湖南省师范大学附属中学高中英语 Reading I.ppt

2) thousands of 成千上万的 类似的用法还有?： hundreds of 数以百计的 scores of 许多 millions of 上百万的 dozens of 许多，大量 tens of thousands of 数以万计的 score与many, several连用修饰名词复数时，都要用单数，其后的介词of有无均可。但是，习惯上score多与of连用，而dozen很少与of连用，如：two score (of) workers, three score and ten people, several dozen children, many dozen books。 The teacher bought two ___books in the bookstore. A. scores of　B. scores　C. score of　 7. Most Canadians live within 320 kilometres of the USA border… 大多数加拿大人居住在靠近美国320公里以内的边疆地带…… C within与in表达时间的区别: within指在时间范围之内，不超过；而in 是经过若干时间，指期限之外。 I’ll be there within an hour. （一小时之内） I’ll be there in an hour. （一小时之后） 8. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms that were thousands of square kilometres in size. 火车穿过一个种植小麦的省份，他们看见了面积有数千平方公里的农场。 wheat-growing 是一个复合形容词。 复合形容词 1). N-Ned baby-faced (娃娃脸的) horse-faced (马脸的) 2). adj-Ned good-mannered (有礼貌的) narrow-minded (心胸狭窄的) absent-minded (心不在焉的) old-fashioned (过时的) short-sighted (近视的) 3). 数字-Ned one-legged (独脚的) three-headed (三个头的) five-sided (五个边的) two-storied (两层楼的) 例外︰数字-计量单位(-adj)，注意复数时，单位名词仍不加s。 three-year-old (三岁大的) two-week (两个礼拜的) one-way (单行的) 4). N-Ving body-building (强身的) peace-loving (爱好和平的) heart-warming (感人的) law-abiding (守法的) 5). adj-Ving easy-going (悠哉的) good-looking (美貌的) high-sounding (夸张的) 6). adv-Ving hard-working (工作努力的) fast-moving (移动快速的) far-reaching (影响深远的) 7). N-pp(过去分词) heart-broken (伤心的) hand-made (手工的) man-caused (人为的) 8). adj-pp plain-spoken (坦白说话的)