1、Looking Beautiful and Being BeautifulBeauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, beauty is subjective and youre only beautiful if others think you are beautiful. The Evil Queen in the “Snow White” fairy tale found that out when she asked the Magic Mirror, “Who is the fairest of

2、them all?” and was told, “It aint you, Queenie!”Mirrors, magic or not, are much too honest. A quick glance at your reflection can leave you in despair at a nose too wide, a chin (下巴) too small or ears that stick out like jug handles. Why, you may think, cant I be as beautiful as a movie star? Well,

3、the answer is you can and it doesnt require any expensive plastic surgery or a Meitu Xiuxiu app. All you need is to develop your “inner” beauty.Inner beauty is a quality thats hard to define but easy to recognize. A teacher colleague of mine (her English name is Penny) has such inner beauty. She has

4、 a nice but not beautiful face. Shes even a little heavy. But when people meet her, they are immediately drawn to her. She shines with so much inner goodness and love that even shy little children want to give her a hug. How did she get that way? In her case, I think it comes naturally, but she sets

5、 an example that I and her other colleagues try to follow.There is a beauty contest now underway in China to find students who have inner beauty similar to Pennys. Its called “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students.” These are students who love their country, study dili

6、gently, volunteer, help others, and have respect for their parents and the elderly. As far as I know, these students are not required to wear designer clothes or walk down catwalks and be judged by their appearances. The students will be judged by, as Martin Luther King said, the “quality of their c

7、haracters.” And it really is “character” that makes a person beautiful.Just after the National Day holiday, three young Chinese women were prevented by Customs officials from leaving South Korea. They had spent their vacation getting plastic surgery and their puffy (腫脹的) faces no longer matched thei

8、r passport photos. So embarrassing! If only they had known my friend Penny and learned the important lesson: You dont have to look beautiful to be beautiful.教案PRE-READING1. Are you satisfied with your physical appearance? Why or why not? What do you think defines beauty? Why?2. Have you ever heard a

9、bout the “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students” beauty contest? Has anyone in your school been given the honor? If so, why do you think he or she is “beautiful”?WHILE READINGSentences1. Why, you may think1, cant I be as beautiful as a movie star? Well, the answer is y

10、ou can and it doesnt require2 any expensive plastic surgery or a Meitu Xiuxiu app. All you need2 is to develop your “inner” beauty.1 恰當?shù)厥褂貌迦胝Z，有時可使行文顯得更加老練、地道。2 require跟need這兩個詞在漢語中都可以翻譯成“需要”，但兩者在適用場合上有明顯區(qū)別。need側(cè)重指個人情感層面的需要。如果你“need”某物，則意味著你有必要得到它，它是生存或者達到某目的必備品。相較而言，require表示“需要”時更為正式，它通常表示“必須、具有強制性

11、”的需要。2. A teacher colleague of mine1 (her English name is Penny) has such2 inner beauty.1 a teacher colleague of mine相當于one of my teacher colleagues。注意不要受中文思維影響，這里應(yīng)該用mine，而不用me。2 such和so都可以解釋為“如此；這樣”，但用法卻不相同。such用來修飾名詞，名詞前有無形容詞都可以；so用來修飾形容詞或副詞，形容詞后可以省略名詞。此外，so后即使有形容詞，也不能修飾復(fù)數(shù)名詞或不可數(shù)名詞，而such則可以。3. They

12、 had spent their vacation getting plastic surgery and their puffy faces no longer matched1 their passport photos . If only2 they had known my friend Penny and .1 注意match的用法。match在此解釋為“（與）相配，相稱”。不可說one thing matches to或matches with another，而要說one thing matches another或two things match。2 有關(guān)If only .的用

13、法，詳見本期報紙頭版“Sentences”欄目。注意不要將if only和only if相混淆。后者并不是一個固定詞組。VocabularyComplete the sentences with the proper words from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.subjective diligent embarrassing despair glance contest1. In spite of _ work as editor, hac

14、k writer and sea captain, he wound up poor.2. At first _, the hotel seems like it got stuck in a time machine an analog clock here, an Eames-style chair there.3. The people were driven to _ by the horrors of war.4. Art is never a commodity (商品). Commodities are identical units of sure value bushels

15、of wheat, say whose price changes from time to time and place to place. Artworks are one-of-a-kind items, materially worthless, which have in common that a price is asked for them. Their value is entirely _.5. Will you enter the _?Key:1. diligent2. glance3. despair4. subjective5. contestTranslationT

16、ranslate the following sentences into English.1. 這條項鏈是我的一個好朋友送的。(a)2. 作為夫妻，他們并不是很般配。 (match v.)3. 我要是當時聽了父母的話就好了！ (if)4. 據(jù)我所知，當時他在銀行工作。 (as)5. 仿效他的做法會是個錯誤。 (example)Possible answers:1. I was given this necklace by a good friend of mine.2. As a couple, they are not very well matched.3. If only I had

17、listened to my parents!4. He was working in a bank at the time, as far as I know.5. It would be a mistake to follow his example.ComprehensionChoose the best answer.1. By writing this article, the author mainly wants to _.A. share his understanding of inner beautyB. encourage people to develop their

18、inner beautyC. discourage people from getting plastic surgeryD. introduce his friend Penny to others2. According to the article, students taking part in “The Most Beautiful High School Students / Vocational School Students” contest will be judged by _. their physical appearance their academic performance the quality of their characters their relationships with their classmates A. B. C. D. 3. According to the article, why were the three Chinese women prevented from leaving South Korea?A. Because they had lost their passports.B. Because they