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1、. . Unit OneText A How to Read A BookIntroductory Remarks“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon warned readers several hundred years ago. However, what are the criteria for those books to be “chewed and digested?” How to tell good
2、 literature from bad literature? On these issues, people dont seem to have reached an agreement. In the article, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky first states that peoples life is generally much shorter than books, and that it is important for people to select good books to read. Yet, the author furthe
3、r argues that selecting good books from the ocean of literary works is no easy job; even book reviewers cant help much. In the end, the author suggests that reading poetry is the way to develop good taste in literature, because it is the supreme form of human locution, the most concise way of convey
4、ing the human experience, and offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.Text-related Information1. The Last JudgmentThe last judgment (sometime referred to as universal judgment) is a firmly held belief of Roman Catholicism. Immediately upon death each soul undergoes a parti
5、cular judgment, and, depending upon the state of that persons soul, goes to heaven, purgatory, or hell. The last judgment will occur after the resurrection of the dead and the reuniting of a persons soul with his or her own physical body.At the time of the last judgment Christ will come in his glory
6、, and all the angels with him, and in his presence the truth of each mans relationship with God will be laid bare, and each person who has ever lived will be judged with perfect justice. Those already in heaven will remain in heaven; those already in hell will remain in hell; and those in purgatory
7、will be released into heaven. The Roman Catholic Church holds no doctrinal position on the fate of those in Limbo. Following the last judgment, the bliss of heaven and the pains of hell will be perfected in that those present will also be capable of physical bliss/pain. After the last judgment the u
8、niverse itself will be renewed with a new heaven and a new earth.2. The rhetoric “anticlimax”In rhetoric, climax is a figure of speech, in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. Climax comes from the Greek word for ladder.Examples:There are three things that
9、 will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.I think weve reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity, but for life upon the earth. George Wald A Generation in Search of a Future, March 4, 1969. .Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an
10、hour. William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIII.the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream.Similarly an anticlimax is an abrupt declension (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of t
11、he idea which he appeared to be aiming at; as in the following well-known distich:-The great Dalhousie, he, the god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the earl of Mar. An anticlimax can be intentionally employed only for a jocular or satiric purpose. It frequently partakes of the nature of antithesis, as
12、 in,Die and endow a college or a cat. 3. Belles lettres Belles letters (from the French for literature, literally fine letters) refers to literature that is appreciated for the beauty, artistry, and originality of its style and tone rather than for its ideas and informational content. Earlier the te
13、rm was synonymous with literature, referring particularly to fiction, poetry, drama, criticism, and essays. However, belletristic literature has come to mean light, artificial writing and essays extolling the beauties of literature.Language Points1. On the whole, books are less limited than ourselve
14、s. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer has turned into a handful of dust - and it is precisely the appetite for this posthumous dimension that sets ones pen in motion.On the whole, books have longer lives than the writers who write them. Long after the writer has died,
15、 his or her books may remain on bookshelves absorbing dust. It is due to the desire to be remembered after death that motivates the author to write continuously. 2. So as we toss and turn these rectangular objects in our hands we wont be terribly amiss if we surmise that we fondle, as it were, the u
16、rns with our returning ashes.Therefore, when we take a book in our hands, it is not totally wrong for us to think that we are, actually, handling the urn containing our own ashes.amiss adj.: not functioning properly;e.g. A few words of introduction may not come amiss. Is there anything amiss?surmise v: infer from inc
