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Unit 1
Reading 1
The evolution of video and sound devices
高中英语 选择性必修(第一册)
Unit 3 The art of painting
First impressions
Learning aims:
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
Learn to identify the structure of articles;
Learn to analyze long and complex sentences;
Learn to use sentence patterns and get much writing practice.
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Pattern 1 教材 P30
Even though I had admired them hundreds of times on my computer screen, nothing could have prepared me for the wonder I felt when I finally laid eyes on the real thing.
尽管我已经在电脑屏幕上欣赏过它们好几百次了,但当我最终看到实物时,我所感受到的惊奇令我怎么也没有想到。
句式剖析:
本句中,Even though 意为“虽然,尽管”,引导让步状语从句,相当于even if。
考点提炼: even though 引导的让步状语从句
even though 意为“即使,尽管”,用于引导让步状语从句,相当于even if,从句常用一般时代替将来时。若从句的主语与主句的主语一致,且从句的谓语中含有be动词,则从句的主语和be动词可以省略。
________________________________,I will try again.
即使这次失败了,我也会再次尝试。
They won't go to the party ________________________________.
即使受到邀请,他们也不会去参加那个聚会。
even if的易混短语为as if。as if(=as though)意为“好像”。
It looks as if it is going to rain.看起来好像要下雨了。
Even if/though I fail this time
even if/though (they are) invited
Pattern2教材P30
While it was hard to pick a favourite painting out of so many amazing works, the artists who made the deepest impression on me were two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
虽然很难从如此多惊艳的作品中挑出一幅最喜爱的画,但让我印象最深的是两位最伟大的印象派画家,克劳德·莫奈和皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷诺阿。
句式剖析:
本句中,While引导让步状语从句,意为“虽然”,相当于though/although。
考点提炼: while引导的句型
(1)用作从属连词,引导时间状语从句,意为“在.......期间”。
(2)用作从属连词,引导让步状语从句,意为“虽然,尽管”。
(3)用作并列连词,表对比,意为“而;然而”,用来连接两个并列分句。
The landlady suspected that someone must have broken into the house ___________________________________________________________________.(表时间)
女房东怀疑在她看电视节目时曾有人闯入房子里。
_______________________________________________, they got along quite well in the summer camp.(表让步)
尽管这些学生来自不同的国家,但他们在夏令营里相处得非常好。
In China,there's plenty of rain in the south-east,________________________________ in the north-west.(表对比)
中国的东南部雨量充足,而西北部则很少下雨。
while/when/as she was watching the TV show