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第九单元 推展段落方法之二叙述法 9.1叙述法 叙述法（narration）回答了发生了什么（what happened）这一问题。叙述经常用于讲述一系列事件。这种方法常用作小说（fiction）、传记（biographs）的支配方法，也可用作其他各种文体的辅助方法。例如，轶事（anecdotes）、寓言（fables）等都是用叙述形式阐述某一观点。 示范段落9－1 I was seven years old when I first became aware of the terrible power of guilt.For piling our toys into the toy box，Mother had rewarded my brother and me with five shiny pennies each.If I had ten pennies instead of just five，I could have bought a ginger bread man with raisin eyes and sugar－frosted hair.The image danced in my head all day，until，finally，I crept into my brothers room and stole his five pennies.The next morning，as my brother and I were dressing to go to school，I had all ten pennies in the pocket of my coat，cramming one of my fathers handkerchiefs on top of them.As my brother and I lined up in front of Mother to be kissed goodbye，she looked at my bulging pocket with amazement.What on earth do you have in your pocket？she asked.Its nothing，I said，as offhandedly as I could.Its nothing at all.Bewildered，but toobusy to investigate any further，Mother kissed me goodbye I ran out the door and down our gravel path as fast as my feet could carry me.But the farther from home I got，the more miserable I became.The shiny pennies in my pocket felt oppressively like one－ton boulders.And I was haunted by the idea that I had become a thief.Forgotten was the gingerbread man，for whose sake I had stolen my brothers pennies Finally，unable to bear my horrible feeling of guilt，I ran back home to blurt out my crime to my mother. | 
