Unit 4 Earthquakes 地震
I.重点单词
earthquake
burst
burst
event
nation
national
ruin
quake
burst
n. 地震
vi. 爆裂;爆发n. 突然破裂;爆发
n. 事件;大事
n. 民族;国家;国民
n. 废墟;毁坏vt. 毁灭;使破产
extreme
adj. 极度的
adv.
extremely
adj.
(过去式,过去分词)
(同义词)
suffering
injury
damage
useful
shock
n. 苦难;痛苦
vt. 损害;伤害
injure
n.
vt. 破坏;毁坏;消灭
destroy
(同义词)
useless
adj. 无用的;无效的;无益的
(反义词)
vt.& vi. (使)震惊;震动
n. 休克;打击;震惊
rescue
trap
electricity
electrical
disaster
bury
n.& vt. 援救;营救
vt. 使陷入困境n. 陷阱;困境
n. 电;电流;电学
electric
adj.电的;电动的
adj.电的;与电有关的
n. 灾难;灾祸
vt. 埋藏;掩埋;隐藏
n. 裁判员;法官 vt. 断定;判断;判决→ n.判断;判决
vt. 表示;表达 n. 快车;速递
n.表示;表情
judge
judgement
express
expression
vt.
shelter
frighten
frightened
frightening
congratulation
congratulate
n. 掩蔽;掩蔽处;避身处
vt. 使惊吓;吓唬
adj.受惊的;受恐吓的
adj.令人恐惧的
n. 祝贺;(复数)贺词
重点短语
1. 立刻;马上
2. 仿佛;好像
3. 结束;终结
4. 严重受损;破败不堪
5. 掘出;发现
6. 许多;大量的
7. 遭(罪),患(病)
8. 埋头于
9.
right away
as if
at an end
in ruins
dig out
a(great)number of
suffer from
be buried in
think little of
看轻,不重视
1.The firemen____________(营救)three women from the burning house.
2.He couldn’t help____________(爆发)into tears when he saw his mother again.
3.Unluckily,the house that we talked about is in ______ (废墟).
4.The soldiers_________(使陷入困境) their enemies and forced them to give in.
5.I find it hard to_______(判断)how the election will go.
judge
trapped
ruins
bursting
rescued
II.Word practice:
6.On arriving there,we expressed our
_________ (祝贺)to him on his success.
7.We were_________(震惊)at their terrible
working conditions.
8.The umbrella is a poor ______
(避身处) from heavy rain.
9.Thousands of people died in the Earthquake, and many children became
homeless because of the natural
________ (灾难).
congratulations
shocked
shelter
disaster
10.On seeing the _____ scene, the little girl was so _____ that she burst out crying. (frighten)
11.Mr.Wang couldn’t ______ himself clearly when he heard the news, but I could tell from his _______
that he was very upset. (express)
12.__________from what he said just now,he must be an honest man. On the contrary,he often tells a lie,so we should not ________a man by his appearance.(judge)
frightened
frightening
express
judge
Judging
expression
1.too + adj. / adv.+ to do 表示否定“太…而不能”
他年龄太大了而不能工作。
He is _____ old ___ work.
too
to
注意:too…to…表示肯定的几种情况
1).当too后是 glad, pleased ,happy, satisfied, ready, willing, kind, good, true, easy, careful, well, early 表示态度,情绪等的形容词或副词时,表示肯定。
III.. Laguage points in the text.
He is too ready to help others.
2).与can’t或can never与too连用时表示
“越……就越好”“再……也不为过”
英汉互译:1. You can’t be too careful to do your homework.
2.他太忙了而没有时间照顾父母。
He is too busy to take care of his parents.
3. As soon as they have two days off, the children are too happy to jump 。
2.分数表达法:
分子用基数(one, two…),分母用序数词 ( first, second…),当分子超过1时,分母的词尾加s.
2/3:
1/4:
1/5:
3/5:
1/2:
two thirds
one fourth (a/one quarter)
one fifth
three fifths
a half 或 one half
数以万计的
tens of thousands of
数百万的
millions of
十百千等词的用复数形式,后面加of,并且不与具体数字连用
一千
one thousand
两千
two thousand
在具体数字后面,不用复数形式,也不加of
好几千的
thousands of
3.All hope was not lost.
all...not… = not all…
不是全部/并非所有的
all ,both ,every ,everything, everybody 与否定词连用表示部分否定;
如果要表示全部否定,要分别用none ,neither, no , nothing, nobody.
All of them are not right.
None of them are right.
Not every boy like football.
No boys in that area like football.
并非他们所有人都是错的。
他们所有人都是错的。
不是所有男孩子都喜欢足球。
那个地区的男孩子都不喜欢足球。
翻译:
4. It seemed as if the world was at an end.
It looks as if it is going to be a sunny day.
She spoke to me as if she had known me.
It seemed as if the meeting would never end.
陈述语气:需要用什么时态就用
虚拟语气:1)对现在的虚拟,谓语动词用一般过去时 (did,be的过去式用were.)
2)对过去的虚拟,谓语动词用过去完成时(had done)
3)对将来的虚拟,谓语动词用would/could do.
as if 似乎,好像 = as though +从句
5. bury
be buried in / bury oneself in
埋头于,专心于,致力于
He is often (bury) in studying and forgets everything else.
He often buries (him) in studying and forgets everything else.
buried
himself
6.It seemed that the world was __ ___ ___.
at
an
end
用于表示时间的场合,
到/截止……时候,用于过去完成时态
Compare:at the end of
by the end of
in the end
具体事物的场所或者时间的尽头,在……的末端/在……的尽头,也可用于比喻含义
意思“最后、终于”=finally
1) His father will return home
___________ this year.
2) He will be a scientist __________.
3) How many English words had you
learned ____________ last term?
at the end of
in the end
by the end of
Practice:
1.When a pencil is partly put into water, it looks as if it (be) broken.
2.Jack wasn`t saying anything, but the
teacher smiled at him as if he (do)
something clever.
改错:
3. He opened his mouth as if he will say something.
4.He talks about Rome as if that he had been there before.
were
had done
would
IV.课文语法填空
There was a big earthquake in Tangshan
in 1976. Before the earthquake strange things
were happening ____ . For three days the water in the village wells _____ ( rise )and ___((fall). The well walls had deep _____ (crack) in them. So did the water pipes. The animals acted differently ____ usual. But the people ______ (think) little of these events, went to bed ___ usual that night. At 3:42 am everything began to shake. One–third of the nation felt it.
in
the
countryside
rose
cracks
fell
from
thought
as
In fifteen terrible seconds the large city lay in
_____(废墟). More _____ 400,000 people were killed or ______ (injure). Nearly everything was _________(destroy). Then later that afternoon, another big earthquake shook Tangshan. Many people, including workers and doctors, came to _______ (营救)those trapped under the ruins. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. But all hope was not ____(lose). Soldiers came to help those ________(survivor). Slowly the city began to breathe again.
lost
destroyed
rescue
than
injured
survivors
ruins
A Horrible Earthquake
Dirty water rose in wells and canals 1 the earthquake. But no one judged that an earthquake 2 (come). Suddenly, everything shook. It seemed as if the world was at an end. Millions
of brick houses and a number of dams were
destroyed. Railway tracks became useless bars. Pipes in mines burst and let out smelly steam. Huge cracks trapped cyclists everywhere.
in
was coming
next day, this event was the headline or
main title of all newspapers. With the reporters 4
(give) an outline of the disaster, the whole
nation was shocked 5____ the damage and the
victim’s extreme 6 (suffer). People were
moved 7 they read that the survivors
comforted each other by saying “Congratulations!
You survived!”. So they not only expressed 8
(they) sympathy sincerely, but also organized
together 9 (help) the victims right away.
The injured were rescued and the dead were
buried.
The
giving
by
suffering
when
their
to help
The frightened survivors were dug out from under the ruins and 10 (offer) shelter, fresh water and electricity. Thanks to people’s help, the loss was minimized.
were offered
Homework :
1.learn the language points by heart.
2.熟读短文,背诵所划出的句子。
6.the +形容词/分词(现在分词,过去分词): 表一类人,谓语用复数
the young
活着的人
the living
受伤的人
the injured
盲人
the blind
年轻人
The old ____(be)taken good care of.
are
The injured (have)been carried
away on stretchers.
have