内容正文:
U5 Using Language
Attributive clauses
(2)
Look at the sentences from the reading
passage and answer the question.
a.Eventually,it manages to reach
the places where it will spend the winter.
b.The solution...comes at a time when it is in
serious trouble.
c.Sadly,human activity is the main reason why
the number of monarch butterflies is falling.
Vhat do“where'”,“when”.“why'refer to in
each sentences?
What's the difference between the two groups of
sentences?
a Eventually,it manages to reach the places where it will
spend the winter.
d Eventually,it manages to reach those places.
It will spend the winter there.
b The solution...comes at a time when it is in serious
trouble.
e It is in serious trouble.The solution...comes at this time.
c Sadly,human activity is the main reason why the
number of monarch butterflies is falling.
f Sadly,human activity is the main reason.
For this reason,the number of monarch butterflies is
falling.
Why does the author choose to use sentence (a),(b)
and (c)in the reading passage?
Because there is a closer link and
connection between the item and the
clause defining it in sentences (a),(b)
and (c).It will also make the passage
clearer,and create an emphatic effect
on the location,time and reason being
defined.
1.Look for more sentences with attributive
clauses in the reading passage.
1)These two pieces of information the time
of day and the point where the sun is in
the sky...
先行词
where在从句中
作地点状语
2)In many of the places where the butterfly
can be found,people are destroying
3)They cut down trees and use chemicals
that
kill the plants that monarch caterpillars
eat.
4)If this works,there may come a time when
the number of monarch butterflies may
increases once again
2.Read the passage and underline the
Words that where, when, and why
refer to,
In April 2017,two giant pandas
from China arrived at a zoo in the
Netherlands.There,they were welcomed
to the Chinese-style compound here
they were to live.On 30 May,after the
preparations were complet