2019年英语新同步译林课件+讲义+精练 (4)

Section_ⅠWelcome to the unit & Reading — Pre-reading

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Visiting the masters

Hi Yang Yan

Here I am in Amsterdam. This trip has been fantastic①！As you know, I am with my aunt and grandmother. They are both good artists, and I'm thinking about starting painting myself after I get back. Let me tell you all about our trip.

My grandmother really likes Picasso's paintings and thinks he is the greatest artist ever, so we started in Spain②and went to the city of Málaga, the birthplace③of Picasso. Near the house where Picasso was born is a museum full of his art. Málaga is a lovely city and the architecture④is beautiful. I was amazed to learn that Picasso had an output⑤ of more than 20,000 pieces of art. He did not just paint, but made sculptures and worked with all kinds of media⑥. He experimented with⑦ different styles of painting, but was most famous for his work in Cubism⑧，which often uses acute angles⑨and where the world is represented as⑩being constructed of cubes⑪and rectangles⑫.

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①fantastic adj.极好的，了不起的

②Spain/speIn/n.西班牙

③birthplace/'bɜːθpleI s/n.出生地；发源地

④architecture/'ɑːkI tektʃə(r)/n.建筑；建筑学

⑤output/'aʊtpʊt/n.产量，输出量；输出

⑥media/'miːdIə/是medium的复数形式

medium/'miːdIəm/n.(艺术创作的)材料，形式；媒介，传媒adj.中等的

⑦experiment with尝试

⑧Cubism/'kjuːbI zəm/n.立体主义，立体派

⑨acute/ə'kjuːt/adj.锐角的；强烈的；(疾病)急性的；灵敏的；敏锐的

acute angle n．锐角

⑩be represented as被呈现为……

⑪cube/kjuːb/n.立方形，立方体

⑫rectangle/'rektæŋgl/n.长方形，矩形

struggling artist, and settled in Paris, France. So, after visiting Spain, we went to Paris. During our four days in Paris we spent one whole day at the Louvre Museum, where we saw the Mona Lisa, painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. He created this work between 1503 and 1506. I was really impressed by this picture of a lady with a mysterious smile. By popular consensus⑬，this is the most valuable painting in the world —it is impossible to calculate⑭what price it would fetch if it ever came on the market⑮. Besides⑯being a painter, da Vinci was also an architect, scientist and engineer. He designed many new inventions, including a primitive form of a helicopter⑰and a tank⑱.

Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ranging from the 13th century to the 19th century⑲. It doesn't have any modern paintings in it, however. Modern pa

our second day in Paris because my aunt was eager to see⑳the works of Claude Monet.

⑬consensus/kən'sensəs/n.共识，一致的意见

⑭calculate/'kælkjʊleIt/v t. & v i.计算，推测

calculator n．计算器

⑮come on the market上市，出售

on the open market自由买卖

what引导宾语从句作calculate的宾语；if引导条件状语从句。

⑯besides prep.除……之外(还)，相当于in addition to或apart from，后面接名词、代词或动名词作宾语。

⑰helicopter/'helIkɒptə(r)/n.直升机

⑱tank/tæŋk/n.坦克；(储存液体或气体的)箱，槽，罐