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实例展示一
◆There are no children in this house.
◆There appear to be several reasons for changing our plans.
◆There remains nothing to be done.
◆Once there lived an old fisherman in a village by the sea.
仿写练习
1. 有一条河流过我们村。(flow...through)
2. 这台电脑好像出毛病了。
3. 还有很多问题没有解决。
4. 接着是一阵令人难受的沉默。(follow)
5. 这个地区曾经发生过一次严重的交通事故。(there used to be)
There/flows/a river/through our village.
There/seems to be/something wrong/with this computer.
There/remain/a large number of problems/to be solved.
There/followed/an uncomfortable silence.
There/used to be/a serious traffic accident/in the area.
实例展示二
◆There is going to be a lecture on environmental protection held in our lecture hall this weekend.
◆There are 10 yuan left in my pocket.
仿写练习
1. 有成千上万的人在地球日那一天关掉灯,和家人到外面散步。
2. 只剩一个月的时间就要期中考试了。(before)
实例展示三
◆There has been some awful weather lately.
仿写练习
这里出过许多事故。
There are/thousands of people/turning off the light/and/walking outside/with their family/on the Earth Day.
There are/only one month/left/before the mid-term examination.
There have been a lot of accidents round here.
实例展示四
◆There must be a mistake somewhere.
◆There must have been a rain last night, for the ground is wet.
◆There needs to be a system set up to judge the quality of the English language learning.
仿写练习
1. 今天雨这么大,教室里可能没人。
2. 需要定一个规则来防止我们大家浪费自然资源。
There could be/no one/in the classroom, for/it’s raining/so hard.
There needs to set up/a policy/to prevent us all/from wasting natural resources.
实例展示五
◆There is no point in arguing further.
◆There was no sense in making a child