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1. My friend, Hugh, has always been fat, but things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet.

亮点赏析：

1）铺垫与递进：

大家体会一下：”But things got so bad...”

这句话用的特别精致，有两个作用：

一. 避免重复说用词

二. 非常委婉造成了一种幽默的效果。为啥？

那么情况遭到什么程度呢？结果状语that he decided to go on a diet.

Obviously, he couldn’t bear his situation any more.

精彩表达：but这个词表转折，

两种转折：可能“转________”，也可以“转____________”。

区别一下：

Mike was energetic this morning, but he was very sick in the afternoon.

Mike was very sick this afternoon, but things got so bad in the evening that he suddenly fell over and fainted. 

2. He explained that his diet was so strict that he had to reward himself occasionally.Then he showed me the contents of the parcel. It contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of sweets!

亮点赏析：

1）悬念使用技巧：___________________ 

dramatic question1: What was inside the parcel ?

dramatic question2: How did he reward himself ?

The key to suspense is not to answer the dramatic question too soon.

曾有同学问我说：Then he showed me the contents of the parcel. It contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of sweets!

是不是可以定语从句连起来，写成：Then he showed me the contents of the parcel which contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of sweets!

但是，为啥课文中没有用定语从句？【请听音频】

_____________________________

2）Satire讽刺的使用 

大家体会一下：“his diet was so strict that he had to reward himself occasionally. ”

He actually rewarded himself with more high-calorie food.

His diet was so strict he couldn’t stick to it and had to indulge himself occasionally.

Satire是嘲笑么？

Satire is a humorous way of criticizing something or someone.  

Mark Twain就是幽默大师，擅长Satire.用到Satire的句子特点是：___________________________________________

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.  

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

self-mockery:

I try to avoid things that make me fat... like scales , mirrors and photographs.

I wish I could lose weight as easily as I lose my keys, pen, cellphone, my temper, and even my mind.