Section C Passage 3

　　A question we often ask others and are also frequently asked by others is “what do you normally do after school or work?” Some commonplace answers are, “well, I go to the gym.” “Um, I just go home and watch TV.” “I meet my friends for dinner.” or “I just go to bed because it's so late and I’m tired.” Unlike any of these typical responses, I’m proud to say that I love to dance salsa after a long and tiring day of work.

　　(22) Salsa is a kind of dancing that evolved in the mid 1970s in New York. (23) My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing. So she enrolled me into a ballet course when I was six. I fell in love with it instantly and continued with ballet dancing for about ten years.

　　(24) Then, I left my native country of New Zealand to start my career as an English teacher, which eventually brought my dancing life to a halt. It wasn’t until I rediscovered salsa in a lovely studio while working in Asia that I renewed my passion for dancing. Since then, I have been trying to attend dancing classes twice a week after work. (25) It’s a great way for me to relieve stress and pressure and dance my way towards feeling energetic and happy again.

　　篇章三在开头部分设置了一个自问自答，即：你课余或工作之余会做什么?并引入了自己的娱乐活动：dance salsa, 接着讲述了自己开始学舞蹈的原因：妈妈生病没精力照看放学到处跑的女主，因此给她报了舞蹈班。

　　22. What does the speaker say about the dance, salsa?

　　有关于salsa的介绍，文中只提了一句：evolved in the mid 1970s in New York，evolve在这里表示“发展、形容”的含义，本题可能会在动词或时间的位置做个同义转换。

　　23. Why did the speakers’ mother enroll her in a ballet course?

　　第23题与第20题很相像，都是先说不是……，而是……，估计本题也是会在“我想学习舞蹈”和“妈妈生病无暇照看我”之间做个有迷惑性的陷阱题目。

　　24. When did the speaker’s dancing life come to a halt?

　　第24题比较难，因为并没有时间词或转折词作为线索，并且先说start my career as an English teacher，然后才说这叫停了我的舞蹈生涯。不过本句话难度不高，大部分同学可以听懂。

　　25. In what way has salsa dancing benefited the speaker?

　　关于salsa的好处，文中提及了两条：一个是relieve stress and pressure缓解压力，一个是feeling energetic and happy again重新感到活力和快乐，应该会设置二者中的一个作为答案。

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