Unit 4Earthquakes.重点单词聚焦1Without_(电)，life would not be so convenient today.答案：electricity2Dont mention it again，or it will remind her of the_(痛苦) she has gone through.答案：suffering3When he got up，the ground_(震动) and cracked under his feet.答案：shook/quaked4After the war they saved those who were alive and _(埋葬) the dead.答案：buried5They were_(困住) in a deep hole and couldnt get out.答案：trapped6The firemen_(营救) hundreds of people shortly after the earthquake.答案：rescued7She_(突然，爆发) into tears at the news that his father had passed away.答案：burst8On arriving there，we offered our_(祝贺) to him on his success.答案：congratulations9He knows only a little English so he cant_(表达) himself fluently.答案：express10Its wrong of you to take_(躲避) under the tree in the storm.答案：shelter.重点短语扫描1right 立刻，马上2 an end 结束；终结3dig 掘出；发现4think of 考虑的少，满不在乎5lose 失去希望6as 仿佛；好像7in 严重受损；破败不堪8a (great) of 许多，大量的9tens of of 数以万计的10be of 以而自豪awayatoutlittlehopeifruinsnumberthousandsproud.课文原句突破1仿佛到了世界末日！_ _ _ _the world was at an end!答案：It seemed as if2死伤人数达到40多万。_ _ _people who were killed or injured _more than 400,000.答案：The number of；reached3他们无论朝哪里看，那里的一切都几乎被毁了。_they looked nearly everything was destroyed.答案：Everywhere4并没有丧失所有的希望。_hope was_lost.答案：All；not5解放军组成小分队，将受困的人们挖出来，将死者埋葬。The army organized teams to_ _ _ _ _ _ and to _ _ _.答案：dig out those who were trapped；bury the dead6正如你所知，这是那场地震发生的日子。_ _ _，this is the day the quake happened.答案：As you knowburst vt.& vi.(使)爆裂；(使)裂开；(使)炸开；突然出现；爆发；n.突然破裂；爆发教材原句P26：In the city，the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst.在市内，有些建筑物的水管爆裂开来。He couldnt help bursting into tears when he heard the bad news.当他听到这个坏消息时情不自禁泪流满面。We all thought his heart would burst with happiness.我们都认为他心中的快乐快要爆发出来了。He burst into the room without knocking at the door.他没敲门就闯进房间。1.完成句子她一听到迈克尔杰克逊死亡的消息，就失声痛哭起来。Hardly had she heard the news about the death of Michael Jackson when she _.答案：burst out crying/burst into tearsinjure vt.损害；伤害教材原句P26：Twothirds of them died or were injured during the earthquake.他们中有2/3在地震中伤亡。While crossing the road，an old man was knocked down by a car and badly injured.过马路时，一位老人被汽车撞倒且严重受伤。Your words may injure her pride.你的话也许会伤她的自尊。The injured were taken to the hospital.受伤者被送进了医院。辨析：injure，hurt与woundinjure伤害，特指意外伤害hurt受伤的一般用词，既可以指肉体上的伤害，也可以指精神上的伤害wound通常是指武器的伤害，如刀、枪等的伤害，尤其是指战场上的伤害2.用表“伤害”的词填空：(1)What really_me was that he never answered my letter.(2)About 50 people were seriously_ in the attack.(3)Two men were seriously _ trying to save a 5yearold girl from the burning building.答案：(1)hurt (2)wounded(3)injuredruin nU 毁坏；毁灭；崩溃；n.C(pl.)废墟；遗迹；v.(使)破产；(使)堕落；毁灭教材原句P26：In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.在可怕的15秒内，一座大城市就成为一片废墟。(1)be in ruins成为废墟bring.to ruin使毁灭；使没落come/fallto/into ruin灭亡；荒废(2)ruin oneself自取灭亡ruin ones health/fame毁坏某人的健康/名誉Some prewar constructions were abandoned and eventually fell/came to ruin.一些战前建筑被遗弃，并最终成为废墟。A terrible earthquake left the whole town in ruins.可怕的地震使全城成为一片废墟。His hope of winning a gold medal in the 11th National Games ruined because of his carelessness.由于粗心他在11届全运会上获一枚金牌的希望破灭了。As is known to us，heavy smoking ruins our health.众所周知，吸烟过量毁坏身体健康。3.“If you go on stealing，you will_your bright future，young man！” said the judge.Adestroy BdamageCruin Dbreak解析：这几个动词中，ruin可表示对抽象事物的毁坏，如毁掉“希望，理想，前程”等。答案：C4_is no wonder that the building is_now；it was so big a fire last night.AIt；in ruins BThat；in ruinsCThere；in ruins DIt；in ruin解析：“It is no wonder that.”是固定句式，表示“难怪”；be/lay in ruins是固定短语，意为“成为废墟”。答案：Abury vt.埋葬，掩埋；隐藏；使沉浸，使专心；插入，刺入教材原句P26：The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the dead.救援部队组成小分队，将受困的人们挖出来，并掩埋死者。Their ambitions were finally dead and buried.他们的雄心壮志最终被埋葬了。Since she left，hes buried himself in his work.自从她走后，他全心扑在工作上。Buried/Absorbed in his study，he didnt know that all the others had left.他埋头学习，不知道其他人都早已离开了。She sat there，buried in thought.她坐在那儿，陷入了沉思。5.完成句子Hearing her only son killed in the accident，the old woman_(双手掩面) and cried.答案：buried her face in her hands6_deep down in the earth，the dead forests rotted away and became coal.ABurying BBuriedCTo bury DHaving buried解析：bury与句子主语forests之间是逻辑上的被动关系，用过去分词作状语。句意为：深深地埋在地下，枯死的林木慢慢腐烂变成了煤。答案：Bjudge v断定；判断；判决