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Section Ⅲ Discovering Useful Structures & Listening and Talking
学习任务目标
1. 掌握现在进行时的被动语态的基本用法。
2. 在听的过程中,能使用表示目的的语言结构进行交流和讨论。
3. 能有意识地使用本单元的功能意念项目表达做事的目的和意图。
Ⅰ. 单词拼写
1. Unfortunately, a great many deer (鹿) have been killed in the past decade.
2. Sometimes I feel like a kangaroo (袋鼠), all stuff in my pocket.
3. We can't figure out why quite a number of insects (昆虫), birds, and animals are dying out.
4. I bought the binoculars (双筒望远镜) when I visited the city last year.
5. The company is casting its net (网) wide in search for a new sales director.
Ⅱ. 拓展词汇知变形
1. reduce vt. 减少→reduction n. 缩小;减少;降低
2. neighbourhood n. 临近的地方;街区→neighbour n. 邻居→neighbouring adj. 临近的;附近的→neighbourly adj. 睦邻的;友好的
Ⅲ. 根据提示用适当的短语填空
1. Devoted to teaching, the young lady has little time to care for (照顾) her own daughter.
2. The girls helped her to put out (把……摆好) the cups and plates.
3. The teachers were worried about (担心……) him and often talked with him face to face.
4. He then offered to take me to that area to search for (查找) a job.
5. Please don't look up (查阅) the word in the dictionary every time you meet a new word.
现在进行时的被动语态
①What is being done to help them?
②Well, I know that they're being hunted and their habitat is getting smaller, so they're in danger of extinction.
③What measures are being taken to help them?
④Much is being done to protect wildlife, but if we really want to save the planet, we must change our way of life.
以上句子中的黑体部分为现在进行时的被动语态,其构成形式为be(am/is/are)+being done。
1. reduce vt. 减少
(教材原文)It is reported that living spaces for wildlife are being reduced due to the cutting of trees.
据报道,由于砍伐树木,野生生物的生存空间正在减少。
【读句探究】
The park has been reduced to half its former size.
公园的规模已被缩减到以前的一半大了。
The sales of goods were reduced by 25 percent this year.
今年的商品销量下降了25%。
I was alarmed at the news that he had been reduced to begging in the street.
听到他被迫在街上乞讨的消息,我感到震惊。
【探究归纳】
探究
要点
(1)reduce ... to ... 把……降到/减少到……
reduce ... by ... 把……降低/减少了……
be reduced 沦落到/为……
(2)reduction n. 缩小;减少;降