Words and Expressions
1. last： to be enough for someone for a period of time
The food can last me for a week.
这些食物够我熬过这周了。
2. prove: be (系动词）
If someone or something proves difficult, helpful, a problem etc, thay are difficult, helpful, a problem etc.
It proves to be a dog. = It is a dog.
3. fall to pieces: 散成碎片
fall victim to ...: 成为...的受害者
fall apart: 瓦解
relationship fall apart
4. operation: surgery
The doctor performed /carried out an operation. 主要是指医生做了个手术。而不是被做手术
The surgeon who performed the operation.
have a operation: 被做了一个手术
undergo: experience or endure ( sth unpleasant or painful); be subject to ( a process, etc)
Some children undergo a complete transformation when they become teenagers.
He underwent major surgery last year.
minor/small operation: 小手术 major operation：大手术
come through/survive the operation
She came through the operation very well.
5. terminal disease: 致命的疾病 incurable disease: 不治之症 fatal disease: 重大疾病，致命疾病
pronunciation
1. 第一句里的who要弱读，who died in要连在一起读，which, what, when 等都是一样的读法，需要跟后面的词连读轻读
2. of: [∂v ] 重音在前面，有时v会省略
3. singer读法听原音，n不读出来
Summary
Doctors operated a mummy who was an Egyptian woman, died in 800 B.C. She proved to be an Shepenmut mummy and a singer in the Temple of Thebes. Doctors perfomed this operation in order to find out whether this woman was died of a rare disease. After removing a section from the mummy and sending it to laboratory, Unexpectedly, a small wax figure of the god Duamutef was found inside the mummy . Though, they still had no idea why the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces. But she successfully came through the operation.
