人教修订版高中三年级

Unit 13

Intensive Reading (I)

Lead-inLead-in

1. Do you prefer to read short stories

or novels? Why?

A: I prefer to read short stories rather

than novels, because it takes a short

time to finish the whole story and I

can get joy and excitement easily.

B: I can’t agree. I think novels have

more complicated plots and more

characters. From the novels, you

can learn about more current social

situations and more culture.

C: In my opinion, both of them have

their own features. I like both short

stories and novels.

2. What stories do you like best, fairy ta

les, scientific fictions, thrilling storie

s or detective stories?

A: I like fairy tales best, because they c

an bring us a great deal of splendid i

magination. They are usually full of

magic images. They are like colourfu

l dreams.

B: I like scientific fictions best, because

they can bring us a great deal of

splendid imagination. We can learn

what our world would be like in the

future. We can also learn knowledge

of science.

C: I like thrilling stories best, because

we can get exciting and thrilling exp

eriences from them when we are rea

ding thrilling stories. I like thrilling

stories such as the ones in Liaozhai

Zhiyi.

D: I like reading detective stories best,

because we can learn skills and abilit

ies of analysing things while enjoying

complicated and confusing plots. I lik

e best the detective stories in Sherloc

k Holmes written by the most famous

detective writer, Conan Doyle.

Pre-reading

1. What do you already know about

the story The Moonstone?

We have learned something about

The Moonstone from Warming up

and Speaking. It is a very interesting

and attractive detective story. It was

written by Wilkie Colins, a great det

ective story writer in the nineteenth

century in Britain.

2. What do you think happens next in t

he story?

I think it is hard to say what will ha

ppen next in the story. But I think it

is very possible that they finally

find out who has stolen the diamond

and the Moonstone will be brought

back to Rachel.

I have a different one next in the story.

The Moonstone won’t come back to

Rachel again. So Rachel will get rid of

bad luck. She will soon marry her lover

and lead a happy life.

ReadingReading

Part1 (Para 1): This part mainly talks

about how Rachel gets

the Moonstone as her

present.

Part2 (Para 2): This part mainly talks ab

out Rachel’s happy life b

efore her eighteenth birt

hday party.

Part 3 (Paras 3-4): This part mainly tal

ks about what happe

ns at the party.

Part 4 (Para 5): This part tells us that

the Moonstone is

missing and Sergeant

Cuff is asked to

investigate the case.

Part 5 (Paras 6-9): This part is mainly

about how Sergeant

Cuff analyses the ca

se.

Part 6 (Para 10): This part tells us

Sergeant Cuff finds a

vital clue of the theft

—a smear in the wet

paint on the door.

Words & Phrases

1. considerate towards sb.: careful no

t to hurt or bring inconvenience to

others.

e.g. Betty is very considerate

towards her husband.

2. might/may have done: show the

possibility of something having

happened in the past.

e.g. He may have lost his way.

He might just possibly have lost

his keys.

3. in an act of revenge: in order to

return an injury.

e.g. Terrorists bombed the police

station in an act of revenge for the

arrests.

4. (from/out of) force of habit: to do so

me things in a certain way from alw

ays having done so in the past

e.g. It’s force of habit that gets me out

of bed at 7:15 each morning.

Explanation

1. When he died he left the Moonstone to

his sister’s daughter, Rachel, in an act of

revenge, passing on his bad luck to her.

当他临死的时候 , 他把月亮宝石留给他的外甥女雷切尔来报复他姐姐 ,

他想把月亮宝石所带给他的厄运传递给他外甥女。 (1) in an/the act of revenge (for ...)

表示“采取报复…的行为 , 为了报复…” , 相当于 in order to revenge ... 。

e.g. The man cut down all Mr. Li’s trees

at night, in an/the act of revenge for

his insult in the day.

那个人在夜里砍掉了李先生所有 的树木 , 以报复他白天所受的侮 辱。

(2) pass on ... to someone 相当于 ha

nd something down to someone 表示“把……传递给……”。e.g. Their ancestors passed on those tr

aditions to the young from generation

to generation.

他们的祖先把那些传统一代又一 代地传给年轻人。

2. Is it coincidence or is it the

Moonstone’s bad luck that causes

the tension and strange things that

happen during the rest of the

evening?

究竟是巧合还是月亮宝石的厄运 导致那天晚上发生那么多紧张而 奇怪的事呢？

(1) 上面句子的本来结构应为： Does

coincidence or the Moonstone’s bad lu

ck cause the tension and strange things

(that happen during the rest of the eve

ning)? 句子中 it is... that... 是一个强调句式，这里强调句子的主语 coincidenc

e or the Moonstone’s bad luck 。

It is the good news that makes us all ex

cited.

是那个好消息令我们大家都很激动。 (2) it is ... that ... 既可以引导一个强调句式以突出句子中的某部分 , 也可以引导一个主从复合句 ( 主语从句 ), 但两者有本质的区别 : 强调句式只是为了突出某

一部分而把这一部分提前到 it is ... th

at 框架里 , 而把原句子中其余部分原封不动地放在 that 之后， it is ... that

本身没有任何意义 , 而且除了被强调部分表示人时 that 可以改用 who 外 ,

其他任何场合只能用 that; 而 it

is ... that 引导名词从句时 , it 替代后面的从句作形式主语 , 后面的名词从句才是真正的主语 , 而且引导名词从句的 that 根据句意还可改用 wh

at, who, when, where, how, why, wh

ether 等。

请比较：a. It is Miss Gao who will teach us Eng

lish this term. ( 强调句式 )

=Miss Gao will teach us English this

term.

高老师将在这学期教我们英语。

b. It is not yet decided who will teach

us English this term.( 名词从句 )

=Who will teach us English this te

rm is not yet decided.

这学期谁将教我们英语还没决定下来。

3. Rachel is stubborn in resisting his enq

uiries about the Moonstone to the deg

ree that she makes it seem as if she do

es not want the mystery to be solved.

雷切尔固执地拒绝他有关月亮宝石的咨询到了这样的地步 ( 程度 ): 她似乎并不想要月亮宝石丢失的谜团被揭开。

(1) 句子中词组 be stubborn in doing ...

表示“固执地做某事”相当于 insis

t on doing ... 。e.g. My father was stubborn in reservi

ng the old house from my great-g

randparents.

(2) 句子中 that 引导的是一个同位语从句 , 说明主句谓语 be stubborn in

resisting his enquiries 的程度。(3) 句子中 seem as if ... 与动词 make

构成复合宾语结构，即宾语补足语，seem/look/sound ... as if ... 又构成系表结构 , 其中 as if 引导的表语从句谓语可以是陈述语气说明具有客观性的情况 , 也可以用虚拟语气说明不具有客观性的情况。

请比较：a. It seems as if the weather will turn o

ut fine soon, though it stormed wildl

y just now. ( 具有客观性 )

尽管刚才还是狂风暴雨，但天气似乎很快就会转晴了。

b. It seems as if the man were dead w

hen he sleeps lying on the bed.( 不具有客观性 )

那人躺在床上睡觉的时候，看起来像是死了似的。

Post-reading

Suspects Reasons for suspicion

The

Indians

They are not real

entertainers but the

followers of the moon god.

They came to the party only

for an opportunity to take

the Moonstone back to India.

Dr Candy

Godfrey

He stole the diamond in

revenge for loss of the

diamond at the party.

He took the diamond in

revenge for Rachel’s

refusal when he asked her

to marry him or only for a

large amount of money.

Rosanna

Franklin

She stole the diamond only

either from force of habit

or to cause a disagreement

between Franklin and

Rachel.

It seems as if he was too

enthusiastic to help Mr.

Cuff to detect the case.

Rachel

She was so stubborn in

resisting Sergeant Cuff’s

enquiries about the

diamond. There must be

a secret about the

Moonstone.

Why did Sergeant Cuff believe that

the garment with the paint stain

belonged to the thief?

Because the door was newly-

painted and still wet, when someone

went into the room to steal the

diamond, he must have opened and

closed the door in the darkness and h

ave gotten a stain of paint on his or h

er clothes. So anyone whose clothes h

ad a stain of paint must be the thief.

Homework

1. Recite the key sentences in the text.

2. Preparations: LANGUAGE STUDY

and Testing Your Skills in Workbook