人教版 必修一 Unit 4 Earthquakes-- language points.ppt

[考点] last在此句中意为“持续，延续”。可单独使用，也可后接for +一段时间（for可以省略）。 12. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last. [考例] The evening news comes on at seven o’clock and ______ only thirty minutes. (2004全国卷II) A. keeps B. continues C. finishes D. lasts [点拨] 根据句意“……只持续30分钟”，排除C； keep意为“维持，保持”时，后接形容词作表语，排除A; continue指继续做某事；last指某事持续了多长时间。 13. All hope was not lost. [考点] all...not = not all...意为“并不都……”，是部分否定。当all, both及every的合成词与not 连用时，表示部分否定；完全否定要用no, never, nowhere, none, neither, nothing, nobody等。 [考例] I agree with most of what you said, but I don’t agree with ______. (NMET 1997) A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing [点拨] 根据前面的“我同意你说的大部分”，暗示“我并不同意所有的”，可知是部分否定，选A。not...everything表示的是部分否定。 14. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead. dig out 挖掘；发现 bury: A. to place in the ground B. to occupy (oneself) with deep concentration; absorb The dog buried the bone in the ground. I buried myself in my studies. bury oneself in= be buried in devote oneself to= be devoted to a. 这是一个含有定语从句的复合句。 b. 本句的结构是：主语（The army） + 谓语（organized） + 宾语（teams） + 目的状语（to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead）。 c. who were trapped是定语从句，修饰先行词those。 d. and连接两个不定式短语作目的状语。 15. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed. [考点] whose意为“……的”，在定语从句中作关系代词，后接名词。当前面的先行词与后面的名词构成所属关系时，就用关系代词whose。其先行词可以是人，也可以是物。 [考例] Last month, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ______ effects the people are still suffering. (天津 2005) A. that B. whose C. those D. what [点拨] 因from前是逗号，可判断出后面是一个定语从句，排除those；从句部分与先行词之间的关系为：the people are still suffering from the effects of the floods，whose指代of the floods, 在句中作定语，故此题选B。 What can we do to reduce the damage of earthquakes? keys 1. Build houses along the lines where two of the earth’s plates join together; 2. Build the houses on rock than on sand. 3. Make the houses as strong as possible, weak bui