TheofthemummycurseReadingLeadin1.WeallknowthatEgyptisoneofthe4ancientcivilizedcountries.DoyouknowwhatisEgyptfamousfor?2.ThePyramidisoneofthe7wondersintheworld.HaveyoueverreadorthoughtaboutwhatisinsidethePyramids?PyramidsandSphinxThecurseofthemummyListeningListentothetextandcheckthesenotesaboutHowardCarter.Decidethefollowingstatementstrueorfalse.HowardCarterwasshy.Hisfathertaughthimtowrite.HowardCarterworkedinEgyptinthe1920s.HediscoveredthetombofTutankhamunwhenhewas17.5.Theexplorersdecidedtoleavethetreasureinthetomb.6.Carter’spetbirdusuallybroughthimgoodluck.7.HowardCarterdiedwhenhewasyoung.8.Itisbelievedthatthemummy’scursemakesthose

whoenterEgyptill.FFTFFTFFCarefulreadingReadthearticlecarefullyMatchthesummarieswiththecorrectparagraphsthencompleteachartandfillinsomeblanks.2.CompletethechartbelowCharactersWhowashe?Whatdidhedo?Howdidhedie?GeorgeGouldVisitedthetombLordCarnarvonOfferedCartermoneytoexplorerthemysterious;BepresentattheopenedtombHowardCarterAfamousexplorerespeciallyforthediscoveryofKingTutankhamun’stombIn1891

Bythe1920sIn1922RichardBethellenteredthetombafriendofCarnarvonAhighfeverABritishmaninterestedinEgyptAfeversetsailforAlexandria,Egypt.searchedFortombsoftheEgyptianKingsfoundthetombofKingTuntankhamunSeemednothingtodowiththetombCarter’ssecretaryHearttroubleFillintheblanksaccordingtothearticle:

Howardcarterisoneofthemostfamous

theworldhaseverknown.Hewas

and

abouttheworldoutsidehishometownwhenhewasveryyoung.Bythe1920s,hehadbecomeanexplorer,

forthetombsoftheEgyptiankings.In1922,HowardCartermadehismost

discoveryofall,intheValleyoftheKings,inEgypt,wherehefoundthetombofKing

.However,notlongafterthetombhadbeenopened,peopleinCarter’steambeganto

anddiestrangely.Withinsevenyears,21peoplewhohadsomethingtodowiththeopeningofthetombdied.Somepeoplesaythedeathswerejust.Othersbelievethattheyweretheresultofthemummy’s

.However,stillothersbelievethatthereisa

explanation,becauseinsidethetombstherearemany

.explorersbrightcuriousSearchingamazingTutankhamunfallillcoincidencecursescientificvirusesPost-readingRetellthepassageaccordingtothechartabove(1)n.

①詛咒（祈天懲罰，傷害或毀滅某物或某人）beundera~因被詛咒而受災(zāi)禍Ourtribeisunderacurse.我們的部族正遭天譴。layacurseuponsb.詛咒人②禍因，禍源Foxesareacursetofarmers.狐貍是農(nóng)民的一種禍害。(2)v.詛咒,咒罵他咒罵那個偷他皮夾的人。Hecursedthemanwhohadstolenhiswallet.cursen.&v.我們必須探討解決這個問題的所有可能性。explorev.勘探,考察;探索,探究

他們勘查了黃河以北的所有地區(qū).TheyexploredthelandtothenorthoftheYellowRiver.Wemustexploreallthepossibilitiesforthesolutionoftheproblem.explorern.探索者;勘探者;探測器anArcticexplorer北極探險家explorationn.勘探,考察oilexploration石油勘探Hewasbraveandadventurous.(P42)他勇敢無畏，富有冒險精神。adventurous

adj

愛冒險的;充滿危險的

adventurouspioneers富有冒險精神的開拓者adventuren.冒險;驚險活動;奇遇;冒險性(經(jīng)歷)山中的奇遇adventuresinthemountains所有的孩子都在聽他在非洲旅行時的冒險經(jīng)歷.AllthechildrenarelisteningtohisadventuresoftravellinginAfrica.curiosityn.好奇（心）；珍品Heisfullofcuriosity.curiousadj.(1)好奇的；有求知欲的becuriousaboutsth.對(某事物)感到好奇對你周圍的世界感到新奇是件好事。Itisgoodtobecuriousabouttheworldaroundyou.becuriousto(do)sth.很想(做);渴望(做)我極想知道他說了些什么。I’mcurioustoknowwhathesaid.(2)好管閑事的愛管閑事的鄰居curiousneighbors他充滿了好奇心。becurious…I’mcurioushowhe’lldoit.我很想知道他如何處理那件事.curiouslyadv.setsail啟航，開船setsailforsp.啟程去某地一大早,輪船起航去非洲.Earlyinthemorning,theshipsetsailforAfrica.Theysetsailsouthward.他們起航向南行駛.sailvi.&vt.航行;駕船;乘船他的船今天航行。Hisshipsailstoday.她在沒有任何幫助的情況下駕船航行。Shesailedtheboatwithoutanyhelp.Bythe1920s,hehadbecomeanexplorer,searchingfor…到…時候1.等到醫(yī)生到的時候,這位婦女已經(jīng)生下了孩子.

Bythetimethedoctorarrived,thewomanhadgivenbirth.2.到現(xiàn)在為止,邁克在新學(xué)校里已經(jīng)交了一些朋友了.

Mikehasmadesomefriendsinhisnewschoolbynow.3.等你到那里的時候,天都將會黑了.

Bythetimeyougetthere,itwillbedark.你看起來保養(yǎng)得很好。Youlookwellpreserved.3)腌制,保存(食物)Icehelpstopreservefood.冰有助于保存食物。Youcanpreservemeatorfishinsalt.你可以用鹽保存肉或魚。preservedfruit蜜餞well-preservedmummies保存很好的木乃伊Thetombcontainedmoreriches,goldandjewelsthananyofushadeverseenbefore,aswellasthemummyoftheking.(P42)這個陵墓含有的財物，黃金和珠寶比我們?nèi)魏稳讼惹八娺^的都要多，還有國王圖坦卡蒙本人的木乃伊。他除了給我忠告外，還給我錢。aswellas和,也,不僅…而且…Hegavememoneyaswellasadvice.Hegavemeadvice,andmoneyaswell.孩子們既聰明伶俐又富有冒險精神.Thechildrenareadventurousaswellasbright.Thechildrenarebright,andadventurousaswell.empty-handed空手的，徒手的

empty-headed愚蠢的，無腦筋的2)vt.弄空,飲干,搬[騰,倒]空干杯,喝干emptyaglassemptyahouse搬空房屋

警察叫他把口袋里的東西都掏出來.Thepolicemadehimemptyhispocketsofeverything.Uponsth./doingsth.一到教室,他就發(fā)現(xiàn)同學(xué)們已經(jīng)離開了.Uponarrivingattheclassroom,hefoundthathisclassmateshadleft.她一回到家要做的第一件事就是做家庭作業(yè).Thefirstthingthatshediduponreturninghomewastofinishherhomework.⑴把…帶到，領(lǐng)到這條小道可以引你們下山。Thepathcanleadyoutothefootofthemountain.⑵（道路）通向條條道路通羅馬。AllroadsledtoRome.⑶導(dǎo)致，引起我認(rèn)為這事不會有什么好結(jié)果。Idon’tthinkitwillleadtoagoodresult.Whatledyoutodrawingsuchaconclusion?什么使你得出了這樣一個結(jié)論?leadtopresentoneselfatafriend’shousepresentoneselfforexampresentadj.出席的，在場的Allthestudentspresentatthemeetingarefromclass5.bepresentat現(xiàn)在的，現(xiàn)存的thepresentgovernment/tensen./’preznt/=giftvt./pri’zent/贈與，交給，呈遞presentthevillagewithanewlibrarypresentanewlibrarytothevillage出現(xiàn)，出席gooutWhynotgooutforawalk?走出，出去，出國Thefirehasgoneout.熄滅，停止運轉(zhuǎn)Oneoftheplane’sengineswentout.Thepatientcaughtpneumoniaandwentoutshortlybeforemidnight.死去，消逝Herlovehasslowlygoneout.Shortskirtswentoutsometimeago.過時，不流行Somepeoplesaythedeathswerejustcoincidence.

有人說所有那些死亡只是巧合。coincidencen.巧合，碰巧,巧合的事Whatacoincidence!It’sacoincidencethat…bycoincidence=bychance碰巧，由于巧合

多么巧合啊!‥‥是巧合(偶然)coincidentadj.同時發(fā)生的；巧合的;一致的Alightwinddisturbedthesurfaceofthewater.disturbv.打擾，擾亂打破清晨的寧靜disturb

theearlymorning擾亂人心disturbthemindsofthepeople弄亂文件disturb

thepapers擾亂平靜disturbthepeace她打亂了他出國的全部計劃。微風(fēng)拂動水面。請勿打擾。Donotdisturb.Shehasdisturbedhisplansforgoingabroad.resultvi.產(chǎn)生，發(fā)生，導(dǎo)致resultfrom產(chǎn)生于…，由…引起他的過失是工作不夠努力造成的。Hisfailureresultedfromnotworkinghardenough.resultin引起，導(dǎo)致…；以…為結(jié)局Thequarrelresultedinhismotherleavingthehome.爭吵導(dǎo)致了他的母親離家出走。警察一走，就會大亂。Ifthepoliceleave,disorderwillresult.他的過于草率的發(fā)言引來許多爭議.Hiscarelessspeechresultedinmuchargument.他父親喜歡抽煙,因此,去年死于肺癌.thefootballresultsn.結(jié)果；效果Hisfatherlikedsmoking.Asaresult,hediedoflungcancerlastyear.足球賽的結(jié)果asaresult(of)

作為(…的)結(jié)果毫無結(jié)果地withoutresultHediedoflunglastyearasaresultofsmoking.▲inadvance預(yù)先Youmustpayforthebookinadvance.你必須預(yù)先付書的錢.▲basesth.on/upon建于…之上；以…為根據(jù)

Ibasemyhopesonthenewswehadyesterday.▲predictionn.預(yù)言;預(yù)測

weatherprediction天氣預(yù)報earthquakeprediction震情預(yù)報predictvt預(yù)言；預(yù)測；預(yù)示Shepredictedthathewouldmarryadoctor.她預(yù)言他將娶一位醫(yī)生。predictrainfortomorrow預(yù)告明天有雨▲