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1、高三英语备课组集体讲义美文阅读之赏析Learningaims:lTapyourpotentialofreadingalonganddifficultyessay;lRevieworaccumulatesomeusefulexpressions,especiallythoserelatedtoyourwriting;Thinkingbeforereading:Howtoreadalonganddifficultypassageinreadingcomprehension?Part1-----Readingcomprehension(within8
2、minutes!)All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time tolive. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last da
3、ys or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice,not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictlydelimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. what events, what experiences, what associat
4、ions should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentlenes
5、s, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us inthe constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would
6、be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almostalways his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.
7、 It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow ofdeath bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are i
8、n buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it. The
