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课件网) Unit 2 Unit 2 Improving yourself SOCIAL MEDIA DETOX 1. At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. 脱瘾活动初期，我们成功说服100多名学生连续七天不得使用任何形式的社交媒体。 persuade vt. to make sb. do sth. by giving them good reasons for doing it 说服；劝说 to make sb. believe that sth. is true 使相信，使信服 过去完成时的被动语态 persuade sb. to do sth.= persuade sb. into doing sth. 说服某人做某事 persuade sb. not to do sth. = persuade sb. out of doing sth. 说服某人不做某事 persuade sb. of sth. / persuade sb. that… 使某人相信某事 e.g. Who persuaded you to write / persuaded you into writing that letter Her lawyer persuaded her not to mention / persuaded her out of mentioning the names of the people involved in the robbery. I am still not fully persuaded of the plan’s merits. 【语境应用】每空填一词，使每组句子的意思相同或相近。 1) I persuaded him to give up playing computer games. → I _____ him _____ to play computer games any more. → I _____ him _____ _____ playing computer games. 2) I couldn’t persuaded myself that he was honest. →I couldn’t persuaded myself _____ _____ _____. persuaded not persuaded out of of his honesty 2. With the detox now finished, they’ve switched on their devices and they’re back online. 如今，脱瘾活动已结束，他们纷纷开启电子设备，重返网络。 with的复合结构。 多由“with+宾语+形容词/副词/介词短语/现在分词(短语) /过去分词(短语) /不定式(短语)”构成。 with复合结构在句中常作状语，表示时间、原因、方式、条件或伴随。 e.g. I sat in my room for a few minutes with my eyes fixed on the ceiling. With so much work to do, I can’t go out with you. With his wife away, he had to do all the housework. With time going by, I gradually learnt how to cope with stress in my life. The teacher came in, with a book in his hand. I will have to buy a new pair with my glasses broken. 2) switch v. to change or make sth. change from one thing to another 转换，转变，改变 to replace one thing with another, or exchange things 交换；调换；转换 to change the way a machine operates, using a switch (用开关) 改变 (机器的运转)， 转换 switch on 开动；打开；接通 switch off 切断；关掉 switch … with … ……交换 switch from … 从……转变 switch over 转换到；换(频道) e.g. The meeting has been switched to next week. Husband and wife should switch roles with each other occasionally. He pointed the light at his feet and tried to switch it on. Please switch the lights off as you leave. 2) switch n. a small device that you press or move up and down in order to turn a light or piece of electrical equipment on and off (电路的)开关，闸，转换器 a change from one thing to another, especially when this is sudden and complete (尤指突然彻底的)改变，转变 e.g. If you press that switch, the light will come on. We had to make a switch in our plan. 【语境应用】根据括号内的汉语提示补全下面句子（每空一词）。 1) Our cups _____ _____ _____ ( ... ...
