美国故事(上下册)(英文版)
1998-06
中央编译出版社
德雷珀(美)
436
《美国故事（套装上下册）》收入了中国读者熟悉的欧·亨利、马克·吐温、爱伦·坡、薇拉·凯瑟等著名作家的作品。为适合非英语国家读者的需要，C。G。德雷珀进行了改编。《美国故事（套装上下册）》中每个故事都有作者简介；故事后有相应练习，包括阅读技能、词汇和写作训练；故事和练习的难度呈梯级式增大。中文注释，详细剖析重点词汇和语法难点、简便易学。内附插图，生动活泼，既可用来扩大词汇量、巩固语法、练习写作，也能用于陶冶性情，提高文化素养。本丛书对欲赴美深造或想了解美国文化的广大读者，有极高的价值。
上册丛书序言麦琪的礼物热爱生命一小时内发生的故事泄密的心舵手学徒受到的教育夫人抑或老虎奥尔河桥事件白色的苍鹭参考答案下册丛书序言一个忙碌的经纪人的罗曼史新娘来到黄天城阿芒蒂拉多酒桶陪审团人造珠宝保罗的故事失去菲比参考答案
TO THE TEACHER GREAT AMERICAN STORIES 1 consists of eight careful adaptations of famous stories by classic Americanwriters and exercises on each story in reading skills,vocabulary, discussion, word forms, language activity, and writing. Prereading exercises introduce the student to the world of the story;and one of the prereading exercises ineach lesson is based on a biographical paragraph about the story's author that appears on the story's title page. The book is both graded and progressive -- that is, the vocabulary, grammar, and internal structure of the storiesincrease in difficulty from the first story (which is at the beginning-intermediate level of proficiency ) to the last(which is at the intermediate level). Structural, lexical, and sentence-length controls have been used throughout the book. The head-word list for the first four stories contains600 words,while that used for the final four contains 1,000.Maximum sentence length increases from 10 words in the first story to 18 in the final four. New grammatical structures are added gradually, story by story. And words from outside the head-word lists are introduced in a context that makes their meaning clear;used again within the next 100 words of text ;and then repeated at least three more times before the end of the story. The exercises are so designed that the student must often return to the text to check comprehension or vocabulary. In addition, skimming and scanning exercises in the prereading sections often involve rereading of the writers' biographies. In short, an objective of the book is to involve the reader deeply in the text of each story and the world of its author, and, toward that end, to present exercises that are difficult if not impossible to complete without a thorough understanding of the text. ……
北京大学外国语学院教授、博士生导师王逢鑫极力推荐：《美国故事（套装上下册）》是一本地道的英语读物，可以为具有一定英语基础的中国读者提供很好的帮助。 目前面世的英语读物多是应试方面的指导，有的仅仅是语法和词汇上的讲解。即使谈及文化，也要么过于简单，要么过于艰涩。“美国文化读本”丛书适时推出，对于想学英语的中国读者来说，无疑是一件好事。中国人学英语的最大障碍在于远离英美文化背景，容易以中国人的思维方式去考虑问题。本丛书是地道的英语读物，可以为具有一定英语基础的中国读者提供很好的帮助。
