2018-2019学年高中英语人教版必修4Unit1英美文化欣赏.docx

【导读】 《假如给我三天光明》是美国当代著名作家海伦 ·凯勒的散文代 表作。该书的前半部分主要写了海伦变成盲聋人后的生活 ，后半部分则介绍了海 伦的求学生涯。同时也介绍她体会不同的丰富多彩的生活以及她的慈善活动等 等。她以一个身残志坚的柔弱女子的视角 ，告诫身体健全的人们应珍惜生命 ，珍 惜造物主赐予的一切。 Three Days to See( excerpt) All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year； sometimes as short as twenty-four hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how thedoomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak，of course，of free men who have a choice， not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking ， wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events，what experiences， what associationsshould we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past， what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with a gentleness，a vigor，and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those， of course，who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat，drink ，and be merry，” but most people would be chastenedby the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune， but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live ， or have lived ，in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. 1/3 假如给我三天光明 (节选 ) 我们大家都读过一些令人激动的故事， 这些故事里的主人公仅仅活在有限并且特定的时间内，有时长达一年，有时短到 24 小时。但我们总是有兴趣发现，那命中注定要死的是那些有选择自由的人， 而不是那些活动范围被严格限定了的判了刑的犯人。 这样的故事让我们思考， 在相似的情况下， 我们该怎么办。 作为终有一死的人，在那最终的几个小时内安排什么事件， 什么经历，什么交往？在回顾往事时，我们该找到什么快乐？什么悔恨？ 我有时想，如果把每一天都当作生命的最后一天来过， 也许是一条非常好的 生