(In asick child hild (18)a happy family family (19)the bad news news (20) the bright sky 4. Do a survey in your class. Then complete the following sentences based on your survey (1) is taller than me. But is the tallest in the class 2) is shorter than me. But is the shortest in the class. 3) s bag is smaller than mine. But s bag is the smallest. s hair is longer than mine. But s hair is the longest. s English is better than mine. But s English is the best 6) studies harder than me. But studies hardest (7) is naughtier than me. But is the naughtiest. is more humorous than me. But is the most humorous person Grammar in Use .............. Describe the scene in the oil painting, using proper adjectives words you can use peaceful qui I white grey brown· shining warm mild orange
SELF-ASSESSMENT Choose the right answer L. Veena had never spent a A. more excited B. most excited C. more exciting D. much exciting 2. When we learn English, we should always remember often you move your mouth, the more your muscles will become, and the more fluent your English will be A. The more, developing B. The more, developed C. The most, develop D. The most, developing 3. I'm pleased to say that she has already completed 50% of the guidebook in less tha three days A. no less than B. no more than C not enough than D. much less than 4. This bookshelf is of that one A the same high like B as high as C as higher as D. the same height as 5. The Iiving carried the dead away and the healthy gave a helping hand. A. the sick B the wound C. the brave D. the rich 6. America is a A high-developing B high-developed C. highly-develop D highly-developed 7.-Can I help you? Yes. My mother bought a pair of sports shoes for me at your counter. But uh they are - for me. Could you please change them? A too a bit small B a bit small too C. too small a bit D. a bit too small 8. When you drive home on snow-clad roads, you cant be reful B too D. onl 9. Children are always about what they see for the first time B curious C. fond D. pleased 10. As the main road was crowded with cars, taxis, trucks and trolley buses, some citizens suggested building a (an lane for cyclists A. separate B independent C individual D. isolated ll Pauls son, to whom Mary was so went abroad ten years ago A loved B devoted D. affected
12. He felt rather when she drove the car at such a A frightening, frightening B. frightened, frightened C frightening, frightened D. frightened, frightening Grammar in Use r.e... Are you interested in oil paintings? Here are two famous paintings 量 B Describe Painting A: Describe Painting B: Compare the two paintings
UNIT 4 NUMBERS AND QUANTITIES Objectives Leam how to use cardinal and ordinal numbers Lean how to refer to an inexact number of people and things Learn how to talk about fractions and percentages Listening and reading =po) After decades of being a minor problem, HIV infections are increasing at a significant rate among migrant Mexican workers along the border. according to two new studies by the University of California's AIDS research programme. AIDS As much as one percent of migrant workers-about 20,000 people-are infected with HIV, according to the results of astudy of 600 migrant workers in Californias Fresno and San Diego counties. That is more than three 259 times the rate of HIV infection in the general US and Mexican populations The Aids programme's second study, published in the Journal of Aids, showed that the rate of HIV infection among women giving birth at Tijuana General Hospital was four times higher than that in the general population of either country According to this study, Hispanics in 2000 accounted for 34. 2 percent of all AIDS cases diagnosed in California, where they made up 30.8 percent of the population Think and answer 1. What problem does the passage discuss? 2. What is the result of the study on migrant workers in Califormia's Fresno and San Diego 3. What was the rate of HIV infections among women giving birth at Tijuana General Hospital? 4. What is the main idea of this passage?
Structures in Use Word Tool Bo 基数词表达确切的数量或数字,也可用于表达日期和年份 Cardinal numbers In 1920. after some 39 years, the Panama Caral was officially opened, linking one-ninety-nine hundred ne Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the 50- thousand mile canal zone instead of traveling some 7.000 miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship about 8 hours to complete the trip through the canal and costs an average of s 15,000. only one tenth of what would cost an average ship Time to pass round the Horn. More than 15,000 ships pass through its lock each in the 1990s on Sep 10th, 1992 Focus Two Word Tool Box 序数词表达人或事物的次序也可用于表达年龄或时间 Ordinal numbers A Day in the Life of the first -the twentieth I usually wake up first and make my first of many cups of coffee. Cleo, my 29-year-old daughter, has just had her second baby and has a The age of a person room on the second noor. Trevor, an 18-year-old West African lives with at the age of ten us on the third floor and Rustler, a 19-year-old boy from Granada. shares a man aged 30 a room on the fourth with my son Alfie, who is 18 a man in his thirties My daughter has joined me with her six- month-old baby and I spend a a man over thirty lot of time playing with him. At aquarter to nine, I shout to Alfe to try to[- year-old boy get him to go to school. By nine he is out of the door with at least half of the things he needs for school. You may be wondering who is on the first floor? My husband and myself We sleep in separate rooms. Focus Three Word Tool Box 英语中的小数和分数都有特定的表达形式 Fractions and percentage When you ask me what I would like to do. I try to be honest and say that I would like to spend at least half of my retirement sailing. Recently spent four and a half days sailing to Langkawi in Malaysia. The watches on board divide up your day and it basically works out that you are on duty, that is in charge of the boat, for one quarter of the day and a a quarter three quarters third of the night. Much of this will depend on what we call "competent one third rew": those people who can basically navigate a ship, The established two thirds norm is now two thirds competent crew and one third beginners. four and a half However, that doesn't mean that mistakes cannot be made whether you 45 percent are"competent"or otherwise