新概念英语第二册讲解 L73

L73 The record-holder 一．【词汇学习】中英互译。 1. record-holder n.记录保持着 record [ ] n. 记录 set up/make/create a record创造记录 hold a record 保持记录 break/beat a record record [ ]v. 记录 eg. If you talk in class, I will record your name.

2. truant n. 逃学的孩子 truancy n. 逃学 play truant/hooky =evade school 逃学 3. unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的 （反 imaginative） imagine v. 想象 imagine sth/doing sth. /that 想象做…. Eg. Don’t you imagine that I can lend you money every time? imaginary adj. 想象中的，不真实的 imaginable adj. 可想象的 imagination n. 想象力，想象的事物

4. shame i)ucn. 惭愧，羞耻 put sb. to shame 使..感到惭愧，使…黯然失色 eg. Cinderella’s beauty put her sisters to shame. 2)cn. 遗憾的事，可惜 eg. What a shame that you have to leave! 3)cn. 耻辱，可耻之事 eg. Shame!/Shame on you! to one’s shame令某人感到羞耻的是 eg. To my shame, I made a mistake again. shameful adj. 可耻的，让人丢脸的（主语常为物）—shamefully adv. shameless adj. 厚颜无耻的，不要脸的---shamelessly adv. ashamed adj. 丢脸的（主语常为人）

5. hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行hitchhike to sp. 搭车到…eg. Can I hitch to Paris? hitch v. 搭便车hitchhiker n. 搭车者 6. meantime 1)n. 其间 in the meantime 在此期间，与此同时 eg. In the meantime, we studied Lesson 72. 2)adv. =meanwhile eg. I continued watching TV. Meantime, I did some washing. 7. border 1)边界，国界 the French-Spanish border法国-西班牙边界 border land边疆 border line国境线 2）v.和..接壤 eg. Chine borders Vetnam. 8. evade v. 逃避，逃离 evade school=play truant 逃学 evade taxes逃税 evade doing sth. evasion n. 躲避，逃避

二．【英语思维训练】根据英文提示猜出单词。 1. travel by getting free rides hitchhike 2. someone who breaks a record and hold it record-holder 3. escape or try to avoid answering or performing (duties, questions etc.) evade 4. lack powers of invention unimaginative 5. one who is absent from school without permission truant 6. feel guilty shame

三．【完形填空】用所给词的适当形式填空。 Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day’s 1. (fish), or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. They have all been put 2. (shame) by a boy who, while 3. (play) truant, travelled 1,600 miles. He 4. (hitchhike) to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere 5. (sleep). When he 6. (wake up) next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and 7. (leave) him just outside the city. The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. There he 8. (pick up) by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school. 四．【写作】改写句子，注意句子的连贯、简洁、表达清楚。（可适当减词或加词） 简单句：只包含一个主谓结构，而句中各成分均只由单词或短语表示。 并列句：句子包含两个或以上互不依靠的主谓结构，各分句常由并列连词连接。 复合句：包含有两个或更多的主谓结构，其中由句子充当句中某一成分。

1. The climbers reached the top of the mountain. They spent the night there. The climbers not only reached the top of the mountain, but spent the night there as well. 2. A fire broke out in a cinema. Hundreds of people tried to leave the building. When a fire broke out in a cinema, hundreds of people……. 3.James will give a lecture at the local library next week. His book was published. James, whose book was …, will give a lecture….. 4. I refused the offer. I explained. I had already been offered a job by another company. Refusing the offer, I explained that I had already been….. 5. He fought the wolves for three hours. Help arrived. He fought the ….before help arrived. 6. The police searched everywhere. The missing boy could not be found. His dog could not be found. Although the police searched…, neither the missing boy nor his dog could be found. 7. I made sure. The alarm clock could work. I set it. It would ring at six o’clock. After making sure that the alarm clock could cork, I set it so that it would ring at six o’clock. 8. I hid the Christmas gifts under the desk quickly. My daughter would not see them. She entered the room.

五．【词汇运用】翻译下列句子，注意积累句中有用表达法。 1. As a boy, Tom used to play truant from school. 汤姆小时候常逃学。 2. 他是一个经常逃学的孩子。 He is a boy who often plays truant. 3. What he has done put his parents to shame. 他的所做所为使他父母感到羞耻。 4. What a shame you didn't win. 你没赢, 真遗憾. 5. Jim沿途搭乘便车经法国前往西班牙。 Jim hitchhiked through France to Spain. 6. How many countries border Switzerland? 有多少国家与瑞士接壤？ 7. 他总是试图逃税(taxes)。 He always tries to evade paying taxes. 8. 他是一个富有想象力的作者。 He is an imaginative writers. 9. He didn’t understand, so I had to say it over and over again. 10. He was injured towards the end of the game. 11. He didn’t notice how she felt when he introduced his girlfriend to her. ★有用表达或短语：play truant，put sb. to shame，What a shame + 句子，evade doing sth.