Unit 2 Section Ⅱ Warming Up and Reading(Ⅱ).ppt

2．Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. 采用他的杂交水稻种子，农民们种出的粮食是以前的两倍。 句中twice as large as before表示“是以前的两倍”，这是倍数的一种表示方法。常见的倍数表达形式有： (1)倍数＋as＋形容词/副词原级＋as This tree is three times as tall as that one. 这棵树是那棵树的三倍高。 (2)倍数＋形容词/副词的比较级＋than The dictionary is exactly five times more expensive than that one. 这本字典比那本恰好贵四倍。 (3)倍数＋the size/height/length/width/depth＋of The newly-broadened square is four times the size of the previous one. 新扩建的广场是未扩建时的四倍大。 (4)倍数＋that＋of The size of the newly-broadened square is four times that of the previous one. 新扩建的广场是未扩建时的四倍大。 (5)倍数＋what从句 The production now is three times what it was ten years ago. 现在的产量是十年前的三倍。 [多角度演练] 1．一句多译 ①这房间是那房间的两倍大。 → → ②我厂的电视机的产量(output)是2009年的15倍。 → → The room is twice as big as that one. This room is twice the size of that one. The output of TV sets in our factory is 15 times what it was in 2009. The output of TV sets in our factory is 15 times that of 2009. 2．单项填空 ③(2012·新课标全国卷)This restaurant wasnt ________ that other restaurant we went to. A．half as good as B．as half good as C．as good as half D．good as half as 解析：选 。考查倍数表达法。句意：这家餐馆还没有我们去过的其他餐馆的一半好呢。本题为倍数表达法之一：倍数＋as＋adj.原级＋as＋比较成分。 A 点击下图片进入 2．高考微阅读 ④... but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong. (2011·天津高考阅读C) ……但是这个观点自从那时开始便扩展到美国的其他城市，甚至到达了香港。 3．单项填空 ⑤To the surprise of many people, in ten years the citys population ________ by 12%. A．gained　　　　　　　　 B．expanded C．developed D．spread 解析：选 。考查动词词义辨析。句意：令许多人惊奇的是，十年里这个城市的人口膨胀了12%。gain“获得；增加”；expand“膨胀；扩充”；develop“发展”；spread“传播”。 B 考点5 thanks to幸亏；由于；因为 教材 原句 Thanks to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to rid the world of hunger. 由于他的研究，联合国在消除世界饥饿的战斗中又多了些方法。 Thanks to your timely help, I managed to finish the work on time. 多亏了你及时的帮助，我按时完成了工作。 It was thanks to your stupidity that we lost the game. 正是由于你的愚蠢，我们才输了比赛。 [联想发散] 请想一想，表示“因为；由于”的短语还有哪些？ owing to, due to, because of, as a