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BOOK10 unit2 reading King Lear Part 1 The king’s throne room（正殿）. Enter King Lear; the king’s daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia; the Dukes of Albany and Coneril’s and Regan’s husband; and the Duke of Kent, a loyal（忠诚的）

friend of the king. LEAR:

My dear daughters, I am growing old and tired. The burden（负担

）of government sits heavily on my shoulders. I have decided to retire and hand over the heavy load of responsibility to you three. See, here is a map of my kingdom with all the boundaries（边界）

drawn on it. I have divided the kingdom into three parts, and allocated（分配）one part to each of you. Now tell me, my dears, which of you love me the most? For whichever of you has for me the most devotion I will give to her the best part of everything I own. Goneril, what do you say? GONERIL: Sir, I do not have the words to express the depth of my devotion. I love you more than all the riches in the world, more than my freedom, more even than my own eyesight. In fact, I love you more life itself. LEAR:

(showing his daughter the map) My darling girl. You and your husband Albany shall have this part of my kingdom with all its rivers and forests and mountains. And your children shall own it after you. Now Regan, it is you turn. What have you got to say to me? REGAN :

In expressing her love for you, my sister has also expressed mine. Yet I love you even more than words can say. I adore(崇敬，爱戴) you more than anything else in the whole world. My greatest happiness is in loving you. LEAR:

To you and your husband Cornwall and to your future children, I give this part of my kingdom (showing them on the map). This part is equal in value to what I give to Goneril. Now my darling, my favorite, my Cordelia. What have you to say to delight an old man and earn the best part of his kingdom? CORDELIA: Nothing, my father. LEAR:

Nothing? CORDELIA: Nothing. LEAR:

You’ll get nothing for nothing. I pray you, speak.

CORDELIA:

I’m sorry but I’m not as clever as my sisters. I cannot describe my feelings with such fancy words. I love you as it is right and proper for a daughter to love her father, neither less nor more. LEAR:

Try harder, Cordelia, or you may lose your share of the kingdom. CORDELIA: My dear father, you brought me into this world, you cared for me and loved me. In return I love, honor and obey you. I do not understand why they ever got married. You see, when I marry, it will be my duty to give half my love to my husband. LEAR:

You truly mean what you say? CORDELIA: Yes, Your Majesty.（陛下）

LEAR:

So young and so hard-hearted. COREDLIA: So young and so truthful, my Lord. LEAR:

Well, then. Let truth be your reward. You are no longer my daughter but a stranger to my heart. KENT:

But sir--- LEAR:

Be quiet, Kent. Do not come between me and my anger. She was my favorite daughter. With her I hoped to spend my old age. But that is never going to happen now. You, servant! Go and find the King of France and the Duke of Burgundy. We’ll see if either wants to be a bridegroom when she has no riches to bring to the marriage. Goneril, Regan, I shall distribute（分配）

my kingdom between the two of you. I shall take nothing for myself except a troop of one hundred of my most loyal soldiers to care for and protect me. And as I have no third-born daughter, I will spend my days with you two- a month with one and then a month with the other. KENT: But, sir, I beg you --- LEAR:

Do not contradict（反驳，否定）me. It is done. KENT: But sir, please hear me out. I speak on behalf of Cordelia. I have served you for many years and you know that I have always honored by you as my king and loved you as a father, but I believe you are being influenced by false flattery（奉承）. Cordelia’s devotion to Your Majesty is beyond question. LEAR: Kent, if you value your life, say no more. KENT: I have to speak out, my Lord. I would rather lose my life than see you make such a mistake. You do wrong to cause friction（冲突）between yourself and your daughter. I forecast that such actions will cause great conflict（矛盾）

throughout your kingdom. LEAR: How dare you oppose me. Get out of my sight. Pack up your things and be gone from my kingdom. If you have not passed beyond my frontiers（国境）within five days, I will have you killed.

1.

skimming 1)list the characters who appear in this part of the play 2.

setting 1)

Why does King Lear want to give away his kingdom?

2)

How is he going to decide who to give the best part of his kingdom to? 3.

fill in the form A plot diagram（情节表）) description setting King Lear has ___________ daughters He is _____and wants to divides his kingdom to his daughters. he is going to do this through a test about __________________.

3)

At the beginning of the play, of which daughter is King Lear most fond? 4)

Which daughters are already married and which is not?

A plot diagram description Conflict(矛盾，冲突) flattery VS _______ 恭维/奉承VS______ 4.

Ture or False 1)Only The duke of Burgundy wants to marry King Lear’s youngest daughter

2) Kent tries to defend Cordelia and he succeeded. 3) The King Lear sends Kent away from the Kingdom. A plot diagram description Rising action(矛盾的上升) His first two daughters say some______words to flatter(奉承) him, but the youngest daughter insists on telling_____________. Climax(高潮) hearing the truth, the king gets very angry. He gives _________to the first two daughters and leaves ________to the youngest one. 5.

summary King Lear wants to _____ and decides to ____________ to three daughters. King Lear gave away his land to his daughters according to how much they _____ him.. Goneril and Regan make the king _______by saying they love him very much. They ______the land. Cordelia makes the king angry by saying ______words and not flattering him. She gets ________.

Kent, the servant, makes the king _______by defending(为…辩护) Cordelia and begging the king to listen to the _______.

character Words& behaviors personality King Lear

Regan & Goneril

Cordelia

Kent

honest/loyal(忠诚的)/hot-headed/dishonest/greedy/foolish/ bad-tempered (暴躁的)/cunning(狡猾的)/respectful/innocent(天真的)/hard-hearted（冷漠的）

6.

exercise 1)Harry is eighteen now. He studies in a middle school. His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. They call him at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young man comes back, the supper is ready. Of course, he never washes his clothes or goes to buy something in the shop. A.

reliable

B. independent C. study hard

D. capable 2) Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn’t just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television!... Some people tell Dr. Petrels he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrels says he helps people when he sings, too. “I like

to make people smile. Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and pleasure both try to do the same thing. we can infer Petrels likes to_______. A．help people sing B．make people feel better C．do the same thing D．make difficult people smile 3) That same year, her mother died after a ten-year fight with serious diseases , which deeply affected her writing. She went on marry and had a daughter, but separated shortly afterwards. during this time, Rowling suffered from depression(抑郁症). She, out of work, completed her first novel in the cafes. After being refused by l2 publishing houses, the first Harry Potter novel was sold to a small British publishing house. Now with seven books sold nearly 400 million copies in 64 languages, J. K. Rowling is the highest earning novelist in history. And it all began with her friend’s encouragement as well as her ambition to write!

It can be concluded that Rowling is ___________ A.

open-minded

B. warm-heated

C. good-natured

D. strong-willed