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Unit 2 第1课时
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1.English is now used by nearly a quarter of the world's population… 英语现在正被近四分之一的世界人口使用……
(1)quarter作名词,意为“四分之一;一刻钟”。
【拓展】分数的用法:
①基数词作分子,序数词作分母;当分子大于1时,分母应用复数。但“二分之一”通常用a half,“四分之一”通常用a/one quarter,“四分之三”通常用 three quarters。
②一般情况下,分数修饰可数名词作主语时,谓语动词用复数;修饰不可数名词作主语时,谓语动词用单数。
(2)population作名词,意为“(某一地区)人口,全体居民;人口数量”。表示某地区的人口时,要在其前加定冠词the。
【注意】①population作主语,谓语动词用单数形式。
②询问“人口多少”有两种方式:What's the population of…?或How large is the population of…?
③表示人口“多少”要用large或small来修饰。
①There are four of us,so we cut the pizza into quarters (quarter)and each eats a piece.
②我们家乡的人口是你们家乡人口的两倍。
The population of our home town is twice as large as that of yours.
2.…there is a good chance that you will meet someone who speaks English.……你有很大的机会遇到说英语的人。
chance在此作可数名词,意为“可能性;机会”,常用短语:have a chance to do sth.=have a chance of doing sth.意为“有做某事的机会”;have a fifty-fifty chance意为“有一半的可能性”。
【拓展】chance意为“可能性”时也可用作不可数名词。
If you hurry up,you will have a chance to say (say)goodbye to your teacher.
Ⅰ.根据句意及汉语提示完成单词
1.The little girl can count from zero (零)to a hundred.
2.Jessy's father is a boss (老板)of a very big company.
3.This kind/type (类型)of machine has many functions.
4.There are two Indian (印度的)students in our school.
5.To have a better life,we must develop the industry (工业).
6.A quarter (四分之一)of my classmates came to the party yesterday.
7.As a private secretary (秘书),you'd better not speak too much.
Ⅱ.从括号中选择合适的词语填空
1.English is used for (as/for)education in many countries.
2.Lucy together with two boys is (are/is)getting into Uncle Wang's car.
3.The best way to learn English well is to read everyday English every day .(everyday/every day)
4.This dress still looks perfect even though (even though/so that)it is out of style.
5.The reason why (because/why)you see the light first is that the sound travels more slowly than the light.
Ⅲ.完形填空
One day,I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student,“You speak very good English.” But the girl answered,“No,no.My English is very poor.