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Unit 2 Colours
Reading Ⅱ
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Did you know that colours can _________ our moods Did you know what the different colours _________ For example, blue can help you feel _______. However, it can also mean ________.
Fill in the blanks.
influence
represent
peaceful
sadness
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I prefer warm colours such as orange.
Orange represents _____ and can ___________ if you are feeling sad. Do you like green Green can give you _______; it also represents envy. _____ can help you when you are having _________ making a ________. What is your favourite colour
joy
cheer you up
energy
Red
difficulty
decision
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1. Some people believe that colours can influence our moods.
一些人认为颜色能够影响我们的心情。
influence v.& n. 影响
influence可用作动词,其后接名词或动词不定式的复合结构。
influence可用作名词,常用于have / has an influence on ...或be an influence on ...结构。
e.g. Lu Xun’s works have strongly influenced millions of people.
鲁迅的小说影响了数以万计的人。
Cellphones / The Internet have / has an important influence on our life.
手机/ 互联网对我们的生活影响很大。
请根据汉语意思完成下列英语句子。
1) 老师对学生有很大的影响。
Teachers _________ a great ___________ students.
2) 受父母的影响,李梅成为了一名医生。
Li Mei’s parents __________ her ______ a doctor.
3) 他的成功影响了其他的工人。
His success ______________________.
4) 谁对你的人生有重大影响?
Who _______________________ on your life
have / are
influence on
influenced
to be
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influenced other workers
has an important influence
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2. You may wonder whether it is true.
你可能会想知道这是否正确。
whether conj. 是否;无论;不管
whether it is true 为wonder 的宾语从句;
whether常与or连用,表示一种选择,意为 “是……还是……;不管是……还是……”
e.g. Whether it rains or not makes no difference to me.
下不下雨对我来说都一样。
John doesn’t know whether to go to college or not.
约翰不知道是否应该上大学。
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whether可引导宾语从句,表示“是否”,可与if互换使用。
e.g. I wonder whether I can get some advice from you.
我想知道你是否能给我一些建议。
whether可引导表语从句
e.g. The problem is whether Tom will get good grades in such a short time.
问题是在如此短的时间汤姆能否取得 好成绩。
whether还可引导同位语从句。
e.g. Mrs. Wang has answered the question whether Linda can join the club.
王先生回答了琳达是否能加入俱乐部的问题。
请根据汉语意思写出相应的英语句子。
1. 汤姆不知道是否要留在这儿。
2. 不管你同不同意,我明天都要去北京。
Tom doesn’t know whether to stay here or not.
I’ll go to Beijing tomorrow, whether you agree or not.
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3. This article explains what colours can do and what characteristics they represent. 这篇文章解释了什么颜色能够做什么,以及它们代表什么性格。
句中的what colours can do和what characteristics they represent并列作explain的宾语。
e.g. I don’t know when they will leave for Paris and how they will go there.
我不知道他们什么时候动身去巴黎以及他们怎样去那儿。
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4. Have you ever walked into a room and felt relaxed
你曾经走进一个房间并感到很放松吗?
relaxed adj. 放松的;轻松的;自在的,常用来描述人的感受。
e.g. You look relaxed. 你看起来很放松。
relaxed作形容词,还可意为“宽松的”。
e.g. Do you think your school rules are relaxed 你认为你的校规宽松吗?
relaxing也是形容词,意为“令人放松的;轻松的”,常用来形容事物
的特征。
e.g. The movie is really relaxing. 这电影让人很放松。
根据句意,选用relaxed或relaxing填空。
1. I felt _______ lying in the sun.
2. Sam’s family rules are _______.
3. I think swimming is ________. I like it very much.
relaxed
relaxed
relaxing
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5. It could be because the walls were painted blue.
它是这样是因为墙被刷成了蓝色。
were painted 结构表示句子使用的是“被动语态”。被动语态的结构形式为:be + 动词过去分词。句子的主语通常为动作的承受者,施动者可以在句末由by引出。
e.g. The classroom was cleaned by the students.
教室被学生们打扫干净了。
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6. Blue is a calm colour.
蓝色是一个平静的颜色。
calm adj. 镇静的、沉着的、(天气)无风的、(海洋等) 风平浪静的。
e.g. It was important to keep calm when you were in trouble.
当你处于困境时最重要的是保持冷静。
It was a calm, cloudless day.
今天是个无风的晴朗天。
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calm可作及物动词,使平静,后接名词作宾语。
e.g. She calmed the boy for a while.
她让男孩很快就平静下来。
calm也可作不及物动词,calm down连用构成短语动词,表示“(使)镇定,(使)平静”。
e.g. Calm down, Judy. Everything will be OK.
冷静,朱迪。一切都会好的。
The sea calmed down as soon as the wind stopped.
风一停大海就平静下来了。
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7. Many women like to wear white on their wedding day.
短语on their wedding day 意思是“在她们婚礼那天”。
e.g. Her husband gave her a big surprise on their wedding
day.他们婚礼那天,她丈夫给了她一个大惊喜。
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8. People in cold areas prefer warm colours in their homes to create a warm and comfortable feeling.
1) prefer vt. 宁愿选择;更喜欢,后可
接名词或动词不定式。
e.g. I prefer the white bag.
我更喜欢白书包。
Tony prefers to stay at home on weekends.
托尼更喜欢周末呆在家。
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prefer还可用于句型“prefer ... to ...”中,意为“喜欢……而不喜欢(胜过)……”。
e.g. Linda prefers apples to pears.
与梨相比,琳达更喜欢苹果。
I prefer reading books to watching TV.
我喜欢读书胜于看电视。
根据英文提示,将句子翻译成英语。
我更喜欢住在乡村。
2. 我妈妈更喜欢听古典音乐。
3. 与听音乐相比, Jack更喜欢阅读。
I prefer to live in the countryside.
My mom prefers to listen to classical music.
Jack prefers reading to listening to music.
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2) create vt. 创造、造成、创作
e.g. Some people believe that God created the world.
有些人相信上帝创造了世界。
invent 与create的区别
invent 发明, 指创造出前所未有的东西, 尤其是指科学技术上的发明创造。
e.g. China was the first country to invent paper.
中国是发明纸的第一个国家。
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用所给词的适当形式填空。
1) They stayed up late ________ (watch) football matches on TV last night.
2) He is a bookworm so he prefers ________ (read) books to doing some exercise.
to watch
reading
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9. It can cheer you up when you are feeling sad.
cheer (up) vt. 使振奋、使高兴
vi. 感到振奋、感到高兴
如果其宾语是名词,名词放在cheer和up之间或up之后均可;如果其宾语是代词,代词须放在cheer和up之间。
e.g. When you feel lonely, do you like to have someone to cheer you up
当你孤独的时候,你希望有人使你高兴起来吗?
We should come up with a good idea to cheer Susan up / cheer up Susan.
我们必须想个好主意帮苏珊振作起来。
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10. Yellow is the colour of the sun, so it can remind you of a warm sunny day.
remind vt. 提醒;使想起
remind sb. of ...意为“使某人想起……”。
e.g. The film reminds him of his past life.
这部电影让他想起他过去的生活。
remind sb. to do sth.意为“提醒某人做某事”。
e.g. Please remind me to call my friend before I go out.
请提醒我在我出去时给我朋友打个电话。
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remind sb. that ...意为“提醒某人……;
使某人想起……”。
e.g. Mrs. Brown reminded her son that they still had some people to see.
布朗夫人提醒他儿子他们还有一些人要见。
That reminds me that I have another important thing to do this evening.
那让我想起,我今晚还有另外一件重要的事要做。
根据汉语意思完成英语句子。
1) 这则感人的故事让他想起了他的父母。
The moving story ________ him ___ his parents.
2) 当我们回来时,请提醒我买些蔬菜。
Please _______ me ______ some vegetables when we come back.
3) 我必须提醒他时间就是金钱。
I must ______________ time is money.
reminds
of
remind to buy
remind him that
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11. However, it is also the colour of envy...
envy n. 嫉妒、羡慕
the envy意思为“令人羡慕的人或东西”, 后面常跟of连用。
e.g. His new house was the envy of all his friends.
他的新居成了所有朋友羡慕的对象。
green with envy 妒忌的,眼红的
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12. If you require strength in either body or mind, red may be of some help to you.
be of some help 意为“有帮助的”,相当于helpful。
“(be)+of+名词”结构中的名词是抽象名词时,相当于其中名词所对应的形容词的意思,说明被修饰词具有某种特征或属性。
e.g. I don’t want to hear what you are saying. It is of no interest to me.
(of no interest=not interesting)
我不想听你说,我对此不感兴趣。
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13. Wearing red can also make it easier to take action.
句中的wearing red是动词-ing形式,用作主语。it为形式宾语,指代真正的宾语to take action, easier是宾语补足语。
e.g. Speaking loudly can make it
easier to listen carefully.
大声讲话能使人更容易听清。
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14. This may help when you are having difficulty making a decision.
当你犹豫不决的时候,红色可以有助于你做决定。
1) difficulty n. 困难;费力,由形容词difficult派生而来。difficulty表示做一件事的困难程度时,常作不可数名词,前可用some,no等词修饰。
have difficulty (in) doing sth.意为“做某事有困难”,其中介词in可以省略;当difficulty表示具体的困难、难处、难点时,作可数名词。
e.g. I have great difficulty with English grammar.
我对英语语法学习有很大的困难。
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2) decision作名词,由动词decide派生而来,意为“决定”。decision通常作可数名词,可与make,take,reach,come to等连用构成短语,意为“作出决定”。
e.g. He has made / taken a decision to solve the problem by
himself. 他做出一个决定,由他自己来解决问题。
It takes us some weeks to reach a decision.
做这个决定花费了我们几周的时间。
I am willing to wait until you have come to a decision.
我很乐意等待直到你能做出决定。
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单项填空
1. Now more and more people prefer _____ to _____ in order to reduce the air pollution.
A. to walk, driving
B. walking, drive
C. walking, driving
D. to walk, drive
C
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2. When Daniel is in a bad mood he likes wearing orange to _____.
A. wake himself up
B. cheer himself up
C. give himself up
D. pick himself up
3. Jane’ s mother preferred _____ TV at home to _____ to the concert.
A. to watch; go
B. watching; going
C. watching; go
D. to watch; going
B
B
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1. 这本书总能让我想起小时候。
This book always _____________ my childhood.
2. 绿色代表新生命,但也是嫉妒的颜色。
Green _________ new life but it is also _______________.
3. 西蒙在与新同学友好相处方面有困难。
Simon ___________________ well with his new friends.
reminds me of
represents
the colour of envy
has difficulty getting
完成句子
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根据句意及首字母写单词。
1. When I saw the old picture, it r______ me of my childhood.
2. Once you make a d______, you’ d better not change it easily.
3. Taking a walk in the park with your family may help you feel r______.
eminds
ecision
elaxed
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用所给词的适当形式填空。
1. We all had a fantastic time on Sandy’ s ________ (wed) day.
2. White represents ______ (pure) and it can make you feel calm and peaceful.
3. Many students have difficulties _______ (learn) English ,especially the grammar.
wedding
purity
learning
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5. They finally ________ (decision) to watch a film at the weekend.
6. Although they have much time, but they don’t have enough money _________ (travel).
7. Animals have the same _______ (feel) as humans.
decided
to travel
feelings
Retell the article.
Recite the language points in this article.
Finish off the exercises in workbook.
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