Unit 2 No smoking,please!

【重点、难点点拨】

1. 交际用语: 请求,允许和答应(asking for permission and responses)

(1) Do you mind if I (do)…?

(2) Would you mind if I (did)…?

表示允许的答语: No, I don't mind.

        No, go ahead.

        Of course not.

        Not at all, please do.

表示不允许的答语:

        I'm sorry, but it's not allowed.

        I'm sorry you can't.

        I'm afraid you can't .

        You'd better not

2. 高考大纲要求的词汇 :

 cigarette, typewriter, tape-recording ,tobacco, packet, nation, habit, chance, reduce, compare, therefore, remain, public, give up ,drug, get into the habit of , be used to , dislike, share, hardly , club,

3. 词组:

(1) go ahead, (2) ask sb for permission, (3) at present, (4) millions of, (5)be caused by,(6) sales of tobacco, (7) fall asleep, (8) catch fire, (9) burnt down, (10) one third of,(11) a packet of cigarettes, (12) one third of /a third of, (13) persuade sb to do sth, (14) die from, (15) the chance is that, (16) one smoker in four, (17) be reduced by, (18) compared to, (19) compare with, (20) remain in business,(21) encourage sb to do, (22) give up, (23) be used to, (24) get sb into the habit of, (25) call for, (26) stop sb (from) doing sth, (27) all they need。

4. 语法要点: 宾语从句及其他名词性从句

(1) that 在名词性从句中只起连接作用,不在从句中担任成分,本身没有词义。引导宾语从句可省略。(引导其他名词性从句不可省略)。

 That the earth is round is true.

It is true that the earth is round.

(2) 连接代词(who, whom, whose, which, what)在从句中担任主语,宾语,表语等。连接副词(when , where, how, why)在从句中做状语。它们同时保留各自的含义,前面没有先行词。

Do you remember how he came ?

They want to know what they can do to help us.

(3) 所有名词性从句语序都是陈述句语序。 主语从句,表语从句, 同位语从句的时态不受主句的限制。

I'm afraid that I'll be late.

China is no longer what she used to be .

(4) whether 可以用在所有名词性从句中,并能跟在介词后面, 还能用在不定式的前面。if只引导动词的宾语从句。他们在句中不担任成分,但有含义,当“是否”讲。

【重点、难点例题解析】

1. _________the population of China?

A. What's B. How many are

C. How much is D. How big is

答案: A。注:问人口多少时应用:what is the population of + 某地人口多/少;表示人口大小应用: a large /small population; 表示有……人口用:have/with a population of。

2. The price of this kind of goods _________20% in the past two weeks.

A. had reduce to B. has been reduced by

C. reduced by D. has been reduced to

答案: B。注: in the past two weeks 应用现在完成时。reduce by 表示“降低(减少)了……”;reduce to 表示“降低(减少)到……”。

3. I _________him _________any more, but he wouldn't listen to me.

A. persuaded…not to smoke  B. persuaded…do not smoke

C. advised…not to smoke  D. advised …not smoking

答案: C。注: persuaded sb to sth 强调结果,劝说成功才能用。advised sb to do sth.不强调结果, 只表示劝说和建议的过程。 根据but … 说明没有劝说成功,只能用advise。不定式的否定式应是: not +to do。

4. I _________get up late , but now I _________getting up early.

A. used to; used to  B. am used to; am used to

C. used to; am used to  D. am used to; used to

答案: C。注:used to do :过去常常做某事;be used to doing sth. 习惯做某事。

5. The little boy is so thin that people compare him the Mickey Mouse.

A. to  B. with  C. as  D. like

答案: A。注:与……相比compare with (to);把……比作compare to。

【重点、难点练习题】

1. Mother was very happy because she had _________my father to stop smoking.

A. advised  B. tried to advise

C. persuaded   D. made 

2. You _________in this way in a month.

A. used to learn   B. will be used to learn

C. will get used to learning  D. are used to learning 

3. It used to be a small village _________what it is now.

A. compared with   B. compared about

C. compare to   D. compare with 

4. The poet _________the woman he loves _________a rose.

A. compare; with    B. compared; to

C. compares; to     D. compared; with 

5. A: Would you mind _________I leave you here alone for a while?

B: _________. I can do without you.

A. if…Yes, I don't

B. if…No, of course not

C. whether or not …Yes, I would

D. if not…No. Go ahead 

【全方位单元综合练习题】

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice

1. My mother has gone to London. She will be back two hours.

A. in B. after C. before D. ago 

2. He _________the cold weather after he lived there for two years.

A. was used to B. used to C. used  D. uses to 

3. Xiao Li and I _________come here on foot, but we don't now.

A. used to  B. were used to

C. was used to  D. used 

4. She _________the dress which her mother _________.

A. used to wear, used to wearing

B. used to wearing, used to wear

C. is used to wearing, used to wear

D. used to wear, used to wear 

5. The _________why he was absent was _________hehad another important meeting to attend.

A. reason, that   B. cause, that

C. reason, because  D. cause, because of 

6. Electricity is used _________us light.

A. to giving   B. to be given

C. given     D. to give 

7. Do you mind if _________TV while you are trying to study?

A. my watch     B. I watch

C. my watching   D. I watched 

8. Would you mind my leaving right now? _________.

A. Yes, please do    B. No, of course not

C. Yes, you may go   D. No, you can't leave now 

9. Don't let the children _________bad habit of smoking.

A. fall into   B. to fall into

C. fell in    D. fall in 

10. His father suddenly died, _________made it impossible for him to go abroad.

A. that   B. which  C. as  D. what 

11. The _________boy told his story with great difficulty.

A. dead  B. deadly  C. dying  D. death 

12. He was standing by a gas stove and his nightdress fire.

A. took  B. started  C. set  D. caught 

13. The teacher, _________the parents had discussed the son's future, advised the boy to take up English.

A. who     B.with whom

C. whom     D. for 

14. The old pianist _________a car accident.

A. died of    B. died away

C. died from   D. died 

15. These photos will show you _________.

A. what does our village look like

B. how does our village look like

C. what our village looks like

D. how our village looks like 

Ⅱ. Cloze

 China is a large country with a population of 12 billion, about 38% of which smoke. Every year millions of smokers 1  illnesses 2  by smoking tobacco. 3  is known to all, smoking is harmful to 4 . Every year our government has to spend a lot of money 5  after the people  6  illness which have been caused by 7 .

 Smoking can also bring a great 8  to our country, 9  a cigarette end may 10  fire to houses and even to a forest. 

1. A.fall  B.die  C.die of D.die from 

2. A.caught B.led  C.got D.caused 

3. A.As  B.Which  C.That D.It 

4. A.health  B.safety  C.people D.air 

5. A.tending  B.watching  C.looking D.seeing 

6. A.with  B.of  C.from  D.in 

7. A.smoking  B.illness  C.loss D.harm 

8. A.good  B.change  C.loss  D.harm 

9. A.for  B.and  C.but D.however 

10. A.catch  B.set  C.get D.sent 

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension

 People have smoked cigarettes for a long time now. The tobacco used to make cigarettes was grown in which is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, saw the Indians smoking. Soon the dried leaves were transported to Europe where smoking began to catch on. In the late 1800s, the Turkish made cigarettes popular.

 Cigarettes smoke contains at least two harmful substances, tar and nicotine.Tar, which forms as the tobacco burns, damages the lungs and therefore affectsbreathing . Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the heart to beat faster and increases breathing rate.

 Smoking cigarettes is dangerous. The U.S. public Health Service stated that cigarette smoking is the cause of lung cancer and several other deadly diseases. The U.S. government now requires that each package of cigarettes bear a special warning about the danger of smoking.

1. The expression“ catch on” in the passage may mean _________.

A. start  B. cost a lot C. become popular  D. dangerous 

2. Before Columbus discovered America, _________.

A. Europeans had smoked

 B. nicotine was not in tobacco

C. nobody smoked in the world

 D. Europeans had never smoked 

3. In the nineteenth century, smoking became popular because of the people in _________.

A. India  B. Turkey  C. the U.S  D.British 

4. Breathing is affected by _________.

A. tar  B. nicotine

C. heat  D. both A and B 

5. A good title for this selection is _________.

A. The Discovery of America  B. Smoking Cigarettes

C. How to Smoke Cigarettes  D. A Great Discovery 

Ⅳ. Spelling

1. Would you mind my s_________in the office? 

2. This smoker buys a p_________of cigarettes every day. 

3. Finally he was p_________by his teacher to study hard at English. 

4. Mother is in the h_________of getting up early. 

5. She r_________alone in the classroom after school. 

Ⅴ. Error Correction

Most smoker want to stop smoking. 1. _________

Many of them have tried more than once

but fail. Although they know smoking may 2. _________

kill them and cause a serious illness yet 3. _________

they can't give it up. The reason is that tobacco 4. _________

contain nicotine which is a drug that 5. _________

gets one into habit of smoking. Once you 6. _________

start taking the drug, it is hard stop. If you 7. _________

go with it for an hour or two you begin to 8. _________

feel bad. The only thing can stop you 9. _________

feel bad is the drug nicotine contained in 10. _________

cigarettes. So your habit of smoking continues.

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