Unit 23 A famous person
重点难点透视
1.词汇短语
person, speed, thought, technology, interested, future, large, spend, unusual, software, programme, university, develop, microcomputer, tool, personal, improve, golf, bridge, pleased, disease, million, decide, billion, lucky, unlucky, size, almost, speaker, joke, lose, hide, conductor, check, lie, deaf , best-seller, be interested in, in the future, in the end, work out, play a joke on sb., in doing sth., in the world, in new ways, learn from, play with.
2.日常交际用语
1)利用所学到的宾语从句知识，对事件、某些观点发表看法。
1, I don't think you'll like it.
2. I didn't know he could write books.
3. I'm sure he'll be pleased if you buy him a Liverpool football T-shirt.
4. I'm sure she'll know what Dad likes.
5. I think it's next week.
2)复习购物中的常用语
1. May I help you? Can I help you? Can I do something for you?
2. What colour does she like?
3. Here is a gray one.
4. How about the green one?
5. It's very popular this year.
6. What size does she wear? The size 6 must be OK.
7. Thank you. You are welcome.
8. That looks nice.
9. I want a different color.
3.语法
1.学习和总结冠词的用法。
2.介绍初步的宾语从句知识，能够熟练掌握陈述句作为宾语的第一类宾语从句，能够阅读和理解特殊疑问句、一般疑问句作为宾语的宾语从句。
3.初步掌握被动语态的含义、结构和在一般现在时、一般过去时中的用法，能够阅读理解文章中以被动语态方式进行描写的句子。
知识梳理
1.It seems to be an interesting book.它似乎是一本有意思的书。
seem是一个连系动词，意思是“似乎，好像”。它有三种固定搭配：seem＋形容词；seem＋动词不定式；It seems(seemed) that＋从句，可台构成宾语从句。如：
He seemed tired after a long walk.走了很长的路之后他似乎很累。
From the child's words she seems to be a scientist like Bill Gates.
从这个小孩的话语看她似乎想当一个像Bill Gates那样的科学家。
It seems that he is telling a lie.他似乎正在撒谎。
2.Bill Gates was born on October 28,1955.
比尔·盖茨出生于1955年10月28日。
“be born”表达“出生”，通常用一般过去时态，表达“生于某年某月或某地”时用介词in，而表达“生于某日”时用介词on。如：
I was born in 1949 in Shanghai.
我于1949年生于上海。
3.He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it.
他和一些朋友花了很多时间，用它做了些不寻常的事。
spend动词，意思是“花费”，“度过”，后面跟in doing sth，in时常省略不写，或on sth．例如：
She spent an hour(in)doing her homework last night．
＝She spent an hour on her homework last night．
昨天晚上，她花了一个小时做作业。
She spent fifty dollars on that coat．
她花了五十美元买那件大衣。
在英语中，除了spend表示花费外，还有take，pay，cost等词也解释“花费”。在使用时要注意它们之间的区别：
(1)take表示花费时间，用it作主语，常用于句型It takes sombody some time to do sth．例如：
It takes me ten minutes to go to school by bike．
我骑车上学要花费十分钟。
It took him half an hour to do the maths problem last night．
昨天晚上，他花了半个小时做那道数学题。
(2)pay表示花费的钱，常用于词组pay for。例如：
You'll have to pay for the book if you have lost it.
如果你丢了那本书，你就得赔。
She paid ten dollars for the book．他花十美元买了那本书。
(3)cost表示花费的钱，但要注意，只能把所买的东西用作主语。例如：
The coat cost her fifty dollars．那件大衣花了她五十美元。
How much did it cost you?你花了多少钱?
4. Some of my classmates are interested in Bill Gates.
我的一些同学对比尔·盖茨感兴感。
sb. be interested in sth.意思是“某人对某物感兴趣”，sth. be interesting为“某事物很有趣”。如：
They are interested in the interesting games.
他们对这些有趣的游戏感兴趣。
5.In the end，they worked out a software programme with the old machine.
最后，他们靠那台旧机器编出一套软件程序。
(1)in the end意为“最后，终于”，相当于at last，finally。
at the end of…在…尽头，末尾，例如：
At the end of this street, you'll find the post office.
在街道尽头，你会找到这个邮局。
(2)work out意思是“制订出，想出”。例如：
I can't work out the problem．It's too hard．
我解不出这道题，太难了。
Yon must carefully work out a plan．
你们得仔细地制订出一个计划。
6. ...,and it kills millions of people every year. …它每年能使数以百万的人死亡。
在英语中，百、干、万前用了具体的数词或不定量词(如some等)来修饰以后，百、千、万不能用复数形式，只能用单数。但是，百、千、万前没有修饰词时，可以用复数形式，后加of再跟名词的复数形式，其中many thousands of是个特殊情况。例如：
There are more than two thousand students in our school．
我们学校有两千多个学生。
There are millions of stars in the sky．
天空中有千千万万颗星星。
Many thousands of visitors have visited the Great Wall．
成千上万的人已参观过长城了。
7. I'm not sure, either.
我也不能肯定。
请注意比较either, too, also在用法上的不同。
(1)位置上的不同：either, too一般放在句末，而also常放在句中。
(2)also, too不能用于否定句中，而either要用于否定句中。
如：You are a student. I am too.
你是学生，我也是。
8. He liked to tell funny stories to make people laugh.
译文为：他喜欢讲好笑的故事逗人发笑。
1) tell stories/a story 是固定用法，其中动词tell意思是“说”，不能用talk进行替换。tell还经常用于下列句型中：
tell the truth,“说实话”，多用于句首。
To tell the truth, I fall asleep in the middle.
老实说，我在中间睡着了。
也可用在句中，如：
Don't believe him. He's not telling the truth at all.
别信他，他根本就是在撒谎。
Tell me another! 我不信！
tell还有一个常用词义，即“判断，辨别，区别”。如：
tell A from B 区分A和B
tell the difference between A and B 区分A和B之间的不同之处。
Can you tell Tom from his twin brother?
你能分辨出汤姆和他的孪生兄弟吗？
These kittens look exactly alike . How can you tell which is which?
这些小猫看上去一模一样，你怎么能分出哪个是哪个？
2)make sb. do sth.是“使得某人做某事”的意思，如：
The boss made them work all night.老板让他们通宵劳动。
The pain made the girl cry. 疼痛使得这个女孩哭了。
9. Jim, do you know when Father's Day is?
吉姆，你知道父亲节是什么时候吗？
表示节日的名词应该复数，并且所有格的形式，以表示这些人的节日。
例如：
Teachers' Day教师节 Children's Day儿童节
Women's Day妇女节
②父亲节，母亲节较特殊，应用单数形式。
表示节目的专有名词前不带冠词
例如：
National Day 国庆节 Army Day建军节
New year's Day 元旦
自我检测
听力部分
Ⅰ听问题选择正确答语，将其序号填入题前括号内
( ) 1. A. A friend. B. A train. C. A bus.
( ) 2. A. French. B. Yes, I am. C. No. I am not.
( ) 3. A. I don't like the weather in London.
B. It's always rainy.
C. I like the weather in London better than that in Paris.
( ) 4. A. Because I don't want to go to school.
B. Because he doesn't feel well.
C. Because I am ill.
( ) 5. A. Toronto. B. New York. C. Sydney.
Ⅱ根据你所听到的对话及问题，选择正确答案
( )1.A. It was Wednesday yesterday.
B. It's Friday tomorrow.
C. It is August 17 tomorrow.
( )2.A. It'll be Teachers' Day next Tuesday.
B. Robert will give a present to Miss Wang.
C. Robert likes his teacher very much.
( )3.A. She's from England. B. She's English.
C. She was born in England.
( )4.A. A green blouse. B. A red skirt.
C. A yellow dress.
( )5.A. My friend is an American.
B. His family name is Turner.
C. He's sixteen years old.
答案（听力材料及答案）
Ⅰ.1. What do you usually wait for at the bus stop? (C)
2. Are you English or French? (A)
3. What is the weather like in London? (B)
4. Why is James in bed? (B)
5. Which part of Australia are you from? (C)
Ⅱ1.A: what's the date today?
B: It's August 16. It's Thursday.
Question: What day was it yesterday?
2.A:Next Tuesday will be Teachers' Day.
B: Yes, What will you give Miss Wang, Robert?
A: I'll give her a prevent. Maybe she'll like it.
Question: What will Robert give Miss Wang?
3.A:Are you from America?
B: No, I was born in England, and I grow up in America.
Question: Where was the girl bom?
4.A:What would you like?
B: I'd like a red skirt for my daughter.
Question: What would the woman buy for hex daughter?
5.A: Is Turner your friend?
B: Yes, he is. He's an American.
A: How old is he?
B: He's sixteen.
Question: What nationality is your friend?
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.B 5.A
笔试部分
Ⅰ.根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空
1. This book is very . All the students are in it.(interest)
2. The story Mid-night was by Mao Dun.(write)
3. Do you know when Day is?(nurse)
4. Mr Green's son is a middle school student.(two)
5. Jane spent two hours basketball last Sunday. (play)
6. Mark Twain was a great . (America, speak)
7. I have a good friend (call) James.
8. Gates is one of the (rich) all over the world.
Ⅱ.单项选择
1.July lst is Children's Day
A. a B. an c. the D./
2.When she came into the room, lucy found the cat under the chair.
A. lying B. to lie C. lie D. lay
3.I like watching TV, but I can't much time on it.
A. spend B. take C. use D. spent
4.Mike was born 1980 America
A. in , in B. on , in C. on , at D. in , from
5.He is unusual person.
A. a B. the C. an D./
6.When he was five years old, he started to be interested in .
A. drawing B. sing C. wrote D. dances
7.On Sundays I often spend my time .
A. to play B. playing C. have a rest D. to have a rest
8. I worked out the difficult science problem.
A. At the end B. By the end C. In the end D. On the end
9. The books written by Zhu Ziqing were that means people like reading them.
A. sell better B. best sellers C. seld best D. sales best
10. The population (人口) of China is in the world.
A. the biggest B. the largest C. the most large D. the most big
11. My grandpa had bad disease and died ten years ago.
( )12.He worked the problem for an hour, at last he worked .
A. in, out it B. on, out it C. in, it out D. on, it out
( )13.It him ten minutes to go to school bike.
A. takes, by B. spends, by a C. takes, by a D. spends, by
( )14.He two hours the story.
A. paid, for B. took, to
C. spent, in reading D. spent, to read
( )15. The disease killed people.
A. many thousands B. many thousands of
C. some thousands of D. some thousands
Ⅲ冠词填空，用a, an, the填空
1. There is old clock on wall. old clock is very beautiful.
2. What would you like for lunch?
3. We often get up at six in morning and go to bed at ten in evening.
4. John never watches TV at night except Saturday.
5. moon goes around earth, and earth goes around sun.
6. Last Sunday, we went to cinema. film was very interesting.
7. bike is under tree. Who put it here?
8. My father is teacher and my mother is nurse.
9. John is having lunch at table.
Ⅴ.根据汉语意思，完成下列各句
1.你能看到天空中有些奇怪的东西吗？
Can you see in the sky?
2.这是纽约《时代》杂志名单上卖得最好的书之一。
This is the Gates. He said his books .
3.杰姆得喜欢看比尔·盖茨写的书，他说他的书很有趣。
Jim likes the books Bill Gates. He said his books .
4.我敢肯定如果你给爸爸买件衬衣的话，他会非常高兴的。
father will you buy him a shirt.
5.我想汤姆不会把这件事告诉你的。
I Tom tell you about it.
Ⅶ.阅读理解
(A)
What is the sky? Where is it? How high is it? What lies above it? These questions are difficult to answer, aren't they?
Is the sky blue? The sky has no colour. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings. Planes cannot fly very high because when they go higher, the air gets thinner. If we go up about 1,200 kilometres from the earth, we find there is no air.
Perhaps we can answer some of our questions now. The sky is space. In this space there is only the sun, the moon and all the stars.
1. What is the sky? .
A. It's the clouds B. It's space
C. It's air D. It's nothing
2. The sky .
A. is blue B. is white
C. is black D. has no colour
3. Planes cannot fly very high because .
A. the air becomes thinner
B. the flying machine is not good
C. people will be afraid if the planes fly too high
D. it is not necessary for planes to fly so high
4. If we go up about 1,200 kilometres from the earth, we find .
A. there is more air B. there is less air
C. there is nothing but air D. there is no air
5. In space there is .
A. nothing
B. air everywhere
C. everything
D. only the sun, the moon and all the stars
(B)
When the Americans were getting ready to send their first men to the moon, an old Irishman(爱尔兰人) was watching them on TV in the bar of a hotel. There was an Englishman in the bar, too, and he said to the Irishman,“The Americans are very clever, aren't they? They are going to send some men to the moon. It's a long way from our world.”
“Oh, that's nothing,” the Irishman answered quickly.“The Irish are going to send .some men to the sun in a few months' time. That's much farther away than the moon, you know."
The Irishman laughed and answered, “Well, the Irish aren't foolish, you know. We won't go to the sun during the day, of course. We'll go there during the night,”
( ) 1. An old Irishman was watching the Americans sending their first men to the moon.
( )2. The Americans aren't very clever, are they? No, they aren't.
( )3. It's farther to get to the moon than to get to the sun.
( )4. The sun isn't cool enough for us to go to.
( )5. The Americans are cleverer than the Irish.
答案
Ⅱ 1.interesting, interested
2.written
3.Nurses'
4.second
5.playing
6.American, speaker
7.called
8.richest
Ⅲ 1.D 2.A 3.A 4.A 5.C 6.A 7.B 8.C 9.B 10.B 11.A 12.D 13.A 14.C 15.B
Ⅳ 1.an, the, the 2./ 3.the, the 4./ 5.the, the, the, the
6.the, the 7.A, the 8.a, a 9./, /
Ⅴ 1. anything strange
2. one of the best-sellers on
3. reading, written by,
were very interesting
4.I'm sure, be pleased if
5.don't think, will
Ⅵ(A) 1.B 2.D 3.A 4.D 5.D
(B) 1.× 2.× 3.× 4.√ 5.√