Unit 25 At the conference
【重点、难点点拨】
1. 对话介绍了表示请求的交际用语。
- Would you mind…?
- Of course not. / Certainly not. / Not at all. (Not mind)
-Yes, I do mind. / I'm sorry, but I do. / Sorry, you'd better not. (Mind)
2. 课文是一篇幽默故事，对粗心大意的人和事进行了含蓄的讽刺与批评。
3. 语法为情态动词，主要介绍can / could, may / might 和must表示推测的用法。他们都有"可能"的意思，但用法不同。
(1) There must be some mistake.
(2) She can't be English.
(3) She may / might / could be Australian.
4. send out, get through, ring back, make up, out of breath,take a message / give a message / leave a message, make up / make up for / make up one's mind。
【重点、难点例题解析】
1. It in the night. It's so bright outside at such an early.
A. must snow B. could snow
C. must have snowed D. can have snowed
答案:C。 注: must 表示肯定猜测, 根据句中的因果关系,说明雪已经下过了, 因此用完成时态。
2. Would you mind it to me once again?
A. explaining B. to explain C explain D. explained
答案: A。 注: "Would you mind one's doing sth." 介意做某事。对此句型回答一般不用单个词Yes 或 No, 经常说Sorry, I'm afraid not 或No, go ahead等。
3. Before speaking, Mr Green first made himself to us by introducing himself.
A. understood B. heard C seen D. known
答案:D。 注: make sb. + p.p. 使某人自己被了解, 强调某人自己被别人了解。
类似动词短语有: have sb + p.p. 和 get sb +p.p. 。
4. For a long time she could not the fact of her husband's death.
A. accept B. receive C get D. recognize
答案: A。 注: accept 只表示 "接受", 但receive表示 "收到",不一定 "接受"; get表示 "得到"; recognize是 "认出"。
【重点、难点练习题】
1. There's a voice at the door. Who be ?
A. must be B. must it C can be D. can it
2. Dr Baker said, " How dare you say that ?" the young man.
A. angrily looking at B. and looks angrily at
C. angrily looked at D. and angrily looking at
3. My Aunt has got to the U.S.A. That her in the office.
A. must be B. mustn't be C should be D. can't be
4. It outside, for people coming in are all so wet.
A. must rain B. will rain
C. must be raining D. will be raining
5. Thought he received the letter of invitation, he didn't it.
A. answer to B. reply C reply to D. answering
【全方位单元综合练习题】
Ⅰ 根据提示在文中找出相应的词语
1. say or do again
2. meeting
3. a person who organizes something
4. invent
5. take part in
6. not able
7. woman, madam
8. a person who is very good at something
9. well－known all over the world
Ⅱ 根据课文内容填空
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I have you1, please?" he said. "Dr Lively wa
s going to2a talk this morning. I'm3her plane will be very late 4bad weather5the airport. So she well be6to give her talk today. However, we are7to have8world－famous9here at the conference. I hope very much that he will be able to give a talk10a different subject."
III 单项选择
1. I don't want these green apples; I want the red .
A. apples B. one's C ones D. one
2. Here are some children's books from our library.
A. borrow B. borrowing C borrowed D. to borrow
3. You shouldn't do things that the law of nature.
A. go against B. fight against
C. is against D. against
4. Your English teacher looks very young; He be over 30.
A. mustn't B. can't C won't D. may not
5. -Could I speak to Mr Brown?
- ， I'll go and see if he is in.
A. Who are you B. He isn't here
C. I'm sorry D. Hold on please
6. -Have you the invitation to the party?
-Yes, I have. And I've it.
A. accepted, received B. received, accepted
C. received, received D. accepted, accepted
7. -Can I speak to Mr Wang?
-Sorry, He's out. Can I a message?
A. leave B. take C ask for D. want
8. -Would you mind lending me your new car?
- .
A. No. I'll use it B. Of course not
C. Yes, please D. Sorry, You wouldn't
Ⅳ 完形填空
Many people buy suitcases to carry1when they go abroad2and never take the trouble to find out whether they will be3to survive the journey.4case you buy and obviously5you pay for it the better it is likely to be － you should be careful6too much into it.
A lot of passengers7and then the loc
ks break. Some people think manufacturers should say how much8 . But the manu
facturers say it depends9the quality of the case. A cheap case,10has been badly made, will obviously not last as long as expensive one.
1. A. his luggages B. his luggage
C. their luggages D. their luggage
2. A. in holiday B. on holiday C in holidays D. on holidays
3. A. so strong B. enough strong
C. strong enough D. too strong
4. A. However B. Wherever C Whatever D. Which
5. A. the more B. the most C how much D. how many
6. A. for not packing B. to not pack
C. not to pack D. in order to not pack
7. A. do so B. do such C. make so D. make such
8. A. can carry the case B. the case can carry
C. can bear the case D. the case can bear
9. A. for B. with C in D. on
10. A. what B. which C it D. when
Ⅴ 改错
Puzzling by the name, Dr Baker and the 1.
organizer went to the office that they discov 2.
ered the mistake. Someone had a careless 3.
mistake in taking Dr D Baker as Dr P Baker. 4.
Dr P Baker was an expert on DNA, but Dr D 5.
Baker was an expert on ENT which also 6.
was interested the organizer. At last, Dr D 7.
Baker made a talk on ENT which was a suc 8.
cess and he invited for the next year's confer 9.
ence. Dr Ｄ Baker hoped that the organizer
would put on the right name, right time and 10.
right place on the invitation.
Ⅵ 完成句子
1. Can you ask her (给我回话)？
2. I tried to ring up the Capital Bus Company, but (没有通).
3. I saw the light in the teacher's office on; he (可能在屋里).
4. Those foreigners speak neither French nor English; they (不可能是加拿大人).
Ⅶ 完成对话
A: Hi! Anne. What were you doing last night when I rang you?
B: 1 ?
A: About seven. I told you I was going to ring you.
B: 2 . Are you sure you dialed the right number?
A:Of course I am. I tried three times, and in the end 3 .
She said your phone was out of order.
B: Oh, now I remember. I left the receiver off the hook. 4 ?
A: Nothing in particular. 5 , that's all.
B: Oh, I see. As a matter of fact, I was working hard.
A: I thought you said you were writing letters.
B: So I was.
A. What's wrong with you
B. What time did you ring me
C. I was going to ask you to the pictures
D. I asked the operator to try
E. So you did
F. I am looking for you
G. What did you want anyway
Ⅷ 阅读理解
The phone is ringing at the other and of the line and it clicks as it is being a
nswered. A voice says quickly, "Will you hold, please?" Then there is another click, followed by silence. It seems like hours before someone comes back on the line - that is, if you don't hang up first.
Office calls are, perhaps, the most difficult and the most important part of a secretary's work. The first impression that a client receives about a business is very often through a telephone contact. A caller who is left hanging on "hold" will get the feeling that he or she has been forgotten or ignored. If a call is answered rudely, the caller may become angry. And if the call is not routed directly to the right person, the caller may feel that he or she is getting the runaround."
Laura Needham is a secretary in the executive offices of a large manufacturing company. As a good office secretary, Laura knows that all phone calls must be answered promptly and handled efficiently. She knows that a secretary must be pleasant and helpful, no matter how busy she is or what kind of mood she may be in. She knows she must keep calm if a caller gets impatient or becomes angry; also, of course, she knows she can never allow herself to lose her temper. If she does not have the information the caller asks for, she must know who does have the information. Finally, she knows that one of her most important responsibilities is to "screen" telephone calls and to know which calls to refer to her boss, which calls to refer to other people, and which calls to handle herself.
A well－handled telephone call will give the caller a good impression of the comp
any he or she is dealing with. For this reason, an office secretary who can handle telephone calls cheerfully, tactfully, and efficiently is a valuable asset to any organization.
1. Good secretaries find it to handle office calls well.
A. extremely difficult
B. quite necessary
C. very important
D. very boring
2. It is frequently through that a customer receives his first
impression about a business.
A. telephone contacts
B. newspaper advertisements
C. telegrams
D. persontoperson contacts
3 "Runaround" here means .
A. "an unpleasant excuse"
B. "a flat refusal"
C. "a notsowarm welcome"
D. "an unhelpful response"
4 Laura Needham is
A. a capable executive of a manufacturing factory
B. a secretary as well as an executive
C. an efficient office secretary
D. but a helpful telephone operator
5. In her opinion a secretary can never be a good one until
A. she knows how to please her clients
B. she often asks her boss how to answer a telephone call
C. she has the information her clients need
D. she can keep calm and never loses her temper
6. The definition of the word "screen" in the third paragraph is probably .
A. to give an answer
B. to show something on a piece of cloth
C. to protect from view with a screen
D. to separate things of one sort from things of another
7. This passage is mainly about .
A. wellhandled telephone calls
B. the importance of how office calls are dealt with
C. an efficient office secretary called Laura Needham
D. a secretary being a valuable asset to her company
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