When Lightening Struck
Unit 3
Teaching Objectives
? To get students know the value of helping
others,
? To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
? To reinforce some basic linguistic
knowledge by doing various types of
exercises,
Introduction Introduction
1,Airline
2,Flight
Attention,Flight number BA 4793 will
arrive in London at 6.50 am,
(1),direct flight
(2),connecting flight
(3),Transfer
We had to transfer from Gatwick to
Heathrow to catch a plane to Belfast,
(4),Board the airplane
3,(1) Flight attendant
(2) Air hostess
(3) Pilot
(4) Aircraft commander
(5) Air crew
(6) Ground crew
(7) Passenger
4,On plane
(1) Passengers,attention,for your safety make
sure that you’re strapped in,
Seat Belt
(2) Emergency procedures (drill)
(3) Passengers are strapped in,
Life jacket
Parachute
(4) The dangerous moment
life-and/or-death moment
hang by a hair/ hang by a single thread
critical moment
Some words Facing a critical moment,
1,Panic,screech
scared,feared,frightened,scream,screech
Panic,Pan,god of forest and terror
Panic,noun
verb (panick)
2,Reassure,comfort,soothe
(1),Comfort a dying man
(2) Soothe a crying baby
a soothing voice
(3) The policeman reassured her about her child’s
safety,
A reassuring glance,word,pat on the back
3,Some action verbs
(1) Slam
(2) Jolt
(3) Swerve
(4) Unbolt (A bolt from the blue)
(5) scramble
(6) Hold tightly
They clung to each other as they said goodbye,
Clutch a baby in her arms
a doll that speaks when you squeeze it
squeeze a lemon
4,Some Adjectives
(1) Glamour
(2) Excruciating,intense
He has excruciating backache,
(3) Glinting
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw
something glinting on the carpet,
(4) Fateful
(5) Soulful,a soulful expression/ music
? Here is some vocabulary about airports and air travel,
? Parts of an airport:（机场内）
? a duty-free shop （免税店）
a shop in an airport where you don't have to pay taxes on the goods
you buy
a departure lounge:（出境大厅）
the part of an airport where you wait until you get on the plane
a gate （登机门）
the place in the airport where you go to get onto your flight
a runway （跑道）
the part of an airport,like a road,which planes use when arriving or
departing from an airport
a control tower （控制塔台）
the building in an airport which tells planes when it is safe for them
to take off and land
? Air travel jobs:（航空职业）
? the cabin crew（机组人员）
the people who look after passengers during a flight
a pilot （飞行员）
a person who flies a plane
a baggage handler（行李员）
a person who is responsible for your luggage,after you check-
in,and takes it to the plane
an immigration officer（移民官员）
a person who checks your visa and passport when you go into
a country
a customs officer（海关官员）
a person who checks you are not trying to bring illegal food,
drugs,guns or other items into a country
? Things you find on a plane:（飞机上）
? a cockpit（驾驶舱）
the place where the pilots sit to control the plane
a galley（机舱厨房）
the area on a plane where the cabin crew prepare meals and
store duty-free goods etc,
a trolley（手推车）
a small cupboard with wheels,Cabin crews use trolleys to take
food and drink to passengers during a flight
a seatbelt（安全带）
a safety feature on planes to secure passengers in their seats
an oxygen mask（氧气罩）
a piece of safety equipment which passengers put over their
nose and mouth to help them breath if there is an emergency
on a plane
? an overhead locker（头顶行李柜）
a storage area above passengers' heads in a plane
a tray-table（椅背小桌）
a small table that is stored in the back of the seat in
front of you on a plane
hand luggage (uncountable)（手提行李，不可数名词）
small bags or suitcase which passengers carry with
them onto the plane
checked baggage/luggage (uncountable)（托运行李，
不可数名词）
large suitcases or bags which passengers don't
carry with them onto the plane but which are put in
the hold (the storage area of a plane)
? Verbs about air travel:（搭乘飞机有关的动词）
? to check in（办理报到）
to show your travel documents to the airline staff in the airport
so that you can begin your journey
to board/to embark（ 登机）
to go onto a plane at the beginning of the journey
to disembark （下飞机）
to get off a plane
to take off（起飞）
to start flying in the air
to taxi（滑行）
to move a plane slowly along the ground before or after flying
to cruise（巡航）
to fly at a steady speed
to land（降落）
to bring a plane down to the ground
to fasten/unfasten a seatbelt（系紧 /松开安全带）
to secure two parts of your seat-belt together/to untie your
seatbelt
to approach (the runway)（转向跑道飞航）
to fly at slow speak towards the runway
to declare（申报）
to give information about goods or money you are bringing into
a country
? Vocabulary:（词汇）
?
? a standstill:（停稳）
a stop or an end
a designated area:（指定区域）
a place that is signed for a particular purpose (for example,a
designated smoking area)
? a terminal building:（航站大楼）
the part of an airport where planes arrive or depart from
? a message:（信息，短信）
text information to or from a mobile phone
? to confiscate:（没收，充公）
to take something away from someone as a punishment for doing
something wrong
Think Over,
? Describe the reactions in danger,
? Students are divided into groups to play
the roles of the narrator,the little girl,the
businessman,and the businesswoman,
Think Over,
? What is the theme of the story? What about the
tone of the narrative piece?
The author aims to eulogize such nice people,praise them
for their fine deeds and pass on their admirable acts of
kindness,
The tone is objective,descriptive and emotional,with
concrete detailed accounts of actual situations and touching
scenes,
? What’s the style of the story?
The style is characterized by a mixture of both formal and
colloquial words and phrases,of flexible use of simple,
compound,and complex sentences,and of plain narration
and vivid description,
Structural analysis of the text
? 1,Main idea,The story is the writer’s objective and vivid
narration of her extraordinary,unforgettable travel
experience on a plane for the purpose of praising good
people and their fine deeds and bringing out superb
touching human relations witnessed at critical moments,
? Part One (1-4) --- introductory paragraphs,telling us
about the setting and the unexpected happening,and
introducing some main characters
? Part Two (5-9) --- narrating and delineating the feelings,
thoughts,and actions of the writer,the acts of kindness
of the glamorous young woman and the behaviour of
other fellow passengers on the plane when they were
faced with the dangerous situations
? Part Three (10-12)--- telling the readers what they saw
and did after they landed safely
? Part Four (13-14) --- The author thinks what is most
important is to make known such nice people and their
fine deeds and to pass on their kindness from generation
to generation,
2.How is the plot organized?
? The plot is developed by means of
chronological order,
-- ( the natural time sequence of the
happenings)
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
1,I reassured her that we were going to make it,
? Explain,I tried to comfort her by saying that we would
manage to tide it over,
2,After this,London’s going to seem like small potatoes,
? Explain,Having experienced the event,the girl might
consider her visit to London rather insignificant,
3,The female equivalent of the confident businessman must
have seen how scared I was,
? Explain,The business woman as confident as that
businessman must have noticed my fear,
4,The young businessman lamented that he had not a chance
to buy his two little girls a present,
? Explain,The young businessman was sorry that he had not
a chance to buy his two little girls a present,
5,I am indebted to my fellow passengers,
? Explain,I am very grateful to my fellow passengers,
Language Points
stricken,affected by sth,overwhelming,such as
disease,trouble,or painful emotions
? a stricken deer/ area/ ship/ face
? My country has been stricken by war for the
past five years,
? He has been stricken with grief since the
death of his wife,
be stricken with fever/ poverty
? fever-stricken panic-stricken grief-stricken
terror-stricken
bee
sewing bee 缝纫茶会 (结合缝纫、闲谈等社会活动 )
spelling bee 拼字竞赛
as busy as a bee
have a bee in one's head
May bees don't fly all the year long,
put away
? put something in the place where it is usually
kept;
He is in the habit of putting the books away
after he reads them,
? put by (money); save money for later use (set
aside)
As an economical wife,she puts away
some money each month,
? Put down
Put down that knife before you hurt somebody,(放下 )
Everything he said was at once put down,(写下来 )
? Put forward
Are you serious in putting forward such a view? (提出 )
Put your watch forward,you are five minutes slow,(使提前，
拨快 )
? Put out
The publishers put out fifty new books last season,( 出版 )
A downpour of rain put out the children’s bonfire,（使熄灭）
The government will put out a new statement next week,
（发表）
? Put right
If anything I say is not correct,please stop me and put meright,
(纠正 )
figure
? 1,She figured that she would be next to be sent abroad to
study.（ 想，想象）
? 2,Real historical events figure in his novel.（ 出现）
? 3,The economy figured very largely in the Prime Minister’s
speech.（ 占重要位置）
? 4,Please help me to figure out my income tax.,（ 算出）
? 5,We cannot figure out why he has been behaving so oddly,
(理解，明白 )
remind of
The story you have just told reminds me of an
experience I once had,
That reminds me that I must write to him,(跟
从句 )
Remind me to take my medicine tomorrow,
(提醒 )
? reminder,n,
起提醒作用的东西
be indebted to
be grateful / thankful to
I'm indebted to all the staff who have been
working so hard,
I am greatly indebted to you for your help,
pay back
? It’s high time he paid me back the $100
he owes me,
? How can I pay you back for all your
kindness?
? He paid me back by not coming,
? His hard work paid off when he got the
promotion,(是值得的 )
? I’ve just paid off my loan from the bank,
What a relief! （偿还掉）
get in
? arrive at its destination
The plane got in three hours late,
? be elected to a political position
The candidate stands a good chance of
getting in,
? Collect or gather
In autumn,the farmers are busy getting in
the crops,
Anticipate
? Look forward to期待
我们期待伦敦之行过得非常愉快。
We anticipate great pleasure from our visit to
London,
我们期待再接到你们的来信。
We anticipate hearing from you again,
? Act in advance so as to prevent占先；抢先
We anticipated our competitors by getting
our products onto the market first,
我们赶在竞争对手之前,先把产品推向市场。
transfer v,n,
? He transferred the ownership of the house
to his wife,I have been transferred,(转移，
转给 )
? I am leaving for my new post next week,
（调往）
? Mary transferred to a new school,（转学）
? At London we transferred from the train to
a bus,（转车）
? I was given a transfer to headquarters,
survive
? The music of Bach has survived through the
years,
? These plants won’t survive without sun,
? He survived the explosion,but no one else did,
? Insurance statistics show that most wives
survive their husbands,
? His survival is still uncertain; he has been very
badly hurt and may die,
? There were no survivors of the air crash,
Pull oneself together
Control oneself; become calm after being excited or
disturbed
He was able to pull himself together in the face of
danger and hardship,
I reassured her that we were going to make
it,
I tried to comfort her by saying that we would
manage to tide it over/ to fly through the
thunderclouds,
When the child was afraid in the storm,his parents
reassured him,
Some difficult sentences
After this,London’s going to seem like
small potatoes,
After this remarkable or extraordinary ride,
your trip to London is going to seem like
something insignificant,
small potatoes, insignificant or unimportant
persons or things,
He was only a small potato in the play,
This city seems like a small potato if
compared with the large cities,
The female equivalent of the confident
businessman must have seen how
scared I was and reached over,
The businesswoman as confident as that
businessman must have noticed my fear,
Unreal conditional sentences
1,____ for my illness I would have lent him a
helping hand,
a,Not being b,Had it not been
c,Without being d,Not having been
2,Jean doesn’t want to work right away because
she thinks that if she ____ a job she probably
wouldn’t be able to see her friends very often,
a,has to get b,were to get
c,had got d,could have got
3,___ right now,she would get there on Sunday,
a,Would she leave b,If she leaves
c,Were she to leave d,If she had left
4,If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you
when you fell,you _____ now,
a,wouldn’t be smiling b,couldn’t have smiled
c,won’t smile d,didn’t smile
5,If the whole operation ____ beforehand,a great
deal of time and money would have been lost,
a,was not planned b,has not been planned
c,were not planned d,had not been planned,
wish
1,He didn’t go to the party,but he does
wish he ___ there,
a,had been b,has been
c,would have been d,would be
2,I wish I ____ longer this morning,but I had
to get up and come to class,
a,could have slept b,might have slept
c,slept d,have slept
Translation Exercises
1,I scrambled up the cliff for a better look at
the sea,
2,He lunged at the burglar and wrestled with
him for the weapon,
3,I figure that our national economy will
continue to develop rapidly,
4,The chairman made effort to reassure the
shareholders that the company’s bad results
would not be repeated,
5,Stop acting like a baby! Pull yourself together,
6.Being very much a private man,he does not
confide in anyone,
7.We all hate the terrorists’ indiscriminate violence
against ordinary people,
8.Many people in this country are alarmed by the
dramatic increase in violent crime,
9,We anticipated that the enemy would try to
cross the river,That was why we destroyed the
bridge,
10.I am indebted to all the people who worked so
hard to make the party a great success,
Dictation
Our boat floated on,between walls of forest,
Nowhere did we find a place where we could
have landed,In any case,what would we have
got by landing? The country was full of snakes
and other dangerous animals,and the forest
was so thick that one would be able to advance
only slowly,cutting one’s way with knives the
whole day,We live on fish,caught with a
homemade net of string,and any fruit and nuts
we could pick up out of the water,As we had no
fire,we had to eat everything,including the fish,
uncooked,As for water,there was a choice,we
could drink the muddy river water,or die of thirst,
Assignment,
Write a précis of the text,
Précis,a piece of writing giving only the main
ideas of a longer piece of writing,speech
etc,
Unit 3
Teaching Objectives
? To get students know the value of helping
others,
? To understand the purpose of writing and
organization of the text,
? To reinforce some basic linguistic
knowledge by doing various types of
exercises,
Introduction Introduction
1,Airline
2,Flight
Attention,Flight number BA 4793 will
arrive in London at 6.50 am,
(1),direct flight
(2),connecting flight
(3),Transfer
We had to transfer from Gatwick to
Heathrow to catch a plane to Belfast,
(4),Board the airplane
3,(1) Flight attendant
(2) Air hostess
(3) Pilot
(4) Aircraft commander
(5) Air crew
(6) Ground crew
(7) Passenger
4,On plane
(1) Passengers,attention,for your safety make
sure that you’re strapped in,
Seat Belt
(2) Emergency procedures (drill)
(3) Passengers are strapped in,
Life jacket
Parachute
(4) The dangerous moment
life-and/or-death moment
hang by a hair/ hang by a single thread
critical moment
Some words Facing a critical moment,
1,Panic,screech
scared,feared,frightened,scream,screech
Panic,Pan,god of forest and terror
Panic,noun
verb (panick)
2,Reassure,comfort,soothe
(1),Comfort a dying man
(2) Soothe a crying baby
a soothing voice
(3) The policeman reassured her about her child’s
safety,
A reassuring glance,word,pat on the back
3,Some action verbs
(1) Slam
(2) Jolt
(3) Swerve
(4) Unbolt (A bolt from the blue)
(5) scramble
(6) Hold tightly
They clung to each other as they said goodbye,
Clutch a baby in her arms
a doll that speaks when you squeeze it
squeeze a lemon
4,Some Adjectives
(1) Glamour
(2) Excruciating,intense
He has excruciating backache,
(3) Glinting
She thought the diamond was lost until she saw
something glinting on the carpet,
(4) Fateful
(5) Soulful,a soulful expression/ music
? Here is some vocabulary about airports and air travel,
? Parts of an airport:（机场内）
? a duty-free shop （免税店）
a shop in an airport where you don't have to pay taxes on the goods
you buy
a departure lounge:（出境大厅）
the part of an airport where you wait until you get on the plane
a gate （登机门）
the place in the airport where you go to get onto your flight
a runway （跑道）
the part of an airport,like a road,which planes use when arriving or
departing from an airport
a control tower （控制塔台）
the building in an airport which tells planes when it is safe for them
to take off and land
? Air travel jobs:（航空职业）
? the cabin crew（机组人员）
the people who look after passengers during a flight
a pilot （飞行员）
a person who flies a plane
a baggage handler（行李员）
a person who is responsible for your luggage,after you check-
in,and takes it to the plane
an immigration officer（移民官员）
a person who checks your visa and passport when you go into
a country
a customs officer（海关官员）
a person who checks you are not trying to bring illegal food,
drugs,guns or other items into a country
? Things you find on a plane:（飞机上）
? a cockpit（驾驶舱）
the place where the pilots sit to control the plane
a galley（机舱厨房）
the area on a plane where the cabin crew prepare meals and
store duty-free goods etc,
a trolley（手推车）
a small cupboard with wheels,Cabin crews use trolleys to take
food and drink to passengers during a flight
a seatbelt（安全带）
a safety feature on planes to secure passengers in their seats
an oxygen mask（氧气罩）
a piece of safety equipment which passengers put over their
nose and mouth to help them breath if there is an emergency
on a plane
? an overhead locker（头顶行李柜）
a storage area above passengers' heads in a plane
a tray-table（椅背小桌）
a small table that is stored in the back of the seat in
front of you on a plane
hand luggage (uncountable)（手提行李，不可数名词）
small bags or suitcase which passengers carry with
them onto the plane
checked baggage/luggage (uncountable)（托运行李，
不可数名词）
large suitcases or bags which passengers don't
carry with them onto the plane but which are put in
the hold (the storage area of a plane)
? Verbs about air travel:（搭乘飞机有关的动词）
? to check in（办理报到）
to show your travel documents to the airline staff in the airport
so that you can begin your journey
to board/to embark（ 登机）
to go onto a plane at the beginning of the journey
to disembark （下飞机）
to get off a plane
to take off（起飞）
to start flying in the air
to taxi（滑行）
to move a plane slowly along the ground before or after flying
to cruise（巡航）
to fly at a steady speed
to land（降落）
to bring a plane down to the ground
to fasten/unfasten a seatbelt（系紧 /松开安全带）
to secure two parts of your seat-belt together/to untie your
seatbelt
to approach (the runway)（转向跑道飞航）
to fly at slow speak towards the runway
to declare（申报）
to give information about goods or money you are bringing into
a country
? Vocabulary:（词汇）
?
? a standstill:（停稳）
a stop or an end
a designated area:（指定区域）
a place that is signed for a particular purpose (for example,a
designated smoking area)
? a terminal building:（航站大楼）
the part of an airport where planes arrive or depart from
? a message:（信息，短信）
text information to or from a mobile phone
? to confiscate:（没收，充公）
to take something away from someone as a punishment for doing
something wrong
Think Over,
? Describe the reactions in danger,
? Students are divided into groups to play
the roles of the narrator,the little girl,the
businessman,and the businesswoman,
Think Over,
? What is the theme of the story? What about the
tone of the narrative piece?
The author aims to eulogize such nice people,praise them
for their fine deeds and pass on their admirable acts of
kindness,
The tone is objective,descriptive and emotional,with
concrete detailed accounts of actual situations and touching
scenes,
? What’s the style of the story?
The style is characterized by a mixture of both formal and
colloquial words and phrases,of flexible use of simple,
compound,and complex sentences,and of plain narration
and vivid description,
Structural analysis of the text
? 1,Main idea,The story is the writer’s objective and vivid
narration of her extraordinary,unforgettable travel
experience on a plane for the purpose of praising good
people and their fine deeds and bringing out superb
touching human relations witnessed at critical moments,
? Part One (1-4) --- introductory paragraphs,telling us
about the setting and the unexpected happening,and
introducing some main characters
? Part Two (5-9) --- narrating and delineating the feelings,
thoughts,and actions of the writer,the acts of kindness
of the glamorous young woman and the behaviour of
other fellow passengers on the plane when they were
faced with the dangerous situations
? Part Three (10-12)--- telling the readers what they saw
and did after they landed safely
? Part Four (13-14) --- The author thinks what is most
important is to make known such nice people and their
fine deeds and to pass on their kindness from generation
to generation,
2.How is the plot organized?
? The plot is developed by means of
chronological order,
-- ( the natural time sequence of the
happenings)
some difficult sentences,words or phrases
1,I reassured her that we were going to make it,
? Explain,I tried to comfort her by saying that we would
manage to tide it over,
2,After this,London’s going to seem like small potatoes,
? Explain,Having experienced the event,the girl might
consider her visit to London rather insignificant,
3,The female equivalent of the confident businessman must
have seen how scared I was,
? Explain,The business woman as confident as that
businessman must have noticed my fear,
4,The young businessman lamented that he had not a chance
to buy his two little girls a present,
? Explain,The young businessman was sorry that he had not
a chance to buy his two little girls a present,
5,I am indebted to my fellow passengers,
? Explain,I am very grateful to my fellow passengers,
Language Points
stricken,affected by sth,overwhelming,such as
disease,trouble,or painful emotions
? a stricken deer/ area/ ship/ face
? My country has been stricken by war for the
past five years,
? He has been stricken with grief since the
death of his wife,
be stricken with fever/ poverty
? fever-stricken panic-stricken grief-stricken
terror-stricken
bee
sewing bee 缝纫茶会 (结合缝纫、闲谈等社会活动 )
spelling bee 拼字竞赛
as busy as a bee
have a bee in one's head
May bees don't fly all the year long,
put away
? put something in the place where it is usually
kept;
He is in the habit of putting the books away
after he reads them,
? put by (money); save money for later use (set
aside)
As an economical wife,she puts away
some money each month,
? Put down
Put down that knife before you hurt somebody,(放下 )
Everything he said was at once put down,(写下来 )
? Put forward
Are you serious in putting forward such a view? (提出 )
Put your watch forward,you are five minutes slow,(使提前，
拨快 )
? Put out
The publishers put out fifty new books last season,( 出版 )
A downpour of rain put out the children’s bonfire,（使熄灭）
The government will put out a new statement next week,
（发表）
? Put right
If anything I say is not correct,please stop me and put meright,
(纠正 )
figure
? 1,She figured that she would be next to be sent abroad to
study.（ 想，想象）
? 2,Real historical events figure in his novel.（ 出现）
? 3,The economy figured very largely in the Prime Minister’s
speech.（ 占重要位置）
? 4,Please help me to figure out my income tax.,（ 算出）
? 5,We cannot figure out why he has been behaving so oddly,
(理解，明白 )
remind of
The story you have just told reminds me of an
experience I once had,
That reminds me that I must write to him,(跟
从句 )
Remind me to take my medicine tomorrow,
(提醒 )
? reminder,n,
起提醒作用的东西
be indebted to
be grateful / thankful to
I'm indebted to all the staff who have been
working so hard,
I am greatly indebted to you for your help,
pay back
? It’s high time he paid me back the $100
he owes me,
? How can I pay you back for all your
kindness?
? He paid me back by not coming,
? His hard work paid off when he got the
promotion,(是值得的 )
? I’ve just paid off my loan from the bank,
What a relief! （偿还掉）
get in
? arrive at its destination
The plane got in three hours late,
? be elected to a political position
The candidate stands a good chance of
getting in,
? Collect or gather
In autumn,the farmers are busy getting in
the crops,
Anticipate
? Look forward to期待
我们期待伦敦之行过得非常愉快。
We anticipate great pleasure from our visit to
London,
我们期待再接到你们的来信。
We anticipate hearing from you again,
? Act in advance so as to prevent占先；抢先
We anticipated our competitors by getting
our products onto the market first,
我们赶在竞争对手之前,先把产品推向市场。
transfer v,n,
? He transferred the ownership of the house
to his wife,I have been transferred,(转移，
转给 )
? I am leaving for my new post next week,
（调往）
? Mary transferred to a new school,（转学）
? At London we transferred from the train to
a bus,（转车）
? I was given a transfer to headquarters,
survive
? The music of Bach has survived through the
years,
? These plants won’t survive without sun,
? He survived the explosion,but no one else did,
? Insurance statistics show that most wives
survive their husbands,
? His survival is still uncertain; he has been very
badly hurt and may die,
? There were no survivors of the air crash,
Pull oneself together
Control oneself; become calm after being excited or
disturbed
He was able to pull himself together in the face of
danger and hardship,
I reassured her that we were going to make
it,
I tried to comfort her by saying that we would
manage to tide it over/ to fly through the
thunderclouds,
When the child was afraid in the storm,his parents
reassured him,
Some difficult sentences
After this,London’s going to seem like
small potatoes,
After this remarkable or extraordinary ride,
your trip to London is going to seem like
something insignificant,
small potatoes, insignificant or unimportant
persons or things,
He was only a small potato in the play,
This city seems like a small potato if
compared with the large cities,
The female equivalent of the confident
businessman must have seen how
scared I was and reached over,
The businesswoman as confident as that
businessman must have noticed my fear,
Unreal conditional sentences
1,____ for my illness I would have lent him a
helping hand,
a,Not being b,Had it not been
c,Without being d,Not having been
2,Jean doesn’t want to work right away because
she thinks that if she ____ a job she probably
wouldn’t be able to see her friends very often,
a,has to get b,were to get
c,had got d,could have got
3,___ right now,she would get there on Sunday,
a,Would she leave b,If she leaves
c,Were she to leave d,If she had left
4,If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you
when you fell,you _____ now,
a,wouldn’t be smiling b,couldn’t have smiled
c,won’t smile d,didn’t smile
5,If the whole operation ____ beforehand,a great
deal of time and money would have been lost,
a,was not planned b,has not been planned
c,were not planned d,had not been planned,
wish
1,He didn’t go to the party,but he does
wish he ___ there,
a,had been b,has been
c,would have been d,would be
2,I wish I ____ longer this morning,but I had
to get up and come to class,
a,could have slept b,might have slept
c,slept d,have slept
Translation Exercises
1,I scrambled up the cliff for a better look at
the sea,
2,He lunged at the burglar and wrestled with
him for the weapon,
3,I figure that our national economy will
continue to develop rapidly,
4,The chairman made effort to reassure the
shareholders that the company’s bad results
would not be repeated,
5,Stop acting like a baby! Pull yourself together,
6.Being very much a private man,he does not
confide in anyone,
7.We all hate the terrorists’ indiscriminate violence
against ordinary people,
8.Many people in this country are alarmed by the
dramatic increase in violent crime,
9,We anticipated that the enemy would try to
cross the river,That was why we destroyed the
bridge,
10.I am indebted to all the people who worked so
hard to make the party a great success,
Dictation
Our boat floated on,between walls of forest,
Nowhere did we find a place where we could
have landed,In any case,what would we have
got by landing? The country was full of snakes
and other dangerous animals,and the forest
was so thick that one would be able to advance
only slowly,cutting one’s way with knives the
whole day,We live on fish,caught with a
homemade net of string,and any fruit and nuts
we could pick up out of the water,As we had no
fire,we had to eat everything,including the fish,
uncooked,As for water,there was a choice,we
could drink the muddy river water,or die of thirst,
Assignment,
Write a précis of the text,
Précis,a piece of writing giving only the main
ideas of a longer piece of writing,speech
etc,
