(共20张PPT)
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Discover useful structure
Unit 1 Science Fiction
To review the passive voice
Presentation
The introduction of the passive voice:
语态用来表示主语与谓语之间的关系
主动语态表示主语是动作的执行者
被动语态表示主语是动作的承受者
什么时候常用被动语态
不知道动作的执行者
强调动作的承受者
没必要指出动作的执行者
Presentation
Scan the reading text and underline all the verbs in the passive voice. Then discuss with a partner why the passive voice is used.
It was going to be tested out by Larry’s wife, Claire. (para 1)
… but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn’t harm her or allow her to be harmed. (para 2)
Now she was being looked after by a robot that looked so human, and it was disturbing. (para 3)
… she was being offered sympathy by a robot, … (para 4)
As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, … (para 6)
So she rang Tony and told him she was being treated badly. (para 6)
How awful to be discovered by her, Claire thought. (para 6)
… , which was being completely transformed, would be ready. (para 7)
Presentation
The basic composition of the passive voice
一般时 进行时 完成时
现在时
过去时
将来时
am / is / are done
am / is / are being done
was / were done
shall / will be done
was / were being done
had been done
shall / will
have been done
has / have been done
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
特殊结构的被动形式
(1) 双宾动词的被动结构
例:He gave her some money.
She was given some money.
Some money was given to her.
带有双宾语的主动句,变被动句时,一般把“人”提前作主语;将“物”提前则要在“人”的前面加 to 或 for。
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
(2) 带复合宾语的动词的被动结构
例:His father called him Jack.
He was called Jack by his father.
带复合宾语的动词变被动语态时, 一般将主动结构中的宾语变为被动结构中的主语, 而将宾语补足语保留不动(这时的宾语补足语为主语补足语)。
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
(3)“it + be + 过去分词 + 从句”式的被动结构
常见的结构有:
It is known that ...
It is suggested that ...
It is believed that ...
It is reported that ...
It is said that ...
It is hoped that ...
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
(4)主动形式表被动意义
① 有些不及物动词主动形式可表被动意义
a. 某些连系动词,如 feel, look, prove, smell, sound, taste 等。
例:It can’t move. The door won’t shut.
b. 某些与 can’t, won’t 等连用的不及物动词,如 move, lock, shut, open 等。
例:My new pen writes well. The cloth doesn’t wash easily.
c. 某些可与 well, easily 等副词连用的不及物动词,如 read, write, wash 等。
例:The food tasted better than it looked.
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
② 非谓语动词的某些主动形式表示被动意义
例:The question is difficult to answer.
Volleyball is very interesting to watch.
在“be + 形容词+ 不定式”结构中,不定式表示的动作与句子主语之间是逻辑上的动宾关系时,用主动形式表示被动意义。
常见形容词有:cheap, easy, comfortable, difficult, hard, light, heavy, expensive, pleasant, interesting, fit 等
Presentation
Review of the passive voice
例:The film is well worth seeing.
The policy is partly to blame for causing the worst unemployment in Europe.
在 be worth doing 和 be to blame 结构中,动词 -ing 形式或动词不定式用主动形式表示被动意义。
例:The carpet really wants cleaning (= to be cleaned).
Most house plants require watering (= to be watered).
当 want, need, require, deserve 表示“需要”或“值得”时,其宾语可用动词 -ing 形式的主动形式表示被动意义。
Practice
The exercises of the passive voice
1. The flight must __________ (book) by tomorrow.
2. The twins ________ (look like) their mother.
3. She __________ (invite) to Jack’s 16th birthday party in New Jersey.
4. The pizza ________ (taste) delicious without any cheese at all.
be booked
look like
was invited
tastes
Practice
Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese.
Practice
Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese.
What is done cannot ___________. (undo)
Janet ___________ chairwoman of the student union last month. (elect)
Two hundred grammes of flour should _________ to the cake mix. (add)
A 3,000-seat venue ________________________ for the circus performance in November. (build)
木已成舟
珍妮特上个月当选为学生会主席。
蛋糕料里需要加入两百克面粉。
一个拥有三千座位,供马戏表演使用的场地于十一月建成 / 将在十一月建成。
be undone
was elected
be added
was built / will be built
Practice
Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese. (P5 E2)
Working efficiency _________________ since this new software was adopted. (improve)
Only one piece of carry-on luggage _______________ for each economy class passenger. (allow)
It is a great honour for me to______________ to address this international AI conference. (invite)
自从采用了新软件,工作效率就被提升了。
经济舱的乘客每人仅允许携带一件随身行李。
我很荣幸能被邀请在 AI 大会上发言。
has been improved
is allowed
be invited
Practice
Complete the sentences with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Then try to translate these sentences into Chinese. (P5 E2)
When I entered the room, I found that the salesman’s salary ____________________ at the meeting. (discuss)
With exams being adapted into Braille, a blind senior high school student scored 630 points out of 650 in the College Entrance Examination. He is expected _____________ to atop university. (admit)
我进会议室的时候发现正在讨论销售员的薪水。
使用转换为盲文的高考试卷,一位高中的视障学生考取了630分(总分650)。他有望被一所名校录取。
was being discussed
to be admitted
Practice
Read the introduction to a science fiction novel and complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box. (P5 E3)
《三体》是刘慈欣创作的长篇科幻小说系列,由《三体》《三体2∶黑暗森林》《三体3∶死神永生》组成,第一部于2006年5月起在《科幻世界》杂志上连载。作品讲述了地球人类文明和三体文明的信息交流、生死搏杀及两个文明在宇宙中的兴衰历程。
Practice
Read the introduction to a science fiction novel and complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box. (P5 E3)
Science fiction __________ by many people as a mirror through which our future can be freely imagined and ___________________. The Three-Body Problem, ______ by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, is one of those astonishing predictions about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006 and printed as a three-volume book in 2008. When the first volume _______________ into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world, becoming the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book __________ many themes such as space exploration, alien contact, Al, and the future of humans.
is regarded
explored / represented
written
was translated
represents
Practice
Read the introduction to a science fiction novel and complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box. (P5 E3)
The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and WangMiao. Ye _____________ to join a secret project in a remote area of China, which ______________ to contact alien life forms. In the other story, set 20 years later, Wang Miao _____________ in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in which people live on an unknown planet with three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game — it uncovers a great danger threatening human existence. How are these two people’s stories ___________ And how will their behaviour change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets Answers to all these questions are waiting to _______________ when you go on reading.
be discovered
is recruited
has been set up
gets caught up
connected