Unit5
Lead-in
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1.retail
2.executive officer
3.a wide variety
4.cloud
5.diversified
6.suborbital
7.net worth
8.respectively
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Text comprehension
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1.Refer to Paragraph 1.He had a short stature with a disproportionately large?head.And he had skin diseases.
2.Refer to Paragraph 2.He believed he was one of the greatest men in the world,a great composer,a great thinker and a great dramatist combined into one.A?man of such arrogance cannot help but take himself to be the center of?conversations.
3.Refer to Paragraph 3.If anyone showed slight disagreement with him,he?would make a lengthy and aggressive speech for hours to prove himself to be?in the right.would force his dazed and deafened hearer to surrender.
4.Refer to Paragraph 5,He was emotionally capricious like a child.Rapture in?him could easily turn into extreme melancholy.He was heartless and callous?to a frightening degree on some occasions.Moreover,his emotional states?always found outward expression.
5.Refer to Paragraphs 11 and 12.The author says that Wagner was among the?greatest dramatists,the greatest thinkers and the most tremendous musical?geniuses in our world.His immortal works far exceeded in value the tortures?his arrogance inflicted upon others and the debts he owed.
6.Refer to Paragraph 13.The tremendous creative power,which propelled him?to produce so many memorable works in his lifetime,could have crushed his?poor brain and body.However,he miraculously survived and made all the?immortal accomplishments.In this sense he was a monster rather than a?human being.
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1.He almost had no sense of responsibility.
2.He wrote large numbers of letters begging for money.In some letters he was?servile without shame,and in other letters he loftily offered his targeted?benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support.If the recipient refused?to accept his offer,i.e.refused to lend him money,he would fly into a rage.
3.He would use his influence on as many people as possible in order to meet?some admirer of his who was only too glad to offer him his help.
4.Since Wagner was driven by such tremendous forces,it is no surprise that?he didn't behave like a normal human being.
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Structural analysis of the text
in the first 9 paragraphs,we can find the following words and expressions used?to describe Richard Wagner as a monster of conceit:delusions of grandeur /a?monster of conceit /believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the?world ,one of the greatest thinkers,and one of the greatest composers /the?most exhausting conversationalist /proved himself right in so many ways /had theories about almost any subject under the sun /almost innocent of any?sense of responsibility /an endless procession of women.
In the remaining paragraphs,we an find the following words and expressions?used to describe him as a great genius right all the tmelond of the world's?greatest dramatists 7agreat thinker /one of the most stupendous musical?geniuses/owe him a living,
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Rhetorical features of the text
The repetitive use of the third person pronoun he creates suspense in the?reader's mind.This is one of the effective ways to hold the readers attention and?make him read on.
Vocabulary
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1.person with extremely excessive self-pride
2.with all their talents combined in him
3.in a bad temper;unwell or annoyed
4.without
5.use as much influence of his as possible(from behind the scenes)
6:make concession
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1.pulled wires
2.be content with
3.rolled into one
4.between the lines of
5.sink into
6.innocent of
7.out of sorts
8.lay my hands on
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1.callousness
2.tormentor
3.inconceivable
4.arrogantly
5.gloomy
6.tragedy
7.delusion
8.lofty
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IV
1.A
2.B
3:℃
4.A
5.C
6.B
7.A
8.D
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V
1.humbleness (modesty)
2.amazing(stunning.miraculous)
3.cold-blooded(inhumane,merciless)
4.void
5.ethical (moral,principled,scrupulous)
6.parody(caricature)
7.exhilaration (bliss,ecstasy)
8.proudly (self-importantly)
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VI
1.company
2.controlled
3.imprecise
4.out of fashion
5.immediately
6.cover
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Grammar
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1.at
2.on
3.to
4.at
5.ofof
6.from
7.for
8.of
9.in for at
10.on of of
11.over
12.on in in between
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C?A?B?C?D?D B?D
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1.to play with
2.to write
3.to leave the burning building
4.to survive the crash
5.to leave
6.to be built
7.to keep them in
8.to cook for
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1.e.g.Work interests him to such a degree that he thinks about nothing else.
2.e.g.What if they do not come?
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Translation
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1.任何人只要有一絲半點的不同意見，即使再微不足道，也足夠讓他高談閭論幾個鐘頭，用他那十分累人的雄辯從多方面論證自己是正確的，結(jié)果是他的聽眾聽得目瞪口呆，兩耳震聾，為了息事寧人，只好順從他
2.他發(fā)出了幾十封哀求信，有時不知廉恥地向人獻(xiàn)媚，有時他又會將對自己的支持作為某種特 權(quán)高傲地賞賜給他希望得到的資助人，一旦這份榮襪被人拒絕他又會深感被人冒犯
3.如果有人仰慕他的作品，能夠并且愿意為他所用，他就會動用各種關(guān)系，想盡辦法見校英詞上一面；可是他又會因為表示出某種愚蠢的毫無意義的傲慢和無禮而樹立死敵公司
4.這簡直就是一個讓人難以言表的奇跡，他那可憐的大腦和身體竟沒有在如此強大的創(chuàng)造力的折磨下崩潰，這個惡魔掙扎著，抓撓著要掙脫出來，撕扯著，尖叫著，想要他把內(nèi)心的音樂譜寫出來
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1.For the sake of your family,you should look before you leap and not take so?many risks.
2.I feel a bit out of sorts after last night's heavy drinking.
3:His father pulled endless wires and got him a position in an already bloated?government department.
4.If you read his letter carefully,you can find his real intention between the?lines.
5.Many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile.Leonardo daVinci,for instance,was a painter and an inventor rolled into one.
6.He finally killed himself after being under the torment of insomnia for many?years.
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2001年7月7日，耶路撒冷舉行的一場音樂會在以色列引起了軒然大波。世界著名指揮家丹尼爾·巴倫博伊姆正在率領(lǐng)德國管弦樂團(tuán)在以色列藝術(shù)節(jié)上演奏瓦格納的音樂，而瓦格納是一個反猶太的德國作曲家，也是希特勒最欣賞的音樂家。建國以來的50多年里，以色列一直都有這么一條不成文的禁忌——不公開演出瓦格納的任何作品。因為對許多以色列猶太人和二戰(zhàn)大屠殺的幸存者來說，瓦格納的音樂是和希特勒政權(quán)緊緊聯(lián)系在一起的。盡管瓦格納的作品在全世界范圍內(nèi)廣為人知并廣泛演出，但在以色列只要一年提起瓦格納就會激發(fā)人們的憤怒和譴責(zé)。
但巴倫博伊姆堅持認(rèn)為，既不能忽視瓦格納的反猶太主義思想，也不可簡單地把它三校來等同于他的音樂。他的音樂因它所具有的藝術(shù)價值而值得被人們欣賞，一個民主的社會不應(yīng)當(dāng)阻止人們欣賞這樣的作品。
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Exercises for integrated skills
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As one of the key figures in the history of opera,/Richard Wagner was?largely responsible /for altering its orientation in the 19th century./His?program of artistic reform,/though not executed to the last detail,/accelerated the trend towards organically conceived structures,/as well as?influencing the development of the orchestra,/of a new breed of singers,/and?of various aspects of theatrical practice./As the most influential composer/during the second half of the 19th century,/his conception of music/remains?very much with us/even a century after his death./His style of orchestration?can be heard in many movie scores./Wagner thought his music dramas were to公be the models for the 20th-century opera,/but he could not foresee the path/of total abandonment of tonality /that was to revolutionize music in the early
20th century.
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