1、Lesson 5The facts第1页New wordseditor n.编辑 extreme n.极端statistics n.统计数字 journalist n.记者president n.总统 palace n.王宫publish v.出版 fax n.传真impatient adj.不耐烦 fire v.辞退originally adv.起初 magazine n.杂志instruct v.指导,通知,命令 exact adj.确切republic n.共和国 obtain v.取得,取得reluctant adj.不情愿 prison n.监狱第2页1.Editors of new
2、spapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics.go to extremes 走极端走极端provide=supply 给.提供.常与介词搭配用provide sb with sth/provide sth for sb 给某人给某人.例句:He provided them with a bed for the night.=He provided a bed for them for the nightProvide against
3、 sth.防范发生某事防范发生某事例句:The government has to provide against a possible oil shortage in the coming months第3页2.Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the presidents palace in a new African republic.instruct v.教诲,命令,指示instruct sb to do sth=tell sb to do
4、 sth 正式告诉某人做某事例句:The teacher instructed him to take the exam.on=about 关于例子:a book on musci第4页3.The article began:Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the presidents palace.The article says/begins/reads/as follows.这篇文章称.例句:The article says Chinas reform is benefiting the country an
5、d others.数字一些表示方法:tens of 几十dozens of几十tens of thousands of 数万tens of millions of 数千万hundreds of millions of 数亿thousands upon thousands people 成百上千人第5页lead to 通向,造成例句:This is the road leading to the universtiy.surround v.围绕,围绕例句:She was surrounded by reporters.她被记者包围住了第6页4.The journalist immediately
6、 set out to obtain these important facts,but he took a long time to send them.set out to do=decide and try to do 决定,打算,着手做.=set about doing 决定,打算,着手做.例句:He set out to make his first 1,000,000 in 5 years.take sb a long time to do sth.某事花了某人很久时间例句:It took me five days to write the article.第7页5.He sent
7、 yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.yet another 还有一个,再例句:Ive made yet another mistake.inform sb that.通知,告诉inform sb of sth 告诉某人某事例句:Please inform him that he has an exam tomorrow.第8页6.When the journalist again failed to reply,the editor reluctant
8、ly published the article as it had originally been written.fail to do sth 没能做成某事例句:He failed to keep the word.never fail to do sth 总能做到某事be reluctant to do sth=be unwilling to do sth 勉勉强强,不情愿做某事例句:He is reluctant to do his homework.第9页7.Not only had the poor man been arrested,but he had been sent to
9、 prison as well.Not only位于句首,必须采取倒装形式。本句可还原为:The poor man had not only been arrested,but had been sent to prison as well.倒装:(部分倒装)情况:1以下否定副词位于句首否定副词位于句首,要倒装要倒装。never,seldom,rarely,little,hardly,scarcely(几乎不,简直没有)例句:Never have I read such stories.我从来也没读过这么小说。Hardly did I think it possible.我并不认为这是可能。第
10、10页2含有含有only状语位于句首状语位于句首,句子要倒装。句子要倒装。例句:Only then did he realize that he had made a mistake.3含有含有not副词短语位于句首副词短语位于句首,句子要倒装。句子要倒装。惯用短语:not for a second 决不,毫不/not in the least 绝不,一点也不 not for an instant 根本不,not until例句:Not in the least is he interested in English literature.他对英国文学一点都不感兴趣。Not for an in
11、stant did I believe he had lied.我根本不认为他说了慌。第11页8.However,he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the presidents palace.be allowed to do sth=be permitted to
12、 do sth 被允许做某事例句:He is allowed to wathc TV from 7 to 8 in the evening.in which中which指代faxwhile和现在分词搭配,做时间状语,表示“正在做某事过程中”while counting=while he was counting第12页Expressionsbe allowed to do sth 被允许做某事fail to do sth 没能做成某事never fail to do sth 总能做到某事yet another 还有一个,再inform sb of sth 告诉某人某事go to extremes 走极端provide sb with sth/provide sth for sb 给某人某物.lead to 通向,造成instruct sb to do sth 正式告诉某人做某事go to press 付印第13页
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