【New words and expressions】生词和短语

★station n (警察)局 (一定是与军方, 警方有关系的)

post office 邮局 / police office 警局

bureau 局 :

communication bureau 交通局 (communication )

I went to the police 我去警察局

★most adv 相当, 非常

只有加 “the” 时译为 “最” , 加 “a” 或什么也不加时译为 “非常” , “相当” (“very” 的概念)

a most interesting / I was most surprised.

【Text】

Lesson 34 Quick work 破案 “神速”

First listen and then answer the question.听录音, 然后回答以下问题.

How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?

Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was pinged up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen !

参考译文

丹"鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期. 上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信, 要他到警察局去一趟. 丹奇怪警察为什么找他, 但昨天还是去了, 结果他不再担心了. 在警察局里, 一位面带笑容的警察告诉他, 他的自行车找到了. 那位警察对他说, 那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的, 现在正用火车给他运回家来. 丹听到这个消息后, 惊奇万分, 但又感到非常好笑, 因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到. 这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的!

【课文讲解】

quick: 动作的快; fast: 速度的快; soon: 时间快

have a quick meal / quick freeze速冻

all week 用现在完成时

local new 当地新闻 / local police 当地警察局

local color 当地色彩, 地方色彩 / local people 当地人

native  n土著人adj 土生土长的

local call 市话

call at(some place) 拜访某地 / call on 拜访某人

ask/tell/expect/want/allow/request/order sb to do sth 请求某人做某事

you was wanted to do sth.

he was told that/to do (被动) / someone told him that... (主动)

sb. was told: 某人被告知; 有人告诉sb : I was told that yesterday you did sth wrong.

not......any more = no more 不再, 再也不

I don’t talk to you any more.我不再会对你谈话了

I will talk to you no more.

I walked no more .我不再走了

five miles away这一类结构可以直接做定语, 放在被修饰词后面

home前一旦加修饰词(如 “this” ), 则其为名词

the school is five miles away.学校在五里外 / The school five miles away...五里外的学校

I live in a house which is five miles away. = I live in a house five miles away.

His home : home 前一旦加修饰词(如文中的his), 则其为名词

......expected the bicycle to be found. 被动语态

I want my mother to wish clothes. / I want the clothes to be wished.(不关心谁洗, 被洗)

【letter writting】书信写作

In the address we usually write‘St.’for‘Street’;‘Rd.’for‘Road’;‘Sq.’for‘Square’;‘Ave.’for‘Avenue’;‘Pl.’for ‘Place’. We write words like‘Lane’and‘Drive’in full.

在地址中我们通常使用缩略形式, 如 : “St.” (Street); “Rd.” (Road); “Sq.” (Square); “Ave.” (Avenue); “Pl.” (Place),而有些词则不用缩略形式, 如 “Lane” 和 “Drive” .

pics.  : pictures / secs.:seconds     wait secs 等几秒钟

td.co.  /  wto

【Special difficulties】难点

call on拜访

call (sb) up给某人打电话

一旦一个词可以省略而意思不改, 这个词可能是副词, 如 “up” 是副词

如果宾语是代词, 后面的词组由动词和副词组成, 代词一定会放在中间

call on you/call you up

go to the pictures 去看电影

call off 取消 / call out 大声喊 / call at 去了某地+地点 / call in 召集

Exercise 练习   用恰当的词填空 :

1  I called______ you five times yesterday. Were you out?

2  It's too late to go to the pictures. Why don't we call the whole thing ______?

3  We called ______to him but he could not hear us.

4  I called ______ the post office on my way to work.

1、on   call you up 不能说成 call up you / on (prep)    call on you

2、go to the pictures 去看电影  call the whole thing off

3 、call out

4、call out  去了邮局, 不一定译成 “拜访邮局”

【Multiple choice questions】多项选择题

1 Dan was worried because ______.

a. he received a letter               b. the police wanted him

c. he went to the station yesterday  d. he didn't know why the police wanted him

answer: d

8 All the police at the station are ______ men.

a. topical  b. local  c. native  d. neighbourly

answer: b

local: 当地的; native: 自己在这里(祖祖辈辈都在这里)

topical adj : 时事问题的; 热门话题的; 题目的 / neighbourly: 邻居的

多项选择参考答案:

l.(d) 2.(a) 3.(b) 4.(c) 5.(a) 6.(d) 7.(c) 8.(b) 9.(c) 10.(b) 11.(c) 12.(a)