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1.English Song-Easy to be Hard2.Maugham 3.Kobe Before Reading4.Yokohama5.Bridge 6.Cocktail7.Gin Fizzes Three Dog NightEasy to be HardQuestions on the Song and the TextThree Dog Night Three Dog Night:Jimmy Greenspoon,Cory Wells,Danny Hutton,Pat Bautz,Michael Allsup,Paul Kingery.From 1969 to1974,nobody had more Top 10 hits,moved more records,or sold more concert tickets.During this period Three Dog Night was undoubtedly the most popular Easy to be Hard Questions on the Song and the Text Yes.Some people want to show their concern for people in general in public or create their public image but in the depth of their hearts,they just care about themselves.What is the singer complaining about?Do some people care too much for people in general but forget the needs of their closest friends?1.2.Too many people find it all too easy to be cold,to say no.Maugham Maugham,W(illiam)Somerset:18741965Birthplace:EnglandNationality:BritishAchievements:Of Human Bondage(1915)The Moon and Sixpence(1919)The Painted Veil(1925)Cakes and Ale(1930)Christmas Holiday(1939)The Hour Before the Dawn(1942)Achievements:The Razors Edge(1944)A Romance(1948)The Trembling of a Leaf(1921)The British Agent(1928)First Person Singular(1931)Ah King(1933)Quartet(1948)The Circle(1921)Our Betters(1923)East of Suez(1922)Maugham Maugham,W(illiam)Somerset(1874-1965):English author,whose novels and short stories are characterized by great narrative facility,simplicity of style,and a disillusioned and ironic point of view.Maugham was born in Paris and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and at Saint Thomass Hospital,London.His partially autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage(1915)is generally acknowledged as his masterpiece and is one of the best realistic English novels of the early 20th century.The Moon and Sixpence(1919)is a story of the conflict between the artist and conventional society,based on the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin;other novels are The Painted Veil(1925),Cakes and Ale(1930),Christmas Holiday(1939),The Hour Before the Dawn(1942),The Razors Edge(1944),and Cataline:A Romance(1948).Among the collections of his short stories are The Trembling of a Leaf(1921),which includes“Miss Thompson,”later dramatized as Rain;Ashenden:or The British Agent(1928);First Person Singular(1931);Ah King(1933);and Quartet(1948).He also wrote satiric comedies The Circle(1921)and Our Betters(1923)the melodrama East of Suez(1922),essays,and two autobiographies.Maugham Kobe Kobe,city(1990 pop.1,477,410),capital of Hyogo prefecture,S Honshu,Japan,on Osaka Bay.One of the leading Japanese ports,it is also a major industrial center and railway hub.It is part of a transportation network,which includes express trains and highways,that links it to Osaka,Kyoto,and Nagoya.It Yokohama Yokohama,city(1990 pop.3,220,331),capital of Kanagawa prefecture,SE Honshu,Japan,on the western shore of Tokyo Bay,Japans second largest city and one of its leading seaports.Yokohama has excellent transportation links with most major Japanese cities.Virtually destroyed by an earthquake and fires in 1923,Yokohama was Bridge Bridge,card game derived from whist,played with 52 cards by four players in two partnerships.Bridge probably originated in the Middle East in the 19th century.The cards in contract bridge rank from ace down to two;in bidding,suits rank spades,hearts,diamonds,and clubs.After all cards are dealt,so that each Cocktail Cocktail,short mixed drink originating in the United States and served as an appetizer.It generally has a basis of gin,whisky,rum,or brandy combined with vermouth or fruit juices and often flavored with bitters or grenadine.It is blended by stirring or shaking in a vessel containing cracked ice.The term is also applied to nonalcoholic beverages served Gin Fizzes Gin,spirituous liquor distilled chiefly from fermented cereals,malted and unmalted,and flavored with juniper berries.It originated in Holland(thus the name Hollands,or Holland gin)but is now manufactured also in other countries,chiefly England and the United States.A type of gin developed in England is known as London gin;it is Global Reading 1.Word-web 2.Prediction For Parts 1&2 For Part 3 3.Part Division of the Text 4.Further UnderstandingQuestions and AnswersSection DivisionWord-web FriendThink of as many possible words and phrases about friend.Prediction Predict what the text is about or what kinds of plot are possible under such a title.You may think:a story about how people helped their friend in need.An entirely different story:Those who appear to be friendly may turn out to be so evil-minded as to be ready to strike a cruel blow at a friend in need.Part Division of the Text PartLines Main Ideas 1 2 123It is no easy job to judge people,for they arent always what they appear to be.Kind and gentle,Edward Burton,a wealthy merchant,appeared as if he could not bear to hurt a fly.3 451As it turned out,Burton was cold-blooded enough to send a friend to certain death.Questions and Answers 1.Who narrates Parts I and II?Part I and Part II are narrated by“I”,who offers his subjective opinion of Burtons character.2.Why is there such a difference?When contrasts abound,it is hard for readers to easily predict what will happen next.Section Division1 2 37666798what Edward knew about Lennyhow Edward responded to Lennys request 3 99132how Edward,a“kind”gentleman,handled a friend in desperate need of helpPart Three,which constitutes the main plot,can be subdivided into three sections.Sections Lines Mainly aboutA Friend in Need For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen.I do not know very much about them.I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right.I think they must have small insight or great vanity.For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this mornings paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe.He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.I knew him very little,but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.Though his offices were in Kobe,Burton often came down to Yokohama.I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there,waiting for a ship,and I was introduced to him at the British Club.We played bridge together.He played a good game and a generous one.He did not talk very much,either then or later when we were having drinks,but what he said was sensible.He had a quiet,dry humor.He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards,when he had gone,they described him as one of the best.It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him.I met his wife,fat,elderly,and smiling,and his two daughters.It was evidently a united and affectionate family.I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness.There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.His voice was gentle;you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger;his smile was benign.Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows.At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail,he could tell with point a good and spicy story,and in his youth he had been something of an athlete.He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself.I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail;he aroused your instincts of protection.You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.One afternoon I was sitting in the lounge of the Grand Hotel when Burton came in and seated himself in the chair next to mine.What do you say to a little drink?He clapped his hands for a boy and ordered two gin fizzes.As the boy brought them a man passed along the street outside and seeing me waved his hand.Do you know Turner?said Burton as I nodded a greeting.Ive met him at the club.Im told hes a remittance man.Yes,I believe he is.We have a good many here.He plays bridge well.They generally do.There was a fellow here last year,oddly enough a namesake of mine,who was the best bridge player I ever met.I suppose you never came across him in London.Lenny Burton he called himself.I believe hed belonged to some very good clubs.No,I dont believe I remember the name.He was quite a remarkable player.He seemed to have an instinct about the cards.It was uncanny.I used to play with him a lot.He was in Kobe for some time.Burton sipped his gin fizz.Its rather a funny story,he said.He wasnt a bad chap.I liked him.He was always well-dressed and smart-looking.He was handsome in a way with curly hair and pink-and-white cheeks.Women thought a lot of him.There was no harm in him,you know,he was only wild.Of course he drank too much.Those sort of fellows always do.A bit of money used to come on for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing.He won a good deal of mine,I know that.Burton gave a kindly chuckle.I knew from my own experience that he could lose money at bridge with a good grace.He stroked his shaven chin with his thin hand;the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke,that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job.I was rather surprised.He told me that there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work.I asked him how old he was.“Thirty-five,”he said.“And what have you been doing hitherto?”I asked him.“Well,nothing very much,”he said.I couldnt help laughing.“Im afraid I cant do anything foryou just yet,”I said.“Come back and see me in another thirty-five years,and Ill see what I can do.”He didnt move.He went rather pale.He hesitated for a moment and then he told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time.He hadnt been willing to stick to bridge,hed been playing poker,and hed got trimmed.He hadnt a penny.Hed pawned everything he had.He couldnt pay his hotel bill and they wouldnt give him any more credit.He was down and out.If he couldnt get something to do hed have to commit suicide.I looked at him for a bit.I could see now that he was all to pieces.Hed been drinking more than usual and he looked fifty.The girls wouldnt have thought so much of him if theyd seen him then.“Well isnt there anything you can do except play cards?”I asked him.“I can swim,”he said.“Swim!”I could hardly believe my ears;it seemed such an insane answer to give.“I swam for my university.”I got some glimmering of what he was driving at.Ive known too many men who were little tin gods at their university to be impressed by it.“I was a pretty good swimmer myself when I was a young man,”I said.Suddenly I had an idea.Pausing in his story,Burton turned to me.Do you know Kobe?he asked.No,I said,I passed through it once,but I only spent a night there.Then you dont know the Shioya Club.When I was a young man I swam from there round the beacon and landed at the creek of Tarumi.Its over three miles and its rather difficult on account of the currents round the beacon.Well,I told my young namesake about it and I said to him that if hed do it Id give him a job.I could see he was rather taken aback.“You say youre a swimmer,”I said.“Im not in very good condition,”he answered.I didnt say anything.I shrugged my shoulders.He looked at me for a moment and then he nodded.“All right,”he said.“When do you want me to do it?”I looked at my watch.It was just after ten.“The swim shouldnt take you much over an hour and a quarter.Ill drive round to the creek at half past twelve and meet you.Ill take you back to the club to dress and then well have lunch together.”“Done,”he said.We shook hands.I wished him good luck and he left me.I had a lot of work to do that morning and I only just managed to get to the creek at Tarumi at half past twelve.But I neednt have hurried;he never turned up.Did he funk it at the last moment?I asked.No,he didnt funk it.He started all right.But of course hed ruined his constitution by drink and dissipation.The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage.We didnt get the body for about three days.I didnt say anything for a moment or two.I was a trifle shocked.Then I asked Burton a question.When you made him that offer of a job,did you know hed be drowned?He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind and candid blue eyes of his.He rubbed his chin with his hand.Well,I hadnt got a vacancy in my office at the moment.For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen.I do not know very much about them.I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right.I think they must have small insight or great vanity.For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this mornings paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe.He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.I knew him very little,but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise.1.What does“for my own part”mean?It means“as far as I am concerned”.2.Translate this sentence into Chinese.A Friend in Need拿我自己来说，我发现，认识一个人的时间越长，我就越感到困惑。拿我自己来说，我发现，认识一个人的时间越长，我就越感到困惑。Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.Paraphrase this sentence.If I hadnt heard the story told by himself,I should never have believed that he could do such a thing.This is a subjunctive mood.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.1.Paraphrase this sentence.Here if there ever was a man who is the same as he looks like.2.Translate the sentence into Chinese.要说真有表里如一的人的话，那就是此公了。要说真有表里如一的人的话，那就是此公了。Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.We demand a definite answer.我们要求给一个确切的答复。我们要求给一个确切的答复。definite:adj.clear;that cant be doubtedCollocation:a definite success绝对的成功绝对的成功definite period of time确切的时间确切的时间Its definite that hell come.CF:definite 表示某事界限分明表示某事界限分明,以至于就其意义或范围不会产生任何疑问、以至于就其意义或范围不会产生任何疑问、误解。例如：误解。例如：definite&definitive 这两个词均有这两个词均有“明确的明确的”、“确定的确定的”的意思。的意思。医生非常肯定病人是患了肺癌。医生非常肯定病人是患了肺癌。The doctor is quite definite about the patient having developed a lung cancer.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.主席让发言的人把话说得更明确些。主席让发言的人把话说得更明确些。The chairman asked the speaker to be more definite in his statements.definitive 表示某事确定、明确无误，常含表示某事确定、明确无误，常含“决定性的决定性的”、“最后的最后的”意意思。思。例如：例如：这是最高法院的最终判决。这是最高法院的最终判决。This is a definitive judicial decision by the Supreme Court.她写了一本很具权威性的拜伦传。她写了一本很具权威性的拜伦传。She has written a definitive biography of Byron.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.He wrinkled(up)his nose at the bad smell.The woman was fifty,but looked sixty.Her cheeks were sunken and her skin was wrinkled and yellow.wrinkle:vt.tighten the skin of the face into lines or folds他闻到怪味儿皱起了鼻子。他闻到怪味儿皱起了鼻子。Unless I had heard the story from his own lips,I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow,not muchmore than five feet four in height,and very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.I sold the house,in accordance with your orders.根据你的命令，我把房子卖掉了。根据你的命令，我把房子卖掉了。in accordance with:in agreement or harmony with Students will be criticized or punished if their behavior is not in accordance with school regulations.Though his offices were in Kobe,Burton often came down to Yokohama.I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there,waiting for a ship,and I was introduced to him at the British Club.We played bridge together.He played a good game and a generous one.He did not talk very much,either then or later when we were having drinks,but what he said was sensible.He had a quiet,dry humor.He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards,when he had gone,they described him as one of the best.It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him.I met his wife,fat,elderly,and smiling,and his two daughters.It was evidently a united and affectionate family.Paraphrase the sentence.He played well and did it in a graceful way.I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness.There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.His voice was gentle;you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger;his smile was benign.Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fel
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