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课件网) 1. Let’s call Wonder of the World and join in the discussion. 我们给《世界奇观》节目打电话，加入讨论吧。 wonder n. 奇观；奇迹 (可数名词) e.g. The pyramids are one of the wonders of the world. 金字塔是世界奇迹之一。 wonder vt. 想知道 =want to know 后面常常跟由when，where，why等引导的宾语从句，从句的语序要用陈述句语序。 e.g. The teacher wonders why the little girl doesn’t like learning maths. 老师想知道为什么小女孩不喜欢学数学。 【语境应用】根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。 1) 中国有许多伟大的奇迹。 China has a lot of great _____. 2) 老师想知道约翰今天早上为什么迟到。 The teacher _____ _____ John was late this morning. wonders wonders why discussion n. “讨论; 商讨”。 have a discussion with sb. “与某人讨论” discuss v. discuss sth. with sb. 表示“与某人讨论某事”。 【语境应用】 Ⅰ. 词汇运用 We’ll have an interesting _____ (discuss) about music tomorrow. Ⅱ. 完成句子 1) 我不知道如何学习英语，我想和你们讨论一下。 I don’t know how to learn English. I’d like to have _____. 2) 今天上午马丽和她的朋友们讨论了假期计划。 This morning Ma Li _____. discussion a discussion with you discussed holiday plans with her friends 2. That sounds great, though I think Victoria Falls in Africa is even more fantastic. 听起来很神奇，但我认为非洲的维多利亚瀑布更壮观。 though conj. 虽然; 尽管 用来引导让步状语从句, 从句可放在主句前或主句后, 但不 能与but或however 出现在同一个句子中。 e.g. Though he was tired, he went on working. 虽然他很累，还是继续工作。 Lucy often helps me with my English, though she is very busy. 尽管露西很忙，她还是经常帮我学习英语。 【语境应用】单项选择。 Little Jack has learned to do lots of things on his own, _____ he is only four years old. A. if B. though C. for D. since B 3. But in my opinion, man-made wonders are more exciting than natural ones. 但是, 在我看来, 人造奇观比自然奇观更激动人心。 opinion n. 看法；主张 (多作可数名词) in one’s opinion 按某人的意见; 据某人看来 本句中natural ones与man-made wonders相对应, ones代替前面提到的wonders。 【语境应用】翻译句子。 1) 你的观点是什么呢？ _____ 2) 依我看，你最好再等十分钟。 _____ What's your opinion In my opinion, you'd better wait another ten minutes. 4. It’s more than 2000 years old. 它有2000多年的历史了。 1) more than + 形容词 十分……；非常…… 2) more than + 数词 超过…… e.g. more than ten people 超过十个人 3) more than + 名词 不仅仅是……；不只是…… e.g. My trip to Beijing is more than sightseeing. 我的北京之行不只是观光而已。 5. It produces electricity for millions of people in China. 它为中国数百万的人口供电。 millions of：数百万的，表示一个不确切的、大概的数目， 其后通常接可数名词的复数形式。 e.g. There are millions of living things on the earth. 地球上有成千上万的生物。 It’s terrible that millions of people have lost their jobs because of the war. 因为战争，数百万人失去了工作，这太可怕了。 【链接】 hundred, thousand, billion等也有这样的用法，即构成相应的of短语：hundreds of (数百的)、thousands of (数千的)、 billions ... ...
