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必修三Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note 导学案预习篇

Background Information 1. about the author Mark Twain, an American writer, novelist and humorist, published more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories and essays and gave lecture tours around the world throughout his career.

Mark Twain was born in Florida and spent his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river. They are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Indeed he loved the river so much that even his pen name is about the river. “Twain” is an old word for “two”. So, the phrase “mark twain” means that the water is two fathoms deep. Twain left school at the age of twelve to look for work. During his whole life, Mark Twain carried on many kinds of jobs. From 1864, he became a reporter and travelled in Europe. In the 1890s Mark Twain became very poor. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour, during which one of his daughters died. The death of his wife and his second daughter darkened his later years. Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910. Behind the mask of humor and satire, his writing often criticized social morals, politics and human nature, making his literature a unique reflection of the American experience in the latter part of the nineteenth century. 2. about Twain’s masterpiece The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865)《加拉维加县有名的跳蛙》

Innocents Abroad (1869)

《傻瓜出国记》

The Gilded Age

(1873)

《镀金时代》

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876) 《汤姆·索亚历险记》

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn(1884)《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》

Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河上的生活》

The Million Pound Bank Note(1893) 《百万英镑》

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3. about the Million Pound Bank Note

The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wonder what might be the fate of a honest and intelligent stranger without friends and money but that million-pound bank-note. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn’t. Brother A said he couldn’t offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days. Another character Henry was a poor, honest and intelligent stranger. The two brothers handed Henry an envelope that contained ￡1,000,000 bank-note. Henry, dressed in rags, with nothing but a bank-note, got into a restaurant. He took the banknote to pay for the bill and asked for changes. The boss who looked down upon him at first changed his attitude completely. He flattered Henry. He treated Henry as an honored guest. Then Henry got into a tailor’s shop, the same thing happened. Henry drifted naturally into buying whatever he wanted, and asking for change. With the ￡1,000,000 bank-note, Henry owned the respect and fell in love with a girl, Portia. Everything went well having ￡1,000,000 bank-note on him. After a month, Brothers returned, to Henry’s surprise, one of them was Portia’s papa. He took the bank note back to the Bank of England and cashed it, then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it, and he gave it to Henry and Portia at their wedding. 百万英镑故事梗概

故事发生在上世纪初的英国。一对富豪兄弟用一张面值百万英镑的现钞打赌，看这张钞票究竟会给人带来无尽的财富还是只是一张一文不值的“小纸片”。很快，从美国来的亚当进入了富豪兄弟的视线。这个人的船在海上触礁沉没，他靠给其他船只做工来抵押船票才到了英国。现在他身无分文、饥饿难忍，这样一个穷人是再适合不过的人选了。于是亚当被请进了富豪家中。

富豪兄弟给了亚当百万钞票，并和他约定在一个月的时间里，亚当可以任意使用。但一个月后他必须把钞票原样不动地还给富豪，这样他可以得到富豪们为他提供的任何一份他想从事的工作。亚

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当糊里糊涂地接受了约定。亚当无论去吃饭、购买服装都会因衣衫褴褛遭到人们的白眼。但当他拿出这张钞票时，人们不但向他大献殷勤，甚至连相关的费用都可以减免，因为在他们看来亚当是富豪，而且根本没有人可以给一张百万面值的钞票找零。很快报纸上刊登出美国一位有着着装怪癖的百万富翁光临英国的消息，一时间亚当成为上流社会的焦点，无论是公爵、富商都以和亚当交际为荣，年轻姑娘们更是为了吸引亚当的注意而彼此间争风吃醋，亚当成为英国尽人皆知的人物。

一个月的期限终于到了，亚当如释重负地将钞票还给了富豪兄弟。结果亨利不仅没有饿死或被捕，反倒成了富翁，并且赢得了一位漂亮小姐的爱情，在兄弟那里也获得了一份工作。文章以其略带夸张的艺术手法再现大师小说中讽刺与幽默，揭露了20世纪初英国社会的拜金主义思想。

Homework

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According to the passage, use your own words to give a brief introduction of Mark Twain, at least 50 words.

(根据导学案所给的内容，用自己的话简介马克吐温,至少50个词。) 2.

Preview the reading passage. 3.

Recite the new words.

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