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Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!
重点知识总结
重点词汇:
1. race n. 竞赛,比赛
· Lisa won the race. Lisa赢了比赛.
· Shall we have a race?
我们来比赛跑,好吗?
〖辨析〗race, match, game, competition
race
通常指速度类的比赛
match
一般指代表队之间的大型公开比赛,尤指球赛
game
通常指为了娱乐或锻炼、根据某种规则以胜负为主的比赛,既能是体力的,也能是脑力的
competition
指对力量、技术和能力的比赛
· It’s a race between the two best runners of the club.
这是俱乐部中两名最佳选手的的赛跑。
· My brother enjoys watching basketball matches.
我哥哥喜欢看篮球比赛。
· They’re in training for the big game.
他们正在为大赛进行训练。
· Alex won the first prize in a maths competition last weekend.
Alex上周末获得了数学竞赛一等奖。
2. wonder v. 想知道,想弄明白(相当于want to know)
· I wondered where you were.
我想知道你在哪里。
· Scientists also wonders if there is any creature in outer space.
科学家也想知道外太空是否有生物。
〖拓展〗wonder可作名词,意为“奇迹,奇观”
· The Tower of Pisa is one of the New Seven Wonders of the world.
比萨斜塔是世界七大奇迹之一。
3. traditional adj. 传统的,惯例的
· She wears a traditional dress.
她穿着一件传统服装。
· It's traditional in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
感恩节时吃火鸡是美国的传统。
【拓展】traditional的名词形式是tradition,意为“传统,惯例”
· There is a tradition in our family that we have a party on New Year’s Eve.
我们家有个传统,全家要聚在一起过新年除夕。
4. medicine n. 药物,药剂,医学
· He is going to learn medicine.
他打算学医。
· Although he was ill, he didn’t take any medicine.
尽管他生病了,但是他没吃任何药物。
【注意】medicine表示“药”时,通常为不可数名词
【拓展】take medicine 吃药
· My mother reminded me to take medicine before I went to bed.
我妈妈提醒我睡前吃药。
5. steal v. 偷窃,盗窃(steal的过去式是stole, 过去分词是stolen)
· He ran out of money so he stole something to eat.
他用光了所有的钱,因此他偷了些吃的东西。
【拓展】steal sth. from... 从......偷某物
· He saw the man stole a cellphone from a young girl.
他看见这个男人偷了一个年轻女孩的手机。
6. whoever prep. 无论谁,不管什么人
whoever可以引导让步状语从句和名词性从句。whoever引导让步状语从句时,相当于no matter who。此句中whoever引导的是主语从句,不能与no matter who互换使用。
· Whoever they are, I don’t want to see them.
=No matter who they are, I don’t want to see them.
无论他们是谁,我都不想见。
· Whoever says that is a liar.
说那话的人是骗子。
【拓展】与whoever相似用法的词有:
whatever 无论什么 whichever 无论哪个 whenever 无论何时 where