Unit2 woking the land Language_points.ppt

1. Have you ever grown any plants? If so, what did you do to grow them? If so=If you have ever grown some plants. so 表示“像那样的，如果这样的话”，用于代替已陈述的事。如： Will you get a free day next week? If so, lets have a picnic. 2. struggle vi. n. 斗争, 拼搏, 努力, 挣扎 struggle for 为争取…而斗争 struggle against / with 与…斗争 struggle to do sth. 努力做某事 We consider it our duty to support good leaders. The guide thought ___ wrong to eat monkeys. A. this B. it is C. it D. that was 7. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvest without expanding the area of fields. 袁博士寻求一种在不扩大种植面积的情况下提 高水稻产量的方法。 ▲ search 搜查 ▲ search常用的搭配： 　 search sb./sth. 搜查某人/某物 search for sb./sth. 搜寻某人/某物 search sth./sb. for sth. 搜查某物/某人以寻找…… in search of 寻找 10. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. 用他的杂交水稻种子，农民们种出比以前 多一倍的粮食。 英语中的倍数表达法共有三种形式: (1) 倍数 + 形容词/副词的比较级 + than... (2) 倍数 + as +形容词/副词的原级 + as...　 This building is five times as high as that one. 这座楼是那座楼的五倍高。 This building is five times higher than that one. 这座楼比那座楼高出五倍。 (3) 倍数 + the + 名词+ of... This building is five times the height of that one. 这座楼是那座楼的五倍高。 The new building is four times the size of the old one. It is reported that the United States uses ___ energy as the whole of Europe. A. as twice?? ?? B. twice much?? C. twice much as? ?? D. twice as much 1) too much 与much too的区别 2) rather than 而不是 Mary, rather than her roommates, is going to Beijing. 要去北京的是玛丽, 而不是她的室友们。 注意: rather than 连接两个名词或代词作主语时,谓语动词应与rather than 前面的名词或代词在人称和数上保持一致。 16. Dr. Yuan awoke from his dream with the hope of producing a kind of rice that could feed more peop