2019年英语新同步译林课件+讲义+精练 (4)

Section_ⅠWelcome to the unit & Reading — Pre-reading[原文呈现]Visiting the mastersHi Yang YanHere 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.[读文清障]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 paour 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⑲现在分词短语ranging from ... to ...作后置定语，修饰前面的paintings；range from ... to ...是固定结构，意思是“从……到……不等”。

⑳be eager to do sth.迫不及待地做某事can't wait to do sth.迫不及待地做某事of○21 a style called Impressionism○22. With Impressionism, the painter abandons○23the idea of representing things exactly as they look in a photograph○24，but seeks to show movement and the feelings of the moment, through the use of colours, light and shadows○25. Monet loved to paint outdoors, and almost never used a studio. Though when he was younger he painted a wide variety of subjects, when he was older he most often painted the water lilies○26○27floating on the surface of the pond○28in his garden.Yesterday, we went to the Van Gogh Museum, here in Amsterdam. Van Gogh was also a member of the Impressionist Movement○29. Altogether, he painted about 800 oil paintings○30 and did 1,600 drawings. One of his most famous oil paintings is The Potato Eaters, which he painted in 1885. Among his works, my favourite is Starry○31Night, which he completed in 1889. Unfortunately, although van Gogh committed○32his whole being○33to painting, he received little reward○34for his effort. His younger brother, Theo，○35acting as his agent○36, tried hard to sell van Gogh's paintings, but could only sell one painting, for 400 francs○37，before van Gogh died in 1890. Today, van Gogh's paintings are worth upwards of○38millions of dollars each.Tomorrow we are off to○39another museum in Amsterdam. The most famous paintings there are by Rembrandt. He lived from 1606 until 1669. My aunt really wants to see a painting of his called The Night Watch, which was painted in 1642.I'll tell you more about my trip when I get back.RegardsLi Ming,○21be typical of ... 是……的典型○22Impressionism/Im'preʃənIzəm/n.印象主义，印象派○23abandon v．放弃，抛弃abandon oneself to沉湎于，放纵(感情)○24as they look in a photograph是as引导的方式状语从句。