英文短篇小说阅读unit 3 text B

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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing-a brief biography LessingDoris Lessing has been one of Britain’s most prominent writers for more than 50 years. Born in Iran and brought up in Zimbabwe (then the British colony of Southern Rhodesia), Lessing spent her childhood on a remote farm in the African bush. Essentially self-educated, she dropped out of school at 13, and married 6 years selflater. A supporter of Communism, she left her husband and young family for Gottfried Lessing, the local Communist leader, whom she married in the 1940s. Unpopular in the colony not only for her Communist views but also for her deep commitment to African rights, Lessing’s first novel, The Grass is Singing, was a critique of racial politics in Rhodesia. In 1949 she left the country with her young son and came to England about the time her novel was published. This was followed the next year by African Stories, a collection of short stories. In London she wrote a series of autobiographical novels from 1952-1969, the 1952Children of Violence series, which explored the developing consciousness of her heroine, Martha Quest. In her life as in her work, Lessing now revealed an increasing disillusion with Communism, parting from it altogether in 1954. In 1962, Lessing published her best-known work, The Golden Notebook, which has become besta feminist classic. Innovative in content and style, the novel explored the multiple selves of a contemporary woman in terms of her creativity and feminine identity. It was to prove a lasting influence on a generation of female writers and readers.

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Doris Lessing-a brief biography LessingLessing’s interest in mysticism and science fiction owed much to the interpretations of the Sufi teacher Idries Shah, who held that the evolution of an inpidual’s consciousness was closely connected with the evolution of the society. From 1979, Lessing developed this theme with a science fiction series, Canopus in Argus: Archives (1979-1983). Using the vehicle of science fiction (1979to investigate the possibility of higher planes of existence, she wrote a number of novels which sought to go beyond the SF genre, especially in The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) and The Sirian Experiments (1981). Contemporary society continued to interest Lessing, however, and in 1985 she published The Good Terrorist, a satire on student politics. Two volumes of autobiography were published in 1995 and 1997, covering the period from her African childhood to the publication of The Golden Notebook. Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Brief Introduction to “A Sunrise on the Veld” “A Sunrise on the Veld” tells the story of a boy who goes hunting on the veld before sunrise. In the beginning, he is filled with the excitement and wonder of life. However, after witnessing the death of a small helpless buck, the boy comes to realize the cruelty of nature and life: death is inevitable. Lessing’s experience of growing up on a farm

in Africa is the resource of this story.

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Question 1What figures of speech are used in the first three paragraphs to vividly express the boy’s absolute control of himself?

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Answer 1The figures of speech used are: simile: He fell asleep as at once, if a shutter had fallen. (Para. 1) simile: …arms and legs and fingers waiting like soldiers for a word of command! (Para. 3) metaphor: …now sleep seemed to him a servant to be commanded and refused. (Para. 3)

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Question 2The boy stretched his frame full-length, full-length, touching the wall at his head with his hands, hands, and the bedfoot with his toes; then he sprung out, like a fish leaping out, from water. Pay attention to the four verbs used in this sentence. Please draw a mental picture of the way the boy gets up from his bed?

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Answer 2The four main verbs are: Stretch Touch Spring Leap In this sentence, the word “spring” and the simile “like a fish leaping from water” capture his swiftness and readiness of getting up from the bed.

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Question 3Read paragraphs from 5 to 7 carefully. Please find the expressions used to describe the coldness in the early hour.

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Answer 3…his hands were numbed... (Para. 5) …the flesh of his soles contracted on the chilled earth, and his legs began to ache with cold. (Para. 6) The steel was icy, and numbed fingers slipped along it, … (Para. 7) The adjectives “chilled” and “icy” directly describe the cold weather. The verbs “numb”, “contract” as well as “ache” describe the effect of the coldness on the boy’s body.

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Question 4“Bolt” in paragraph 7 is contrasted with “creep” (Para. 6) and “tiptoe” (Para. 7). Guess the meaning of this verb.

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Answer 4To “bolt” means to move suddenly and quickly; while the words “tiptoe” and “creep” suggest slow, careful and cautious movement.

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Question 5He always looked back over his shoulder at the house before he passed a wall of trees that shut it from sight. It looked so low and small, crouching there under a small, tall and brilliant sky. Then he turned his back on it. The boy is leaving the house for the veld. Can veld. these sentences reflect hi …… 此处隐藏：4315字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……