Unit 1 Know yourself 了解你自己课文重点单词、短语、句型、语法及综合技能详解一. Comic strips & Welcome to the unit1. It says some people are generous.上面说有些人很大方Say及物动词，意为“说；写着；显示”，指书面材料或可见的东西提供的信息例如：The clock said five o clOCk.显示五点整2. It makes them feel good to share things with others.与他人分享东西使他们感觉良好1) make sb.do sth使某人做某事例如：This dress makes me look fat.这件衣服我穿着显胖2) feel作连系动词，其后面通常接形容词作表语，不用于进行时态3. Hobo, you ve eaten up my breakfast!!波， 你把我的早饭吃光了 ！eat up(1) eat all of 吃光Make sure the children eat their vegetables up ! 一定要让孩子们把蔬菜吃光。
After working all afternoon , we quickly ate up all of the dinner. 我整整干了——个下午以后， 一会儿就把饭吃光了2) use all of用完；消耗Extravagance ate up his inheritance.奢侈的生活耗尽了他继承的遗产The central heating eats up a lot of electricity .暖气耗费大量的电力Idle talk had eaten up the hour before they knew it .闲谈不知不觉地把他们的时间都耗掉了4. She keeps all her things in good order.她使她的东西保持尽然有序keep .. in good order 使 .保持尽然有序5. Daniel is very clever, but he is modest and never shows off.show off 炫耀show off可以单独使用，后面也可跟宾语拓展：show的其他常用短语show sb. sth = show sth to sb. 给某人看某物show sb. around带领某人参观show up出现，露面on show展览6. I think I can be a good teacher or a good doctor. 我认为我可以成为一名好老师或好医or连词， 意为“或； 或者；还是”，用于引出另一种可能性。
拓展：or的其他常见用法(1) 用于否定句提出两种或多种事物意为“也不” 例:I can t sing or dance我不会唱歌也不会跳舞2) 用于警告或忠告，意为“否则，不然”例：Hurry up, we will be late.快点，否则我们要退到了3) 用于两个数字之间表示约略数目， 意为“大约”例:There are six or seven children in the room. 房间里大约六七个孩子二. Reading1. Wu Wei, the young artist, has impressed the whole country with his creative work.whole此处用作形容词，意为“全部的；整体的； 完全的； 所有的”，用于名词前作定语辨析：whole与allwhole 通常修饰可数名词单数，一般不修饰不可数名词位于定冠词 ，指示代词，物主代词 及名词所有格之后all修饰可数名词复数或不可数名词， 位于定冠词，指示代词，物主代词及名词所有格之前2. His sculptures for Sunshine Town Square have won high praise from the art community.他创作的阳光城广场雕塑已赢得了艺术界的高度赞扬。
praise n.表扬，赞扬（不可数名词） vt..赞扬 praise sb. for sth.表扬某人某事拓展：Proud骄傲的，自豪的（形容词），pride骄傲，自豪（名词）be proud of 以...为荣;以...自豪take pride in 以...自豪同样的意思，但可以看出名词和形容词的用法是有差异的形容词前用 be动词.Win和beat的区别：win所接的宾语一般是比赛，战斗，辩论，奖金等名词或赢得的荣誉beat所接的宾语是参加比赛的人，团体等3 ..so I am always searching for something better or different 所以我总是搜寻更好的或与众不同的东西be always doing sth意为"总是做某事"always与进行时连用时，常表示说话人的某种情 绪，如赞扬，责备，不满等4. You either take the lead or fall behind.你要么领先，要么落后Either or 表示对两事物或情况的选择，连接相同的句子成分I think he is either American or English. 我认为他不是美国人就是英国人。
take the lead处于领先地位fall behind 落后5. Liu Tao is the chief engineer of the high-speed railway connecting Sunshine Town toTianjin.刘皓是连接阳光城和天津高速铁路的总工程师connect此处作及物动词，意为"连接"，connect…..to/with意为"与 .相连，连接"6. We can t afford to make any mistakes我们承担不起任何错误（所造成的后果）afford及物动词，意为"承担得起后果"afford也表示"买得起，能支付"，通常与can, could , be able to连用，常用于否定句或一般疑问句中例：I can t afford to miss the chanced不能再失去这次机会了7. As a doctor, you can t be too cafefutr名医生，再怎么仔细也不为过can t……too •…是常用表达，意为“无论怎么样也不过分”例如：You can t praise the film very much.这部电影值得大加赞赏。
8. She has devoted most of her time to her work.她把她的大部分时间用于工作devote⑴devote用作及物动词，意为 把 献给；把 用在"，常与介词to搭配，构成devote ...to ...结构，介词to之后跟名词或动词-ing形式如：例如：I don t think we should devote any more time to this question.He devoted his whole life to teaching.他把毕生精力献给了教学［联想］devoted adj.忠实的(2) devote oneself to 致力于,献身于初如:For four years he devoted himself to music.四年来，他全力倾注于音乐He devoted himself to helping the poor.他献身于帮助穷人9. Liu Tao s team members find it difficult to work with them.find it+形容词+to do sth.意为"发现做某事很 .."，其中it作形式宾语，真正的宾语是形容词后面的动词不定式。
例如：I found it boring to play computer games.我发现玩电脑游戏很无聊三. Grammar1. and/ but /or/ soand：和；而且；又；然后表示联合，意为“和”、“又”、“而且” 有时用于连接两个相同的词语，表示事物连续性The train ran faster and faster. 火车开得越来越快but用法：(1) but用法连词，表示让步关系，意思是"除非，要不是” ，常与that 一起构成but that,相当于"if...not" 例如：I would have failed but that your helped me.要不是你们帮助我， 我就会:(2) but用于否定词加doubt, question, deny等到之后，没有实在意义，只相当于关系连词that. 洌如：Theres no doubt but he is a thief.毫无疑问，他是一个贼3) but 用作介词，表示"除了"意义，相当于 besides, except例如：No one knows him but she.除了她，没有人认识她so：所以用法：⑴.so可以用作连词，表示“因此，所以” 。
例:I heard some noise outside, so I went out of the room to see why.so that作为连词词组，表示 “以便，为了” 例: The vase is put high on the table, so that it won t be broken.⑵so可以用作副词，表示一一1) "如此，这么"结构为： so+adj./adv例: She was so tired that she fell asleep very fast.表示此意思时，还可以用： so+adj.+a/an+n.例:It is so good a movie that everyone who saw it praises it very much.2) “如此，如是”，用于表示已经提到的想法，建议或情况等例："Will I need my umbrella?”“I think so. ”3) “也是，也一样”结构为 so+助动词/情态动词/be动词+主语例: Tony takes exercise every day and so does his younger brother.注意否定句应把 so改为neither/nor，结构为neither/nor+助动词/情态动词/be动词+主语例:Jenny has never been late for class.Neither/Nor her younger brother.4) “确实是这样”，表示对前面陈述事实的强调，结构为 so+主语+助动词/情态动词/be动例: Tony works very hard at all the subjects.So he does.or：或；否则Hurry up , or youll be late.快点，否则就要退到了。
这里 or表示"否则，不然的话"You may do it yourself , or ask s。