发布时间 : 星期四 文章Unit10 Text 1 Love and Resentment更新完毕开始阅读553376c22cc58bd63186bd67
GLOSSARY
resentment colon
weeding humiliate muffled affliction filthy appellation slut hallucination overgrown searing bitch file
flush sandpaper outburst scratch impassive epidermis paranoid raw
schizophrenic loathsome crescendo alien laboriously pathetic burgeon scarecrow harassing gnawing commitment fall in
tension superstructure span travail medication embryo adrenaline trigger primordial splatter lurk grain
blaze peremptorily antipsychotic whirl empathy shrill
incessantly hemophiliac perpetual chunks inflammation spin
Notes
1. About the author Barbara Bick (1941- ) is a peace activist ,feminist,and writer as well as an advocate for the mentally ill in Washington,D.C. Currently ,she is writing a book titled The Riddle of the Demon Mother .Her essay Love and Resentment first appeared in The New York Times.
2. screen door (Paragraph2) a door made of fine netting which is on the outside of the main door of the house .It is used to keep the insects out when the main door is open.
3. deck chair (Paragraph5) a simple chair with a folding frame ,and a piece of canvas as the seat and back .Deck chairs are usually used on the beach ,on the ship or
in the garden.
4. Surely, I can live for two weeks with the tension and outbursts.(Paragraph10) Although my daughter creates such mental and emotional strain with her uncontrollable fits of temper, I can still stand it for the two weeks each year we come to the island as we have for the past three years.
5. But I count the days until she is gone and there are moments when I think ,no ,not another summer.(Paragraph11) During the two weeks , I always look forward to the day when she will go back to the city ,and thinking of the ordeal ,I sometimes even make up my mind not to take her to the island with me again.
6… I came up ,(Paragraph12) …I came to the island .
7. But they remain with me . (Paragraph12) But these attacks have never escaped from my memories.
8. Crohn‘s disease (Paragraph14) sometimes called regional enteritis, a chronic inflammation of the intestines resulting from an extreme reaction of the immune system. The disease is found mainly in Europe ,North American ,and Australia . And it was named B.B.Crohn , an American doctor.克罗恩氏病，节段性回肠炎，局限性肠（结肠）炎
9. The daughter I would have had –were it ot for this evil illness—exists in embryo in the daughter I do have .(Paragraph19) Although the evil illness has made my daughter a very different person ,she still displays,in the most basic form ,characteristics.
Text comprehension
1. The author harbours all the following feelings towards her sick daughter EXCEPT_________. A.love and care
B.occasional resentment and fear C.self- reproach and guilt D.constant hate
II.Judge，according to the text ,whether the following statements are ture or false. 1. I moved up against the bathroom window in the hope of catching what my daughter was exactly saying so as to know her better though I was sometimes frightened by her wild outbursts.
2. I bought the house on the island three years ago for the sake of my sick daughter .
3. Although she has attacked me only three times during the 24 years of her illness ,they struck me to the quick.
4. I am kept awake tonight by the thought of the terrifying illusions which normal people experience only briefly in their worst dreams , but plague my daughter nearly all the time .
5. Kathy began to feel the mental changes when she graduated from high school .
III.Answer the following questions.
1. What does the author‘s house on the island signify to her ?
2. Describe the way the author feels about her daughter‘s illness .What can you infer from it ?
3. Why does the author sleep lightly ,sensing the lights blazing downstairs? 4. What happened to Kathy at college?
5. Why does the author sometimes reproach herself for Kathy‘s outbursts?
6. In what way does Kathy console the author once her sporadic hysteria ends ?How does the author respond ?Why ?
7. Why does the author conclude she is responsible and irresponsible?
IV.Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text . 1. The screams were so muffled I could barely hear them. 2. My voice quieter and quieter as hers rose in crescendo .
3. No matter how intimate one is with this illness ,the primordial fear of madness lurks deep winthin.
4. She has no empathy with her own body .
5. T he daughter I would have had – were it not for this evil illness – exists in embryo in the daughter I do have .
6. I will do the best I can with the worst I have to live with.
Writing strategies
This text is a piece of lively ,concrete and vivid narration .The writer describes her daughter‘s illness and behacior as well as the mixed feelings she has for her . Her traumatic experiences are presented through some typical events and examples ,flashbacks ,muffled mutterings ,infuriated utterances ,and dialogues. The writer ?s inner thoughts are also revealed ,sometimes through utterances she seems to be making to herself .Moreover ,in order to make her narration more vivid and impressive ,the writer employs various rhetorical devises ,particularly metaphor ,in proper places .
The following three questions are worth discussing : ⑴ In which paragraphs can we find the flashbacks? ⑵Can you find those sentences that seem to be spoken by the author to herself to disclose the agonizing state of her mind ? ⑶ Point out some typical examples of metaphor or metaphorical expressions used in the narration .
Language work
I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own work . 1. I moved cautiously …straining to catch the exact words. 2. The flushing toilet drowned out the rest .
3. I shook away that memory and rose laboriously .
4. I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I am afraid to be deep in sleep while she is awake .
5. Sometimes inside me is going thru this funny ,alien state ,a sense of being at the mercy of som strange force…
6. Like Tuesday ,when I came upon her pouring coffee straight from the jar…
II.Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in their appropriate froms and note the difference of meaning between them .
RESENTMENT OFFENSE
1. She cherished a deep _____________ towards her employers for having denied her a promotion.
2. Success is a motivator ;regular failure only fuels fear and _______________.
3. Never had she seen him so tense,so quick to take _______________as he had been in recent weeks.
4. Reporters and photographers alike took great _____________at the rude way the star behaved during her interview. NEGLECT NEGLIGENCE
1. _____________,among other qualities,can be the most harmful to students taking exams.
2. The town‘s oldest temple is collapsing due to years of _____________.
3. The _____________that large cities like New York have received over the past years is tremendous.
4. The accident resulted from faulty car brakes ,and the driver was accused of _____________.
MEDICATION MEDICINE
1. Sunshine and rest are good ______________for convalesscents.
2. You could begin to think about a cure that would not require lifelong _____________.
3. If your doctor determines that you have high blood pressure, you may be placed on ______________.
4. The best _____________ for overweight individuals is careful dieting. APPELLATION NAME
1. Not being a British citizen ,and belonging to a country that has not been part of the British Empire since 1776, Reagan was not entitled to use the _____________‖Sir‖.
2. These bullies never used her real ______________, but simply referred to her with a(n) _______________.
3. She‘s never had any drug problems or done anything to give jazz a bad