人教版高中英语选修8Unit4课文复习(含答案)
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Unit 4 Pygmalion
Pygmalion
MAIN CHARACTERS:
Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is a_____ to improve herself.
Professor Higgins (H): an expert in phonetics, c_____ that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her p_____ in society.
Colonel Pickering (P): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who _____ him a task.
Act One FATEFUL MEETINGS
11:15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is p_____ with rain and a man is hiding _____ the rain but watching people’s language and r_____. While watching, he makes motes. Nearby a flower girl is also s_____ from the rain. A gentleman(G) passes and hesitates for a moment.
E: Come over’ere, Cap’in; and buy me flowers off a poor girl.
G: I'm sorry but I haven't any change.
E: I can give’ou change, Cap’in.
G: (surprised)For a pound? I’m afraid I've nothing less.
E: (Hopefully) Oah! Oh, do buy a flower. Take this for three pence.(holds up some dead flowers)
G: (uncomfortably) Now don't be t_____: there's a good girl.(look in pocket and sounds more friendly) But wait, here’s some small change, Will that be any use to you? It’s raining heavily now, isn’t it? (leaves).
E: (disappointed at the o_____ but thinks it is better than nothing) Thank’ou, sir.(sees a man taking notes and gets worried) Hey! I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers, I have. I’m an’onest girl I am! (begins to cry)
H: (kindly) There! There! Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for?(gives her a handkerchief)
E:I thought maybe you was a policeman in d _____.
H: Do I look like a policeman?
E: (still worried)Then why did’ou take down my words for? How do I
know whether’ou took me down right? ‘ou just show me what’ou wrote ?
H: Here you are.(hands over the paper covered with writing)
E: What's that? That ain't proper writing. I can't read
that.(pushes it back at him)
H: I can.(reads imitating Eliza) Come over’ere, Cap’in; and buy me flowers off a poor girl.(in his own voice)There you are and you come from the west end of London, Born in Lisson Grove if I’m not m_____.
E: (looking confused) What if I was? What’s it to you?
P: (Pickering who had been watching the girl, now speaks to Higgins) That’s quite b_____! How did you do that, may I ask?
H: Simply phonetics studied and c_____ from people’s own speech. That's my p_____ and also my hobby. I can place any spoken conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.
P: Let me c_____ you! But is there an income to be made in that?
H: Yes, Quite a good one. This is the age of the n_____ rich.
People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year, and end in a rich one with 100 thousand. But they b_____ themselves every time they open their mouths. Now once taught by me…
P: Is that so? E_____!
H: (dismissively) Look at this girl with her terrible English. The English that will c_____ her to the gutter to the end of her days. But ,sir,(proudly) once e_____ to speak properly, the girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an a_____ garden party. Perhaps I could even finds her employment as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant, w_____ requires better English.
E: What’s that you say? A shop assistant? Now that’s sommat I want, that is!
H: (ignores her) Can you believe that?
P: Of course! I study many Indian languages myself and…
H: Do you need? Do you know Colonel Pickering?
P: Indeed I do, for that is me. Who are you?
H: I’m Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you.
P: And I came to England to make you’re a_____!
E: What about me? How’ll you help me?
H: Oh, take that (carelessly throws a h_____ of money into her basket). We must have a c_____, my dear man.(leaves together)
E: (looking at the collected money in a_____) Well, I never! A whole pound! A f_____! That’ll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow, I’ll find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see! All that talk of (imitates him) “a_____ English”…(in her own voice) I’ll see whether you can get that for me…(goes out)
Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BET
It is 11 am in Henry Higgins’ house the next day. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting _____(a. deep b. deeply) in conversation.
H: Now do you want to hear any more sounds?
P: No, thank you; I rather fancied myself because I can p_____ twenty-four d_____ vowel sounds; but your hundred and thirty beat me. I can't d_____ most of them.
H: (laughing) Well , that comes with practice.
(There is a knock and Mrs Pearce, the housekeeper, comes in.)
MP: (hesitating) A young girl is asking to see you.
H: A young girl! What does she want?
MP: Well, she's quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails. I thought perhaps you wanted her to talk into your machines.
H: Why? Has she an interesting a_____? We’ll see. Show her in, Mrs Pearce.
MP: (only half r_____ to it) Very well, sir. (goes downstairs).
H: This is a bit of luck. I'll show you how I make records...
MP: (returning shortly) This is the young girl, sir.
(Eliza comes into the room shyly following Mrs Pearce. She is dirty and badly d_____. She curtsies to the two men).
H: (disappointed) Why, I've got this girl in my records. She’s the one we saw the o_____ day. She is no use at all. Take her away.
P: (gently) But what do you want, young lady?
E: (upset) I wanna be a lady in a flower shop ’stead o’ selling flowers in the street. But they won’t take me ’less I speak better. So here I am, ready to pay him. I am not asking any f_____--and he treats me like dirt.
H: How much?
E: (happily) Now yer talking. A lady friend of m_____ gets French lessons for two shillings an hour from a real Frenchman. Yer wouldn't have the face to ask me the same for teaching me as yer would for French; so I won't give yer more than a shilling.
H: (ignoring Eliza and speaking to Pickering) If you think of how much money this girl has—why, it’s the best offer I’ve had!(to Eliza) But if I teach you, I’ll be worse than a father.
P: I say, Higgins. Do you remember what you said last night? I'll say you're the greatest teacher a_____ if you can pass her off as a lady. And I will pay for the lessons, too.
E: (gratefully) Oh, yer real good, yer are. Thank you, Colonel..
H: Oh, she's so deliciously low.(compromises) Ok, I’ll teach you.(to Mrs Pearce) But she’ll need to be cleaned first. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. Wash her and burn her h_____ clothes. We’ll buy her new ones. What’s your name girl?
E: I’m Eliza Doolittle and I’m clean. I washed last week.
MP: Well, Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning. If these two gentlemen teach you. You’ll have to do the same. They won’t like your smell o_____.
E: (sobbing) I can’t. I dursn’t. It’s not natural and it would kill me. I’ve never had a bath in my life; not over my whole body. I’d never have come if I’d known about this d_____ thing you want to do to me. I…
H: Once more, take her away, Mrs Pearce, immediately.(outside Eliza still weeping with Mrs Pearce) You see the problem, Pickering. It’ll be how to teach her grammar, not just p_____. She’s in need of both.
P: But there’s another problem, Higgins. What are we going to do once the experiment is over?
H: (heartily) Throw her back.
P: But you can’t o_____ that! She’ll be changed and she has feeling too. We must be p_____, mustn’t we?
H: Well, we’ll deal with that later. First, let’s plan the best way to teach her.
P: How about beginning with the a_____…(fades out as they go off stage together)
参考答案
Unit 4 Pygmalion
PYGMALION
Act One FATEFUL MEETINGS
ambitious; convinced; position; sets; pouring; from; reactions; sheltering; troublesome; outcome; disguise; mistaken; brilliant; classified; profession; congratulate; newly; betray; Extraordinary; condemn; educated; ambassador’s; which; acquaintance; handful; celebration; fortune; authentic;
Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BET
deep; pronounce; distinct; beat; distinguish; accent; resigned; dressed; other; favors; mine; alive; horrible; otherwise; disgusting; pronunciation; Overlook; practical; alphabet;