高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：父母育儿话题.docxVIP

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜喜忧参半：疫情中的新手父母 生娃养娃是人生大事，也绝非易事，疫情期间迎来自己的宝宝更是使困难升级。美国一对夫妇在疫情期间迎来自己的女儿，随后一家三口因为感染新冠病毒而被隔离，没有任何帮助的情况下，他们该如何解决带娃难题？又该如何调整心态？ We Were Promised a Village: A Year in the Life of Pandemic-Baby Parents By Alexandra March On March 7, 2020, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York in the face of rapidly rising Covid-19 cases. Three months and one day later, my daughter was born. I had waited so long to meet her, but when the doctors placed her on my chest and I tilted my head to see her, the mask I was wearing obscured the view of her tiny features. That was the first of many times that the pandemic slipped a veil between our new child and the world. If having a baby puts life in perspective, having a baby during a pandemic sharpens the focus tenfold. The experience has been defined by contradictions: isolation when it takes a village, new life amid death, hope pushing down fear. My husband and I did everything we could to ensure our daughter wouldnt get the virus, but all three of us tested positive and got sick from the virus. Quarantined and without help, wed alternate dragging ourselves out of bed to take care of our baby, holding her close and hoping that we would be among the lucky ones. On the other side of that battle, my anxiety has abated slightly. The pandemic has been a lot of terrible things, but it has also given us the gift of working from home, which has allowed us to see our baby for more of her waking hours and has granted us the unbridled joy of watching her roll over, crawl and work her way up to a first step. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.village [?v?l?d?] n. ____________________________ 2.March [mɑ?t?] n. ____________________________ 3.place [ple?s] v. ____________________________ 4.tilt [t?lt] v.____________________________ 5.obscure [?b?skj??] vt. ____________________________ 6.slip [sl?p] v. __________________________ 7.veil [ve?l] n. ____________________________ 8.perspect