实用英语第三册B_3_U_2

Practical College English Course (III)

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Unit 2

Focus 1 Section 1 :Text: The Praying HandsBackground Information Warm Up Vocabulary Intensive Reading Exercises: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII Section 2: Listening and Speaking

Focus 2 Section 1: Text: Profit at a PriceExercises: I , II Language Points Section 2: Practical Writing An Announcement of Getting Support for Voluntary Work美心英语 上海交通大学出版社

Focus 1 Section IBackground Information Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471—April 6, 1528)Albrecht Dürer was a great German artist and also one of the greatest representatives of Northern European Renaissance art. Albrecht Dürer was the third son of the eighteen children of a goldsmith. As a boy, he was educated and trained in his father’s workshop learning the trade of a goldsmith and jeweler. He applied the same very careful and exacting methods required in his work to his woodcuts and engravings. Dürer’s training also involved travel and study abroad, which widened his experience and enabled him to meet other artists.. Dürer was also a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci. He was deeply interested in the Italian master’s studies of the human figure, and after 1506 he applied and adapted Leonardo’s proportions to his own figures. More than simply producing works for his own time, Dürer saw his fame and contributions as enduring, and as part of history. Albrecht Dürer’s artworks covered a wide range of subjects including religious and mythological scenes, maps and exotic animals, etc.. Dürer published over 350 woodcuts and engravings. At least 60 of his oil paintings have survived. There are a thousand of his drawings and watercolors. Dürer was a humanist and creator.

Albrecht Dürer

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Focus 1 Section IWarm UpThe Three Butterfly Brothers

There were once three little butterfly brothers—one red, one white and one yellow. They played in the sunshine, and danced among the flowers in the garden and they never grew tired because they were so happy. One day there came a heavy rain and it wet their wings. They flew away home but when they got there, they found the door locked and the key gone. So they had to stay out of doors in the rain, and they grew wetter and wetter. By and by, they flew to the red and yellow striped tulip, and said, “Friend tulip. Will you open your flower-cup and let us in until the storm is over?” The tulip answered, “The red and yellow butterflies may come in because they are like me, but the white one may not enter.” But the red and yellow butterflies said, “If our white brother may not find shelter in your flower-cup, why, then, we’ll stay outside in the rain with him.” It rained harder and harder and the poor little butterflies grew wetter and wetter, so they flew to the white lily and said, “Good lily, will you open your bud a little so we may creep in out of the rain?” The lily answe

red, “The white butterfly may come in because he is like me, but the red and yellow ones must stay outside in the storm.” Then the little white butterfly said, “If you won’t receive my red and yellow brothers, then I will stay out in the rain with them. We would rather be wet than be parted.” So the three little butterflies flew away. But the sun, who was behind a cloud, heard it all, and he knew what good little brothers the butterflies were, and how they had held together in spite of the wet. So he pushed his face through the clouds, chased away the rain, and shone brightly on the garden. He dried the wings of the three little butterflies and warmed their bodies. They ceased to sorrow, and danced among the flowers till evening, then they flew away home, and found the door wide open.

The morale of the story: the love among the three butterfly brothers symbolizes the spirit of fraternity of human beings. What do you think the author of the story is trying to tell us?

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Focus 1 Section IVocabulary Please go over the key words and expressions of the text before reading

*entire a. 全部的，整个的 Have you drunk the entire wine? a. 独创的，新颖的；起初的，原来的 ☆original We should encourage original music. Expressions tell of in appreciation of by profession work out relieve sb. of suffer from much less

叙述，描述 为……表示感谢，因赞赏……而…… 职业是，就职业来说 想出，制定出；使问题解决；计算出 解除，减轻某人的负担 受痛苦，患病；遭受困难，受损害 更不用说，更何况

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Focus 1 Section IIntensive Reading The Praying Handsin appreciation of: out of recognition or gratitude tell of: to describe the details of an 为……表示感谢，因赞赏……而…… event or person 叙述，描述 e.g. (1) He was presented with a watch in appreciation e.g. (1) The poem tells of their heroic of his long service. 人们送他一只表以示对他多年工 spirits in fighting against the invaders. 作的感谢。 这首诗叙述了他们反抗侵略者的英 (2) I am in sincere appreciation of your efforts. 我对你 雄主义精神。 的努力表示真诚的感激。 (2) He told us of his extraordinary appreciation 由动词appreciate 加后缀-tion转变而来。 childhood. 他向我们描述了他不同寻 appreciate意为“to be grateful for sth. that sb. has done 常的童年。 为……表示感激；重视；欣赏；领会，充分意识 到”。 e.g. I’d appreciate it if you let me get on with my job. 如果您能让我继续工作，我将十分感激。

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