【故事复现】愚人节的玩笑
• 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 was it a joke?
问题：为什么这是个什么玩笑？
词汇准备
• fool 傻瓜
• bulletin 新闻简报
• announcer (电视、电台)播音员
• macaroni 通心粉，空心面条
• leading 主要的
• grower 种植者
• splendid 极好的
• stalk 梗
• gather 收（庄稼）
• thresh 打（庄稼）
• process 加工
• present 目前的
• champion 冠军
• studio 播音室
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
‘To end our special news bulletin,’ said the voice of the television announcer, ‘we’re
going over to the macaroni fields.
“作为我们专题新闻节目的结尾，”电视广播员说，“我们现在到通心粉田里
看一下。
Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.
通心粉在这个地区已经种植了600多年了。
Two of the leading growers tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this
year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
两位主要种植者告诉我，他们一直期待着今年大丰收，收割工作比往年开始要
早些。
Here you can see two workers who have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden
brown macaroni stalks.
这里您可以看到两个工人，他们协力割下了3车金黄色的通心粉秸。
The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year’s
crop before the September rains.
全村的人都日夜奋战，要赶在9月的雨季之前把今年的庄稼收获上来。
On the right, you can see Mrs. Frank herself. She has been helping her husband for
thirty years now.
在屏幕的右侧，您可以看到弗兰克太太本人，她已经帮了她的丈夫30年了。
Mrs. Frank is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.
弗兰克太太现在正和负责通心粉加工的当地加工厂的经理交谈。
This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous
macaroni-eating competition!
这最后一个镜头向您展示了收获之后将发生的事情：著名的吃通心粉大赛!
Mr. Frank, the present champion, has won it every year.
目前的冠军弗兰克先生年年获胜。
And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st. We’re now going
back to the studio.
今天是4月1日星期四，专题新闻节目到此结束。现在我们回到电视演播室。
• Step 3: Summary writing.
第三步：摘要写作。
要点
1 End of news bulletin
2Television announcer showed viewers fields
3 Grown six hundred years
4 Harvesting earlier this year
5 Whole village working hard
6 September rains.
7 Crop-processed factory
8After-harvest famous competition
9 Mr. Frank
10 End of bulletin-April 1st
Answer: To end the special news bulletin, the television announcer showed
viewers the macaroni fields, where macaroni has been grown for over six
hundred years. Harvesting has begun earlier this year and the whole village
has been working hard, gathering and threshing the crop before the
September rains. The crop is processed in the local factory. After the harvest,
the famous macaroni-eating competition, which Mr. Frank has won every year,
will take place. That ended the news bulletin for April 1st.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1.Macaroni _________.
(a) grows in Calabria
(b)grows in fields
(c)must be harvested before the September rains
(d) is man-made
2.What was the intention behind the television broadcast?
(a) show viewers how macaroni is grown.
(b)To play a trick on viewers.
(c)To provide useful information about macaroni.
(d) To introduce viewers to conditions in Calabria.
3. Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante ________they have been expecting a
splendid crop.
(a)tell
(b)tell that
(c)say to me
(d) say ow
4.Harvesting has begun earlier than usual. It ________ yet.
(a)hasn't finished
(b)didn't finish
(c) hadn't finished
(d) isn't finishing
5.They must gather the crop before it rains ________September.
(a) in
(b)on
(c)the
(d)at
6.How long has she been helping her husband? ______she was a young woman.
(a)From then
(b)Since
(c)For
(d)By then
7. Where ________ ?
(a)the crop is processed
(b) is the crop processed
(c)is processed the crop
(d) processed is the crop
8.To end our bulletin... To ________our bulletin...
(a)conclude
(b)stop
(c)prevent
(d)halt
9. It has been grown for over six hundred years. That's more than six ______.
(a)sentries
(b)ages
(c)centuries
(d)eras
10. They've been expecting a splendid crop. That's what they've been _______.
(a)waiting
(b)waiting for
(c)waiting to
(d)waiting on
11.They have been gathering this year's crop. They have been ________.
(a)assembling it
(b)picking it up
(c)collecting it
(d)bringing it in
12.He is the manager of the factory. He's _______it.
(a)charged with
(b)in the charge of
(c)charged
(d)in charge of
Key: 1d 2b 3d 4a 5a 6b 7b 8a 9c 10b 11d 12d
第五十六单元【语法点拨】
there be句型（下）
▶ there be句型的时态
▪ there be结构中的be可以有各种时态
• There is not the least wind this morning.今天早晨一点风也没有。
• There are not enough doctors in the neighborhood.
这附近一带没有足够的医生。
• There was a burst of laughter in the next room.
隔壁房间里突然爆发出一阵笑声。
• There will be occasional showers during the day.白天将偶有阵雨。
• There is going to be a meeting tonight.今晚有个会议。
• There have been great advances in medicine in the last ten years.
在过去十年里，医学取得了巨大的进步。
• There had been no change in the mountains.
大山里什么都没有改变。
▶ there be结构中的动词变化
▪there be句型中的谓语动词be，根据需要有时可以用exist, lie, live, remain,
seem to be, stand, used to be等来代替动词be，这些动词都是表示状态；或
用来描写某事的发生或某人到达的动词，如: appear, come, enter, follow,
happen, occur等。
• Once upon a time, there lived a princess who was very beautiful.
从前，有一位非常美丽的公主。
• Suddenly there came the faint sound of bell.突然传来了微弱的铃声。
• There lies a small town at the foot of the mountain.山脚下有一个小镇。
• There followed a moment of silence.接着是一阵沉默。
• There remained in the village only women and children.
村子里只剩下妇女和儿童。
• There stood many people on either side of the street.道路两旁站了许多人。
▪There used/seem/happen/appear to be结构
• There appears to be no doubt about it.看来此事确切无疑。
• There used to be a building here.过去这儿有一座楼房。
• There doesn’t seem to be much hope.好像没有太大的希望。
▪情态动词用于there be结构
• There might be snow at night.晚上可能有雪。
• There must be something wrong.一定有问题。
• There ought not to be so many people.不应该有这么多的人。
▪There is +no+名词句型用于否定结构。
• There is no need to do it.做这事没有必要。
• There is no sense in quarreling about the small thing.
为这件区区小事争吵没有意义。
▪There be+ no+ v-ing结构仅用于否定形式
• There is no denying that the qualities of our living have gone from bad to
worse.
不可否认，我们的生活品质已经每况愈下。
• There is no knowing how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.
没人知道古代埃及人是如何建造金字塔的。
▶ there be结构的非限定形式
There be的非限定形式有两种，即there to be和there being
▪作主语：作主语时，一般采用There being结构。
• There being a shop here is a great advantage.
这儿有个商店，真是方便极了。
• There being a house with a garden is of great value.
拥有花园的房子具有巨大价值。
▪作宾语:
(1)作动词宾语时,一般用there to be结构。常见动词有: expect, mean, intend, want,
prefer等。
• We expect there to be no argument.我们希望不会出现争吵。
• People don’t want there to be another war.人们不希望再有战争。
(2)作介词的宾语一般用there being句式，但当介词是for时，一般用there to be句
式。
• The teacher was waiting for there to be complete silence.
老师在等着大家都安静下来。
▪作状语：用作状语的there be形式通常用there being结构（独立主格）。
• There being no buses, we had to walk home.
由于没有公共汽车，我们不得不走回家。
• There being nothing else to do, we went home happily.
由于没事可做，我们快乐地回家了。
注：如果句中出现for时，应用 there to be。
• It was too late for there to be any buses.太晚了，没有公交了。
第五十七单元