【故事复现】一个糟心的上午
• 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 two interruptions did the writer have?
问题：作者怎么被打断了两次？
• 词汇准备
• sticky 粘的
• finger 手指
• pie 馅饼
• mix 混合，拌和
• pastry 面糊
• annoying 恼人的
• receiver 电话的话筒
• dismay 使失望，使泄气
• recognize 认出，听出
• persuade 说服，劝说
• mess 乱七八糟
• doorknob 门把手
• sign 签字
• register 挂号邮寄
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops.
早饭后，我送孩子们上学，然后就去了商店。
It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was
at work and the house was quiet.
我回到家时，时间还早。孩子们在上学，我丈夫在上班，家里清静得很。
So, I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time, I was busy mixing butter and
flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry.
于是我决定做些肉馅饼。不一会儿我就忙着调拌起了黄油和面粉，很快我的手
上就沾满了粘粘的面糊。
At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying.
恰恰在此时，电话铃响了。没有什么能比这更烦人了。
I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I
recognized the voice of Helen Bates.
我用两个沾满面糊的手指捏起了话筒。当听出是海伦·贝茨的声音时，非常失
望。
It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last, I hung up the
receiver.
我用了10分钟的时间才说服她过会儿再来电话。我终于挂上了话筒。
What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs.
真是糟糕透了!我的手指上、电话机上以及门的把手上，都沾上了面糊。
I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake up
the dead.
我刚回到厨房，门铃又响了起来，响声足以把死人唤醒。
This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!
这次是邮递员，他要我签收一封挂号信!
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1 Did the writer return home from the shops or not? What did she begin to make?
(As soon as)
2 Did the telephone ring soon afterwards or not? Were her fingers very sticky or not?
(When)
3 How long did she spend talking to Helen Bates on the telephone?
4 Did she look at the mess she had made or not? (After that)
5 What was covered with pastry?
6 Who rang the doorbell? (Just then)
7 What did he want her to do?
Answer: As soon as the writer returned home from the shops, she began to
make some meat pies. When the telephone rang soon afterwards, her fingers
were very sticky. She spent ten minutes talking to Helen Bates on the
telephone. After that she looked at the mess she had made. Her fingers, the
telephone and the doorknobs were covered with pastry. Just then the postman
rang the doorbell. He wanted her to sign for a registered letter.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1. The telephone rang _________.
(a)at a convenient time
(b)when the house was empty,
(c)when the tarts were in the oven
(d)at an inconvenient time
2 Everything got into mess because _________.
(a)the writer was making meat pies
(b) the writer was interrupted several times while making meat pies
(c)the writer answered the telephone
(d) the writer opened the front door
3 _________ breakfast is the first meal of the day.
(a)The
(b)A
(c)This
(d)--
4 She returned home. She was ________ home all morning.
(a)to
(b)at
(c)ir
(d) on
5 Nothing could have been more annoying. It was ________annoying thing that
could have happened.
(a)the more
(b)more
(c)most
(d) the most
6 Whose voice did she recognize? Helen ________.
(a)Bate's
(b)Bates'
(c)Bates
(d)Bate
7 She had hardly got back to the kitchen ________the doorbell rang.
(a)when
(b)than
(c)as
(d) as soon as
8 She was busy mixing butter and flour. She was ________.
(a)joining them
(b)uniting them
(c)unifying them
(d) putting them together
9 Pastry is as sticky as ________.
(a)ink
(b)water)
(c)glue
(d) flour
10 She was dismayed when she heard Helen Bates. She felt _________.
(a)pity
(b)sorry
(c)ill
(d)tired
11 She hung up the receiver. This means she ________.
(a)let it hang
(b)didn't put it back
(c) held it
(d) put it back in its place
12 She has just _________up the receiver.
(a)hanged
(b)hang
(c) hanging
(d) hung
Key: 1d 2b 3d 4b 5d 6b 7a 8d 9c 10b 11d 12d
第四十三单元【语法点拨】
关系代词引导的定语从句
在主从复合句中起定语作用的从句称为定语从句。定语从句的作用是限制、描
绘或说明主句中的某一单词、短语、另一从句或整个主句。
定语从句由关系代词、关系限定词或关系副词引导。学习定语从句的关键就是
要区分和掌握关系代词、关系限定词和关系副词。
• 现将关系代词及其指代关系列表如下：
关系代词的格 用于限制性定语从句 用于限制性或非限制性定语从句
主格形式 指人 that, as who
指物 which, as
宾格形式 指人 that, as who, whom
指物 which, as
所有格形式 指人 whose (=of whom)
指物 whose (=of which)
名词性关系限定词有：what, whatever, which, whichever，指人指物均可。关
系副词有：when, where, why
▶ 关系代词引导的定语从句
▪ 关系代词在从句中作主语
➢ 限制性定语从句的关系代词是who, that, which, that指人指物均可。习惯
上多用who指人, which只能指物。关系代词在定语从句作主语时，从句
谓语动词的人称和数要与先行词保持一致。
• Is he the man who/ that wants to see you? 他就是想见你的人吗?
• She is the woman who/ that lives next door.她就是住在隔壁的那个妇女。
• There is still a big problem that/which has not been solved.
还有一个尚未解决的大问题。
➢ 作非限制性定语从句主语的关系代词是who(指人)和which(指物)，决不
可用that。
• She has two daughters, who are college students in Beijing.
她有两个女儿，在北京读大学。
• This book, which appeared only a year ago, has already gone through several
editions.
这本仅一年前才问世的书已经经历了好几个版本。
▪ 关系代词在从句中作动词或介词的宾语
➢ 在限制性定语从句中，作动词宾语的关系代词whom用来指人，用who
指人是非正式用法，在某些考试(如 TOEFL考试)中被视为错误。用that
也可指人，可与who(m)换用， which只能指物。
• Do you know the man whom/who/ that our dean is interviewing now?
你认识我们的系主任现在正在面谈的那个人吗?
• Where is the book that/which I bought yesterday?
我昨天买的那本书在哪里?
在非正式文体中,用作宾语的关系代词whom, who, that和which通常省略。在
正式文体中，whom, who, that和which不可省略。
➢ 在非限制性定语从句中，只能用whom指人，用 which指物，不可用
that。
• Mr. Smith, whom you met with, has left for home.
你会见过的史密斯先生已经离开回国了。
➢ 关系代词作介词宾语,不论在限制性定语从句还是在非限制性定语从句
中，当介词前置时，只能用whom指人，which指物，决不可用who或
that。
• The headmaster, with whom the parents had discussed their son’s future,
advised the boy to take up engineering.
家长与之讨论过他们儿子前途的这位校长劝告孩子选择工程学。
• This is the refrigerator with which we have so much trouble.
这就是我们遇到了这么多麻烦的那台电冰箱。
但当介词后置时，就没有这种限制。
• They are the boys whom/ that I went to school with.
他们就是我曾经与之一道上学的那些男孩。
第四十四单元