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Part I Understanding and Learning
Text Growing Up
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Russell Baker (born August 14, 1925): Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Russell Baker, was the author of the nationally syndicated Observer column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. In addition, as the noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer, he has written or edited seventeen books. He used good-natured humor to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters. Baker‘s first Pulitzer Prize was for distinguished commentary for his Observer columns (1979) and the second one was for his autobiography, Growing Up (1983). He wrote a sequel to his autobiography in 1989, called The Good Times. In addition to his regular columns and numerous books, Baker also edited the anthologies, The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor (1993). In 1993, he became the regular host of the PBS television series, Masterpiece Theatre. Baker is a regular contributor to national periodicals such as The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Saturday Evening Post, and McCalls.
II?????????????????????????????????1. Growing Up: Growing Up is Russell Baker‘s memoir which recalls his peripatetic childhood. It won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for biography. It traces his youth in rural Virginia, from the death of his father when he was only five through his growing-up years between the wars. The rest
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of the book is a paean to his mother, a strong-willed optimist who never accepted defeat as an alternative to success. Her unfailing faith in the talents of her young son was not misplaced. This is an iconic and magical piece of literature, a story of courage and love, of the bonds of family in spite of tension and disagreement.
2. The Saturday Evening Post: The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. While the publication traces its historical roots to Benjamin Franklin and The Pennsylvania Gazette first published in 1728, The Saturday Evening Post, rechristened under new ownership in 1821 as a four-page newspaper, eventually became the most widely circulated weekly magazine. The magazine gained prominent status under the leadership of its longtime editor George Horace Lorimer (1899–1937). The Saturday Evening Post published current event articles, editorials, human interest pieces, humor, illustrations, a letter column, poetry (including work written by readers), single-panel cartoons and stories by the leading writers of the time. It was known for commissioning lavish illustrations and original works of fiction. Illustrations were featured on the cover, and embedded in stories and advertising. Some Post illustrations became popular and continued to be reproduced as posters or prints, especially those by Norman Rockwell. Curtis Publishing Co. stopped publishing the Post in 1969 after the company lost a landmark defamation suit and was ordered to pay over $3 million in damages.
3. The Great Depression: The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Though the United States economy had gone into depression six months earlier, the Great Depression may be said to have begun with a catastrophic collapse of stock-market prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 per cent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual investors, this precipitous decline in the value of assets greatly strained banks and other financial institutions, particularly those holding stocks in their portfolios. Many banks were consequently forced into insolvency; by 1933, 11,000 of the United States‘ 25,000 banks had failed. The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the
新发展研究生英语 综合教程 2 教师用书
downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment;
by 1932, the United States‘ manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.
4. Curtis Publishing Co.: The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century. The company‘s publications included the Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, The American Home, Holiday, Jack & Jill and Country Gentleman. In the 1940s, Curtis also had a comic book imprint, Novelty Press. The company was formed by publisher Cyrus Curtis, who published the People’s Ledger, a news magazine he had begun in Boston in 1872 and moved to Philadelphia in 1876. He had also established the Tribune and Farmer in 1879, from the women‘s section of which he fashioned the Ladies’ Home Journal under the editorship of his wife, Louisa Knapp in 1883. These publications were taken under the imprimatur of the new company. In 1897, Curtis spent $1,000 to buy The Saturday Evening Post, The advent of television in the late 1940s and early 1950s encroached upon the popularity of general interest periodicals like the Post and the Journal, and in March, 1962, Curtis Publishing‘s president Robert A. MacNeal announced that the company had lost money for the first time since its incorporation, more than 70 years before. In 1968, Curtis Publishing sold the Ladies’ Home Journal, along with The American Home, to Downe Communications for $5.4 million in stock. Curtis sold The Saturday Evening Post, the last of its magazines, in 1982.
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1. Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons could do
it. (Para. 1): Many parents who were no better than beggars still held the hope that their
sons could grow up to be presidents.
hardly (adv.): You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that it is
only a small amount or detail which makes it true, and that therefore it is best to consider the opposite statement as being true.
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2. Many a grandfather who walked among us could remember Lincoln?s time. (Para. 1):
Many old people who were old enough to be the generation of our grandfathers and were
still alive could remember the time when Lincoln was president.
many a: You use many followed by ?a‘ and a noun to emphasize that there are a lot of
people or things involved in sth.
e.g. (1) Many a mother tries to act out her unrealized dreams through her daughter. (2) Many a good man has been destroyed by drink.
3. An elderly uncle, having posed the usual question and exposed my lack of interest in
the presidency, asked, “Well, what do you want to be when you grow up?” (Para. 2):
An elderly uncle found me uninterested in being president after asking the same question that was frequently asked by others. Then he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
v.): ask a question especially one that needs serious thought pose (e.g. When I finally posed the question, “Why?”, he merely shrugged.
expose (v.) show sth. that is usually hidden
e.g. He did not want to expose his fears and insecurity to anyone.
4. My uncle smiled, but my mother had seen the first distressing evidence of a bump
budding on a log. “Have a little gumption, Russell,” she said. Her calling me Russell was
a signal of unhappiness. When she approved of me I was always “Buddy.” (Para. 4): After answering my uncle‘s question, he smiled, but my mother sensed a symptom of the lack of ambition on me. So she told me to be ambitious. When she called me ―Russell‖, it indicated that she was unhappy. When she praised me, she usually called me ―Buddy.‖
5. When I turned eight years old she decided that the job of starting me on the road
towards making something of myself could no longer be safely delayed. (Para. 5):
When I was eight years old, my mother realized it was high time for me to do some job, which was the preparation for my future success. She couldn‘t allow me to lose the chance by living idly any more.
make something of oneself: be successful in one‘s life
Now that he is determined to make something of himself and he will certainly want to win as a fighter.
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When I burst in that afternoon she was in conference in the parlor with an executive