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Unit 3
Helping people
Period 4
Extended reading & Other parts
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1.What does the author mean by writing “each drop seemed to explode as it hit the roof of the car”?
A.The roof of the car was not strong enough.
B.It was raining extremely hard outside the car.
C.A bomb exploded near the car.
D.The sound of rain drops made Tom explode.
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2.Why did Tom look down at his thin,broken legs?
A.To check if his legs were all right.
B.To make sure he still had strength to drive on.
C.To check if the car had broken down.
D.To show that his broken legs added to his despair.
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3.What does “ease” mean in the sentence “Tom gently eased the car towards the light”?
A.Make sth less painful.
B.Drive slowly.
C.Make sth easier.
D.Make sth more relaxed.
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4.Why did the old man make no move to take the money that Tom handed to him?
A.He cared little about money.
B.He thought it was not enough to pay for the repair cost.
C.His granddaughter told him not to take it.
D.He couldn’t see it because of his blindness.
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5.What theme does the passage convey?
A.Small kindness can make a great difference to others.
B.Where there is a will,there is a way.
C.God help those who help themselves.
D.Great things may be done by mass effort.
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It was on a rainy night 1. Tom got caught on the road.The heavy rain,as well as his paralysed legs,2. (add) to his despair.
What was 3. (bad),he got a flat tire.As the rain eased a little,Tom saw a light 4. (twinkle) in the distance.He drove slowly towards it and found it was from a solitary house.Tom approached the house and explained his problem to the young girl and her grandfather 5. were living in the house.6. (know) what had happened to Tom,they got down 7. the repair work despite the heavy rain.
that
added
worse
twinkling
who
Having known
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The repair work was completed in a few minutes.When Tom offered
8. (pay) for the repairs,the old man,who turned out to be blind,refused to accept it.He told Tom to continue the chain of kindness.
9. (inspire) by their kind deeds,Tom changed his attitude towards his 10. (paralyse) and began to view each new day as an opportunity to help others so that he could continue the chain of kindness.
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n.绝望 vi.绝望,失去希望,丧失信心
despair
· despair of 丧失信心;对……绝望
· in despair 绝望地,失望地
abandon oneself to despair 陷入绝望;自暴自弃
drive sb to despair让某人绝望
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(1)Finally,Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River despair on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
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(2)I was beginning to —and then I ran into Mr Smith,who encouraged me to try on.
一开始我感到机会渺茫,直到我遇到了史密斯先生,他鼓励我试一试。
(3)Surrounded by fear,Jame and fell asleep in tears.
被恐惧包围,杰姆陷入绝望,含泪睡着了。
(4)I was when my baby was terribly sick every day,and was losing weight.
我的孩子每天都病得很重,体重也在下降,这让我绝望了。
despair of my chances
abandoned himself to despair
driven to despair
bump/run into 无意中遇到、碰到
vi.& vt.颠簸行进;(无意地)碰,撞;(尤指身体部位)碰上,撞上 n.碰撞(声),撞击(声);肿块;隆起,凸块;轻微撞车事故
bump
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(1)You had better slow down.There’s ahead on the road.
你最好放慢速度。前面路上有个小颠簸。
(2)I tried to avoid her,but it was just my luck .
我试图避开她,但碰巧遇到了她。
(3)When it’s dark,we may .
当天黑时,我们可能会在没有光的情况下碰到东西。
a minor bump
to bump into her
bump into things without the help of light
lean on/against sth 倚靠;靠在……上
lean on sb 依靠某人,依赖某人
lean out of 将身体探出……
lean over 倾身(弯下身子)
vi.(leaned,leaned;leant,leant)前俯(或后仰),倾斜;倚靠,靠在 vt.使斜靠
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lean
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(1)See to it that no children should the window.
(2)A mother is not a person to but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
(3)Then he would and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy.
(4)The boy ,his teeth set and his eyes glaring upward.
lean out of
lean over
lean on
leaned/leant on/against the wall
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seem 的用法
[教材原句] The rain seemed to have eased a little,and in the distance,he could see a light twinkling in the blackness.雨似乎小了一点儿,远远地,黑暗中他隐约可见一团忽明忽暗的灯光。(教材P39)
seem为系动词,意为“看起来”。常用于下列结构:
· seem (to be)+adj./n.看起来好像……
· seem to do/to be doing/to have done...看起来要做……/正在做……/已
经做了……
· It seems (to sb) that/as if...(某人)看起来(好像)……
· There seem(s) to be...看起来似乎有……
(1)There seems (be) a lack of appreciation of what is actually going on in the real world.
(2)The truth is that everyone will have one of those periods when things seem (go) wrong,so you don’t have to worry so much.
(3)The engine just won’t start.Something seems (go) wrong with it.
to be
to be going
to have gone
(4)派对上的其他人似乎都互相认识,我开始觉得被冷落了。
①All the others at the party and I began to feel left out.
②It and I began to feel left out.
seemed to know each other
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Ⅰ.一词多义
peer
A.vi.仔细看,端详 B.n.同事 C.n.同龄人
1.Teenagers may find it difficult to resist peer pressure.
2.She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
3.It is important for a manager to be able to get the support of his peer group.
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Ⅱ.熟词生义
1.She hit against our coffee table and got a large bump on her forehead.
2.He was so nervous that he kept drumming his fingers on the leather top of his desk.
3.We all need to forgive others,because we all stumble and fall and require help from others after failure.
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n.肿块;隆起,凸块
v.用……敲击
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