【故事复现】生平第一次睡在床上
• 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: How did the dream end?
问题：美梦是怎么结束的？
• 词汇准备
• tired 厌烦的
• real 真正的
• owner 主人
• spring 弹簧
• mattress 床垫
• gust 一阵风
• sweep 扫，刮
• courtyard 院子
• smash 碰碎，摔碎
• miraculously 奇迹般地
• unhurt 没有受伤的
• glance 扫视
• promptly 迅速地
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man saved up for years to buy a real bed.
一个年轻人由于对睡地板感到厌倦，于是攒钱多年买了一张真正的床。
For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs
and a mattress.
他平生第一次自豪地拥有了一张既有弹簧又带床垫的床。
Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house.
由于天气很热，他便把床搬到了他的屋顶上。
He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up.
头两天晚上，他睡得非常好。但第三天晚上起了风暴。
A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来，把它摔碎在下面的院子里。
The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. Although the bed
was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously unhurt.
那年轻人直到床撞到地上才醒了过来。尽管床摔成了碎片，但年轻人却奇迹地
没有受伤。
When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. Glancing at the bits of wood and metal
that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house.
他醒来时，仍然躺在床垫上。年轻人看了一眼周围的碎木片和碎金属片，伤心
地捡起了床垫，把它拿进了屋。
After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.
他把床垫往地板上一放，很快又睡着了。
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1 What did a young man buy for the first time in his life?
2 Was the weather hot or cold? Did he sleep on the roof of his house or not?
3 Was the bed swept off the roof during a storm three nights later or not?
4 Was the man unhurt, or was he seriously injured? Was he still on his mattress or
not?
5 Was the bed in pieces or not? Did he carry the mattress indoors or not? Where did
he put it? Did he go back to sleep or did he stay awake?
Answer: A young man bought a real bed for the first time in his life. He slept
on the roof of his house because the weather was hot. Three nights later, the
bed was swept off the roof during a storm. The man was not only unhurt but
still on his mattress. As the bed was in pieces, he carried his mattress indoors
and after he had put it on the floor he went back to sleep.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1 Which statement best describes what happened?
(a) The bed was blown off the roof.
(b)The man was not hurt.
(c)The bed was smashed to pieces.
(d) The bed was blown off the roof but the man was not hurt.
2 When the man discovered that his bed had been smashed ________.
(a)he went back to sleep soon afterwards
(b)he couldn't sleep at all that night
(c)he tried to fix the bed
(d) he stayed where he was and immediately went back to sleep
3 ________ the hot weather, he couldn't sleep indoors.
(a)Because
(b) Because of
(c)As
(d)For
4 Where did he ________his bed?
(a) carry
(b)carries
(c)carried
(d)carrying
5 How _______ did he sleep?
(a)good
(b)well
(c)goodly
(d) nice
6 Where was the courtyard?
(a)Down.
(b)Under.
(c)Below.
(d)Bottom.
7 He looked at the bits of wood and metal ______ around him.
(a)laying
(b)laid
(c)lying
(d)lied
8 A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof. The wind blew very ________.
(a)hard
(b)fast
(c)quickly
(d)soon
9 The bed crashed into the courtyard. It _______ the courtyard.
(a)smashed
(b)knocked
(c)struck
(d)exploded
10 It was smashed to pieces. It __________.
(a)was struck
(b)was cracked
(c)was destroyed
(d)was damaged
11 He glanced at the bits of wood and metal. He ________the bits of wood and
metal.
(a)looked quickly at
(b)had a glimpse of
(c)stared at
(d)watched
12 He promptly went to sleep again. He went to sleep ________.
(a)straight away
(b)after while
(c)after a time
(d)late
Key: 1d 2a 3b 4a 5b 6c 7c 8a 9c 10c 11a 12a
第三十九单元【语法点拨】
主语从句（上）
在句中作主语的名词性从句称为主语从句。主语从句的引导词是连词that, wh-疑
问词或名词性关系词。一般而言，主语从句所对应的谓语动词通常用第三人称
单数的形式。
▶ 主语从句的表现形式
▪ 主语从句有两种形式：主语从句直接作主语；用先行词it作形式主语，而将
从句放在句末(尤其当谓语较短时)。that引导的主语从句，用it作形式主语
尤为常见。
• That you are coming to my birthday party makes me very happy.
• →It makes me very happy that you are coming to my birthday party.
你要来参加我的生日聚会使我非常高兴。
• That we need more equipment in our experiment is obvious.
• → It is obvious that we need more equipment in our experiment.
我们的试验中需要更多的设备是显而易见的。
除非出于强调或使句子前后平衡，否则使用it is that的结构的场合更多、更自
然。it作形式主语的几种常见句型：
(1)It +be+形容词(obvious, clear, certain, evident, likely, possible, necessary, natural,
et.)+that从句
• It is natural that people should have different views.
人们有不同观点是很正常的。
• It is evident that he is not equal to the job.显然，他不能胜任那份工作。
(2)It +be+名词词组(no wonder, good idea, an honor, pity, shame, no surprise, etc.)
+that从句
• It is a pity that you missed my birthday party.
你未能参加我的生日聚会真是遗憾。
• It is a wonder that he remains alive after dropping from the roof of a ten-
storied building.
他从一幢十层楼房子的屋顶上摔下来，仍然活着，真是奇迹。
(3)It +be+过去分词(said, reported, thought, hoped, believed, expected, announced,
estimated, known, suggested, etc.)+that从句
• It is said that there are wolves in this forest.据说这片森林里有狼。
• It is suggested that we set off at once.有人建议我们立刻动身。
(4)It+不及物动词(seem, happen, appear, matter, occur, come about(发生), etc.)+that
从句
• It appears to me that you are all mistaken.我觉得你们全搞错了。
• It’s so cold today, it seems that the winter has arrived.
今天可真冷，就好像冬天已然来临。
• It so happened that I met him on my way to work.
上班路上，我刚巧碰到了他。
• It occurred to him that he should go to see a dentist.
他想到他应该立刻去看牙医。
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