音樂學校幫助孤獨癥學生

山東 孫啟祿

1Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese villager with autism.He grew up in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.

2Autism is a developmental disability that makes it hard for some people to talk with others or learn social skills.That means it can be hard for a person with autism to find a job or make friends.There are a great many people in the world with the disorder.But it is not well known and there is not much support for people like Zu.

3For Zu, the recent years have been difficult.But he is doing better now and he is learning music and spending time with other young people at a school called Chen's Studio in Beijing.Chen's Studio started offering music lessons for people with autism three years ago.

4Zu's mother, Zhao Guorong, brings her son to the music school every Sunday so he can study with the teacher,Chen Shensi.It takes them two hours on three different buses to get to the classroom from their home outside of Beijing.At the studio, Zu learned how to play the keyboards and sing in a band called“Star Kids”.

5“Without music, without these lessons, he wouldn't have anything,”Zhao said.She also said her son would not have any people to socialize with if it were not for the music school.“Although Zu is older than the other young people at Chen's Studio, they all take care of him like he's their brother,”Zhao added.

6Chen knows the young people with autism will have trouble getting jobs,so he hopes music will help them make a living.At the start,it was hard.Chen became frustrated when he had trouble communicating with his students.However, it eventually became easier.He said he knew it was hard for them to communicate, but to some degree, he thought music might be their language.

Reading Check

1.What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?

A.The number of people with autism.

B.The support offered to people with autism.

C.The definition of autism and its effects.

D.The description of developmental disabilities.

2.What can we infer about Zu Wenbao from the text?

A.He has his own studio at present.

B.He is making progress in the school.

C.He was fond of music at an early age.

D.He was frustrated at first at the school.

3.What does Zu's mother think of the lessons?

A.Rough.B.Useless.C.Helpful.D.Interesting.

4.What does Chen really mean by saying“music might be their language”?

A.The students are good at learning music.

B.The students regard music as a kind of language.

C.The students might rely on music for a living in the future.

D.The students might communicate with each other through music.?

語篇解碼

本文是一篇記敘文，主題語境是音樂。北京的一所音樂學校通過教授患有孤獨癥的學生音樂來幫助他們，希望音樂可以成為這些人的啟明星，能為這些人搭起一座通往他人內心的橋梁。

語言學習

Ⅰ.語料薈萃

語篇單詞重要短語disability n.殘疾；障礙 support n.支持disorder n.混亂；紊亂 restriction n.限制offer n.提供 keyboard n.琴鍵；鍵盤socialize vt.交往；社交 expert n.專家educational adj.教育的 frustrated adj.沮喪的eventually adv.最終 language n.語言grow up 長大 social skills 社交技巧make friends 交朋友 bring...to 帶……去……play the keyboards 彈電子琴 take care of 照顧make progress 取得進步 millions of 數百萬have trouble doing 做……有困難 make a living 謀生_____________communicate with 與……交流 to some degree 在某種程度上

Ⅱ.語句分析

1.Autism is a developmental disability that makes it hard for some people to talk with others or learn social skills.孤獨癥是一種發育障礙，它使一些人難以與他人交談或學習社交技能。

【點石成金】本句是一個主從復合句。Autism is a developmental disability 是主句，that makes it hard...social skills是that引導的限制性定語從句，其中it是形式賓語，hard是形容詞作賓語補足語，to talk with others or learn social skills 是真正的主語，此處是“make+it+adj.+to do”的結構。

2.She also said her son would not have any people to socialize with if it were not for the music school.她還說，如果不是這所音樂學校，她的兒子就沒有可以交往的人了。

【點石成金】本句是一個主從復合句。She also said 是主句，her son would not have...socialize with 是省略了that 的賓語從句，if 引導的是非真實條件句，表示與現在事實相反的假設。

語言運用

Ⅰ.例句仿寫

1.使他難以適應國外新環境的是文化，而不是語言。

It was the culture,rather than the language,that _______________________the new environment abroad.

2.如果他找不到離開森林的路，那（他）就幾乎沒有生還的機會了。

If he couldn't find his way out of the forest, _______________________.

Ⅱ.寫作實踐

假定你是李華，請你以“Music and life”為題，用英語寫一篇短文，要點如下：

1.音樂是我們生活的一部分；

2.音樂的功能；

3.我對音樂的感覺。

注意：

1.詞數80左右；

2.可以適當增加細節，以使行文連貫。

Music and life

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