人教版高中英语必修三第一单元知识点

Reading language points

1.There is no feast on earth that does not end in parting.天下无不散之筵席。

2.Festivals__are meant to__ (被普遍认为是)celebrate important times of year.

are intended to

You__were meant to ( 应该）attend your sister’s wedding . Why didn’t yo u come ?

Your are meant to take off your shoes when you enter the laboratory .

进入实验室时必须脱掉你的鞋子。

why didn’t you tell Anna the truth ?

--- I _meant to have (told her) ____ . ( 我本来打算）But I was lacking in the courage .

In some crowded city like New York ,missing a bus means waiting for almost an hour .

我说过要帮你，我说话算数。

I said I would help you and I meant it .

---You should have thanked her before you left.

---I meant __B___, but when I was leaving I couldn’t find her anywhere.

A.to do

B. to

C. doing

D. doing so

3.We held a party__to celebrate________ (庆祝)the history-making victory.

to observe

in celebration of /for the celebration of

celebrate+宾语(Christmas / one’s birthday / a victory

I congratulated you on having passed the exam. 我祝贺你通过的考试.

Congratulations to you on having passed the exam.

4.1919年,中国爆发了五四运动.

In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China.

take place发生,举行; 侧重于安排或计划而发生的事

联想: in place of 代替

take one’s place/take the place of 接替某人的位置

in the first place 用于列举理由）首先，第一点

in the last place 最后

in one’s place 处于某人的位置，为某人设身处地想一想

I happened to be out when you called me yesterday.

The Second World War_broke out_______ (爆发)in 1939.

I____C_______along the street looking for a place to park when the accident________.

went;was occurring B. went; occurred

C.was going; occurred

D. was going; had occurred

occur表示偶尔发生时为正式用法.

It occurs to sb. that…某人突然想起

Do you know how the problem came about ? 发生，产生

5.have a good/bad harvest

Farmers had the grain harvested . It was a good harvest.

6.Festivals and celebrations of all kinds have been held everywhere since ancient times.

=all kinds of festivals and celebrations

We sell all kinds of shoes=we sell shoes of all kinds.

This kind of singers is popular with the youth.

Singers of this kind are popular with the youth.

①Books of this kind _sell___ (sell) well in the bookstore.

②This kind of books _sells___ (sell) well in the bookstore.

7.Most ancient festivals would cel ebrate the end of…

“would” or “used to”

When I was young, I_ would ____ listen to the radio. used to

My father_ used to __ be a heavy smoker before I persuaded him into giving up smoking.

would表示过去某一段时间的活动,表示过去常做的事情.因此,用

would如无具体的上下文，应有时间状语加以限制．

used to主要同现在相比，说明过去如此，现在没有那样的习惯了．

8.At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find.

The lonely old man without children was left to __ starve to death _(饿死)during the Second World War. die of hunger die of starvation

The homeless children are starving for love.

long for; be in great need of

starve for sth 渴望获得某物，缺乏

When will the dinner be ready? I’ m starving.

I have been starving to explore outer space since childhood.

9.Today’s festivals have many origins, some religious…

three hours’ walk

a ton’s weight

China’s opening policy

the earth’s surface

the origins of life on earth

origin/ original season/ seasonal nation/ national

religion/ religious danger/ dangerous humour/ humorous

10.Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors.

The dead should be honored, or they would return to do harm.

the dead/living/rich/poor/injured/wounded/disabled/sick

the+adj.有时候表示一类人或事物,谓语动词用复数

11. satisfied/ satisfying/ satisfactory

He felt that nothing he did would satisfy his girlfriend.

Mr Yang __ was satisfied with _ (满意) the student’s__ satisfying/ satisfactory __answer.

He gave a__ satisfied _______ (满意的)smile.

I was satisfied to get a timely answer .

what he has done is __ far from satisfactory.__

( 远非让人感到满意）。

_ To our satisfaction ,（让我们感到满意的是）she got the first place in the competition .

12.Who might return either to help or to do harm .

do harm to sb.＝harm sb.=be harmful to sb.

The waste may do harm to/harm our health.

If you try to solve the problem in this way,

it will do more harm than good.

do good to sb=do sb good

do wrong to sb=do sb wrong