内容正文:
Lesson 38 Everything except the weather
阅读理解
1. What did he do after he settled down in the country?
_____________________________________________ and went to live there.
2. Why did Harrison sell his house so quickly?
____________________________theweather there any more.
单词详解
1. except prep. 除了
2. Mediterranean n. 地中海
3. complain v. 抱怨
结构:_____________________ 抱怨某事
______________________ 抱怨+从句
填空:
He always _________________his neighbormakes too much noise.
My grandfather sometimes _________________his backache.
派生:____________ n. 抱怨
4. continually adv. 不断地
派生:continual adj. ________________________
辨析:continuous adj. ________________________
选词填空:
The road lay ahead of her, a ____________ gray line stretching to the horizon.
I can’t work with these ____________ interruptions.
5. bitterly adv. 苦涩地,痛苦地,厉害地
翻译:听到他的死讯消息,狗都悲痛地流泪了。
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单词:bitterly作程度副词,表示____________
词组:________________ 极热
派生:________________ adj. 苦的
6. sunshine n. 阳光
课文解析
1. My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England.
· 时态:_______________(详见语法重点)
2. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country.
· 结构:dream of / about doing sth.________________
翻译:小时候我总是想着要成为一个伟大的画家。
______________________________________________
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· 词组:settle down ________
翻译:许多外国人因为喜欢中国文化而选择定居在中国。
Many foreigners ______________________ China because of their love for Chinese culture.
3. He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there.
· 句式:no sooner ... than … = ___________________________(详见语法重点)
· 时态:no sooner+____________ ... than + ____________
翻译:我们一到电影院电影就开始了。
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4. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold.
· 语法:even though = ______