人教新目标高中英语必修四
Unit 3 A taste of English humour
一、考点单词
1 content adj.满意的，满足的 n. 满足，满意；内容，含量 vt.使满足 【活学活用】
(1) She is content to (感到满足) stay at home looking after her children. (2) He is content to remain where he is now (安于现状)．
(3) We had the chance to play golf to our heart's content _ (尽情地)． 3 entertain vt.&vi.使欢乐；款待
(1) Bob and Liz entertained us to dinner (设宴款待了我们) last night. (2) He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes (用故事和笑话)．
(3) You work hard to keep _everyone entertained (每个人开心), and you enjoy it as
much as they do.
5 direct vt.导演；指示；指挥 adj. 直的；直接的；直率的 adv.直接地 【活学活用】
(1) He _was directed to (被指引到) a table beside the window just now. (2) Tim stands on the bends _directing the traffic (指挥交通) every day.
(3) Before taking the medicine you must _read the directions (看用法说明) on the bottle. (4) [2011·湖北卷] Knowledge and learning are important if we want to be successful，but
they may also ________ our thinking.
A．direct B．Limit C．change D．improve
10 whisper n．耳语；低语 vt.&vi.低声说； 私谈；密谈 【活学活用】
(1) He _is whispering to (正向……耳语) his neighbor.
(2) His adventures _have been whispered (私下传) everywhere. (3) It's whispered that (有私下传闻) he may resign.
(4) She said it _in a whisper/in whispers (低声地), so I didn't hear. 11 convince vt.使确信；使信服 【活学活用】
(1) He tried to make them _convinced of (相信) the safety of travelling by airplane. (2) Only by presenting facts and reasoning things out _can we be convinced (我们才能信服)．
(3) It was what my parents said __that convinced me (让我相信) that I had made a wrong decision.
(4) _Convinced of (相信) the truth of the reports, he told his colleagues about it.
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二、考点短语
1 badly off 穷的；缺少的(比较级worse off, 最高级worst off) 【活学活用】
(1) Though he is always wearing old clothes, he is _not as/so badly off (并不是那么穷) as you think.
(2) In fact most people are _better off (更富裕) than they were five yeas ago. 3 pick out (to choose or select)挑出；(distinguish)辨别出；领会 (1) She __was/is picked out from thousands of applicants for the job. (2) We'll _pick up where we finished yesterday.
(3) She soon _picked up French when she went to live in France. (4) Pick out those books that you'd like to read.
4 cut off (to shut off)切断(水、电、煤气等)供应；断绝 用cut相关短语的适当形式完成句子
(1) I was speaking to Ann on the phone when suddenly we were _cut off (2) The ship cut her way through the wave.
(3) Cutting down costs is a good way to make profits.
(4) Don't hesitate to cut out the useless information in your passage.
三、考点句式
1.（现在分词作结果状语常表示“意料、情理之中”，而不定式作结果状语常表出乎意料的结果）
（1） She fell off the bike, breaking her left leg.（break)
她从自行车上摔了下来，摔断了左腿
（2） The old scientist died, leaving the project unfinished.（leave）
那位老科学家去世了，留下了未完成的项目。
（3） It has not rained for a month, making the crops hard to grow.
已经有一个月没下雨了，这让庄家很难生长。
(4) We hurried to the station only to be told that the train had left.
我们匆忙赶到车站却被告知火车已经走了。
(5) He spent four years getting a degree, only to learn that there were no suitable job for gruduates.
他花了四年时间去获得学位，才知道没有合适的职位给毕业生。
2. 句中as引导时间状语从句，表示“当……的时候，一面……一面，随着”。用作连词
时它还可以引导原因状语从句，译为“因为”；引导让步状语从句，译为“尽管”；引导方式状语从句，译为“按照，像……那样”。
(1) As years passed,(时光流逝) many occasions——birthdays, awards,
graduations——were marked with Dad’s flowers. (as)
(2) The old man asked Lucy to move to another chair because/as he wanted to sit next to his wife. (want)
老人想和Lucy换个位置，因为想坐在妻子旁边。
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(3) Busy as he is, (尽管他很忙)he always manages to set aside some time to have a talk
with his son everyday.
3. 本句as if 引导方式状语从句，表示与当时不相符的状况，故用虚拟语气。 (1) The old lady treats the boy as if he were her son. (as) 那位太太对待这个男孩像亲生儿子一样。
(2) Even if the trip was drawing to an end, little Tom was still full of energy, as if the trip had just begun. （begin）
尽管旅行接近尾声，小汤姆仍然尽力充沛好像旅行刚刚开始一样。 (3) he learn English so hard as if he would go to USA. 他学习英语如此努力好像要去美国一样。 4. as 引导定语从句
(1) We have found the same materials as are used in their factory. 我们已经找到了和他们工厂里一样的材料。
(2) These houses are sold at such a low price as people expected. 这些房子的售价低得如人们所期望的那样.
(3) He is such a clever boy as every likes/that everyone likes him. 他是如此可爱的一个男孩，大家都喜欢。
(4) As we have stressed /as has been stressed(正如…那样)many tines, “serve the people” is
our policy. (stress) (5) There is no simple answer, as is often in science. (be) 科学经常就是这样，它没有一个简单的答案。
四、完成句子:动词ing形式
1.explained / having been explained clearly(解释得很清楚)，the question is finally understood by all of us present . (explain)
2. I am always full of energy, taking plenty of exercise everyday, (每天进行大量锻炼) is
my secret。
3. Having been shown around (参观了)the water cube, we were then taken to see the bird’s nest for the 2008 Olympic Games. (show)
4. _ Not having received _（一直没有收到）any letter from him for so long, I gave him a
call.（receive）
5. Living far from my company（住得离公司远）, I have to get up early every morning.（live）
6. The fire lasted nearly a month, （没留下任何有价值的东西）leaving nothing valuable .（leave）
7. The storm left, having caused (cause) a lot of damage to this area. 8. Having lived（居住）in New York for years, I know each part of it very well.（live） 9. being exposed to sunlight (暴露于阳光下)for too much time will do harm to one’s skin. (expose).
10. so many section managers being absent (缺席), the board meeting had to be put off until
next week. (absent)
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人教新目标高中英语必修四Unit3单元知识点归纳总结
