学年高中英语Unit3AmazingpeopleSectionⅠWelcometotheunitWord格式文档下载.docx

1、Unfortunately, her works did not attract much attention in the 1930s and 1940s, even in her home country. Her first onewoman show in Mexico was not held until 1953. For more than a decade after her death in 1954, Kahlos works remained largely unnoticed by the world, but in the 1970s her works began

2、to gain international fame at last.Section_Welcome to the unit & Reading Prereading原文呈现读文清障The curse of the mummyHoward Carter is one of the most famous explorersthe world has ever known. He was brave and loved to visit and explore new places. During his life, he discovered many amazing things.Howar

3、d Carter did not go to school, but learnt to draw from his father, who was an artist. He was bright and curious about the world outside his home town. In 1891, at the age of 17, he set sail for Alexandria, Egypt. By the 1920s， he had become an explorer, searching for the tombs of the Egyptian kings.

4、 He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he discovered a great fortune in jewels and gold, along with the preserved bodies of dead kings. These preserved bodies are known as mummies.In 1922, Howard Carter made his most amazing discovery of all, in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. He had

5、 received money from Lord Carnarvon, a British man who was very interested in Egypt. Carters team was working at a place near the city of Luxor. There, they came across the tomb of King Tutankhamun. It was the most important tomb that had ever been found. The tomb contained more treasure than any of

6、 us had ever seen before, as well as the mummy of the king， said Carter. After we looked into the tomb, we closed it and hid its entrance. We wanted to study the tomb later when we had more time. Afterwards, all of its contents would go into a museum.curse/ks/n.诅咒；咒语 vt. &vi.诅咒；咒骂mummy/mmI/n.木乃伊expl

7、orer/Iksplr（r）/n.探险家；勘探者explore vt.&vi.探索the world .是省略了关系代词that的定语从句。当先行词被形容词的最高级修饰时，只能用that引导定语从句。关系代词who引导定语从句。bright adj.聪明的，伶俐的curious/kjrIs/adj.好奇的，求知欲强的be curious about . 对感到好奇set sail启航set sail for .启航前往by the 1920s到20世纪20年代search forlook for寻找tomb/tum/n.坟墓Egyptian/IdIpn/adj.埃及的，埃及人的Egypt n埃

8、及现在分词短语searching for . kings作状语。fortune/ftun/n.大笔的钱，财富；运气jewel/dul/n.宝石；珠宝首饰preserve/prIzv/vt.保存，保护，保持be known as .作为而出名discovery n发现常与动词make搭配。valley/vlI/n.山谷，峡谷lord/ld/n.勋爵；贵族；大臣；封建领主a British man作Lord Carnarvon的同位语；关系代词who引导限制性定语从句，修饰a British man。come across （偶然）遇见；发现关系代词that引导限制性定语从句。contain v装

9、有；含有as well as也，又，以及look into探查，调查entrance/entrns/n.入口content/kntent/n.内容木乃伊的诅咒第13段译文霍华德卡特是有史以来世界上最出名的探险家之一。他勇敢无畏，爱好去从未去过的地方探险。在其一生中他发现了许多令人惊奇的东西。卡特没有上过学，但是他从画家父亲那里学会了画画。他天资聪明，对家乡之外的世界充满了好奇。1891年，在17岁的时候，他扬帆远航到了埃及的亚历山大。到了20世纪20年代，他已成为一名探险家，致力于寻找古埃及国王的陵墓。他找到了一些重要的陵墓。在这些陵墓中，他发现了大量的珠宝和黄金，和已故国王被保存的遗体。这些

10、保存的遗体就是为人所知的木乃伊。1922年，在埃及的国王谷，霍华德卡特做出了他最惊人的发现。此次探险之前，他得到了卡那封勋爵的资助。卡那封是个对埃及非常感兴趣的英国人。卡特的探险队当时在卢克索城附近的地方工作。在那个地方，他们偶然发现了图坦卡蒙国王的陵墓。这是有史以来所发现的最重要的陵墓。“除了国王的木乃伊之外，这座陵墓还藏有大量的珍宝，比我们任何人先前所见过的都要多，”卡特说。“在探查过这座陵墓之后，我们将其封起来，并掩藏了其入口。我们想在以后有更多的时间时来研究这座陵墓。此后，其所有的东西都要收进博物馆。”However, not long after the discovery, peo

11、ple in Carters team began to fall ill and die. Upon their entering the tomb， Carters lucky pet bird, which he had left in Cairo， was swallowed by a snake. Then, a few months after Carter had opened the tomb, Lord Carnarvon, who was also present when the tomb was opened, fell ill with a fever and die

12、d in Egypt. At the moment of Carnarvons death, the lights went out in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Back in England, his dog died at approximately the same time.George Gould, a friend of Carnarvons, went to Egypt after hearing of his strange death. He too visited the tomb, only to catch a high fever the next day. Twelve hours later, he was d