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Unit 2 Great minds
一:需背句子。
1. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
天才是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水
2. Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
3. To / In order to improve English, He thought of lots of good ways to study English .
4. If you don't work hard, you will let your parents down.
5. It is very important for us to remember a lot of English vocabularies so you'd better learn them by heart.
7. As soon as the astronauts arrived the meeting room, we greeted them with warm applause.
宇航员们一到会场,我们就以热烈的掌声欢迎他们。
7. Once you make a decision/ make up your mind to do sth., stick to it and never give up.
一旦你下定决心做某事, 坚持下来,永不放弃。
二:难点全解
1. Listen to a radio programme about some great minds.听一些关于伟人的广播节目。
Mind在此用作可数名词,意为:聪明的,富有才智的人。
William Shakespeare was a great mind. 莎士比亚是一位伟人。
拓展:1)mind作名词,还可表示头脑,大脑,心思。
Make up one’s mind:下定决心 Change one’s mind:改变主意
2)mind可做动词,意为介意。 Mind+doing sth.
Do you mind me smoking here?
2. Many people consider Albert Einstein a genius. ★★
consider及物动词,意为“认为;觉得”。consider sb./ sth.(as) sth.意为“认为某人/某物是···”。
英汉互译:
他认为自己是一个了不起的人。
They were considered as heroes.
另外,consider后还可接that从句。
He considered that we could do the work well.
拓展:consider 意为“考虑”,相当于think about, 其后可接名词、代词、动词-ing形式、从句
或“疑问词+不定式”作宾语。但其后不能接跟动词不定式作宾语。
例句:You’d better consider my suggestion.
We are consider going to Hainan next year. .
He has never considered how to solve the problem.
3. This story about him shows that he also had a sense of humour.
sense 可数名词,意为“感觉;理解力;判断力”通常用单数。sense of humour (幽默感)。
张老师非常幽默。 Mr Zhang has a very good .
她没有方向感。 She didn’t have a .
humour 不可数名词,意为“幽默”
I like such stories full of humour.
拓展:humorous 形容词,意为“滑稽有趣的;有幽默感的”。
He had a wi