1、,Unit 33,A Day to Remember,第1页,1,New Words and Expressions,2,Passage Reading,3,Multiple Choice Questions,Content,第2页,New Words and Expressions,Word List,prelude n.,序幕,前奏,unforeseen adj.,意料之外,series n.,系列,catastrophe n.,大祸,灾难,crockery n.,陶器,瓦器,suburb n.,郊区,collide v.,猛撞,learner n.,初学者,第3页,New Words a
2、nd Expressions,Word List,panic n.,惊慌,恐慌,windscreen n.,(汽车)挡风玻璃,alongside prep.,在,旁边,与,并排,slide(slid,slid)v.,滑,stray adj.,迷失,离群,confusion n.,混乱,greedily adv.,贪婪地,devour v.,狼吞虎咽地吃,第4页,New Words and Expressions,n.,序幕,前奏,prelude,与介词,to,搭配,表示“前奏”,e.g.,a prelude to serious trouble,麻烦事前奏,prelude,近义词:,intro
3、duction,n.,导言,绪论,(连,to,),preface,序,序言(连,to,),foreword,n.,序,(连,to,),第5页,New Words and Expressions,a.,意料之外,同根词:,foresee v.,预见,预知,foreseeable a.,可预见,近义词辨析:,foretell v.,(普通用词,),预言,(主语可用人和物),predict v.,预言,预示,(语气比,foretell,强,主语是人),e.g.He predicts that it would happen in ten years.,forecastv.,预测,预报,e.g.Tim
4、ely snow foretells bumper harvest.,瑞雪兆丰年。,unforeseen,第6页,New Words and Expressions,n.,系列,(,单复同形),常见搭配,:,a series of,e.g.,We,ve got,a series of,good harvest.,我们取得了一连串大丰收。,series,第7页,New Words and Expressions,n.,系列,(,单复同形),近义词辨析:,chainn.,连串,连锁,succession n.,侧重指时间次序,强调时间连续没有间隔开,string n.,连续不停相同事件,a cha
5、in of,一系列,a chain of reaction a series of reaction,chain store,连锁店,chain reaction,连锁反应,chain smoker,吸烟很严重人,series,a succession of failures,一系列失败,We,ve got a succession of successes.,我们取得了一次又一次成功。,a string of cars,一连串汽车,train,一个接一个发生事,a train of thoughts/ideas,一个个想法,第8页,New Words and Expressions,n.,大
6、祸,灾难,解释:,这个词强调严重,涉及范围广灾难,e.g.,worldwide,世界范围,national,涉及全国灾难,近义词辨析:,disastern.,灾难,不幸,(比,catastrophe,弱多,说明灾难不幸程度是能够忽略),calamity,n.,灾害,不幸事件,(指令人痛心,个人或社会损失,往往指产生持久广泛 忧伤痛苦),nature calamity,自然灾害,catastrophe,第9页,New Words and Expressions,n.,惊慌,恐慌,Meaning:,uncontrollable quickly spreading fear or terror,近义
7、词:,terror n.,惊骇,horror n.,恐惧,frightn.,害怕,alarmn.,惊慌,惯用短语:,get into a panic,陷入惊慌之中,e.g.He suddenly got into a panic and stopped his car.,be seized/struck with panic,惊慌失措,e.g.He was seized with panic.,他突然地感到惊慌失措。,panic,第10页,New Words and Expressions,迷失,vi.,迷失,adj.=lost,v.,(通常与介词,from,连用),e.g.,The dog
8、strayed from home.,stray,第11页,New Words and Expressions,n.,混乱,Meaning,:,condition out of order,固定短语:,in confusion,乱七八糟,fall into confusion,陷入混乱状态,be covered with confusion,局促不安,throw sb.into confusion,使某人惊慌失措,confusion,第12页,New Words and Expressions,v.,狼吞虎咽地吃,Meaning:,eat like an animal,狼吞虎咽,destroy
9、,吞灭,席卷,take in eagerly with eyes,ears,or mind,贪婪地看、听,e.g.,The dog devours the cake.,The flame devours the whole building.,火把整幢楼都吞没了,。,His eyes devoured the scene.,他两眼贪婪看着这漂亮风,devour,第13页,Passage Reading,Listen to the tape then answer the question below.,What incident began the series of traffic acci
10、dents?,第14页,We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.A day may begin well enough,but suddenly everything seems to,get out of control,.,What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.It is as if a single unimportant event,set up
11、 a chain,Passage Reading,第15页,of reactions,.,Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.,The telephone rings and this,marks the prelude to,an unforeseen series of catastrophes.,While you are on the phone,the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table,sm
12、ashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the,Passage Reading,第16页,process.You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby,crockery,etc.Meanwhile,the meal gets burnt.,As if this were not enough to,reduce you to tears,your husband arrives,unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.,Passage Rea
13、ding,第17页,Things can go wrong,on a big scale,as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta,a suburb of Sydney.,During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.The woman immediately behind the two cars,happened to,be a learner.She suddenly got into a panic
14、 and stopped her car.,Passage Reading,第18页,This made the driver following her brake hard.His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake.As she was thrown forward,the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road.,Seeing a cake,flying through the air,a lorry driver who was drawi
15、ng up alongside the car,pulled up,all of a sudden.,The lorry,Passage Reading,第19页,was loaded with,empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road.This led to yet another angry argument.Meanwhile,the traffic piled up behind,.It took the police nearly an hou
16、r to,get,the traffic,on the move,again.In the meantime,the lorry driver had,Passage Reading,第20页,to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.,Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion,for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake.,It was just one of those days!,Passage Reading,第21页,We
17、have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.,我们都曾经历过诸事不利日子。,when,引导定语从句修饰,days,Every dog has its day.,每个人都有飞黄腾达日子。,Passage Reading,第22页,A day may begin well enough,but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.,有时一天开始时可能还算顺利,不过突然间一切似乎都不可收拾了。,out of control,=uncontrollable=beyond contr
18、ol,失控,Passage Reading,第23页,What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.,事情总是这么发生:很多事情偏偏在同一时间出乱子。,由,what,引导主语从句。,invariably=always,What happened yesterday was that he couldnt deal with the,hot potato,.,昨天发生事就是他没 能应付这个棘手人。,precisely=exactly,
19、Passage Reading,第24页,It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.,似乎一件小事情就会造成一连串连锁反应。,a chain of reactions=a series of reactions,it is as if,似乎看起来,it seems as if,似乎看起来,it looks as if,似乎看起来,set up=cause,引发,造成,造成,What set up the accident/trouble?,set up,(,=create,),创建,建立,set up
20、a world record,创建一个世界统计,Passage Reading,第25页,Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.,让我们假定你正在烧饭,同时又照看着孩子。,keep an eye on the baby,照料孩子,(=look after=take care of),e.g.,Please keep an eye on my house while I am out.,Passage Reading,第26页,惯用短语:,keep
21、one,s eyes open,睁大眼睛,e.g.When I am out,please keep your eyes open.,have an eye to,着眼于,注意到,心中有,(假如用动词,have,就一定要跟介词,to,搭配),e.Have an eye to the main chance,唯利是图,eye for eye,以牙还牙,报复,have eyes only for,只要,只爱,e.g.I have eyes only for you.,look sb.in the eyes,两眼直视某人,e.g.Dont look me in the eyes.,不要直直地盯着我看
22、。,Passage Reading,第27页,惯用短语:,see/be eye to eye with sb.,与某人看法完全一致,e.g.Im invariably eye to eye with my sister.,我总是与我姐姐看法一致。,turn a blind eye to sth.,对视而不见,e.g.He even turns a blind eye to me.,make eyes at sb.,含情脉脉地看着某人,眉目传情,暗送秋波,e.g.The boy is making eyes at his girlfriend.,Passage Reading,第28页,Whil
23、e you are on the phone,the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table,smashing,half your best crockery,and cutting himself in the process.,当你在接电话时,小孩把台布拉了下来,把最好陶器打坏了二分之一,同时手又被割破了。,on the phone=answer the phone,注意与介词,off,搭配动词词组意思:,pull off,拉下来,pick off,取下来,knock off,碰落下来,in the process,在这个过程中,Passage R
24、eading,第29页,You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby,crockery,etc.,你连忙挂上电话,去照料孩子,收拾陶器等等。,hang up=put on the receiver,挂断电话,attend to=look after=deal with,照料,处理,e.g.,Please attend to my baby.,请照料我孩子。,Excuse me,I have something urgent to attend to.,请原谅,我有一件急事要处理。,Passage Reading,hang up=put on the rece
25、iver,挂断电话,attend to=look after=deal with,照料,处理,Please attend to my baby.,请照料我孩子。,Excuse me,I have something urgent to attend to.,请原谅,我有一件急事要处理。,第30页,As if this were not enough to,reduce,you,to,tears,your husband arrives,unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.,似乎这一切还不足以使你气恼得流泪,你丈夫回来了,出乎意料地带着三个客
26、人来吃饭。,Passage Reading,第31页,重点句型,虚拟语气。,reduce you to tears,迫使你流下眼泪,e.g.,You almost reduce me to tears.,你快要让我流下眼泪来了。,His comforting words almost reduced his wife to tears.,他抚慰话语让他妻子几乎掉下了眼泪。,His answer almost reduced me to silence.,他回答几乎让我缄默了。,The bomb reduced the city to ruins.,这枚炸弹将这个城市化为废墟。,Passage
27、Reading,第32页,We can draw a conclusion:Everything seems to get out of control suddenly and a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely at the moment.,Troubles never come single.,祸不单行。,Passage Reading,第33页,Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Par
28、ramatta,a suburb of Sydney.,正如许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕兰马塔见到那样,搞糟时期功效可能规模很大。,on a big scale=to a great degree=to great extent,as,引导非限定性定语从句,as we know,众所周知,As we know,the earth is round.,As Brane pointed out,giving up smoking is the easiest thing to do in the world.,As the headmaster mentioned,one is never too ol
29、d to learn.,正如这位校长所提及,活到老,学 到老。,Passage Reading,第34页,as,,,which,都能够引导非限定性定语从句。,区分:,as,重点突出整个句子含义,;,which,有可能指代主句当中某个词含义,也有可能指代整个句子含义。,as,引导非限定性定语从句,能够用于主句之前,,as,和主句之间要有一个逗号分隔开来。,As we expected,John was admitted to the university.,正如我们所预料,,John,被这所大学入取了。,Passage Reading,第35页,As,引导非限定性定语从句,也能够用在主句之后,这
30、时就相当于,which.,e.g.,She married him,which was unexpected.,=She married him as was unexpected.,Passage Reading,第36页,不过在,as,所引导非限定性定语从句中,假如利用是被动语态结构,被动词能够省略。,She married him as unexpected.,(,was,省略),The material is elastic as shown in the figure.,如图显示,这种材料是富有弹性。,Passage Reading,第37页,在这种情况下,,shown,之前省略了谓
31、语动词,这时就不能把,as,换成,which.,假如要用,which,则要补上谓语动词。,e.g.,The material is elastic,which is shown in the figure.,Passage Reading,第38页,During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.,一天晚上,车辆最拥挤时候,两辆车相撞了。两位开车人争论起来。,during the rush hour,上下班高峰期,Passage Reading,第39页,The woman i
32、mmediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner.,紧跟在两辆车后那位女士又恰巧是个初学开车人(实习司机)。,Paraphrase:It happened that the woman behind the two cars was a learner.,happen to,恰巧,e.g.I happen to hear the news.,我恰巧听说了这个消息。,It happened that I heard about it the day before yesterday.,很凑巧,我是昨天听说这个事。,Passage Re
33、ading,第40页,This made the driver following her brake hard.,这使得她后面司机紧急刹车。,following her,现在分词,短语,作定语,,,修饰,driver,Passage Reading,第41页,As she was thrown forward,the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road.,当她因为惯性向前一冲时候,蛋糕被甩出了挡风玻璃,落到马路上。,副词,right,作状语,相当于,straight,Passage Reading,第42
34、页,Seeing a cake flying through the air,a lorry-driver who was drawing up alongside the car,pulled up all of a sudden.,一个货车司机正在超车上来,看到一块蛋糕从空中擦过,于是他把车刹住。,Passage Reading,第43页,draw up,v.,确定;起草;停住;画出,e.g.He drew up a brief for his speech.,他起草了一份讲话摘要。,We saw a truck drawing up to our building.,我们看 到一辆卡车开
35、到我们楼前停住。,pull up,v.,停车,拔起,e.g.The driver pulled up at the traffic lights.,司机在红绿灯前把车停住。,all of sudden,=suddenly,Passage Reading,第44页,The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road.,这辆货车满载着空啤酒瓶,几百只瓶子从车子后面滑到了地上。,be loaded with=be fi
36、lled with,slide off v.,从,.,滑落下来,vehicle,这里指是,truck,,,lorry,Passage Reading,第45页,This led to yet another angry argument.,这又造成了另外一次激烈争吵。,lead to=cause,造成,Passage Reading,第46页,Meanwhile,the traffic piled up behind.,同时后面车辆全停下了,堵塞了交通。,meanwhile,=at the same time,=at the same moment,=in the meantime,与此同时,
37、Passage Reading,pile up:,堆积;积累,e.g.,He piled up fallen leaves in a corner of the yard.,他把落叶堆积在院子一角。,第47页,It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again.,警察花了近一个小时才使交通重新通畅。,get the traffic on the move,:,使得车辆开动起来,on the move=move from place to place,在移动之中(介词,on,和名词搭配表示处于某种状态或者某
38、种动作正在进行之中),Passage Reading,第48页,More Examples:,on the rise,正在上升,on the boil,正在沸腾,on the go,正在忙碌中,on the watch,正在监视中,on the turn,正在转变中,on the run,正在逃跑中,on the fly,正在飞行中,on the increase,正在增加,on the decrease,正在降低,Passage Reading,第49页,Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion,for they greedi
39、ly devoured what was left of the cake.,只有两条野狗从一片混乱中得到好处,因为他们贪婪地吞噬了剩下蛋糕。,benefit from,从得益,You can benefit a lot from your reading.,Passage Reading,第50页,省略,as,虚拟条件句,As there had been a more experienced driver behind the two cars.,假如在这两辆车后面是一位 有经验司机,that is,是定语从句修饰,event a single unimportant event that
40、 is of no importance,是修饰,event,,而,set up,是整个句子谓语部分,2,正确答案:,B,1,正确答案:,C,Multiple choice questions,3,正确答案:,A,4,正确答案:,B,第51页,经典现在分词做状语。为了使现在分词做状语比较明确,能够在现在分词前面加上,while,假如介词短语提前到句子前面,那么句子必须采取倒装形式,6,正确答案:,A,5,正确答案:,D,Multiple choice questions,7,正确答案:,A,8,正确答案:,C,spending(time)doing sth.,第52页,and,连接前后两个词相
41、呼应,slid over,躲过,e.g.He slid over the question without answering it.,slip off,滑落,10,正确答案:,B,9,正确答案:,C,Multiple choice questions,11,正确答案:,A,12,正确答案:,D,get into a panic,陷入慌乱之中,in panic,在恐慌(惧)中,in terror,在恐慌(惧)中,in fear,在恐慌(惧)中,in horror,在恐慌(惧)中,remain,表示所剩下部分,除此以外也表示遗体,遗址。,C,选项,leftover,通常采取复数形式,leftovers,,表示吃剩东西。,The leftovers of the meal were fed to the dog.,第53页,Thank You!,第54页,