2022届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：英国文化话题.docxVIP

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高三英语培优外刊阅读

外刊精选｜英国女王思退，查尔斯王子终于要熬出头了？

近日，英国王室很不太平，安德鲁王子的丑闻掀起一系列风波，甚至让女王对王室的管理遭到质疑。而在此次危机善后过程中，现年71岁的王储查尔斯王子尽显“准国王”风范，引来外界对于女王传位之声的纷纷猜测。查尔斯王子在这一危机化解中扮演了什么角色？英国王室可能面临怎样的变革？

InPrinceAndrewScandal,PrinceCharlesEmergesasMonarch-in-Waiting

ByMarkLandler

①WhenQueenElizabethIIwelcomesPresidentTrumpandotherworldleaderstoBuckinghamPalaceonTuesdaytomarkthe70thanniversaryofNATO,itwillbeanothertestamenttoherextraordinarylongevity:Sheaccededtothethroneonlythreeyearsafterthealliancewasformed.

②YetitwillalsoshowcasetheHouseofWindsoratawistfulturningpoint,withthe93-year-oldqueenfadingintohistoryasher71-year-oldsonandheir,PrinceCharles,movesaggressivelytoasserthiscontrol,mostconspicuouslyintryingtomopuptherecentscandalthatengulfedhisyoungerbrotherPrinceAndrew.

③Thefiercebacklashhasthrownaharshspotlightonthequeen’smanagementoftheFirm,asinsidersoftenrefertotheroyalfamily.Moresignificantly,ithasalsodramatizedhowPrinceCharleshaseffectivelyassumedtheroleofmonarch-in-waitingashecalledhismotherfromNewZealandtopresshertostriphisbrotherofhispublicduties.

④PrinceCharleshaslongpushedforamorestreamlinedroyalfamily,withfewermemberscarryingoutofficialduties,drawingfromthepublicpurse,orgeneratingdamagingpublicity.ButthePrinceAndrewdebacleisthemostvisiblesignyetthattheshifthasbeguntohappen.

【词汇过关】

请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。

1.scandal[?sk?nd?l]n.________________________

2.emerge[??m??d?]vi.________________________

3.Monarch-in-Waiting________________________

4.mark[mɑ?k]vt.________________________

5.anniversary[??n??v??s?ri]n.________________________

6.NATOabbr.________________________

7.testament[?test?m?nt]n.________________________

8.extraordinary[?k?str??d?n?ri]adj.________________________

9.longevity[l?n?d?ev?ti]n._________