Module 4 MusicModule 4 Music Grammar Present perfect progressive tense 现在完成进行时 1. 现在完成进行时表示从过去某一时刻 开始的动作, 一直延续到说话时还在 进行或可能还要继续下去。句中常出 现for, since, how long等引导的时间状 语。例如: (1) Her telephone has been ringing for a long time. (2) It has been raining since last Sunday. (3) I am tired. I have been painting the living room all day. (4) Do not disturb me. I have been writing letters all morning and have written ten so far. (5) How long have you been wearing glasses. (1) You have been coughing a lot lately. (2) He has been scoring plenty of goals this season. 2. 现在完成进行时表示一个重复性的动 作, 常用于表示“关切”、“惊异”、“愤 怒”等感情色彩。例如： (3) You have been saying that for five years. (4) I suppose you have been gossiping again. 3. 现在完成进行时与现在进行时的比 较： 1) 现在完成进行时强调动作的持续性 , 现在完成时强调时间的经过。 2) 例如： I have been waiting for two hours. I have waited for two hours. (2) 现在完成进行时表示“未完成”, 现在 完成时表示“已完成”。例如： I have been writing a letter. (还在写) I have written a letter. (已写完) Interviewer: Liu Fang, what_ _ (do) recently? Liu Fang: Well, I _ (give) concerts in America. Complete the conversation. Put the verbs into the present perfect progressive. have you been doing have been giving Interviewer: Have you _ (play) any new pieces? Liu Fang: Yes. I _ (play) some classical American tunes. Interviewer: What else have you _ (do)? Liu Fang: I _ (learn) how to play the konghou. been playing have been playing been doing have been learning Fill in the blanks using present perfect tense and present perfect progressive tense. 1. Joe goes out. Five minutes later, the phone rings and the caller says “Would you like something to eat ?” Joe says: “No, thank you. I _ (have lunch).” have had lunch 2. Maria _ (learn) English for two years. 3. You are going to a restaurant this evening. You phone to reserve a table. Later your friend says Shall I phone to reserve a table ? You say: No, _ it (do). Ive already done it has been learning 4. Hello, Tom. I _ (look) for you all morning. Where have you been ? 5. Last week the bus fare was 80 pence. Now it is 90. _. (go up) have been looking The bus fare has gone up Last night, I _ (go) to see a concert by the Chinese- born Canadian artist Liu Fang. She was born in China and _ (study) music in Shanghai, but she _ (live) in Canada since 1996. She _ (play) Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs: went studied has been living has been playing traditional Chinese music since she was very young. Last night, she _ (perform) a series of classical Chinese pieces for the pipa and the guzheng. I _ (buy) a CD of her music after the concert and I _ (listen) to it all day today! performed bought have been listening 1. Excuse me, Marcia, a reporter from Vanity Fair _ all day. Could you speak to her now? A. phones B. has phoned C. has been phoning D. phoned 2. Im sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final. I think so. He _ for it for months. A. is preparing B. was preparing C. had been preparing D. has been preparing 3. Cathy is taking notes of the grammatical rules in class at Sunshine School, where she _ English for a year. A. studies B. studied C. is studying D. has been studying 4. I wont tell the student the answer to the math problem until he _ on it for more than an hour. A. has been working B. will have worked C. will have been working D. had worked 5. Police are now searching for a woman who is reported to _ since the flood hit the area last Friday. A. have been missing B. have got lost C. be missing D. get lost Porgy Porgy And And BessBess Porgy and Bess 波吉与贝丝 (乞丐与荡妇) start life 起源 put together 创造、建造 production cn.影视作品, 演出或广播节目 Broadway n. 百老汇(纽约市的主要戏院区,位 于百老汇大街及附近一带) put on 上演 The actor put on a fine performance. cast cn. (全体)演员 Afro-American adj. n.美国黑人(的) cowrite vt. 合著 cowriter n.合作者 hit n. 成功、红极一时的人或物 miss n. 失败 deal with 处理, 对付; 论述, 涉及 The man is hard to deal with. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with the problems of traffic in big cities. His latest work deals with the Second World War. rhymes and rhythms 韵律和节奏 Negro n. 黑人 (-es) superstition /su:pstin/ n. 迷信, 盲目恐惧 religious fervour /f:v/ 宗教虔诚, 宗教热诚 misery /mizri/ n. 痛苦, 不幸, 悲惨 high spirits 快乐, 欢欣 Porgy and Bess started life as a novel by Dubose Heyward called Porgy, about the life of African Americans in Charleston. 波吉与贝丝源于杜博斯海沃德关于查尔斯 顿非裔美国人生活的小说波吉。 At first it wasnt easy to put on the production, because it needed an all-black cast at a time when Afro-American actors were banned from performing. 起初，要上演这部作品并不容易。因为它需要 在这样一个美国黑人被禁止演出的年代找一名 纯黑人演员。 Porgy and Bess deals with the rhymes and rhythms of Negro life in America. It combines elements that have never before appeared as melodies. 波吉与贝丝讲述了美国黑人生活的旋律和 节奏。它将以前从没有作为旋律的形式出现的 元素结合在了一起。 It soon became a classic of