文章分析

Blurb:?

作者、書名、出版日期都相對屬于無用信息。但是介紹了主要人物角色、特征及關(guān)系。

deathbed?

所以通過閱讀Blurb我們就有個預(yù)期，想要知道兩個主人公之間的故事。

para 1:?

故事引入，一個將死之人在病榻上對辛苦耕耘的土地的回憶；

impression 效果

para 2:?

同上，說白了，就是地難種；

para 3 比較長，我們自行10-15行切分：

Line 25-35: 女主人公出現(xiàn)；

line 35-47:?兒子不如女兒；

line 47-段尾：兒子能干但不聰明，女兒聰明像爺爺，然后回憶了爺爺?shù)纳睿?/p>

para 4:?

當(dāng)然希望兒子能接班，但是女兒也不錯啊~

很接地氣的一篇小故事。

題型解析：

1? ?主旨題

futility?徒勞無功

跟fertile做好辨析

2? ?主旨題/結(jié)構(gòu)題，從討論地到討論人~

3? ?結(jié)構(gòu)題

常錯C。問14-17的功能，就應(yīng)該輕信息本身，重信息關(guān)系。

4? ?直接信息

5? ?單詞意思

6? ?間接細節(jié)

7? ?直接細節(jié)

8? ?上一題定位

9? ?獨立循證

10 類比題

背景拓展：

Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (/?k?e?r/;?December 7, 1873?– April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of?frontier?life on the?Great Plains, including?O Pioneers!?(1913),?The Song of the Lark?(1915), and?My ántonia?(1918). In 1923 she was awarded the?Pulitzer Prize?for?One of Ours?(1922), a novel set during?World War?I.

Cather graduated from the?University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in?Pittsburgh?for ten years,?supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to?New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on?Grand Manan Island,?New Brunswick.?

O Pioneers!?

O Pioneers!?is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by?The Song of the Lark?(1915) and?My ántonia?(1918).?

O Pioneers!??tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of?Swedish-American?immigrants in the farm country near the fictional?town of Hanover,?Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata.?

homestead act

an act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation 份地法; 美國國會通過的劃出給移民160英畝公用土地作為耕地的法令

homesteaders

農(nóng)場所有人；分得土地之定居者；自耕農(nóng)