[译林湖南版创新设计]2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练

【译林湖南版创新设计】2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练

Module 2

Unit 3 Amazing people

Ⅰ.填词

Do you ever imagine yourself on a quest(追寻)to unlock the secrets of civilization？If you do，Dan Brown’s new novel，The Lost Symbol，may be just the ticket.The novel is the third in Brown’s hugely popular adventure series.It follows Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

In Angels and Demons，Professor Robert Langdon races through Rome，saving the city from an explosion(爆炸)．In The Da Vinci Code，he solves a mysterious death in Paris and uncovers religious(宗教的)secrets that rock Christianity(基督教)．

In the new book Langdon is invited to Washington DC，the US capital，to give a lecture，following an invitation by a friend.He arrives to find the lecture has been cancelled(取消)．

There may be no audience but our hero does find a strange object，a severed(断开的)hand patterned with strange symbols pointing to a picture of George Washington，America’s first ngdon sees it as invitation to mysterious knowledge.

But the path to this knowledge is a difficult ngdon has to deal with soldiers who trail(跟踪)after him and the kidnapping(绑架)of a close friend.

Fans of Dan Brown’s writing will not be able to wait to get their hands on this latest of his books.It’s another exercise in the formula(模式)that proved so successful in The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

According to Monica Hesse，reporter with the Washington Post，Dan Brown’s greatest achievement is “the outsize(非常大的)impact his novels have had on the cities in which they’re set”．

Just ask Colin Glynne-Percy，director of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust，the Scottish church from The Da Vinci Code，where Langdon believed he could find the Holy Grail(圣杯)．

“Before the book came out，we had about 40,000 visitors a year，”Glynne-Percy says.“It went to 80,000.Then to 120,000.Then to 175,000.”The church has put in bathrooms and taken on staff to deal with the demand.