甘陽(yáng)在中山大學(xué)博雅學(xué)院當(dāng)院長(zhǎng)的時(shí)候面試學(xué)生，看到很多孩子都有鋼琴十級(jí)證書(shū)，一開(kāi)始他為這么多家庭都有藝術(shù)教育感到很欣喜，可深入了解后，他發(fā)現(xiàn)幾乎沒(méi)有一個(gè)孩子真的對(duì)音樂(lè)有興趣。

從前，老師們認(rèn)為最好的中學(xué)生是課外書(shū)讀了很多的孩子?，F(xiàn)在，絕大多數(shù)進(jìn)入頂級(jí)高校的孩子都沒(méi)有豐富的閱讀經(jīng)驗(yàn)，

“真的讀了很多書(shū)的，反而考不進(jìn)來(lái)”。

甘陽(yáng)常常問(wèn)學(xué)生中學(xué)的時(shí)候讀過(guò)什么，得到的答案經(jīng)常是高考有關(guān)的，要不就是“四大名著”——“我最不想聽(tīng)到說(shuō)四大名著，都是概念性的東西，有沒(méi)有真讀過(guò)，我一問(wèn)就知道?！?/p>

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Exercises

A Checking your understanding

Chapters 1 and 2 Are these sentences true or false?

1 Mary has a little dog.

//Personal opinion: True

Mary sat with her little dog in her hands and watched it, all day long.

2 Queen Elizabeth is afraid of Mary.

//Personal opinion: True

'Why, Your Majesty? Because Queen Elizabeth is afraid of you.'

3 Bess Curle wrote the story.

//Personal opinion: False

Queen of Scots. She wrote the story

4 Mary says 'I killed James's father.'

//Personal opinion: True

I did not kill him.

5 Mary was a Queen when she was one week old.

//Personal opinion: True

筆記也有: My father died when I was one week old,? so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby.

6 Mary married when she was sixteen.

//Personal opinion: False

16歲，那是他第一任丈夫死去時(shí)的年齡，短命的國(guó)王，何況他的公民。

7 Mary is a Catholic and James is a Protestant.

//Personal opinion: True

James, my son, you are a Protestant and I am a Catholic.?

8 Most Scottish people are Catholics.

//Personal opinion: False

Scotland is a Protestant country.?

9 John Knox wanted to marry Mary.

//Personal opinion: False

He was a famous Protestant churchman…

He hated the Catholic church…? 瑪麗就是 Catholic

10 Mary didn't go to Knox's church.

//Personal opinion: True

But I did not go to his church.

Chapters 3 and 4 Who said this in the story?

1 Our two countries need to be friends.

//Elizabeth

Elizabeth wrote to me at this time.

2 She wants her lover to be King of Scotland!

//Mary

3 I'm not interested in work like that.

//Henry Darnley

Your father looked unhappy. 'I'm not interested in work like..

4 Riccio is in the Queen's rooms every night.

//Moray's friends

But then, Moray's friends began to talk about me and Riccio. 'David Riccio…

5 Please tell that man to move.

6 He goes out, woman!

//Lord Ruthven

'He goes out, woman!' Lord Ruthven said. 'King Henry, hold your wife, please!'

7 They're going to kill me! Don't—aaaaaargh!

//David Riccio

8 You never talk to me.

//Henry Darnley

Darnley laughed. 'You are my wife, Mary—not David Riccio's!' he said. 'So why are you with him every evening? You never talk to me!'

9 You aren't king—you're a stupid boy!

//Mary

10 Never!

//Mary

Chapters 5, 6 and 7 Who in the story...

1 ... cried in front of Mary?

//Henry Darnley

Darnley came to see me… I said. 'Why are you crying?'

2 ... waited all day in her rooms?

//Mary

'Listen to me, Henry! And try to be a man.

He went, and did it. All day I waited in my rooms.

3 ... rode for five hours in the rain?

//Mary and Bess Curle

But I was pregnant, and it was cold and dark. We rode for five hours in the rain.?

4 ... came to help Mary?

//Lord Bothwell

In the morning we arrived at Dunbar Castle. Darnley slept, and I wrote letters to my friends. Next day Lord Bothwell came to help me.

5 ... slept with other women?

//Henry Darnley

But you father did not love me, James. Very often, after you were born, he slept with other women.

//開(kāi)始?xì)缱约?/p>

6 ... was ill in Glasgow?

//Henry Darnley

In January your father, Darnley, was ill in Glasgow.

7 ... had something black on his face and hands?

//Bothwell's men

Outside the house, we met one of Bothwell's men. He looked afraid, and there was something black on his face and hands.

8 ... sold horrible stories and pictures of Bothwell?

//People in Edinburgh

People in Edinburgh sold horrible stories and pictures of Bothwell the same day that Darnley died.

9 ... rode from his army to talk to Mary and Bothwell?

//Lord Kirkcaldy

At five o'clock that evening Lord Kirkcaldy rode from his army to talk to us.?

10 ... died in a prison in Denmark?

//Bothwell

Bothwell went over the sea, and died in a prison in Denmark.

Chapters 8 and 9 Are these sentences true or false?

1 Moray talked to Elizabeth about Mary.

//Personal opinion: False

//按照 Mary 的書(shū)寫(xiě)，他們散播了謠言。

2 Mary was in an English prison for forty-five years.

//Personal opinion: False

Twenty years in English prisons.

3 The English Catholics wanted Mary to be Queen of England.

//Personal opinion: True

The English Catholics want me to be Queen of England, not her.

4 She carried her little dog upstairs.

//Personal opinion: False

Her little dog walked beside her, under the veil, but the Englishmen didn't see that.

5 Mary cried.

//Personal opinion: False

She stood there, in her red petticoat, with a smile on her face.?

6 Mary had a red petticoat under her black dress.

//Personal opinion: True

She stood there, in her red petticoat, with a smile on her face.?

7 Mary prayed before she died.

//Personal opinion: False

'The Lord my God is my one true friend,' she said. 'I give my life, oh God, into your hands.'

//不過(guò)抒發(fā)一些感情，并沒(méi)有祈禱。上帝才是我真正朋友，為了朋友獻(xiàn)出我的生命。

8 There wasn't much blood.

//Personal opinion: False

But there was so much blood—?

blood on her red petticoat,?

blood on her black dress and her white veil,?

blood on the executioner's shoes,?

blood all over the floor.?

Blood, blood everywhere.

//歐陽(yáng)超：你眼瞎了嗎, 非得寫(xiě)六月飛雪才是冤枉嗎。

B Working with language

Put together these beginnings and ends of sentences.

1.? Mary came back to Scotland when her husband died.

2. The Scots lords hated Riccio so they killed him.

3. Mary asked Darnley to help but he didn't like the work.

4. Mary went away with Bothwell because he had an army.

5. Darnley's body was in the garden after Kirk o'Field blew up.

6. Mary went to England to ask Elizabeth for an army.

7. Elizabeth kept Mary in prison because she couldn't make up her mind.

Use these words to join these sentences together.

because　so　when　after　but　and　before

1 John Knox didn't like Mary because she was a Catholic and a woman.

2 Mary liked Darnley before/when/and she married him.

// liked, +d了，過(guò)去喜歡過(guò)，如果沒(méi)有 d，就可以選 so 了。

3 Bothwell met Mary outside Edinburgh and/after he took her to his castle.

4 Mary liked Riccio but Moray and Darnley didn't like him.

5 Darnley was afraid after Mary wasn't with him.

C Activities

1 You are a newspaper reporter. You talk to Mary, Elizabeth, Moray, and Bothwell. Write a story called: 'Who killed Darnley, and why?'

//I think the murder is Moray.

he wants the kingdom of Scotland.

…

2 Imagine you are in Scotland when Bess gives Mary's letter to James. What do they talk about? Write a dialogue and act it out with a partner.

//Bess: Here you are,? Your Majesty, I took something for you from your mother.

James: Leave me alone. I do not want to see anything of my mother.

…

3 You are talking to the Earl of Moray, Mary's half-brother. Write down your questions, and his answers. Act your dialogue out with a partner.

//Question: Are you killed Henry Darnley?

Answer: Why you ask this, who are you?

…

//挖好坑，以后跳.

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