【故事复现】意外的好消息 （上）
• Step 1: Listen and answer the question.
第一步：听Freya慢速朗读的故事，回答下列问题。
Question: What was the good news?
问题：这个意外的好消息是什么？
• 词汇准备
• secretary 秘书
• nervous 精神紧张的
• afford 负担得起
• weak 弱的
• interrupt 插话，打断
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me.
秘书告诉我说哈姆斯沃斯先生要见我。
I felt very nervous when I went into his office.
我走进他的办公室，感到非常紧张。
He did not look up from his desk when I entered.
我进去的时候，他连头也没抬。
After I had sat down, he said that business was very bad.
待我坐下后，他说生意非常不景气。
He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people
had already left.
他还告诉我，公司支付不起这么庞大的工资开支，有20个人已经离去。
I knew that my turn had come.
我知道这次该轮到我了。
“Mr. Harmsworth,” I said in a weak voice.
“哈姆斯沃斯先生，”我无力地说。
“Don’t interrupt,” he said. Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra
thousand pounds a year!
“不要打断我的话，”他说。然后他微笑了一下告诉我说，我每年将得到
1000 英镑的额外收入。
第十二单元第二课（下）
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1. Who wanted to see you?
2.How did you feel about this?
3.Where did you go?
4.Did he say that business was bad，or did he say that it was good?
5.Could the firm pay such large salaries or not?
6. How many people had left already?
7. Did he ask you to leave as well or not?
8. What did he offer you?
Answer: Mr. Harmsworth wanted to see me. I felt very nervous about this. I
went into his office. He said that business was bad. The firm could not pay
such large salaries. Twenty people had left already. He did not ask me to leave
as well. He offered me an extra 1,000 pounds a year.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1.Mr. Harmsworth _____ see you, the secretary said.
(a)would
(b)shall
(c)will
(d) could
2._______ did he feel? Very nervous.
(a)What
(b)How
(c)How much
(d)Which
3.The firm couldn't pay ____ large salaries.
(a)so
(b) such a
(c)such
(d) a such
4._____ turn is it? It's your turn.
(a)Which
(b)To whom
(c)Whom
(d)Whose
5.‘Mr. Harmsworth, I said ____ a weak voice.
(a)in
(b)with
(c)on
(d)under
6. Mr. Harmsworth wanted to see me. He wanted to _____ me.
(a)watch
(b)look at
(c)look for
(d) speak to
7.I felt nervous because I felt
(a)angry
(b)cross
(c)anxious
(d)ill
8. It's your turn.
(a)It's your line
(b)It's your row
(c)You're next
(d)It's your chance
9. Don't interrupt! Don't
(a)speak
(b) talk
(c) talk while I'm talking
(d) cut off
10.The writer would receive an extra 1,000 a year. He would get £1,000 a year
____.
(a)less
(b)more
(c)over
(d)up
Key: 1c 2b 3c 4d 5a 6d 7c 8c 9c 10b
第十二单元 第三课
直接引语和间接引语转换
▶ 直接引语如果是陈述句，间接引语应改为由that引导的宾语从句。例如:
• He said, “Our school bus will arrive in ten minutes.”
他说,“我们的校车10分钟后到达。”
• He said that their school bus would arrive in ten minutes.
他说他们校车10分钟后到达。
注：若直接引语是两个并列的陈述句，要注意在第二个宾语从句前加连词that。
• He said, “I am tired and want to have a rest.”
他说,“我累了，想休息一下。”
• He said that he was tired and that he wanted to have a rest.
他说他累了，想休息一下。
在这种情况下，引导第一个宾语从句的that有时可以省略，但引导第二个宾语从
句的that通常不省略，以免产生误解。
▶ 直接引语如果是反意疑问句、选择疑问句或一般疑问句，间接引语应改为
由 whether或if引导的宾语从句。
▪ “You have finished the homework, haven’t you?” my mother asked.
“你做完了家庭作业，是吗?
▪ My mother asked me whether I had finished the homework.
我母亲问我是否做完了家庭作业。
注：大多数情况下，if和 whether可以互换，但后有 or not，或在动词不定式
前，或放在介词后作连接词时，一般只用 whether。
▪ She asked me whether he could do it or not.
她问我他是否可以做那件事。
▪ He hesitated about whether to drive or take the train.
是开车去还是坐火车去，他感到犹豫不决。
▶ 直接引语如果是特殊问句，间接引语应改为由疑问代词或疑问副词引导的
宾语从句(宾语从句须用陈述句语序)。
▪ She asked me,“When do they have their dinner?”
她问我，“他们什么时候吃晚饭?”
▪ She asked me when they had their dinner.
她问我他们什么时候吃晚饭。
▶ 直接引语如果是祈使句，间接引语应改为tell/ask/order/beg等+sb.(not)to do
sth.句型。
• “Don’t make any noise,” she said to the children.
“不要吵闹。”她对孩子们说。
• She told/ordered the children not to make any noise.
她告诉/命令孩子们不要吵闹。
注：祈使句如果是否定句，在动词不定式前加not。
• My teacher said to me “Don't laugh.”我的老师对我说，“不要笑。”
• My teacher asked me not to laugh.我的老师叫我不要笑。
• 直接引语如果是以“Let’s”开头的祈使句，变为间接引语时，通常用
“suggest动词(或从句)”。
• He said,“Let’s go to the cinema.”他说，“咱们去看电影。”
• He suggested going to the cinema.他建议去看电影。
• He suggested that they should go to the cinema.他建议他们去看电影。
➢ 动词的变化
▶ 直接引语变为间接引语时，个别动词可能需要改变，如come应改为go, bring
改为take等。
• “He will come here today,” she said. “他今天来这儿,”她说。
• She said that he would go there that day.她说他那天去那里。
▶ 直接引语是感叹句时，若要变作间接引语，通常用引述动词tell, exclaim
等。
• “What a clever boy you are!” she told him.
“你是一个多么聪明的男孩子啊!”她告诉他说。
• She told him what a clever boy he was.
她告诉他说他是一个多么聪明的孩子。
当然，也可用其他一些引述动词。
• He said,“How foolish I have been!”
他说道，“哎，我多傻啊!
• He confessed with regret that he had been very foolish.
他痛悔地承认他太傻了。(引述动词用confess加状语with regret)
• “What a crime he has committed!” she said. “他犯了多大的罪啊!”她说道。
• She didn’t know what a crime he had committed.她不知道他犯了那么大的
罪。(引述动词用know的否定式)
有时也可以不用引述动词，例如:
• “How fast she can run!” he says.“她竟能跑得那样快!”他说道。
• It’s incredible how fast she can run.她跑得如此之快，令人难以置信。
(用it’s incredible表示说话人的惊讶之情)