衡石量书整理
Unit 3 The world of colours and light
主题: 人与社会 子话题: 文学和艺术 对应教材: 选修8 Unit 1 The written word; 选修8 Unit 2 The universal language; 选修8 Unit 3 The world of colours and light; 选修8 Unit 4 Films and film events
Ⅰ. 细品味经典文章
(2024·全国Ⅱ卷)
It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo, ” whose real name cannot be exposed to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, finished working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction(拍卖)” run by the Italian police where things found on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look nice above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder battled until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.
When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he brought the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had moved from Turin. His son, age 15, who had taken an art appreciation class, thought that there was something unusual about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed (签名) “Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he researched it, he only found “Bonnard, ” a French painter
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he had never heard of. He bought a book and was surprised to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same garden as his father’s painting.
“That’s the garden in our picture, ” Nicolo’s son told his father. They eventually learned that the painting they owned was called “The Girl with Two Chairs. ” They studied the other painting and learned that it was actually Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog. ” The family called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were originals and worth as much as $50 million. Ⅱ. 按要求完成任务
1. 写出文章中和艺术有关的词汇和短语。
after work auction, painting, an art appreciation class, sign, painter, picture, artist, originals 2. 写出文章中的优美句式。
“Nicolo, ” whose real name cannot be exposed to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, finished working the whole night at a factory in Turin.
Ⅰ. 重点词汇
1. commit vt. & vi. 全心全意投入; 犯罪, 犯错; 承诺, 保证 【教材原句】
Unfortunately, although van Gogh committed his whole being to
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painting, he received little reward for his effort. (P35)遗憾的是, 尽管凡·高全身心地投入绘画, 他所得到的回报却微乎其微。 【词块必记】
(1)commit an error/a crime/suicide 做错事/犯罪/自杀 commit oneself to (doing)sth. (2)committed 的; 坚定的
be committed to (doing)sth. (3)commitment
承诺/全身心地投入(做)某事 n. 承诺, 保证; 花费; 投入, 忠于 作出承诺
专心致志于; 承诺/保证(做)某事
adj. 尽心尽力的; 尽责的; 效忠
make a commitment
【语境速测】 单句语法填空
①The doctor was committed (commit) to practical medicine.
②This means you should commit yourself to staying (stay) awake for at least the next ten minutes.
③They are looking for someone with a real sense of commitment (commit) to the job. 完成句子
④Nevertheless, we must not commit the mistake of analyzing progress only from one point of view.
然而, 我们不能犯仅从一个角度分析进展的错误。 【写作金句】
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment
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(讲义)选修8Unit3 TheworldofcoloursandlightWord版含解析
