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提示:加灰底部分为高考重点词汇,需积累。画线部分为高考写作常用佳句,需背诵。
She looks like any other schoolgirl,freshfaced and full of life.Sarah Thomas is looking forward to the challenge of her new Alevel course.But unlike her school friends,16yearold Sarah is not spending halfterm resting.Instead,she is earning £6,500 a day as a model in New York.
Sarah has been told that she could be Britain’s new supermodel,1earning a million dollars in the new year.Her father Peter wants her to school to be a famous model.2What her father said has made Sarah a little .Sarah,who has taken part in shows top models,wants to tell the world that she has brains as well as beauty and that she has decided to her education.
She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies.After school she plans to take a year off to model fulltime before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.
Sarah says,“My dad thinks I should take the offer now.But at the moment,school comes first.I don’t want to spend much of my time in modeling.It is certainly fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal.I don’t want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can’t model any more.”
佳句
1.Sarah has been told that she could be Britain’s new supermodel,earning a million dollars in the new year.
分析 画线部分为现在分词短语作状语。
链接 I sat at a table,explaining every step of the process while making tea.
(2018·北京,书面表达)
2.What her father said has made Sarah a little annoyed.
分析 画线部分为what引导的主语从句。
链接 What makes me a little anxious is that it is a very strong team.(2019·全国Ⅱ,书面表达)
Period One Listening and Speaking
重点单词
1.ballet n.芭蕾舞
2.debate n.& v.辩论;争论
3.content n.内容;主题;[pl.]目录
4.greenhouse n.温室;暖房
5.teenage adj.十几岁的(指13至19岁);青少年的→teenager n.(13至19岁之间的)青少年
6.volunteer n.志愿者→voluntary adj.自愿的
7.prefer vt.较喜欢→preference n.偏爱①
8.movement n.动作;运动;活动→move v.移动
9.suitable adj.合适的;适用的→suit vt.适合②
10.actually adv.事实上;的确→actual adj.实际的③
掌握规律 巧记单词
①prefer vt.较喜欢→preference n.偏爱
如:differ→difference
②suit