新视野英语教程unit3Text B

2.他们做了很多工作却收获甚少，于是就放弃了。
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a world of drugs, crime, and failed marriages
• 然而，除了巨大的成功之外，纳塔
莉· 科尔的世界还曾充斥着毒品、犯罪 和失败的婚姻。
• “我去过地狱，又回来了。”她说。
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give us an honest look at the difficult path… • have a quick look at the question • as well
8. Without enough money to pay the bills and to support her drug habit, Cole turned to stealing and got into trouble with the law. Eventually, she became so badly affected by the drugs that she decided to quit on the spot.
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• 唱片销量超过2,000万张，并因此而赢得数
项格莱美奖，纳塔莉· 科尔——著名歌手纳 特· 金· 科尔的女儿——在音乐界一举成名。
show for: 在……方面有某种成果
1.你在这个领域里所做的努力会有收获的。
You’ll have something to show for your efforts in this field. With so little to show for their hard work, they gave up.
12. Sadly, the marriage wouldn’t last. After four years of being drug-free, Cole was once again using. 13. In 1983, Cole checked herself into a recovery program, and was finally able to mend the wounds from her difficult past.
much of his time away from home.
6 b. With hopes of one day becoming a doctor, she left her family in Los Angeles to attend a boarding school on the east coast. But when she was 14, she received some terrible news: her father was dying of lung cancer. Less than two months later, in 1965, Nat King Cole died at the age of 47.
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shoulder the cost/ burden I like to es in my music. 尝试不同的风格。 experiment on living things narrowly: hardly My income can narrowly cover my expenses.
phenomenon: n. （尤指不寻常的）现象
phenomenal: adj. 非凡的，很不一般的 very unusual
1.Snow in Egypt is an almost unknown phenomenon ______________. phenomenal 2.One must have some ______________ qualities to be successful.
11. “Marriage to Marvin, and Robbie, was like a breath of pure, fresh air,” she says. “I was with a man whom I loved and who loved me…we were just so close.”
7. During her college years at Amherst, Cole began to experiment with drugs, though they didn’t stop her from joining a music group. She played in small clubs on the east coast, using drugs more and more frequently.
make a name for oneself look back on turn out with hopes of die of get into trouble on the spot kick the habit (of doing something) take off come together check into
• Nat King Cole was a famous black jazz pianist and singer.
• Natalie Cole was exposed to the music of important artists at an early age. • In 1976, won a Grammy as Best New Artist. • In 1990, Unforgettable: With Love, which included her duet二重 唱 with her father, won seven Grammy Awards.
14. After narrowly escaping death once again, Cole decided to record her father’s greatest hits, including the phenomenal success Unforgettable: With Love.
marriage angel shoulder path recovery coast lung cancer experiment steal law badly quit
spot miracle arrest songwriter breath pure finally would narrowly escape phenomenal grateful show for
5. “Where I’m at now helps me to look back on my life and realize that I’ve really had quite a colorful and rich life,” she says. “I really could have turned out to be a different person.” 6a. As the second daughter of Maria and Nat King Cole, Natalie had as normal a childhood as was possible for a little girl whose father spent
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remember look back on stop/ give up the habit kick the habit of begin to become successful, popular, well-known • take off • show as a profit or reward from… • show for
9. She says it was a miracle—the work of an angel on her shoulder. Her drug habit kicked, Natalie’s career really began to take off. Only two years after being arrested and almost dying because of drugs, Cole’s first record won two Grammies.
Unforgettable Life
1. With more than 20 million records sold, and several Grammy awards to show for it, Natalie Cole, the daughter of famous singer Nat King Cole, has made a name for herself in music.
15. Cole, who has fought and won many battles to find personal happiness, says “I’m so grateful for the way my life has turned out.”
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with…records sold 独立主格结构 • show for • has made a name for herself
10. In 1976, she married Marvin Yancy, her songwriter and producer. They soon had a son, Robbie, and Cole’s life really seemed to be coming together.
2. Along with her great success, however, Natalie Cole had lived in a world of drugs, crime, and failed marriages.
3. “I have been to hell and back,” she says. 4. In the book Angel on My Shoulder, Cole gives us an honest look at the difficult path she has taken, sharing, as well, her successful recovery.
Unit 3 A Successful Career Text B Unforgettable Life 无法忘记的生活
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• Grammy 格莱美奖 • Gramophone（留声机） 的变异谐音
• A Grammy Award is an accolade（荣誉 ） by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States （美国国家唱片艺术及科学学会 ）to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage performances, and the Academy Awards for motion pictures.
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all the elements arrive come together register or enter for check into at once on the spot happen to be, or found to be, in the end turn out