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Unit 1,Text A,Winston Churchill,His Other Life,21st Century College English:Book II,Pre-reading Activities,Intensive Study,Exercises,Review of Text A,Unit 1:Text A,Listening Comprehension,Pre-reading Questions,Pre-reading Activities,Who was Winston Churchill?What positions did he hold in the British government?,What about his personality?,What do you know about Winston Churchill and the two World Wars?,Pre-reading Activities,First Listening:,Youre about to hear a conversation about Winston Churchill.Before you listen to the recording,take a look at the words below.Which ones do you think youre likely to hear when people discuss Churchill?Then,as you listen to the recording the first time,circle the words you hear.,prime ministerauthorpainterpolitician,World War Iromanticfearlesspassionate,seriousWorld War II,Pre-reading Activities,First Listening:,Youre about to hear a conversation about Winston Churchill.Before you listen to the recording,take a look at the words below.Which ones do you think youre likely to hear when people discuss Churchill?Then,as you listen to the recording the first time,circle the words you hear.,prime ministerauthorpainterpolitician,World War Iromanticfearlesspassionate,seriousWorld War II,Pre-reading Activities,Second Listening:,Read the following questions to prepare yourself to better answer them once you have listened to the recording the second time.,What was the argument about?Which side do you believe?,What do you know about Winston Churchill as a British prime minister?What about his personality do you have any impressions of him as a human being?,Pre-reading Activities,M:,So how was your visit to the museum?,W:,Fine.And youll never believe what I saw there:a painting by Winston Churchill!I never knew he was a,painter.,M:,A painter?That cant be right.It must have been a different Winston Churchill.,W:,No,it really was the famous one the Prime Minister.The museum guard told me.,M:,I dont believe you!When would Winston Churchill the Prime Minister have time to become a painter?,Pre-reading Activities,He was too busy with the war.People dont become painters overnight,you know!,W:,Well,World War II didnt last forever.Maybe he became a painter after he retired.,M:,But he was a politician!Politicians arent artistic.You need passion to be a painter.,W:,So maybe he had a passionate side to his character that we dont know about.Anyway,if you dont believe me,we can check in the encyclopedia.,Pre-reading Activities,Winston Churchill His Other Life,by Mary Soames,1,My father,Winston Churchill,began his,love affair,with painting in his 40s,amid disastrous,circumstances,.As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915,he had been deeply involved in a campaign in the,Dardanelles,that could have shortened the course of a,bloody world war,.But when the,mission,failed,with great loss of life,Churchill,paid the price,both publicly and privately:He was removed from the Admiralty and lost his position of political influence.,Question,Unit 1:Text A,2,Overwhelmed,by the disaster “I thought he would die ofgrief,”said his wife,Clementine he retired with his family to Hoe Farm,a country,retreat,inSurrey.There,as Churchill later recalled,“The muse of painting,came to my rescue,!”,3,One day when he was wandering in the garden,he,chanced upon,his sister-in-lawsketching with watercolors.He watched her for a few minutes,then borrowed her brush and,tried his hand,and the muse worked her magic.From that day forward,Winston was in love with painting.,Question,Unit 1:Text A,4,Delighted with anything thatdistracted Winston from the dark thoughts that overwhelmed him,Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints and materials she could find.Watercolours,oil paints,paper,canvas Hoe Farm was soon filled with everything a painter could want or need.,5,Painting in oils turned out to be Winstons great love but the first steps were strangely difficult.He,contemplated,theblank whiteness of his first canvas withunaccustomed nervousness.He later recalled:,Question,Unit 1:Text A,6,“Veryhesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint,and with infiniteprecaution made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field.At that moment I heard the sound of amotorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic.I was even more alarmed when I saw who stepped from the car:the wife of SirJohn Lavery,the celebrated painter who lived nearby.,Question,Unit 1:Text A,7,“Painting!she declared.What fun.But what are you waiting for?Let me have the brush the big one.She,plunged into,the paints and,before I knew it,she had swept several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on theabsolutely terrified canvas.Anyone could see it could not hit back.I hesitated no more.I seized the largest brush and,fell upon,mywretched victim with wildfury.I have never felt any fear of a canvas since.”,Question,Unit 1:Text A,8,Lavery,who later tutored Churchill in his art,said of his unusual pupils artistic abilities:“Had he chosen painting instead of politics,he would have been a great master with the brush.”,Question,Unit 1:Text A,9,In painting,Churchill had discovered a companion with whom he was to walk for the greater part of his life.,Painting would be his comfort when,in 1921,the death of his mother was followed two months later by the loss of his and Clementines beloved three-year-old daughter,Marigold.,Overcome by grief,Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland and in his painting.,He wrote to Clementine:“I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with red and golden hills in the background.Many loving thoughts.Alas,I keep feeling the hurt of Marigold.”,Question,Unit 1:Text A,10,Life and love and hope slowly,revived,.In September 1922 another child was born to Clementine and Winston:myself.In the same year,Winston bought Chartwell,the beloved home he was to paint in all its different aspects for the next 40 years.,Unit 1:Text A,11 My father must have felt,aglow of satisfaction,when in the mid-1920s he won first prize in a prestigiousamateur art exhibition held in London.,Entries were anonymous,and some of the judges insisted that Winstons picture one of his first of Chartwell was the work of a professional,not an amateur,and should be disqualified.But in the end,they agreed to,rely on,the artists honesty and were delighted when they learned that the picture had been painted by Churchill.,Question,Unit 1:Text A,12,Historians have called the decade after 1929,when Winston again fell from office,his barren years,.Politically barren they may have been,as his lonely voice struggled to awaken Britain to the menace ofHitler,but artistically those years bore abundant fruit:of the 500-odd Churchill canvases inexistence,roughly half date from 1930 to 1939.,Question,Unit 1:Text A,13 Painting remained a joy to Churchill to the end of his life.“Happy are the painters,”he had written in his book Painting as a Pastime,“for they shall not be lonely.Light and colour,peace and hope,will,keep them company,to the end of the day.”,And so it was for my father.,(776 Words),Question,Unit 1:Text A,Exercises,Vocabulary,Word Building,Structure,Cloze,Translation,Reading Analysis,Structure Writing,Vocabulary,Exercise III,Exercise IV,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,1.Ive always envied painters and poets I have no _ ability at all.,2.Hes struggling to _ his fear of flying,but he still panics sometimes when he has to board a plane.,artistic,overcome,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,3.She held her new born baby with _ tenderness.,4.The whole nation was _ into profound grief when Princess Diana died in an accident.,infinite,plunged,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,5.The volunteers _ is to work with the police to reduce crime on the streets of New York.,6.The city is planning a public _ to awaken people to the problem of noise pollution.,mission,campaign,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,8.Once their books are open,A students dont let anything _ them from their studies.,7.He was knocked unconscious by a stone,and after I _ him,he didnt recognize me.,revived,distract,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,9.Amanda wasnt feeling well that day but she performed in the play with her _ ease.,10.When you feel overwhelmed by the complications of life in the big city,its good to _ to the countryside for a few days.,accustomed,retreat,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,11.In times of war,people usually buy and store more food as a _ against shortages.,12.The closing of the cigarette factory had _ effects on the towns economy.,precaution,disastrous,accustomed precaution campaign artistic infinite plunge,disastrous overcome revive retreat distract mission,III.Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.Change the forms where necessary.,IV.Replace the underlined portions of the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best match the original meaning.,delighted with,1.,Though,excited about,the beautiful scenery he was painting.Churchill kept thinking about his daughter Marigold.,2.He struggled for many years before his efforts,produced results,.,bore fruit,kept Clementine company,rely on,3.I wonder who,kept Clementine from feeling lonely,while her husband was painting in Scotland.,4.In a market-driven economy,a business cant,depend on,the government to help it out.,IV.Replace the underlined portions of the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best match the original meaning.,take refuge,awaken people to,5.Home is the place where you can always,find comfort,when you meet with frustration,(,挫折,),in your career.,6.Non-Smoking Day is part of a campaign to,make people realize,the dangers of smoking.,IV.Replace the underlined portions of the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best match the original meaning.,pay the price,chanced upon;dated from,7.If you drink any more of that wine,youll,suffer,in the morning.,8.The construction workers,happened to find,some ancient coins that were made in the 13th century.,IV.Replace the underlined portions of the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best match the original meaning.,tried his hand at,fell upon;came to her rescue,9.He was in his 40s when he first,attempted to learn,calligraphy,(,书法,),.,10.Two men suddenly appeared and,attacked,the girl,but fortunately some passersby heard her screams and,saved her,.,IV.Replace the underlined portions of the following sentences with words or expressions from the text that best match the original meaning.,Word Building,Exercise V,Exercise VI,V.The suffixes,en,can be added to some adjectives to form verbs meaning,become,or,make(sth.)become,.,Examples:,shorten,-,make sth.short(er);become short(er),The campaign could have,made the war shorter,.,The campaign could have,shortened,the war.,V.The suffixes,en,can be added to some adjectives to form verbs meaning,become,or,make(sth.)become,.,Examples:,thicken,-,make sth.thick(er);become thick(er),The sauce will,become thicker,as you cook it,.,The sauce will,thicken,as you cook it.,V.The same suffix can also be added to certain nouns to form verbs meaning,gain(noun),or,add to sth.s(noun),.,Examples:,lengthen,-,gain length,add to sth.s length,The university president wants to,add to the length of,all the classes,.,The university president wants to,lengthen,all the classes.,V.The same suffix can also be added to certain nouns to form verbs meaning,gain(noun),or,add to sth.s(noun),.,Examples:,frighten,-,add to sth./sb.s fright,This idea,is adding to,the students fright,.,This idea,is frightening,the students.,V.Now rewrite the following sentences according to the examples,using,en,verbs to replace the underlined parts.,broadens the mind,weakened,1.Its often said that travel,makes the mind broader,.,2.Her eyesight,became weak,as the illness progressed.,V.Now rewrite the following sentences according to the examples,using,en,verbs to replace the underlined parts.,sweeten Diet coke,hardens,3.What is used to,make Diet Coke sweet,if it contains no sugar?,4.They make these toys from a new kind of plastic that,becomes hard,in seconds.,V.Now rewrite the following sentences according to the examples,using,en,verbs to replace the underlined parts.,strengthen,deepen your understanding of the course material,5.Exercises like this one,add to the strength of,my knowledge of English.,6.Discussions with your classmates will,make your understanding of the course material deeper,.,V.Now rewrite the following sentences according to the examples,using,en,verbs to replace the underlined parts.,sharpen the kitchen knives,reddened,7.My mother used to use a special stone to,make the kitchen knives sharp,.,8.His face,became red,as he realized he had entered the womens bathroom.,V.Now rewrite the following sentences according to the examples,using,en,verbs to replace the underlined parts.,Brighten;quickens,lightened,9.Have you noticed how her eyes,become brighter,and her breath,becomes quicker,every time he enters the room?,10.These extra windows have really,added light to,the room.,e.g.,cloud,+,-y,blood,+,-y,rose,+,-y,sleep,+,-y,cloudy,VI.The suffix,y,can be added to nouns to form adjectives meaning,full of,covered with,having the quality of,or inclined to,.,:full of clouds,bloody,:covered with blood,rosy,:having the quality of a rose,sleepy,:inclined to sleep,1.How could anyone survive that accident?!Hes _ to be alive.,2.She was born into a _ family,but she refuses to accept money from her parents.,lucky,wealthy,health ice luck noise sand sleep,smell sun taste wave wealth wind,VI.Now form adjectives by adding,y,to the nouns listed below and then use some of them to fill in the blanks in following sentences.,3.Everyone says English cooking is not very _,but I enjoyed some dishes well enough.,4.There are always more accidents in winter,when the roads are _.,tasty,icy,health ice luck noise sand sleep,smell sun taste wave wealth wind,VI.Now form adjectives by adding,y,to the nouns listed below and then use some of them to fill in the blanks in following sentences.,5.Shes a very pretty gi