Lecture5 Passive and positive voice

Lecture5

一．Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

One of the most famous monuments in the world, the Statue of Liberty, (1) (present) to the United States of America in the 19th century by the people of France. The great statue, which (2)(design) by the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, took ten years to (3) (complete). The actual figure 塑像was made of copper (4) (support) by a metal framework框架which had been especially constructed by Eiffel. Before it could (5) (transport) to the United States, a site场地had to (6) (find) for it and a pedestal底座had to be built. The site (7) (choose) was an island at the entrance of New York Harbor. By 1884, a statue which was 15 feet tall (8) (erect)竖立in Paris. The following year, it (9) (take) to pieces and (10) (send) to America. By the end of October 1886, the statue (11) (put) together again and it was officially presented to the American people by Bartholdi. Ever since then, the great monument has been a symbol of liberty for the millions of people who have passed through New York Harbor to make their homes in America.在……安家

Key：

(1) was presented; (2) was designed; (3) complete; (4) supported; (5)be transported; (6) to found;

(7) choosen; (8) had been erected; (9) was taken; (10)sent; (11) had been put

二．Special passive voice sentences

(1)主动形式表示被动意义

The door won’t shut. 关上

The cloth washes well.

The poem reads smoothly.

This kind of rice cooks more quickly than that kind.

Damp wood will not fire．(湿木不易燃烧。)

She doesn’t photograph well．(她不上相。)

His judgment proved wrong．

The banana peels easily．

(2)There be句型

There are a lot of things to do．There is nothing to worry about．

(3)不定式修饰want, have等动词的宾语，而句中的主语同时又不是不定式的逻辑主语时：

I want some clothes to wash．

Do you have anything to say for yourself?

(4)不定式修饰buy，get，give等动词的直接宾语，而句中的间接宾语又是不定式的逻辑主语时：

His sister gave him a bike to ride．

My father get me a book to read．

三．Put all the sentences in a correct order so that it makes a complete story.

She struck the keys so hard that two of the strings were broken.

It was made in germany in 1681 and is kept in the living room.

We have an old musical instrument and it is called a clavichord.

It is now being repaired by a friend of my father’s.

The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years ago and it has belonged to our family for a long time.

My father was shocked and now we are not allowed to touch it.

Recently it was damaged by a visitor when she tried to play jazz on it.

Key:

We have an old musical instrument and it is called a clavichord. It was made in germany in 1681 and is kept in the living room. The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years ago and it has belonged to our family for a long time. Recently it was damaged by a visitor when she tried to play jazz on it. She struck the keys so hard that two of the strings were broken. My father was shocked and now we are not allowed to touch it. It is now being repaired by a friend of my father’s.

四．Fast reading

Annoying(令人恼火的) Shadows(影子)

The soldiers had just moved to the desert and as they had never been in such a place before, they had a lot to learn.

As there were no trees or buildings in the desert, it was, of course, very hard to hide their trucks from enemy planes. The soldiers were, therefore, given training in camouflage(伪装), which means ways of covering something so that the enemy cannot see where it is. They were shown how to paint their trucks in irregular(不规则的) patterns(图案) with pale(浅色的) green, yellow, and brown paints and then to cover them with nets(网) to which they had tied small pieces of cloth.

The driver who had the biggest truck went to(费了) a lot of trouble to camouflage it. He spent several hours painting it, preparing a net and searching for some heavy rocks with which to hold the net down(把网压下来). When it was all finished, he looked proudly at his work and then went off to have his lunch.

But when he came back to the truck after he had had his meal, he was surprised and worried to see that his camouflage work was completely spoilt(毁掉) by the truck's shadow, which was growing longer and longer as the afternoon advanced. He stood looking at it, not knowing what to do about it.

Soon an officer arrived and he too saw the shadow, of course.

"Well, "he shouted to the poor driver, "what are you going to do about it? If an enemy plane comes over, the pilot will at once know that there is a truck there."

"I know, sir," answered the soldier.

"Well, don't just stand there doing nothing!" said the officer.

"What shall I do, sir?" asked the poor driver.

"Get your spade(铲子) and throw some sand over the shadow, of course!" Answered the officer.