Unit 5 The Value of Money Workbook Reading and Writing 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 5 | Reading for Writing THE MILLION POUND BANK NOTE 百万英镑 Narrator: Henry and Portia fell in love. Henry also met an old family friend who had money troubles. His friend used Henry’s name to get people to invest in his gold mine. 亨利和鲍西娅相爱了。亨利还遇到了一位有经济困难的家族老朋友。他的朋友利用亨利的名义让人们投资他的金矿。 Narrator: This made Henry rich. A month has passed. Knowing the two brothers were back, Henry dressed himself in the finest clothes and went to see them with Portia. 这使亨利富有了。一个月过去了。亨利知道兄弟俩回来了，便穿上最好的衣服，带着波西亚去看他们。 Narrator:(At the brothers’ home, the servant lets them in. The two brothers are seated, waiting.) 到了兄弟俩家，仆人让他们进去。兄弟俩坐着等着。 Henry: Good morning, gentlemen. (Roderick seems very surprised to see Portia.) Portia, these are the men who helped me. 亨利:早上好，先生们。(罗德里克见到鲍西娅似乎很惊讶。)波西亚，他们是帮过我的人。 Portia: So very nice to meet you, kind sirs. (She gives Oliver a wink.) 波西亚:很高兴见到你们，好心的先生们。(她朝奥利弗眨了眨眼睛。) Henry: Gentlemen, I’m ready to report. 先生们，我准备好汇报了。 Roderick: Er... Portia, I... 呃…波西亚,我… Oliver: Now we can decide the result of the bet which Roderick and I made. If you’ve won for me, you shall have any job as my gift. Have you got the million-pound bank note? 现在我们可以裁决罗德里克和我打赌的结果了。如果你为我赢了，你将得到任何工作作为我的礼物。你有那张百万英镑的钞票吗? Henry: Here it is, sir. 给您，先生。 Oliver: I’ve won! Now what do you say, Roderick? 我赢了!你说呢，罗德里克? Roderick: I say that I’ve lost twenty thousand pounds. Why, that is amazing, man! 我说我输了两万英镑。这太神奇了，伙计! invest a wink Henry: Come, let’s be going now, Portia. 来，我们走吧，波西亚。 Oliver: But wait, wait! The job, you know. I ought to give you a job, as I promised. 但是等等，等等!工作，你知道的。我应该给你一份工作，我答应过你的。 Henry: Well, thank you very much, but I really don’t want one now. 好吧，非常感谢，但我现在真的不想要。 Portia: Henry, I’m disappointed in you. You didn’t thank the gentlemen properly. May l do it for you? 亨利，我对你很失望。你没有好好感谢那些先生。我可以帮你吗? Henry: Let me see you try. 让我看看你试试。 (Portia walks over to Roderick and gives him a hug. Then she sits in Oliver’s lap, puts her arms around his neck and kisses him on the cheek. Oliver begins laughing.) 波西亚走到罗德里克跟前，给了他一个拥抱。然后她坐在奥利弗的腿上，搂着他的脖子，亲吻他的脸颊。奥利弗笑了起来。 Portia: Papa, he says he doesn’t want anything else from you. 爸爸，他说他不想从你这里得到任何东西。 Henry: (surprised) My dear, is that your papa?! 亲爱的，那是你爸爸吗?! Portia: He’s my stepfather. 他是我的继父。 Henry: Oh, my dearest dear sir, I apologize for what I said. You have got a job opening that I want. 哦，我最亲爱的亲爱的先生，我为我说的话道歉。你们有一个我想要的职位空缺。 Oliver: Name it. Henry: Son-in-law. 女婿 Oliver: Well, well, well. But you’ve never had such a job before. How can I be sure you can do it successfully? 好吧，好吧，好吧。但你以前从未做过这样的工作。我怎么能确定你能成功做这件事呢? Henry: Try me...oh, do, I beg of you! 试我……啊，我求求你了! Oliver: Oh, well, all right. 哦，好吧，好吧。 Narrator: Were Portia and Henry happy? Words alone were not enough to describe it. 波西亚和亨利幸福吗?单靠语言是不足以描述它的。 Eventually, Portia’s stepfather took that bank note back to the Bank of England and cashed it. 最后，波西亚的继父把那张钞票带回了英格兰银行，并把它兑现了。 The bank note was then useless for money but was his wedding gift to the young couple. 这张钞票当时已经不能当钱用了，但却是他送给那对年轻夫妇的结婚礼物。 Yes, the bank note was worth a million pounds, but it was not worth even one tenth of what Henry felt for Portia. 是的，这张钞票值100万英镑，但它连亨利对鲍西娅的感情的十分之一都不值。 stepfather cashed couple one tenth in case in a direct manner by accident 假如 /万一 /如果 以直接的方式 偶然地、意外地 as a matter of fact in that case 事实上 考虑到那个情况，因此 judge sort spot suit tailor n. 法官 n. 种类 n. 地点 n. 套装，西装； n. （尤指男装）裁缝 v. 判断 v. 整理，把……分类 v. 看见，注意到 v. （服装、风格、颜色）使显得漂亮，与……相配； v. 定做（衣服）；迎合 1. We should all try to be the ______ of person who maintains a balance between their income and expenses well. 我们都应该努力成为那种能很好地保持收支平衡的人。 sort 2. Sam ________ the film DVDs according to genres (体裁), like action, comedy, and horror. Sam根据电影类型整理了电影DVDs ，比如动作片、喜剧片和恐怖片。 sorted 3. All students are required to dress formally on this occasion, so each boy must wear a _____ and tie. 在这个场合，所有的学生都被要求穿着正式，所以每个男孩都必须穿西装打领带。 suit 4. The director of the opera decided immediately during the woman’s audition (试唱) that the role _______ her perfectly. 歌剧导演在这个女人的试镜中立即决定这个角色非常适合她。 suited 5. They invited a famous singer-songwriter to be one of the ________ on the newest season of that popular talent show. 他们邀请了一位著名的创作型歌手作为最新一季那个流行才艺节目的评委之一。 judges 6. I feel that we should not _______ people on the basis of how they look or how much money they have. Qualities like kindness and honesty should not be ignored. 我觉得我们不应该根据人们的长相或他们有多少钱来判断人。像善良和诚实这样的品质不应该被忽视。 judge 7. He won a Best Actor award for a film role that had been specially _________ for him. Critics (评论家) said this had been the best performance of his career so far. 他凭借一个特别为他量身定做的电影角色获得了最佳男演员奖。评论家说这是他职业生涯迄今为止最好的表演。 tailored 8. The school hired an experienced ______ to make the lifelike dinosaur costumes the students needed for their performance. 这所学校聘请了一位经验丰富的裁缝为学生们制作表演所需的逼真的恐龙服装。 tailor 9. This is the ______ where they filmed that scene from Forrest Gump with him saying “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” 这是他们拍摄《阿甘正传》中阿甘说“生活就像一盒巧克力”的场景的地方。你永远不知道你会得到什么。” tailor 10. She became a professional actress after she was _________ by a talent scout (星探) who saw her perform in a school play. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 spotted the lifelike dinosaur costumes horror comedy opera season the basis of ignored career so far in case in a direct manner by accident 假如 /万一 /如果 以直接的方式 偶然地、意外地 as a matter of fact in that case 事实上 考虑到那个情况，因此 I came to love stage design______ . When I was in the ninth grade, my teacher Ms Weaver asked me to join her stage design team for a play. I told her that I didn’t know anything about stage design. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 by accident But Ms Weaver said, “Give it a try, ______you have a talent for it”, so I became part of her team. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 in case And , Ms Weaver turned out to be right--I was good at stage design! 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 As a matter of fact Ms Weaver was strict and spoke , but she was always encouraging and inspiring. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 in a direct manner For example, if we could not figure out what kind of stage design to create for a scene, she would say, “ , think about the plot from a different point of view. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 In that case You never know what will pop into your mind!” I have to say, learning stage design greatly broadened my mind. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 And thanks to Ms Weaver, I began to have more confidence in my own creativity, and I developed such a strong interest in stage design that I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing it. 她成为了一名专业演员后，她被一位星探发现，他看到她在学校戏剧中的表演。 $$