Unit 3 Environmental Protection Reading and Thinking 语言点讲解课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Language Points (P26~27) Para. 1 We have known about climate change for decades. There is little doubt _______ Earth is getting warmer and warmer (see the graph). A warming ocean and atmosphere along with ________ (melt) ice and rising sea levels provide evidence of a dramatic change in the global climate. that 1. There is little doubt that... 几乎没有疑问的是…… There is no doubt that... 毫无疑问的是…… There is some doubt whether...  对……怀疑 that引导同位语从句，解释说明doubt的具体内容 注意：doubt前有否定意义的词修饰时,其后的同位语从句由that引导；doubt前有肯定意义的词修饰时,其后的同位语从句由whether引导 melting 定语，表示进行 1) There is little doubt _________ people with low EQs often have problems getting on with other people. 2) There is no doubt ________ he is honest. 3) I have some doubt _________ he will be fit in time for next Sunday’s match. whether that that In 2013, a lot of people were ________ (shock) by a news photo of a dead polar bear that was found on Norway's Arctic island of Svalbard. According to the scientists who found its dead body, all that __________ (remain) of the polar bear was "skin and bones". An expert _____ has studied polar bears for many years said that from the position of its dead body, the bear appeared to have starved and____ (die). Experts claimed that low sea-ice levels caused by climate change ______ (mean) the bear could not hunt seals as before, so it had to travel greater distances in order to find food. This _______ (alarm) case showed how the increase in temperature had an impact on Earth's ecology. 根据发现北极熊尸体的科学家的说法，这只北极熊只剩下了“皮和骨头”。 这一令人惊恐的案例反映了气温的上升是如何对地球生态造成影响的。 专家称，气候变化导致的海冰面降低意味着北极熊无法像以前那样捕食海豹, ... shocked remained who died meant alarming Para. 2 2 …the bear appeared to have starved and died. 本句中appear是系动词，to have starved and died是不定式作表语。starve这个动作发生在appear之前，所以用完成式的形式来表达。 starve v. to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat (使)挨饿; 饿死 starve to death 饿死 starve for 渴望；急需 be starving/starved 饿极了 starvation n. 饥饿 【语境应用】翻译句子。 1) 那次饥荒 (famine) 中有许多人饿死了。 2) 那个