Lesson 64 The Channel Tunnel（课件）新概念英语第二册

Lesson 64 The Channel Tunnel New words and expressions tunnel 隧道 port 港口 ventilate 通风 chimney 烟囱 sea level 海平面 double 双的 ventilation n. 通风 fear 害怕 invasion 入侵， 侵略 officially 正式地 connect 连接 European 欧洲的 continent 大陆 Can you repeat the words again? 1. fear vt. (1) 害怕，畏惧 She fears speaking in public. (2) 恐怕，猜想（比be afraid要正式） I fear that she has lost her way in the forest. 2. 动词draw的一些短语 动词draw的主要含义之一是“拉”、“拖”，它与不同的小品词连用可以有不同含义。 (1) draw in 使......进入，吸入： The smell of flowers in the shop drew us in. (2) draw back 后退，后缩，收回，撤回 If you take part in the race, you mustn't draw back. (3) draw up 停住，使......停住，起草，制订，拟订 Have any new agreements been drawn up between the two countries. (4) draw off 撤走，离开 The villagers had to draw off because of the flood. 课文注释： 1. a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel. 建造一条长21英里的隧道的计划。 twenty-one-mile作tunnel的修饰语，注意mile为单数。plan for + 名词/动名词表示“......的计划”： He came with a plan for (building) a bridge over the river. 2. serve as,充当，起......的作用（也可以说serve for) The books on the floor may serve as/for a carpet. 3. a better plan was put forward, 提出了一项更好的计划。 put forward为固定短语，可分开用，其含义之一是“提出（计划、建议等）”： Has he put forward any suggestion? 4. He suggested that a double rainlway-tunnel should be built. 他提议建一条双轨隧道。 suggest后面跟从句时，从句的谓语动词形式为should(可省略）+动词原形 He suggested that they should change the plans. suggest后面也可以跟名词或动词原形形式。 5. It was officially opened on March 7,1994, finally connecting Britain to the European continent. 它于1994年3月7日正式开通，将英国与欧洲大陆连到了一起。 现在分词connecting引导的短语相当于一个并列分句。connect表示“连接，连结”，可与to或with连用： The lake and the canal are connected by a river. 1. c 根据课文第6-9行，In 1860, a better plan was put forward by an Englishman...This would solve the problem of ventilation...可以判断只有c. his tunnel would be better ventilated(他的隧道会通风更好)是课文所暗示的情况，因为它说明了为什么William 的计划比Aime Thome de Gamond 的好的原因，其他3个选择都于课文实际内容不符合。 2. c 根据课文第9-10行 Forty-two years later a tunnel was actually b