Unit 4 Making the news
Ⅰ.重点单词聚焦
1．Tom misses his mother very much and he is________(渴望) to see her. 答案： eager
2．Jane is one of my________(同事) and we have been working in the same company for two years.
答案： collegues
3．The teacher explained the chemical________(过程) to his students. 答案： process
4．Before answering the questions，please read the first________ (部分) of the passage. 答案： section
5．Jackson________(提交) his term paper the day before yesterday. 答案： submitted
6．The news of the sports meet is________(更新) every day. 答案： updated
7．Mother was cleaning the room；________(与此同时)，Father was watching TV.
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答案： meanwhile
8．It will be fine whenever you come，but you’d better ________ (通知，告知) me of that before you come. 答案： inform
9．I hope you can submit your term papers before the________(最后期限)． 答案： deadline
10．It was an unusually hot summer and air conditioners were in great________(需求)． 答案： demand Ⅱ.重点短语扫描
1．concentrate 集中；全神贯注于 2．accuse...
因……指责或控告……
在……前面
3． of 4．depend
依靠；依赖
为了 (做)…… 独自，靠自己，独立
5．so to (do sth.) 6．on one’s 7．be/get
in 注意，全神贯注于 约会，预约
8．make an
9．have a good for 对……有敏感的嗅觉 on of ahead on as own absorbed appointment nose
10．keep sth.in 11．be
to
记住
应当，理应……
防卫以免于
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12．defend
mind supposed against
Ⅲ.课文原句突破
1．周扬将永远不会忘记他在一家大众英文报社的第一次任务。
________ ________Zhou Yang (ZY) forget his first assignment at the office of a popular English newspaper. 答案： Never will
2．对摄影我不只是感兴趣，在大学里我还专修过业余摄影课来更新我的技术。
________ ________ ________ I interested in photography，but I took an amateur course at university to update my skills. 答案： Not only am
3．只有提很多不同的问题，你才能收集到你需要的信息。
________ ________you ask many different questions________ ________ ________all the information you need to know. 答案： Only if；will you acquire
4．你们有没有过这样的情况：别人控告你的记者，说他(她)们的报道完全失实？
Have you ever had a case ________ someone ________ your journalists ________ getting the wrong end of the stick? 答案： where；accused；of
5．因此我们安排了一次足球运动员和行贿人之间的见面。
So we arranged an interview between the footballer and the man ________ to bribe him. 答案： supposed acquire vt.获得；取得；学会
教材原句P26：Only if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information you need to know.只有当你问了许多问题的情况下，你才能够得到你需要的所有信息。 ①She acquired a knowledge of English by careful study. 她通过认真学习而懂得了英语。
②It will take her a long time to acquire the skills she needs to become a famous player. 要获得成为著名选手的技能需要花费她很长时间。
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③I managed to acquire two tickets for the football match. 我设法弄到了两张足球比赛的票。 辨析：acquire，achieve与obtain
acquire 识等抽象的东西，也指养成习惯等 achieve 达到目标 obtain
④She has acquired some very unpleasant habits recently. 她最近养成了一些不良的习惯。
⑤After so many years of hard work，he finally achieved success. 经过这么多年的努力，他终于获得了成功。
⑥In the second experiment they obtained a very clear result. 在第二次试验中，他们得到了一个非常清楚的结果。
1.Lucy has________all of the goals she set for herself in high school and is ready for new challenges at university.
A．acquired B．finished C．concluded D．achieved
解析： 句意为：露西完成了她为自己设定的高中阶段的所有目标，并且已经为迎接大学新的挑战做好了准备。achieve one’s goal意为“达到某人的目标”。 答案： D
inform vt.通知；告诉
教材原句P26：They must use research to inform themselves of the missing parts of the story. 他们必须通过调查研究来获悉被遗漏的那部分情况。
指经过不懈努力才获得的技术、知强调由于极大的努力，克服困难后指经过努力或付出代价或经过很长时间才得到所需要的东西 4
