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1、Four Generations,Joyce Maynard,Joyce,Joyce&Augrey(daughter and granddaughter),Fredelle(mother),Grandmother,She is dying from pancreatic cancer（胰腺癌）in hospital.,She is eighty-seven years old.,She refused an operation and now she has been hemorrhaging(大出血）,and has sever jaundice（黄疸）.,So I became the m
2、other for a moment,reminding her,reasonably,that my grand-mother is 87,shes had a full life,she has all her faculties,and no one who knows her could wish that she live long enough to lose them.,我就暂时成了母亲，像母亲那样很理智地劝慰她说，外婆已经87岁了。她的一生没有缺憾，耳不聋，眼不花。认识她的人谁也不希望她活到什么也不行了的时候。,More about Grandmother:,She was b
3、orn in Russia，in1892，in a Jewish family.,She spent her childhood in pogroms(种族屠杀）.,Her family declined and emigrated to Canada.,She got married in Canada and later took her children as the center of her life.,Their children were the center of their life.,They loved their children so much that they w
4、ould do whatever the child coveted.,They saw to it that their child had good education although they were not rich.,They were very protective of the child.,see to something/see to it that,Make sure sothing to be done确保做到,Will you see to the arrangement of the next meeting?,Will you see to it that th
5、e meeting room is ready before 3 oclock?,Some useful Expressions in Paragraph 5,Would:expressing a habitual action or attitude,Used to do sth:expressing a past habit or action,Present sth.as sth:describe as把说成,The book presents the place as heaven on earth.The king was presented as a cruel,greedy ma
6、n.,At length:in a long and detailed way 详尽地,Every time+时间状语从句Every time he comes to Beijing,he will go and visit his high school teachers.,A good many of=manyA good many of new books of scientific farming has be put out.Many new books of scientific farming have been put out.,独立结构表示伴随状态,Grandmother w
7、as lying flat with an IV tube in her arm and her eyes shut.,我进屋时，他正睡得很想，手里拿着吧扇子，电视还开着。,When I came in,he was sleeping soundly,with a fan in hand and the TV on.,Audrey is just one,but she has seen enough of the world to know that people in bed are not meant to be so still and yellow,and she looked fr
8、ightened.I had never wanted more for her o smile.,奥德莉刚一岁，但也观察这个世界足以知道躺在床上的人不意味着都那么僵直和发黄。看上去她被吓着了。我压根儿就没要求更多，想着让她笑。,假设虚拟句,I had the feeling,even then,that if Id said,“Audreys lighting matches,”Grandma would have shot up to rescue her.,即便在当时那种情况下，我都会感觉到如果我说“奥德莉在玩火柴，”外婆都会飞身起来去救她。,Make a contrast of Gra
9、ndmas attitude towards death:,Paragraph 5:She has been presenting her death as imminent and has discussed,at length,the distribution of her possession and her lamb coat.,Every time we said goodbye,after our annual visit to Winnipeg,shed weep and say shes never see us again.,Paragraph 13:,She had sai
10、d she was ready to die.“I wish I had your hair.”“I wish I was well.”,I According to the passage,decide whether the following statements are true or false.1 If grandma had had the operation,it would have saved her life.()2 Grandma was proud of being yellow since she always prided herself on being dif
11、ferent.()3 According to the author,it would be better to die before one lose his/her faculties.()4 Her grandparents emigrated from Russia to Canada when they were young.()5 Grandmother hoped to die since she had had enough living.(),6 Her grandfather was a shop owner.()7 Her mother loved tin toys ve
12、ry much.()8 He mother had very good education.()9 Grandmother was born into a Jewish family.()10 Grandmother didnt want her daughter to marry a man with blue eyes and blond hair.(),11 It can be inferred that her grandfather was also Jewish.()12 Grandmother used to be a very powerful and strong-wille
13、d woman.()13 They visited their grandmother almost every year.()14 Grandmother had never thought of death before she got very ill with jaundice.()15 After her grandfather died,her grandmother lived with her children in turns.()16 Grandmother was very attached to her family.(),17 Her mother didnt lik
14、e the way her grandmother would treat her children.()18 The author didnt mind the way her grandmother treated her.()19 Only to make her mother happy,the author decided to pay her grandmother one more visit.()20 Her daughter had never seen her great grandmother before.()21 Grandmother knew who had co
15、me to visit her in the hospital.(),22 Audrey,her daughter,was frightened to see the old woman lying in bed still and yellow.()23 Grandmother didnt want to be seen like that the day her granddaughter came to visit.()24 If Audrey had been lighting matches,Grandmother would have gotten up to rescue her.(),25 Mothers always give much more love to their children than their children give to them.()26 Maternal love is very special to everyone of us.()27 Joyce and Audrey lived in Toronto.（)28 The wedding china was passed down from her grandmother.(),
