Unit 4 Section Ⅲ Using Language(Word教参)-【状元桥·优质课堂】2024-2025学年高中英语选择性必修第二册（人教版2019）

Section Ⅲ　Using Language

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SEEING THE TRUE NORTH VIA RAIL：

TORONTO AND MONTREAL

After Li Daiyu and her cousin arrived in Toronto, ①the largest and wealthiest city in Canada, they only had a few hours to kill<1> before they had to proceed<2> to the next leg of their trip to Montreal, so they went on a tour of the city.They went up the CN Tower and looked across the shores<3> of Lake Ontario.②Standing in the distance, they were astonished<4> ③to see misty<5> clouds rising from the great Niagara Falls, ④which is on the south side of the lake.Water from the lake flows into<6> the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to<7> the sea.

①此部分用作Toronto的同位语。

②Standing in the distance是现在分词短语用作时间状语。

③不定式短语作原因状语。

④which引导的定语从句，修饰Niagara Falls。

The girls saw hundreds of skyscrapers of glass and steel<8>， and old-fashioned<9> cars rolling by<10>．⑤As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “Lin Fei, one of my mother's old schoolmates, lives here.I should phone her and see if she's available<11> for dinner.”

⑤as引导的时间状语从句。

They met Lin Fei around dusk<12> over dinner at a restaurant in downtown Chinatown.The cousins chatted with<13> Lin Fei, ⑥who had moved to Canada many years earlier.

 ⑥who引导的定语从句，修饰先行词Lin Fei。

“This is the largest Chinatown in Toronto.We have a few more in the Greater Toronto Area, so you can guess that there are a lot of Chinese people in Canada！Chinese people ⑦have been coming here for more than a hundred years.Therefore, we can get all kinds of<14> great food here from all over China，” Lin Fei told them.

 ⑦have been coming here是现在完成进行时，表示动作从某一时间开始，一直持续到现在，并且可能仍然要继续下去。

The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal early the next morning.At the station, in contrast to<15> Toronto, they ⑧heard people talking in French.They were surprised ⑨to see that all the signs and advertisements<16> were in French and many people spoke English with an accent<17>.

⑧heard people talking是hear sb doing sth结构，表示“听到某人在做某事”。

⑨不定式短语to see that…accent用于形容词surprised之后作原因状语。

“We don't leave until this evening，” said Liu Qian.“Let's go downtown.Old Montreal is close to the water.”

They spent<18> the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces along St Paul Street.⑩As they sat in a restaurant alongside the broad St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them.

 ⑩as引导的时间状语从句，as意为“在……的时候”。

“Hello, my name is Jean-Philippe.I'm a photographer<19>，”he said, “and I was wondering where you are from.”

The girls told him they were from China and were on a train trip across Canada.When they told him they had only one day in Montreal, he said, “That's too bad.You owe<20> it to yourselves to stay longer.Overall<21>， Montreal is a city ⑪with wonderful sights and sounds.Most of us speak both English and French, and the city has unique Quebec culture and traditions.There are fantastic restaurants and clubs around, too.Here, we love good coffee, toast<22>， and cheese.And good music, of course！”

⑪介词短语作定语，修饰a city。

That night the train was speeding<23> along the St Lawrence River towards the Gulf of St Lawrence and down to the distant east coast towards the province of Nova Scotia and its largest city, Halifax.The cousins dreamt<24> happily of the beautiful cobblestone<25> streets, old brick buildings, and the red maple leaves of Montreal.

<1>kill time/an hour/a couple of hours(等待时)消磨时间，打发时光

<2>proceed/prəˈsiːd/vi.行进；继续做

<3>shore/ʃɔː(r)/n.岸；滨

<4>astonish/əˈstɒnIʃ/vt.使十分惊讶；使吃惊

<5>misty/ˈmIsti/adj.多雾的；模糊的

mist/mIst/n.薄雾；水汽

<6>flow into流入

<7>on one's way to在去……的路上；即将

<8>steel/stiːl/n.钢；钢铁工业

<9>old-fashioned adj.陈旧的；过时的；不时髦的

<10>roll by驶过；流逝

<11>available adj.(人)有空的；(东西)可获得的；可购得的；可找到的

<12>dusk/dʌsk/n.黄昏；傍晚

at dusk 在黄昏

<13>chat with与……聊天

<14>all kinds of各种各样的