Lesson 23 A new house新居
First listen and then answer the question.
聽錄音，然后回答以下問(wèn)題。
Why is the new house special?
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria.
昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亞
In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise.
在信中她說(shuō)她明年將到英國(guó)來(lái)。如果她來(lái)了，她會(huì)感到非常驚奇了
We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left.
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(dòng)工了
The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us.
是在5個(gè)月以前竣工的。我在信中告訴她，她可以和我們住在一起
The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden.
這棟房子里有許多房間，還有一個(gè)漂亮的花園
It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
它是一棟非 ?，F(xiàn)代化的住宅，因此在有些人看來(lái)很古怪。它肯定是這個(gè)地區(qū)的一棟現(xiàn)代化住宅。
New words and Expressions生詞和短語(yǔ)
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)
Notes on the text課文注釋
1 get a surprisc中的，surprise這里作“使人驚奇、意外的事物”解，是可數(shù)名詞。
2 Work on it had begun...，住宅的建設(shè)在……就開始了。work是名詞，作主語(yǔ)，it指房屋。
3 The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden.這棟房子里有許多房間，還有一個(gè)漂亮的花園。
there is這個(gè)結(jié)構(gòu)在第1冊(cè)第42-44課中曾經(jīng)出現(xiàn)過(guò)，用來(lái)說(shuō)明人、物的存在。