新概念英语第二册75_SOS

Lesson 75: SOS
呼救信号

1. How did the woman get help?

Key words and expressions

• thick 厚的
• signal 信号
• stamp vt. 跺，踩 n. 邮票；印记，戳记；印，章，戳
  • stamp out 踩出
• helicopter 直升飞机
• scene 现场
• survivor 幸存者
• SOS Save Our Souls
• passenger 乘客
• pilot 飞行员
• suitcase 行李箱
• signal 信号
• rescue 救助
• fly off course 飞行偏离航线

Questions on the text

1. When and where did the plane crash and what happened to the pilot?
   1. The plane crashed some time ago in the mountains, and the pilot was killed.
2. What happened to the passengers?
   1. The passengers were unhurt.
3. How did the woman and her baby daughters spend the night?
   1. The two baby girls slept inside the suitcase. The woman kept as close as possible to them.
4. How did the woman get help early next morning?
   1. She stamped out the letters ‘SOS’ in the snow.

Language points

1. The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt.
   1. two baby daughters 两个名词构成合成名词
      1. 后者加s：armchairs 扶手椅, babysitters 看小孩的人, flyovers 天桥, hand signals 手势
      2. 前者加s：passers-by 过路的人, mothers-in-law 继母, commanders-in-chief 总司令
      3. 都变复数：men friends 男性朋友, women doctors 女医生, gentlemen farmers 乡绅
2. It was the middle of winter. 正值隆冬季节。
   1. We landed at the town in the middle of a torrential storm.
      1. torrential adj. （水）奔流的；（雨）倾泻的，如注的；猛烈的
   2. the middle of the day 一天的中间，即中午
   3. the middle of December 12月中旬
   4. the middle of the 1960s 60年代中期
3. She turned a suitcase into a bed and put the children inside it, covering them with all the clothes she could find.
   1. she could find 定语从句
   2. covering … 现代分词短语表伴随
      1. She hurried into the classroom, holding a laptop under her arm.
      2. They jumped and cheered, tears running down their faces.
4. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small.
   1. as…as… 和。。。一样
      1. The meal was as awful as the conversation.
      2. I’m as good a cook as she is.
   2. as…as… 像。。。一样
      1. as quiet as a mouse
      2. as white as a sheet 像床单一样白
   3. as…as…
      1. She had taken five days to write. I thought I was entitled to take as many days thinking about my reply.
      2. This earthquake had a force one third as great as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Key structures and usage

1. 系动词(lay/grow/get) + 表语(adj.)

1. Snow lay thick on the ground.
2. When it grew dark, she turned a suitcase into a bed and put the children inside it, covering them with all the clothes she could find.
3. During the night, it got terribly cold.

2. 形容词最高级用法

1. The woman knew that the nearest village was mile away.
2. Fortunately, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town.

例句：

1. He is the tallest boy in his class.
2. China has the largest population in the world.
3. He plays ping-pang the best in his department.(well 的最高级)
4. She swims (the) fastest in this group.

Extension