第 1 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑新概念英语第二册第 23 课:A new houseLesson 23 A new house 新居 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 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，她住在尼日利亚 In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. 在信中她说她明年将到英国来。假如她来了，她会感到特别惊诧了 We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. 我们如今住在乡间的一栋美丽的新住宅里。这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已开工了 The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her 第 2 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑that she could stay with us. 是在 5 个月以前竣工的。我在信中告知她，她可以和我们住在一起 The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. 这栋房子里有很多房间，还有一个美丽的花园 It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district. 它是一栋非 常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很奇怪。它确定是这个地区唯一的一栋现代化住宅。 New words and Expressions 生词和短语 complete v. 完成 modern adj. 新式的，与以往不同的 strange第 3 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 adj. 惊奇的 district n. 地区 Notes on the text 课文解释 1 get a surprisc 中的，surprise 这里作“使人惊诧、意外的事物”解，是可数名词。 2 Work on it had begun...，住宅的建设在就开始了。work 是名词，作主语，it 指房屋。 3 The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden.这栋房子里有很多房间，还有一个美丽的花园。 there is 这个结构在第 1 册第 42-44 课中曾经出现过，用来说明人、物的存在。 Lesson 23 自学导读 First things first 课文详注 Further notes on the text第 4 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 1．I had a...
