高级英语第一册Unit 1 (文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+

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《高级英语》Advanced English

第一册

Unit 1The Middle Eastern Bazaar

THE MIDDLE EASTERN BAZAAR 教学目的及重点难点

Aims of teaching

1. To comprehend the whole text

2. To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions

3. To understand the structure of the text

4. To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.

Important and difficult points

1. What is description?

2. The comprehension and appreciation of the words describing sound, colour, light, heat, size and smell.

3. The appreciation of the words and expressions used for stress and exaggeration.

4. Some useful expressions such as to make a point of, it is a point of honour…, and etc

Background information

This text is taken from Advanced Comprehension and Appreciation Pieces (1962), which was intended for students preparing for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency Examination, & for students in the top class of secondary schools or in the first year of a university course.

The Middle Eastern Bazaar

The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you back hundreds --- even thousands --- of years. The one I am thinking of particularly is entered by a - arched gateway of aged brick and stone. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark which extends as far as the eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy distance. Little donkeys with bells thread their way among the of people entering and leaving

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the bazaar. The roadway is about twelve feet wide, but it is narrowed every few yards by little where goods of every kind are sold. The of the stall-holder; crying their wares, of

donkey-boys and porters clearing a way for themselves by shouting vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arguing and is continuous and makes you .

Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to thecloth-market. The earthen floor, beaten hard by countless feet, deadens the sound of footsteps, and the mud-brick walls and roof have hardly any sounds to . The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers, by the atmosphere, follow .

One of the peculiarities of the Eastern bazaar is that

shopkeepers dealing in the same kind of goods do not scatter

themselves over the bazaar, in order to avoid competition, but collect in the same area, so that purchasers can know where to find them, and so that they can form a closelyagainst or . In the cloth-market, for instance, all the sellers of

material for clothes, curtains, chair covers and so on line the roadway on both sides, each open-fronted shop having a trestle for display and shelves for storage. Bargaining is the order of the cay, and veiled women move at a pace from shop to shop, selecting, pricing and doing a little bargaining before they narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down.

It is a point of honour with the customer not to let the shopkeeper guess what it is she really likes and wants until the last moment. If he does guess correctly, he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining. The seller, on the other hand, makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is all profit, and that he is sacrificing this because of his personal regard for the customer. Bargaining can go on the whole day, or even several days, with the customer coming and going .

One of the most picturesque and impressive parts of the bazaar is the copper-smiths' market. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to on your ear. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see aof dancing flashes, as the copper catches the light of

lamps and. In each shop sit the apprentices – boys and youths, some of them incredibly young – hammering away at copper vessels of all shapes and sizes, while the shop-owner

instructs, and sometimes takes a hand with a hammer himself. In the background, a tiny apprentice blows a bi-, charcoal fir e with a huge

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leather worked by a string attached to his big toe -- the red of the live coals glowing, bright and then dimming to the strokes of the bellows.

Here you can find

beautiful pots and bowls

engrave with delicate and traditional

designs, or the simple,

everyday kitchenware

used in this country,

pleasing in form, but

undecorated and strictly

functional. Elsewhere

there is the carpet-market,

with its profusion of rich

colours, varied textures and regional designs -- some bold and simple, others unbelievably detailed and yet harmonious. Then there is the spice-market, with its and smells; and the

food-market, where you can buy everything you need for the most dinner, or sit in a tiny restaurant with porters and

apprentices and eat your humble bread and cheese. The dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenters' market lie elsewhere in theof vaulted streets which this bazaar. Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a or a , where camels lie chewing their hay, while the great bales of merchandise they have carried hundreds of miles across the desert lie beside them.

Perhaps the most unforgettable thing in the bazaar, apart from its general atmosphere, is the place where they make oil. It is a vast, cavern of a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square, and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible. In this cavern are three

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