高中英语unit2Robotswarming up and reading课件人教版选修7.ppt

Satisfaction Guaranteed Comprehending After you have read the story, answer the following questions in groups. 1.Why did Tony open the curtains? 2.What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed? 3.Why should Tony be rebuilt? 4.Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house .What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that she was a machine? When she first saw the robot, she felt alarmed. Tony didn’t look like a machine at all. She felt embarrassed when Tony asked her whether she needed help dressing. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. She was amazed by the fingernails and the softness and warmth of his skin. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day. What a sweet victory to be envied by those women. She might not as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover. Then she remembered—Tony was just a machine. She cried all night. Language points: 4)more + adj / adv / n / v + than 与其说…, 不如说… He is more scared than ill. 与其说他是病了,倒不如说他是受了惊吓。 5)more than+含有情态动词的句子 是……难以……，超过了……所能 The beauty of the village is more than I can describe. 我难以描述那个山村的美丽。 This problem is more than a child can settle. 这一问题超出了小孩的解决能力。 6) no more than 仅仅,不过,只是 All his education added up to no more than one year. Their new flat has no more than 60 square meters. 7) not more than 至多,不超过 Lying on the ground was a schoolboy of not more than seventeen. 【 n. 】 reach within one’s reach out of one’s reach = beyond one’s reach 4. As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. there stood... 此句为存在结构,常用于这种结构的 动词有stand, seem to be, happen to be, be likely to be, live, come, enter, lie, exis