2013牛津译林版必修二Unit 1《Tales of the unexplained》课件pptⅢ.pptVIP

牛刀小试 (1)Leonardo da Vinci(1452～1519)________birds kept in cages in order to have the pleasure of setting them free. A．is said to be buying B．is said to have bought C．had said to buy D．has said to have bought 解析：选B。sb./sth.is said to do sth.“据说……某人/某物做某事”。因为买鸟这一动作发生在说之前，因此此处应用不定式的完成式。 (2)________said that they have got to the town. A．It B．It is C．They are D．They 解析：选B。It is said that...据说……。如选D项，从句时态不对。句意：据说，他们已经到了那个城镇。 (3)(2009年高考全国卷Ⅱ)It is often________that human beings are naturally equipped to speak. A．said B．to say C．saying D．being said 解析：选A。句意：人们常说，人类天生就有说话的能力。It is said that...据说……，故A项正确。 译文助读 Yeti，Bigfoot and the Wild Man of Shennongjia For centuries，people have reported seeing a wild creature in the Himalayas called Yeti. The Yeti is said to be a large, hairy animal that walks on two feet like a human being. People believe that Yetis sometimes come down from the mountains to attack villagers. In 1998，an American mountain climber said that he saw a Yeti on the Chinese side of the Himalayas.“It walked like a human，but it had thick black fur and was about six feet tall with huge shoulders，very long arms and large hands，” he said. In 2007，an American TV team saw Yeti tracks 33 centimetres in length in the snow near Mount Qomolangma.They made copies of these tracks and had them examined by a scientist in the USA.He reported that they looked like the tracks of a similar creature, called Bigfoot，which some people believe lives in the forests of the northwest of the USA. Yeti and Bigfoot are similar to a creature known as the Wild Man of Shennongjia.There have been dozens of reports that people have seen a Wild Man in the Shennongjia Nature Reserve in western Hubei Province，China. In one case，a group of engineers ran after the creature, which moved with amazing speed and strength. Large tracks have also been discovered which some people say belong to the Wild Man.Because of these reports and the tracks，there have been several organized searches