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Drunk
One day, a father and his little son were going home. At this age, the boy was interested in all kinds of things and was always asking questions. Now, he
asked, "What's the meaning of the word 'Drunk', dad?" "Well, my son," his father replied, "look, there are standing two policemen. If I regard the two
policemen as four then I am drunk."
"But, dad," the boy said, " there's only ONE policeman!"
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1. escape v. ">e. g. The boy is developing a fine personality. 这孩子正在进步自己完美的品格。
a woman with a strong personality. 个性非常强的女性。
【常识拓展】personal adj. 个人的，私人的。 Personally adv. 亲自地。
e. g. She has no personal ambition. 她没个人野心。
批注：先让学生回顾个性，人格是什么单词（personality），然后在原有单词上变形引出personal，personally,让学生注意这里的-al，复习前面的词缀学习法。
3. action n. 活力，动作，（戏剧或书中的）情节
e. g. we had a very exciting holiday. Every day was full of action.
大家度过了一个很有意思的假期。天天都充满了活力。
【常识拓展】act v. 行动，表演 adj. active 积极的 n. activity 活动 actress/actor 女/男演员
take action 采取行动 take measure 采取手段
批注：先让学生回忆“活动”是什么单词action，然后让学生默写与action有关的词性变化。并提醒学生act与art有什么区别，个别学生容易混淆这两个单词。
4. finish n. 结尾，结束
e.g. The last race was a very close finish. 最后一场赛跑在尾段角逐很激烈。
【常识拓展】finish v. 完成，结束 后接动名词，代词，名词做宾语，不可接动词不定式。
e.g. I finished reading the book last night. 我昨晚看完了那本书。
When did you finish your college? 你什么时间大学毕业的？
批注：初中阶段英语中有的动词只能接动名词，不能接不定式，可以让学生先总结容易见到的，如enjoy, keep, mind, practice等。
5. crash n. 忽然的响声；巨响
e. g. The car hit the tree with a crash. 汽车轰隆一声撞到墙上。
【常识拓展】crash v. 猛撞，发出巨响
e.g. The car crashed into the tree.
批注：问学生是不是喜欢憨豆先生，电影《憨豆假期》中播放歌曲crash，假如学生没看过，可以建议去看看。。。电影搞笑的段落不少。。。
6. above prep. 在上方；
e. g. His bedroom is just above. 他的寝室在上面。
【指点迷津】above, over
above 指相对上方的地方，反义词为under。Over在正上方，反义词为below。
批注：让学生总结介词的分类，并总结方位介词的使用方法及不同。
7. wonder adj. 非凡的，奇妙的
【友情提示】wonder作形容词的状况比较少。但在口语中总是用来代替wonderful
【常识拓展】wonder n. 奇观，惊奇 v. 想弄了解 wonderful adj. （近义词）fantastic
wonderfully adv.
e.g. There will a lecture on the wonders of space next week. 下周将会有一个关于宇宙奇观的讲坛。
I wondered what that noise was. 我想了解那是什么声音。
批注：问学生是不是听过《nobody》，这首歌曲是由韩国尤物组合wonder girls演唱的，当时
红遍大江南北。
8. fool v. 愚弄，欺骗
e. g. He fooled me into giving him money. 他欺骗我，要我给他钱。
The wooden house burned quickly. 这个木屋飞速地燃烧了起来。
【同义词】trick v. 欺骗，哄骗 trick/fool sb into doing trick n. 诡计
【常识拓展】fool n. 愚人 April Fools` Day 愚人节 foolish adj. 愚蠢的
e. g. It is foolish to do such a thing。做如此一件事真是愚蠢的
批注：问学生愚人节当天，是不是愚弄过老师或同学，是以什么样的方法？
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1. The first thing to do when creating a comic strip is to think of a plot.
= The first thing to do when you create a comic strip is to think of a plot.
The first thing to do… 中to do为定语，修饰the first thing。除此之外，本课中不定式作定语的句子有：
It should be full of action to keep the reader interested. 此句中to keep the reader interested是不定式作定语。
e.g. We consider him as an expert. 大全
核心考点1
【动名词成份】
动名词做宾语 | 动宾 | enjoy /finish /keep/ practice / mind / suggest /consider /avoid /admit/ deny/imagine / give up doing / prefer doing to doing… |
介宾 | look forward to doing; be / get / become used to doing; instead of doing have difficulty/ trouble doing; spend / waste some time doing | |
动名词做主语 | ____________________is a very popular way for people to relax. | |
动名词做表语 | My hobby __________/ My favorite sports__________ | |
动名词做定语 | a swimming pool/a sleeping bag （等于形容词，说明名词功能） | |
【注】：动名词否定形式为not doing 结构。
核心考点2
【to do 与doing做宾语时的不认可义】
★ sTOP | sTOP to do sTOP doing （停止do这个动作） |
★ forget / remember | forget / remember to do （动作未发生） forget / remember doing（动作已发生） |
★ go on | go on to do （不一样的事情） go on doing （相同的事情） |
★ try | try to do （努力做） try doing （尝试做） |
★ mean | mean to do （计划做） mean doing （意思是，意味着） |
注意：mind | mind doing 在意做某事 make up one’s mind to do 下决心做某事 |
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【例1】Susan finally became a popular singer after she practiced ______ for years.
A. sing | B. to sing | C. singing | D. sang |
【例2】Richard turned off the computer after he had finished _____ the email.
A. write | B. to write | C. writing | D. wrote |
【例3】As we all know, it’s not polite to keep others ______ for a long time.
A. wait | B. waited | C. to wait | D. waiting |
【例4】STOP ______ about the traffic. Just think about what we can do to improve it.
A. complain | B. to complain | C. complaining | D. complained |
【例5】The retired couple enjoy ______ photos. They always go out with their cameras.
A. take | B. took | C. to take | D. taking |
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1、House prices keep ______ these years. The government is expected to do something to control them.
A. rising | B. rise | C. to rise | D. rose |
2、Would you mind the window please? It’s too hot inside the room.
A. opening | B. to open | C. open | D. opened |
3、You can enjoy around many small streets when you go to England.
A. walk | B. to walk | C. walking | D. walks |
4、Both of the clerks denied ________the money and the boss had to report it to the police.
A. steal | B. stole | C. stealing | D. to steal |
5、Why not join an English club to practice _________ English songs?
A. sing | B. sang | C. to sing | D. singing |
6、The suspect admitted the valuable vase after the detective showed him the proof.
A. stole | B. to steal | C. stealing | D. steal |
7、He decided to leave for Thailand as soon as he finished _____ the novel.
A. write | B. writing | C. to write | D. written |
8、In that small seaside village, most children are good at ________.
A. swim | B. swam | C. swimming | D. swims |
9、We hadn’t seen each other for ages, so we spent the evening ______ up on each other’s news.
A. to catch | B. catch | C. catching | D. to catching |
10、The organization is considering _________some money to victims of the natural disaster.
A. donate | B. donating | C. to donate | D. to donating |
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Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can cause you to l_____81_____friends.
Cary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written a book named My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings .The book tells how to stay cool when b_____82_____things happen.
The book says that getting angry only makes problems w_____83_____. It can never make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act,” the book says. “It is just a habit, like smoking.’’
The book says you can control you feelings e_____84_____---all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry frequently. Here are the TOP three:
● Keep a r_____85_____.Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry so often.
● Ask your friends to s_____86_____talking to you when you get angry. Leave you alone. This will teach you not to be angry.
● Do something d_____87_____. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.
B
Positive people are usually happy. They often have a lot of friends. When they have a problem, they try to change the problem i_____84_____a chance .They believe things always work out. But can positive thinking really make someone’s life better? Many scientists are studying positive thinking. They are finding out some very interesting information.
Your Health
The Mayo Clinic is a famous medical organization in the United States. It studies many things, including positive thinking. Their research proves that positive thinking has many advantages. First, positive thinking s_____84_____good health. Positive people don’t worry about the bad events in life, so they stay healthy. Positive people are a_____84_____likely to exercise and eat healthy foods. Because of this, they don’t usually get sick and don’t have many health problems.
At work
Dr. Michael is a professor in Germany. His research shows that positive people do well in jobs. There are several reasons for this. Positive people are creative. They don’t expect o_____84_____to help them with problems. They solve problems themselves. And positive people don’t give up. They keep trying to learn new things.
Becoming Positive
In the past, scientists thought attitude n_____84_____changed. Now, many psychologists think people can become more positive. There are many different ways to change. Here are some examples. First, think about gook events in your life. At the end of a day, ask,” What good things happened to me today?” Think about these things for a few minutes. Second, find interesting a_____84_____to do. Laugh at a funny movie or read a good book .Finally, always try new things. For example, you can talk to people you don’t know or shop in a different store. Do different things every day.
A good life
Life can be d_____84_____sometimes. Don’t give up or be negative. Take action. Think about the future and make a plan. You can learn to be positive.
C
Have you seen the latest Hollywood movie Sherlock Holmes?
Holmes is a character created by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His books were so popular that Holmes s_____81_____became “the most famous detective in the world”. What do you need to be a good detective?
Holmes is back! In the movie Sherlock Holmes, this great detective, faces a dangerous man, Lord Blackwood. Together with his best friend Dr. Watson, Holmes sTOPs Blackwood’s plan to c_____82_____the world with black “magic”.
Most of us are not as clever as Holmes. But we can also work out mysteries on our own. All we have to do is to follow some simple rules.
Rule No. 1: Justice is most important.
No matter how smart he or she is, the most important quality for a detective is being good. In the movie, Lord Blackwood and Sherlock Holmes are both very clever. The difference is that Lord Blackwood is a bad man and he does bad things. Holmes can b_____83_____him on the side of justice.
Rule No.2: Have sharp eyes.
Every bad man tries to cover up what he did. But not all things can be covered up easily. A good detective can discover clues hidden at crime scenes with sharp eyes. For example, Holmes can find out a man’s p_____84_____information like age and habits simply by looking at his footprints.
Rule No.3: A good a_____85_____ is a great help.
Even though Holmes has knowledge about many subjects, such as chemistry, botany（植物学）and anatomy, he still needs Dr. Watson’s help to fight with him. You should also have s_____86_____as your helper, especially if you don’t know as much as Holmes.
Rule No.4: Logic is the key.
When all the necessary clues are put together, you’d better think carefully. If you can’t work it out i_____87_____, don’t be worried or anxious. Just take a deep breath and focus on thinking. Logic can help you discover missing clues.
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1、Lots of people have given up _________ since the beginning of this March.
A. smoke | B. to smoke | C. smoking | D. smoked |
2、I remember __________Jefferson’s relatives in Yingxiu Town when I went to Sichuan last month.
A. visiting | B. to visit | C. visited | D. have visited |
3、Because of the snow, students prefer outside to in the classroom.
A.playing... staying | B. play... staying | C. play... stay | D. playing... stay |
4、At first they had a lot of troubles in a new business.
A. start | B. started | C. to start | D. starting |
5、The audience sTOPped ______at once when the performance began.
A. talk | B. to talk | C. talked | D. talking |
6、Spring is here. Everyone is looking forward to _______ a trip to the Forest Park.
A. talk | B. to talk | C. talking | D. took |
7、He used to be a good movie director but nowadays he is only busy _______ money.
A. make | B. made | C. to make | D. making |
8、Albert hates ________ here and there to attend all kinds of boring conferences
A. fly | B. flying | C. flies | D. has flown |
9、 Jane plays the piano best in our class, so I never forget __ the music she played for the first time.
A. to hear | B. heard | C. hearing | D. hear |
10、Diana used ________ on the right of the road in China, but she soon got used ________ on the left in New Zealand.
A. to drive, driving | B. to drive, to drive | C. to driving, to drive | D. to drive, to driving |
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Who makes movies? Actors and directors, of course. But if you watch the creditsat the end of a movie, you’ll find hundreds of other names. Some of them are not f_____81____, but they play the most important roles in filmmaking. Here are three important jobs behind the scenes.
Makeup artist: Making characters look believable
The makeup artist’s work sounds simple. But it’s more than just making the lead actress look beautiful. If the hero gets a cut on his face, the makeup artist creates that cut, and it has to look e_____82____ the same tomorrow. And the special makeup for a monster or a space alien can take six hours! Sometimes makeup artists have only fifteen minutes to p____83_____twenty actors for a crowd scene. Their work must always be careful and good so you don’t notice it when watch the movie.
Special effects coordinator：Making impossible things look real
After a movie, people often ask, “How did they do that?” In films, people can fly, dinosaurs walk through cities, and spaceships travel to other p_____84_____in outer space. These are all the work of the special effects coordinator. Some special effects, especially in science fiction movies, are made with computers. O_____85____are made by machines, which can make a rainy day or a snowy night at any time of the year. Fires and explosions in movies are created with special effects.
Foley artist: Creating the sounds of the cinema
Think of your favourite scary movie and its sounds—footsteps, loud rain, and creaking doors. All of these are work of the Foley artist. Many sounds can’t be recorded d_____86_____the filming of a movie, so Foley artists p_____87_____them in their studios. They create the sounds of a fight scene, and the wind, rain, and thunder in the background. In a Foley artist’s studio, there are even special floors for recording different kinds of footsteps.
Next time you see a move, look for these names in the credits.
B
Have you ever seen an exhibition of rare Mexican grey wolves? There are five male wolves in Brookfield Zoo now. The exhibition is d_____81_____into two areas, an indoor room and a peaceful outdoor viewing or playing area. In the indoor area of the exhibition, which is small and can e_____82_____become crowded, you can see the wolves t_____83_____one-way glass and also enjoy a few different activities.
One of these activities is very interesting. You stand in a dark room, listening to recorded wolf howls. You can really get an idea of what it feels like to be in a dark and d_____84_____forest. After about a minute and a half, some wolves in the woods a_____85_____on the wall in front of you. It is a great experience for n_____86_____lovers.
In the outdoor area of the exhibition, there is a small river, ponds, fallen trees and a wetland. Visitors can walk among lifelike models of wolf prey, learning about different hunting s_____87_____the wolves use, how they store their food and how they communicate, while watching the wolves from behind an electric fence.
After a tour of the exhibition, you can read Wolf Brother written by Paver. It was made into a movie by director Ridley Scott.
Welcome to our exhibition of rare Mexican grey wolves.
C
Libraries give kids a quiet and safe place to read and to learn. For more than 100 years, libraries have played an important role in Americans’ e_____81_____. But how are these book-filled building changing with the times? You may be surprised to find out.
Benjamin Franklin famously found the American first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its b_____82_____development in the American history in the late 1800’s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 to 1996, Carnegie’s donation helped build 1,673 new libraries.
Carnegie believed in the chances that libraries could o_____83_____Americans, young and old. He knew the more libraries there were, the more people would have accessto books, lectures, news and more.
Chances are that there is a public library in or near your c_____84_____. You can easily find one close to your home. After all, the United States has 9,225public libraries. Today, libraries keep growing. Seven out of ten libraries have free Internet. This opens many doors for people who cannot go online at home, i_____85_____the opportunity to apply for jobs online.
Libraries are also teaching kids about the fun of reading. The new programme Read! Build! Play! adds reading to playtime. As kids listen to a book being read aloud, they use Legos to build images from the story h_____86_____. Today’s libraries are always looking for creative programs to bring people into the library.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom are never s_____87_____.” As long as the doors of public libraries are open, what he said is mostly correct!
课堂训练
【参考答案】1-5 AACCD 6-10 CBCCB
A 【参考答案】lose、bad、worse、easily、record、sTOP、different
B 【参考答案】into、supports、always、others、never、activities、difficult
C 【参考答案】soon、control、beat、personal、assistant、someone、immediately
课后作业
【参考答案】1-5 CAADD 6-10 CDBCD
A 【参考答案】famous、exactly/even、prepare、planets、Others、during、produce
B 【参考答案】divided、easily、through、dangerous、appear、nature、skills
C 【参考答案】education、biggest、offer、community、including、happily/heard、shut
