单元目标
1.阅读课文,体会勤奋工作和取得成绩之间的关系,学习居里夫人为事业而献身的精神.
2.掌握传记体文学作品写作特点和手法,学会写作人物介绍的短文.
3.复习定语从句,注意关系代词的用法,特别是介词+关系代词which的用法
4.能用I’m sure,I’m not sure,I’m not sure whether/if,I doubt if等句型,对比较熟悉的话题作“肯定或不肯定”回答的交际练习.
5.对下列单词和词组应达到“听、说、读、写”四会的能力要求:
from then on go by go over pay off post
set off work hard at devote
定语从句的基本用法
关系词
性质
从句中成分
例 句
who
关系代词
主语/宾语(人)
Our headmaster,who teaches us physics,is a good teacher.He is the person(who)I am looking for.
whom
关系代词
主语/宾语(人)
I saw the person(whom)you met yester-Day
(which) we spent in the countryside.
which
关系代词
主语/宾语(物)
The book which once gave me much pleasure is missing.
that
关系代词
主语/宾语(人/物)
I went back to the village(that)I visited last year.
All that is needed is a supply of oil.
Out of many people that succeed,few are remembered.
when
关系副词
状语(时间)
I will never forget the day when I studied here.
where
关系副词
状语(地点)
The house where we once lived is over there.
备注1.非限制性定语从句和介词后面不能用关系代词that.
2.先行词是all,much,little,something,anything,nothing等不定代词时,关系代词一般用that.
3.先行词受序数词、形容词或the only,the very修饰时,关系代词常用that.
4.先行词中既有“人”,也有“物”时,关系代词用that.例如:
Later we talked about the things and persons (that) we remembered.
核心知识
掌握如下交际用语
(1)Perhaps I’ll go to that one.前面已经谈论到的某个名词,且交际双方都很明白时,可用one代替这个名词.如:
— Which pen do you like better,the red one or the blue one?
— The redone,please.
(2) Maybe it was useful for some people.
I’m not sure if/whether
I doubt if he’ll be asked to speak again next year.
I’m not sure that
当说话者对自己想说的话题不肯定时,可用上述句型.当说话者对自己想说的话题很肯定时,可用句型I’m sure....
2.辨析下列单词和短语
(1)invent 和 discover
invent译为“发明”,指以前不存在的东西现在被“发明”了出来.
discover译为“发现”,指以前本来存在而未被发现的事物,现在被“发现”了.
It is Thomas Edison that invented the electric lamp.
The matter that the Curies had discovered was radium.
(2) whether 和 if
whether和if引导的名词性从句用做宾语从句时,一般可互换使用:
I don’t know whether/if Tom is studying here.
用作主语从句中时,只能用whether,不能用if.例如:
Whether he is here or not is still unknown.
典型例题
讨论难点
(1)The scientist ______ speech I went to was a man named Pierre.
[课本第5页第3部分第1题]
应填whose.(定语从句部分可理解为:I went to the scientist’s speech.)
(2)The institute ______ I studied had very little equipment.
[同上第9题]
应填where.定语从句中的studied是不及物动词,因此关系词应为关系副词.
同样的例子还有:
The laboratory ____ she carried out her research was on the ground floor.
[ Workbook L.3]
请做下列两题:
This is the school ____ I studied last year.
This is the school ____ I visited last year.
第一题应填where;第二题应填which,that或者不填,因为visit是及物动词,这里应填关系代词.
剖示考点
例 NMET 1994
(1)The weather turned to be very good,________we hadn’t eXPected.
A.it B.what C.that D.which
答案为D.根据定语从句的基本用法,这道题目并不难解,在非限制性定语从句中,先行词为“物”时,不能用that,应用which.本题的难点是:整个主句为这句非限制性定语从句的先行词.
例 NMET 1993
(2)The doctor ______ is leaving for Africa next month.
A.the nurse is talking to him B.whom the nurse is talking
C.the nurse is talking to D.who the nurse is talking
Madame Curie