Lesson 2
Book ３
Discovery of a Father
Sherwood Anderson
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Lesson 2
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Contents
Part One: Warm-up
Part Two: Background Information
Part Three: Text Appreciation
Part Four: Language Study
Part Five: Extension
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Part One
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Warm-up
I. Discussion
II. Enjoy a Poem 
III.Listen to a Song 
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II. Enjoy a Poem
My Hero
As I ponder the love that I saw in his eyes,
A Godly love, given without compromise.
I recall many times that he stood by my side,
And prodded me on with great vigor and pride.
His voice ever confident, firm yet fair,
Always speaking with patience, tenderness and care.
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II. Enjoy a Poem
My Hero
The power and might of his hands was so sure,
I knew there was nothing we couldn’t endure.
It’s true, a few other provided insight,
Yet, he laid the foundation that kept me upright.
He’s the grandest of men to have lived on this earth.
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II. Enjoy a Poem
My Hero
Although he’s not royal by statue or birth,
He’s a man of great dignity, honor and strength.
His merits are noble, and of admirable length.
He’s far greater than all the other men that I know,
He’s my Dad, he’s my mentor, my friend and hero.
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III. Listen to a song
There You’ll Be
When I think back on these times
And the dreams we left behind
I’ll be glad ‘cause I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back on these days
I’ll look and see your face
You were right there for me
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III. Listen to a song
In my dreams
I’ll always see your soul above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place for you for all my
life
I’ll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you’ll be
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III. Listen to a song
Well, you showed me
How it feels to feel the sky within my reach
And I always will remember all the strength
you gave to me
Your love made me make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me
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III. Listen to a song
‘Cause I always saw you
My light, my strength
And I want to thank you
Now for all the ways you were right there
for me
You were right there for me
For always
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Part Two
Discov
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Background information
I. Author
II.The American Civil War
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I.
Author
Sherwood Anderson (Sep. 13,
1876–March 8, 1941) was a
great American writer, the
author of 27 works and seven
novels. He was also a poet and
a playwright, a newspaper
editor and a political journalist.
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I. Author—his family background
Sherwood Anderson was born
in Camden, Ohio, the third of
seven children. His father had
served in the Union Army in
American Civil War and later
declined from the harness
business into odd jobs of
house and sign painting.
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Author—his influence
Anderson influenced a younger
generation of important writers,
including Faulkner, Hemingway,
Steinbeck and others. He made
his name as a leading naturalistic
writer with his masterwork,
WINESBURG, OHIO (1919).
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Author—his works
Windy McPherson's Son, 1916
Marching Men, 1917
Mid-American Chants, 1918
Winesburg, Ohio, 1919
Poor White, 1920
The Triumph of the Egg, 1921
Horses and Men, 1921
Many Marriages, 1923
A Story Teller's Story, 1924
Dark Laughter, 1925
The Modern Writer, 1925
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook,
1926
Tar: A Midwest Childhood, 1926
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Author—his works
A New Testament, 1927
Alice and the Lost Novel, 1929
Hello Towns!, 1929
Nearer the Grass Roots, 1929
The American County Fair, 1930
Perhaps Women, 1931
Beyond Desire, 1932
Death in the Woods, 1933
No Swank, 1934
Puzzled America, 1935
Kit Brandon, 1936
Plays, Winesburg and Others, 1937
Home Town, 1940
Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs, 1942
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William Faulkner
a giant in American literature,
a renowned Mississippi writer,
Nobel Prize winner for literature,
acclaimed throughout the world as one
of the twentieth century’s greatest
writers.
Representative Works:
The Sound and the Fury (in 1929)
Go Down, Moses (in 1942)
As I Lay Dying,
Light in August,
Absalom, Absalom! （—the greatest novels
ever written by an American）
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Ernest Hemingway
Representative Works:
The Sun also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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John Steinbeck
American novelist, story writer,
playwright, and essayist,
Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in
1962, best remembered for The
Grapes
of Wrath (1939), a novel widely
considered to be a 20th-century
classic.
Other Works:
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Moon is Down (1942)
The Pearl (1947)
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II.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (1861–1865)
was the greatest war and the only war
fought on American soil. 3,000,000
people fought—600,000 people died. It
brought an end to the constitution of
slavery and paved the way for the
capitalist development in America.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures,
principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and
pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political
events.
At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery.
The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea
that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of
the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period.
Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787,
it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United
States.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over
slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that
if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should
not be counted toward voting representation in Congress.
Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue,
at least in this case, that the slaves were human beings,
eventually came to accept the three-fifths compromise, by
which five slaves counted as three free men toward that
representation. By the end of the convention, the institution
of slavery itself, though never specifically mentioned, was
well protected within the body of the Constitution.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
In 1808, Northern and Southern members of Congress voted
together to abolish the importation of slaves from overseas, but
the domestic slave trade continued to flourish. The invention of
the cotton gin made the cultivation of cotton on large plantations
using slave labor a profitable enterprise in the deep South. The
slave became an ever more important element of the southern
economy, and so the debate about slavery, for the southerners,
gradually evolved into an economically based question of money
and power, and ceased to be a theoretical or ideological issue at
all. It became an institution that southerners felt bound to protect.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
But even as the need to protect it grew, the ability, or at least the
perceived ability of the South to do so was waning. In 1800 half of
the population of the United States had lived in the South. But by
1850 only a third lived there and the disparity continued to widen.
While northern industrial opportunity attracted scores of
immigrants from Europe in search of freedom, the South's
population stagnated. Even as slave states were added to the
Union to balance the number of free ones, the South found that its
representatives in the House had been overwhelmed by the North’s
explosive growth. The South found itself at the mercy of a
government in which it no longer had an effective voice.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
Nothing but bitterness and bad feeling could come of it.
From such a position it was a short step to the
proposition that if a state or section of the country no
longer felt itself represented in, or fairly treated by the
Federal Government, then it had the right to dissolve
its association with that government. It could secede
from the Union.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
The whole mess went up in smoke in the presidential
election year of 1860. The Democratic party split
badly. Stephen Douglas became the nominee of the
northern wing of the party. A southern faction broke
away from the party and nominated Senator John
Breckinridge of Kentucky. The remnants of the Whig
party nominated John Bell of Tennessee.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
Into this confusion the new Republican party injected its
nominee, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a moderate
Republican. As such he was a compromise candidate,
everybody’s second choice. He was convinced that the
Constitution forbade the Federal government from taking
action against slavery where it already existed, but was
determined to keep it from spreading further. South
Carolina, in a fit of stubborn pride, unilaterally announced
that it would secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
To everyone’s amazement Lincoln was victorious.
He had gathered a mere 40% of the popular vote,
and carried not a single slave state, but the vote had
been so fragmented by the abundance of factions
that it had been enough.
Abraham Lincoln, the
16th president of the
United States
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
South Carolina, true to its word, seceded on
December 20, 1860. Mississippi left on January
9, 1861, and Florida on the 10th. Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
On Feb 9, 1861, the Confederate States of
America was formed with Jefferson Davis, a
West Point graduate and former U.S. Army
officer, as president.
Jefferson Davis,
president of the
Confederate States
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
At 4:30 a.m., April 12, 1861, the
Confederate army opened fire with
50 cannons upon Fort Sumter (萨姆
特炮台) in Charleston, South
Carolina. The Civil War broke out.
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II. American Civil War—the Causes
Abraham Lincoln
(the Union Army)
"... but one of them
would make war rather
than let the nation
survive, and the other
would accept war rather
than let it perish, and
the war came.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Jefferson Davis
(the Confederate Army)
II. American Civil War—
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Northern & Southern Leaders in the Civil War
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Lee
Grant
Sherman
Johnston
Davis
Lincoln
Longstreet
Sheridan
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II. American Civil War—the End
On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee
surrendered his Confederate Army
to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the
village of Appomattox Court House
in Virginia. The Union of the North
finally succeeded.
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The end of American civil war.
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Part Three
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Text Appreciation
I. Text Analysis
1. General Analyses
2. Theme
3. Structure
4. Analysis of Father’s Image
5. The Use of Symbols
II.Writing Devices
1. Syntactic Anaphora
2. Syntactic Epiphora
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Text Analysis
General Analyses
Plot of the story
Setting of the story
Protagonists of the story
Writing techniques of the story
Theme of the story
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Text Analysis
General Analyses
Plot : the discovery of a father
Setting : on a rainy night
Protagonists : “I” and “ father”
Writing techniques : go to Writing
devices
Theme of the story: go to the next page
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Text Analysis
Theme of the story
This is a story about an interesting character
told by his son who later became a well-known
writer. With well-selected anecdotes and using
the tone of a little boy, the author gives a vivid
character sketch of his father whom he used to
despise but gradually learns to understand and
appreciate when he grows up.
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The theme
is summed
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Text Analysis
Structure of the text
Part 1 (paras. 1–25) about:
Part 2 (paras. 26–41) about:
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Description of father’s
image before the discovery.
How the boy “discovered” a
father.
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Text Analysis
Analysis of Father’s Image
in the eyes of the son
a failure
a clown
a loafer
a windbag
discovery
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others
mother’s
pride instead
of complaint
of a father
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generous
kind-hearted
a natural actor
a born-story-teller
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Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Scan the text
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the related
information.
Two Symbols:
symbol one: the setting
symbol two: swimming in the dark
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Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Symbol 1:
the setting
Symbolic meanings
a wet night
father coming back
after being away for
two or three weeks
clothes dripping
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in terrible financial
difficulties again
not having much luck
in getting help from
his friends
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The Use of Symbols
Description of father
What suddenly dawns
on the boy
sitting in a chair for a long time not the irresponsible
with the saddest look
happy-go-lucky person
he used to be
not uttering a word
looking at his son closely and
seriously
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not a windbag any more
father loves him
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Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Symbol 2 :
swimming in the dark
Symbolic meanings
a man who is
father and son completely
naked
striking out together in the
dark
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dignified
powerful
loving
ready to face the
harsh life
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The Use of Symbols
Description of father
What suddenly dawns
on the boy
not foolish
not a clown
communicating with the
not a windbag
son
just too generous
trying to give him courage
too kind-hearted
and strength
loving life and people
a natural actor, a born
story-teller, a born
writer
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Writing Devices
Syntactic Anaphora
(Repetition
of Beginning Words)
It was a feeling of closeness. It was
something strange. It was as though there
were only we two in the world. It was as
though I had been jerked suddenly out of my
world of the schoolboy, out of a world in
which I was ashamed of my father.
This is the most common kind of sentence
repetition.
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Writing Devices
Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young
men,
It may be if I had known them I could have loved
them, It may be you are from old people, or from
offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps.
And here you are the mothers’ laps.
(Walt Whitman: Song of Myself)
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Writing Devices
Since that time, which is far enough away
now, I have often thought that few people
know what secrecy there is in the young,
under terror. I was in mortal terror of the
young man who wanted my heart and liver; I
was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with
the iron leg, from whom an awful promise
had been extracted;…
(C. Dickens: Great Expectations)
The repetition of the words brings out
vividly the extent of the boy’s terror,
increased by the fear that he might not
succeed in keeping his promise.
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Writing Devices
Syntactic Epiphora
(Repetition of Ending words)
More examples
It was as though I had been jerked suddenly
out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a
world in which I was ashamed of my father.
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Writing Devices
And then suddenly the machines pushed
them out and they swarmed on the highways.
The movement changed them; the high ways,
the camps along the road, the fear of hunger
and the hunger itself, changed them. The
children without dinner changed them; the
endless moving changed them. They were
migrants. And the hostility changed them.
They welded them, united them…
(John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath)
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Language Study
I. Word Study
II. Phrases and Expressions
III.Word Building
IV. Grammar
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Word Study
Word list:
1. bitter
7. glimpse
2. broke
8. harness
3. cover
9. intimate
4. credit
10. lick
15. strike
5. drip
11. loaf
15. surrender
6. druggist
12. momentary
16. sympathize
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13. shed
14. smash
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1. bitter: adj.
Word formation
1. not sweet, tasting like beer
n. bitterness
• Good medicine tastes bitter.
2. hard to bear; causing sorrow
• That failure was a bitter experience for him.
3. filled with or showing envy, hatred,
remorse or disappointment
bitter quarrels/words/enemies/tears
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Antonyms
bitter:
grateful
4. piercing cold
thankful
a bitter wind
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fight to the bitter end
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take the bitter with the sweet 接受顺境也接受逆境
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2. broke: adj.
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Synonyms
without any money
He went broke.
impoverished
Cf.
broken
• a broken home
破裂的家庭
• a broken promise
背弃的诺言
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a broken spirit
消沉的意志
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broken English
蹩脚的英语
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penniless
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broken
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Cf.
3. cover: v.
coverage
1. to place or hide sth. over in order to hide or protect
• He had to cover his ears when the noise became
really unbearable.
2. to have… in size
• This national park covers roughly 400 square miles
of beautiful land.
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cover:
3. to travel a certain distance
• By sunset they had covered 30 miles.
4. to include
• The 700-dollar rent does not cover water, electricity
and telephone service.
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cover:
5. to protect sb. by aiming a gun at the enemy
• He began to move towards the house carefully,
and Bob covered him.
6. (of money) to be enough for
• $1,000 will cover his needs for the journey.
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4. credit: n.
1. delayed payment 赊帐；信贷
• He bought this car on credit.
• The bank refused further credits to the company.
2. praise 光荣；功劳
• We must give her credit for our discovery.
• I think that he deserves all the credit for lifting the
villagers out of poverty.
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credit:
3. sth. that can bring honor or pride to sb.
• These Olympic gold medalists are no doubt a
great credit to our country.
4. recognition for a successfully completed
course at the university
• The professor decided to give him full credit for the
exam.
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credit:
5. money shown as owned by a person,
company in a bank account
• You have a credit balance of $500.
6. belief; trust; confidence
• The rumor is gaining credit.
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5. drip
v.
n.
to fall or let sth. fall in very small drops
the drop-by-drop falling of a liquid
• The tap is dripping.
• His paintbrush is dripping.
•
It’s so hot that he’s dripping with sweat.
•
There was no noise except for the drip, drip, drip
of water.
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Word Study
6. druggist: n.
Synonyms
sb. who is trained to prepare drugs and
medicines and works in a shop
drug
take/use drugs
吸毒
drug abuse
滥用毒品
drug addiction/addict
毒品上瘾 /上瘾者
drug dealer
毒品贩子
miracle drug
有奇效的药物
drugstore
药店；杂货店
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chemist;
pharmacist
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Word Study
Cf.
7. glimpse: v.
to see sb or sth. for a moment without
getting a complete view of them
• I glimpsed her face in the crowd, but then
she was gone.
n.
• get/catch a glimpse of
• a glimpse of what life might be like in the future
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glance
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8. harness:
n.
a piece of equipment for controlling a
horse worn over the horse’s head and
shoulders
v.
to control and use the natural force of sth.
• He runs a harness shop.
• They tried to harness the wind to generate
electricity.
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9. intimate: adj.
Word formation
1. having an extremely close relationship
• They are intimate friends.
• She’s on intimate terms with important people
in the government.
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Antonyms
intimate:
2. private and personal
distant
formal
• tell a friend the intimate details of one’s life
3. resulting from close study or great
familiarity
• an intimate knowledge of Greek philosophy
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10. lick: v.
1. to pass the tongue over or
under
• The cat was licking its paws.
2. (esp. of flames, waves) to touch lightly
• He dashed into the house to save the child despite
the licking flames.
他不顾四下乱窜的火舌，冲进屋里抢救那个孩子。
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lick:
3. (sl.) to overcome; to triumph over
• Well, that licks everything!
那真是闻所未闻、见所未见的事。
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11. loaf:
v.
to waste time; to spend time idly
• Don’t loaf about while there’s so much to be done.
• Don’t loaf away your time.
loafer
n. a person who loafs
游手好闲者
Half a loaf is better than none.
聊胜于无。
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Antonyms
12. momentary: adj.
lasting for a very short time
momentarily: adv.
lasting;
permanent
Cf.
• There was a momentary pause.
• She paused momentarily and glanced over her
shoulder.
• Mr. Johnson will be with you momentarily.
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(AmE.)
very soon
momentous
momentum
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13. shed:
n.
building, roughly made structure, used for
storing things
tool-shed
工具房
wood-shed
柴房
coal-shed
煤房
cattle-shed
畜棚
bicycle-shed
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shed: v.
to let fall; to let come off
shed tears
流泪
shed crocodile tears
假慈悲
shed blood
流血
shed skin
蜕皮
shed light on
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Synonyms
14. smash: v.
shatter
to break into small pieces, usually violently
smash a window
打破窗户
smash a record
打破纪录
smash the enemy
击溃敌人
smash up the furniture
捣毁家具
smash up a monopoly
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destroy
break into pieces
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15. strike: v.
1. to give sb. a particular impression
• How did the movie strike you?
• He struck me as a very hard-working student.
2. to stop working
• The new labor law allows workers to strike in
privately-owned enterprises.
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strike:
3. to hit
• Strike while the iron is hot.
4. to cause to sound
• The clock has just struck twelve.
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strike:
5. to put sb. suddenly into a particular state
be struck blind/dumb/silent
6. to fill with fear etc.
strike fear/terror/alarm into sb.
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16. surrender: v.
1. to say officially that you want to stop fighting
because you know you cannot win
• We advised the hijackers to surrender to the police.
2. to yield up or abandon possession of
• We shall never surrender our liberty.
3. to yield or give way to (a habit, emotion, etc.)
• He surrendered himself to despair.
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Synonym
yield (to)
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17. sympathize: v.
1. to feel sorry for sb. because you understand
their problem
• She sympathized with him in his sufferings.
2. to give approval or encouragement to
• Tom’s parents do not sympathize with his
ambition to become an actor.
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sympathy:
n.
• I have no sympathy for those people. They deserve
their punishment.
• We are all in sympathy with your proposals.
sympathetic:
adj.
• sympathetic face/words/looks
• be sympathetic to
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Phrases and Expressions
List:
1. a flow (of)
7.
cling to
2. be ashamed (of)
8.
be down and out
3. be thick with
9.
fool around/about
4. be up
10. hush sth. up
5. be up to
11. liven up
6. call it quits
12. slip off
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1. a flow of (pride)
a continuous stream, movement, or supply of sth.
 During the tourist season, the flow of traffic usually
doubles.
 Thanks to a steady flow of foreign capital, they are
able to expand their economy rapidly.
They know they are going to face a terrible flow of
refugees if nothing is done to prevent this
humanitarian disaster.
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Phrases and Expressions
 a flow of angry words
 滔滔的怒言
 a flow of spirits
 喜气洋洋
 a flow of eloquence
 流利的口才
 a flow of news of victories
 频传的捷报
 flowchart
 流程图
 flowmeter
 流量表
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2. be ashamed (of)
 He should be ashamed of what he has done.
 She felt ashamed that she had done little to help them.
 He was ashamed to ask for help.
Cf.
shameful conduct
可耻的行为
a shameless exploiter 无耻的剥削者
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3. be thick with
1. abounding or packed with
 The air was thick with dust.
2. be intimate with
 John is very thick with Anne now.
 as thick as thieves: very friendly
 through thick and thin: under any kind of conditions,
good or bad
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Phrases and Expressions
Put the
sentences
into
Chinese.
4. be up
 What’s up?
be up to
 You’re up early today.
 The game is up.
 When is your leave up?
 The river is up.
 He is up a few pounds.
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5. be up to
1. be occupied or busy with
 What’s he up to?
2. be equal to
 He’s not up to this job.
 I don’t feel up to going to work today.
3. as far as
 He is up to his neck in debts.
4. required as necessary
 It’s up to us to give them all the help we can.
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Phrases and Expressions
6. call it quits
Cf.
(infml.) to agree that a debt or an argument is
settled; to agree to stop doing sth.
 Will you call it quits if I pay you twenty dollars?
 Let’s do one more exercise, and we’ll call it quits.
call it a day
to decide that what has been done is enough for
one day
 Let’s call it a day. 今天就干到这里，收工吧。
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Phrases and Expressions
Synonym
7. cling to
stick to
to hold tight
hold to
 cling to one’s view
 坚持己见
 cling to one’s hope
that…
 始终抱着…… 的希望
Into English：
那个孩子紧紧抓着他妈妈的裙子。
 The child clung to his mother’s skirt.
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8. be down and out
Cf.
1. (boxing) to be knocked out, unable to resume the fight
 He was down and out in the last hit.
2. (fig.) to be beaten in the struggle of life;
to be unemployed and without money
Into English:
那时候他父亲穷困潦倒。
 His father was down and out at that time.
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be down with
be down to
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Cf.
Into English:
我们班上几乎四分之一的 同学都得流感病倒了。
be down with
be down to
 Nearly a quarter of our class were down with flu.
Into English:
我们只剩下最后五百块钱了。我们得向银行贷款。
 We were down to the last 500 yuan. We had to raise
a loan from the bank.
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9. fool around/about
to trifle; to be idle and silly
 He spends so much time fooling around that he
never accomplishes anything.
 Stop fooling around and do something useful.
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10. hush sth. up
prevent sth. from becoming public knowledge
 He gave her a lot of gifts just to make her hush it
up.
 She tried unsuccessfully to hush up the fact that her
husband was an ex-convict.
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11. liven up
to make or become lively
 How can we liven things up?
 His humorous speech livened up our class.
 The party is becoming to liven up.
 That little performance was the only thing that
livened up the otherwise hopelessly boring party.
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12. slip off
to go off quietly or secretly without being
noticed or caught
 The general used to slip off and have a quiet drink in
the bar.
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Phrases and Expressions
 slip a coat on/off
 迅速穿上 / 脱下上衣
 slip into/out of a dress
 迅速穿上 / 脱去衣服
 slip a coin into one’s hand
 把一枚硬币迅速塞入某人中
slip through one’s fingers
 未抓住；未把握住
 let sth. slip
 放手；放过；错过
 slip one’s mind
 （某事）被忘记
 a slip of the tongue / pen
 口误 / 笔误
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III. Word Building
List:
1. Derivation
Prefix – un
Prefix – super
Suffix – ize
2. Conversion
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1. Derivation — prefix:
un- (不；无；非）
adj.
adj.
affected
unaffected
available
unavailable
adaptable
unadaptable
approved
unapproved
easy
uneasy
employed
unemployed
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1. Derivation — prefix:
un- (不；无；非）
v.
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v.
lock
unlock
button
unbutton
tie
untie
zip
unzip
pack
unpack
cover
uncover
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1. Derivation — prefix:
super- (上……; 超……; 过分)
superstructure
上层建筑
superscribe
写在（信封、包裹）上
supernatural
超自然的
superpower
超级大国
superheat
过热
supercool
过冷
superabundant
过剩的，过多的
superfluous
过剩的，多余的
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1. Derivation — suffix
-ize (使之……）
adj./n.
v.
modern
modernize
national
nationalize
social
socialize
hospital
hospitalize
fertile
fertilize
sympathy
sympathize
computer
computerize
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2. Conversion: a word-formation process whereby a word of
a certain word-class is shifted into a word of
another word-class without the addition of an
affix.
house
house the poor
book
book a ticket
chair
chair a meeting
shoulder
shoulder the responsibility
weed
weed the garden
fish
fish in troubled waters
head
head a delegation
mushroom
factories mushroom
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IV. Grammar
1. “be + doing” structure
Continuous tense is sometimes used together
with adverbs like always, constantly, forever to
express the speaker’s strong approval or
disapproval.
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Example
other
examples
It seemed to me that he was always showing off.
past continuous tense with
adverbs of frequency denoting
a habitual action, especially an
annoying one
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 He was always telling stories about himself.
 Jim is constantly forgetting to clean the test
tubes after experiments.
 My old jeep is forever breaking down as I have to
rush somewhere.
 That old man is always helping others.
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2. as + adj. + a /an + as structure
In the above structure, the indefinite article is put
between the adjective and the noun.
Examples:
as intelligent a student as Mary
as interesting a novel as Oliver Twist
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Para. 1
3. You hear it said that fathers want their sons to
be what they feel they cannot themselves be,
but I tell you it also works the other way.
anticipatory “it” as
object of “hear”
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4. Sometimes he’d stay away for weeks,
mother working to keep us fed, and
then home he’d come bringing, let’s say,
parenthesis
a ham.
an abstract
structure of
present participle
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connecting the two
clauses
present participle
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5. To protect my mother I’d make up stories of a secret
marriage that for some strange reason never got
known.
adverbial in the
attributive
clause
subject of the
attributive
clause
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6. It was as it was earlier, in the kitchen, a face filled
with sadness
link verb
subject
predictive
adverbial
clause
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used as an
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Extension
I. Oral work 
II. Quiz 
III.Listening lab 
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Oral Work
I.
Questions to help comprehension and appreciation of the text.
1. What does the author mean that “ fathers
want their sons to be what they cannot themselves be, but it also
works the other way?”
2. What kind of father did the author wish to have as a child? Did his
father meet his requirements? How did he feel about his father at
first? What qualities did his father have that made the author
particularly unhappy? Give three examples.
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3. How did the author as a child describe his father? Why did he think
of him as foolish and ridiculous— a windbag and a good-for-nothing?
Was his father really showing off all the time? Why was he so
popular among the villagers including the local celebrities? Why did
the author’s mother have no complaint about him?
4. Why did the author’s father go broke? What did that reveal about his
character?
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5. Retell the anecdote of the author’s father and general Grant in the
wood the day the general was to meet Robert Lee as imagined by the
author’s father.
6. What happened one day that changed the author’s opinions of his
father completely? Why was it such an important turning point? Why
did his father do this? Did the author understand at that time? Why
did he say that from that time on he no longer wanted another father?
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Quiz
II.
List:
1. Quiz 1
2. Quiz 2
3. Quiz 3
4. Quiz 4
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Quiz 1
II.
Keys
Put the phrases into English.
1. 经营一家五金店
2. 变得不名分文
3. 避免张扬
4. 同情某人
5. 活跃气氛
1. run a hardware store
6. 吓某人一跳
7. 拒绝赊帐
8. 忍受侮辱
9. 打碎玻璃
6. startle sb.
10.负责指挥部队
10.take charge of the army
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2. go broke
3. hush it up
4. sympathize with sb.
5. liven up the atmosphere
7. refuse credit
8. stand the insult
9. smash the window
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Quiz 2
II.
Put the phrases into English.
Keys
1. 拉开夹克的拉链
2. 打开行李
3. 解开绳子
4. 卸下船上的货
5. 拔掉收音机电源
1. unzip the jacket
6. 刮去鱼鳞
7. 将酒装瓶
8. 跟踪某人
9. 骑自行车上学
10.用好奇的眼光看人
6. scale the fish
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2. unpack the luggage
3. untie the rope
4. unload the ship
5. unplug the radio
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7. bottle the wine
8. tail after sb.
9. bike to school
10. eye sb. with curiosity
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Quiz 3
II.
Complete the following sentences with best choice.
1. Is there anything you want from town? I am going to
get _______.
B
A. to mail those letters
B. these letters mailed
C. mailed letters
D. those letters to mail
2. His remarks left me ______
about his real purpose.
D
A. wondered
B. wonder
C. to wonder
D. wondering
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II.
D
3. Don’t put the TV set in ______
place.
A. a such warm
B. what warm a
C. how warm a
D. too warm a
C
4. Exercising is ______
as any to lose unwanted weight.
A. as a good way
B. so a good way
C. as good a way
D. too good a
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II.
A
5. The output of steel in this year is ______.
A. three times as high as that of 1990
B. three times high as 1990
C. as three times higher as that of 1990
D. as high as three times as that of 1990
B
6. We often advise him not to drink more wine ______
is
good for his health.
A. as
B. than
C. that
D. but
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II.
7. ______
D
about the bookkeeper’s honesty, the company
asked him to resign.
A. There be some questions
B. Thee were some questions
C. There have been some questions
D. There being some questions
D
8. The children went there to watch the iron tower _____.
A. to erect
B. erecting
C. be erected
D. being erected
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II.
9. With the development in science and technology, man
C
can make various flowers ______
before their time.
A. be bloomed
B. blooming
C. bloom
D. bloomed
D
10. Melted iron is poured into the mixer ______
tea is
poured into a cup from a teapot.
A. in the same way like
B. in the same way which
C. in the same way
D. in the same way as
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II.
11. I will not spend so much money on that fur coat, for I
A
don’t think it is ______.
A. worth buying
B. worth of
C. worthy
D. worthwhile
D
12. All the parts of this washing machine are ______,
so
that it is very convenient to replace them.
A. normalized
B. modernized
C. mechanized
D. standardized
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II.
13. The novel contains some marvelously revealing
B
______
of rural life in the 19th century.
A. glances
B. glimpses
C. glares
D. gleans
14. He ______
out of the window for a moment and then
A
went on working.
A. glanced
B. viewed
C. glimpsed
D. saw
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II.
15. He was ______
C
of having asked such a silly question.
A. sorry
B. for students’ being
C. ashamed
D. miserable
16. Although the false banknotes fooled many people,
they did not ______
to close examination.
D
A. look up
B. pay up
C. keep up
D. stand up
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II.
17. It’s usually the case that people seldom behave in a
B
______
way when in a furious state.
A. stable
B. rational
C. legal
D. credible
18. He moved away from his parents and missed them
B
______
enjoy the exciting life in New York.
A. enough to
B. too much to
C. very much to
D. much so as to
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Quiz 3
II.
19. The heart is ______
D
intelligent than the stomach, for
they are both controlled by the brain.
A. not so
B. much more
C. not more
D. no more
20. The children had never been subject to any discipline
A
and so were completely ______.
A. out of hand
B. out of place
C. out of season
D. out of action
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Quiz 4
II.
Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.
1. She looks _________
ridiculous in those tight jeans. (ridicule)
sympathy with the railway
2. Will the bus workers strike in _________
workers? (sympathize)
stroke of luck. (strike)
3. That was a wonderful ________
lowered his voice to a whisper. (low)
4. He ________
5. The doctors said that her recovery was a ________.
miracle
(miraculous)
6.You should ________
ensure yourself against loss of heat by
having double glazing. (sure)
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Listening Lab
III.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed
___________ to be seen
with my father. He was severely crippled and very short,
and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for
uneasy at the
balance, people would stare. I would feel _______
unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he
never let on.
It was difficult to coordinate our steps — his halting,
mine impatient—and because of that, we didn’t say much
as we went along. But as we started out, he always said,
“You set the pace. I will try to adjust
_______ to you.”
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Listening Lab
IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was
how he got to work. He went to work sick, and despite
nasty weather. He almost never _______
missed a day, and would
make it to the office even if others could not. A matter of
pride.
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IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When there was snow or ice on the ground, it was
impossible for him to walk, even with help. At such times,
my sisters or I would ______
pull him through the streets of
Brooklyn, N.Y., on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance.
cling to the handrail until he
Once there, he would ______
reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept
ice-free. In Manhattan the subway station was the
basement of his office building, and he would not have to
go outside again until we met him in Brooklyn on his way
home.
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Listening Lab
IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
When I think of it now, I _______
marvel at how much courage
it must have taken for a grown man to subject himself to
indignity and stress. And at how he did it—without
such ________
________ or complaint.
bitterness
He never talked about himself as an object of pity, nor
did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What
he looked for in others was “ good heart”, and if he found
one, the owner was good enough for him.
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IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard
by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know
precisely
_______ what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I
don’t have one myself.
Unable to engage in many activities, my father still tried
participate in some way. When a local baseball team
to _________
going He was
found itself without a manager, he kept it _______.
a knowledgeable baseball fan and also liked to go to
dances and parties, where he could have a good time just
sitting around and watching.
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IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
I now know he participated in some things just through
me, his son. When I played ball, he “played” too. When I
joined the Navy, he “joined” too. And when I came home
on leave, he “saw to it that I visited his office”. Introducing
me, he was really saying, “This is my son, but it is also me,
and I could have done this, too, if things had been
different.” Those words were never said aloud.
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IV.
A Good Heart to Lean on
More than I realized, Dad has helped me keep my balance.
By Augustus J. Bullock
He has been gone many years now, but I think of him
reluctance to be seen with
often. I wonder if he sensed my _________
him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him
unworthy I was, how I regretted it. I
how sorry I was, how ________
think of him when I complain about trifles, when I am
envious of another’s fortune, when I don’t have a “good
heart”.
At such times I put my hand on his arm to ______
regain my
balance, and say, “You set the pace. I will try to adjust to
you.”
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Part Five
This is the end
of Lesson Two.
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