. One moment, we are lying comfortably in bed, about to fall into a deep sleep. The next, our eyes are open and we ____________________ (发现自己在不由自主地想) or even worrying about possibly the most important______(事件) of our lives-the future. Will we get into _______________(我们选择的学校)? What will we be doing in ten years’ time? Can we become the person we really want to be? ______________(面对) such questions, how should we _________(接近) the future? Can we _________(采取措施做) shape it, or should we just accept ____________________ (顺其自然)? find ourselves wondering issue the school of our choice In the face of approach take action to whatever comes our way What is possibly the most important concern in life? Para.2: As many of us already know, having plans in place for the future is no guarantee ______ they will become reality (_______从句). ________ (在这方面), some people are more fortunate than others, as can be illustrated by comparing the lives of two famous authors (as引导的__________), born 40 years apart (_______). Although they shared the same ambitious and energetic ________(对待...的方法) life, their careers unfolded in____________(相差很大的) ways. that In this respect 相差 approach to contrasting What is the relationship between one’s plans and the future? Para.3: The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was from early boyhood __________(专一的) in his ambition to write. __________ (一...就) high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. He went on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiences in Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing. In his words, “I decided that I would write one story abo