基础英语第四册五单元 the tapestry of friendship

background information ☆70年代后，新女权运动从美国波

及到欧洲以及加拿大、日本等国。 联合国曾宣布1975年为国际妇女年. 从后随着经济发展，妇女地位不断 提高。 ☆This text is taken from Close to Home, which was published by the Boston Globe Newspaper Company/Washington Post Writers Group in 1979.

The author: Newspaper columnist Ellen Goodman has been with The Boston Globe since 1967. Born on April 11, 1941, in Newton MA, Goodman graduated from Radcliffe College拉德克利夫学院 in 1963. She began her career at Newsweek, where she worked as a researcher at a time when very few women became writers. 2 years later she began writing her column for The Boston Globe.

A friend is a present which you give yourself. 朋友是你送给自己的一份礼物。

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. 在顺境中，朋友结识了我们；在逆境中， 我们了解了朋友。A friend in need is a friend indeed 患难见真交。

A man dies often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by new contacts, new friends. -----Bacon 一个人每逢失去一个朋友就等于经 历一次死亡。但是取得新联系，结 识新朋友却又使我们获得了新的生 命。

Pre-reading Questions◎

How do you define “friends”?

Can men and women be true friends?◎

which is stronger, men’s friendship VS women’s friendship.◎

Part s 1

Paragraphs1-2 the Prelude3-6 the Introduction

Main Ideasthe author reveals what kind of film people had just seen.the author advances the two different standard of friendship

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the detailed distinctions of the two types of 7-18 the Body friendship .19 the Conclusion

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It summarizes the fundamental difference

The first part :◆0.pre-reading question: how does the author feel about the movies? ◆1. It was, in many ways, a slight movie. slight: simple ,trivial in many aspects, it was a trivial film. ◆2. big-budget: costly ◆3. cosmic: vast E.g. This earthquake was a disaster of cosmic scale

◆4.affecting:moving 、touching E.g. Departure is an affecting scene◆ 5.Slowly, it panned across the tapestry of friendship . Pp. Step by step ,the process of building friendship, from the beginning to ending . pan: vt/i. swing (a video or film camera) to follow an object to have a n all-round view of it摇动(镜头)拍全景.

◆6.fragility: [U] (of an object) being easily broken or damaged. E.g. Older drivers are more likely to be seriously injured because of the fragility of their bones.Adj. Fragile E.g: I'm feeling rather fragile after all that beer last night.

Part Two paragraph3–61. Why does the author list the movies the woman had seen last year?2. What does the author discuss the shift of

focus for?.

Paragraph 3-6Main Idea :The author advances the double standard of friendship on the basis of personally observved shift of focus of film.

Para 2It seemed that the

peculiar eye,the social lens of the cinema ,had drastically shiftly its focus. Explain:It struck me that the social focus had significantlly changed the center from male friendship into female friendship