新思维综合英语第一册第四单元参考讲义

新思维综合英语第一册第四单元参考讲义

2008-03-19 17:51

Lesson 27. I guess my mind was somewhere else.

Laura and Chuck are having something to eat after seeing a movie. They talk about Chuck’s job interview.

Focus questions and answers:

1. Where do you think the dialogue takes place?

1. Most probably in a restaurant.

2. Why was Chuck’s mind somewhere else?

2. He was thinking about the interview.

3. Why was Chuck anxious?

3. he was anxious to know the interview result, and of course he wanted to get the job. Language points in the dialogue:

You were thinking about the interview again, weren’t you? Think about, 考虑，思考。We have to think about whether we should buy the car.我们得认真考虑一下买不买车。I’m thinking about the plan for our tour.我在考虑我们的旅行计划。这句话里的Weren’t you？是个附加疑问句。在这样的句子里，一般来说，前面需要有个陈述句。如果陈述句用肯定句，附加疑问句就用否定式疑问句。如果陈述句用否定句，附加疑问句就用肯定式疑问句。如：

You’ve been to the Great Wall,haven’t you?

He’s not going to the party, is he?

但是，有时也有例外。如：

She telephoned her brother, did she? （用来表示惊讶、确认等。）

使用附加疑问句时，不仅要注意前后肯定与否定的关系，还要注意助动词和时态的一致性问题。比如，如果前边的句子用现在完成时，附加疑问句就需要用have 或haven’t；如果前边的句子用带有will 的一般将来时，附加疑问句就需要用will 或won’t 等等。

Get st h out of one’s mind 摆脱思想中的困扰。如：

He was terribly lost in that experience for quite some time, and finally he got it out of his mind when he moved to a new place. 他很长时间一直沉浸在那次可怕的经历中不能自拔，直到后来搬到一个新地方后才得以摆脱出来。

Figure out 理解，弄清楚，解决。She hasn’t figured out what she’s going to do next. 她还没有弄清楚接下来她将做什么。He has figured out all the possibilities before he does it. 他事前已经弄清楚了所有的可能性。

Anxious to do sth 迫不及待想做某事。She is so anxious to visit Beijing next week because it is her first visit there.

Make a / the decision 做出决定，确定。Who made the decision to go there?是谁决定去那儿的？

I think I’ve made a wrong decision to buy this big house.我想我决定买这座大房子是错误的。Relax 放松，松弛。Let’s stop working and relax for an hour. 别干了，我们休息一小时吧。Lesson 29 The first Americans.

Focus questions:

1．Why did Columbus call people already living in America “Indians” when he landed there?

2. How did the ancestors of these people come to America?

3. What technique do scientists use to decide the age of the remains of the ancient bodies or artifacts?

4. What are causing excitement and controversy among experts?

5. What did scientists find in Chili?

6. What is the most controversial finding in Brazil?

Language Points in the Reading Text:

Scientists disagree on the date. 科学家在日期上没有达成一致。Agree / disagree on sth 在某方面意见（不）一致，（不）同意。介词用on. Finally we agreed on the route for climbing the hill. 最后我们就爬山路线达成了一致意见。学习时注意这个短语跟agree / disagree with sb / sth 的区别。Agree / disagree with sb / sth（不）同意某人说的话或者看法；与某人意见不一致。

I disagree with much of what he says. 我不同意他说的很多话。My brother agrees with me in most of the issues we discuss. 在讨论问题时，我弟弟大多同意我的看法。

Original 原有的，原始的，初始的；新颖的，有创造性的。It is said no one can remember the original state of the building. 据说，没有人能回忆起那座楼本来的样子了。This is the most original story I’ve ever read. 这是我读过的最新颖的故事了。Arrive in 到达某一地方、城市（比较大的地方），如：It was raining when we arrived in Guangzhou. 而arrive at 的意思是“到达一个具体的小的地点”，如：He arrived at his hotel soon after midnight. Arrive at 还表示经过努力达成协议、决定、或达到某种程度。It took us several hours to arrive at a decision. 我们花费了好几个小时才终于达成决议。

在When Columbus “discovered” America in 1492, he found people already living there.这句话里，discover 用了引号，原因是什么呢？discover 这个词的意思是，发现原来没有被人所知道或了解的事情或情况。Discover 不同于find, 后者的意思是，找到，发现，是一般意义上的看见或找到，被找到的东西本来就是存在的。在哥伦布发现新大陆的时候美洲这块大陆已经是存在的，而且有人居住，所以并不是他第一个发现这个地方的。Find sb doing sth 发现某人正在做某事。When I entered the room, I found him watching TV. 我进入房间的时候，看见他正在看电视。

Thinking he had landed in the East Indies, he called these people “Indians”. 前半句话Thinking he had landed in the East Indies 是个–ing 分词短语，做he called these people “Indians” 的原因状语。

Stretching from the top of North America to the tip of South America were many different groups…是个倒装句，动词谓语是were, 主语是many different groups. 用来强调“不同的种族部落由北到南散布在美洲大陆”的这个事实。

Migrate 迁移，移往。Migrate from one place to another 从一个地方迁移到另一个地方。如：They had to migrate to this new land because of the terrible flood in the fifties. 由于五十年代的那场可怕的洪水他们被迫迁移到了这片土地。

The northern half of the earth was covered in ice. 北半球被冰雪覆盖。有时，我们也用be covered with 来表示“长有很多，覆盖着很多……”如：The next morning when I woke up, I found the trees were all covered with beautiful snow. 早上醒来的时候，我发现树上挂满了美丽的雪。

Experts believe that people from Siberia followed the animals that they hunted and traveled to Alaska over land that is now a 50-mile body of water called the Bering Strait. 这句话里有两个that 引导的定语从句，分别修饰前面的the animals 和land 这两个名词。过去分词短语called the Bering Strait 作body of water 的定语，body 在这里指大面积的水域。在上万年前，亚洲和美洲大

Look for 寻找，探询，查找。– What are you doing? –I’m looking for my keys.

Remain 做动词时意思是“遗留；继续，保持”，而做名词时只有remains 复数形式，意思是“遗留物；遗迹；残骸”。The remains of a meal 残羹剩饭。