1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 1 Great scientists 重点单词 1 characteristic n特性；特征 adj.特有的；独特的；典型的 2 defeat vt.打败；战胜；使受挫 n失败 3 attend vt.照顾；护理；出席；参加；定期去 (某处 ) 4 cure vt. keep trying and you will make it sooner or later. 你决不应该灰心丧气。继续努力，你迟早会成功的。 1neither?nor? 既不 ? 也不 ? Neither its cause nor its cure was understood.(教
2、材 P2) 既不知道它的病因，也不知道它的治疗方法。 【句式点拨】 neither?nor? 既不 ? 也不 ? ，连接句中两个相同成分。当连接主语时，谓语动词【 精品教育资源文库 】 遵循就近一致原则。 Air is neither a solid nor a liquid. 空气既不是固体，也不是液体。 Neither he nor his parents like (like) the new TV series. They all think it boring. 他和她父母都不喜欢这部新电视剧，他们认 为它太无聊了。 Neither could theory do without
3、practice, nor could practice do without theory. 理论没有实践不行，实践没有理论也不行。 【提示】 遵循 “ 就近原则 ” 的其他并列连词： either?or? 不是 ? 就是 ? ； not only?but also? 不仅 ? 而且 ? ； not?but? 不是 ? 而是 ? 。 2every time 作连词引导时间状语从句 So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.(教材 P2) 所以每次疾病暴发时，都有成千上万惊恐的人病死。
4、 【句式点拨】 (1)every time 引导时间状语从句，相当于 whenever，意思是 “ 每当 ?” 。 (2)名词词组作连词用，引导时间状语从句的还有： each time, any time, next time, the序数词 time(第 ? 次 )， the瞬间名词(moment/minute/instant)(一 ? 就 ?) 等。 (3)有些副词，如 directly, instantly, immediately 也可引导状语从句。 【提示】 (1)for the first time 是介词短语，只可作时间状语，而 the first time是名词的连词化，引导时
5、间状语从句。 (2)It be the first time that? 如果前面用 is，从句动词用现在完成时；如果用 was，则用过去完成时。 (3)Its high/about time that? 从句动词用一般过去时或 should动词原形。 Every time he comes back to his hometown, he will call on his former teachers. 他每次回到家乡，都会去看望他原来的老师。 The first time he came to the city, he decided to settle down. 他第一次来到这个城市
6、，就决定在此安家。 The moment he got out of the airport, the pop star was surrounded by his fans. 这位流行歌星一出机场，就被歌迷围了起来。 It was the first time that he had_seen (see) his work in print. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 这是他第一次看见他自己的作品出版。 Its high time that I should have breakfast. 该是我吃早餐的时候了。 . 品句填词 (用所给词的适当形式或根据语境写一个合适的词 ) 1 They
7、 didnt draw a conclusion until carrying out lots of scientific (science) experiments. 2 A similarconclusion (conclude) has been drawn after they did experiments, analyzed results and found supporting evidence. 3 The couple sent emails to their friends last Friday announcing/to_announce (announce) th
8、e news, saying they were thinking about a possible wedding next summer. 4 The infectious (infect) disease was not well controlled or thoroughly defeated. 5 Professor Wang said the reason of shortsightedness is complicated and there is still no cure for it. 6 In many countries, political suspects (su
9、spect) are kept under polices observation. 7 Each of us is_exposed (expose) to radiation daily from natural sources, including the Sun and the Earth. 8 The incident made us worried first, but we managed to realize how to_handle (handle) situations like this. 9 Honesty and hard work contribute to suc
10、cess and happiness. 10 When deeply absorbed (absorb) in work, which he often was, he would forget all about eating or sleeping. . 单句改错 (含本单元的词汇和语法 ) 1 As you know, one cant become infectinginfectedwith AIDS by having dinner or shaking hands with patients. 2 No matter how hard I tried to read it, the
11、 sentence didnt make a sense to me. 3 Some of us often try to please someone else because we need people to like us: we are in our greatest fear of beingrejected and abandoned. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 4 Last night neither my wife nor my parents waswereable to persuade my daughter to change her mind. 5 I alway
12、s have so many things to attend towhen I come back to the company after a trip abroad. 6 The teacher cured him ofhis bad habits and he made great progress in English. 7 I think of the happy hours we spent together every time Isee these photos. 8 The two sides agree that this has contributed positive
13、ly to buildbuildingmutual understanding and trust. 9 A driver drives a truck past the site of an “ecocity” on underconstruction, in northeastern China, which is due to be completed next month. 10 Apart from beingtoo large, the hat doesnt suit me. As a result, I return with nothing in hand. . 课文语法填空
14、John Snow, a wellknown doctor in London, who had attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician, considered helping ordinary people 1 exposed (expose) to cholera as his job. He thought it was a great challenge to control its outbreak, which caused many thousands of deaths, because no one knew eit
15、her its cause 2 or its cure. John Snow suspected that people absorbed the disease into their bodies with their meals and was determined to do research 3 into an outbreak in London in 1854. The locations of the dead peoples houses drawn on the map gave John Snow a valuable clue about the cause many v
16、ictims lived near the water pump. Through 4 further (far) investigations, he found perhaps it was the polluted water that was 5 to_blame (blame). He had the handle 6 removed (remove) from the pump and the disease slowed down. It had been proved that cholera was spread by germs. He also found some 7 supporting (support) evidence 8 linked (link) to the outbreak of cholera. So he announced with 9 certainty (certain) that the water from the pump carried the virus. To prevent this happening again, John Snow suggested the water source
