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.