Unit 6 Famous Singers
Skill Training
Practice 1
1.(a)It has sold more than 108 million copies worldwide.(
b)The album set a record six top ten singles and spent a record breaking 37 weeks at number one.
(c)It remains the best selling album of all time.
2.(a)First,he popularized a number of physically complicated dance skills,such as the robot and the moonwalk.His dance is imitated by a lot of people.
(b)Second,he created a modern MV(Thriller),which was the first modern music video in the world.
(c)Third,he was the first musician in the history of United States to sell over 100 million singles and albums outside the U.S.
(d)Last but not least,he was a philanthropist and devoted most to charity as an artist.
3.(a)No other performer in history has generated the massive sales that he has.
(b)No other performer in history has received as many awards and accolades as he has.
(c)No other performer in history draws the kind of excitement and mass hysteria that he does.
(d)No other performer in history has done so much in the way of humanitarian efforts than he has.
Practice 2
(a)-3;(b)-1;(c)-4;(d)-2.
Practice 3
1.F 2.T 3.T 4.F 5.T 6.F 7.F
Reading in Depth
1)deeply 2)imagined 3)hands 4)rise 5)flourish
6)spirit 7)courage 8)land 9)tears 10)overwhelming
Pre-reading
Exercise 1
1-b;2-d;3-c;4-a.
Exercise 2
1.She was the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S.Billboard Hot 100 chart.
2.“ One Sweet Day” spent a record sixteen weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100,and it remains the longest-running number-one song in U.S.
3.She was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States.
4.She was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards.
5.She is the third best-selling female artist and sixteenth overall recording artist with shipments of over 62.5 million albums in U.S.
6.She has the most number-one singles for a solo artist in the United States.
7.In 2008,Billboard magazine ranked her at number six on “The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists”,marking Carey as the second most successful female artist,in the history of Billboard Hot 100 chart.
8.Carey has won five Grammy Awards,19 World Music Awards,11 American Music Awards,and 14 Billboard Music Awards.
Re-reading
Exercise 1
1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.T
Exercise 2
1.D 2.C 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.D 7.B
Exercise 3
1.Because of her miserable childhood,she knows better about those needy kids.
2.Carey began to deviate from her R&B and pop beginnings and slowly traversed into hip-hop.
3.In this passage,“solo” indicates that someone sing alone rather than with other people;a “duet” is a piece of music sung or played by two people.
4.Five Grammy Awards,19 World Music Awards,11 American Music Awards,and 14 Billboard Music Awards.
Reading the News
Exercise
1.C 2.B 3.A