Lesson 8:The best and the worst Why is Joe’s garden the most beautiful one in the town Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. Nearly everybody enters for 'The Nicest Garden Competition' each year, but Joe wins every time. Bill Frith's garden is larger than Joe's. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work. Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town! New words: nearly adv. 几乎，差不多 enter v. 参加 competition n. 比赛 neat adj. 整齐的，整洁的 path n. 小路，路径 wooden adj. 木头的 bridge n. 桥 pool n. 水池 prize n. 奖品，奖金 vegetable n. 蔬菜 Notes: 最高级：Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. 翻译：1) 英语是最有趣的一门学科。 _____ e.g. He is taller than the other students in my class. 翻译： 2）他是我们班最胖的。 _____ enter v. 参加, 报名参加 enter for 报名参加（各种竞赛，考试等活动） e.g. Everybody enters for the competition each year. enter sb. for a competition 使报名参加竞赛 翻译：她的英语老师叫她报名参加竞赛。 _____ competition n. 比赛，竞赛 所有比赛都可以通称competition. [注] 速度比赛用race e.g. car race 球赛用match e.g. football match contest 用得更多，除了以上的比赛，其他都可以用contest. 选美比赛：beauty contest neat adj. 整齐的，整洁的， 不等于clean, 等于tidy. e.g. 1) The room is small, but it’s kept quite neat/tidy. 2) Look at my clean floor. win (win-won-won, winning, wins) v. 赢得（比赛、战争或辩论等），赢 vi. I win. 我赢了。 I lose. 我输了。 vt. win sth.(通常是奖品) e.g. I won the notebook. win a prize 赢了一个奖 win a prize for… 因为……而获奖 翻译：她因为努力赢得了这个奖。 _____ [注] win 后面不能接人（对手），不能说 I win you. 如果要接对手的话要用defeat 或 beat, 两者defeat用得较多，因为beat还有打的意思。 翻译： 我赢了你。 我打败了你。_____ Lesson 9: A cold welcome What does “ a cold welcome” refer to On Wednesday evening, we went to Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, "It's two minutes past twelve. The clock has stopped!" I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing. New words: welcome n.& v. 欢迎 crowd n. 人群 gather v. 聚集 strike v. (钟) 敲响 hand n. (表或机器的) 指针 suddenly adv. 突然 shout v. 喊叫 refuse v. 拒绝 Notes: welcome n.& v. 欢迎 n. e.g. a cold welcome 冷遇 v. welcome to +地点 e.g. Welcome to China. crowd n. 人群 in the crowd 在人群中 e.g. I find him in the crowd. a crowd of… 一群…… a crowd of people 拥挤的人群（没有秩序的） a group of people 一群人（有 ... ...
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