【故事复现】未来的游泳冠军
• 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 kind of race do the children compete in?
问题：孩子们在参加什么比赛？
• 词汇准备
• instruct 指导，传授
• Los Angeles 洛杉矶
• reluctant 勉强的，不愿意的
• weight 重物
• underwater 水下的
• tricycle 三轮车
• compete 比赛，对抗
• yard 码
• gasp 喘气
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
Experiments have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early
age.
实验证明，儿童在很小的时候就可以开始学习游泳。
At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at holding their
breath under water even before they can walk.
在洛杉矶的一个特设的游泳池里，孩子们甚至在还没有学会走路时就已经能熟
练地在水下屏住呼吸了。
Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water.
两个月的婴儿并未显得不愿意入水。
It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up
weights from the floor of the pool.
他们很快便适应了游泳，以致能捡起池底的物品。
A game that is very popular with these young swimmers is the underwater tricycle
race.
这些幼小的游泳运动员非常喜爱的一种游戏是水下三轮车比赛。
Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water.
三轮车并排放在7英尺深的游泳池底下。
The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool.
孩子们比赛看谁先到达游泳池的另一端。
Many pedal their tricycles, but most of them prefer to push or drag them.
很多孩子用脚蹬车，但多数孩子更愿意推或是拉着三轮车。
Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming up for breath
even once.
有些孩子能够跑完游泳池的全长而不用露出水面换气。
Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell.
他们将来是否能成为奥林匹克的冠军，这只能由时间来作出回答。
Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards
before they are gasping for air.
与此同时，他们对我们中的那些游不了5码就已喘不过气来的人来说是种鼓舞。
• Step 3: Summary writing.
第三步：摘要写作。
CONNECTIONS POINTS
At 1 Swimming pool-Los- Angeles.
2 Children taught-hold breath -
walk.
in time 3 Begin learning: two months old.
4 Weights -bottom of pool.
which 5 Game they enjoy -race.
6 Takes place seven feet under
water.
Some…others 7 Pedal-push-pull.
and 8 A few get across-without coming
up for air.
Answer: At a swimming pool in Los Angeles, children are taught to hold their
breath under water before they can walk. They begin learning when they are
two months old and, in time, they can pick up weights from the bottom of the
pool. The game they enjoy most is the tricycle race, which takes place seven
feet under water. Some children pedal their tricycles, while others push or pull
them, and a few get across without coming up for air.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1.One of these statements is true. Which one? _______
(a)Children can learn to swim much earlier than is commonly supposed.
(b)Babies are unwilling to enter the water.
(c)All Los Angeles children learn to swim when they are very young
(d)Children can only learn to swim after they have learnt to walk.
2. One of these statements is true. Which one? _______
(a)None of the children can cover the length of the pool without coming up for air.
(b)Not all the children ride their tricycles during the underwater race.
(c)The children don't like picking up weights.
(d) These children will certainly become Olympic champions one day.
3. Children can be instructed in swimming. They can be ________.
(a) learnt to swim
(b)learnt swimming
(c)taught how to swim
(d) learnt how to swim
4. They can be instructed in swimming _________ they are very young.
(a)in spite
(b)in spite of the fact that
(c) in spite of
(d) despite
5.They are accustomed to swimming. They ________ swimming.
(a)are used to
(b)are used
(c)used to
(d) used
6 ________ is the pool? Seven feet.
(a) How deeply
(b) How tall
(c) How high
(d)What depth
7. They compete __________.
(a)against one another
(b)the one against the other
(c)each against the other
(d) against each one
8. They are not reluctant to enter the water. They are _________.
(a)unwilling to
(b)not ready to
(c)willing to
(d) slow to
9. The game is popular. _________.
(a)It is common.
(b)It is well known.
(c) It is pleasing.
(d)They like it very much.
10. A tricycle has ________.
(a)three wheels
(b)two wheels
(c)four wheels
(d) one wheel
11. Perhaps they will _______future champions.
(a)begin as
(b)grow up to be
(c)get into
(d) happen to be
12. Some of us are gasping for air. We are soon _________.
(a)without breath
(b)breathing
(c)out of breath
(d) coughing
Key: 1a 2b 3c 4b 5a 6d 7a 8c 9d 10a 11b 12c
第六十七单元【语法点拨】
语法综合测试八
1. I couldn't find _________ , and so took this one.
A. a coat enough large
B. an enough large coat
C. a large coat enough
D. a large enough coat
1.D
2. So many representatives ________ , the conference had to be postponed.
A. to be absent
B. were absent
C. being absent
D. was absent
2.C。
3.We _________ the cold winter for the past 2 years.
A. would have
B. had
C. have had
D. have been having
3.D.
4. His salary as a bus driver is much higher __________.
A. in comparison with the salary of a teacher
B. than a teacher
C. than that of a teacher
D. to compare as a teacher
4.C。
5.When __________ at the door, she was given a warm welcome.
A. appear
B. appeared
C. appearing
D. appears
5.C。
6. He always _________ a stomachache when he ate oyster.
A. had
B. has
C. is having
D. would have
6.A。
7. You don't need ______ for his permission every time you want to leave the room.
A. to ask
B. ask
C. asking
D. being asked
7.A.
8. Surely nothing _________ be going on there so late at night.
A. needn't
B. shall
C. could
D. ought to
8.C.“could+动词原形” 用于否定句(nothing)中, 表示对现在发生的事情的否定推
测。
9. She __________ when that young man dived in and saved her.
A. drowned
B. was drowning
C. was going to drown
D. had drowned
9.B。表示过去某时正在发生的动作,所以用过去进行时。
10. Many species of animals which once lived on the earth _______no longer in
existence.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
10.B.
以下内容放进讲义：
11. Not only the whole nation, but the whole Europe, indeed the whole human society
________ to alter its attitude to racial problems.
A. need
B. needs
C. has a need
D. have a need
11.B。就近一致原则。参看第5题的解释。因句中the whole Europe离谓语动词近,
所以谓语动词用第三人称单数形式。
12. I hope they won't have to wait all day, _______?
A. won't they
B. don't they
C. will they
D. won't you
12.C.当陈述句部分是 think/ suppose/ believe/ imagine/ expect/ hope that..结构时,反
意疑问句要重复从句的谓语。
13. It will not be long ______ man can harness the solar energy and make it serve
mankind.
A. since
B. before
C. when
D. after
13.B before引导的时间状语从句。 It is long before...是一个固定句型,意为“费时间
(做…),不容易…”;否定形式为 It will not be long before...意“不久…,很快…”
14. To listen to fine music and to have stimulating conversation with good friends
________ two pleasures in life.
A.is
B. are
C. was
D. has been
14.B。两个并列的动词不定式短语在句中作主语,谓语动词用复数形式。
15. No current can flow when, _______ is sometimes the case, the fuse is blown.
A.as
B. as if
C. that
D. just as
15.A。as作为关系代词引导定语从句,并在从句中作主语,as代替整个主句的意
思。
16. Listening is not ________ a simple thing as it appears to be.
A.so
B. too
C.as
D. such
16.D关系代词as与such连用引导定语从句,such在前面起修饰作用,as作为关系代
词在从句中作表语。
17. When Alma was nine years old he read a school book about science, containing
some experiments ________ at home.
A. which can be done
B. that could do
C. that could be done
D. which could do
17.C。当先行词被some, any, only, no等限定词修饰时,定语从句中的关系代词常
用that。
18. __________ you understand this rule, you'll have no further difficulty.
A. While
B. Once
C. Though
D. Unless
18.B。once引导条件状语从句,意为“一旦”。
19. You should go to the grand opening ceremony, _______?
A. aren't you
B. shouldn't you
C. wouldn't you
D. don't you
19.B should所在陈述句如果是肯定句,则反意疑问句形式用 shouldn't。
20. Peter oughtn't to have done it in the first place, _______?
A. hasn't he
B. oughtn't he
C. hadn't he
D. ought he
20.D ought to所在陈述句如果是否定句,则反意疑问句形式既可以用 ought,也可以
用should。
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第六十八单元