音乐学校帮助孤独症学生

山东 孙启禄

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.➢

语篇解码

本文是一篇记叙文，主题语境是音乐。北京的一所音乐学校通过教授患有孤独症的学生音乐来帮助他们，希望音乐可以成为这些人的启明星，能为这些人搭起一座通往他人内心的桥梁。

语言学习

Ⅰ.语料荟萃

语篇单词重要短语disability n.残疾；障碍 support n.支持disorder n.混乱；紊乱 restriction n.限制offer n.提供 keyboard n.琴键；键盘socialize vt.交往；社交 expert n.专家educational adj.教育的 frustrated adj.沮丧的eventually adv.最终 language n.语言grow up 长大 social skills 社交技巧make friends 交朋友 bring...to 带……去……play the keyboards 弹电子琴 take care of 照顾make progress 取得进步 millions of 数百万have trouble doing 做……有困难 make a living 谋生_____________communicate with 与……交流 to some degree 在某种程度上

Ⅱ.语句分析

1.Autism is a developmental disability that makes it hard for some people to talk with others or learn social skills.孤独症是一种发育障碍，它使一些人难以与他人交谈或学习社交技能。

【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句。Autism is a developmental disability 是主句，that makes it hard...social skills是that引导的限制性定语从句，其中it是形式宾语，hard是形容词作宾语补足语，to talk with others or learn social skills 是真正的主语，此处是“make+it+adj.+to do”的结构。

2.She also said her son would not have any people to socialize with if it were not for the music school.她还说，如果不是这所音乐学校，她的儿子就没有可以交往的人了。

【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句。She also said 是主句，her son would not have...socialize with 是省略了that 的宾语从句，if 引导的是非真实条件句，表示与现在事实相反的假设。

语言运用

Ⅰ.例句仿写

1.使他难以适应国外新环境的是文化，而不是语言。

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

2.如果他找不到离开森林的路，那（他）就几乎没有生还的机会了。

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

Ⅱ.写作实践

假定你是李华，请你以“Music and life”为题，用英语写一篇短文，要点如下：

1.音乐是我们生活的一部分；

2.音乐的功能；

3.我对音乐的感觉。

注意：

1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Music and life

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