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Josep Maria Carreras

Thought-about to be one of many world's three nice operatic tenors residing at the end of the twentieth century, Josep Carreras (born 1946) waged an excellent battle in opposition to a deadly kind of leukemia to revisit his beloved singing career. He won international acclaim touring with fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo.

Born in Barcelona, Spain, on December 5, 1946, Carreras was the youngest youngster of traffic cop, Josep Carreras-Soler, and hairdresser, Antonia Coll-Saigi. His had not been a really musical household, however Carreras grew to become enthusiastic about opera at only six years of age. His father, an instructor who'd been pressured into police work with the repressive Franco regime, took younger Josep to see The Nice Caruso, a show biography of operatic singer Enrico Caruso starring Mario Lanza. From that second on, there was without doubt in Carreras' thoughts in what he planned to do along with his life. The very next day, Josep's voice stuffed the Carreras household with arias he remembered through the film. In his autobiography, Carreras recalled that his performance of the arias amazed his household, for he "repeated the crooks to perfection," even though he'd never heard them before. His household, impressed at how profoundly Josep have been affected by the movie, arranged for him to consider music lessons.

Enrolled at Conservatory At the age of eight, Carreras enrolled on the Barcelona Conservatory, the place he studied music for the next 3 years. Throughout this identical period he saw his first stay opera, attending a efficiency of Verdi's Aida at Barcelona's Gran Teatro del Liceo. In his autobiography, Carreras mentioned of the expertise: "In everyonerrrs life, there are certain moments that could by no means fade or die. For me that night time was some of those occasions. I will never forget the first time I saw singers over a stage as properly as an orchestra. It was the first time within my life that I might stepped right into a theater, nevertheless the place was as acquainted in my experience as if I had always recognized it. At the time, I could not perceive my feeling. Today I can describe it this way: in the second I crossed the brink, I knew it turned out my world., I knew it turned out the place I belonged." Shortly after trying at his first opera, Carreras made his singing debut in public areas, performing inside a benefit live performance broadcast over Nationwide Radio. When he was 11, he was invited to sing the role of Trujaman in El Retablo de Maese Pedro, an opera published by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. Only 3 years after seeing his first opera with the Gran Teatro del Liceo, he had returned to its stage to create his operatic debut. He performed twice extra in small elements on the Liceo earlier than his altering voice compelled him to quickly decline all offers.

Took Formal Voice Classes Carreras started taking formal voice lessons in 1964. The next year he enrolled in the University of Barcelona, learning chemistry for one more a couple of years. However, he remained interested mainly in pursuing a career in opera. After a yr of voice lessons from Juan Ruax, Carreras dropped his chemistry studies in 1967. His grownup debut in opera started in 1970, when he performed the role of Flavio in Bellini's Norma. The well-known Spanish soprano Monserrat Caballe was favorably impressed with Carreras' performance in Norma that they invited him to appear opposite her in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, performing the role of Gennaro. Beneath the wing of Caballe, who Carreras later described as "like household," the young tenor's operatic career was formally launched. As well as towards the function of Gennaro, Carreras sang the role of Ismael in Nabucco. In 1971, he gained the Verdi Singing Competitors in Parma, Italy, which opened the threshold for the opera homes around the globe for Carreras. That 12 months younger crowd married the previous Mercedes Perez. The couple, who separated in 1992, had kids, Albert and Julia.

Carreras' repertoire eventually grew to include greater than forty operas. Among his extra notable roles are Rodolfo in La Boheme, Don Josep in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera. Notable at conductors with whom he is worked was the late Herbert von Karajan, who called Carreras "my favorite tenor." The 2 labored intently collectively from 1976 till 1989 around of von Karajan's death. It was the conductor who encouraged him to look at on heavier roles, a few of which weren't really fitted to his voice. One such position - Radames in Aida - was debuted in Salzburg in 1979 and was later dropped from his repertoire by Carreras.

Along with appearing in many of the major opera venues worldwide, together with La Scala in Milan, the Staatsoper in Vienna, and additionally the Metropolitan and City Heart in New York, Carreras has recorded extensively. His recordings are actually not limited by operatic performances but embrace popular music, folk songs, and excerpts from zarzuelas, the distinctive light operas of Spain.

Identified with Leukemia Carreras' biggest problem arrived 1987. The singer had felt profoundly fatigued for months, however, if he arrived in Paris to begin out shooting the film model of La Boheme, he felt so nauseated which a good friend drove him with a hospital inside the French capital. Inside 2 days, French medical doctors handed him their devastating diagnosis: acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Doctors gave him simply a 10 % probability of survival. From Paris, he was transferred you will find Barcelona, the place he entered El Clinco Hospital. So standard was the tenor in their native country that Spanish tv broadcast bulletins on his situation three times each day. When it turned out decided how the greatest treatment options for his specific type of leukemia had been out there inside United States, Carreras was transferred for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. In Seattle Carreras underwent painful surgery through which bone marrow was extracted from his hip, cleaned of cancer cells, then reinjected into his body. Fearful that breathing tubes might injury his voice, he insisted that they be given solely partial anesthesia to the operation. The surgical procedure was then weeks of radiation and chemotherapy. To maintain himself through this ordeal, he focused on his first love - the opera. To get over the radiation treatments, although measure time by running via a few of his favorite arias as a part of his head. He later instructed Time reporter Margaret Hornblower: "I would say to myself, 'Solely three more minutes of torture. That is the duration of Celeste Aida.' So I would sing it inside my head better than I'd ever sung it onstage." The ravages of radiation remedies and chemotherapy took their toll on Carreras. He misplaced all his hair, his fingernails dropped off, and his weight fell sharply.

Never Feared Dying Looking again on his battle with cancer, Carreras told Time: "For nine months inside the hospital, I knew I was facing death. But I always noticed a light after the tunnel. Sometimes it was brilliant; typically it was nearly extinguished. However I let you know one thing: I was not afraid to die. I used to be frightened for the kids. But frightened of dying? Never."

Against all odds, Carreras received his fight against leukemia, however he frightened how the lots of of radiation he'd obtained together with hours of nauseating chemotherapy may have damaged his voice beyond repair. All through his months within the hospital, he acquired assist not merely from his followers but in addition from fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Domingo flew to Seattle to dicuss for main hours to his beleaguered countryman by approach of a wall of plastic. Pavarotti sent a telegram that learn in part: "Get well soon. With out you I've no competition!" Interviewed in 1992 by Stereo Assessment, Carreras recalled the worth of his fans' support. "The a big number of letters I received from individuals I didn't know touched me deeply and were basic to my recovery."

In July 1988, Carreras made his comeback within an open-air live performance carried out inside the shadow of Barcelona's Arch of Triumph. More than 150,000 people attended the performance. Usually a modest man, Carreras could not resist telling one interviewer that "Michael Jackson, in the same metropolis, bought solely 90,000." He followed his comeback in Barcelona with live performance appearances in a lot extra than a dozen cities, together with Vienna the location the place the Staatsoper setup a relevant video display to ensure hundreds of fans in the streets who'd been struggling to get tickets might see Carreras perform. Inside the prestigious opera house, Carreras was handed a standing ovation of over an hour. The tenor acquired equally warm receptions in New York Metropolis and London, where followers showered Carreras with flowers throughout 5 ovations. Late in 1988, Carreras established the Worldwide Basis In opposition to Leukemia, the main aim of that's "to help scientific analysis with funding and grants," he informed the Unesco Gazette. "Scientists consider that this best method to fight the sickness is to boost analysis efforts."

In September of 1988, Carreras traveled to Merida within the south of Spain to create his first operatic look since his prognosis with cancer. Interviewed by the television crew earlier than his performance, the tenor stated, "This is often a particular second within my life. It is usually a conquer myself." And Carreras would not disappoint the 1000s of followers who had flocked to Merida to find out him sing the position of Jason in Cherubini's Medea. Although still weak from his months of treatment, he "proved that he was back, prepared to compete once more for the operatic stage," based on Time magazine's assessment of his appearance. Shortly after his look in Merida, Carreras returned to his hometown to premiere a new opera known as Christopher Columbus.

Sang to Benefit Cancer Center Certainly one of Carreras' first American live shows after his recovery was a 1989 profit for Seattle's Hutchinson Most cancers Research Middle, the place he had been successfully treated for leukemia. Perhaps the crowning jewel in Carreras' go again to singing after his illness was his look with Domingo and Pavarotti inside the "Three Tenors" concert of 1990. Staged in an outside area in Rome, the live performance preceded a sport in the World Cup soccer championship and was seen by greater than 800 million fans on tv worldwide. A surprising success, the concert was repeated at the 1994 World Cup Finals in Los Angeles earlier than a dwell viewers of greater than 50,000. An estimated 1.3 billion noticed the concert on tv. Information and videos from the two live shows have offered inside the millions. In subsequent live shows the "Three Tenors" carried out at New Jersey's Giants Stadium, outdoors New York City, inside summer season of 1996, at Detroit's Tiger Stadium in July 1999, and once more in Beijing's Forbidden Metropolis in June 2001.

Carreras' autobiography, Singing in the Soul, which devoted to the singer's battle with cancer, was printed inside the United States in 1991. Though the critiques were combined, it bought properly, racking up sales of about 650,000 copies.

Live shows, such as the "Three Tenors" performances with Domingo and Pavarotti, are seen by Carreras in an effort to bring opera on the masses. Of his mission to win a wider audience for opera, he instructed the Unesco Courier: "Like some other type of artistic expression, music needs an audience. It could basically be decoded and grow accessible whether or not this reaches people - you merely can't love something before you know it." In June of 1994, he joined an Italian opera company in a musical tribute to those who lost their lives within the ethnic combating in the way forward for Bosnia. The live performance, which has been televised, was staged amidst the ruins from the Nationwide Library in warfare-torn Sarajevo. Conductor Zubin Mehta led Carreras, singers through the Italian opera company, and also the Sarajevo symphony orchestra and chorus in Mozart's Requiem Mass.

再次致歉、希望得到理解

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道歉信 Letter of Apology



我们在工作或生活中,，有时难免会犯一些错误,，写封致歉信就显得很有必要。道歉信通常包括以下内容：表示歉意；道歉的原由,；出现差错的原因；提出弥补措施；请求原谅。写道歉信的语言要诚挚，解释的理由要真实，不要显出丝毫的虚情假意。好的道歉信不仅会取得对方的谅解,，还会增进彼此的感情。



写作“三步走”：

表示歉意—>说明具体原因、提出补救办法—>再次致歉、希望得到理解



Tips:

在写作过程中,，尽可能提供比较合理的理由。如果违反生活常识将导致扣分。

在解释完原因后，尽量提供一个合适的补救办法，使行文更加完满。



（1）Directions:

You are invited to a dinner at a friend’s house, but you are not able to attend because of the preparation for a coming examination. Write a letter to your friends to express your apology, explain your reason, and suggest a meeting at another time.

You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.

Do not write the address.



范文：

Dear Anne,

Thank you for your invitation to dinner at your home tomorrow evening. Unfortunately, it is much to my regret that I cannot join you and your family, because I will be fully occupied then for an important exam coming the day after tomorrow. I feel terribly sorry for missing the chance of such a happy get-together, and I hope that all of you enjoy a good time. Is it possible for you and me to have a private meeting afterward? If so, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line about your preferable date. I do long for a pleasant chat with you.

Please allow me to say sorry again.

Regards,

Li Ming



译文：

亲爱的安：

感谢你邀请我于明日晚上与你和你的家人共进午餐,。可是，我非常遗憾地告诉你我无法赴约，因为我将忙于准备后天的一门重要考试。错过了这么一个欢乐的聚会我深感遗憾,，我希望你们能度过一个愉快的时光,。对了，在我考试后我们可以见一面么？如果可以的话请随时给我打电话，我非常期待能和你愉快地聊天。

请允许我再一次致歉。

您真诚的,，

李明



闪光词汇及词组：

occupy: v. 占用，占

get-together: n. 聚会,，联欢会

hesitate: v. 犹豫，踌躇

drop sb. a line: 给某人打一个电话

preferable: adj. 更好的,，更可取的

long for sth: 渴望



万能句型：

Thank you for your invitation to dinner at your home tomorrow evening. Unfortunately, it is much to my regret that I cannot…

I feel terribly sorry for missing the change of…

Is it possible for you and me to have a private meeting afterwards?

If so, please don’t hesitate to drop me a call about your preferable date.

Please allow me to say sorry again.



（2）Directions:

You failed to finish an important task assigned by your professor because of a severe illness. Write a letter to your professor tp express your apology, explain your reason, and suggest a solution to make up the loss.

You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.

Do not write the address.



范文：

Dear Prof. Patent,

I am very sorry to inform you that I did not manage to complete the book report you assigned last week, due to a sudden illness falling upon me a few days ago. For the past few days I have been in hospital with a continuous fever, which has thus prevented me from any academic activity. I hereby submit the doctor’s note.

I would be very much obliged if you could grant me another week for the task, as my health is turning better.

Hope you can understand my situation and accept my apology.

Yours faithfully,

Li Ming



译文：

尊敬的Patent教授：

我非常遗憾地告知您我没有完成您上周布置的读书报告,，因为几天前我突然生病了。过去的几天中我一直持续高烧，住在医院，因此无法进行任何学术活动。随信是医生的诊断书。

如果您能再给一周时间来完成它我将感激不尽，因为现在我的身体正在好转。

希望您能理解我的处境并接受我的道歉。

您真诚的，

李明



闪光词汇及词组：

assign: v. 分配，指派

fall upon sb: 降临到某人身上

continuous: adj. 持续的

prevent sb from sth/doing sth: 使某人不能做某事

hereby: adv. 因此,，据此

submit: v. 提交，递交

obliged: adj. 感激的

grant: v. 同意，准予



万能句型：

I am very sorry to inform you that I did not manage to complete…due to…

I would be very much obliged if you could grant me another week for the task.

Hope you can understand my situation and accept my apology.

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No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world

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今日题目：
There is a real possibility that these animals could be frightened,, ______ a sudden loud noise.
A. being there       B.should there be
C.there was          D. there have been



参考答案是：B
【句意】如果突然出现巨大的噪音,，这些动物真的有可能受到惊吓,。
【难点】该句是一个省略if的倒装的虚拟条件句,，可还原为“if there should be...”,。

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No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world