【正文】 t hold back tears of joy. 她笑了，眼里充滿了喜悅的淚花。 IV. Comprehension 122 1. Text Organization Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas Part 1 Paras12 Baker was bored by everything associated with English courses, including essay writing. Part 2 Paras35 Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it for his own joy. Part 3 Paras69 The experience of writing the essay helped him discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life. 2. Main Idea . The writer was bored by everything associated with English courses, including essay writing. Unluckily, his new teacher, Mr. Fleagle, had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. Mr. Fleagle distributed a homework sheet offering the students a choice of topics. The writer recalled the night in Belleville when his family were seated around the supper table, eating Spaghetti. So he wrote “The Art of Eating Spaghetti”. Mr. Fleagle read this essay in class and praised the writer. At that moment, the writer understood writing is not only for readers but also for himself. 3. Paraphase . ? 1) The idea of being a writer had e to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but it wasn’t until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. ? Ever since I was a child in Belleville, I had thought of being a writer from time to time, but I didn’t make up my mind until I was in the eleventh grade. ? 2) Until then I’d been bored by everything associated with English courses. ? Up to then I had lost interest in things related to English courses. ? 3) I hated the assignment to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write. ? I found it painful to write long, boring essays as required by teachers。 neither did teachers enjoy what I wrote. ? 4) He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. ? It was said that he was very strict and oldfashioned. ? 5) When our class was assigned to for thirdyear English I anticipated another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects. ? When it was decided that Mr. Fleagle would teach us English during my third year in high school, I expected the English course to be as boring as before. ? 6)I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a long time was not disappointed. ? I expected that things wouldn’t improve with Mr. Fleagle as our English teacher, and for a long time I was right in my expectations. ? 7) Later in the year we tackled the informal essay. ? Later in the year we learned how to write informal essays and practiced writing them. ? 8) This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental images. ? At the sight of the title I saw an unusual series of pictures in my mind’s eye. ? 9) To write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal position I’d learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade. ? But if I wrote what I wanted to write, I would break all the rules of formal position I’d learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would definitely give it a very low score. ? 10) I was preparing myself for a mand to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately after school for discipline when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class’s attention. ? I expected that Mr. Fleagle would order me to see him soon after school for the purpose of punishing me when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock at the desk so that he could attract the class’s attention. ? 11) In the eleventh grade, at the eleventh hour as if it were, I had discovered a calling. ? In the eleventh grade, and one might say at the last possible moment, I had found something I wished to take up as a career. 4. Grammar . ? Usage of “as” ? As ? Conj. 1) while。 when。 at the time that ? eg:He caught me as I was leaving ? 2) in the way that ?