Module1《DeepSouth-Languagepoints》课件（外研版选修8）.ppt

Module 1;Language Points;1. With annual rainfall close to zero, Antarctica is technically a desert. 南极洲年降雨量几乎为零，严格来说该区域就是一片荒漠。 with annual rainfall close to zero 为介词短语，表示原因，由介词＋名词＋形容词（词组）组成，也即“with +宾语＋形容词短语”构成的复合结构。例如：;With so many students weak in their pronunciation, they started from the beginning. ;2. Covering about 14 million square kilometers around the South Pole, it is the fifth largest continent in the world. 南极洲覆盖了南极圈周围1,400万平方公里的面积，是世界第五大洲。 1) covering about…在句子中作状语。 ;2) the fifth largest continent in the world. 形容词最高级前面的修饰成分为序数词。 Is it the third longest river in the world? 形容词最高级前面还可有其他的成分。 It was by far the best university I have visited. It was of the very highest quality.;3. On average it is two kilometers thick, but in some places it reaches a depth of five kilometers. (南极洲)冰层平均厚度为2，000米，但某些地方厚度可以达到5，000米。;词组two kilometers thick，形容词thick 增加了修饰成分 two kilometers。例如： The rope is two meters long. The well is 12 meters deep. 但是注意下面情况： It is a 12-meter-long rope. The 12-meter-deep well is the deepest one in our village.;4. As a result, it has become a window on the past, and can give researchers lots of useful information. 因此，它已经变成人们了解过去的窗口，可为研究者提供大量有用的信息。 window 窗户，窗口 在此引申为“获得信息的渠道” 。 International news broadcasts provide a window on the world. ;5. But the long Antarctic winter night, which lasts for 182 days (the longest period of continuous darkness on the earth ) as well as the extreme cold and lack of rainfall, means that few types of plants can survive there. 但是南极洲冬天的夜晚长达182天(地球上持续时间最长的黑暗时期), 气候极度寒冷降雨量极少,这意味着很少有植物能够在这里生存。; 1) which lasts for 182 days… 这是一个非限制性定语从句。在非限制性定语从句中，which 有时并不代表一个名词，而是代表前面句子的全部或部分意思： He changed his mind, which made all of us angry. The students finished the work by themselves, which was encouraging.;2) as well as 是一个并列连接词 He wrote three famous novels as well as some plays. It is a political as well as an economic question. 3) few 表示很少，几乎没有。 He is among the few people I can trust. Very few people can affor