现代大学英语Unit 9The Damned Human Race课件.ppt

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1、TheDamnedHumanRaceMarkTwainUnit9ContentsMainIdeaQuestionsRhetoricalWritingDevicesMainIdeaMainideaTheessayisorganizedlikeapapertoreportresultsofascientificexperiment.Itpresentsathesisstatementatthebeginning,thatis,theDescentofManfromtheHigherAnimals.Next,theauthorintroduces

2、hisscientificexperiment.Inthefirstpartofthemainbodyheanalyzesvarioustraitsanddispositionsofhumanbeingsincontrasttothe”higheranimals.”Inthesecondpartofthemainbody,theauthorbeginstouseapolemictonetoarguewithpeoplewhobelieveinman’ssuperiority.Attheend,theauthormakesabriefsumm

3、ing-upthathumanbeingshavedescendedanddegenerated.Theyhavereachedthebottomstageofdevelopmentandnothingisbelowthem.Questions1.Couldyounamethreemajordefectsofhumannatureandusesomeexamplestosupportit?QuestionsHumanNatureRevengeIndecencyGreedy2.Herearetwoquotationsonhuman:1)Men

4、!Theonlyanimalintheworldtofear.—D.H.Lawrence2)Man—acreaturemadeattheendoftheweek’sworkwhenGodwastired.—MarkTwainPleasechooseoneofthemandsharewithusyourunderstanding.QuestionsQuestionsInBook3,thereisatextentitled“WeAreOnlyHuman”inwhichtheauthorstronglyarguesthatwehumanbeing

5、sshouldbeandcanbesuperiortootheranimals.Butinthisarticle,theauthorfeelsstronglythathumanbeingsaretheleastfitforsurvival.Whatdoyouthinkofthesetwoauthors’views?WritingdevicescontrastPara3earlandanacondaTheyhadcharmingsport.Theykilledseventy-twoofthosegreatanimals;andateparto

6、foneofthemandlefttheseventy-onetorot.Inordertodeterminethedifferencebetweenananacondaandanearl------ifany------Icausedsevenyoungcalvestobeturnedintotheanaconda’scage.Thegratefulreptileimmediatelycrushedoneofthemandswallowedit,thenlaybacksatisfied.contrastPara4peopleandsqui

7、rrelsandbees.Thesquirrelsandbeesandcertainbirdsmadeaccumulations,butstoppedwhentheyhadgatheredawinter’ssupply,andcouldnotbepersuadedtoaddtoiteitherhonestlyorbytricks.contrastPara6peopleandroosters.Roosterskeepharems,butitisbyconsentoftheirconcubines;thereforenowrongisdone.

8、Menkeepharems,butitisbybruteforce,privilegedbyatrociouslawswhichtheothersexwereallowednoh