Unit 4 Workbook Reading and Writing 2 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第三册

2019人教版选择性必修三 四单元 拓展阅读2 Unit Four Workbook Expanding Your World An Excerpt From The Old Man And The Sea （Adapted） 阅读简案 Cultural notes The novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is based on real people and true events. After the end of World War One, Hemingway moved to Cuba(古巴) and met the old man Fisherman Gorio Fuentes. In 1930, Hemingway was rescued by Fuentes after his ship was wrecked in a storm. From then on, the two men forged profound friendship, often with fishing. In 1936, Fuentes went far out to sea and caught a big fish, but because the fish was too big, it was dragged at sea for a long time, and the result was tha it was attacked by a shark on the way home, only the skeleton was left when he returned. Hemingway was deeply touched by this incident and realized that it would be good material for a novel. In 1950, he wrote a novel on it, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and in 1954 won him the Nobel Prize for Literature. About the Passage "The Old Man and the Sea" writes that the old Cuban fisherman Santiago has finally caught a big marlin fish alone after 84 consecutive （连续的）days without catching a fish. But this fish was so big that he dragged his boat out to sea for three days before he was exhausted, and he was killed and tied to the side of the boat on his way home. Repeatedly attacked by sharks, and finally returned to port with only a fish head and tail and a spine（骨架）. About the Author Ernest Hemingway (1899 -1961) was an American journalist, writer, and sportsman. After high school, he was a journalist before enlisting as an ambulance driver in the First World War. He was seriously wounded and returned home in 1918. His experiences of war formed his novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929). His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. He was later a jourmalist during the Spanish Civil War, writing For Whom the Bell Tolls based on his experience. Hemingway suffered from increasing physical and mental problems. On July 2, 1961, Heming