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Part 2 Reading and Writing
1. The sound of the knife between the bones was like a whisper in the night.
切开骨头的刀响声就像夜晚的沙沙声一样。
(1)sound作名词,意为“声音”。
Peter heard the sound of gunfire. 彼得听见了枪炮声。
(2)sound作连系动词,意为“听起来”,“听上去(给人以某种印象)”,常接形容词作表语,不接副词。还可接名词,介词短语或从句。
The song he sang just now sounds nice.
他刚才唱的歌很好听。
(3)sound like意为“听起来像”, sound like后面接名词或句子。
It sounds like the singing of the birds. 它听起来就像鸟儿的歌唱。
You don’t sound like a foreigner talking English.
听你讲英语,不像是外国人。
I don’t want to sound like I’m some old fogy.
我不想让自己听上去像一个老古董。
巩固练习
选择题。
( )(1)_______nice, the song is popular with us.
A. Sounds B. Sounding C. Sounded D. To sound
( )(2)The song he enjoys _______nice.
A. sounding B. sounds C. to sound D. sounded
2. But after I had been at it for a few years and butchered a good number of cows, what I saw was no longer the whole cow, but just its structure.
但是在我做了几年并屠宰了许多牛以后,我看到的不再是整头牛,而是牛的框架。
(1) a number of表示“若干的;许多的”=numbers of, 起修饰作用,相当于many或a lot of, number前可以加small, large 等词来表示程度。
“a number of+复数可数名词”作主语时,其谓语动词用复数形式。
A number of students are playing football. 许多学生在踢足球。
(2) the number of表示“……的数量”。
“the number of+复数可数名词”作主语时,谓语动词用单数形式,后常跟large, small等词作表语。
The number of students is very large in our school. 我们学校的学生数量非常大。
(3) an amount of=amounts of表示“若干的;许多的”,修饰不可数名词,amount前可加large或great修饰。
“an amount of+不可数名词”作主语时,谓语用单数形式;“amounts of+不可数名词”作主语时,谓语用复数。
A large amount of money was spent on the bridge. 这座桥花了许多钱。
=Large amounts of money were spent on the bridge.
(4)the amount of表示……的数量”,修饰不可数名词,作主语时谓语用单数。
The amount of training you need depends very much on your goals.
你需要的培训的数量在很大程度上依赖于你的目标。
巩固练习
选择题。
( )(1)Nowadays, a large number of women, especially those from the countryside,
______in the clothing industry.
A. is working B. works C. work D. worked
( )(2)The number of people invited ____fifty, but a number of them ____absent for
different reasons.
A. were; was B. was; was C. was; were D. were; were
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