(讲义)UNIT 8 Literature 导读话题妙切入-【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册(北师大版2019)

1．A novel is a mirror walking along a main road． —Stendhal 一部小说犹如一面在大街上行走的镜子。 ——司汤达 2．Literature is a kind of intellectual light，which like the light of the sun，may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like． —Samuel Johnson 文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。 ——塞缪尔·约翰逊 3．I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me． —Jack London 我写作没有别的目的只是为了增加自身的美。 ——杰克·伦敦 4．Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree． —Ezra Poud 简单地说，伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。 ——埃兹拉·庞德 China's culture bases heavily in ancient mythologies，ancient religions，and definitive class and political systems continued to carry the thread of these ancient teachings through the transformation of the Chinese Dynasties．China's culture is also defined by its geographic isolation．Immense natural barriers and high mountain ranges isolated China from the rest of civilization． O．Henry，a famous American writer of short stories，was born in North Carolina in 1862．O．Henry was a pen name．His real name was William Sydney Porter．When he was a young boy，he did not go to school for long because of being born tnto a poor family，but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know． When he was about 20 years old，O．Henry went to Texas．There he tried different jobs．He first worked on a newspaper，and then had a job in a bank．But he got himself into some trouble．Some money went missing from the bank．O．Henry was believed to have stolen (偷) it，so he was sent to prison (监狱)．During the three years in prison，he learned to write short stories．After he got out of prison，he went to New York and went on writing． He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there．People liked his stories，because almost all of them finished with a sudden change．This made the readers surprised． [探究发现] 1．What is the real name of the famous American writer? William Sydney Porter． 2．Why was O．Henry sent to prison? Because people thought he had stolen money from the bank． 3