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1、Lesson1ThinkingasaHobbyPurposes:1.Tointroducethethreegradesofthinkingclassifiedbytheauthor2.Toinspirethestudentstothinkaboutwhatislogical,criticalandindependentthinkingandtointrospecttheirownthinkinghabitandmodel3.Tofamiliarthestudentswithparallelconstructionsand
2、subjectcomplement4.ToappreciatethehumorousstyleofthetextMethod:IntensivereadingofthetextAandextensivereadingoftextBContents:BackgroundintroductionWilliamGoldingTheNobelPrizeinLiterature1983BiographyWilliamGoldingwasborninCornwallin1911andwaseducatedatMarlboroughG
3、rammarSchoolandatBrasenoseCollege,Oxford.Apartfromwriting,hispastandpresentoccupationsincludebeingaschoolmaster,alecturer,anactor,asailor,andamusician.Hisfatherwasaschoolmasterandhismotherwasasuffragette.Hewasbroughtuptobeascientist,butrevolted.AftertwoyearsatOxf
4、ordhereadEnglishliteratureinstead,andbecamedevotedtoAnglo-Saxon.HespentfiveyearsatOxford.Publishedavolumeofpoemsin1935.TaughtatBishopWordsworth'sSchool,Salisbury.JoinedtheRoyalNavyin1940andspentsixyearsafloat,exceptforsevenmonthsinNewYorkandsixmonthshelpingLordCh
5、erwellattheNavalResearchEstablishment.Hesawactionagainstbattleships(atthesinkingoftheBismarck),submarinesandaircraft.FinishedasLieutenantincommandofarocketship.HewaspresentofftheFrenchcoastfortheD-Dayinvasion,andlaterattheislandofWalcheren.Afterthewarhereturnedto
6、teaching,andbegantowriteagain.LordoftheFlies,hisfirstnovel,waspublishedin1954.ItwasfilmedbyPeterBrookin1963.Hisotherbooksare:TheInheritors(novel)1955PincherMartin(novel)1965TheBrassButterfly(play)1958FreeFall(novel)1959TheSpire(novel)196470TheHotGates(essays)1965
7、ThePyramid(novel)1967TheScorpionGod(threeshortnovels)1971DarknessVisible(novel)1979RitesofPassage(novel)1980AMovingTarget(essaysandautobiographicalpieces)1982ThePaperMen(novel)1984AnEgyptianJournal1985CloseQuarters(novel)1987FireDownBelow(novel)1989In1980hewonthe
8、'BookerPrize'forhisnovelRitesofPassage.Heretiredfromteachingin1962.Afterthat,helivedinWiltshire,listinghisrecreationsasmusic,sailing,archaeologyandclassicalGre
