【正文】 ndianapolis， Indiana. In 1930， he pleted more musical education at Columbia University in New York he moved to fifteen years， he taught music at Howard University in that time， not many black musicians were known for writing or performing classical at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student taught special ways to present the special ways became known as the Duncan Technique. Besides teaching， Duncan sang in several operas with performers who were all it seemed that he always would be known mainly as a concert ，his life took a different turn in the middle that time， the famous American music writer Gee Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work Py and music critic(評論家 )of the New York Times newspaper suggested Todd had almost decided not to try for the part as he knew it would not be easy to get he changed his sang a piece from an Italian opera for had sung only a few minutes when Gershwin offered him the became famous because of the part in Py and Bess. Todd Duncan gained fame as an opera singer and concert his greatest love in music was he stopped teaching at Howard， he continued giving singing lessons in his Washington home until the week before his death. 1． What is this passage mainly about? A． What Robert Todd Duncan loved most. B． How Robert Todd Duncan became famous. C． Robert Todd Duncan and his works of music. D． A brief introduction to Robert Todd Duncan. 答案 D 解析 主旨大意題。 5． What he said made me embarrassed_and_disappointed. 他所說的話使我尷尬和失望。 寫作 ) Look forward to your 。 夯實基礎(chǔ) (1)寫出下列句子中 cover的漢語意思 ① Her lectures covered the subject thoroughly. 涉及 ② The exhibition covers an area of 1,000 square metres. 占 ?? ③ Those figures might not even cover the cost of breakages. 足以支付 ④ It would not be easy to cover ten miles on that amount of petrol. 行走 (一段路程 ) ⑤ Much of the country is covered by forest. 覆蓋 (2)During the Olympic Games ， journalists from all over the world came to_cover_the_event(去報道該事件 )． far from， have fun， at the beginning， be divided into， be disappointed with 1． Is Tom disappointed_with his first test result? 2． You may feel difficult to deal with the problem at_the_beginning. 3． The earthquake was felt in my hometown， a village far_from Ya’an. 4． The orange was_divided_into four parts. 5． Did you have_fun playing football with your classmates? 1 in other words換句話說 break one’s word/promise 違背諾言；食言 keep one’s word 守信用；履行諾言 eat one’s words 收回所說的話 get in a word 插話 in a/one word 總之 have a word with have words with word came that...消息說 ?? In a word， being able to win their friendship in a very short time is the thing that I am proud of most in my life. 總之在很短的時間內(nèi)能夠贏得他們的友誼是我一生中最為自豪的事。equipped classroom， I found the teachers patient and considerate. 雖然我對破舊的校園和裝備差 的教室很失望，但是那兒的老師既有耐心又體貼學生。 夯實基礎(chǔ) (1)用 amaze的適當形式填空 ① Isn’t it amazing how the human body heals itself after an injury? ② The world watched London in amazement. ③ I was amazed to learn she was still writing her stories. (2)What_is_amazing(令人吃驚的事 ) is they are so stupid. 2 instruction n．用法說明；操作指南；指示；命令；教授 follow the instructions 遵照說明 carry out one’s instructions 執(zhí)行某人的命令 instruct ；吩咐；命令；講授；指導(dǎo) instruct do...命令某人做 ?? as instructed 按照指示 instructive ，有教育意義的 Follow the instructions on the packet carefully. 仔細按照包裝上的說明操作。r?st/ adj. 尷 尬 的 ； 難 堪 的 ； 困 窘 的→embarrassing adj. 令人尷尬的；令人難堪的 →embarrass vt. 使尷尬→embarrassment n ．尷尬 11． behaviour /bI′ heIvj?/ n．行為；舉動 →behave v ．行為；使表現(xiàn)得 12． technology /tek′ n?l?d?i/ n．技術(shù) →technological adj. 科學技術(shù)的；技術(shù)性的 →techni que n． (同義詞 )技術(shù)；技藝；技法 13． encouragement /In′ k?rId?m?nt/ n．鼓勵；激勵 →encourage vt. 鼓勵； 支持 14． disappointed /?dIs?′ p?IntId/ →disappointing adj. 令人失望的 →disappoint vt. 使失望 15． disappear /?dIs?′ pI?/ →disappearance n ．不見，消失 16． assistant /?′ sIst?nt/ n．助手；助理 →assist v．幫助，協(xié)助→assistance n ．幫助，援助 重點短語 1． by oneself 單獨地；獨自地 2． in other words 換句話說 3． look f