新概念英语第三册课文和笔记第33课:A day to remember

L33-02 end 10’10”

L33-03 begin 10’05”

on teh phone = answer the phone

pull off 拉下来
pick off 取下来
knock off 碰落下来
smash half 摔成两半
in the process 在这个过程中
hang up == put on the receiver

attend to == look after == deal with
Please attend to my baby.
Excuse me, I have something urgent to attend to.

reduce you to tears.
reduce sb to + 名词： 迫使某人处于……状态
Eg: You almost reduce me to tears.
His comforting words almost reduced his wife to tears.
His answer reduced me to silence.
The bomb reduced the city to ruins.

we can draw a conclusion.
Everything seems to get out of control suddenly and a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.

on a big scale == to a great degree == to great extent
as 引导非限制性定语从句（二册已详细说过）

Troubles never come single 祸不单行
as we know 众所周知
As we know, the earth is round.
As brane pointed out, giving up smoking is the easiest thing to do in the world.
As the headmaster mentioned, one is never too old to learn.
as重点突出整个句子的含义，而which有可能指代主句当中的某个词汇，也有可能指代整个句子的含义。
As we expected, John was admitted to the university.
She married him, which was unexpected.
She married him as (was ) unexpected.

L33-03 end 10’05”

L33-04 begin 10’32”

The material is elastic as shown in the figure.
The material is elactic which is shown in the figure.

during the rush hour 上下班高峰期
It happened that the woman behind the two cars was a learner.
happen to do 恰巧
I happened to hear the news.
It happened that I heard about it the day before yesterday.
following 现在分词做定语
right ==straight
draw up ==pull up 停车
all of sudden ==suddenly
was loaned with == was filled with
lead to == cause
meanwhile == at the same time 与此同时
get the traffic on the move 使得车辆开动起来
on the move == move from place to place
on the rise 正在上升
on the boil 正在沸腾
on the go 正在忙碌中
on the watch 正在监视
on the turn 正在转变中
on thw run 正在逃跑中
on thw fly 正在飞行中
on the decrease 正在减少

benefit from 从......得益
You benefit a lot from your reading.

L33-04 end 10’32”

L33-05 begin 14’08”

【Multiple choice questions】
Comprehension
1 What would have most upset the woman the day everything went wrong for her?
a. She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.
b. The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.
c. Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.
d. She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2 What might have prevented a chain reaction following the initial collision?
a. If the two drivers who had collided had not begun to argue.
b. Had there been a more experienced driver behind the two cars.
c. If, instead of panicking, the woman had made no attempt to stop.
d. Had the wife of the man who braked not thrown a cake through the window.

3 There was a second angry argument because _____ .
a. the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accident
b. the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move again
c. the lorry driver did not think he shouldbe made to sweep up the glass
d. two dogs had devoured what was left of the cake

Structure
4 It is as if a single event that is _____ a chain of reactions. (ll.4-5)
a. no importance set up b. of no imortance set up
c. not any important sets up d. not any importance sets up
that is ...是定语从句修饰event
a single unimportant event

5 ---- you are preparing a meal _____ keeping an eye on the baby. (ll.6-7)
a. at the same time b. as you are c. as well d. while

6 As if this _____ you to tears …(l.10)
a. has not already reduced b. were not already reducing
c. did not already reduce d. would not already reduce

7 Immediately behind the two cars _____ happened to be a learner. (ll.13-14)
a. was a woman who b. a woman c. the woman d. there was the woman who

8 The police spent nearly an hour _____ the traffic on the move again. (ll.19-20)
a. to get b. until getting c. getting d. having got
spend ( time ) doing sth.

vocabulary
9 You are preparing a meal and _____ the baby at the same time. (ll.6-7)
a. looking at b. seeing c. watching d. seeing to

10 She stopped her car _____ a sudden panic. (l.14)
a. into b. in c. from d. with
in panic / in terror / in fear / in horror

11 Hundreds of them _____ the back of the vehicle … (ll.18-19)
a. slipped off b. slid down c. slid over d. slipped under
slid over 躲过
He slid over the question without answering it.

12 They greedily devoured the _____ of the cake. (ll.21-22)
a. left b. leave c. leftover d. remains
leftovers 吃剩的东西（常用复数形式）
The leftovers of the meal were fed to the dog.

【Key to Multiple choice questions】
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A 12. D

L33-05 8’06” [ Lesson 32 49:04 ]