人教新课标高中英语必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes知识点讲解.docVIP

Unit 4 Earthquakes知识点讲解 一：重点单词 1. burst vi. vt. (burst, burst)（使某物）爆炸；胀破；爆破 I’ve eaten so much I feel ready to burst. 我吃得太多，肚子都要撑破了。 burst in/into (a room, etc. )突然进入（房间等）All of them burst into laughter/tears/song. 他们全都突然笑起来/哭起来/唱起来。The police burst in/into the room and arrested that gang. 警察突然闯进房门逮捕了那帮人。 burst out doing. . .突然开始做某事 All of them burst out laughing/crying/singing. 他们全都突然笑起来/哭起来/唱起来。 in ruins严重受损；破败不堪；成为废墟An earthquake left the whole town in ruins. 地震过后全城到处都是颓垣断壁。 His career is/lies in ruins. 他的事业已完全失败。 injure vt.伤害，损害，受伤 She was badly injured in an accident during the work. 她在一次工伤事故中受了重伤。 harm, hurt, injure wound: harm用于指肉体或精神上的伤害均可，有时可指引起不安或不便，还可用于抽象事物，尤其是指不道德的事情；hurt为一般用语，既可指肉体上的伤害，也可指精神上的伤害，还可用作不及物动词，意为“疼痛”；injure一般指由于意外或事故而受伤；wound指外伤（如枪伤、刀伤、剑伤等），尤指在战争、战斗中受伤。 The robber______________ him with a knife. A. harmed　B. hurt　C. injured　D. wounded 答案：D destroy vt. to break to pieces; to make useless; to put an end to摧毁；毁坏；破坏 The fire destroyed all my books. 这场大火毁了我的全部书籍。 destroy, damage ruin: destroy 强调以具有摧毁或杀伤性的力量把某物彻底毁掉；damage一般指对物体或生命的局部损坏；ruin指逐渐毁掉。 After the war the Japanese economy lay in______________　. A. ruin 　B. ruins 　C. damage 　D. destroy答案：B But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed as usual that night. 但是，唐山市的一百万居民几乎都没有把这些情况当一回事，当天晚上照常上床睡觉了。 句中的who thought little of these events是非限制性定语从句；think little of的意思是“不重视……；认为……没有什么了不起；对……不假思索”，类似的短语还有think better of sb. （对某人印象好；看重某人），think better of sth. （改变念头；打消主意），think highly of（看重；器重），think well of（重视；认为……好），think poorly of（不放在眼里；轻视），think nothing of（轻视；认为……无所谓；认为……没什么了不起），think much of（认为……很不错），think ill of（认为……不好）等；as usual是固定短语，意思是“照常；照例”。 I thought little of what he said at that time. 我对他当时说的话没加思索。 I think much better of him after I have found out his true motive. 我发觉他的真实动机后，对他的评价高多了。 The little boy went to school as usual that day. 那天，那个小男孩照常去上学。 1) In Australia, one thinks______________ of riding fifty miles to a dance. A. nothi