高中英语必修一第四单元重点难点

Unit four Earthquakes

1、In the city, the water pipes in some buildings crached and burst.

城市里，一些大楼里的水管爆裂。

burst爆裂,突发

用法归纳：

The square is bursting with tourists. 广场上到处都是游客。

I felt as if my heart would burst with joy. 我觉得自己高兴得心花怒放。

The police burst through the door. 警察破门而入。

There was a burst of laughter in the next room. 隔壁房间里突然爆发出一阵笑声。

联想扩展：

(1) burst in on…突然打断

He burst in on our conversation. 他突然打断了我们的谈话。

(2) burst into +n. 突然…

The speaker burst into angry speech. 演讲者突然讲粗话。

(3) burst out + doing突然…

The woman burst out crying like a child. 那个妇女突然像小孩一样哭了。

(4) burst to do sth. 迫切想做某事

I am bursting to tell you the news. 我迫不及待的想告诉你这个消息。

2、But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.

但是认为这没什么的一百万城里人，那天晚上还像往常一样睡觉。易混辨析：

affair, event, accident, incident, matter 和business 事；事情affair 指要做的事或已经发生的事。多用复数。

event 指重大历史事件，也可指日常生活中较重要的事或比赛项目。accident 指意外或偶然的不幸事件，多有不良后果。

incident 与重要事件有关的事情，尤指政治、军事上有争议的情况。matter 需要认真考虑的事情。

business 日常事务、商业事务；还可以是公事。

3、The suffering of the people was extreme. 人们极度痛苦。suffer

用法归纳：

A, 受苦He suffered terribly when his mother died.

B, 受到损失If I lost, my self-esteem will suffer.

C, 遭受 He suffered no pain

联想扩展：

suffer from

1、受…之苦I suffered most from lack of rest.

2、患…病I am suffering from a cold.

特别提示：

suffer表示“患…病”时，后面一般跟疾病名称。

即时活用：

_______ such heavy pollution already , it may now be too late to clean up the river .

A. Having suffered

B. Suffering

C. To suffer

D. Suffered

答案：A

4、Two-thirds of them died or were injured during the earthquake.

地震中，有三分之二的人死亡或受伤。

易混辨析：

injure ; hurt; wound; harm 伤害

injure比hurt 正式，hurt多指伤痛，而injure则指损害健康、成就、容貌等，强调功能的损失。

hurt 既可指肉体上的伤害，也可指精神上、感情上的伤害。指肉体上的伤害时，hurt 可与badly, slightly, seriously等连用；但若果指精神上的创伤，只能用very much, rather / deeply。

wound 指枪伤、刀伤、刺伤等皮肉之伤，是出血的、严重的伤，特指战场上受伤。可以是肉体上的伤害，也可指精神上的创伤。

harm 表示引起对身体、物质或精神上的损害，常指伤害人的肉体，损坏东西以及损害健康、品质、事业等。

即时活用：

1、Did you say that our neighbor ______ in the accident?

A. badly hurted

B. was badly hurted

C. had badly hurted

D. was badly hurt

答案：D

2、My chest _____ when I take a deep breath, doctor.

A. hurts

B. wounds

C.harms

D. injure

答案：A

3、There was a fight in the street yesterday. Three people were seriously ____.

A. hurt

B. killed

C. broken

D.cut

答案：A

4、The old lady died from the _____on her head; she was _______when cleaning windows on the ladder when she fell off it.

A. injury; injured

B. wound; wound

C. wounded; hurt

D. hurt; injured

答案：A

5、The bus driver was badly ___on both legs in the traffic accident.

A. wounded

B. broken

C. injured

D. destroyed

答案：C

5、The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.

伤亡人数达到四十多万。

reach

用法归纳：

（1）到达

The started early, hoping to reach there before dark. 它们很早就出发，希望天黑前到达那里。

易混辨析：

reach; get; arrive 到达

reach后直接加地点；get加to再加地点；arrive后加at/ in再加地点，at 后加小地点；in后加大地点。如果表示地点的词是副词，get和arrive后都不能用介词。另外，只表示