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期数： 0511 YYG3 037
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 10 American Literature

I. Background Information
O. Henry

O. Henry (1862-1910) was a prolific American short-story writer, a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henry's stories.

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He moved to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving to Austin, Texas, in 1882, he married.

In 1884 he started a humorous weekly The Rolling Stone. When the weekly failed, he joined the Houston Post as a reporter and columnist. In 1897 he was convicted of embezzling money, although there has been much debate over his actual guilt. In 1898 he entered a penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.

While in prison O. Henry started to write short stories to earn money to support his daughter Margaret. His first work, "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" (1899), appeared in McClure's Magazine. After doing three years of the five years sentence, Porter emerged from the prison in 1901 and changed his name to O. Henry.

O. Henry moved to New York City in 1902 and from December 1903 to January 1906 he wrote a story a week for the New York World, also publishing in other magazines. Henry's first collection, Cabbages And Kings appeared in 1904. The second, The Four Million, was published two years later and included his well-known stories "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Furnished Room". The Trimmed Lamp (1907) included "The Last Leaf". Henry's best known work is perhaps the much anthologized "The Ransom of Red Chief", included in the collection Whirligigs (1910). The Heart Of The West (1907) presented tales of the Texas range. O. Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime.

O. Henry's last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems. He married Sara Lindsay Coleman in 1907, but the marriage was not happy, and they separated a year later. O. Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910, in New York. Three more collections, Sixes And Sevens (1911), Rolling Stones (1912) and Waifs And Strays (1917), appeared posthumously.

II. Language Points in Warming-up, Listening and Speaking Sections

1. shabby 破旧的，寒酸的
（1）肮脏破旧的，破烂不堪的
e.g. a shabby old hat
（2）衣衫褴褛的，寒酸的
（3）卑鄙的，无耻的，吝啬的，不公平的
e.g. a shabby old man
（4）多卑劣的恶作剧，把车开走了让我走路回家
e.g. What a shabby trick, driving off and leaving me to walk home!

2. do up
（1）固定的，扣上，系上
e.g. This skirt does up at the back.
这条裙子是在后面系扣的
（2）do oneself up 梳妆打扮，化妆
（3）do sth. Up 用……固着……
e.g. He never bothers to do his jacket up．
他总是不愿意系外衣的扣子。
（4）修理，重新装饰装修（房子、房间等）
e.g. If we decide to buy the cottage，well have to do It up．
我们若决定购买这座别墅，就得重新进行装修。

3．worn 破烂的．损坏的
（1）（经使用或穿戴）破烂的，损坏的
e.g. These shoes are looking rather worn．
这双鞋子不成样子了。
（2）（指人）看起来精疲力竭的
e.g. She came hack worn and worried．
她回来时既疲惫又忧虑。

4．let down 使某人失望，不帮助
e.g. Tome will never let you down，you can always depend on him to help you．
汤姆将水不会置你与不顾，你永远可以依赖他的帮助。

5．at length
（1）终于；最后
e.g. At length, the bus arrived, forty minutes late.
公共汽车终于来了,晚了四十分钟。
（2）长时间地
e.g. speak at length
长时间地演说
（3）详细地，彻底地
e.g. treat a subject at length
详细处理一问题

III. Exercises

用动词的适当形式填空
1.I'm going to the supermarket this afternoon. Do you have anything ____ (buy)?
2. You'd better have your watch ____(mend).
3. At the terrible sight, the ____(frighten) girl sat in the corner,____(cry).
4. He only shook his head as if to say that lie would spend hours____(close) in his
study so as not to be disturbed.
5. Because the shop ____(close down), all the 'I-shirts are sold at half price.
6. The price ____(go down), but 1 doubt whether it will remain so.
7. My uncle ____(marry) until he was forty five.
8. A new cinema ____(build) here. They hope to finish it next month.
9. Prices of daily goods ____(buy) through a computer can be lower than store prices.
10. With a lot of difficult problems ___(settle), the newly-elected manager is having a hard time.
Keys:
1. to buy 2. mended 3. frightened; crying 4. closed 5. is closing down
6. has gone down 7. didn’t marry 8. is being built 9. bought 10. to settle

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