1、1. Warm-up Questions 2. Bill Plaschke 3. Baseball4. Los Angeles Dodgers Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading5. Cerebral Palsy Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingWarm-up Questions 1. Do you know any disabled persons who are very successful? Please look at th
2、e pictures on the previous page and work in groups to introduce them.2. Whats your feeling when you see the disabled who are doing something difficult for them?3. Without using your hands and feet, could you imagine some other ways to type on a computer?4. What do you know about cerebral palsy?Befor
3、e ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBill Plaschke Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBill Plaschke (born on April 2, 1956) is a U.S. journalist who has been a writer for the Los Angeles Times since 1987. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended Louisvill
4、es Ballard High School. He received a bachelors degree in mass communications in 1980 from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois. Currently he is one of the panelistson the sports-themed show Around the Horn on ESPN. He is also a member of the Baseball Writers Associati
5、on of America and the Professional Football Writers Association. In his career as a sportswriter, Plaschke has been named “National Sports Columnist of the Year” by the Associated Press. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Baseball Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBef
6、ore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBaseball is a sport that is so popular in the United States that it is often called the national pastime. Every spring and summer, millions of people throughout the country play this exciting “bat and ball game. ” Millions also watch baseball gam
7、es and closely follow the progress of their favorite teams and players.There are organized baseball teams for every age group from 6-year-olds to adults. The teams that attract the most interest are those of the two major leagues: the American League and the National League. These teams are made up
8、of men who rank as the worlds best players. Every year, about 50 million people flock to ballparks to watch major league baseball games. Many more millions watch games on television, listen to them on radio, read about them in newspapers, and discuss them with their friends. Baseball Los Angeles Dod
9、gers Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingThe Los Angeles Dodgers is a major league baseball team in Los Angeles, California. They are in the Western Division of the National League. The team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known as the Brooklyn Dodgers before movi
10、ng to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.Cerebral Palsy Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingCerebral Palsy Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingIt is a disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first few years after birth, resulting in a
11、 loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. Although the exact cause is unknown, apparent predisposing factors include diseases (e.g. rubella, genital herpes simplex), very low infant birth weight (less than 3.3 lb 1.5 kg), and injury or physical abuse, etc. Maternal smoking, alcohol consu
12、mption, and ingestion of certain drugs can also contribute to the disease. Most cases are associated with prenatal problems and about 10% of the cases are thought to be due to oxygen deficiency during the birth process. The severity of the affliction is dependent on the extent of the brain damage. T
13、hose with mild cases may have only a few affected muscles, while severe cases can result in total loss of coordination or paralysis.1. Part Division of the Text 2. Further Understanding Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingMultiple Choice For Part 1 For Part 3For Part 2 Questions
14、 and AnswersGroup Discussion Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingPart Division of the Text Part Paragraphs Main Ideas 11 425 45346 47The author was impressed by an e-mail from a Dodgers fan. How did the relationship between the author and Sarah Morris start and go on? Sarah Morr
15、is had a great influence on the author.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingQuestions and Answers 1. In what ways was Sarahs e-mail different from other letters the author had received? 2. In what way was Sarahs e-mail similar to other letters the author had received?It contained
16、 more details than the usual “Youre an idiot.”, and it was signed.It also criticized the authors comments on the Los Angeles Dodgers.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingMultiple Choice1. What was Sarahs dream? A) To be a baseball player. B) To be a baseball editorialist. C) To g
17、et a job. D) To be a writer.KEY 2. What in Sarahs second e-mail caught the authors attention? A) In the email Sarah asked the author for a job. B) The author learned Sarah was running a website about Dodgers. C) There was a mistake in Sarahs spelling. D) The question Sarah asked.KEY Directions: Choo
18、se the best answers.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading3. What did the author think of Sarahs website? A) Informed but not fancy. B) Very popular. C) Too serious. D) Professional.KEY 4. The author decided to drive a long way to visit Sarah because he was curious about _. A) how
19、 did Sarah use a head pointer to type B) whether Sarah was really suffering from physical handicap and speech disability C) how did Sarah become a Dodgers fan D) how did a person with cerebral palsy liveKEY Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingGroup DiscussionWork with your partn
20、er to discuss “How did Sarah Morris change the author and what can you learn from the story of Sarah Morris?”Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingA sportswriter thinks hes met another crank. Instead, he finds a true winner. The e-mail was in some respects similar to other nasty l
21、etters I receive. It took me to task for my comments on the Los Angeles Dodgers and argued that I had got everything wrong. However, the note was different from the others in at least two ways.This note contained more details than the usual “Youre an idiot.” It included vital statistics on the teams
22、 performance. It was written by someone who knew the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as I thought I did.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingA Fans NotesBill PlaschkeAnd this note was signed. The writers name was Sarah Morris. I was impressed. I wrote her back. Little did I know that
23、 this would be the start of a most unusual relationship.May I ask you a question? For two years I have been running my own website about the Dodgers. How did you become a baseball editorialist? That is my deam.This was Sarahs second e-mail, and it came just as expected. Every time I smile at someone
24、, they ask me for a job. But something else caught my eye. The misspelling in that last line. The part about “my deam.” Maybe Sarah Morris was just a lousy typist. But maybe she was truly searching for something, yet was only one letter from finding it.It was worth one more response, I asked her to
25、explain.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingSo here was a physically handicapped woman, covering the Dodgers as extensively as any reporter in the country, yet writing for an obscure website with an impossible address, with a readership of about two.I am 30 years old. Because I
26、have a physical handicap, it took me five years to complete my associates degree. During the season I average 55 hours a week writing game reports, editorials, researching and listening and / or watching games.Sarah called her website Dodger Place. I searched, and found nothing. Then I reread her e-
27、mail and discovered an address buried at the bottom: http:/ / spunky / dodgers.I clicked there. It wasnt fancy. But she covered the team with the seriousness of a writer. Still, I wondered, is anybody reading?Nobody ever signs my guestbook. I get one letter a month.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetail
28、ed ReadingAfter ReadingI have a speech disability making it impossible to use the phone.That proved it. This was obviously an elaborate hoax. This writer was probably a 45-year-old male plumber.A head pointer? I ask her how long it took her to compose one of her usual 400-word filings.Three to four
29、hours.I did something Ive never before done with an Internet stranger.I ask Sarah Morris to call me.That “deam” was missing a lot more than an r, I thought.I started my own website in hopes of finding a job. No luck. So what if my maximum typing speed is eight words per minute because I use a head p
30、ointer to type? My brain works fine. I have dedication to my work. That is what makes people successful.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingI decided to end the correspondence. But then I received another e-mail. My disability is cerebral palsy. It affects motor control. When my
31、 brain tells my hands to hit a key, I would move my legs, hit the table, and six other keys in the process.When my mom explained my handicap, she told me I could accomplish anything I wanted to if I worked three times as hard as other people.She wrote that she had become a Dodger fan while growing u
32、p in Pasadena. In her sophomore year at Blair High, a junior varsity baseball coach asked her to be the team statistician. She did it, with a typewriter and a head pointer.Her involvement in baseball had kept her in school, she said despite her poor grades and hours of neck-straining homework.Baseba
33、ll gave me something to work for. I could do something that other kids couldnt. I wanted to do something for the sport that has done so much for me.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingOkay, so I believed her. Sort of. Who, in her supposed condition, could cover a baseball team w
34、ithout the best equipment and help? I was curious, so I asked if I could drive over to see her. She agreed, giving me detailed directions involving farm roads and streets with no names.I drove east across the stark Texas landscape. On a winding dirt road dotted with potholes the size of small animal
35、s, I spotted what looked like an old tool shed.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBut it wasnt a shed. It was a house, a decaying shanty surrounded by tall grass and junk. Could this be right?A woman in an old T-shirt and skirt emerged. “Im Sarahs mother,” said Lois Morris, gra
36、bbing my smooth hand with a worn one. “Shes waiting for you.”I walked out of the sunlight, opened a torn screen door and moved into the shadows, where an 87-pound figure was curled up in a wheelchair. Her limbs twisted. Her head rolled. We could not hug. We could not even shake hands. She could only
37、 stare at me and smile.But that smile! It cut through the gloom of the battered wooden floor, the torn couch and the cobwebbed windows.Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingI could bear to look at nothing else, so I stared at that smile, and it was so clear, so certain, it even cu
38、t through most of my doubts. But still, I wondered. This is Sarah Morris?She began shaking in her chair, emitting sounds. I thought she was coughing.She looked up and giggled. I looked down in wonder and shame.This was indeed Sarah Morris. The great Sarah Morris.I had contacted Sarah Morris months e
39、arlier looking for a fight. I realized now, watching her strain in this dark room to type words that perhaps no other soul will read, that I had found that fight. She was, instead, speaking. Her mother interpreted. “I want to show you something,” Sarah said.Lois rolled her up to an old desk on cinde
40、r blocks. On the desk was a computer. Next to it was a TV. Her mother fastened a head pointer around her daughters temples.Sarah leaned over the computer and used her pointer to call up a story on the Dodger Place website. Peck by peck, she began adding to that story. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDet
41、ailed ReadingAfter ReadingOnly, it wasnt with Sarah. It was with myself. It is the same fight the sports world experiences daily in these times of cynicism. The fight to trust that athletes can still be heroes.In a place far from such doubt, with a mind filled with wonder, Sarah Morris had brought m
42、e back. Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingBefore ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingI was impressed. I wrote her back. Little did I know that this would be the start of a most unusual relationship.May I ask you a question? For two years I have been running my ow
43、n website about the Dodgers. How did you become a baseball editorialist? That is my deam.This was Sarahs second e-mail, and it came just as expected. Every time I smile at someone, they ask me for a job. But something else caught my eye. The misspelling in that last line. The part about “my deam.” M
44、aybe Sarah Morris was just a lousy typist. But maybe she was truly searching for something, yet was only one letter from finding it.It was worth one more response, I asked her to explain.1. Analyze the structure of the sentence.It is an inverted sentence with the negative word “little” at the beginn
45、ing.2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 一点也没有想到这一封信引出了一段非同寻常的来往。一点也没有想到这一封信引出了一段非同寻常的来往。Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingI was impressed. I wrote her back. Little did I know that this would be the start of a most unusual relationship.May I ask you a question? For two year
46、s I have been running my own website about the Dodgers. How did you become a baseball editorialist? That is my deam.This was Sarahs second e-mail, and it came just as expected. Every time I smile at someone, they ask me for a job. But something else caught my eye. The misspelling in that last line.
47、The part about “my deam.” Maybe Sarah Morris was just a lousy typist. But maybe she was truly searching for something, yet was only one letter from finding it.It was worth one more response, I asked her to explain.1. Paraphrase the sentence.Whenever I appear friendly, people take advantage of me and
48、 want me to help them get a job.2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.我每次对人微笑一下，人家就向我要一份工作。我每次对人微笑一下，人家就向我要一份工作。Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter ReadingI was impressed. I wrote her back. Little did I know that this would be the start of a most unusual relationship.May I ask you a q
49、uestion? For two years I have been running my own website about the Dodgers. How did you become a baseball editorialist? That is my deam.6. This was Sarahs second e-mail, and it came just as expected. Every time I smile at someone, they ask me for a job. But something else caught my eye. The misspel
50、ling in that last line. The part about “my deam.” Maybe Sarah Morris was just a lousy typist. But maybe she was truly searching for something, yet was only one letter from finding it.It was worth one more response, I asked her to explain.1. What is “it” referred to?“It” refers to “Sarahs dream. ”2.
