UNIT 1 FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS The enthusiastic Brazilian CarnivalThe annual Carnival in Brazil is a unique festival. It is also the most important ethniccelebration. It comes between the end of February and the beginning of March every year. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from overseas were attracted to join the feast of rejoicing.The main “course” of the carnival is the Samba. Months before the Carnival, some professional Samba schools will set out to compose music, rehearse dances and design costumes according to the current theme of the Carnival.The Carnival is highlighted with the Samba competitions, where every Samba school would send thousands of dancers to participate. Every school has 90 minutes to demonstrate their performance and have them graded by experts. The winner is given one million US dollars. Generally the tickets for the Samba competition would be sold out a month in advance.Seven hundred thousand tourists swarmed the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. Whoever they are—poor or rich, celebrated or ordinary people—they are all just dancers, day and night.开启快乐学习之旅激情四射的巴西狂欢节在巴西，一年一度的狂欢节是一个独特的节日，也是最重要的民族庆典，于每年 2 月底至 3 月初举行，吸引着海外无数游客前往尽享乐宴。狂欢节的“主菜”是桑巴舞表演。狂欢节开始前的几个月，一些专业的桑巴舞学校便会根据当年的狂欢节主题着手制作音乐、编排舞蹈并设计服饰。桑巴舞大赛是狂欢节的高潮，每所桑巴舞学校都会出动数千名舞者参赛，各校有 90 分钟的时间进行表演，由专家评定成绩，获胜者可以得到 100 万美元。通常，桑巴舞比赛的入场券会在一个月前就售光。70 万游客奔着狂欢节涌入里约热内卢这个海滨城市。他们不分贫富贵贱，都只是舞者，日夜尽情跳舞。模块核心素养导航Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking，Reading and ThinkingⅠ.重点单词1．lantern n．灯笼；提灯2．costume n．(某地或某历史时...
