------ by Chen Jinhong
一、短語闖關
1. ________ ________ ________烤手
2. want ______ _________ ________ 想放一整天假
3．________ _______ _______境況不好的
4.______ _______ _________/_______ _______ _______上帝保佑你
5.open ______ _________ ____ 對……開恩/發慈悲
6._____ _________ ______/______ __________ ________急需要
7. ________ _________籌款
8. make ______ ___________ 捐款
9. make ______ __________說簡單點
10.______/let... ________不理會/不干涉
二、句型突破
1.要是再聽你說一個冷字我就叫你到真正冷的地方去。
If I hear _______ ________ _____you, you will _____ _______it is_______ ___________.
2.每年12月25日就要人家掏腰包，這不是個好借口。
That’s ___ _________ _________ for ________ ______ _________ _________every twenty-fifth of _______________!
3.有許多事情能帶給我好處，而不是利益。圣誕節是個好時光，這是一年中唯一的時候，人們不是唯獨想到自己，而是自由地敞開心扉去關心別人。
There are ________ _________ that ________ _________ _________without _________ ______ ___________.Christmas time is _____ __________ _________.It’s the ________ _______ of the year ________ one _________ __________think about _____________,but when
men and women __________ __________ _________ __________ and _________ _______
other people.
4.好幾千人缺乏基本的必需品，無數的人缺乏基本的舒適的生活條件。
___________ ___________ are ___ _______ ______ _________ __________;_________ ______
___________ are _____ _________ ______ ___________ _____________.
5.他們要是想死，最好讓他們去死。我個人是無所謂的。這不關我的事。我的事就夠我忙乎的啦。
If they __________ _________ ________,they ________ _________ ________ it.__________,
I ________ ________.It’s not _________ _____________. My ____________ ______________ me __________________.
三、智能訓練
The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society －a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun.
“My grandmothers didn’t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emils Comette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.
While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby
boomers(生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents’ way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.
If you take into consideration feminism(女權主義), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple(紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.
“The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn’t go,” said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention.
“The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else,” Cooper said. “Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves.” This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. “We’re a ladies’ play group. It couldn’t be more simple,” added Cooper’s assistant Joe Heywood.
1．The underlined word “chapter” in paragraph 2 means __________.
A．one branch of an organization B．a written agreement of a club
C．one part of a collection of poems D．a period in a society’s history
2．From the text , we know that the “baby boomers” are a group of people who
A．have gradually become more noticeable
B．are worried about getting old too quickly
C．are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend
D．tried living a different life from their parents when they were young
3．It could be inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are .
A．interested in raising money for social work
B．programmers who can plan well for their future
C．believers in equality between men and women
D．good at cooking big meals and taking care of others
4．Who set up the Red Hat Society ?
A．Emily Cornette . B．Ellen Cooper . C．Jenny Joseph . D．Joe Heywood .
5．Women join the Red Hat Society because .
A．they want to stay young
B．they would like to appear more attractive
C．they would like to have fun and live for themselves
D．they want to be more like their parents
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