高中英语必修三第一单元重点

高中英语必修三第一单元重点、难点Unit one Festivals around the world

1、Discuss when they take place. 讨论一下它们什么时候发生。

take place 发生When did the wedding take place? 婚礼是什么时候举行的。

The opening of the play will take place tomorrow night. 这出戏明天晚上开始演出。

易混辨析：happen; take place; break out 发生

happen指“偶然发生”。还可指运动会的“举行”。可以和occure互换，但occure有“It occures/ occurred to sb. that…突然想起”句型，happen没有此句型。

A traffic accident happened in the street this morning. 今天早上大街上发生了一起交通事故。

take place指“有计划，有安排让发生”。

Great changes have taken place in China in the past 30 years. 过去三十年中国发生了巨大变化。

break out“爆发”。多指爆发灾难性的事情，如战争、火灾、地震、瘟疫等。

The first world war broke out in 1914. 第一次世界大战1914年爆发。

特别提示：（1）happen; take place; break out 都没有被动式。（2）take the place of表示“代替…的位置”。

即时活用：

1、A terrible accident ______ on No.6 Street yesterday, where a couple were killed by a truck.

A. folded

B. broke out

C. took place

D. occurred

2、A quarrel ___________ last Sunday, and he ___________ his family.

A. was broken out; broke away

B.broke out; broke away

C.was broke out; broke away from

D. broke out; broke away from

3、Don’t you believe it! Glass can ________ steel in many ways in life.

A. take place of

B. take the place of

C. in place of

D. instead of

4、The question occurred to me ______ we were to get the machines mended. A. that B. what C. why D. where

5、–When did the concert_____? ---Oh, two days ago.

A. happened

B. take place

C. hold

D. start 答案：DDBAB

2、At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months.

那个时候如果食物难找人会饿死的，尤其是寒冷的冬天。

starve 用法归纳：

（1）饿死；挨饿(vi.) Many children in Africa are starving to death. 非洲的许多儿童正在被饿死。

Because there is no food, the people are starving. 由于没有粮食，哪儿的人正在挨饿。

（2）使挨饿(vt.) If you waste any food again, I will starve you. 如果你再浪费粮食，我就让你挨饿。

Some people starve themselves to lose weight. 有些人在挨饿减肥。

联想扩展：be starved of 很需要starve for 渴望得到starvation n. 挨饿；饿死

3、For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.

在日本的盂兰盆节，人们要扫墓、烧香，以缅怀祖先。

in memory of 纪念；追念

We held the meeting in memory of the soldiers who died in the war.我们举行这个会议以纪念在战争中阵亡的将士。

联想扩展：in honor of纪念某人in praise of…表扬；赞扬in search of 寻找in face of 面对in need of 需要in defense of 保卫in charge of 负责in possession of 拥有in terms of 至于；关于in case of 要是… in favor of 同意；赞同

即时活用：Washington , a state in the United States , was named ______ one of the greatest American presidents .

A. in honor of

B. instead of

C. in favor of

D. by means of 答案：A

4、The Western holiday Halloween also had its origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirits of dead people.

西方节日万圣节也源自人们古老的信念，认为亡者的灵魂会返回人间。

beliefs 信念特别提示：belief变复数时直接加s。