(
课件网) Unit 1 Honesty and responsibility Friendship Law 诚实与责任 Warming up If you are an honest and responsible monitor, but you see your best friend cheat in the exam, will you tell the teacher truth dilemma 困境 After Twenty Years Reading The short story below is about someone who has to make such a choice. Adapted from O. Henry’s short story of the same title. 改编自 Extended reading 小说的三要素： 小说的六要素： 环境、人物、情节 时间、地点、人物、起因、经过、结果 setting characters plot What is plot Plot refers to a series of events within a story, which are put in sequence according to the principle of cause and effect. To analyse the plot, we try to grasp its five main elements—introduction(开端), rising action(发展), climax(高潮), falling action(反转) and resolution(结局). The policeman on the beat walked along the street as he always did. It was barely ten o’clock at night. When he had walked about halfway around a certain block, the policeman suddenly slowed down. In the doorway of a store stood a man, with an unlit cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly. Part 1 —line 1-5 巡逻的警察像往常一样沿街走着。差不多要到晚上十点了。当他绕着一个街区走了大约一半时，突然放慢了脚步。一家商店的门口站着一个人，嘴里叼着一支没有点燃的雪茄。当警察向他走来时，那人迅速大声说。 “It’s all right, officer, ” he said. “It’s an appointment made twenty years ago. There used to be a restaurant where this store stands———Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant.” “It was here until five years ago,” said the policeman. “lt was torn down then.” Part 1 —line 6-9 “没什么事，警官，”他说，“我只是在等一个朋友。这是二十年前的一个约定。曾经有一家餐馆在这家店的位置———'大乔’布雷迪餐厅。” “它五年前还在这里，”警察说，“后来被拆掉了。” The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale face, with keen eyes, a square jaw and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond, oddly set. Part 1 —line 10-12 站在门口的人划了根火柴，点燃了雪茄。灯光照出了一张苍白的脸，一双锐利的眼睛，一个方下巴，右边的眉毛附近有一个白色的小伤疤。他的领带夹/别针是一颗大钻石，镶嵌得(很)奇怪。 “Twenty years ago tonight,” said the man, “I dined here with Jimmy Wells, my best friend. He and I were just like two brothers. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to leave New York and travel to the West to make my fortune. Part 1 —line 13-16 “二十年前的今晚，”那人说，“我和我最好的朋友吉米·威尔斯在这里吃饭。他和我就像两个兄弟。我18岁，吉米20岁。第二天早上，我就要离开纽约，到西部去发财了。 Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come.We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have built a life and made our fortunes.” Part 1 ———line 16-19 好吧，那天晚上我们约定 ... ...
