Unit 1 Women of achievement

Tai Lihua was in love with dancing when she was a little girl but her professional training did not begin until she was 15.For anyone who hopes to take up professional dancing as a career，this is considered to be a very late start.However，

Tai Lihua proved to be talented as well as determined，bearing the pain of every split undiscouraged.Under the tutorage(指导) of one of China’s greatest dance instructors of all time，Yang Liping，she excelled and it was soon clear that she would take a leading role in the troupe’s development.

Tai Lihua officially entered the China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe in 1992 and her dream of becoming an international class dancer came true.Over the next decade she gained great honour for herself and the troupe with her graceful performances.

Aware that her time on the stage cannot last forever，Tai Lihua spends a great deal of her time and energy not on the stage but in practice halls among new younger members of the troupe，passing down the skills and lessons of her experience，inspiring the troupe to reach even bigger dreams.

Tai Lihua has been very famous for the leading role in the group dancing

Thousand-Armed Goddess of Mercy at home and abroad since the 2005 Spring Festival

Evening Gala.Although she has made great achievements in dancing，she still remains modest and is trying to make even greater achievements. 根据上文完成下列各题

1．Under whose dance instruction did Tai Lihua excel and soon take a leading role in the troupe’s development? Yang Liping’s.

2．For what is she now very famous at home and abroad?

The leading role in the group dancing Thousand-Armed Goddess of Mercy. 3．Suppose you are a disabled person，what will you do in your life? The answers may vary.

Period One Warming Up & Reading

Ⅰ.单词

1．n.成就；功绩achievement 福利；福利事业welfare 项目；工程project 专家specialist 连接connection 运动；战役campaign 组织；机构organization 行为；举止behaviour 童年childhood

款待；娱乐entertainment 2．v.举动；表现behave 观察；观测；遵守observe 作战campaign 尊敬 respect 讨论 argue 挤满；使拥挤crowd 鼓舞；激发inspire 支持support

3．adj.值得的worthwhile 直言的；坦诚outspoken Ⅱ.短语

1．离开；起程；出发move off 2．过着……的生活lead a．..life 3．(想法、问题等)涌上心头crowd in

1．Following Jane’s way of studying chimps，our group are all going to visit them in the forest.我们一行人准备按照简研究黑猩猩的方法去森林里拜访它们。 2．However，the evening makes it all worthwhile. 不过到傍晚时我们觉得这一切都是值得的。

3．She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. 她花了多年的时间来观察并记录黑猩猩的日常活动。

4．Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.

她母亲头几个月来帮她的忙，这才使她得以开始自己的计划。

5．Once I stop，it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories. 一旦我停下来，所有的一切都会涌上心头，我就会想起实验室的黑猩猩。

1．Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.简已经研究这些黑猩猩家族很多年了，她帮助人们了解了黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。 [归纳拓展]

behave v．举动；(举止或行为)表现 behaviour n．举止，行为；习性 behave well/badly表现好/差

behave oneself表现得体，有礼貌；行为规矩 be on one’s best behaviour尽量表现得体 [语境助记]

(1) She behaved with great courage. 她表现出了很大的勇气。 (2)You should learn to behave. 你应该学会举止得体。 [题组训练] 语法填空

(1)We don’t like the famous singer’s behaviour towards/to her fans. (2)I am sorry about what I did and said last night.I behaved like a child. (3)Child as he was，he was on his best behaviour at the party.

(4)Don’t spoil the children.Can’t you make your little boy behave himself(him)? (5)He behaved badly(bad) to the customers. 2．However，the evening makes it all worthwhile. 不过到傍晚时候我们觉得这一切都是值得的。 [归纳拓展]

worthwhile adj.值得的；值得做的

It is worthwhile to do/doing sth.做某事是值得的 [语境助记]

(1)The smile on her face made it all worthwhile. 她脸上的笑容使得这一切都非常值得。

(2)It’s worthwhile to study hard and learn English well because that means you’ll have a good job in the future.努力学好英语是值得的，因为那就意味着在未来有一个好工作。 [题组训练]

用worth，worthy，worthwhile填空 (1)The book is worth reading. (2)It is worthwhile to read the book. (3)The book is worthy of being read. (4)The book is worthy to be read.

解析 (1)worth表示“值得……”时，后接名词、代词、动名词(主动形式表示被动含义)；表示“价值……”时，后接表示钱数或类似的词语。

(2)worthy表示“值得”时，构成短语be worthy of＋名词，be worthy of being done＝be worthy to be done。worthy作定语时，表示“有价值的，值得敬重的”。

(3)worthwhile既可作表语，也可作定语，表示某事因为重要、有趣或受益大而值得去花时间、赌钱或努力。作表语时，常构成句型：It is worthwhile to do/doing sth.。 3．She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. 她花了多年时间来观察和纪录黑猩猩的日常活动。 [归纳拓展]

observe v．观察，注意到；遵守；庆祝(节日等) observation n．观察；观测

observe sb.doing/do sth.注意到某人正在做/做某事 observe＋that-clause 观察到……，注意到……

注意 observe后可加省略to的不定式作宾语补足语，但在被动语态中，不定式作主语补足语时，to不能省略。 [语境助记]

(1)The scientist has observed the stars all his life. 这位科学家一生都在观察星星。

(2)I observed that several students were asleep in class.我注意到班上有几个学生睡着了。 [题组训练]