发布时间 : 星期二 文章2017-2018学年高中英语 Unit 4 Pygmalion Section Ⅰ Warming更新完毕开始阅读
Look at the following pictures and fill in the blanks.
1．Pygmalion, a gifted artist,_makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman, who is brought to life by the Greek_Goddess. So his wish is granted.
2．The play of Pygmalion is an adaptation of a Greek story, whose writer is George_Bernard_Shaw,_who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
3．My_Fair_Lady is a film based on the play of Pygmalion.
While-reading Fast-reading
(Ⅰ)The main idea of the text is about the first experience of Eliza_Doolittle_meeting_with_Professor_Higgins_and_Colonel_Pickering.
(Ⅱ)Find out the information as quickly as possible. when where who what how 11：15_pm,_in_1914 London,_England Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering, professor Higgins fateful_meetings Eliza_wanted_to_sell_flowers_to_Pickering,_Higgins_noticed_her_pronunciation Careful-reading
(Ⅰ)Read the text carefully and answer the following questions. 1．What does Henry Higgins do? He_is_a_language_researcher.
2．Why does Henry Higgins want to teach the flower girl language? Because_he_wants_to_prove_that_he_is_right. (Ⅱ)Choose the best answers according to the text. 1．Eliza greeted the gentleman in order to ________. A．ask him to buy some flowers from her B．talk with him C．ask him to teach her D．beg some money from him
2．Why did Eliza begin to cry? Because ________.
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A．she thought Professor Higgins would arrest her B．the gentleman didn't give her some money C．Pickering beat and scolded her D．there was no reason
3．Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by ________. A．his/her appearance B．his/her action C．his/her conversation
D．his/her manners
4．From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT ________.
A．her doesn't care about money B．he is an expert in phonetics C．he is proud D．he is greedy 答案：1～4 AACD Study-reading
Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.
1．Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woolen scarf is also sheltering from the rain.
[句式分析]
[尝试翻译] 附近一个穿着黑色衣裙围着羊毛围巾的卖花姑娘也在躲雨。 2．But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths.
[句式分析] every time“每次”，形式上是一个名词短语，但实际上具有连词的功能，引导一个时间状语从句。
[尝试翻译] 但是他们一张嘴就会露出马脚(暴露自己的身份)。
3．But, sir, (proudly) once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
[句式分析]
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[尝试翻译] 不过，先生，(高傲地)要是一旦有人教她把英语说好了，这个女孩就可以在三个月以内冒充公爵夫人出席大使主办的花园晚会了。
4．Generally speaking, people are more polite to those who they think are of a higher social class (H) and less polite to those they consider are members of a lower class (L)．
[句式分析]
[尝试翻译] 一般来说，人们对自己认为社会阶层较高的人们(H)比对他们认为社会阶层较低的人们(L)更有礼貌。
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the storyline centers around three main characters: Eliza Doolittle, Professor Henry Higgins, and Colonel Pickering. Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl who is under the instruction of Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering to learn proper grammar and phonetics. Eliza can be characterized as a very sensitive (敏感的) and emotional person. She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men. Her personality clashes (冲突) with the personality of Professor Higgins in an extreme way. Professor Higgins is an arrogant (傲慢的), work-obsessed expert in phonetics who views Eliza simply as an experiment. He is a bachelor who has never found a place for women in his life due to his obsession (痴迷) with language. Colonel Pickering is a gentleman from India who is also an expert in language. He is gentler than Higgins and treats Eliza with respect while maintaining a professional interest in her. These three characters make up the main action of the play as Eliza learns speech of the upper class from them. She manages to pass herself off as a Hungarian princess at a formal party. This achievement makes Eliza give_credence_to_the efforts of Higgins and Pickering. After experiencing life in the upper class, Eliza settles for a lower-class life with a man who loves her for who she is and wants to marry her. After some small and unimportant disputes. Eliza
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and Higgins remain friends later. Other memorable characters include Mrs. Higgins who maintains an authoritative (权威的) figure over her grown son and Mr. Doolittle who rises from a dustman to a respected speaker in the community.
I think that this is a good book because it shows that happiness can be achieved without wealth and fame. I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.
语篇解读：作者分析了《卖花女》中各人物之间的关系，谈到了自己阅读这本书的体会，并向读者推荐这本书。 1．Eliza learns speech of the upper class because ________. A．she wants to do an experiment B．she wants to marry a gentleman C．she has to play a princess at a party D．she wants to be treated respectfully
解析：选D 细节理解题。根据第一段“She seeks to be treated like a duchess by men.”可知，伊莱扎·杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，也就是说她想让别人毕恭毕敬地对待她。
2．The author highly recommends Pygmalion because it can teach people ________. A．to use and speak English in the right ways B．the right attitude towards life C．the ways to deal with different people D．the determination to succeed
解析：选A 细节理解题。根据最后一句“I highly recommend it due to its emphasis on grammatical and phonetic correctness.”可知，作者向人们推荐这本书的原因是它强调人们应该正确使用英语。
3．What does the underlined part “give credence to” in Paragraph 1 mean? A．believe C．fancy
B．change D．obtain
解析：选A 词义猜测题。根据上文可知，伊莱扎·杜利特尔想让人们像对待公爵夫人那样对待她，而通过希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力后，她成功地冒充成了公爵夫人。由此可知，这次成功使伊莱扎·杜利特尔相信希金斯教授和皮克林上校的努力。
4．The passage is probably ________. A．a research paper C．a book report
B．a teaching plan D．a diary
解析：选C 推理判断题。作者首先分析了《卖花女》中各人物之间的关系，然后，谈
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