Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note Warming up-Reading学习目标：1. 了解戏剧体裁的特点，学习和理解戏剧语言，尝试表演戏剧，提高文学修养和欣赏水平。2. 学习《百万英镑》的故事，了解马克•吐温的生平和他的作品风格，探讨金钱和人性的关系，树立正确的价值观和人生观。3. 学会在语言交际中运用委婉的语言表达请求，懂得如何用英语点餐和购物。4. 掌握名词性从句做宾语和表语的用法。5. 学习并掌握本单元所学的词汇和短语。背景导读Mark Twain was born in Florida（弗罗里达州） and spent his boyhood in Hannibal （汉尼拔）, Missouri（密苏里州）, along the Mississippi River（密西西比河）. Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river. There are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Indeed, this author loved the river so much that even his pen name is about the river . “Twain ” is an old word for “two” . So, to “mark twain” is to say that the water is two fathoms（英寻）deep. A fathom is equal to six feet or 1.83 metres. The Million Pound Bank Note , The Prince and the Pauper , Running for Governor are all works written by Mark Twain . His writing became famous for its description of common people and the way they talked, but especially for his humor. He became rich from the many novels, short stories and travel journals he wrote and was very popular at public readings（当众朗读会）. Yale（耶鲁）and Oxford Universities honored him for his writing .Reading OneI. Fast reading: Read this play quickly, then finish the following exercises.1. Why did the two brothers make a bet?A. They wanted to make fun of Henry.B. They wanted to rob Henry of some money. C. They wanted to see whether a man could survive with a million pound bank note for a month in London.D. They wanted to make Henr...
