2017-2018学年高中英语北师大版必修1文档：Unit 2 Section Ⅲ Lesson 2 ； Lesson 3 — Pre-reading.docVIP

Section_ⅢLesson_2__Lesson_3_—_Pre-reading_ [原文呈现] VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS are sisters. They are also both tennis champions① who often have to play each other②！ Venus is now eleventh in the world, and her younger sister Serena has moved up③ to third. The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California. It was full of④ drugs and violence⑤. In a recent interview⑥， Venus spoke about⑦ the time when she and Serena were practising⑧ tennis and they had to run and hide as⑨ bullets⑩ started flying through? the air?. Finally, in 1991, the sisters and their family moved to a safer area and since then they have never looked back?. [读文清障] ①champion/t??mpI?n/n.冠军 championship n．冠军称号(地位) ②who引导定语从句修饰tennis champions。 ③move up升级；提升 ④be full of充满，相当于be filled with。 ⑤violence/vaI?l?ns/n.暴力，暴行　⑥interview n．访问 ⑦speak about (＝speak of)说到，谈论 ⑧practise v．练习，实践(后接动名词作宾语) ⑨as conj.当……时　⑩bullet/b?lIt/n.子弹 ?fly through穿梭 ?该句是主从复合句，when引导定语从句，修饰先行词the time; as引导时间状语从句。 ?look back回首往事；回顾 [第1～2段译文] 维纳斯·威廉姆斯和塞丽娜·威廉姆斯是姐妹。她们也是常常互为对手的网球冠军！维纳斯现在排名世界第十一位，而妹妹塞丽娜已经名列第三。 两姐妹出生于加利福尼亚一个贫穷、危险的地区——毒品、暴力随处可见。在最近一次采访中，维纳斯说，那时，她和塞丽娜进行网球训练时，子弹在空中穿梭，她们只好跑开藏起来。终于在1991年，两姐妹及其家人搬到一个较安全的地区，从此再也没有故地造访过。 The sisters’ father, Richard, started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children. He has always been very strict with? his daughters, training them hard to compete? against each other?. Brandi, the sisters’ mother, taught her daughters at home? so that they completed their high school while developing their tennis careers?. Today, both sisters are studying design? at college. They have already expressed a keen? interest in working in design after their tennis careers come to an endeq \o(○,\s\up1(21)). ?be strict with sb.对某人要求严格 be strict about/on sth.在某方面要求严格 ?compete/k?mpi?t/vi.比赛，竞争 compete against/with sb. for sth.与某人竞争以得到某物 ?现在分词短语作状语，表主动意义。 ?so that引导结果状语从句；while developing ...为省略的状语从句。 ?career/k?rI?/n.职业，一生的事业 ?design n．设计，策划 by design有意地　by accident偶然 ?keen/ki?n/adj.强烈的；渴望的 e