7. 开车时绝不应冒险。

8. 当我小时，我在一个小城镇生活。

9. 他不贫穷，相反他很富有。

10. 我正要离开时，他就打电话来了。

Step 3  Practice

六、语法填空 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Mark Twain was born in Florida and spent [1] ____   boyhood inHannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river. This author loved the river

[2]_______ much that even his pen name is about the river. “Twain” is[3]_______  old word for “two”. So, to “mark twain,” is to say that the water is two fathoms deep.

A fathom is equal to six feet or 1.83 meter. Twain left school [4]        the 4 age of twelve to look for work. Over the next two decades he was a printer, a riverboat pilot, a soldier, a gold miner, a businessman and a newspaper reporter. His first successful story was about a [5]    (jump) frog contest. His writing became famous for its [6]      (describe) of common people and the way [7]         they talked, but especially for his humor, He became rich from the many novels, short stories and travel journals he wrote and was very popular at public readings. Yale andOxford Universities honored him for his writing, [8]        , the last years of his life [9]________ (fill) with sad events, loneliness and the loss of much money . His writing lost most of its humor and became sad like him. Yet he is still one of the[10]_____popular writers in the world today.

七、基础写作 用括号中所给词翻译下列句子，然后将这些句子联成一篇5句话的连贯的短文。

1. 这些年，我在很多朋友都去大城市追求幸福和成功。(seek one’s fortune)

2. 至于我，则想碰碰运气，在家乡开个公司。(as for me; take a chance)

3. 老实说，开始的时候，由于缺乏管理经验和耐心，我的公司陷入了困境。( to be honest; lack; patience; get into trouble)

4. 后来，我把大量的金钱和时间花在培训工人上。(amount; spend )

5. 我相信，管理不好常常导致亏钱，而我现在的成功并不是出于偶然。(account for; by accident)

One possible version

In recent years many of my friends have gone to the big cities to seek their fortune. As for me, I wanted to take a chance and set up my own company in my hometown. To be honest, at the first beginning my company got into trouble owing to the fact that I

acked patience as well as experiences of running a company. Later, I spent a large amount of money and time training workers since I believe that bad management often accounts for losing money. So as you can see, where there is a will there is a way and I don’t run my company successfully by accident.

Step 4 : Points usages核心单词

1. scene n. 景色，风景;(影、剧、小说)场，背景，镜头;(出事)地点，现场，场面

◆理解：指出下列各句中scene的意思。

(1)Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.

(2)The scene of the film is set in Paris in the 1920’s.

(3)A crowd gathered at the scene of the accident.

★辨析：scene, scenery, sight, view表示“风色”

(1)scenery 指一个地区的山水风光或自然风景，着重美，不可数名词。

(2)view 是scenery的一部分，即从某处看到的东西或自然美景，可数名词。用of短语表示所看到的东西或景色，用from短语表示从某处看。

(3)scene 与view相当，只是scene(场面)多半包括人和动作在内;指具体场面所表示的“一处风光，一幕景色”，不分乡间或城市、室内或室外，动态或静态，好看或难看，可数名词。

(4)sight可数名词，指值得看的“奇观”;或指某处或某地令人有趣的名胜、建筑物(常说the sights)。

■运用：用上述表示风景的词填空。(1)The cave is a very nice _________in that place.

那个洞是该地一处很美丽的风景。(2)From the top of the hill you have a nice __________ of the whole city.(3)We’ll take you to see the __________when you’re in Beijing. (4)The ___________ in the mountains is very beautiful.

2. manner[5mAnE] n. (单数)方法，方式，举止;(复数)礼貌，规矩，风俗

◇Why are you talking in such a strange manner? 你为什么用这种奇怪的方式谈话?

◇I don’t like his manner; it’s very rude. 我不喜欢他对举止，太粗鲁了。

◇It's bad manners to talk with a full mouth. 嘴里吃着东西说话是不礼貌的。

◆搭配：熟记下列短语。

manners and customs风俗习惯have no manners 没有礼貌

in manner of 以……方式in a manner (=in a way, in some degree) 在某种意义上，有点no manner of 一点也不, 根本没有

3. permit vt. 允许，许可

※拓展：permission n.表演，演奏，表现 performer n. 表演者

◆搭配：根据汉语意思，补全下面的短语。

________

(4) allow ____________   (5)recommend ____________

(1) permit ___________ 允许某人做某事  (2) permit ____________ 允许做某事

(3) permit __________ 允许某人进入/通过(4) ask for _____________ 请求许可

★联想: 像perform一样，用不定式to do sth作宾语补足语和用doing sth.动名词作宾语的及物动词几个，请写出它们的中文意思：

(1) forbid ____________  (2) advise ____________  (3) encourage ____

运用：用所给动词的适当形式填空。

(1) You are not permitted ____________ (smoke) here.

(2) I advise you not ____________(drink) too much.

(3) We forbid ____________(shout) loudly in the office.

(4) The teacher encouraged me ____________( study) abroad.

4. stare  v. 凝视，注视  n. 凝视，注视;瞪视

◇He stared at the word trying to remember what it meant.

他盯着这个单词，努力想记住它的意思。

◇Standing there, he stared into the distance. 他站在那儿，凝视着远方。

◇She gave him a frosty stare她冷若冰霜地瞪了他一眼

★联想：同义词组 fix one’s eye on/upon 专注于，凝视

◇Thousands of eyes are fixed on the speaker.千万双眼睛集中在演讲人身上。

5. account n. 帐目，帐单，帐户;报告，描绘，叙述

◇The accounts show a profit of 9000. 账目显示盈利9000英镑。

◇The policeman gave an account of the traffic accident.警察叙述了交通事故的经过。

★拓展：写出下列短语的汉语意思。

(1)by all accounts ________________________

(2)on account of __________________________

(3)on no account _________________________

(4)take …into account ______________________

(5)keep the accounts _______________________

(6)have an account at/with that bank____________

(7)open an account __________________________

(8)draw money out of an account ____________

(9)account for ____________________________