新概念英语第二册Lesson71 A famous clock课文详解+重点词汇+语法+语法填空 讲义

Lesson 71 文本  A famous clock When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had hot been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down !  文本解析 一）词汇学习Word study 1. official, employee与shop assistant official指“官员”、“公务员”： Before he retired, Jeremy had been a government/city official.在他退休之前，杰里米一直是位政府／市政府官员。A Customs official checked their passports.一位海关官员检查了他们的护照。 official也可以指“高级官员”： Bank officials get high salaries.银行高级职员的工薪很高。employee泛指“雇员”、“雇工”（包括各个层次的）：In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which had seven hundred employees.几年之后，小铺子已经发展成一个雇有700人的大工厂。Later he became a government employee.后来他成了一名公务员／政府雇员。 shop assistant在英国英语中表示零售店的“店员”（相当于美国英语中的salesclerk）： The shop assistant who served her did not like the way she was dressed.接待她的售货员不喜欢她的那副打扮。 2. hang, hung, hung与hang, hanged, hanged当hang表示“悬挂”时，其过去式与过去分词均为hung：A painter hung a pot of paint on one of the hand and slowed the clock down.一位油漆工把一只油漆桶挂在了一根指针上，把针弄慢了。I'm hanging this picture on the wall.我正把这幅画挂到墙上去。 当hang表示“绞死”、“吊死”或“上吊”时，其过去式、过去分词均为 hanged： As he has murdered three men, he ought to be hanged.他已杀了3个人，他应当被绞死。I wonder why she hanged herself.我纳闷／想知道她为何上吊自杀。  2） 课文详注 Further notes on the text 1. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great c