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Section B(1a-2e)
阅读课本Activity 2b,根据课文内容回答下列问题。
1.What do many people do on April Fool’s Day?
2.Why was there no more spaghetti in the hoax?
.
3.What would the special water help people do?
They play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
Because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped
growing spaghetti.
It would help people lose weight.
4.Who did the famous TV star invite to his show?
5.What did Orson Welles announce on his radio program?
His girlfriend.
Aliens from Mars had landed on the earth.
教材原句1 By the time people realized that the story was a hoax,all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.当人们意识到这个故事是个骗局时,全国各地所有的意大利面已经卖完了。(教材P94)
sell out 意为“卖光;售完”,物作主语时,常用于被动语态。
We have sold out the shoes in your size.适合你尺码的鞋子我们已经卖光了。
sell well意为“畅销”,不能用被动语态。
The T-shirts in this color sell well.这种颜色的T恤衫很畅销。
1.The tickets for the film well,and they will .
soon.
A.are sold;sell out B.are sold;sold out
C.sell;be sold out
2.The specials in the restaurant taste and sell
.Many customers come here on weekends.
A.well;good B.good;good C.good;well
3.His new novel is very popular and it (sell)
out last week.
was sold
教材原句2 By the end of the day,more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.到那天结束时,已经有1万多人打电话给电视台打听如何得到这种水。(教材P94)
辨析:by the end of,at the end of与in the end
by the end of “在(某时间点)以前”,多指时间,常用于过去完成时或一般将来时
at the end of “在……尽头”,后可接地点或时间名词,通常与一般过去时或一般将来时连用
in the end “最后;最终”,与at last或finally同义
She had visited several places of interest in Guangzhou by the end of last month.
到上个月底,她已经参观了广州的几个名胜古迹。
There is a hotel at the end of the road.在路的尽头有一家旅馆。
His new book came out