Pre-reading questions

Work in groups to discuss the following questions.Which two qualities below are most important for realizing your dream? Can you support your choices with your own experience? Step 2. Text study Text reading

Organization of the text Structure

Part I (Para. 1) Getting to know Rose.

Part II (Para.2-5 ) A speech made by Rose at the football banquet Part III (Para. 6) The death of Rose. Language points

1.On the first day of school, after our professor introduced himself to our chemistry class he challenged us to get to know someone new.

开学的第一天，教授向化学班的全体同学作了自我介绍，之后他鼓励我们结识一位新同学。 someone new 在这里意为“某个新同学”，形容词 new 修饰不定代词someone。需要注意的是，形容词修饰不定代词时通常置于不定代词之后。不定代词包括something，somebody，anything，nothing 等。

2.I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady smiling at me. 我转过身来，看到一个满脸皱纹、个子矮小的老太太正冲着我微笑。 turn around / round 转身 丹尼尔转过身,隐藏他的恐惧。 Daniel turned around, hiding his fear. find sb. doing sth. 发现某人正在做某事 警察发现一个年轻人正在偷东西。 The police found a young man stealing. smile at sb. 冲着某人笑

苏珊冲着她的孩子笑了笑并挥挥手。 Susan smiled at her child and waved.

3.“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?‖ I asked. “你为什么在这么年轻、这么纯真的年纪上大学？”我问她。

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文中的老太太已经87 岁，作者问她时故意用了―at such a young, innocent age‖，这种修辞手段为irony（反语法），即使用意思相反的词语来强调真正想说的内容。

4.“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!‖ she told me. “我一直以来的梦想就是接受大学教育，如今，我终于如愿以偿了。”她告诉我。 dream of / about doing sth. 梦想做某事；希望做某事 她年轻时梦想着成为一名芭蕾舞演员。

She dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer when she was young.

5. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet, ...

在学期即将结束之时，我们请罗斯在我们的足球宴会上致辞，? invite sb. to do sth. 邀请某人做某事 我们邀请了这位著名的作家给我们讲课。 We invited this famous writer to give us a lecture.

6.Frustrated and a bit embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, … 她有点沮丧，也有点尴尬，她向着麦克风倾了倾身子，坦言道：?

frustrated 和 embarrassed 是形容词，表示伴随。作状语。形容词作状语的现象也很常见，该形容词一般用来说明主语的情况，常常可以单独或者引起一个短语作状语，可表示原因、伴随、时间等。

克鲁索盯着脚印,内心充满了恐惧。 Crusoe stared at the footprint, full of fear. lean into sth. 靠近……

lean 后面经常跟介词 on 或者 against，意为“倚靠”。文中用介词 into，表示靠近。 车开的很快，撞到了墙上。

The car drove quickly and crashed into the wall.

7.I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know. 我无法按准备好的去演讲，那就让我和你们说说我所知道的事情吧。 get sth. back in order 把??重新按顺序拾掇好 你的玩具收拾好了吗？

Did you get your toys back in order?

8.We have so many people walking around who are dead and they don’t even know it!

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我们身边有很多如同行尸走肉的人，而他们自己却不知道。 walk around 四处走动

句中的 walking around 是现在分词短语作定语，修饰先行词 people。who are dead 为定语从句，先行词也是 people。 我们出去四处走走吧。

Let’s go outside and walk around.

9.The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what they did, but rather for things they did not do. 老年人往往会感到遗憾，并非为自己已做的事，而是为自己尚未做过的事。 the elderly 老人；上了年纪的人

定冠词 the 后面跟某些形容词可以表示一类人，如：the young，the rich。 not... but rather 不是……而是…… 问题不是他们缺钱，而是他们缺乏经验。

The problem is not their lack of money, but rather their lack of experience.

10.She concluded her speech by courageously singing ―The Rose‖—a song about having the courage to love and never being afraid to dream.

最后，她勇敢地唱起了歌曲《玫瑰花》，以此结束了她的演讲。 conclude... by...以……而结束

她提出了很多问题，并以此结束她的演讲。

She concluded her lecture by (proposing) a lot of questions.

英文中的歌曲名字在文章中出现通常加引号，英语中是没有书名号的。该句中的破折号起解释说明的作用。

11.Over 2,000 college students attended her funeral to show respect to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it is never too late to be all you can possibly be.

有两千多名大学生参加了她的葬礼，他们用这一行动来表示对这位优秀女士的敬意。她用自身经历告诉我们：实现梦想，永远不会太迟。 attend 参加；出席

只有100人参加了这个美妙的音乐会。 Only 100 people attended this wonderful concert. show respect to sb.向某人表示敬意 我们应该尊重年长的人。

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We should show respect to those who are older. teach by example 以身作则；躬亲示范 我们最好以身作则来教育我们的孩子。 We’d better teach our children by example.

句中的 that 引导了一个宾语从句，作 who 引导的定语从句中 taught 的宾语。 句中的 that 引导了一个宾语从句，作 who 引导的定语从句中 taught 的宾语。

最后一句话借用了一句谚语，即 It is never too old to learn （活到老，学到老）。 ―to be all you can possibly be ‖ 中包含了一个定语从句 you can possibly be，先行词为 all，定语从句中省略了引导词whom。 12.challenge

vt. to stimulate or test the ability of sb.激发；激励 短语：challenge sb. to do sth. 激励某人做某事 教师应该激励学生去思考社会问题。

Teachers ought to challenge their students to think about social issues. 13.innocent

adj. 1. not having much experience of life, especially so that you are easily deceived涉世不深的；天真的

当时她只有16岁，天真无邪。

At that time she was only 16 and sweetly innocent. adj. 2. not guilty of a crime 清白的；无罪的 他确信这个人是无辜的。

He was sure that the man was innocent of any crime. 14.curious

adj. wanting to know or learn about sth. 好奇的 短语：be curious about 对…感到好奇 名词：curiosity 好奇心

不要对你不应该知道的事情太好奇。

Don’t be too curious about things you aren’t supposed to know. Step 3. Exercise 1. Comprehension

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