A new house 新居
【課文】
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
【課文翻譯】
昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亞。在信中她說她明年將到英國來。如果她來了，她會感到非常驚奇了。我們現(xiàn)在住在鄉(xiāng)間的一棟漂亮的新住宅里。這棟房子在我姐姐離開之前就已動工了，是在5個月以前竣工的。我在信中告訴她，她可以和我們住在一起。這棟房子里有許多房間，還有一個漂亮的花園。它是一棟非�，F(xiàn)代化的住宅，因此在有些人看來很古怪。它肯定是這個地區(qū)唯一的一棟現(xiàn)代化住宅。
【生詞和短語】
complete v. 完成
modern adj. 新式的，與以往不同的
strange adj. 奇怪的
district n. 地區(qū)
【知識點講解】
1 get a surprise
這個短語里，surprise作“使人驚奇、意外的事物”講，是可數(shù)名詞。
His boyfriend promises to give a surprise to her for birthday.
他男朋友答應在她生日時給她個驚喜。
2 in the country 在鄉(xiāng)下
Many people choose to live in the country when they are old.
很多人選擇老了后去鄉(xiāng)下居住。
3 Work on it had begun before my sister left.
這棟房子在我姐姐離開之前就已動工了。
在這個句子里，work是名詞，作主語，指住房的建設，而it是指房屋。因為建設這個動作發(fā)生在姐姐離開之前，所以動詞begin用了過去完成時。類似的句子有：
I had finished my work when my mother called.
媽媽給我打電話時我的工作已經(jīng)做完了。
4 complete [動詞]使齊全，使完整;結(jié)束，完成
This government intends to complete this project by the end of this year.
政府計劃在年底完成這個項目。
complete還可以做形容詞，表示完全的，徹底的;完整的，整個的。其副詞形式是completely。
complete with sth.
包含，含有(額外部分或特征)
a complete change 翻天覆地的變化 in complete silence 萬籟俱寂
She was completely touched by this movie.
她完全被整部電影打動了。
5 stay with sb. 與某人暫住，在某人處逗留
My friend is going to stay with me during the holiday.
我朋友節(jié)假日要來我這里住幾天。
短語擴展：stay the night 過夜 stay in 呆在家里，不外出 stay out 呆在戶外，不在家，不回家
stay over 留宿 stay up 熬夜，深夜不睡
6 so it looks strange to some people.
因此在有些人看來它很古怪。
be strange to sb. 陌生的，不熟悉的，奇怪的
短語擴展：fell strange 感覺不自在，感覺不舒服
例句：Peking Opera is strange to some foreigners.
對某些外國人來說，京劇是一項陌生的事物。
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