高中英语 《what's in the papers》学案 北师大版必修4

Unit 11 The Media Lesson4 What’s in the Papers?

Reading comprehension

Find a proper headline for each article

Text A 1) Astronomers’ amazing escape.

Text B 2) Bad language on TV not OK for kids.

Text C 3) Mum finds her four girls.

Choose the best answer

1. People’s attitudes towards bad language on TV is ____.

A.they are strongly against

B.they don’t mind at all

C.they think it’s OK as long as it doesn’t appear in children’s programmes

D. they think it’s natural

2. What’s the result of the cra sh?

A.Only the truck driver was hurt.

B.The truck driver was killed in the crash.

C.Some astronomers were dead.

D.No one was seriously hurt in the crash.

3. Mum Lillian has not seen her daughters for ____.

A. 31 years

B. 34 years

C. 36 years

D. 38 years

4. How old were Lillian’s children when she last saw them?

A.7, 6, 5 and 4 years old.

B.7, 5, 4 and 3 years old.

C.7, 6, 5 and 3 years old.

D.7, 5, 4 and 2 years old.

5. Why did some people find bad language “OK” in films?

A.It didn’t affect a udiences at all.

pared with taking drugs, bad language was not a serious problem.

C. The dialogue and situation made it funny.

D. Bad language only appeared in adults’ films.

6. Why was the truck driver lucky to escape?

A.The astronomers saved him.

B.The firemen helped him out of the windows.

C. The driver jumped out of the truck before the crash.

D. The passers-by saved him.

Language points and exercises:

1.According to a research published by Leeds University yesterday, people don’t mind bad

language on television as long as it is not used in programmes watched by children.

据利兹大学昨天发表的一项研究称，电视中的不良语言，只要不用于儿童节目，人们并不介意。

a)本句为主从复合句，as long as 引导条件状语从句。Published by…, watched by…为过去

分词短语作定语，修饰a research 和programmes. 也可转换未定语从句which/that was published by… 和that/which are watched by children.

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b)According to 意思是根据，按照。后接名词，但不接不接表示观点的名词如opinion, view,

point等。要表示“根据某人的观点”时用in one’s opinion. According as 是连词，其后接句子，意思是“取决于”，accordingly 是副词，修饰动词或句子，意思是“按照已知或所说的情形”

1.Everyone contributes ____________he is able.

2.I’ve told you what the situation is and you must act___________.

3.You must act ___________what I’ve told you.

A.according to

B. accordingly

C. according as

D. according on

c)as long as /so long as 只要；长达

Eg: As long as you can be back before 9 o’clock, you can go out.

Eg: We’ll start working immediately, as long as you accept our conditions.

Eg; You can watch TV as long as three hours per week.

2.Even a group of mothers agreed that a certain amount of bad language in the well-known film

Pulp Fiction was “OK” …

甚至一群母亲也一致认为，著名电影《低俗小说》中使用一定量的不良语言是可以的……

a) a certain amount of 后接不可数名词。这类词有：much, a great/good deal of, a large

amount of, amounts of; 修饰可数名词的有：many, many a/an , a great/ good many, a good/large number of; 既可修饰可数和不可数名词的有：a lot of, lots of, a quantity of, quantities of, plenty of, a supply of, supplies of.

b)Amounts of 和quantities of 后接不可数名词做主语时，谓语动词用复数形式；many

a 加单数名词作主语，谓语动词用单数形式。

1.Every year large amounts of money __________(be) spent on tobacco (烟草).

2.Many a student ___________ (want) to go to a famous university.

3.People were asked to comment on scenes from films like Pulp Fiction, TV series like

Channel 4’s Brookside and cartoons like South Park.

调查要求观众对《低俗小说》之类的电影，4 频道的《小河边》之类的电视连续剧和卡通片《南方公园》中的电影画面进行评论。

a)comment on … to give on opinion 发表意见/看法，提出意见/看法

give comments on… voice one’s opinion on…

eg: I often wish I could _____________ your articles but there is never time.

我总想评论一下你的文章，但总没时间。

Eg: I won’t comment on this matter.

我对此事不予置评。

b)scene 可数名词意思是场面场景，习惯搭配on/at the scene 在现场，behind the

scenes 在幕后，秘密地。

Eg; The sunset is a beautiful scene. 落日的余晖是一幅美丽的画面。

c)scene , scenery, view, sight 表示景色时的区别

scene 表示以具体展现在眼前的景色，包括其中的人物、动作和行为。

Scenery 表示一具体地区的自然景色如：English scenery “英国的景色”。指布景时，scene 指一场或一幕。View 指在远处或高处以人的角度看到的scenery 的一部分。Sight “风景，名胜”，用复数形式指人文景观。

4.We have always tried to keep bad language away from innocent ears and this is a very

important consideration when deciding at what times of day certain programmes are shown.

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