2017届高考英语一轮复习话题课件：1 日常生活（牛津译林版）_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮复习话题课件：1 日常生活（牛津译林版）

　　核心考点核心考点核心考点核心考点课前预习精品阅读核心考点核心考点 Part 4　阅读写作,提升文化内涵话题1日常生活 -*- A B (2015·安徽,B) 语篇导读:“一根筷子轻轻被折断,十双筷子牢牢抱成团。”Helene An在女儿们很小的时候就告诉她们家庭团结的重要性。后来,女儿们精诚团结,取得了巨大的成功。 When her five daughters were young,Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity(团结).To show this,she held up one chopstick,representing one person.Then she easily broke it into two pieces.Next,she tied several chopsticks together,representing a family.She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up. -*- A B Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California.However,when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975,they didn’t have much money.They moved their family to San Francisco.There they joined Danny’s mother,Diana,who owned a small Italian sandwich shop.Soon afterwards,Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant.The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young.However,Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard. -*- A B Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves,but one by one,the daughters returned to work in the family business.They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles.Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other,they worked together to make the business successful.Daughter Elizabeth explains,“Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity,and to have unity we must have peace.Without the strength of the family,there is no business.” -*- A B Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996,with three generations of Ans working together.Now the Ans’ corporation makes more than $20 million each year.Although they began with a small restaurant,they had big dreams,and they worked together.Now they are a big success. -*- A B 1.Helene tied several chopsticks together to show 　. A.the strength of family unity B.the difficulty of growing up C.the advantage of chopsticks D.the best way of giving a lesson