Unit 5 名著悦读课（教用Word）-【金榜题名】2025-2026学年高二英语选择性必修第二册高中同步学案（北师大版）

名著悦读课 The Little Prince(excerpt) So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither a mechanic1 nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of life or death for me：I had scarcely2 enough drinking water to last a week. The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation3. I was more isolated4 than a shipwrecked5 sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd6 little voice. It said： “If you please... draw me a sheep！”“What！” “Draw me a sheep！” I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck. I blinked7 my eyes hard. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model. That, however, is not my fault. The grownups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside. Now I stared at this sudden apparition8 with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment. Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region. And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying9 uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue10 or hunger or thirst or fear. Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human habitation. When at last I was able to speak，I said to him： “But... what are you doing here？” And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he were speaking of a matter of great consequence: “If you please... draw me a sheep...” When a mystery is too overpowering, one dares not disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death，I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountainpen. But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history. arithmetic, and grammar. and I told the little chap11 (a little crossly12, too) that I did not know how to draw. He answered me： “That doesn't matter, Draw me a sheep...” But I had never drawn a sheep. So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often. It was that of the boa constrictor from the outside: And I was astounded13 to hear the little fellow greet it with. “No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a boa constrictor. A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome14. Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.” So then I made a drawing. He looked at it carefully, then he said： “No. This sheep is already very sickly15. Make me another.”So I made another drawing. My friend smiled gently and indulgently16. “You see yourself，”he said，“that this is not a sheep. This is a ram17. It has horns.” So then I did my drawing over once more. But it was rejected too, just like the others. “This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time.” By this time my patience was exhausted, because I was in a hurry to start taking my engine apart. So I tossed18 off this drawing. And I threw out an explanation with it. “This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside.” I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge： That is exactly the way I wanted it! Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass？” “Why？” “Because where I live everything is very small...” “There will surely be enough grass for him，”I said.“It is a very small sheep that I have given you.” He bent his head over the drawing： “Not so small that... Look! He has gone to sleep...” And that is how I made the acquaintance19 of the little prince. 导语：《小王子》是法国作家安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里于1942年写成的著名儿童文学短篇小说。本书的主人公是来自外星球的小王子。本书以一位飞行员作为故事的叙述者，讲述了小王子从自己的星球出发前往地球的过程中的各种历险。 1．mechanic n．技工；机修工 2．scarcely adv.几乎不 3．habitation n．居住；住所 4．isolated adj.孤立的；隔离的 5．shipwrecked adj.失事的；遭海难的 6．odd adj.古怪的 7．blink v．眨眼 8．apparition n．鬼；幽灵；幻影 9．stray v．迷路；偏离 10．fatigue n．疲劳；疲乏 11．chap n．小伙子；家伙 12．crossly adv.生气地；发怒地 13．astound v．使惊骇；使大吃一惊 14．cumbersome adj.笨重的 15．sickly adj.病弱的；无精打采的 16．indulgently adv.放任地；溺爱地 17．ram n．公羊 18．toss v．投掷 19．acquaintance n．相识 1．(语言能力)What can we learn from the words “The grownups discouraged me in my painter's career”？ The__grownups__may__have__kept__me__from__becoming__a__painter. 2．(思维品质)When hearing an odd little voice，how did the narrator feel? He__was__extremely__amazed. 3．(思维品质)Why did the narrator think it was a matter of life and death? Because__it__was__in__the__desert__and__there__was__no__one__nearby.What's__worse，he__had__scarcely__enough__drinking__water__to__last__a__week. 4．(文化意识)How do you think of the little prince from the passage? He__is__pure，naive__and__serious. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$