高中英语 Unit2 The Universal Language—Reading课件 牛津版选修8.rar

TurandotinBeijingZhangYimou.HaveyouseenanyofZhangYimou’sfilms?Doyoulikethem?Whyorwhynot?Theyarethe‘Bidforthe29thOlympicGamesinBeijing’,whichwasshowninMoscow,aperformanceattheclosingceremonyatAthensOlympicGames,anoutdoorperformanceofThirdSisterLiuinGuilinandTurandotinBeijingtheForbiddenCityGothroughthepassageasquicklyaspossibleandtrytofindanswerstothethreequestionsinpartAonpage2.MaincharactersofthestoryDirectorReadingcomprehension⑴HowmanyperformancesofTurandotwereperformedintheForbiddenCityinBeijing?A.eightB.sevenC.oneD.thetextdoesn’tmentionit⑵WhowroteTurandotandwhenwasitwritten?A.GiacomoPuccini,in1924B.GiacomoPuccini’sformerstudent,in1924C.ZubinMehta,inthe1990sD.SharonSweet,inthe1990s⑶WhenwasTurandotstagedinBeijing?A.in1924B.inthetwentyfirstcenturyC.inthe1990sD.in1998⑷Howdoesthewriterthinkoftheopera?A.terribleB.movingC.boringD.amazingListentothetapeandthenfinishPartsC1andC2.6Eight.7TurandotwasplayedbySharonSweetfromtheUSA,LiuwasplayedbyBarbaraHendricksfromtheUSAandCalafwassungbyKristianJohannssonfromIceland.8Thebringingtogetherofthegroupofpeoplefrommanycountries,themusicandthesetting.C263521847PartsDandE.?Let’scometoPartF.Workinpairsandshareyouropinionswitheachother.Bornon22December1858inLucca,PucciniwasoneofthegreatestItaliancomposers,someofwhoseoperas,suchasMadamButterfly,Turandot,arestilllovedbypeopleindifferentcountries.ZubinMehtaZubinMehtaisoneoftheworld’sgreatestconductors.Hebeganhisconductor’scareerwhenhewas25yearsold,andhehasconductedquiteafewfamousphilharmonicsintheworld,suchastheLosAngelesPhilharmonicandtheNewYorkPhilharmonic.Since1991,hehasledtheIsraelPhilharmonic.Languagepoints1.Itstarredsomeoftheworld’sgreatestoperasingers.(P18)几位世界顶级歌剧演唱家担当主演。starnoun[C]averyfamous,successfulandimportantperson,especiallyaperformersuchasamusician,actororsportsplayer:明星arock/movie/footballstarKidswantingtobestarscometoHollywoodfromalloverAmerica.2.Inordertoavoidmarriage,shesaysthatanypotentialhusbandmustanswerthreeriddlescorrectlyordie.(P18)为了不出嫁，她说任何想要成为他的丈夫的人必须猜中三道谜语，否