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Discovery of a FatherDiscovery of a FatherSherwood Anderson
Book Book 33Lesson 2
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Part One: Warm-up
Part Two: Background Information
Part Three: Text Appreciation
Part Four: Language Study
Part Five: Extension
Book Book 33Lesson 2
Contents
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Discovery of
a Father
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Warm-upWarm-up
I. Discussion
II. Enjoy a Poem
III.Listen to a Song
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My Hero
II. Enjoy a PoemII. Enjoy a Poem
As I ponder the love that I saw in his eyes,
A Godly love, given without compromise.
I recall many times that he stood by my side,
And prodded me on with great vigor and pride.
His voice ever confident, firm yet fair,
Always speaking with patience, tenderness and care.
Read the following
poem.
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My Hero
II. Enjoy a PoemII. Enjoy a Poem
The power and might of his hands was so sure,
I knew there was nothing we couldn’t endure.
It’s true, a few other provided insight,
Yet, he laid the foundation that kept me upright.
He’s the grandest of men to have lived on this earth.
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My Hero
II. Enjoy a PoemII. Enjoy a Poem
Although he’s not royal by statue or birth,
He’s a man of great dignity, honor and strength.
His merits are noble, and of admirable length.
He’s far greater than all the other men that I know,
He’s my Dad, he’s my mentor, my friend and hero.
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III. Listen to a songIII. Listen to a song
When I think back on these times
And the dreams we left behind
I’ll be glad ‘cause I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back on these days
I’ll look and see your face
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There You’ll Be
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III. Listen to a III. Listen to a songsong
In my dreams
I’ll always see your soul above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place for you for all my life
I’ll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you’ll be
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III. Listen to a songIII. Listen to a song
Well, you showed me
How it feels to feel the sky within my reach
And I always will remember all the strength
you gave to me
Your love made me make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me
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III. Listen to a songIII. Listen to a song
‘Cause I always saw you
My light, my strength
And I want to thank you
Now for all the ways you were right there for me
You were right there for me
For always
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Discovery
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I. Author
II. The American Civil War
Background Background informationinformation
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Sherwood Anderson (Sep. 13,
1876–March 8, 1941) was a
great American writer, the
author of 27 works and seven
novels. He was also a poet and
a playwright, a newspaper
editor and a political journalist.
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I.I. Author Author
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Sherwood Anderson was born
in Camden, Ohio, the third of
seven children. His father had
served in the Union Army in
American Civil War and later
declined from the harness
business into odd jobs of
house and sign painting.
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I. Author—his family I. Author—his family backgroundbackground
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Anderson influenced a younger
generation of important writers,
including Faulkner, Hemingway,
Steinbeck and others. He made
his name as a leading naturalistic
writer with his masterwork,
WINESBURG, OHIO (1919).
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Windy McPherson's Son, 1916 Marching Men, 1917 Mid-American Chants, 1918 Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 Poor White, 1920 The Triumph of the Egg, 1921 Horses and Men, 1921 Many Marriages, 1923 A Story Teller's Story, 1924 Dark Laughter, 1925 The Modern Writer, 1925 Sherwood Anderson's Notebook, 1926 Tar: A Midwest Childhood, 1926
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A New Testament, 1927 Alice and the Lost Novel, 1929 Hello Towns!, 1929 Nearer the Grass Roots, 1929 The American County Fair, 1930 Perhaps Women, 1931 Beyond Desire, 1932 Death in the Woods, 1933 No Swank, 1934 Puzzled America, 1935 Kit Brandon, 1936 Plays, Winesburg and Others, 1937 Home Town, 1940 Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs, 1942
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a giant in American literature,a renowned Mississippi writer,Nobel Prize winner for literature, acclaimed throughout the world as oneof the twentieth century’s greatestwriters.
Representative Works:The Sound and the Fury (in 1929)Go Down, Moses (in 1942)As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! (— the greatest novels ever
written by an American )
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William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner
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Representative Works:
The Sun also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Ernest HemingwaHemingwayy
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American novelist, story writer,playwright, and essayist,Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in1962, best remembered for The
Grapesof Wrath (1939), a novel widelyconsidered to be a 20th-centuryclassic.
Other Works:Of Mice and Men (1937)The Moon is Down (1942) The Pearl (1947)…
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John John SteinbeckSteinbeck
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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the greatest war and the only war fought on American soil. 3,000,000 people fought—600,000 people died. It brought an end to the constitution of slavery and paved the way for the capitalist development in America.
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II.II. American Civil American Civil WarWar
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The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events.
At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States.
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At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings, eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by which five slaves counted as three free men toward that representation. By the end of the convention, the institution of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the Constitution.
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In 1808, Northern and Southern members of Congress voted together to abolish the importation of slaves from overseas, but the domestic slave trade continued to flourish. The invention of the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South. The slave became an ever more important element of the southern economy, and so the debate about slavery, for the southerners, gradually evolved into an economically based question of money and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect.
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But even as the need to protect it grew, the ability, or at least the perceived ability of the South to do so was waning. In 1800 half of the population of the United States had lived in the South. But by 1850 only a third lived there and the disparity continued to widen. While northern industrial opportunity attracted scores of immigrants from Europe in search of freedom, the South's population stagnated. Even as slave states were added to the Union to balance the number of free ones, the South found that its representatives in the House had been overwhelmed by the North’s explosive growth. The South found itself at the mercy of a government in which it no longer had an effective voice.
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Nothing but bitterness and bad feeling could come of it. From such a position it was a short step to the proposition that if a state or section of the country no longer felt itself represented in, or fairly treated by the Federal Government, then it had the right to dissolve its association with that government. It could secede from the Union.
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The whole mess went up in smoke in the presidential election year of 1860. The Democratic party split badly. Stephen Douglas became the nominee of the northern wing of the party. A southern faction broke away from the party and nominated Senator John Breckinridge of Kentucky. The remnants of the Whig party nominated John Bell of Tennessee.
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Into this confusion the new Republican party injected its nominee, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a moderate Republican. As such he was a compromise candidate, everybody’s second choice. He was convinced that the Constitution forbade the Federal government from taking action against slavery where it already existed, but was determined to keep it from spreading further. South Carolina, in a fit of stubborn pride, unilaterally announced that it would secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected.
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To everyone’s amazement Lincoln was victorious. He had gathered a mere 40% of the popular vote, and carried not a single slave state, but the vote had been so fragmented by the abundance of factions that it had been enough.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States
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South Carolina, true to its word, seceded on December 20, 1860. Mississippi left on January 9, 1861, and Florida on the 10th. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
On Feb 9, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.
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Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States
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At 4:30 a.m., April 12, 1861, the Confederate army opened fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter ( 萨姆特炮台 ) in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War broke out.
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"... but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.” Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(the Union Army)
Jefferson Davis
(the Confederate Army)
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On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The Union of the North finally succeeded.
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II. American Civil War—the II. American Civil War—the EndEnd
The end of American civil war.
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Text Text AppreciatiAppreciationon
I. Text Analysis 1. General Analyses2. Theme3. Structure4. Analysis of Father’s Image
5. The Use of Symbols
II.Writing Devices1. Syntactic Anaphora2. Syntactic Epiphora
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Plot of the story
Setting of the story
Protagonists of the story
Writing techniques of the story
Theme of the story
I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisHave you
got the key elements in the story?
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General Analyses
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Plot : the discovery of a father
Setting : on a rainy night
Protagonists : “I” and “ father”
Writing techniques : go to Writing devices
Theme of the story: go to the next page
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General Analyses
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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis
Theme of the storyThe theme is summed up at the very end.
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This is a story about an interesting character
told by his son who later became a well-known
writer. With well-selected anecdotes and using
the tone of a little boy, the author gives a vivid
character sketch of his father whom he used to
despise but gradually learns to understand and
appreciate when he grows up.
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Part 1 (paras. ) about:
Part 2 (paras. ) about:
I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis
Structure of the text
1–25
26–41
Description of father’s
image before the discovery.
How the boy “discovered” a
father.
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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisAnalysis of Father’s Image
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in the eyes of the son in the eyes of others
a failure
a clown a loafer a windbag
popular with othersmother’s pride instead of complaint
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iscovery of a father
generous
kind-hearted a natural actor a born-story-teller
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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis
The Use of SymbolsScan the text and list out the related information.
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Two Symbols:
symbol one: the setting
symbol two: swimming in the dark
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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisThe Use of Symbols
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Symbol 1: the setting
a wet night
father coming back after being away for two or three weeks
clothes dripping
Symbolic meanings
in terrible financial difficulties again
not having much luck in getting help from his friends
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Description of father
sitting in a chair for a long time with the saddest look
not uttering a word
looking at his son closely and seriously
What suddenly dawns
on the boy
not the irresponsible happy-go-lucky person he used to be
not a windbag any more
father loves him
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Symbol 2 : swimming in the dark
Symbolic meanings
father and son completely naked
striking out together in the dark
a man who is
dignified
powerful
loving
ready to face the
harsh life
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Description of father
communicating with the son
trying to give him courage and strength
What suddenly dawns
on the boynot foolishnot a clown not a windbagjust too generoustoo kind-heartedloving life and peoplea natural actor, a born story-teller, a bornwriter
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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices
Syntactic Anaphora (Repetition of Beginning Words)
It was a feeling of closeness. It was something strange. It was as though there were only we two in the world. It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father.
This is the most common kind of sentence repetition.
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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices
Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I could have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps.
And here you are the mothers’ laps.
(Walt Whitman: Song of Myself)
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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices
Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg, from whom an awful promise had been extracted;…
(C. Dickens: Great Expectations)
The repetition of the words brings out vividly the extent of the boy’s terror, increased by the fear that he might not succeed in keeping his promise.
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Syntactic Epiphora (Repetition of Ending words)
It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father.
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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices
And then suddenly the machines pushed them out and they swarmed on the highways. The movement changed them; the high ways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them; the endless moving changed them. They were migrants. And the hostility changed them. They welded them, united them…
(John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath)
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I. Word Study
II. Phrases and Expressions
III. Word Building
IV. Grammar
Language Language StudyStudy
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I.I. Word StudyWord StudyWord list:
1. bitter
2. broke
3. cover
4. credit
5. drip
6. druggist
13. shed
14. smash
15. strike
15. surrender
16. sympathize
7. glimpse
8. harness
9. intimate
10. lick
11. loaf
12. momentary
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study1. bitter: adj.
• Good medicine tastes bitter.
Word formation
n. bitterness
• That failure was a bitter experience for him.
2. hard to bear; causing sorrow
3. filled with or showing envy, hatred, remorse or disappointment
bitter quarrels/words/enemies/tears
1. not sweet, tasting like beer
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bitter:
a bitter wind
• fight to the bitter end 战斗到底
• take the bitter with the sweet 接受顺境也接受逆境
4. piercing cold
Antonyms
grateful
thankful
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study2. broke:
• He went broke.
Cf.
broken• a broken home
• a broken promise
• a broken spirit
• broken English
broken
adj. without any money
破裂的家庭
背弃的诺言
消沉的意志
蹩脚的英语
Synonyms
bankrupt penniless
impoverished
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study3. cover: v.
• He had to cover his ears when the noise became
really unbearable.
Cf.
coverage
uncover
• This national park covers roughly 400 square miles
of beautiful land.
2. to have… in size
1. to place or hide sth. over in order to hide or protect
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study cover:
• By sunset they had covered 30 miles.
• The 700-dollar rent does not cover water, electricity
and telephone service.
4. to include
3. to travel a certain distance
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study cover:
• He began to move towards the house carefully,
and Bob covered him.
• $1,000 will cover his needs for the journey.
6. (of money) to be enough for
5. to protect sb. by aiming a gun at the enemy
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study4. credit: n.
• He bought this car on credit.
• The bank refused further credits to the company.
• We must give her credit for our discovery.
• I think that he deserves all the credit for lifting the
villagers out of poverty.
2. praise 光荣;功劳
1. delayed payment 赊帐;信贷
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3. sth. that can bring honor or pride to sb.
• These Olympic gold medalists are no doubt a
great credit to our country.
• The professor decided to give him full credit for the
exam.
4. recognition for a successfully completed
course at the university
credit:
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5. money shown as owned by a person, company in a bank account
• You have a credit balance of $500.
• The rumor is gaining credit.
6. belief; trust; confidence
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study5. drip
• The tap is dripping.
• His paintbrush is dripping.
• It’s so hot that he’s dripping with sweat.
• There was no noise except for the drip, drip, drip
of water.
v. to fall or let sth. fall in very small drops
n. the drop-by-drop falling of a liquid
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study6. druggist: n.
take/use drugs
drug abuse
drug addiction/addict
drug dealer
miracle drug
drugstore
Synonyms
chemist; pharmacistdrug
吸毒
滥用毒品
毒品上瘾 / 上瘾者
毒品贩子
有奇效的药物
药店;杂货店
sb. who is trained to prepare drugs and medicines and works in a shop
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study7. glimpse: v.
• I glimpsed her face in the crowd, but then
she was gone.
Cf.
glance
n.
• get/catch a glimpse of
• a glimpse of what life might be like in the future
to see sb or sth. for a moment without getting a complete view of them
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study8. harness:
• He runs a harness shop.
• They tried to harness the wind to generate
electricity.
n. a piece of equipment for controlling a horse worn over the horse’s head and shoulders
v. to control and use the natural force of sth.
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study9. intimate: adj.
• They are intimate friends.
• She’s on intimate terms with important people
in the government.
Word formation
intimately adv. intimacy n.
1. having an extremely close relationship
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intimate:
• tell a friend the intimate details of one’s life
• an intimate knowledge of Greek philosophy
2. private and personal
3. resulting from close study or great familiarity
Antonyms
distant
formal
remote
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10. lick: v.
• The cat was licking its paws.
2. (esp. of flames, waves) to touch lightly
• He dashed into the house to save the child despite
the licking flames.
他不顾四下乱窜的火舌,冲进屋里抢救那个孩子。
1. to pass the tongue over or under
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study lick:
• Well, that licks everything!
那真是闻所未闻、见所未见的事。
3. (sl.) to overcome; to triumph over
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11. loaf: v.
• Don’t loaf about while there’s so much to be done.
• Don’t loaf away your time.
loafer n. a person who loafs 游手好闲者
Half a loaf is better than none.
聊胜于无。
to waste time; to spend time idly
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12. momentary: adj.
• There was a momentary pause.
• She paused momentarily and glanced over her
shoulder.
• Mr. Johnson will be with you momentarily.
Cf.
momentous
momentum
momentarily: adv.
(AmE.)very soon
Antonyms
lasting; permanentlasting for a very short time
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study13. shed: n.
tool-shed
wood-shed
coal-shed
cattle-shed
bicycle-shed
工具房
柴房
煤房
畜棚
自行车棚
building, roughly made structure, used for
storing things
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shed: v. to let fall; to let come off
shed tears
shed crocodile tears
shed blood
shed skin
shed light on
流泪
假慈悲
流血
蜕皮
阐明
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14. smash: v. to break into small pieces, usually violently
smash a window
smash a record
smash the enemy
smash up the furniture
smash up a monopoly
Synonyms
shatter
destroy
break into pieces打破窗户
打破纪录
击溃敌人
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study
15. strike: v.
• How did the movie strike you?
• He struck me as a very hard-working student.
• The new labor law allows workers to strike in
privately-owned enterprises.
2. to stop working
1. to give sb. a particular impression
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3. to hit
• Strike while the iron is hot.
• The clock has just struck twelve.
4. to cause to sound
strike:
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5. to put sb. suddenly into a particular state
be struck blind/dumb/silent
strike fear/terror/alarm into sb.
6. to fill with fear etc.
strike:
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study16. surrender: v.
• We advised the hijackers to surrender to the police.
Synonym
yield (to)
• We shall never surrender our liberty.
2. to yield up or abandon possession of
3. to yield or give way to (a habit, emotion, etc.)
• He surrendered himself to despair.
1. to say officially that you want to stop fighting
because you know you cannot win
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I.I. Word StudyWord Study17. sympathize: v.
• She sympathized with him in his sufferings.
• Tom’s parents do not sympathize with his
ambition to become an actor.
2. to give approval or encouragement to
1. to feel sorry for sb. because you understand their problem
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I.I. Word StudyWord Studysympathy: n.
• I have no sympathy for those people. They deserve
their punishment.
• We are all in sympathy with your proposals.
• sympathetic face/words/looks
• be sympathetic to
sympathetic: adj.
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List:
1. a flow (of)
2. be ashamed (of)
3. be thick with
4. be up
5. be up to
6. call it quits
7. cling to
8. be down and out
9. fool around/about
10. hush sth. up
11. liven up
12. slip off
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
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1. a flow of (pride)
Other phrases
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
a continuous stream, movement, or supply of sth.
During the tourist season, the flow of traffic usually
doubles.
Thanks to a steady flow of foreign capital, they are
able to expand their economy rapidly.
They know they are going to face a terrible flow of
refugees if nothing is done to prevent this
humanitarian disaster.
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II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
a flow of angry words
a flow of spirits
a flow of eloquence
a flow of news of victories
flowchart
flowmeter
滔滔的怒言 喜气洋洋 流利的口才 频传的捷报 流程图 流量表
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2. be ashamed (of)
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
He should be ashamed of what he has done.
She felt ashamed that she had done little to help them.
He was ashamed to ask for help.
Cf. shameful conduct 可耻的行为
a shameless exploiter 无耻的剥削者
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3. be thick with
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
The air was thick with dust.
1. abounding or packed with
John is very thick with Anne now.
2. be intimate with
as thick as thieves: very friendly
through thick and thin: under any kind of conditions,
good or bad
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4. be up
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
What’s up?
You’re up early today.
The game is up.
When is your leave up?
The river is up.
He is up a few pounds.
Put the sentences into Chinese. Cf.
be up to
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5. be up to
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
What’s he up to?
1. be occupied or busy with
He’s not up to this job.
I don’t feel up to going to work today.
2. be equal to
He is up to his neck in debts.
3. as far as
It’s up to us to give them all the help we can.
4. required as necessary
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6. call it quits
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
Will you call it quits if I pay you twenty dollars?
Let’s do one more exercise, and we’ll call it quits.
(infml.) to agree that a debt or an argument is settled; to agree to stop doing sth.
Cf.
call it a day
Let’s call it a day. 今天就干到这里,收工吧。
to decide that what has been done is enough for one day
call it a day
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7. cling to
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
cling to one’s view
cling to one’s hope that…
to hold tight
The child clung to his mother’s skirt.
Into English :那个孩子紧紧抓着他妈妈的裙子。
坚持己见 始终抱着…… 的希望
Synonym
stick to
hold to
keep to
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8. be down and out
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
He was down and out in the last hit.
1. (boxing) to be knocked out, unable to resume the fight
2. (fig.) to be beaten in the struggle of life;
to be unemployed and without money
His father was down and out at that time.
Into English:
那时候他父亲穷困潦倒。
Cf.
be down with
be down to
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Into English:
我们班上几乎四分之一的 同学都得流感病倒了。
Cf.
be down with
be down to
Into English:
我们只剩下最后五百块钱了。我们得向银行贷款。
Nearly a quarter of our class were down with flu.
We were down to the last 500 yuan. We had to raise a loan from the bank.
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9. fool around/about
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
He spends so much time fooling around that he
never accomplishes anything.
to trifle; to be idle and silly
Stop fooling around and do something useful.
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10. hush sth. up
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
He gave her a lot of gifts just to make her hush it
up.
She tried unsuccessfully to hush up the fact that her
husband was an ex-convict.
prevent sth. from becoming public knowledge
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11. liven up
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
How can we liven things up?
His humorous speech livened up our class.
The party is becoming to liven up.
That little performance was the only thing that
livened up the otherwise hopelessly boring party.
to make or become lively
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12. slip off
II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions
The general used to slip off and have a quiet drink in
the bar.
to go off quietly or secretly without being noticed or caught
Other phrases
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slip a coat on/off
slip into/out of a dress
slip a coin into one’s hand
slip through one’s fingers
let sth. slip
slip one’s mind
a slip of the tongue / pen
迅速穿上 / 脱下上衣 迅速穿上 / 脱去衣服 把一枚硬币迅速塞入某人中 未抓住;未把握住 放手;放过;错过 (某事)被忘记 口误 / 笔误
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III.III. Word BuildingWord BuildingList:
1. Derivation Prefix – un Prefix – super Suffix – ize
2. Conversion
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1. Derivation — prefix: un- ( 不;无;非)
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affected
available
adaptable
approved
easy
employed
unaffected
unavailable
unadaptable
unapproved
uneasy
unemployed
adj. adj.
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lock
button
tie
zip
pack
cover
unlock
unbutton
untie
unzip
unpack
uncover
v. v.
1. Derivation — prefix: un- ( 不;无;非)
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1. Derivation — prefix: super- ( 上…… ; 超…… ; 过分 )
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superstructure
superscribe
supernatural
superpower
superheat
supercool
superabundant
superfluous
上层建筑
写在(信封、包裹)上
超自然的
超级大国
过热
过冷
过剩的,过多的
过剩的,多余的
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1. Derivation — suffix -ize (使之……)
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modern
national
social
hospital
fertile
sympathy
computer
adj./n. v.
modernize
nationalize
socialize
hospitalize
fertilize
sympathize
computerize
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2. Conversion: a word-formation process whereby a word of a certain word-class is shifted into a word of another word-class without the addition of an affix.
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house
book
chair
shoulder
weed
fish
head
mushroom
house the poor
book a ticket
chair a meeting
shoulder the responsibility
weed the garden
fish in troubled waters
head a delegation
factories mushroom
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IV.IV. GrammarGrammar
1. “be + doing” structure
Continuous tense is sometimes used together
with adverbs like always, constantly, forever to
express the speaker’s strong approval or
disapproval.
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Example
It seemed to me that he was always showing off.
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past continuous tense with adverbs of frequency denoting a habitual action, especially an annoying one
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He was always telling stories about himself.
Jim is constantly forgetting to clean the test
tubes after experiments.
My old jeep is forever breaking down as I have to
rush somewhere.
That old man is always helping others.
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IV.IV. GrammarGrammar
2. as + adj. + a /an + as structure
In the above structure, the indefinite article is put
between the adjective and the noun.
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Examples: as intelligent a student as Mary
as interesting a novel as Oliver Twist
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3. You hear it said that fathers want their sons to
be what they feel they cannot themselves be,
but I tell you it also works the other way.
anticipatory “it” as object of “hear”
objective clause of “hear”
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4. Sometimes he’d stay away for weeks,
mother working to keep us fed, and
then home he’d come bringing, let’s say,
a ham.
an abstract structure of present participle
present participle used as an adverbial
compound connecting the two clauses
parenthesis
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5. To protect my mother I’d make up stories of a secret
marriage that for some strange reason never got
known.
subject of the attributive clause
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adverbial in the attributive clause
verb of the attributive clause
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6. It was as it was earlier, in the kitchen, a face filled
with sadness
subject
Para. 36
link verb predictive
adverbial clause
past participle used as an attribute
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I.I. Oral WorkOral Work
1. What does the author mean that “ fathers
want their sons to be what they cannot themselves be, but it also
works the other way?”
2. What kind of father did the author wish to have as a child? Did his
father meet his requirements? How did he feel about his father at
first? What qualities did his father have that made the author
particularly unhappy? Give three examples.
Questions to help comprehension and appreciation of the text.
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3. How did the author as a child describe his father? Why did he think
of him as foolish and ridiculous— a windbag and a good-for-
nothing? Was his father really showing off all the time? Why was he
so popular among the villagers including the local celebrities? Why
did the author’s mother have no complaint about him?
4. Why did the author’s father go broke? What did that reveal about his
character?
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5. Retell the anecdote of the author’s father and general Grant in the
wood the day the general was to meet Robert Lee as imagined by the
author’s father.
6. What happened one day that changed the author’s opinions of his
father completely? Why was it such an important turning point? Why
did his father do this? Did the author understand at that time? Why
did he say that from that time on he no longer wanted another father?
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II.II. Quiz Quiz
List:
1. Quiz 1
2. Quiz 2
3. Quiz 3
4. Quiz 4
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II.II. Quiz 1Quiz 1
The end of Quiz 1.
Put the phrases into English.
1. 经营一家五金店2. 变得不名分文3. 避免张扬4. 同情某人5. 活跃气氛6. 吓某人一跳7. 拒绝赊帐8. 忍受侮辱9. 打碎玻璃10.负责指挥部队
Keys
1. run a hardware store
2. go broke
3. hush it up
4. sympathize with sb.
5. liven up the atmosphere
6. startle sb.
7. refuse credit
8. stand the insult
9. smash the window
10.take charge of the army
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II.II. Quiz 2Quiz 2
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Put the phrases into English.
1. 拉开夹克的拉链2. 打开行李3. 解开绳子4. 卸下船上的货5. 拔掉收音机电源6. 刮去鱼鳞7. 将酒装瓶8. 跟踪某人9. 骑自行车上学10. 用好奇的眼光看人
Keys
1. unzip the jacket
2. unpack the luggage
3. untie the rope
4. unload the ship
5. unplug the radio
6. scale the fish
7. bottle the wine
8. tail after sb.
9. bike to school
10. eye sb. with curiosity
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3
1. Is there anything you want from town? I am going to
get _______.
A. to mail those letters
B. these letters mailed
C. mailed letters
D. those letters to mail
2. His remarks left me ______ about his real purpose.
A. wondered
B. wonder
C. to wonder
D. wondering
B
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D
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3. Don’t put the TV set in ______ place.
A. a such warm
B. what warm a
C. how warm a
D. too warm a
4. Exercising is ______ as any to lose unwanted weight.
A. as a good way
B. so a good way
C. as good a way
D. too good a
D
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 35. The output of steel in this year is ______.
A. three times as high as that of 1990
B. three times high as 1990
C. as three times higher as that of 1990
D. as high as three times as that of 1990
6. We often advise him not to drink more wine ______ is
good for his health.
A. as
B. than
C. that
D. but
A
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 37. ______ about the bookkeeper’s honesty, the company asked him to resign. A. There be some questions B. Thee were some questions C. There have been some questions
D. There being some questions
8. The children went there to watch the iron tower _____.
A. to erect
B. erecting
C. be erected
D. being erected
D
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 39. With the development in science and technology, man can make various flowers ______ before their time. A. be bloomed B. blooming
C. bloom D. bloomed
10. Melted iron is poured into the mixer ______ tea is
poured into a cup from a teapot.
A. in the same way like
B. in the same way which
C. in the same way
D. in the same way as
C
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 311. I will not spend so much money on that fur coat, for I don’t think it is ______. A. worth buying B. worth of C. worthy D. worthwhile
12. All the parts of this washing machine are ______, so
that it is very convenient to replace them.
A. normalized
B. modernized
C. mechanized
D. standardized
A
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 313. The novel contains some marvelously revealing ______ of rural life in the 19th century. A. glances B. glimpses
C. glares D. gleans
14. He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on working. A. glanced B. viewed C. glimpsed D. saw
B
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 3
15. He was ______ of having asked such a silly question. A. sorry B. for students’ being C. ashamed
D. miserable
16. Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not ______ to close examination. A. look up B. pay up C. keep up D. stand up
C
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 317. It’s usually the case that people seldom behave in a ______ way when in a furious state. A. stable B. rational C. legal D. credible 18. He moved away from his parents and missed them ______ enjoy the exciting life in New York. A. enough to B. too much to C. very much to D. much so as to
B
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II.II. Quiz 3Quiz 319. The heart is ______ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain. A. not so B. much more C. not more
D. no more 20. The children had never been subject to any discipline and so were completely ______. A. out of hand B. out of place C. out of season D. out of action
D
A
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II.II. Quiz 4Quiz 4
The end of Quiz 4.
Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.
1. She looks _________ in those tight jeans. (ridicule)
2. Will the bus workers strike in _________ with the railway
workers? (sympathize)
3. That was a wonderful ________ of luck. (strike)
4. He ________ his voice to a whisper. (low)
5. The doctors said that her recovery was a ________.
(miraculous) 6.You should ________ yourself against loss of heat by having double glazing. (sure)
ridiculous
sympathy
stroke
lowered
miracle
ensure
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When I was growing up, I was ___________ to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would feel _______ at the unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on.
It was difficult to coordinate our steps — his halting, mine impatient—and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the pace. I will try to _______ to you.”
embarrassed
uneasy
adjust
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was
how he got to work. He went to work sick, and despite
nasty weather. He almost never _______ a day, and would
make it to the office even if others could not. A matter of
pride.
missed
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When there was snow or ice on the ground, it was
impossible for him to walk, even with help. At such times,
my sisters or I would ______ him through the streets of
Brooklyn, N.Y., on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance.
Once there, he would ______ to the handrail until he
reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept
ice-free. In Manhattan the subway station was the
basement of his office building, and he would not have to
go outside again until we met him in Brooklyn on his way
home.
cling
pull
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When I think of it now, I _______ at how much courage
it must have taken for a grown man to subject himself to
such ________ and stress. And at how he did it—without
________ or complaint.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity, nor
did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What
he looked for in others was “ good heart”, and if he found
one, the owner was good enough for him.
bitterness
indignity
marvel
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know _______ what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I don’t have one myself.
Unable to engage in many activities, my father still tried to _________ in some way. When a local baseball team found itself without a manager, he kept it _______. He was a knowledgeable baseball fan and also liked to go to dances and parties, where he could have a good time just sitting around and watching.
participate
precisely
going
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A Good Heart to Lean onMore than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
I now know he participated in some things just through
me, his son. When I played ball, he “played” too. When I
joined the Navy, he “joined” too. And when I came home
on leave, he “saw to it that I visited his office”. Introducing
me, he was really saying, “This is my son, but it is also me,
and I could have done this, too, if things had been
different.” Those words were never said aloud.
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More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.By Augustus J. Bullock
He has been gone many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he sensed my _________ to be seen with him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him how sorry I was, how ________ I was, how I regretted it. I think of him when I complain about trifles, when I am envious of another’s fortune, when I don’t have a “good heart”.
At such times I put my hand on his arm to ______ my balance, and say, “You set the pace. I will try to adjust to you.”
unworthy
reluctance
regain
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