【故事复现】逃学记录保持者
• 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: Did the boy go where he wanted to?
问题：小男孩到了他想要去的地方了吗？
• 词汇准备
• record-holder 纪录保持者
• truant 逃学的孩子
• unimaginative 缺乏想象力的
• shame 惭愧，羞耻
• hitchhike 搭便车旅行
• meantime 其间
• lorry 卡车
• border 边界
• evade 逃避，逃离
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.
逃学的孩子们都缺乏想象力。
A quiet day’s fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over
again, is usually as far as they get.
他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小
时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。
They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600
miles.
而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的
孩子们都相形见绌了。
He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to
sleep.
他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。
When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime,
travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加来市。当男孩从船里爬出
来时，谁也没有发现他。
From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a
cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.
从那里他又搭上卡车到了巴黎。司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在
了城外。
The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the center of Paris as he hoped it
would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border.
男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带
到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。
There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local
authorities.
他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国。
He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading
school.
他无疑为成千上万想逃学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。
• Step 3: Summary writing.
第三步：摘要写作。
CONNECTIONS POINTS
who 1 Boy played truant.
2 Travelled 1,600 miles.
where 3 Hitchhiked—Dover
only to find 4 Slept—boat
5 Found himself—Calais—morning.
and 6 Lorry driver lift and something to eat.
7 Boy got off near Paris.
but 8 Stopped another car.
instead of being 9 Not taken to Paris—Perpignan
After 10 Picked up—policeman.
11 Sent home—authorities.
Answer: A boy who played truant travelled 1, 600 miles. He hitchhiked to
Dover where he slept in a boat, only to find himself in Calais the next morning.
A lorry driver gave him a lift and something to eat, and the boy got off near
Paris. He stopped another car but, instead of being taken to Paris, he was
taken to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. After being picked up by a
policeman, he was sent home by the local authorities.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1 How did the boy get to Dover?
(a)He walked.
(b)He went by train.
(c)Someone gave him a lift.
(d)He went in lorry
2 The boy ________.
(a)didn't expect to be taken to Perpignan
(b)decided to go to Perpignan
(c)went to Paris
(d) wanted to go to Spain
3 __________did he travel? 1,600 miles.
(a)How long
(b)How long ago
(c)How much further
(d)How far
4 How did he get to Dover?
(a)By hitchhiking.
(b)With hitchhike.
(c)Hitchhiking.
(d)With hitchhiking.
5 He wasn't noticed by _______as he crept off the boat.
(a)no one
(b)none
(c)anyone
(d) not one
6 The driver gave him a few biscuits. ________was given a few biscuits.
(a)To him
(b)Him
(c)For him
(d)He
7 After ________by policeman, he was sent back to England.
(a)being picked up
(b)he picked up
(c)been picked up
(d)picking up
8 Little boys who play truant don't go to school _________.
(a)because they are ill
(b) because they have left
(c)because they are not allowed to
(d) on purpose
9 They are unimaginative. They haven't much _________.
(a)imagination
(b)fantasy
(c)imaginary
(d) fantasia
10 They have been put to shame by a boy. They should feel ________.
(a)ashamed
(b)shy
(c)shyness
(d)shameful
11 He was picked up by a policeman. A policeman ________him.
(a)gathered
(b)collected
(c)assembled
(d) found
12 Thousands of boys dream of evading school. They dream of ________it.
(a)escaping
(b)avoiding
(c)preventing
(d)running away
Key: 1c 2a 3d 4a 5c 6d 7a 8d 9a 10a 11d 12b
第五十七单元【语法点拨】
强调
▶ 强调结构的构成形式是：It+ be +被强调成分+that/who…。
• Albert Einstein advanced the theory of relativity at the beginning of the last
century.
艾尔伯特·爱因斯坦于上世纪初提出了相对论。(正常结构)
• It was Albert Einstein who/that advanced the theory of relativity at the
beginning of the last century.(强调主语)
• It was the theory of relativity that Albert Einstein advanced at the beginning
of the last century.(强调宾语)
• It was at the beginning of the last century that Albert Einstein advanced the
theory of relativity.(强调时间状语)
▶ 使用强调句型应注意的几个问题:
▪不能强调谓语动词，而要用do, did来加强语气。
• I do hope you will succeed in the experiment.我真希望你试验成功。
• Tom did buy a new computer yesterday.汤姆昨天的确买了一台新计算
机。
▪一般不强调表语，但可以强调宾语补语。
• They elected him president of the university.他们推举他为该大学校长。
• It was president of the university that they elected him.
• He has painted the door red.他已经把门漆成红色。
• It is red that he has painted the door.
▪不能强调since或as引导的原因状语从句，也不能强调although或whereas引导
的让步状语从句或并列句，但可以强调because引导的原因状语从句。
• It was just because she had forgotten to wind the alarm clock that Mary was
late.
正是因为玛丽忘记给闹钟上发条所以她迟到了。
▪凡是强调状语，如时间状语、地点状语、方式状语等，只能用that，而不用
which, when或where。
• It is from the sun that we get light and heat.
从太阳那里我们得到了光和热。
• It is in this city that scientists have done lot to stop pollution.
正是在这个城市，科学家们已经做了大量的工作来制止污染。
▪It is/was not until...that...强调时间的常用句型，可译为“直到……才……”。
• It was not until the 19th century that heat was considered a form of energy.
直到19世纪，热能才被认为是能量的一种形式。
上句也可以换成部分倒装结构:
• Not until the 19th century was heat considered a form of energy.
▪被强调的句子的谓语动词如果是过去时，强调结构中的谓语动词be一般只
能用was，而不可用is。
• I did not get your letter until yesterday.直到昨天我才收到你的来信。
• It was not until yesterday that I got your letter.
▪在 下 面 句 子 中 ， 通 常 用 It has been+ 时 间 +since…, 而 不 用 强 调 句 It
is…that...。
• I have not seen you for three years.
• It has been three years since I last saw you. 我已经三年未见到你了。
第五十八单元