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学科：英语 年级：高三 编稿老师：徐 卓
审稿老师：孔 军
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Unit 7 A Christmas Carol

I. Background Information
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy.

Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. He worked in a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his family was in Marshalea debtor's prison in 1824).

In 1824-27 Dickens studied at Wellington House Academy, London, and at Mr. Dawson's school in 1827. From 1827 to 1828 he was a law office clerk, and then worked as a shorthand reporter at Doctor's Commons. He wrote for True Son (1830-32), Mirror of Parliament (1832-34) and the Morning Chronicle (1834-36). He was in the 1830s a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, and The Evening Chronicle and edited Bentley's Miscellany. In the 1840s Dickens founded Master Humphry's Clock and edited the London Daily News.

Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays appeared in periodicals. His Sketches By Boz and The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836.In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth.

The Pickwick Papers were stories about a group of rather odd individuals and their travels to Ipswich, Rochester, Bath and elsewhere. Dickens's novels first appeared in monthly installments, including Oliver Twist (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby (1838-39), a tale of young Nickleby's struggles to seek his fortune, and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41).

Among his later works are David Copperfield (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, Bleak House (1852-53), A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution and Great Expectations (1860-61)

From the 1840s Dickens spent much time traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time. In addition he gave talks and reading, wrote pamphlets, plays, and letters. In the 1850s Dickens was founding editor of Household Words and its successor All the Year Round (1859-70). In 1844-45 he lived in Italy, Switzerland and Paris. He gave lecturing tours in Britain and the United States in 1858-68.

From 1860 Dickens lived at Gadshill Place, near Rochester, Kent. He died at Gadshill on June 9, 1870. The unfinished mystery novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood was published in 1870.

II. Goals
1. learn about Charles Dickens and his works;
2. learn the following words and phrases:
bacteria, powder, standard, conscience, frost, handwriting, overcoat, wage, anyway, god, admit, foolish, clap, partner, abundant, warmth, taxpayer, occupy, constant, welfare, clerk, composer, novelist, firm, shadow, ambition, noble, bond, indeed, goose, selfish, bishop, choir;
care for, leave alone, in want of, badly off, close up, have an eye for, as follows, of late,
3. learn to talk about social responsibilities:
Business is not only about making money and profits.
We should care for other people.
It’s necessary for employers to care about their employees and their families.
Rich people should help poor people in society.
People who make and sell fake food products and medicine must be punished.
Companies must take necessary measures to improve working conditions to protect the people working for them.
We cannot only think about ourselves, and we should open our hearts freely and think of others.
4. review the Adverbial;

III. Language points in Warming-up, Listening and Speaking sections

1. mean v. adj.
a. vt. 意谓；预定
e.g. What do you mean by your silence?
What do you mean by signing the letter to him?
mean doing 意味着
mean to do 打算
I meant to wait for him.
b. adj. 平庸的；普通的；卑贱的；小气的
n. means 方法；手段；工具 （同way, method）
mean/intend/plan/design/propose
intend做或说某件事的意愿
mean 没有intend那种强烈的意图，指心中想要，为一般用语
plan 指思考计划等
design 尤指细心的计划，有慎重行事之意
propose 指公开表明意图，为征求他人意见或承认，而表示的明确意图

2. employ v. &n. : employee n. 员工，受雇员工 employer 老板
employment n. 雇佣
the employed 受雇者 / the unemployed 失业者
vt. employ/take on/hire
e.g. They employ six waiters.

IV. Exercises
Choose the best answer.
1. That was really a splendid evening. It’s years ________ I enjoyed myself so much.
A. when B. that C. before D. since
2. He can always seize a chance whenever ________.
A. being offered B. offered C. to be offered D. offering
3. The actor threw himself from the horse as if ________.
A. to be shot B. being shot C. shooting D. shot
4. When ______ at the gate, he was greeted with a warm welcome.
A. having appeared B. appearing
C. appeared D. had appeared
5. ---How about ________ we go to the zoo this afternoon?
---Good idea!
A. that B. whether C. if D. it
6. I appreciate ________ if you would turn the radio down.
A. that B. it C. that D. which
7. The teacher is grading the homework ________ the other day.
A. having been handed in B. handed in
C. that handed in D. being handed in
8. College teachers ________ some high school students to misbehave but think those who get to collage will behave more politely.
A. expect B. hope C. wish D. forbid
9. ---How about the book you are reading?
---Good indeed. It ________ many problems we have come across in our study.
A. says B. talks C. covers D. refers
10. ________ it takes for us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional health, and crying seems to ________ well.
A. Whatever, work B. Whichever, help
C. However, function D. What, help
Keys:
D 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. A