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1.反复听，听懂2把每一篇的英文都翻译成中文（里面提供了中文翻译），对照译文看自己翻译得怎样。3.反复读，背诵课文，两天背一课，应该不算高要求哦。4.把自己的翻译的中文翻译成英文，修正自己的拼写错误和各种语法毛病和词汇错误。5.默写课文，一周默写三课，周日复习三课。6.掌握所有的核心词汇和短语，并灵活运用，把佳句用到作文中。文本内蓝色字体是考研高频词汇。紫色字体的词组是大纲词组Lesson 24? A skeleton in the cupboard? “家丑” We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called ‘a skeleton in the cupboard’. At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. The readers hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands. It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction. To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very proud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories. I once spent an uncomfortable weekend which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was rarely used. He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner. After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard. I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified. A skeleton was dangling before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door made it sway slightly and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me. Dropping my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George. This was worse than ‘a terrible secret’; this was a real skeleton! But George was uns