新概念英语第四册Lesson 2 Spare that spider 课件

Lesson 2 Spare that spider 不要伤害蜘蛛 spare v. not harm or kill None of the passengers were spared in the air crash. We arrived at the airport with just 20 minutes to spare. Now parents spare no expense on their children’s education. 多余 节省 ① Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? How should I know? Why should conservatives vote for Bush? You may wonder why spiders are our friends. Dogs, it seems, love to chew up money. Chickens slaughtered in the United States, claim officials in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Many of us believe that economic development is of paramount importance to China. →Economic development, many of us believe, t is of paramount importance to China. 造句：你可能会觉得奇怪，我们中有些人为什么会成为建立和维护人际关系的专家呢？ Why, you may wonder, should some of us become experts in building and maintaining personal relationships? ② Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. kill off Pollution in the sea has killed off a lot of marine life. slaughter / massacre The army slaughtered / massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians. Nanjing massacre wipe out / exterminate What wiped out / exterminated dinosaurs from the earth? terminate Illegal contracts must be terminated. ③ Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. make it possible for sb. to do = enable sb. to do They devise hundreds of competitions which will enable us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to capture the attention of millions of people in this way. render sb. / sth. + adj. His injury rendered him unfit for work. Solar power could become a viable energy source, rendering f