新编英语教程 第三版 2 Unit2

Any of you come from Huangshi or Jinmen in Hubei?
Yellowstone National Park is the United States' — and the world's — first national park, established by the US Congress on March 1, 1872. Covering over 2.2 million acres/899,000 hectares, the park is larger than the states ofRhode IslandandDelawarecombined. There are nine visitors centers and museums, nine lodging facilities hosting a total of more than 2,000 rooms, more than 2,000 camping sites, about 50 picnic areas and a marina.
1. What’s the best time to go to Huangshan?
2. Why do people visit Huangshan? Questions 3. Why do some people go to Huangshan by plane while others choose to take a bus? 4. What is Huangshan most famous for?
4. B tells A the advantages/disadvantages of taking a plane/bus. 5. B will not tell A how to get to Huangshan in detail until A has decided to go.
Reading I
in session: not on vocation 不在休假期； assembled for business 开庭，开会 Are American universities in session during August? The court is now in session.
as a trade-off
A Trip to Huangshan
The Yellow Mountain is one of the most famous mountains in China. It lies in the south of the Anhui. Every year thousands of Chinses and foreigners pay a visit there. It takes you get there by bus. You can also go there by train or by plane. While you are climbing the mountain, you can enjoy the sea of the clouds, wondrous pines and unique rocks around you. In the early morning when the sun rises, the sky looks very beautiful. It's really a nice place to visit.
Suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, San Francisco. From its completion in 1937 until the completion of New York's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964, it had the longest main span in the world, 4,200 ft (1,280 m). It remains incomparable in its magnificence. Its construction, supervised by Joseph B. Strauss (18701938), involved many difficulties: rapidly running tides, frequent storms and fogs, and the problem of blasting rock under deep water to plant earthquake-resistant foundations. Finish the exercise on page 15 of your workbook.
trade-off: a balancing of various factors in order to achieve the best combination, compromise. 权衡，协调
trade sth. off – give sth. (in exchange for sth. )as a compromise.
Unit 2
The relative clause
A Trip to Huangshan
Natural Resources
Language structures Look at the following sentences:
1. What do you call a person who is in charge of or helps to run a library?
Risks are incidental to explorations.
Sample outline for retelling: 1. Huangshan is a famous scenic spot. 2. A asks B about his trip to Huangshan. 3. B tells A when the best time to go to there is.
2. What do you call the thing that you hold to shelter yourself from rain?
Have you read all the books that you borrowed from me?
1. 先行词 all, 关系代词只能用that。同理有以下词： all, much, anything, something, nothing, everything, little, none等不定代词。 2. 如果先行词被形容词最高级以及first, last, any, only, few, much, no, some, very 等词修饰，关系代 词常用that, 不用which, who或whom 3. 如果关系代词紧跟在介词后面，不能用who或 that， 只能用which 或whom。 4. 在非限从句中，不能用that, 做宾语的代词也不可 省略。
A trade-off between efficiency in use and elegance of design has been achieved.
效能和设计优美两方面达到了协调一致。
a one-way bus ride: 单程 return trip, round trip: 往返
on narrow winding roads winding: twisting or turning wind-wound-wound(蜿蜒曲折） The path winds through the woods. wind –winded-winded (吹，使呼吸急促）
incidentally [ɪnsɪ'dent(ə)lɪ]
by the way 顺便提一句
wk.baidu.com
in an incidental way 偶然地，不经意地
incidental：较不重要的，次要的；偶 然发生的 The letter mentioned my parents only incidentally. The dinner party proved to be incidental to the main business of the evening.
5. Did B tell A the details about how to get to Huangshan? Why not?
New words afford, session, definitely, tradeoff, fabulous, scenery, considerable, winding, nerve wracking, stretch, john, incidentally, rappelling, partake of, itinerary,
stretch one’s legs: Go for a short walk, usu. After you have been sitting down for a long time. Office workers need to stretches their legs from time to time because their working style is too sedentary. stretch a point – 超出一般所允许的范围； 做出让步 stretch sth. out - 使某物延续或足够所需 stretch oneself out - 躺着舒展身体
afford
When I was little, my parents could not even afford a new television. (有足够的 钱，时间或地方做某事） He is too afraid to stand against his boss because he cannot afford to lose his job. (冒风险做某事） The internet affords convenience to many. (给予，供给）
You know, summer is always the tourist season for mountain resorts. season: 假日，旺季。(食物）盛产季节。
the holiday season, tomato season, football season.
We can’t afford the time when school is in session.
New words:
extraordinary, acre, priority, conservation, enterprise, giant, lumberjack, furious, march into, primarily, appeal to, geysers, mighty, geothermal, canyon, meadow, intact, temperate, lumberman, devastate, rot