【故事复现】是幽默而不是嘲笑
• 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: Why did Jenny want to leave the wedding reception?
问题：为什么珍妮想要离开婚宴现场？
• 词汇准备
• circle 圈子
• admire 赞美，钦佩
• close 亲密的
• wedding 婚礼
• reception 招待会
• sort 种类
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
Jeremy has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties.
杰里米交际甚广，是各种聚会上深受大家欢迎的人。
Everybody admires him for his great sense of humor — everybody, that is, except his
six-year-old daughter, Jenny.
人人都钦佩他那绝妙的幽默感——除他 6 岁的女儿珍妮之外的每一个人。
Recently, one of Jeremy’s closest friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding
reception.
最近，杰里米的一个最亲密的朋友请他在一个婚礼上祝词。
This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went
to the wedding with Jenny.
这正是杰里米喜欢做的事情。他认真准备了讲稿，带着珍妮一道去参加了婚
礼。
He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a
great success.
他的祝词里面加进了大量逗人的故事，自然大获成功。
As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home.
他刚一讲完，珍妮就对他说她要回家。
Jeremy was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On the way
home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech.
这不免使杰里米有点扫兴，但他还是按照女儿的要求做了。在回家的路上，他
问珍妮是否喜欢他的祝词。
To his surprise, she said she hadn’t. Jeremy asked her why this was so and she told
him that she did not like to see so many people laughing at him!
使他吃惊的是，她说她不喜欢。杰里米问他为何不喜欢，她说她不愿意看到那
么多的人嘲笑他!
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1 Is Jeremy greatly admired for his great sense of humor or not? What was he
invited to do? Did he immediately agree to do so or not? (When Jeremy ... who is ...)
2 Did the speech contain lot of funny stories or not? Was it a great success or not?
(Since)
3 What did his six-year-old daughter, Jenny, want to do after his speech? Was
Jeremy disappointed or not? (When)
4 Why had she not enjoyed it? (because)
Answer: When Jeremy, who is greatly admired for his great sense of humor,
was invited to make a speech at a wedding reception, he immediately agreed to
do so. Since the speech contained a lot of funny stories, it was a great success.
When his six-year-old daughter, Jenny, wanted to go home after his speech,
Jeremy was disappointed. She had not enjoyed it because she did not like to
see so many people laughing at him.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1 Jeremy is very popular because __________.
(a)he makes speeches
(b)he tells stories
(c)he loves wedding receptions
(d)he's an amusing person
2 Jeremy's daughter, Jenny, failed to realize that ________.
(a)the wedding reception hadn't finished
(b) everyone had been laughing at Jeremy's stories, not at Jeremy
(c)it was a party
(d) Jeremy had finished his speech
3 Everybody admires him because ________ a great sense of humour
(a)he's got
(b)he is
(c)he got
(d) has he
4 _________ Jenny, everyone admires him for his great sense of humour.
(a)Except for
(b)Apart
(c)Except
(d)Unless
5 Jeremy ________ making speeches.
(a)is loving
(b)loves
(c)has been loving
(d) was loving
6 It was a great success. He succeeded ________everyone laugh.
(a)to make
(b)for making
(c)in make
(d) in making
7 Jeremy was a little disappointed. He was _______disappointed.
(a)little
(b)somehow
(c)enough
(d) somewhat
8 Everyone admires him. They _______ him.
(a)think highly of
(b)laugh at
(c)estimate
(d)esteem
9 Recently he was invited to a reception. He was invited to a reception ________.
(a)lastly
(b)at last
(c)lately
(d) at least
10 He made speech at a wedding reception. He spoke during the ________.
(a)wedding
(b)marriage
(c)ceremony
(d)party
11 This is the sort of thing he loves. It's the _________of thing he loves.
(a)species
(b)category
(c)kind
(d)class
12 He included some funny stories. He _________.
(a)put them in
(b)consisted of them
(c)contained them
(d)comprised them
Key: 1d 2b 3a 4a 5b 6d 7d 8a 9c 10d 11c 12a
第五十单元【语法点拨】
让步状语从句
▶ 让步状语从句
引导让步状语从句连词有：although, though, as, that, even if/though, whereas,
while, no matter how/when/where/who, whoever, whichever, whatever, whenever,
wherever, however等等。
▪ although和though的用法比较:
(1)although和though可以和yet连用，但不可与but连用。
(2)even可以和though连用构成even though，却不可与although搭配。
(3)though可以作“however”解，作连接性状语，常位于句中或句末，用逗号隔
开, although却不可以。
• He said he would come; he didn’t, though.他说他会来，然而却没来。
(4)though相当于as或that，引导特殊让步状语从句，而although却不可以。
• Exhausted though she was, there was no hope of being able to sleep.
虽然她已疲惫不堪，但没有希望能够入睡。
▪ while的用法：while引导的让步状语从句必须置于主句之前。
• While I admit that the problems are difficult, I don’t agree that they cannot
be solved.
虽然我承认这些问题很棘手，但我不认为它们不能解决。
▪ whoever, whatever, whichever, whenever, wherever, however为正式文体，在非
正式文体或口语中常为no matter who/what/which/when/where/how等所取
代。
• Whoever says so, it is wrong.不管谁这样说，那是错误的。
• Whatever reasons you may have, you should carry out a promise.
无论有什么理由，你都应当遵守诺言。
▪ 在 however引导的让步状语从句中，副词或形容词位于however与句子主语
之间。
• However complicated the computer may be, it can never replace man
altogether.
不管计算机多么复杂，它绝不可能完全代替人。
• However hard we asked him, he insisted on denying having done it.
无论我们怎么问，始终矢口否认做过那件事。
▪ whether的用法
(1)在whether引导的让步状语从句中，常用动词或动词短语原形，be尤其常见。
• Whether he succeed or fail, we should help him.
不论其成败如何，我们都应该帮助他。
(2)可省去whether，将原形动词尤其是be置于主语之前，构成让步状语从句。
• All matter, be it solid, liquid or gas, has weight and takes up space.
一切物质，不论是固体、液体还是气体，都具有重量并占据空间。
▪ as, though和that引导的特殊让步从句
在以as, though和that引导的特殊让步状语从句中，as较为常见。这种让步状语从
句的特点是：形容词、副词、名词(单数可数名词不用不定冠词a或an),行为动词
(带状语或宾语)置于句首,构成部分倒装。
• Poor as he was, he was honest.他虽然贫穷，但很诚实。
• He was unable to make much progress, hard as he tried.
他不能取得很大的进步，尽管他很努力。
• Try as you will, you won’t manage it.不管你多么努力尝试，你都办不到。
• Child as though/ that she was, she had more sense than a grown-up.
她虽然是个孩子，但比大人更懂事。
注：much as作“虽然”解，为固定用法，其中的as不可用though或that代替。
• Much as he enjoyed books and selling cars, music was his real passion(酷爱
之物).
尽管他很喜欢书和卖车，音乐才是他的最爱。
第五十一单元