Lesson 15 A new house
新居

二、文章讲解

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 引导的条件状语从句。最核心常用的时态：主将从现。
例：If you keep learning English, your English will get better and better. 如果你坚持一直学英语，你的英语会学的越来越好的。
2)时态——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
名词 ＋ 介词短语，做后置定语，修饰前面名词。
Had + begun –过去完成式（过去的过去）
I’m working on it. 我还在做这方面的事情。（work on something 致力于做某事）
2)The house was completed five months ago.
Be + done 表示被动语态
时间 ＋ ago—过去时
3）In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us.
Tell someone something 告诉某人某事；
Someone –间接宾语
Something—直接宾语
that she could stay with us. ——－直接宾语

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.
注意识别and 链接的两个并列结构。
2)It must be the only modern house in the district.
Must be 对现在肯定的推测。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(维生素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.