1、lesson two how reading changed my life Anna quindlen，warm-up questions，warm-up questions，what do you usually read？Short stories？諾貝爾？Newspapers？Or magazines？In Chinese or In English？the author has mentioned quite a few well-known stories and novels that have have great influence on her .talk about a

2、book or mentions Nti oned in the text(two)you have read and would like to recommend to others，warm-up questions，do youIs it true？If it is，how do you account for this situation？what can we do to change the situation？author Anna Marie quindlen、author、Anna Marie quindlen (born July 8，1952) is an Americ

3、an author、journalist、Anna Marie quindlenquindlen is married to Gerald krovatin，an attorneythey have Three children . she lives with her family in new York city . she has written five best-selling novels，Three of which have been made into made，proverbs，sayining西山有吉根，學(xué)問無(wú)止境，辛苦造船。寫書才少恨，過(guò)了對(duì)與錯(cuò)，不知困難。讀一百遍書，

4、自行看其意義。所長(zhǎng)不努力，第一是悲傷。，I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough book shelves . annes dll you know youve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend . Paul sween ey TV .

5、 if kids are entertained Two lettete But id know you better if you told me what you reread . Fran ois mauriac there are worse crimes than burning books . one of them is not reading them Ph brodsks the text is a much shortened And adapted version of the orre Structure，Part the introduction(para . 1)I

6、 grew up in a quiet neighborhood www 、skimming、1。how did the author went to saint Petersburg when he was young。2.the quotation it is a far，far better thing that I do，than I have everdoneIt is a far，far better rest that I go to，than I have ever known .”is from which book？Who said it？skimming，3 what a

7、re most Americans opinions towards aimless reading(reading without any particular purpose)？4 of the presidents mentioned in para . 11，who supports reading？5 What does the last sentence mean？language study、describe the authors home town in simple words。(para.1)，1.extent，width or expanse of sth范圍；寬度；寬

8、度。寬度： a spread of thirty miles 30英里范圍the spread of a birds wings鳥的翅膀?qū)挾?。extent of space or timestreak(空間)范圍； a spread of 100 years連續(xù)100年，spread，Colonial s : houses built in the style of the 18 th century during the Colonial period of americal閑逛漫游；走在shewas wandering aimlessly up and down the road。她在街

9、上走來(lái)走去. ive spent two years wander，on earth world .我周游了世界兩年。wander和他在一起的那個(gè)女人到底是誰(shuí)？Where on earth did you find that pen？你究竟在哪里找到那支筆的？Queen Victoria(1819 1901)Was the monarch of the United kingdom of great Britain And Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death . she inhering，middle March George Eliot，middle marked by a great expansion of the British empire。英國(guó)女作家喬治艾略特小說(shuō)的標(biāo)題米德爾馬契是作家虛構(gòu)的英國(guó)姓氏。城堡附近的莊園里住著布魯克老師的侄子西莉亞和多蘿西婭。多蘿西婭想找學(xué)者型丈夫，不顧人們的反對(duì)，與年長(zhǎng)27歲的牧師卡蘇朋訂婚，并預(yù)見卡蘇朋的侄子威拉迪斯拉夫。與此同時(shí)，27歲的雷德蓋特來(lái)到米德爾馬契，建立了新醫(yī)院，提倡醫(yī)療改革。改革打動(dòng)了當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)生的利益，瑞德蓋特娶了米德爾馬市長(zhǎng)的女兒羅莎蒙德為妻，賺了很多錢。結(jié)婚的多蘿西婭很孤獨(dú)，威爾和她聊天，墜入愛河，最后被卡蘇