UNIT 5 MUSIC Section Ⅱ Reading and Thinking-【精讲精练】2023-2024学年高中英语必修第二册人教版(课件)

英语·必修第二册（配RJ版 UNIT 5 MUSIC SectionⅡ Reading and Thinking ◆返回日录 篇章助读释疑 0 基础梳理 新知落实 INJINO 目 语篇理解 要点领悟 知识整合， 核心突破 录 随堂演练 能力提升 知能达标训练 英语·必修第二册（配RJ版 01 篇章助读释疑 ◆返回目录 3 英语·必修第二册（配RJ版） 课文原文 THE VIRTUAL CHOIR Imagine having the opportunity to sing together with hundreds of other people while you are at home alone.You can do this in a virtual choir.Virtual choir members record themselves while they performalone on video.These videos are uploaded onto the Internet,and then they are put together into one video that you can see online-a virtual choir[1].Anyone can take part in a virtual choir from anywhere-all you need[2]is a video camera 返回目录 英语·必修第二册（配RJ版） and an Internet connection.You do not even need a studio.A virtual choir helps connect ordinary people together.Many people do not have close friends or contacts who have the same interest in music[3].Many others do not have the chance to join a local choir.A virtual choir enables them to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community.It has proved to be a positive influence on the lives of many people.As one virtual choir member said[4],"Music helps me to,forget my problems.With music,I become someone else. 返回目录 5 英语·必修第二册（配RJ版 [l]that引导定语从句，修饰video;a virtual choir作one video的同位语。 [2]you need是定语从句，修饰all,关系词that在从句中作need的宾语， 被省略了。 [3]who引导定语从句，修饰friends or contacts,contact在此处是名词， 意为“熟人”。 [4]as引导非限制性定语从句。 ◆返回目录 英语·必修第二册（配RJ版） The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre.Born in the USA on 2 January 1970[5],Whitacre began studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988.He fell in love with Mozart's classical music when he sang for the university choir[6].Moved by this music[7],he said,"It was like seeing color for the first time"He graduated from university in 1995,and then received a master's degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997.Over the next 10 years,Whitacre's original compositions began to become quite