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1、 山东省成人高等教育规划教材英 语(本科)第 2 册主编 李学珍 副主编 何筑丽山 东 大 学 出 版 社Shandong University Press制作者 泰山学院大学外语教学部Background InformationThanksgiving day Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the ear
2、ly days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and they wanted to separate from it. T
3、he Pilgrims settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the colony died from disease. The following spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn (maize), a
4、 new food for the colonists. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish. In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists had much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited the local Indi
5、an chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn
6、. In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as
7、 Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of a long and bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving“ We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite ev
8、erything thats happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.“ -Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee nationWords As though: as though=as if 意思：as would be the case if好象，似
9、乎 例如： acts as though he were in charge表现得好 象他是负责人似的 as though you did not know!好象你真不知道 似的！ looks as though we have won看来我们似乎胜 了 as though 是书面语比as if正式，意思 上没有区别； even though 和even if 同理。 so/as far as;as/so long as 如果是用于 表示“只要”时，用法上没有区别。只是 它们各自还有各自的用法：so/as far as I know据我所知 Happen to: 1.sb.+ happen+t
10、o do 2.it +happen+that+sb.+do eg. I happened to meet him yesterday. =It happened that I met him yesterday. 昨天我碰巧遇见了他. Carry on: carry on 和go on的意思一样 carry on 进行;继续 (与continue 用法完全相同) carry on (with) sth.on doing 更多例句top Theyve been carrying on for years. 他们的暧昧关系已经有很多年了. After his death, his children
11、 will certainly carry on his career. 百年之后, 他的孩子一定会继承他的事业。 He does carry on, doesnt he? 他真有点儿疯疯颠颠的，是吧？ In any event, we should carry on with our research. 无论如何, 我们必须坚持研究。 Now we can carry on with our work. 现在我们可以继续干了。 Shes carrying on with her boss. 她和老板有暧昧关系. Well carry on as arranged and they can d
12、o their worst. 我们还按我们的计画办事, 他们想怎麽?够稻退嫠?潜 惆?. When the chips were down he found the courage to carry on. 他在关键时刻勇於坚持到底. The 5 Ws of the Text Reading Guide A Competition5 WsII. The 5 Ws of the TextThe 5 Ws (who, what, when, where, why) are essential components of a newspaper article.Their answers const
13、itute the main ideas of the story.whowhenwhatwhywhere2. What happened in the article?3. When did the events take place? 4. Where did the events take place? 5. Why did the main character(s) do what he (they)did?1. Who is (are) the main character(s) in the article?Sentences It is the day when everyone
14、 goes back home to spend the day with his family, to have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner of roast turkey, to talk about old times. 就在这一天，匆匆赶着回家与家人共度感恩节，享用 传统的佳肴烤火鸡，共话过去的好时光。 这是一句强调句：强调句型是对句子的主语，宾语，状语等进行强调，（谓语除外），其基本结构是It is +被强调的部分+that/who+句子的其他成分（强调主 语若是人引导词可以用who/that,若是其他一律用 that ） 比如：I los
15、t my purse at the sreet.如果强调主语“I”，套用 句型:It is I that/wholost my purse at the street.如果要强调 地点，同样套用句型：It is at the street thatI lost my purse. 通过这2个例子，我们可以知道 It is .that是加进来的，所以判 断一个句子是否是强调句，就是把It is .that去掉，如果去掉之 ，还是一个完整的句子就是强调句。比如上面那个例子：It is at the street thatI lost my purse.把it is和that去掉还剩下at the
16、street I lost my purse.这还是一个完整的句子。下面出2个 句子，你自己判断一下： It was in the year 1925 that John found a way to send pictures by wireless. was it in the place that the accident happened last night ? 去掉it is 和that 这2个句子变成了：in the year 1925 John found a way to send pictures by wireless. in the place the accident happened last night ？这2句句子结 构完整，所以都是强调句。 It 做形式主语：有时候句子的主语过长，这
