Unit 15 The necklace Warming up,Listening and Speaking
词汇讲解
三点剖析
1.Asking for permission.
请求允许。
permission n. 允许；许可
【典型例句】
You have to ask the teacher for permission to do that.
你应该得到老师的允许再去做那件事情。
No permission has been given for anybody to enter the building.
不允许任何人进入大楼。
The policeman gave the young wife permission to go home.
警察准许那个年轻的妻子回家。
You can’t leave the dying patient without permission.
未经许可不准离开那位奄奄一息的病人。
【要点归纳】
permission是不可数名词,多用于短语中:ask sb.for permission to do sth.请求某人允许做某事;ask permission to do sth.请求允许做某事;give sb.permission to do sth.允许某人做某事;with one’s permission经某人允许;without one’s permission未经某人允许。
【相关链接】
permit用作及物或不及物动词,意为“允许;许可”。多用于搭配:permit sb.to do允许某人做;permit doing允许做…… 例如:
The man on duty didn’t permit us to park in that place.
值班的人不允许我们在那里停车。
They don’t permit tasting the food before you buy it.
在你购买之前他们不允许尝那些食品。
Time permitting,we will stay in Hong Kong for another week.
时间允许的话,我们要在香港再待一周。
选择
(1)Weather _________,the students attending the summer camp will visit two universities in Beijing.
A.permits
B.is permitted
C.permitting
D.to permit
提示:句子的前一部分是状语成分,weather 与permit之间是主谓关系,因而使用现在分词。
答案:C
(2)_________ permission,the taxi drivers started to charge passengers with more money.
A.To give
B.Giving
C.Having given D.Given
提示:drivers与分词动作之间是被动关系,因而使用过去分词作原因状语。
答案:D
完成句子
(3)The soldiers ________________(获得许可使用枪支) if necessary.
(4)Will you ________________(允许我们使用电脑吗)?
答案:
(3)have got permission to use guns
(4)permit us to use your computer
2.The Black Tower is a scary place:it is very large and empty,and the stone walls have no windows.
黑塔是一个恐怖之地,又大又空,石头墙上没有窗户。
scary adj. 引起惊慌的;吓人的;胆怯的
【典型例句】
This is a scary story.You’d better not let the children listen to it.
这是一个吓人的故事,最好别让孩子们听。
Boys should not be so scary;they should be trained to be brave.
男孩子们不应该这么胆怯,应教育他们更勇敢。
【相关链接】
scared和scaring用作形容词,前者表示“吃惊的,受到惊吓的,害怕的,不敢的”;后者表示“使人害怕的,令人惊恐的”。例如:
It’s unbelievable that she was scared to death by that snake.
难以置信的是,她被那只蛇吓死了。
She is always scared of being seen by his former husband.
她老是害怕被原来的丈夫看见。
Scaring news came that another airplane crashed in that small country.
传来令人惊恐的消息,那个小国又有一架飞机失事。
选择
(1)After the terrorist attack,many passengers are __________ to fly in a plane when they go on a trip.
A.scaring B.scared
C.to be scared
D.frightening
提示:be scared to do害怕做某事。
答案:B
(2)吃惊的市民们迅速跑回了家。
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(3)那几个窃贼担心会被警察抓住。
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答案:
(2)The scared citizens ran home as quickly as they could.
(3)The thieves were scared that they’d be caught by the police.