(共11张PPT)
Language points
Unit 3
A large amount of money= a large sum of money
amount n. = total; whole; quantity 总数;总额; 数量
e.g. A large amount of money is spent on education every year.
amount v.
amount to = add up to 总计;共达
e.g. His debts amount to 5 million yuan.
a large amount of, a great deal of, many, a little之后跟不可数名词
a large number of, a great many, many, a few 之后跟可数名词
2. Make a bet
bet vt. = risk on a race or some other event of which the result is not sure 打赌; 赌博
e.g. He bet me 100 yuan that I wouldn’t be able to pass the exam. But I am sorry I failed once again.
vt. = be certain about sth. 绝对确信
I bet …= I’m certain…我肯定…
e.g. I bet our class will win the race next time.
3. Permit me to lead the way, sir.
permit vt. give permission for sth.; allow 许可，允许
permit sb. to do sth: to allow something to happen, especially by an official order or decision e.g. : Her mother would not permit her to come back late.
bet n. =arrangment to risk money 赌博
make a bet on sth. with sb= bet on sth with sb.
e.g. I made a bet with him on the match between my class and his.
permit sth./doing sth.
e.g. :We do not permit smoking in the office.
I'll see you after the meeting, if time permits.
(=if it finishes early enough)
We'll have a picnic in the woods, weather permitting.
(=if the weather is good enough)
permission n. 允许,常指口头上的允许
Permit n. 允许，常指成文的允许；
也指许可证、执照、通行证
4. I wonder, Mr. Adams, if you mind us asking a few questions.
I wonder if/whether
spoken used to ask politely for something
e.g. I wonder if I might have a glass of water
to think about something that you are not sure about and try to guess what is true, what will happen etc :
wonder vt. 想知道
wonder who/what/how etc
e.g. I wonder how James is getting on.
I wonder who is going to give a lecture
mind vt. feel discomfort at sth; object to sth. 介意
Do you mind my／me sitting here
注意
e.g. I don’t mind _____ the decision as long as it is not to late. (2000高考）
you to delay making
B. your delaying making
C. your delaying to make
D. you delay to make
-----Do you mind my smoking here
-----Yes, you’d better not./ No, just go ahead.
5. I find myself carried out to sea by a strong wind.
find oneself doing sth（发现自己不知不觉…)
e.g. He found himself walking towards the park.
find oneself in/at etc (发现自己竟……）
to gradually realize that you are doing something, although you had not intended or planned to do it
a) to realize that you are in a particular situation, especially a bad one, that you did not expect
e.g. They suddenly found themselves without a goalkeeper.
b) to realize that you have arrived somewhere without intending to
e.g. After wandering around, we found ourselves back at the hotel.
find＋宾语＋宾语补足语，其中的宾补可以是名词、形容词、分词、副词、介词短语或者to be型不定式
e.g. (1) You will find a difficult book. (名词）
(2) I find maths to be difficult.（to be型）
(3) She found the door closed. (过去分词）
(4) We found him interesting.（现在分词）
(5) I find the article easy to understand.（形容词）
(6) When I arrived, I find him in bed.（介词短语）
(7) I found her out.（副词）
6. …, which account for my appearance.
e.g. His illness accounts for his absence.
account for sth 说明／解释…的原因
to be the reason why something happens
to give a satisfactory explanation of why something has happened or why you did something
e.g. How do you account for the sudden disappearance of the murder weapon.
7. by accident= by chance
e.g. I only found it by accident.
8. stare at
stare at angrily= glare at
9. to be honest (with sb.)
= to tell you the truth = honestly speaking
10. pretend to do pretend to be doing
11. take chances of doing sth./on sth.(冒险/碰运气）Mark Twain
Mark Twain是美国最伟大的作家之一，以他的智慧和机智闻名于世。从他的作品以及他自己对The Adventures of Tom Sawyer《汤姆索亚历险记》的诠释中，可以了解到其写作的独特风格。
Mark Twain, an American writer, novelist and humorist, published more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories and essays and gave lecture tours around the world throughout his career. During his whole life, Mark Twain carried on many kinds of jobs. From 1864, he became a reporter and travelled in Europe. By the end of his life in 1910, he had become known as the perfect example of American author.
Behind the mask of humour and satire, his writing often criticized social morals, politics and human nature, making his literature a unique reflection of the American experience in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
In the 1890s Mark Twain became very poor. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour, during which one of his daughters died. The death of his wife and his second daughter darkened his later years. Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910.
The writer’s introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really happened; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual — he is a combination of the three boys whom I knew.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shocked by men and women, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what strange adventures they sometimes took part in.
Open Questions:
1. What is the main characteristic of Mark Twain’s works
2. What is the main writing purpose of The Adventures of Tom Saywer
生词小贴士
satire 讽刺 criticize 批评，抨击
unique 独特的 reflection 反映
重点：
（一）了解戏剧这种文学形式的特点，特别注意学习了解戏剧的语言；
（二）了解作者写作的时代背景，提高学生的文学修养和培养学生的跨文化意识；
（三）学会语言交际中委婉请求、请求允许和点餐的表达法；
（四）掌握名词性从句中的宾语从句和表语从句的用法。
难点：
了解戏剧的语言，学会欣赏戏剧；
宾语从句和表语从句的用法。
馬克吐溫介紹
─ 康思娟 ─
選自：林中學報 創刊號
在國中英語選修課本曾經有一課，介紹給學生一篇文章，標題是： "A Joke on a Friend"。課文就是介紹美國文學史上一個著名人士馬克 吐溫幽默詼諧的個性和愛捉弄朋友的趣事。此篇第一段這樣敘述著：
Mark Twain, as everybody knows, was a famous American writer. He wrote many famous stories which are still popular in many countries today. Mark Twain was also famous in his day as a public speaker. In his public speeches Mark Twain always liked to tell funny stories and to play jokes on his friends.
由這段敘述，我們多少可以看出馬克 吐溫在美國文學史上是一位舉足輕重的人物。要是問起美國人，誰的作品最能代表美國精神，恐怕十之八九都會回答：馬克 吐溫 (Mark Twain)。馬克 吐溫被認為是最具美國本土特色的作家，因為在他的作品中，充滿著生之喜悅、冒險、進取、輕快、幽默、對舊的文化不敬、嘲笑傳統和假正經。一言以蔽之，他是最能代表美國民主精神的作家。
馬克 吐溫的時代，是一個新時代。美國至西元一八六五年止，一切的發展都還侷限在東部，密蘇里河以西還被視作蠻荒之地。但從南北戰爭 (西元1861 ~ 1865年) 結束後，跟著而來的是美國的大擴張。在西元1870 ~1880年間，每年越過密西西比河前進的移民達十萬人以上，鐵路飛躍增加，把美國的疆域一直推到太平洋岸。同時，這年代也是美國工業大發展的開始，帶來了大城市的建立。這是現代美國的成形期。我們今日所見的美國、美國人、美國作風，都是在這年代開始定型。馬克 吐溫可以說是第一個道地的美國作家，他的主要作品用的是美國的民間材料，文體是美國土語，可以說自馬克 吐溫起才有完全獨特風格的美國文學。
馬克 吐溫的生平事蹟也是一個典型的美國故事。馬克 吐溫是筆名，他的真名是塞繆爾 朗豪 克雷門斯 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)，生於西元1835年，去逝於1910年。他的父母都是南部人，馬克 吐溫出生在密蘇里州。他是美國主要作家中第一個不生長在東部的。他的父親名叫約翰 馬歇爾 克雷門斯，是一個好動而未成功的律師，也是一個土地的投機商。西元1839年移居密蘇里州密西西比河邊的漢尼巴(Hannibal)。西元1847年父親去世後輟學，到印刷店當學徒，1853 ~ 1854年在東部及中西部各城繼續從事印刷業。1856年，也就是他二十一歲時，到新奧良斯，想赴巴西賺錢，但終於放棄此一計劃，做了密西西比河上的領航員。那時，密西西比河一帶還未開發，全然是邊疆風光，他在河上五年，後來還考得了領航員的執照。在這一時期，使他接觸了邊區的風土和人物，這時期的生活經驗是他後來寫作的一筆大資產，也產生了許多絕佳的作品。南北戰爭起，河運停止，他才被迫離開這地區。他在南軍中混了兩星期便逃了出來，隨他哥哥到西部去。他做了一年的淘金夢，到處尋覓金礦，後來還到報館去做記者。這時，他才開始用馬克 吐溫 (Mark Twain) 這個筆名，這個名字原是密西西比河上測水人的術語，意思是「兩潯深」。
後來他到了舊金山，偶然寫了一篇青蛙賭博的故事，全國傳誦。他又到了夏威夷一次，以這次旅行為題材寫了些通訊，作了幾次演講，居然成名。此後他到紐約，受報館之聘，去地中海區域旅行了五個月，寫成了「天真旅客遊記」(Innocents Abroad)，以美國人的觀點，詼諧的筆法，寫南歐和巴勒斯坦聖地的風光。回到美國，於西元1870年娶奧莉維亞 朗頓 (Olivia Langdon) 為妻，定居康乃迪克州的哈特福。此後二十年是馬克 吐溫寫作最旺盛的時期，他最偉大的作品都是這時完成的。但是他還不忘他的印刷舊業，自己開了一家印刷廠。他成為有錢人，後來自己試製一種排字機器，完全失敗，一下子虧損了二十萬，這在當時不是一筆小數目。這樣一來，他破產了。為了還債，他周遊世界作演講，還寫了不少的急就文章，雖然後來他的債務在三年中完全還清，但是他愉快的心境也多少受到影響。加上後來他的妻子和兩個女兒相繼去世，更是給他很大的打擊。文學家的心思本來就是非常的纖細，自然他也不例外。至使馬克 吐溫後期作品，瀰漫著悲觀憤世嫉俗的情緒，與前判若兩人。這種心情他自己當然是最清楚的，所以有些作品他不肯在生時出版。他在晚年是美國的大名人，但已全然不是號稱幽默大師、笑口常開的人了。
馬克 吐溫的作品中，一般推崇他敘述西部風情的一些著作。「苦行記」(Roughing It)，寫的是他西行的經過，從密西西比河到舊金山。書中滿是流傳西部的趣事、諧話、冒險故事，以及西部風土的描寫。「密西西比河上的生活」(Life on the Mississippi)，寫的一半是他自己在河上的經歷，一半是這條名河的歷史，是密西西比河的史詩，無論以文學而言，或以歷史而言，都是一部不朽之作。他的作品當然還有很多，有「湯姆歷險記」(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876)、「頑童流浪記」(The Adventures o f Huckleberry Finn, 1884) 、「鍍金時代」(The Gilded Age, 1873)、「海外浪跡」(A Tramp Abroad, 1880)、「王子與貧民」(The Prince and the Pauper, 1882)、「亞瑟王廷之康乃迪克佬」(A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889)、「傻威爾遜之悲劇」(The Tragedy of Pudding Head Wilson, 1891)、「聖女貞德回憶錄」(Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896)，以及許多短篇故事、小品文和論文。
但在馬克 吐溫所有作品中，使他最萬年長青的著作，還是他那兩部寫頑童的小說─「湯姆歷險記」和「頑童流浪記」。這兩部可說是老少咸宜、膾炙人口的書，尤其是「湯姆歷險記」更為我們台灣的讀者所熟悉。書店中到處可見此書，電視也曾播映它的卡通片，深受小孩子的喜愛。這部小說是敘述一個精靈古怪，滿肚子鬼主意的小孩湯姆和另一個野孩子哈克，他們住在密西西比河邊的一個小城，兩人一搭一唱的，做出好多令人捧腹大笑的妙事。當你欣賞這本書時，隨時可能發出會心的一笑。書到結尾時，湯姆居然破了一宗謀殺案而成為英雄人物。湯姆 沙耶成為美國文學上最著名的兒童人物，代表美國性格中滿不在乎，足智多謀的精神。
「頑童流浪記」是描述哈克伯里 芬繼承繼母財產，被他生父綁架逃脫後，沿著密西西比河南奔的故事。這本書被稱為美國的「魯賓遜漂流記」，而馬克 吐溫寫這本書正是在他重遊密西西比河後，所以材料非常紮實，很有參考價值。
一位文學家的成名並非偶然，馬克 吐溫的成功也不例外。他在內華達州和加州做記者的時候，就開始專心學習別人的寫作技巧，他也是第一個以虛誇和驕橫的態度批評舊世界的人。自從他的作品「天真旅客遊記」、「海外浪跡」引起大眾共鳴之後，馬克 吐溫大量的寫小說和文章，每一部都給他帶來了更大的名譽，使他被認為是美國最偉大的幽默大師。
如果我們把馬克 吐溫純粹當作一個幽默大師來看，我們還需要詳細研究一下他的寫作技巧。在他的作品中，他善用雙關語，喜歡作種種直接誇大和重覆的筆法，最會作各種諧文來諷刺人，這也是他的作品成功之處。他一生當記者的時間雖不長，但獨具慧眼，較其他人更為內行。他喜歡群居，憎恨欺騙和炫耀，酷愛小巧的機器和工藝上的新發明。他對於寫作技巧極感興趣，他的作品之所以引起大眾的迴響，在於他的幽默特別能捉著大眾的幻想。它們是刺激、緊張、怪誕，甚至是恐怖的。它們像是故意作成詼諧，同時文詞中還顯示作者特別喜歡暗碼與炫誇。有時在幽默中也顯得過激，馬克 吐溫時常以歡樂的態度去描寫流血的事件，對於屍體的氣味都加以戲謔。當然有時也顯示出誇大，有時顯得輕佻，有時顯現出西部生活的紊亂，有時又變得沈鬱。
然而馬克 吐溫之最優秀的一面，就像早期的卓別林一樣，是個出眾的藝術家。後代的人永遠不會忘記他那些不以滑稽或譏誚取勝，僅將熱情與生活經驗結合而產生的作品。馬克 吐溫把詼諧的俚語和方言變成優美的文學。它們真實而簡單，使得他的作品永垂不朽。1. 需要放在D盘目录下。
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Unit 3
The Million Pound Bank-Note
By Mark Twain
Designed by Yang Xueli from Taizhou High School
What do you know about the American writer Mark Twain
Do you know any of his works Can you name any of them
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
11/30/1835
|
04/21/1910
The brief life
introduction
Time line of the events
His works
The evaluation
given to him
His quotations
America's best
known literary
figure
America's
short story writer
novelist
humorist
public speaker
literary
giant
The evaluation
given to him
life introduction:
Time line of the events
1835- Haley's Comet welcomed the
birth of SamuelLanghorn Clemens.
He was born in Florida, on November 30.
His mom was Jane and his dad was
John. He was six of seven kids.
1862- Mark Twain's dad, John Marshall
died at age 49.
1857- The Clemens family
moved Hannibal, MO.
1847- 1856- He worked for his brother for newspapers then went to St. Louis, New York City, Philadelphia and Cincinnati to work at a print shop. Then went to help his brothers with the newspaper in Kakoki, Iowa.
1858- Mark made his plans to travel to South America, but when he started down Mississippi River, he took a break from the river and went to New Orleans. While he was there, he met Horace Bixby and made him teach him how to be a riverboat pilot.
1859- In April, Mark Twain became a licensed riverboat pilot.
1863- Clemens began to work for the newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.This is when he started to use the name, "Mark Twain." Mark Twain means safe water
1866- Twain traveled to Hawaii to write articled in the newspaper. He stayed there for a long while.
1870- Samuel thought his writing was better than newspapers and magazines, so he started traveling, writing, and lecturing.
1870- Clemens got married to Olivia.
1874- Twain moved to Hartford, Conn.
1910- Mark Twain died on April 21,in Redding, Conn. From heart disease. Haley's Comet visited again just like the year of his birth.
Works by Mark Twain
Works by Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
and Other Sketches (1865)
The Innocents Abroad (1869)
Roughing It (1872)
The Gilded Age with Charles Dudley Warner (1873)
Tom Sawyer (1876)
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
The Prince and The Pauper (1881)
Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1895)
Following the Equator (1897)
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900)
The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
Letters From The Earth (1962)
Roughing It
Life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
The Adventures o f
Huckleberry Finn,
The Gilded Age, 1873
A Tramp Abroad
The Prince and the
Pauper
A Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court
The Tragedy of Pudding
Head Wilson
Personal Recollections of
Joan of Arc
苦行记
密西西比河
上的生活
汤姆历险记
頑童流浪记
踱金時代
海外浪迹
王子与贫民
亚瑟王廷之
康乃迪克佬
傻威而逊
之悲剧
圣女贞德
回忆录
His works
travel
narratives
essays
speeches
autobiography
novels
short stories
…
his masterpieces
1876
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really happened; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmatesof mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual — he is acombination of the three boys whom I knew. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shocked by men and women, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what strange adventures they sometimes took part in.
The writer’s introduction to
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer (1876)
his masterpieces
1881
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This edition presents Twain's classic American novel in an unabridged
text with a reader's guide that's suitable for both children and adults. Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft
down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course
of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and
a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.
Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in
themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps
instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly inHuck's unique
worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn
with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper
she got out her book andlearned me about Moses and the Bulrushers,
and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out
that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care
no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people."
Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum
cruelty and injusticethat makes The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.
his masterpieces
The Prince and the Pauper
I will set down a tale as it was told to me by one who had it of his father, which
latter had it of HIS father, this last having in like manner had it of HIS father--and so on, back and still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a legend,a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it COULD have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it may be that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.
At the beginning of the story,
it says
his short stories
Running for Governor
The 1,000,000 Bank-Note
“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.”
“Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything.”
“Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling
in earnest.”
"Love your enemy,
it will scare the
hell out of them.”
--- Mark Twain
幽默被人正确地解释为
“以诚挚表达感受，
寓深思于嬉笑”。
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Mark Twain has a meaning, which means ___________ feet deep or ________ meters deep.
How old was Twain when he began writing stories
What is his first story
For what was his writing famous
Which universities honored him for his writing
twelve
3.66
About 32 years old.
It is about a jumping frog contest
For its description of common people and the way they talked, especially his humor.
Yale and Oxford
Fast reading
Real name of Mark Twain
Year of birth
Places where he lived
Names of three of his famous stories
Working experience
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
1835
Raised in Hannibal, Missouri; travelled much of the US;
lived for a long time in Europe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life on the Mississippi
A printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier,
a gold miner, a business- man and
a newspaper reporter
What was Mark Twain’s life like in the last years of his life
As a result of this, what happened to his writing
It was filled with sad events, loneliness and the loss of much money.
His writing lost most of its humour and became sad like him.
Further understanding
Discussion:
What do you learn
from him and his works
3.To retell the reading about Mark Twain
1:to surf the Internet to find out more
about Mark Twain and his works
http://www.online-/twain/
http:www.etext.virginia.edu/railton/
2. to preview the next lesson: Reading(共3张PPT)
杨雪丽，杨霞，颜丹红，叶婷婷，马飚
杨雪丽，杨霞，颜丹红，叶婷婷，马飚
The Million Pound Bank-note
THE
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Mark twain
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May we ask what you are doing in this country
Why don’t you explain what this is all about
That’s why we’ve given you the letter.
May we ask what you are doing in this country
Why don’t you explain what this is all about
宾语从句（objective clause)
That’s why we’ve given you the letter
表语从句（predictive clause)
More sentences on P20:
I don’t know will help Henry to win the bet.
I can’t yet tell you I like this play or not.
I can’t describe I would fell if someone gave me a million yuan.
I know Henry must be worried about what will happen to him.
The brothers won’t say they decided to make the bet.
who
whether
how
that
why
名词性从句：在一个复合句中，有些从句的作用相当于名词，可以充当主语、表语、宾语或者同位语，分别称为主语从句、表语从句、宾语从句或者同位语从句。这些从句统称为名词性从句。
1.宾语从句
从句在复合句中作宾语的名词性从句，通常放在主句谓语动词（及物动词）或介词之后。
（1）由that引导的宾语从句（that通常可以省略）
e.g. I know (that) Henry must be worried about what will happen to him.
（2）由what，whether (if), how ,why等引导的宾语从句
e.g. I can’t yet tell you whether I like this play or not.
Henry must be worried about what will happen to him.
（3）介词后面的宾语从句
e.g. The teacher is pleased with what she has said.
宾语从句注意点：
否定的转移：若主句谓语动词为think, consider, suppose, believe, expect, guess, imagine等，其后的宾语从句若含有否定意义，一般要把否定词转移到主句谓语上，从句谓语用肯定式。如：
I don’t think this dress fits you well.
Roderick don’t believe that a man can survive in the city for a month with only a million pound bank-note in his possession
I don’t suppose you will finish the work today.
但是: I hope he won’t give up.
It 作形式宾语：it不仅可以作形式主语，还可以作形式宾语,而真正的宾语——that从句则放在句尾。如：
We heard it that she would get married next month.
We think it important that every student should obey school rules.
宾语从句的时态特点：宾语从句的时态主要取决于主句的时态。主句是一般现在时时，从句允许使用任何时态。当主句时态为过去时时，从句时态除表示“真理、格言、谚语、客观存在、科学事实”用一般现在时外，一律用过去时态，根据具体情况作相应的变化。如：
My teacher told me that all is not gold that glitters.
I didn’t think he was wrong yesterday.
宾语从句与定语从句的区别
从句 宾语从句 定语从句
在复合句中充当的成分 宾语（放在动词或者介词后面） 定语（修饰名词或者代词）
引导词 that(一般可以省略）
what/ wheter/if/how
who/why/when/whom
whose/when/where 关系代词which/that/who(m)
关系副词
when/where/why
例句 I don’t know whom he wants to see. I don’t know the person whom you saw just now.
2. 表语从句
从句在复合句中用作表语，一般放在主句的谓语动词（连系动词）后面。引导表语从句的关联词有：连接词that, whether, as if, as though, because;连接代词who, whom, what, which,whose;连接副词when,where,how,why等。如：
What they want to know is whether Henry have any money on him or not.
That is what the two brothers want Henry to do.
It looks as if Henry is the best man to do the job.
The news is that the two brothers have gone aborad.
Exercises:
Choose the best answer
Can you tell me the railway station
A. how I can get to B. how can I get to
C. where I can get to D. where can I get to
2. He asked me his story.
A. I liked B. did you like C. whether I like D. if I liked
3. Tim told his teacher that he born in 1986.
A. was B. had been C. is D. has been
4. A computer can only do you have instructed it to do.
A. how B. after C. what D. when
5. Mother asked the kid with his toy car.
A.what the matter was B. what was the matter
C. what the matter is D. what the matter is
6. She told me that she you in London a year before.
A. had met B. met C. would meet D. has met
7. This depends on the weather will be fine.
A. if B. whether C. that D. how
8. Parents are taught to understand important education is
to their children’s future.
A. that B. how C.such D. so
Fill in the blanks
I am surprised he has left without saying goodbye to us.
I don’t know he is doing there.
Please tell me she has gone.
Please find out the train leave.
The question is the film is worth seeing.
That’s he didn’t come yesterday.
I don’t know will attend the meeting.
Will you tell me I can keep healthy
The problem is we can get enough food.
He asked pen it was
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when
whether
why
who
how
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whereThe ,000,000 Bank-Note
When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.
My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.
About ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a luscious big pear - minus one bite - into the gutter. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying:
"Step in here, please."
I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.
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Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
You will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn't. Brother A said he couldn't offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went down to the Bank and bought that note. Just like an Englishman, you see; pluck to the backbone. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.
They saw many honest faces go by that were not intelligent enough; many that were intelligent, but not honest enough; many that were both, but the possessors were not poor enough, or, if poor enough, were not strangers. There was always a defect, until I came along; but they agreed that I filled the bill all around; so they elected me unanimously, and there I was now waiting to know why I was called in. They began to ask me questions about myself, and pretty soon they had my story. Finally they told me I would answer their purpose. I said I was sincerely glad, and asked what it was. Then one of them handed me an envelope, and said I would find the explanation inside. I was going to open it, but he said no; take it to my lodgings, and look it over carefully, and not be hasty or rash. I was puzzled, and wanted to discuss the matter a little further, but they didn't; so I took my leave, feeling hurt and insulted to be made the butt of what was apparently some kind of a practical joke, and yet obliged to put up with it, not being in circumstances to resent affronts from rich and strong folk.
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I would have picked up the pear now and eaten it before all the world, but it was gone; so I had lost that by this unlucky business, and the thought of it did not soften my feeling towards those men. As soon as I was out of sight of that house I opened my envelope, and saw that it contained money! My opinion of those people changed, I can tell you! I lost not a moment, but shoved note and money into my vest pocket, and broke for the nearest cheap eating house. Well, how I did eat! When at last I couldn't hold any more, I took out my money and unfolded it, took one glimpse and nearly fainted. Five millions of dollars! Why, it made my head swim.
I must have sat there stunned and blinking at the note as much as a minute before I came rightly to myself again. The first thing I noticed, then, was the landlord. His eye was on the note, and he was petrified. He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir hand or foot. I took my cue in a moment, and did the only rational thing there was to do. I reached the note towards him, and said, carelessly:
"Give me the change, please."
Then he was restored to his normal condition, and made a thousand apologies for not being able to break the bill, and I couldn't get him to touch it. He wanted to look at it, and keep on looking at it; he couldn't seem to get enough of it to quench the thirst of his eye, but he shrank from touching it as if it had been something too sacred for poor common clay to handle. I said:
"I am sorry if it is an inconvenience, but I must insist. Please change it; I haven't anything else."
But he said that wasn't any matter; he was quite willing to let the trifle stand over till another time. I said I might not be in his neighborhood again for a good while; but he said it was of no consequence, he could wait, and, moreover, I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. He said he hoped he wasn't afraid to trust as rich a gentleman as I was, merely because I was of a merry disposition, and chose to play larks on the public in the matter of dress. By this time another customer was entering, and the landlord hinted to me to put the monster out of sight; then he bowed me all the way to the door, and I started straight for that house and those brothers, to correct the mistake which had been made before the police should hunt me up, and help me do it. I was pretty nervous; in fact, pretty badly frightened, though, of course, I was no way in fault; but I knew men well enough to know that when they find they've given a tramp a million-pound bill when they thought it was a one-pounder, they are in a frantic rage against him instead of quarreling with their own near-sightedness, as they ought. As I approached the house my excitement began to abate, for all was quiet there, which made me feel pretty sure the blunder was not discovered yet. I rang. The same servant appeared. I asked for those gentlemen.
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"They are gone." This in the lofty, cold way of that fellow's tribe.
"Gone Gone where "
"On a journey."
"But whereabouts "
"To the Continent, I think."
"The Continent "
"Yes, sir."
"Which way - by what route "
"I can't say, sir."
"When will they be back "
"In a month, they said."
"A month! Oh, this is awful! Give me some sort of idea of how to get a word to them. It's of the last importance."
"I can't, indeed. I've no idea where they've gone, sir."
"Then I must see some member of the family."
"Family's away, too; been abroad months - in Egypt and India, I think."
"Man, there's been an immense mistake made. They'll be back before night. Will you tell them I've been here, and that I will keep coming till it's all made right, and they needn't be afraid "
"I'll tell them, if they come back, but I am not expecting them. They said you would be here in an hour to make inquiries, but I must tell you it's all right, they'll be here on time and expect you."
So I had to give it up and go away. What a riddle it all was! I was like to lose my mind. They would be here "on time." What could that mean Oh, the letter would explain, maybe. I had forgotten the letter; I got it out and read it. This is what it said:
"You are an intelligent and honest man, as one may see by your face. We conceive you to be poor and a stranger. Enclosed you will find a sum of money. It is lent to you for thirty days, without interest. Report at this house at the end of that time. I have a bet on you. If I win it you shall have any situation that is in my gift - any, that is, that you shall be able to prove yourself familiar with and competent to fill."
No signature, no address, no date.
Well, here was a coil to be in! You are posted on what had preceded all this, but I was not. It was just a deep, dark puzzle to me. I hadn't the least idea what the game was, nor whether harm was meant me or a kindness. I went into a park, and sat down to try to think it out, and to consider what I had best do.
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At the end of an hour my reasonings had crystallized into this verdict.
Maybe those men mean me well, maybe they mean me ill; no way to decide that - let it go. They've got a game, or a scheme, or an experiment, of some kind on hand; no way to determine what it is - let it go. There's a bet on me; no way to find out what it is - let it go. That disposes of the indeterminable quantities; the remainder of the matter is tangible, solid, and may be classed and labeled with certainty. If I ask the Bank of England to place this bill to the credit of the man it belongs to, they'll do it, for they know him, although I don't; but they will ask me how I came in possession of it, and if I tell the truth, they'll put me in the asylum, naturally, and a lie will land me in jail. The same result would follow if I tried to bank the bill anywhere or to borrow money on it. I have got to carry this immense burden around until those men come back, whether I want to or not. It is useless to me, as useless as a handful of ashes, and yet I must take care of it, and watch over it, while I beg my living. I couldn't give it away, if I should try, for neither honest citizen nor highwayman would accept it or meddle with it for anything. Those brothers are safe. Even if I lose their bill, or burn it, they are still safe, because they can stop payment, and the Bank will make them whole; but meantime I've got to do a month's suffering without wages or profit - unless I help win that bet, whatever it may be, and get that situation that I am promised. I should like to get that; men of their sort have situations in their gift that are worth having.
I got to thinking a good deal about that situation. My hopes began to rise high. Without doubt the salary would be large. It would begin in a month; after that I should be all right. Pretty soon I was feeling first-rate. By this time I was tramping the streets again. The sight of a tailor-shop gave me a sharp longing to shed my rags, and to clothe myself decently once more. Could I afford it No; I had nothing in the world but a million pounds. So I forced myself to go on by. But soon I was drifting back again. The temptation persecuted me cruelly. I must have passed that shop back and forth six times during that manful struggle. At last I gave in; I had to. I asked if they had a misfit suit that had been thrown on their hands. The fellow I spoke to nodded his head towards another fellow, and gave me no answer. I went to the indicated fellow, and he indicated another fellow with his head, and no words. I went to him, and he said:
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" 'Tend to you presently."
I waited till he was done with what he was at, then he took me into a back room, and overhauled a pile of rejected suits, and selected the rattiest one for me. I put it on. It didn't fit, and wasn't in any way attractive, but it was new, and I was anxious to have it; so I didn't find any fault, but said, with some diffidence:
"It would be an accommodation to me if you could wait some days for the money. I haven't any small change about me."
The fellow worked up a most sarcastic expression of countenance, and said:
"Oh, you haven't Well, of course, I didn't expect it. I'd only expect gentlemen like you to carry large change."
I was nettled, and said:
"My friend, you shouldn't judge a stranger always by the clothes he wears. I am quite able to pay for this suit; I simply didn't wish to put you to the trouble of changing a large note."
He modified his style a little at that, and said, though still with something of an air:
"I didn't mean any particular harm, but as long as rebukes are going, I might say it wasn't quite your affair to jump to the conclusion that we couldn't change any note that you might happen to be carrying around. On the contrary, we can."
I handed the note to him, and said:
"Oh, very well; I apologize."
He received it with a smile, one of those large smiles which goes all around over, and has folds in it, and wrinkles, and spirals, and looks like the place where you have thrown a brick in a pond; and then in the act of his taking a glimpse of the bill this smile froze solid, and turned yellow, and looked like those wavy, wormy spreads of lava which you find hardened on little levels on the side of Vesuvius. I never before saw a smile caught like that, and perpetuated. The man stood there holding the bill, and looking like that, and the proprietor hustled up to see what was the matter, and said, briskly:
"Well, what's up what's the trouble what's wanting "
I said: "There isn't any trouble. I'm waiting for my change."
"Come, come; get him his change, Tod; get him his change."
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Tod retorted: "Get him his change! It's easy to say, sir; but look at the bill yourself."
The proprietor took a look, gave a low, eloquent whistle, then made a dive for the pile of rejected clothing, and began to snatch it this way and that, talking all the time excitedly, and as if to himself:
"Sell an eccentric millionaire such an unspeakable suit as that! Tod's a fool - a born fool. Always doing something like this. Drives every millionaire away from this place, because he can't tell a millionaire from a tramp, and never could. Ah, here's the thing I am after. Please get those things off, sir, and throw them in the fire. Do me the favor to put on this shirt and this suit; it's just the thing, the very thing - plain, rich, modest, and just ducally nobby; made to order for a foreign prince - you may know him, sir, his Serene Highness the Hospodar of Halifax; had to leave it with us and take a mourning-suit because his mother was going to die - which she didn't. But that's all right; we can't always have things the way we - that is, the way they - there! trousers all right, they fit you to a charm, sir; now the waistcoat; aha, right again! now the coat - Lord! look at that, now! Perfect - the whole thing! I never saw such a triumph in all my experience."
I expressed my satisfaction.
"Quite right, sir, quite right; it'll do for a makeshift, I'm bound to say. But wait till you see what we'll get up for you on your own e, Tod, book and pen; get at it. Length of leg, 32"" - and so on. Before I could get in a word he had measured me, and was giving orders for dress-suits, morning suits, shirts, and all sorts of things. When I got a chance I said:
"But, my dear sir, I can't give these orders, unless you can wait indefinitely, or change the bill."
"Indefinitely! It's a weak word, sir, a weak word. Eternally - that's the word, sir. Tod, rush these things through, and send them to the gentleman's address without any waste of time. Let the minor customers wait. Set down the gentleman's address and--"
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"I'm changing my quarters. I will drop in and leave the new address."
"Quite right, sir, quite right. One moment - let me show you out, sir. There - good day, sir, good day."
Well, don't you see what was bound to happen I drifted naturally into buying whatever I wanted, and asking for change. Within a week I was sumptuously equipped with all needful comforts and luxuries, and was housed in an expensive private hotel in Hanover Square. I took my dinners there, but for breakfast I stuck by Harris's humble feeding house, where I had got my first meal on my million-pound bill. I was the making of Harris. The fact had gone all abroad that the foreign crank who carried million-pound bills in his vest pocket was the patron saint of the place. That was enough. From being a poor, struggling, little hand-to-mouth enterprise, it had become celebrated, and overcrowded with customers. Harris was so grateful that he forced loans upon me, and would not be denied; and so, pauper as I was, I had money to spend, and was living like the rich and the great. I judged that there was going to be a crash by and by, but I was in now and must swim across or drown. You see there was just that element of impending disaster to give a serious side, a sober side, yes, a tragic side, to a state of things which would otherwise have been purely ridiculous. In the night, in the dark, the tragedy part was always to the front, and always warning, always threatening; and so I moaned and tossed, and sleep was hard to find. But in the cheerful daylight the tragedy element faded out and disappeared, and I walked on air, and was happy to giddiness, to intoxication, you may say.
And it was natural; for I had become one of the notorieties of the metropolis of the world, and it turned my head, not just a little, but a good deal. You could not take up a newspaper, English, Scotch, or Irish, without finding in it one or more references to the "vest-pocket million-pounder" and his latest doings and saying. At first, in these mentions, I was at the bottom of the personal-gossip column; next, I was listed above the knights, next above the baronets, next above the barons, and so on, and so on, climbing steadily, as my notoriety augmented, until I reached the highest altitude possible, and there I remained, taking precedence of all dukes not royal, and of all ecclesiastics except the primate of all England. But mind, this was not fame; as yet I had achieved only notoriety. Then came the climaxing stroke - the accolade, so to speak - which in a single instant transmuted the perishable dross of notoriety into the enduring gold of fame: Punch caricatured me! Yes, I was a made man now; my place was established. I might be joked about still, but reverently, not hilariously, not rudely; I could be smiled at, but not laughed at. The time for that had gone by. Punch pictured me all a-flutter with rags, dickering with a beef-eater for the Tower of London. Well, you can imagine how it was with a young fellow who had never been taken notice of before, and now all of a sudden couldn't say a thing that wasn't taken up and repeated everywhere; couldn't stir abroad without constantly overhearing the remark flying from lip to lip, "There he goes; that's him!" couldn't take his breakfast without a crowd to look on; couldn't appear in an operabox without concentrating there the fire of a thousand lorgnettes. Why, I just swam in glory all day long- that is the amount of it.
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You know, I even kept my old suit of rags, and every now and then appeared in them, so as to have the old pleasure of buying trifles, and being insulted, and then shooting the scoffer dead with the million-pound bill. But I couldn't keep that up. The illustrated papers made the outfit so familiar that when I went out in it I was at once recognized and followed by a crowd, and if I attempted a purchase the man would offer me his whole shop on credit before I could pull my note on him.
About the tenth day of my fame I went to fulfil my duty to my flag by paying my respects to the American minister. He received me with the enthusiasm proper in my case, upbraided me for being so tardy in my duty, and said that there was only one way to get his forgiveness, and that was to take the seat at his dinner-party that night made vacant by the illness of one of his guests. I said I would, and we got to talking. It turned out that he and my father had been schoolmates in boyhood, Yale students together later, and always warm friends up to my father's death. So then he required me to put in at his house all the odd time I might have to spare, and I was very willing, of course.
In fact, I was more than willing; I was glad. When the crash should come, he might somehow be able to save me from total destruction; I didn't know how, but he might think of a way, maybe. I couldn't venture to unbosom myself to him at this late date, a thing which I would have been quick to do in the beginning of this awful career of mine in London. No, I couldn't venture it now; I was in too deep; that is, too deep for me to be risking revelations to so new a friend, though not clear beyond my depth, as I looked at it. Because, you see, with all my borrowing, I was carefully keeping within my means - I mean within my salary. Of course, I couldn't know what my salary was going to be, but I had a good enough basis for an estimate in the fact, that if I won the bet I was to have choice of any situation in that rich old gentleman's gift provided I was competent - and I should certainly prove competent; I hadn't any doubt about that. And as to the bet, I wasn't worrying about that; I had always been lucky. Now my estimate of the salary was six hundred to a thousand a year; say, six hundred for the first year, and so on up year by year, till I struck the upper figure by proved merit. At present I was only in debt for my first year's salary. Everybody had been trying to lend me money, but I had fought off the most of them on one pretext or another; so this indebtedness represented only 00 borrowed money, the other 00 represented my keep and my purchases. I believed my second year's salary would carry me through the rest of the month if I went on being cautious and economical, and I intended to look sharply out for that. My month ended, my employer back from his journey, I should be all right once more, for I should at once divide the two years' salary among my creditors by assignment, and get right down to my work.
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It was a lovely dinner-party of fourteen. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter the Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun, the Earl and Countess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, some untitled people of both sexes, the minister and his wife and daughter, and his daughter's visiting friend, an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes, and she with me - I could see it without glasses. There was still another guest, an American - but I am a little ahead of my story. While the people were still in the drawing-room, whetting up for dinner, and coldly inspecting the late comers, the servant announced:
"Mr. Lloyd Hastings."
The moment the usual civilities were over, Hastings caught sight of me, and came straight with cordially outstretched hand; then stopped short when about to shake, and said, with an embarrassed look:
"I beg your pardon, sir, I thought I knew you."
"Why, you do know me, old fellow."
"No. Are you the - the--"
"Vest-pocket monster I am, indeed. Don't be afraid to call me by my nickname; I'm used to it."
"Well, well, well, this is a surprise. Once or twice I've seen your own name coupled with the nickname, but it never occurred to me that you could be the Henry Adams referred to. Why, it isn't six months since you were clerking away for Blake Hopkins in Frisco on a salary, and sitting up nights on an extra allowance, helping me arrange and verify the Gould and Curry Extension papers and statistics. The idea of your being in London, and a vast millionaire, and a colossal celebrity! Why, it's the Arabian Nights come again. Man, I can't take it in at all; can't realize it; give me time to settle the whirl in my head."
"The fact is, Lloyd, you are no worse off than I am. I can't realize it myself."
"Dear me, it is stunning, now isn't it Why, it's just three months today since we went to the Miners' restaurant--"
"No; the What Cheer."
"Right, it was the What Cheer; went there at two in the morning, and had a chop and coffee after a hard six-hours grind over those Extension papers, and I tried to persuade you to come to London with me, and offered to get leave of absence for you and pay all your expenses, and give you something over if I succeeded in making the sale; and you would not listen to me, said I wouldn't succeed, and you couldn't afford to lose the run of business and be no end of time getting the hang of things again when you got back home. And yet here you are. How odd it all is! How did you happen to come, and whatever did give you this incredible start "
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"Oh, just an accident. It's a long story - a romance, a body may say. I'll tell you all about it, but not now."
"When "
"The end of this month."
"That's more than a fortnight yet. It's too much of a strain on a person's curiosity. Make it a week."
"I can't. You'll know why, by and by. But how's the trade getting along "
His cheerfulness vanished like a breath, and he said with a sigh:
"You were a true prophet, Hal, a true prophet. I wish I hadn't come. I don't want to talk about it."
"But you must. You must come and stop with me to-night, when we leave here, and tell me all about it."
"Oh, may I Are you in earnest " and the water showed in his eyes.
"Yes; I want to hear the whole story, every word."
"I'm so grateful! Just to find a human interest once more, in some voice and in some eye, in me and affairs of mine, after what I've been through here - lord! I could go down on my knees for it!"
He gripped my hand hard, and braced up, and was all right and lively after that for the dinner - which didn't come off. No; the usual thing happened, the thing that is always happening under that vicious and aggravating English system - the matter of precedence couldn't be settled, and so there was no dinner. Englishmen always eat dinner before they go out to dinner, because they know the risks they are running; but nobody ever warns the stranger, and so he walks placidly into trap. Of course, nobody was hurt this time, because we had all been to dinner, none of us being novices excepting Hastings, and he having been informed by the minister at the time that he invited him that in deference to the English custom he had not provided any dinner. Everybody took a lady and processioned down to the dining-room, because it is usual to go through the motions; but there the dispute began. The Duke of Shoreditch wanted to take precedence, and sit at the head of the table, holding that he outranked a minister who represented merely a nation and not a monarch; but I stood for my rights, and refused to yield. In the gossip column I ranked all dukes not royal, and said so, and claimed precedence of this one. It couldn't be settled, of course, struggle as we might and did, he finally (and injudiciously) trying to play birth and antiquity, and I "seeing" his Conqueror and "raising" him with Adam, whose direct posterity I was, as shown by my name, while he was of a collateral branch, as shown by his, and by his recent Norman origin; so we all processioned back to the drawing-room again and had a perpendicular lunch - plate of sardines and a strawberry, and you group yourself and stand up and eat it. Here the religion of precedence is not so strenuous; the two persons of highest rank chuck up a shilling, the one that wins has first go at his strawberry, and the loser gets the shilling. The next two chuck up, then the next two, and so on. After refreshment, tables were brought, and we all played cribbage, sixpence a game. The English never play any game for amusement. If they can't make something or lose something - they don't care which - they won't play.
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We had a lovely time; certainly two of us had, Miss Langham and I. I was so bewitched with her that I couldn't count my hands if they went above a double sequence; and when I struck home I never discovered it, and started up the outside row again, and would have lost the game every time, only the girl did the same, she being in just my condition, you see; and consequently neither of us ever got out, or cared to wonder why we didn't; we only just knew we were happy, and didn't wish to know anything else, and didn't want to be interrupted. And I told her - I did, indeed - told her I loved her; and she - well, she blushed till her hair turned red, but she liked it; she said she did. Oh, there was never such an evening! Every time I pegged I put on a postscript; every time she pegged she acknowledged receipt of it, counting the hands the same. Why, I couldn't even say "Two for his heels" without adding, "My, how sweet you do look!" and she would say, "Fifteen two, fifteen four, fifteen six, and a pair are eight, and eight are sixteen - do you think so " - peeping out aslant from under her lashes, you know, so sweet and cunning. Oh, it was just too-too!
Well, I was perfectly honest and square with her; told her I hadn't a cent in the world but just the million-pound note she'd heard so much talk about, and it didn't belong to me, and that started her curiosity; and then I talked low, and told her the whole history right from the start, and it nearly killed her laughing. What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn't see, but there it was; every half-minute some new detail would fetch her, and I would have to stop as much as a minute and a half to give her a chance to settle down again. Why, she laughed herself lame - she did, indeed; I never saw anything like it. I mean I never saw a painful story - a story of a person's troubles and worries and fears - produce just that kind of effect before. So I loved her all the more, seeing she could be so cheerful when there wasn't anything to be cheerful about; for I might soon need that kind of wife, you know, the way things looked. Of course, I told her we should have to wait a couple of years, till I could catch up on my salary; but she didn't mind that, only she hoped I would be as careful as possible in the matter of expenses, and not let them run the least risk of trenching on our third year's pay. Then she began to get a little worried, and wondered if we were making any mistake, and starting the salary on a higher figure for the first year than I would get. This was good sense, and it made me feel a little less confident than I had been feeling before; but it gave me a good business idea, and I brought it frankly out.
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"Portia, dear, would you mind going with me that day, when I confront those old gentlemen "
She shrank a little, but said:
"N-o; if my being with you would help hearten you. But - would it be quite proper, do you think "
"No, I don't know that it would - in fact, I'm afraid it wouldn't; but, you see, there's so much dependent upon it that--"
"Then I'll go anyway, proper or improper," she said, with a beautiful and generous enthusiasm. "Oh, I shall be so happy to think I'm helping!"
"Helping, dear Why, you'll be doing it all. You're so beautiful and so lovely and so winning, that with you there I can pile our salary up till I break those good old fellows, and they'll never have the heart to struggle."
Sho! you should have seen the rich blood mount, and her happy eyes shine!
"You wicked flatterer! There isn't a word of truth in what you say, but still I'll go with you. Maybe it will teach you not to expect other people to look with your eyes."
Were my doubts dissipated Was my confidence restored You may judge by this fact: privately I raised my salary to twelve hundred the first year on the spot. But I didn't tell her; I saved it for a surprise.
All the way home I was in the clouds, Hastings talking, I not hearing a word. When he and I entered my parlor, he brought me to myself with his fervent appreciations of my manifold comforts and luxuries.
"Let me just stand here a little and look my fill. Dear me! it's a palace - it's just a palace! And in it everything a body could desire, including cosy coal fire and supper standing ready. Henry, it doesn't merely make me realize how rich you are; it makes me realize, to the bone, to the marrow, how poor I am - how poor I am, and how miserable, how defeated, routed, annihilated!"
Plague take it! this language gave me the cold shudders. It scared me broad awake, and made me comprehend that I was standing on a halfinch crust, with a crater underneath. I didn't know I had been dreaming - that is, I hadn't been allowing myself to know it for a while back; but now - oh, dear! Deep in debt, not a cent in the world, a lovely girl's happiness or woe in my hands, and nothing in front of me but a salary which might never - oh, would never - materialize! Oh, oh, oh! I am ruined past hope! nothing can save me!
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"Henry, the mere unconsidered drippings of your daily income would--"
"Oh, my daily income! Here, down with this hot Scotch, and cheer up your soul. Here's with you! Or, no - you're hungry; sit down and--"
"Not a bite for me; I'm past it. I can't eat, these days; but I'll drink with you till I e!"
"Barrel for barrel, I'm with you! Ready Here we go! Now, then, Lloyd, unreel your story while I brew."
"Unreel it What, again "
"Again What do you mean by that "
"Why, I mean do you want to hear it over again "
"Do I want to hear it over again This is a puzzler. Wait; don't take any more of that liquid. You don't need it."
"Look here, Henry, you alarm me. Didn't I tell you the whole story on the way here "
"You "
"Yes, I."
"I'll be hanged if I heard a word of it."
"Henry, this is a serious thing. It troubles me. What did you take up yonder at the minister's "
Then it all flashed on me, and I owned up like a man.
"I took the dearest girl in this world - prisoner!"
So then he came with a rush, and we shook, and shook, and shook till our hands ached; and he didn't blame me for not having heard a word of a story which had lasted while we walked three miles. He just sat down then, like the patient, good fellow he was, and told it all over again. Synopsized, it amounted to this: He had come to England with what he thought was a grand opportunity; he had an "option" to sell the Gould and Curry Extension for the "locators" of it, and keep all he could get over a million dollars. He had worked hard, had pulled every wire he knew of, had left no honest expedient untried, had spent nearly all the money he had in the world, had not been able to get a solitary capitalist to listen to him, and his option would run out at the end of the month. In a word, he was ruined. Then he jumped up and cried out:
"Henry, you can save me! You can save me, and you're the only man in the universe that can. Will you do it Won't you do it "
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"Tell me how. Speak out, my boy."
"Give me a million and my passage home for my 'option'! Don't, don't refuse!"
I was in a kind of agony. I was right on the point of coming out with the words, "Lloyd, I'm a pauper myself - absolutely penniless, and in debt!" But a white-hot idea came flaming through my head, and I gripped my jaws together, and calmed myself down till I was as cold as a capitalist. Then I said, in a commercial and self-possessed way:
"I will save you, Lloyd--"
"Then I'm already saved! God be merciful to you forever! If ever I--"
"Let me finish, Lloyd. I will save you, but not in that way; for that would not be fair to you, after your hard work, and the risks you've run. I don't need to buy mines; I can keep my capital moving, in a commercial center like London, without that; it's what I'm at, all the time; but here is what I'll do. I know all about that mine, of course; I know its immense value, and can swear to it if anybody wishes it. You shall sell out inside of the fortnight for three millions cash, using my name freely, and we'll divide, share and share alike."
Do you know, he would have danced the furniture to kindling-wood in his insane joy, and broken everything on the place, if I hadn't tripped him up and tied him.
Then he lay there, perfectly happy, saying:
"I may use your name! Your name - think of it! Man, they'll flock in droves, these rich Londoners; they'll fight for that stock! I'm a made man, I'm a made man forever, and I'll never forget you as long as I live!"
In less than twenty-four hours London was abuzz! I hadn't anything to do, day after day, but sit at home, and say to all comers:
"Yes; I told him to refer to me. I know the man, and I know the mine. His character is above reproach, and the mine is worth far more than he asks for it."
Meantime I spent all my evenings at the minister's with Portia. I didn't say a word to her about the mine; I saved it for a surprise. We talked salary; never anything but salary and love; sometimes love, sometimes salary, sometimes love and salary together. And my! the interest the minister's wife and daughter took in our little affair, and the endless ingenuities they invented to save us from interruption, and to keep the minister in the dark and unsuspicious - well, it was just lovely of them!
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When the month was up at last, I had a million dollars to my credit in the London and County Bank, and Hastings was fixed in the same way. Dressed at my level best, I drove by the house in Portland Place, judged by the look of things that my birds were home again, went on towards the minister's and got my precious, and we started back, talking salary with all our might. She was so excited and anxious that it made her just intolerably beautiful. I said:
"Dearie, the way you're looking it's a crime to strike for a salary a single penny under three thousand a year."
"Henry, Henry, you'll ruin us!"
"Don't you be afraid. Just keep up those looks, and trust to me. It'll all come out right."
So, as it turned out, I had to keep bolstering up her courage all the way. She kept pleading with me, and saying:
"Oh, please remember that if we ask for too much we may get no salary at all; and then what will become of us, with no way in the world to earn our living "
We were ushered in by that same servant, and there they were, the two old gentlemen. Of course, they were surprised to see that wonderful creature with me, but I said:
"It's all right, gentlemen; she is my future stay and helpmate."
And I introduced them to her, and called them by name. It didn't surprise them; they knew I would know enough to consult the directory. They seated us, and were very polite to me, and very solicitous to relieve her from embarrassment, and put her as much at her ease as they could. Then I said:
"Gentlemen, I am ready to report."
"We are glad to hear it," said my man, "for now we can decide the bet which my brother Abel and I made. If you have won for me, you shall have any situation in my gift. Have you the million-pound note "
"Here it is, sir," and I handed it to him.
"I've won!" he shouted, and slapped Abel on the back. "Now what do you say, brother "
"I say he did survive, and I've lost twenty thousand pounds. I never would have believed it."
"I've a further report to make," I said, "and a pretty long one. I want you to let me come soon, and detail my whole month's history; and I promise you it's worth hearing. Meantime, take a look at that."
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"What, man! Certificate of deposit for 00,000. Is it yours "
"Mine. I earned it by thirty days' judicious use of that little loan you let me have. And the only use I made of it was to buy trifles and offer the bill in change."
"Come, this is astonishing! It's incredible, man!"
"Never mind, I'll prove it. Don't take my word unsupported."
But now Portia's turn was come to be surprised. Her eyes were spread wide, and she said:
"Henry, is that really your money Have you been fibbing to me "
"I have, indeed, dearie. But you'll forgive me, I know."
She put up an arch pout, and said:
"Don't you be so sure. You are a naughty thing to deceive me so!"
"Oh, you'll get over it, sweetheart, you'll get over it; it was only fun, you e, let's be going."
"But wait, wait! The situation, you know. I want to give you the situation," said my man.
"Well," I said, "I'm just as grateful as I can be, but really I don't want one."
"But you can have the very choicest one in my gift."
"Thanks again, with all my heart; but I don't even want that one."
"Henry, I'm ashamed of you. You don't half thank the good gentleman. May I do it for you "
"Indeed, you shall, dear, if you can improve it. Let us see you try."
She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say. Portia said:
"Papa, he has said you haven't a situation in your gift that he'd take; and I feel just as hurt as--"
"My darling, is that your papa "
"Yes; he's my step-papa, and the dearest one that ever was. You understand now, don't you, why I was able to laugh when you told me at the minister's, not knowing my relationships, what trouble and worry papa's and Uncle Abel's scheme was giving you "
Of course, I spoke right up now, without any fooling, and went straight to the point.
"Oh, my dearest dear sir, I want to take back what I said. You have got a situation open that I want."
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"Name it."
"Son-in-law."
"Well, well, well! But you know, if you haven't ever served in that capacity, you, of course, can't furnish recommendations of a sort to satisfy the conditions of the contract, and so--"
"Try me - oh, do, I beg of you! Only just try me thirty or forty years, and if--"
"Oh, well, all right; it's but a little thing to ask, take her along."
Happy, we two There are not words enough in the unabridged to describe it. And when London got the whole history, a day or two later, of my month's adventures with that bank-note, and how they ended, did London talk, and have a good time Yes.
My Portia's papa took that friendly and hospitable bill back to the Bank of England and cashed it; then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it, and he gave it to us at our wedding, and it has always hung in its frame in the sacredest place in our home ever since. For it gave me my Portia. But for it I could not have remained in London, would not have appeared at the minister's, never should have met her. And so I always say, "Yes, it's a million-pounder, as you see; but it never made but one purchase in its life, and then got the article for only about a tenth part of its value."(共28张PPT)
Act II scene 1
Made by Elaine
Taizhou Middle School
Act II, scene 1
At the tailor
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Act II scene 1
After reading the letter from the brother, Henry puts it back into his coat pocket. Then he notices his coat is w____ out. So he finds a t_____ shop and goes in to get a new coat. Seeing the poor customer, none of the waiters is willing to s____ him. At last, the third waiter asks Henry to try on an ugly coat and tells him that is p______ in England at present. Before paying the money, Henry tells the rude waiter not to j____ people by their clothes.
orn
ailor’s
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opular
udge
Act II, scene 2
at the tailor
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Act II scene 2
However, after Henry shows the clerk and the owner the b_________. Both the clerk and the owner were s_______. The owner p_______ to be angry at the clerk. He changes his a______ to Henry, and wants to sell more coats to him, even though he ______ want to buy them. When Henry tells him he is moving, the owner isn’t s________, because ________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
ank-note
hocked
retends
ttitude
doesn’t
urprised
The owner believes rich men often change their address. Also, he thinks Henry is a American tourist who is likely to change his address.
Act II, scene 3
Henry met Portia
What kind of person do you think Portia is
Which words can indicate her character
Meet Portia
Portia: That poor, dear ambassador. He hates these parties as much as I do. Nothing but talk, talk, talk. And no one says anything anyone wants to hear, do they
How did Henry feel when he first saw Portia
Portia: Won’t you sit down please
Henry: Yes, I’d love to-er-I’d like to. Thank you, Miss.
What did Henry mean by saying “Yes, I’ve heard. I can’t understand. Why, really. I’m not so special as that”
Are you in some kind of trouble, Henry
Which things might you tell Portia about himself
Which things might you keep a secret about himself
If you were Henry, when Portia asked:
Which things might Portia tell you about herself
Which things might her keep a secret about herself
What would you say
Act II, scene 4 The end
Talk about how you think the play will end.
How will Henry deal with the note
If he returns the note, will he be poor again
Which brother do you think will win the bet
What will the two brothers say and do
What will Henry get at last
Will he get a job
You may think about…
Characters of the end:
Is money everything
Money Is
Money can buy a house, but not a home.
Money can buy a bed, but not sleep.
Money can buy a clock, but not time.
Money can buy a book, but not knowledge.
Money can buy you a position, but not respect.
Money can buy you medicine, but not health.
Money can buy a friend, but not love.
Money can buy you blood, but not life.
Money Is not everything!
Prince and Pauper
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
What are the characteristics of the language of drama
He eats like a wolf.
We’ll see if he’s clever as a wolf, eh
Oh, please, don’t worry, sir. Doesn’t matter at all. We are so very glad that you even entered our little eating place.
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humors and satires
A bet about the note
Henry gets the note.
The note helps Henry a lot.
Henry meets Portia because of the note.
The note causes Henry a lot of trouble.
Portia leaves Henry because of the note.
The two get married at last also because of the note.
All the world is a stage (舞台) .
Life is like theatre(戏剧), and theatre is like life.
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Similarities & differences
Make up the middle part of the story. Pay attention to the play conflicts, and the language of different characters.
NARRATOR: Well, after that, it seemed like everyone on London was talking about Henry. After a while, he felt it was his duty to report to the American ambassador to Britain. The Ambassador gave him a warm welcome and invited Henry to a dinner party that very night. Of course, Henry was glad to go. He knew that he might need the ambassador when other’s found out just how poor he really was. We now join Henry on the balcony of the American ambassador’s home in London.
Act II scene 3
Ambassador: Ah, there you are.
Portia: (to Henry) How do you do
Ambassador: Mr. Adams, my special guest, Miss Portia Langham.
Henry: How do you do
Portia: I’m afraid you must be too busy for me.
Henry: Yes, indeed. I am, I mean, no, no, not at all.
Ambassador: if you’ll excuse me, I must return to the other guests.
Portia: Won’t you sit down please
Henry: Yes, I’d love to-er-I’d like to. Thank you, Miss.
Portia: That poor, dear ambassador. He hates these parties as much as I do. Nothing but talk, talk, talk. And no one says anything anyone wants to hear, do they
Henry: No, I suppose not.
Portia: The ambassador tells me you are a rich man.
Henry: Well-er-not really.
Portia: He tells me you are the talk of London these days. Why, it seems that every banker and shop owner in the city wants to meet you.
Henry: Yes, I’ve heard. I can’t understand why, really. I’m not so special as that.
Portia: Oh, I don’t know about that, Mr. Adams.
Henry: Please, call me Henry.
Portia: Henry, I mean, even the ambassador is eager to know you better.
Henry: Yes, it would seem to be so.
Portia: What’s the matter
Henry: Oh, nothing. Nothing, at least, that anyone can help with.
Portia: Are you in some kind of trouble, Henry (共44张PPT)
Act One
Scene 3
Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets (彩票) and become a millionaire (百万富翁).
What will you do with the money
Travel around the world
Buy a house
Can you do those without
spending the money
A penniless and lost young American in London becomes the subject of a bet between two rich and eccentric English gentlemen. They want to know how a poor man do and live with a million pound note. And then a series of funny things occurred.
This play was made into a film.
Characters （人物）：
Henry Adams :
a lost American businessman in London
“Roderick” and “Oliver” :
two brothers and rich Englishmen
sailing
carried
spotted
London
Towards
nightfall
Lastly
About a month ago
The next morning
Henry was _____ out of the bay
Henry was ______ out to sea by a strong wind
Henry was ________by a ship
Henry arrived in __________ by working as an unpaid hand
Roderick _______ him and asked him to step in;
Roderick gave Henry a _________ with money in it.
lost
called
letter
Roderick gave Henry a _________
with money in it.
Now
Henry was______ in London and wandering in the street
Just at that time
To Henry’s surprise
letter
Two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver, have made a secret bet .
Guess what
Roderick believes that a man cannot survive in the city for a month with only a million pound bank-note in his possession but Oliver believes he can.
Underline where you think it is difficult to understand.
What are the functions of the stage directions
Behaviour
Tone of voice
Think about what kind of person Henry was
It is my first trip here.
Well, to be honest, I have none. (no money)
Well, I can’t say that I have any plans.
I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand.
Could you offer me some kind of work here
I don’t want your charity, I just want an honest job.
Well, it may seem luck to you but not to me.
If this is your idea of some kind of joke, I don’t think it’s very funny.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll be on my way.
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Read the play with emotion.
Finish Exercise 1 and 2 on Page 19.
Act One
Scene 4
Who was Henry
What did the two brothers give to Henry
Why did they chose Henry
An American businessman, who arrived in London by accident, penniless, hungry and lonely.
A letter
Because Henry was honest, hard-working and poor.
Review ActⅠ Scene 3
The first place I’d like to go
Where
What was in the letter
How was Henry treated at first
In a restaurant.
A million-pound bank note.
Rudely, coldly, unpatiently.
Fast-reading
In that way all the time
No.
The great change of their attitude
Careful-reading
how
Owner
Waiter
Hostess
That one’s reserved.
Well, we will have to take a chance.
…if you pay the bill…
My goodness! He eats like a wolf.
It’ll cost a tiny bit.
Again, everything
What’s there to wait for
Before Henry shows his million pound bank-note
Owner
Hostess
Waiter
I’m so sorry, sir, so sorry.
Oh, please, don’t worry, sir. Doesn’t matter at all.
Just having you sit here is a great honour! …bow… …
Screams
And you put him in the back of the restaurant!
bow
...bow…
After Henry shows his million pound bank-note
The great change of their attitude
why
Can you find out humors and satires in this scene
The change in attitude of the owner, the hostess and the waiter when Henry produces a large bank-note they cannot change.
Mark Twain and Sam Clemens are one and the same. He is there as an authority(权威) on whether the bank-note is real or not and also as an observer(观察者) within his own story.
Can you find out the humors in this scene
With the __________ in hand, Henry decided to enter a _________ for a meal. He ordered some _____ and _____ and a nice big _______ together with a tall glass of _____. The waiter told him the meal would cost him __ _____ ____. After eating his first order, Henry asked for more of ______ ________.
envelope
restaurant
ham
eggs
steak
beer
a tiny bit
the same
When Henry opened the letter, he found it was a _______ ________ ___________. He was ________ but the owner and the waiter were _______. The own was not sure if it was _________ or _______. They couldn’t believe Henry who was ___ ____ could be so rich. At last, the note was proved to be real.
million pound bank-note
surprised
shocked
genuine
fake
in
rags
After knowing that the bill is genuine, the owner _______ Henry again and again for his coming to his little eating place and even asked Henry to forget the ______. The owner, hostess and waiter all ______ together as Henry left.
thanked
bill
bow
Film Dubbing
Read the play again and again after class.
Finish Exercise 1 and 2 on Page 56.
