Lesson 23A 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?
新房子为什么特别？
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
新居昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亚。在信中她说她明年将到英国来。如果她来了，她会感到非常惊奇了。我们现在住在乡间的一栋漂亮的新住宅里。这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在5个月以前竣工的。我在信中告诉她，她可以和我们住在一起。这栋房子里有许多房间，还有一个漂亮的花园。它是一栋非常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很古怪。它肯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
finish
complete the building
finish/complete homework
finish/complete doing sth.某事做完了
I finish reading a book.
complete(adj.) : 完全的, 完整的
《鲁迅全集》中的 “全集” 就用 “complete”modern adj. 新式的，与以往不同的
现代的 modern history/art : 现代史/ 现代艺术
modernization [7mCdEnai5zeiFEn] n.现代化strange adj. 奇怪的
stranger : 陌生人 (注意[5streindVE] 应读成[5sdreindVE])
strange : 奇怪的, 陌生的
be strange to sth. 引申为 : 对……不习惯, 对……陌生district n. 地区
area 地段
region 地区 地带 ([5ri:dVEn] n.区域, 地方, (世界上某个特定的)地区, (艺术,科学等的)领域, (大气, 海水等的)层)
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