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1. Who do you think is the greatest person in history? 你认为谁是历史上最伟大的人？ do you think 是该疑问句中的插入词语。
如：What do you think we should do to protect the environment? 2. I’ve never heard of him.我从没有听说过他。 hear of听说，得知，常接人或事物。
heard about听说，得知，后常接事情类的名词。
hear from收到某人的来信=get a letter from sb/ receive a letter from sb
Reading
1. He became interested in flying when he took his first flight at the age of six. 当他6岁第一次乘飞机时就对飞行产生了兴趣。
(1) become interested in对….感兴趣。become可换为be/get，主语通常是人。 同义词组：have /show/take (an) interest in
eg. He becomes interested in science.他对科学感兴趣。 (2) flight (飞机的)空中航行，航程；班机；飞行，飞翔。 (3) at the age of在……岁时，相当于when引导的时间状语从句。 如：They began to learn English at the age of 8。 他们8岁时开始学英语.
2. He received his student pilot’s licence when he was 16. 他16岁时拿到了他的飞机学员执照。 receive作动词，意为“收到，接收”。 ★receive与accept的区别：
receive只表示被动地收到，但不一定接受；accept常表示主动接受。 eg. She has received his present, but she will not accept it. 她收到了他的礼物，但是不会接受它。
3. Armstrong joined the navy in 1949 and served as a pilot for three years.
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阿姆斯特朗于1949年加入美国海军，他做了3年飞行员。
(1) join参加，主要指加入某个组织(如军队，党派，社团，协会等)，成为其中一员。join是短暂性动词，不能跟段时间状语连用。如跟段时间状语可改成be in / be a member of…
★join，join in与take part in的区别： 1) join多指参加某个组织、团体等
如：I will never forget the day when I joined the Party. 我永远也忘不了入党的那一天。
2) join in通常指参加某种活动，尤其指和其他人一起参加某项活动。我们可以用join sb. in sth/ doing sth.
如：I hope you’ll all join in the discussion. 我希望你们大家都参加讨论。 Would you like to join me in a walk? 你愿意和我一起去散步吗?
3) take part in指参加群众性活动等，往往指参加者持有积极的态度并起到一定的作用，可与join in 互换。
如：Will you take part in the English evening?
(2) serve作不及物动词，意为“服役”；还可以作及物动词，表示“服务，招待”。后跟人作宾语，意为“为……服务”，名词形式是service。 如：They can serve you in a better way. 他们可以更好地招待你。 如：Thank you for your service. 感谢你的服务。 4. In 1966, he went into space as command pilot of Gemini 8.
1966年，他作为“双子座8号”宇宙飞船的飞行指挥进入太空。 space作不可数名词，意为“空间，太空”
5. He and David Scott managed to join two spacecraft together for the first time in space.他和大卫.斯科特成功地将两艘宇宙飞船在太空中首次交会对接。 manage to do sth.设法做某事
★ 辨析mange to do sth.与try to do sth.
manage to do sth.设法做成某事，强调结果“成功完成”；而try to do sth.尽力做某事，强调动作，不知道此事能否做成。
6. However, on their way back to the Earth, the spacecraft began spinning out of
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control. 但是，在他们返回地球的途中，宇宙飞船开始快速旋转，失去控制。 (1) on one’s way to…在某人去……路上。当后接表示地点的副词时，要省去to。 如：When I saw them, they were on their way to the cinema. 我看见他们时，他们正在去往电影院的途中。 (2) out of control失去控制，无法管理 The machine was out of control.
常见的词组：beyond control难以控制 under control被控制的 7. Armstrong received the order to cut the flight short. 阿姆斯特朗接到缩短航程的命令。
(1) order作名词，意为“命令，指挥，要求”，“顺序，订单”。 He had no choice but to __________________. 他别无选择只好服从命令。 We often answer the questions _____________. 我们常常按照这个顺序回答问题。
The factory has received ________________ for 2000 machine tools. 工厂收到了一张2000张机床的订货单。
他使一切都井然有序。He_____________________________________________. order作动词，意为“命令；订货；点菜”。 The police ordered him to stand up.
More and more people like ordering things on the internet. (2) cut…short“缩短”。
He cut short his holiday to deal with the problem. 常见词组：
cut down砍倒；削减 cut in插嘴，插队 cut off切断，隔断 cut out剪去，关掉
8. Together with Buzz Aldrin, he landed the spacecraft Apollo 11 on the Moon. 他和巴兹.奥尔德林一起将阿波罗11号宇宙飞船降落在月球上。
(1)together with意为“与……一起，连同”位置比较灵活，可以放在句首，句中，句尾或主语后，但谓语动词的单复数形式要与主语保持一致。
The teacher together with some students ___________the factory.（正在参观） I have some problems working together with her.
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(2) land动词，意为“登陆，使着陆”。 The plane ____________________at last. 飞机最后安全着陆了。
land也可作不可数名词，意为“陆地，地面”。
We don’t know how many people there are living ________________. 我们不知道有多少人生活在这片土地上。
9. They collected Moon rocks to take back to the Earth for further research. 他们采集了月球岩石带回地球作进一步研究。
(1) take back带回，拿回。back是副词，当宾语为代词时，位于中间。 She took them back to the boat.
(2) further更多的，更进一步地。是far的比较级。 For ________________________, write to the above address. 欲知详情，请按上面的地址致函询问。 ★ farther与further
两者都是far的比较级.但用法不完全相同。farther表示距离上更远，凡是能用farther的地方，further也能用；further除了有更远讲之外还可以表示抽象意义的“更远，更进一步，更深入”而farther不能这样用。 They pushed the boat _____________ into the water. 他们把船又往水里推远了些。
Most students choose to go to college for ________________. 大多数学生选择上大学继续深造。
10. He was the pride of the whole world. 他是全世界的骄傲。
pride名词，意为“骄傲，可引以为豪的人/物”。the pride of….意为“……的骄傲”。take pride in以……为自豪。
You are _________________ us now, and we will ___________________in the future. 现在你是我们的骄傲，将来我们会为你感到自豪。 be proud of“以……为自豪”，proud是pride的形容词。 11. What did Armstrong mean by his famous words…? 阿姆斯特朗的名言…是什么意思?？
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What did/does/do… mean by…?…什么意思?相当于what did /does/do …mean?或what’s the meaning of…?
你那样说是什么意思?_________________________________________
Integrated skills-Task
1. married a French scientist called Pierre Curie in 1895.
(1) marry既可以做及物动词，也可以作为不及物动词，常见用法： ① marry sb.嫁给某人，与……结婚 Mary married John last week. ② be/get married to sb.与某人结婚
Jane ___________________________a doctor last Sunday. ③ marry sb. to sb.父母把女儿嫁给某人或为儿子娶媳妇 Mr Green married her daughter to a businessman.
④ marry做不及物动词时，往往用副词或介词短语来修饰。 She married very early.
⑤ marry和get married都是非延续性动词，因此不能和表示一段时间的状语连用，表示结婚已有一段时间应用have/has been married They _________________________________ for 5 years.
(2) scientist名词，“科学家”；science名词，“科学”；scientific形容词，“科学的”。
He is a famous __________________. He is interested in ________________. I think that is a __________________ way. 2. won the Nobel Prize twice during her lifetime (1) during 介词，在……期间。
During the three months he asked a lot of questions. (2) lifetime名词，“终生，在某人一生中”。
The doctor saved many people’s lives during his lifetime.
3. Pierre was not there to share the joy with her—he died in a traffic accident in 1905.
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share…with 与……分享……
Li Ming shared an apple with his brother. 4. I admired him the most.
admire 动词，“钦佩，赞赏”。后接名词或代词做宾语。 He is a winner in the competition. So I admired him very much. admire sb for (doing) sth I admired him for his honesty.
5. It was brave of him to go to a place that was unknown to humans at that time. It’s + adj. +of sb. to do sth.某人做某事……。adj.是描述行为者的性格、品质的词。
It’s nice of you to help me so much.
It’s + adj. +for sb. to do sth.做某事对于某人来说……。adj.是描述事物特征的词。 It’s important for us to learn English well. unknown形容词，未知的，不出名的。
He was______________________ one year ago.(不为人知的画家） 6. She pushed for the use of X-ray machines, which are not widely in hospitals. (1) widely副词，广泛地，普遍地。 English is widely used in many fields. (2) wide形容词，宽的，宽阔的。 The river is 10 meters wide.
(3) wide副词，主要表示“张大、睁大”到最大程度。 Open your eyes wide.
7. saw people die of hunger, so began research into hybrid rice (1) die of “死于”，常指死于疾病，衰老等自身的原因。 die of hunger/heart disease/cancer
(2) 若死因不是人体的内在原因，而是由环境造成（主要是事故等方面的外部原因）用die from。
die from an earthquake/a traffic accident/a lightening
8. happened to find a natural hybrid rice plant that had many advantages over others
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happen to do sth. 碰巧做某事。
9. this new type of hybrid rice was introduced into the USA. be introduced into....被传入到……被引进到……
10. his achievements have increased rice production by 20%-30%,and in some places even more
increase“增长，增加”，可作及物或不及物动词，还可作名词。 The population of this town has increased. ★ increase by和increase to的区别
1) increase by+倍数或百分数表示“增加了……倍或百分之……” 2) increase to +具体的增长后的数字表示“增加到了…….”
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