Unit 4 Earthquake
Reading
Language points
As is known to us，Sichuan province went through a terrible earthquake，the earthquake shaked the whole area as well as our hearts.Let us remember the terrible days and remember the great love that people have shown during the unexpected disaster.
rise (rise、rose、risen )
vi. (指日月星辰烟等的)升起，水位价格温度的上升 =go up ; 起身=get up n.增加 增长 起伏=increase
raise vt. 抬高 提高 养育 饲养（有被动）
1. The sun rises in the east.
2. He rose from his chair and began his speech.
3. There has been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work.
7. His job is raising chickens.
8. They _____ their arms and waved to us with joy. A rose B raised
B
4. Prices continue to rise.
6.The price of the tomatoes has been ____ recently.
raised
5.Her temperature is still________.
rising
smelly : smell+ y = adj.
smell n./v (smelt/ smelled)
2. A ______ gas came ___ __ the cracks.
smelly
out of
health→ wealth →
裂缝里冒出臭气。
扩展: n.+y构成形容词
blood---- mud---- sun----- cloud----
rain---- wind--- taste---- dream----
ice---- greed---- fat---- fog-----
3. burst vi.vt. (burst---burst---burst)
使某物爆炸，胀破，爆破, 破裂
burst in/into a door/ room /building 突然进入门/房间/大楼
1. 他没有敲门就突然进入房间.
He burst into the room without knocking at the door.
The plane crashed and burst into flames.
2.飞机坠毁起火了.
All of them burst out laughing/crying /singing.
3. 他们全都突然笑起来/哭起来/唱起来.
=All of them burst into laughter/tears/songs.
burst into sth. = burst out doing 突然…起来
burst out +v-ing :suddenly begin doing sth
扩展:
burst into leaf
burs into flower
长出叶子
开花
n. a burst of ...一阵...
a burst of laughter /thunder /applause(欢呼）
4. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.
think little of these events 对这些情况几乎没有怎么去考虑、没当一回事
think little of
think nothing of
think badly/poorly /ill of
think well/much / highly/a lot/ a great deal of
对……看法不好，评价很低
不重视，忽视
认为没什么
对……重视/高度评价
1.校长对你的进步评价很高。
The headmaster thought highly of your progress.
think of 想起，考虑
2. To tell you the truth, I ______________ Tom, who is very lazy and never knows what to do .
think poorly of
5. It seemed as if the world was at an end.
世界似乎到了末日。
as if = as though 好像… 引出方式状语从句
She spoke to me as if she knew me.
她和我说话的神情，好像她早就认识我
似的。
as if 在表语从句中相当于that:
It seemed as if/that the meeting would never end. 看起来会议没完没了。
1)虚拟语气（说话者主观想象或夸大的比喻）
2)陈述语气,时态一致
When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it were broken．
当铅笔一部分放进水里，看起来好像折断了似的。
(虚拟)
It looks as if it`s going to rain．
看样子天要下雨了。(陈述语气)
（是事实或可能性很大）
as if 后的从句可用两种语气
6. at an end= finished 结束，终结（作表语）
★ We were very happy when the work was at an end.
Compare: at the end of
by the end of
in the end
★at the end of “在…尽头；在…末”
★by the end of “到/截止……末”；主句一般用完成时
★in the end 意思“最后、终于”= at last/ finally
1. Wash your hands _______________ the experiment.
at the end of
2. How many English words had you learned ____________ last term?
by the end of
3. He tried various jobs and________ became a teacher.
in the end
bring/put an end to 使终止
come to an end. 结束
end up with 以….而告终
其他词组：
The job came to an end last month.
Her sudden arrival put an end to their meeting.
她的忽然来到使他们的会议终止了。
At the dinner we usually begin with soup and end up with fruit.
在宴会上，开始的一道菜通常是汤，最后的一道是水果。
7.In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.
在可怕的15秒钟内，一座大城市就沉沦在一片废墟之中。
lie( lay lain) 处于某种状态;躺，平躺，平卧 平放
1.The whole factory has lain waste for many years.
整个工厂多年来一直荒芜在那里。
2. He let the farm go to ruin.
他让农场败落了。
go to ruin = fall into ruin 衰落, 败落
lie/be in ruins 成为废墟
in ruins 荒芜的,成为废墟,一般用作表语或状语
An earthquake left the whole town in ruins.
His career is in ruins .
The city ______________ (成为废墟）after
the war.
lay/was in ruins
口诀:规则的“撒谎”，不规则的“躺”，躺过就“下蛋”。 (lie当“说谎”用，它的过去式和过去分词都为lied，而当“躺”用时，它的过去式为“下蛋”即lay)
8．分数的表示法
分子
　分母
基数词
序数词
分子大于一，分母用复数
三分之一　one- third
五分之三 three-fifths
two and three-fifths ? a quarter ？

Two thirds of the land is covered by forest.
2. One fifth of the students in this class are
girls
1. 三分之二的陆地为森林所覆盖．
这个班里五分之一的学生是女生．
3.More than 61% of the surface of the earth _____ covered by water.
4. Seventy percent of the workers in this factory _____ young.
is
are
口头翻译:
李平的弟弟年纪太小而不能参军。
Li Ping’s brother is too young to join the army.
=Li Ping’s brother is not old enough to join ….
听到这个消息他紧张地说不出话来。
Hearing the good news,he was too nervous to speak.
In the farmyards,the chickens and even the pigs
were too nervous to eat.
9.too…to… 太…以至于不能 (表否定)
“too…to…”结构之前带有only,but,never,not,时，
是强调肯定的表示法，译作“非常……”“十分…”
“实在……””真是太……”等
I am only too happy to teach you.
我非常高兴教你们。
He is but too glad to do so
他非常喜欢这样做
You can never be too old to enjoy a song.
我们绝对不会老得不能享受歌曲带来的欢乐
Too…to.. 结构中带有表示心情或描绘性的adj/adv
时也表达肯定含义
Eg. ready, eager, satisfied, kind, willing, anxious etc
She is too ready to help other.
他乐于助人。
I am too eager to have a world trip.
我很想去环球旅行
10. hurt

injure

wound
指肉体上，也可指精神上的
伤害．也可指“疼痛，痛苦”．
指由于意外或事故而受伤．
指外伤，如枪伤,刀伤,剑伤,尤指在战斗中受伤
He fell off the bicycle and his
arm.
3. My knees and my feet hurt too.
injured
hurt
His words ______her feelings.
It ______the eyes to read in the sun.

More than 200 people were _________in the car
accident.

The soldiers were __________-in the battle.
hurt
hurts
injured
wounded
11.shock n.震惊 打击
His sudden death was a great shock to his family.
shock vt. 使震惊 使震动
shock 震惊的用法
People __________ (shock).
我们对这个消息感到震惊。
were shocked
We __________________ the news.
were shocked at
The news is ___________(shock)
shocking
表示情感的动词 excite, surprise, interest, bore, move, shock, disappoint, satisfy,
(惊讶，兴趣，乏味，感动， 失望 ，满意）
变为形容词时可加ing(指物）或加ed (指人）
[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）。
The meeting ______(持续）two hours.
People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.
12. last 持续
lasted
It is no wonder (that )= No wonder (that)
wonder
13.People began to ________how long the disaster
would last.
wonder vt. 想知道，对------感到怀疑
She wondered what the child was doing.
---Tom often works deep into the night every day.
---No wonder he always gets first in the
examinations.
14. rescue
n. 搭救；解救;营救
The rescue team reached the mines
at once after the accident happened.
v. 解救；救出；营救
He rescued the man from drowning.
rescue workers = rescuers n.
come / go to one’s rescue来援救某人
We ________________ （来救他）and pulled him out of the lake.
came to his rescue
15. The number of people who were killed or injured
reached more than 400 000.伤亡的人数达到400 000.
He sent his son to join the army as soon as he
reached 18.
Your letter of August 24 only reached me today.

We’ve got to reach an agreement about this
question.
The boy wasn’t tall enough to reach the branches.

The park reaches as far as the river.
达到(指某种数目)
抵达,传到
达成(协议)得出(结论)
伸手够到(某物)
vi.延伸
某地发生地震的表达法：
Another big quake ,which is as strong as the first one _______Tangshan.
shook
2008年5月12日下午2点28分四川发生了大地震。
A big earthquake ____________Sichuan ____2:28
____ May12,2008.
shook / hit
at
on
16. shake –- shook -- shaken 摇动 ,震动,颤动
shake sb’s hand /shake hands with sb 握手 shake one’s head摇头 shake with anger气得发抖
不是所有希望都破灭了。
all…not … = not all…该句为部分否定
★表示全部否定：
no one, none, nobody, nothing, not…any, 以及“no+名词”
17. All hope was not lost.
= Not all hope was lost.
①不是所有的孩子都被留下了。

②不是所有的孩子都吵闹。
Not all the children are left.
(= Only some of them left early.)
Not all the children are noisy.
(= Some of the children are not noisy.)
All the students do not agree to the plan.
= Not all the students agree to the plan.
18. bury
vt. 埋葬; 葬
The boy buried the dead bird in the backyard. 男孩们把死鸟埋在后院。
vt. 使沉浸（或专心于）
be buried in…= bury oneself in…埋头于; 专心于
be buried in thought 沉思
bury oneself in study 埋头研究；专心学习
19. To the north of the city, most of the
10,000 people were rescued from the
coal mines.
To the north of
rescued
to/ on/ in
Japan is _____ the east of China.
Taiwan is _____ the southeast of
China.
3. Mongolia is _____ the north of
China.
to
in
on
/to
20.Tens of thousands of cows never give milk again
数以万计的奶牛再也不产奶了
tens of thousands of 数以万计的
hundreds and hundreds of 成百上千的
hundreds of thousands 数以十万计的
thousands of 数千计的
millions of 数百万计的
scores of 许许多多的
dozens of 许多，大量

22.表示许多的短语及用法
只接可数名词的有：a large/great number of
a good/great many
a good/great many of the/these/those/one’s
只接不可数名词的有：a great deal of
a large amount of
既可接可数名词又
可接不可数名词的有： a lot of
lots of
plenty of
a large/great quantity of
Thank you! Bye-bye!