1910NA 小说

文章分析

Blurb: 

作者、书名、出版日期都相对属于无用信息。但是介绍了主要人物角色、特征及关系。

deathbed 

所以通过阅读Blurb我们就有个预期，想要知道两个主人公之间的故事。

para 1: 

故事引入，一个将死之人在病榻上对辛苦耕耘的土地的回忆；

impression 效果

para 2: 

同上，说白了，就是地难种；

para 3 比较长，我们自行10-15行切分：

Line 25-35: 女主人公出现；

line 35-47: 儿子不如女儿；

line 47-段尾：儿子能干但不聪明，女儿聪明像爷爷，然后回忆了爷爷的生活；

para 4: 

当然希望儿子能接班，但是女儿也不错啊~

很接地气的一篇小故事。

题型解析：

1   主旨题

futility 徒劳无功

跟fertile做好辨析

2   主旨题/结构题，从讨论地到讨论人~

3   结构题

常错C。问14-17的功能，就应该轻信息本身，重信息关系。

4   直接信息

5   单词意思

6   间接细节

7   直接细节

8   上一题定位

9   独立循证

10 类比题

背景拓展：

Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.

Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. 

O Pioneers! 

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918). 

O Pioneers!  tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when many other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel is also concerned with two romantic relationships, one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Linstrum and the other between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. 

homestead act

an act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation 份地法; 美国国会通过的划出给移民160英亩公用土地作为耕地的法令

homesteaders

农场所有人；分得土地之定居者；自耕农