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第08讲 新课学习必修第二册Unit5(课文学习&知识讲解)
目录
新课学习:学习新课文
重点解析:考点快速记忆
小试牛刀:词句精练+能力提升
课文学习
THE VIRTUAL CHOIR①
Imagine having the opportunity② to sing together with③ hundreds of④ other people while you are at home alone.You can do this in a virtual choir.Virtual choir members record themselves while they perform⑤ alone on video.These videos are uploaded⑥ onto⑦ the Internet,and then they are put together into one video that you can see online—a virtual choir【1】.Anyone can take part in⑧ a virtual choir from anywhere—all you need【2】 is a video camera and an Internet connection.You do not even need a studio⑨.A virtual choir helps connect ordinary⑩ 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 enables⑪ them to add their voices to those of other individuals and become part of the global community.It has proved⑫ to be a positive influence on⑬ 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.”
【1】that you can see online为定语从句,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 have the same interest in music是who引导的定语从句,修饰friends or contacts,contact在此处是名词,意为“熟人”。
【4】As one virtual choir member said是as引导的非限制性定语从句。
The virtual choir was the idea of award⑭-winning composer⑮ and conductor⑯ 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 with⑰ 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 time⑱.”He graduated from university⑲ in 1995,and then received a master’s degree in⑳ musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997.Over the next 10 years,Whitacre’s original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs and si