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1、Unit 1 A land of diversity语言点编稿：牛新阁 审稿：王春霞 学习目标重点词汇distinction, majority, elect, percentage, boom, occur,indicate, apparently, slip, hire 重点短语by means of make a life, team up with, mark out, apply for take in, live on, a great many, keep up重点句型There be + sb. + doing .with复合结构知识讲解重点词汇distinction【原句回放
2、】It also has the distinction of being the most multicultural state in the USA. 加州与众不同之处在于他也是美国最具多元化文化特征的一个州.【点拨】distinction n. 区别, 差别；卓越常用搭配：make a distinction between 把.与.区分开make no distinction 没有区别have a distinction of 有.与众不同之处with distinction 优异地，显著地Mr. Green has the distinction of having been th
3、e first president of the famous school.格林先生不同凡响，他是这所著名学校的首任校长。The law makes no distinction between men and women. 这条法律没有男性和女性的区别。【拓展1】distinct adj. 清晰的，明显的，明确的 distinguish v. 区分，辨别；把.区别分类，使杰出There was a distinct smell of gas when I opened the door. 我打开门时有一种明显的煤气味。The twins are so alike that I cant d
4、istinguish one from the other.这对孪生儿长得太像了，我区分不开。【拓展2】multi- 多，多个，多种注意“原句回放”中的“multicultural”的前缀multi-是“多、多方面、多方向”的意思。multicultural 多元文化的 multi-coloured 多色的multi-racial 多种族的multi-media 多媒体multiparty 多党制的 multi-purpose 多种用途的、通用的majority【原句回放】Of the first Spanish to go to California, the majority were r
5、eligious men, whose ministry was to teach the Catholic religion to the natives. 在首批移居加州的西班牙人中，大部分是宗教人士，他们的职责是向原住居民传授天主教。【点拨】majority n. 大多数；多半（反义词：minority n. 少数，小部分）常用搭配：in the/ a majority 占大多数 enter the majority 加入多数派 get a majority 获得多数票 the great/ vast majority 绝大多数narrow majority勉强的多数注意：1. the
6、majority单独用作主语，谓语可用单数（侧重整体）或复数（侧重个体）。The majority were/was against the plan. 大多数人反对这个计划。但是，若表语是复数，则谓语通常也要用复数。如：The majority are young people. 大多数是年轻人。2. “the majority of+复数名词”作主语时，其谓语动词通常用复数。The majority of children in our class have brown eyes; only three have blue eyes.我们班多数孩子眼睛是棕色的，只有三个是蓝色的。有时还可将
7、其中的定冠词改为不定冠词。A /The majority of people seem to prefer TV to radio. 大部分人似乎喜欢看电视而不喜欢听收音机。3. 在现代英语中the majority of偶尔也与不可数名词连用，但较少见，应慎用。【拓展】major adj. 较大/多的；主要的；v. 主修注意：major不能与than连用。The city holds the major portion of the population in the country. 那个城市聚集了那个国家大部分人口。 elect【原句回放】By the time California e
8、lected to become the thirty-first federal state of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society. 到1850年加利福尼亚成为美国第31个州的时候，它已经是一个有着多种文化的社会了。【点拨】elect vt. 选择，决定；选举（某人）常用搭配：elect to do sth. (正式地)选择/决定做某事 elect sb. to . 选某人进入. elect sb. president/ mayor 选举某人为总统/市长（如职位是独一无二的，省略冠词）Customers can
9、elect to pay by cash or by credit card. 顾客可以选择用现金或信用卡付账。She was elected to Parliament in 2003. 她2003年被选入国会。Ronald Reagan was first elected President in 1980. 罗纳德里根1980年首次被选为总统。【拓展】election n. 选举percentage【原句回放】Today, Chinese Americans live in all parts of California, although a large percentage have
10、 chosen to stay in the “Chinatown” of Los Angeles and San Francisco. 今天，加利福尼亚州各地都有美籍华人居住，尽管很大比例的华人还有选择住在洛杉矶和旧金山的“唐人街”里。【点拨】percentage n. 百分比，百分率注意： “a percentage of +名词”作主语时，谓语动词与of后的名词保持一致。We have only a small percentage of foreign books. 我们只有一小部分外文书。A large percentage of the hotels income is from
11、the visitors to the lake nearby.那家旅馆的收入的大部分来自参观附近那个湖的游客。Only a small percentage of the patients are children. 病人中只有一小部分是儿童。【拓展】 percent 百分之.It is often stated that we use only 10 percent of our brain. 常有报告称人只运用了大脑的10%。boom【原句回放】The industry boom attracted Europeans including many Jewish people. 这个行业
12、的繁荣吸引了欧洲人，包括许多犹太人。【点拨】boom n. （人口、贸易）繁荣 vi. 处于经济迅速发展时期Living standards improved rapidly during the post-war boom.在战后那段繁荣昌盛的时期，生活水平得到了迅速提高。The only way to satisfy the golf boom was to build more courses.满足这场高尔夫热的需求的唯一途径是增建球场。By the 1980s, the computer industry was booming. 到20世纪80年代时，计算机行业迅猛发展。【拓展】bo
13、oming adj. 急速发展的，暴涨的occur【原句回放】It didnt occur to me that . 我没想到.【点拨1】occur vi. 发生，存在（occur的过去式、过去分词要双写r，加-ed） The accident occurred at four oclock in the morning when people were sleeping.事故发生在早晨4点人们都睡着的时候。The sound doesnt occur in his language so its difficult for him to pronounce.这个音在他的语言里没有，所以他很难
14、发出来。【点拨2】occur to（主意或想法突然）浮现于脑中，被想起（相当于come into ones mind ）常用搭配：sth. occurs to sb. 某人想起某事 It occurs to sb. that. 某人想起.to do sth. A good idea occurred to me all at once. 我突然想到了一个好主意。It occurred to me that we should go there more often. 我想起我们应该多去那里。I suppose it never occurred to you to phone the police! 我想你压根儿就没想到给警方打电话吧！【拓展】区别occur，happen，come about，take place1. occur指“发生”时可与happen换用，也可指有计划地发生。但occur to sb.指“某人想起某事”，而sth. happen to sb. 指不好的事发生在某人身上。What happened to you? 你怎么了？2. happen作“发生、碰巧”解，一般用于偶然或突发性事件。Maybe something unexpected happened.也许意想不到的事情发生了。I happen
