英语专业英语短篇小说教案及课后答案

Keys to Unit One

Langston Hughes: Early Autumn

Teaching objectives: 1.To learn the elements of fiction/short story

2. Text for Reading

3. Interpretation and Discussion

Difficulties: 1. To find the meaning under the surface of the words

2. To write a short story after reading Time: 4 periods Teaching procedures:

1. the Introduction of the textbook as well as the teaching aims 2. the elements of fiction/short story

Fiction: the word fiction is a rather general term that can be defined as narrativ

英语读物

A Tray of Ice Cubes

Daphne and Colin were spending Friday evening as they spent most Friday evenings – in front of the telly with a microwaved dinner and a bottle of sweet German wine, watching their favourite programme; a camcorder compilation of matrimonial mishaps and wedding-day disasters called The World s Worst Weddings .

Each programme treated its viewers to a parade of doomed brides tumbling down church steps, or skidding backwards and landing legs-in-the-air on dance floors.

Beautifully crafted, four-tiered weddi

英语读物

A Tray of Ice Cubes

Daphne and Colin were spending Friday evening as they spent most Friday evenings – in front of the telly with a microwaved dinner and a bottle of sweet German wine, watching their favourite programme; a camcorder compilation of matrimonial mishaps and wedding-day disasters called The World s Worst Weddings .

Each programme treated its viewers to a parade of doomed brides tumbling down church steps, or skidding backwards and landing legs-in-the-air on dance floors.

Beautifully crafted, four-tiered weddi

英语短篇小说教程 虞建华 高等教育出版社 课后答案

Keys to Unit Two

(1) I. B. Singer: The Washwoman

(2) Frank Sargeson: A Piece of Yellow Soap

1) Questions for Discussion:

(Suggested answers for reference)

(1) Does the piece of washing soap have the ―power‖ as the narrator tells us? What is the ―power‖ that forces him to take off?

(The piece of yellow washing soap is, of course, an ordinary one. The narrator is a ―naïve narrator‖ who believed that it had some sort of mysterious ―power,‖ while the readers are expected to know better. This power comes

英语短篇小说教程 虞建华 高等教育出版社 课后答案

Keys to Unit Two

(1) I. B. Singer: The Washwoman

(2) Frank Sargeson: A Piece of Yellow Soap

1) Questions for Discussion:

(Suggested answers for reference)

(1) Does the piece of washing soap have the ―power‖ as the narrator tells us? What is the ―power‖ that forces him to take off?

(The piece of yellow washing soap is, of course, an ordinary one. The narrator is a ―naïve narrator‖ who believed that it had some sort of mysterious ―power,‖ while the readers are expected to know better. This power comes

　　The house was very still. In the little room over the porch, the lady in black sat alone. Near her, a child's white dress lay across a chair. On the floor at her feet lay a tiny pair of shoes. A doll hung over a chair and a toy soldier occupied the little stand by the bed.

　　And everywhere was silence-the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

　　The clock stood on the shelf near the end of the bed. The Lady in Black looked at it. She remembered the wave of anger that had come over

爱伦坡短篇小说

作品中

英文名

文名

出版日期 类型 说明

匿名发表。 恐

梅岑格

Metzengerstein

施泰因

1832-01-14 怖、

in Imitation of

讽刺

the German

最初副标题：A Tale

德洛梅

最初名：The Duke of

勒特公The Duc De L'Omelette 1832-03-03 幽默

l'Omelette

爵 耶路

撒冷的A Tale of Jerusalem 1832-06-09 幽默

故事 失去呼

Loss of Breath

吸

甭甭 Bon-Bon

最初名：A Decided

1832-10-10 幽默

Loss 最初名：The

1832-12-01 幽默

Bargain Lost

冒

瓶中手

MS. Found in a Bottle 1833-10-19 险、

稿

恐怖

1834-01

最初名：The 恐怖

Visionary。匿名发

幽会 The Assignation

贝蕾妮

Berenice

丝

莫雷娜 Morella 捧为名

Lionizing

流

瘟疫王 King Pest

死荫

——寓Shadow - A Parable 言一则

四不象 Four Beasts in One 故弄

　　I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another. However, I still like to think that it really did happen, somewhere, sometime.

　　几年前我在纽约的格林尼治村从一位遇到的姑娘那儿第一次听到这个故事。它也许是那种隔几年就会改头换面地被重新传播一次的神奇的民间传说。然而我仍然愿意想象它是个某地某时真正发生过的事。

　　They were going to Fort Lauderdalethree boys and three girls and when they boarded the bus, they were carrying sandwiches

　　早上6点半，闹钟响，她起床，洗漱，开火，做饭。

　　7点，他起床，洗漱，吃饭。7点半，他送孩子上学，她去上班。

　　晚上，她下班回家，接回孩子，顺带去超市买菜，到家，安排孩子写作业，自己关在厨房里煎炒煮炸。

　　他回来，躺在沙发上看电视，饭菜上桌，三口之家围在一起吃饭。

　　吃完饭，他在书房写字，她去楼上看书。

　　10点半，她上床睡觉，他依然在书房写字。

　　结婚七年，几乎每个日子都是往返重复，感觉一天就是一辈子，他对这种波澜不惊的婚姻生活产生了怀疑和失望。

　　那天下班，不想回家，机缘巧合，遇到一个风情万种的女子。

　　于是，他回家越来越晚，甚至夜不归宿。

　　阳台上挂着他的衬衣和袜子，卫生间有他的牙刷和毛巾，家里到处都是他的味道，却没有他这个人。

　　她每天半夜都要起来坐会才能继续入睡，她承认对他关心不够，孩子、家务、工作占去了她大量时间。

　　他在她面前掩饰的时候，她宁愿相信他是贪玩的孩子，只是一时忘了回家，但很快会回家。

　　当他告诉她，那个女子很善良，他爱那个女子，要和她离婚时，她的心在流血，她发疯似地拳头没头没脑地打在他身上，她绝望的是她在用身心经营家，而他身心出轨。

　　身心俱惫的她住进了医院，面对疾病，她从最初的愤怒中冷静下来，开始找各种原谅他的

　　Promptly at the beginning of twilight, came again to that quiet corner of that quiet, small park the girl in gray. She sat upon a bench and read a book, for there was yet to come a half hour in which print could be accomplished.

　　To repeat: Her dress was gray, and plain enough to mask its impeccancy of style and fit. A large meshed veil imprisoned her turban hat and a face that shone through it with a calm and unconscious beauty. She had come there at the same hour on the day previous, and on the day before that; and ther