Lesson 15 A new house
新居

二、文章講解

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.

4.If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country.
1)If 引導的條件狀語從句。最核心常用的時態：主將從現。
例：If you keep learning English, your English will get better and better. 如果你堅持一直學英語，你的英語會學的越來越好的。
2)時態——we’re now living in a beautiful new house.

5.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.
1)Work (on it) had begun before my sister left
名詞 ＋ 介詞短語，做后置定語，修飾前面名詞。
Had + begun –過去完成式（過去的過去）
I’m working on it. 我還在做這方面的事情。（work on something 致力于做某事）
2)The house was completed five months ago.
Be + done 表示被動語態
時間 ＋ ago—過去時
3）In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us.
Tell someone something 告訴某人某事；
Someone –間接賓語
Something—直接賓語
that she could stay with us. ——－直接賓語

6.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.
There is a car.
There are two cars.
注意：there be 不能和have
1)The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden.
注意識別and 鏈接的兩個并列結構。
2)It must be the only modern house in the district.
Must be 對現在肯定的推測。You must be Peter. I’ve heard so much about you. 你一定是皮特。久仰大名。
B
The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so whenthe chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C(維生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets(at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend, but the best part-particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold- weather root vegetables-was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to 1p.m., rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened (蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal- and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where- luckily for me- I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.

24.What did the author think of her winter life in New York?(B)
A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Relaxing. D. Annoying.
25.What made the author’s getting up late early worthwhile?(D)
A. Having a swim. B. Breathing in fresh air.
C. Walking in the morning sun. D. Visiting a local farmer’s market.
26.What can we learn about tomatoes (sold in New York in winter)?(B)
A. They are soft. B. They look nice.

C. They taste great. D. They are juicy.
27.What was the author going to that evening?(C)
A. Go to a farm. B. Check into a hotel.

C. Eat in a restaurant. D. Buy fresh vegetables.