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Lesson One

Spell of the Rising Moon

I. READING COMPREHENSION

A. Answer the following questions or complete the following statements. 1. D (But it is the drama of the moonrise that I come to see. For that

restores in me a quiet and clarity that the city spends too freely.) 2. D ( There have been broad, confident harvest moons in autumn; shy,

misty moons in spring; lonely, white winter moons rising into the utter silence of an ink-black sky and smoke-smudged orange moons over the dry fields of summer. Each, like fine music, excited my heart and then calmed my soul.)

3. C (To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring as

heartbeat. They knew that every 29 days it became full-bellied and brilliant, then sickened and died, and then was reborn. They knew the waxing moon appeared larger and higher overhead after each succeeding sunset. They knew the waning moon rose later each night until it vanished in the sunrise.)

4. B (Still, it tugs at our minds. If we unexpectedly encounter the

full moon, huge and yellow over the horizon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence.)

5. B (I learned about its gifts one July evening in the mountains.

My car had mysteriously stalled, and I was stranded and alone.) 6. B (To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusual

stillness within ourselves.)

7. D (On that July night, I watched the moon for an hour or two, and

then got back into the car, turned the key in the ignition and heard the engine start, just as mysteriously as it had stalled a few hours earlier.)

8. A (I return often to the rising moon. I am drawn especially when

events crowd ease and clarity of vision into a small corner of my life.)

9. A (Of Beethoven's \

Lorenzo declaims in The Merchant of Venice, //How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music/Creep in our ears.\I wonder if their verse and music, like the music of crickets, are in some way voices of the moon.) 10. A (The whole passage.)

B．Global understanding and logical structures

Complete the following notes with the information, from the text:

1. The author often climbs the hill near his home at night to watch the drama of the moonrise because it can restore in him a quiet and clarity that the city spends too freely.

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2. To the author the different mood and color of the moon are: A. In autumn: broad, confident harvest B. In spring: shy, misty C. In winter: lonely, white

D. In summer: smoke-smudged orange

3. A. To prehistoric hunters the moon overhead was as unerring as heartbeat.

B. To contemporary people live indoors few can say what time the moon will rise tonight.

C. But if we unexpectedly encounter the full moon, we are helpless but to stare back at its commanding presence.

4. The moon has gifts to bestow upon those who watch it:

Example: One July evening in the mountains, the author's car mysteriously stalled, and he was stranded and alone.

He took the advantage to watch the moonrise for an hour or two. When he got back into the car, the engine started just as mysteriously as it had stalled a few hours earlier.

5. Later on the author often returns to the rising moon when events crowd ease an clarity of vision into a small corner of my life. He listens to the sound of owls and crickets

and thinks the beautiful music and poems about the moon.

6. At moonrise, people open the vents of feeling and exercise parts of our minds that reason locks away by day. II. VOCABULARY

A. Choose the best word from the four choices to complete each of the following sentences.

1. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. C 9. A 10. B

B. Choose the best word or expression from the list given for each blank. Use each word or expression only once and make proper changes where necessary.

1. swoop 2. cricket 3. smudged 4. Stalled 5. tugs at

6. stay clear of 7. slipped into 8. crowded into 9. loom up 10. stranded III. CLOZE

1. just as 2. permanent 3. depend on 4. phase 5. shadow 6. Resembling 7. lunar 8. closer 9. illuminated 10. waning IV. TRANSLATION

Put the following parts into Chinese. V. ORAL PRACTICE AND DISCUSSION

1. How does the author describe the moonrise? Is it the same as you see it? The sun had set, and I was watching what seemed to be the bright-orange glow of a forest fire beyond a ridge to the east. Suddenly, the ridge itself seemed to burst into flame. Then, the rising moon, huge and red

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and grotesquely misshapen by the dust and sweat of the summer atmosphere, loomed up out of the woods.

Distorted thus by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed ill-tempered and imperfect…… But as the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, for as it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round and the color of ivory, the valleys were deep shadows in the landscape……

The drama took an hour. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties。 2. Moonrise is a natural phenomenon. The main part of this essay is the description of it full of the author's emotions and thoughts associated with it. Pick out the author's most beautiful descriptions with similes, metaphors and personification.

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