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Unit 10 Is there a post office near here?
本单元的交际话题为“问路和指路”。要求熟练掌握常用的地点名词post office,hotel,hospital,bank等,以及表示方位的介词及介词短语behind,near,along,across from,in front of等。单元重点语法①there be句型,②问路与指路的表达方式。
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1、 Is there a hospital near here? The pay phone is next to the library.
该句为there be句型的一般疑问句(详见语法部分)。
【next to】表示方位的介词短语,意为“在......旁边,贴近,紧靠”,相当于at the side of...,其后常接表示场所、顺序的词。 例:The post office is next to the school.
【辨析】next to与near
【next to】介词短语,意为“在......旁边,贴近,紧靠”。例:Come and sit next to me.
【near】作介词,意为“在......的附近”;
作形容词,意为“近”,反义词是far,意为“远”。
例:Nanjing is near Shanghai . His house is very near.
练:①他家附近有一家剧院。There is a theater his home.
②书店旁边的那幢新楼是一家电影院。
The new building the bookstore is a cinema.
2、 The pay phone is across from the library.
【across】介词,意为“横穿”,通常与street,road,river等搭配。
例:I went across the road.=I crossed the road.
I swam across the Yangtze River 20 years ago.
【across from】介词短语,意为“在......对面,在......的对过”,后接表示地点的名词或代词,相当于on the other side of或opposite.
例:The shop is across from the bank.
=The shop is on the other side of the bank.
=The shop is opposite the bank.
【across与 through】
across表示动作是在物体的表面上进行的,强调从一端到另一端,如过河、过桥、过马路等。through表示动作是在某一物体的内部空间进行的,如穿过门、森林、隧道、浓雾等。
例:The river runs through our city. He passed through the hall.
练:--Look! A blind man is in the middle of the street. It’s too dangerous.
--Let’s help him go the street.
A.cross
B.through
C.across
D.along
3、 The pay phone is between the post office and the library.
【between...and...】介词短语,意为“在......和......之间”。既可以表示时间概念,也可以表示
空间概念。between是介词,后面接名词或代词宾格,接名词复数时表示两个同类的人或物
之间。 例:I’ll phone you between one and three o’clock.
It’s about one mile between the shop and the cinema.
练:①我将在十二点至一点之间来。I will come twelve one o’clock.
②I can see a playground the two tall buildings.
A.in
B.among
C.between
D.on
4、 The pay phone is in front of the library.
【in front of与in the front of】介词短语