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Book 3 Module 6 Old and New

Period 1 Key words

【课前预习】

1. 主题语境：本模块为“人与社会”主题下对“建筑领域的代表性作品”的探讨。所讨论的话题涉及古今中外的一些著名建

筑及文化遗迹，旨在引导学生了解古今中外的知名建筑，培养学生的审美观。

2. 表达性技能：掌握电子邮件的结构特点，学会撰写电子邮件。

3. 课时任务：了解古今中外的知名建筑，培养审美观，加深对三峡大坝的认识，从而形成一定的民族自豪感和使命感。

【知识清单】

一、[原文再现]Most of the Great Wall dates from the Ming Dynasty.长城的大部分建于明朝。

date v.确定年代；注明日期；始于（某一历史时期） n.日期；约会

常用搭配：date from=date back to起源于；追溯到 out of date过时的 up to date现代的

set/fix a date for确定……的日期

特别注意：date from常用于一般现在时，无被动语态，常考查其非谓语动词形式dating from (dating back to)

1. It is believed to date from around 3000 BC.人们认为它可以追溯到公元前3000年左右。

2. The canal has a long history, dating back to the Sui Dynasty.这条运河历史悠久，始建于隋朝。

3. Was that your first date?那是你第一次约会吗？

4. The dictionary is out of date: many words have been added to the language since it was published.

这本词典过时了，自它出版以来，有许多新词已被加入到这门语言中。

二、[原文再现]The airport is within five hours’ flying time of half the world’s population and is designed to accommodate

80 million passengers a year.从香港国际机场出发，可于五小时内飞抵全球半数人口的居住地，按照设计该机场每年能容

纳八千万乘客。

be designed to为做某事而设计/计划的 be designed for…为……设计 by design特意地；故意地

be designed as…作为……而设计的

1. Some system are not designed to handle this sort of application at all.

有些系统根本就不是为了处理这些类型的应用而设计的。

2. It is said that the early European playing card were designed for entertainment and education.

据说欧洲早期的纸牌的为了娱乐和教育目的而设计的。

3. The course is designed as an introduction to the subject.这门课程是作为该科目的入门课而设计的。

4. Whether by chance or be design, it happened that there were exactly 150 people in the station.

不知是偶然还是安排好的，车站正好有150人。

accommodate vt.容纳（乘客等）；为……提供住所；迎合；迁就 vi.适应；顺应

联想词：accommodation n.住处；办公处；膳宿

常用搭配：accommodate to…适合/迎合…… accommodate sb for the night留某人过夜

accommodate oneself to…使自己适应…… accommodate sb with sth给某人提供……方便

1. The building can accommodate all of the offshore workers and protect them from hurricane damage.

这个建筑物能容纳所有的海上工人，并且保护他们不受飓风的伤害。

三、[原文再现]Construction is another word for building.“construction”是表示“building”的另一个单词。

construction n.[U]建造；建设 [C]建筑；建筑物 construct vt.建造；建筑

常用搭配：under construction在建设中

1. Located where the Belt meets the Road, Jiangsu will contribute more to the Belt and Road construction.

江苏位于“一带”与“一路”的交汇点，将为“一带一路”的建设作出更大的贡献。

2. We have to take a flight because the new railway station is still under construction.

我们不得不乘飞机，因为新的火车还在建设之中。

四、[原文再现]Mao Zedong wrote a poem in which he dreamed of “walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a

smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”.毛泽东写过一首词，在词中，他想象了“更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平

湖”的壮丽景观。

hold back阻拦；隐瞒；抑制；阻碍

The police were unable to hold back the crowd.警察阻拦不住人群。

hold (held, held) vt. 拿着；抓住；握住；举办；举行；召开；容纳；包含；拥有；任职；怀有（信念、意见）

sb hold that…某人认为……；某人持有……的观点 hold on（电话用语）别挂断；等一下；抓紧

hold up举起；支持住； hold out伸出；维持；（在困境中）坚持 hold the line不要挂断

1. The girl held her father’s hand tightly.女孩紧紧地拉着她父亲的手。

2. The judge held that the child’s interests in this case must come first.

法官认为，该案必须首先考虑孩子的利益。

3. We can stay here for as long as our supplies hold out.我们可以在这里一直待到我们的储备用品用完。

五、[原文再现]Cold? It was freezing.冷？那是冷极了。

freezing adj.极冷的；寒冷的；冰冻的 adv.极冷地

联想词：freeze vi.&vt. (froze, frozen)冻结；冷冻；呆住 frozen adj.（食物）冷冻的，冷藏的；（人）冻僵

freezer n.冰柜

常用搭配：freezing point冰点；凝固点 freezing cold极其寒冷

1. It is very cold today; the temperature has dropped to freezing point.今天很冷，气温降至零点了。

2. It is freezing cold outside.外面极为寒冷。

六、[原文再现]If you take away the attributive clauses, do the sentences still make sense?

如果你把定语从句去掉，这些句子还讲得通吗？

make sense 有意义；有道理；讲得通

sense n.感觉（视、听等）；意识；意义；角度 vt.感觉到；意识到；觉察出

联想词：sensor n.传感器；感应器 senseless adj.失去知觉的；无意义的；不明智的

sensitive adj.善解人意的；敏感的 sensible adj.明智的，合理的

常用搭配：common sense常识 a sense of+adj.一种……感 make sense of…理解……；弄懂……

in a sense / in one sense / in some senses从某种/一定意义上来讲

there is no sense in (doing) sth（做）某事是没有意义的 make no sense没意义

1. Before she found out the solutions to the problem, she must try to make sense of what had happened.

在她找到解决问题的方法之前，她必须弄清楚发生了什么。

2. There is no sense in being anything but practical though, he thought.

然而就有道理的还是讲究实用，他想。

3. Planning so far ahead makes no sense----so many things will have changed by next year.

提前这么久作计划没有意义，许多事情到第二年可能都已经变了。

【考题实例】

1. It can accommodate (accommodation) eight customers, along with a chef and a waitress to serve them.

2. Some tourists have been lucky enough to be put up by friendly Naxi people, so if someone offers you

accommodation (accommodate), think it over before you book into a guesthouse.

3. The construction (construct) process was only half the battle.

4. It was freezing (freeze) cold as I was waiting at a bus stop in my hunt for a job.

【跟踪演练】

一、在空白处填入合适的单词。

1. In China, the compass dates (date) back to the Han Dynasty.

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2. Every year, a great many visitors come to visit the temple dating (date) from the 12 century, which has

brought a large income.

3. This kind of computer has been out of date (过时了).

4. 他为我们设计了一所很美的房子。He designed a beautiful house for us.

5. The new apartment built a few months ago is large enough to accommodate (accommodation) over 500 people.

6. The construction (construct) of the laboratory must have been completed by the end of July.

7. Anger flooded through her. She couldn’t hold it back .

8. 为了有效地表达反对的意见，你可以使用下列单词和短语。

To express an opposing idea effectively, you can use the following words and phrases.

9. Her fingers were frozen in the freezing water. (freeze)

10. 作为一个生活伴侣，最重要的素质之一的幽默感。

One of the most important things in a partner is a sense of humor .

11. I saw him enter the house facing (face) the south.

二、翻译句子。

1. With the misunderstanding removed, the two old friends make up happily.

随着误会的消除，两位老朋友愉快地和解了、

2. We hold that everyone should be equal.

我们认为所有的人都应该平等。

3. English is more widely used in communication than any other language today.

如今，英语在交流中比任何其他语言都使用的更广泛。

4. I could sense that something was wrong.

我感到有什么不对劲。