Unit 2 Let’s Celebrate
Starting out & Understanding Ideas
Ⅰ. 词块梳理与背诵(英汉互译)
1. 团结的象征 _________________
2. 多达 _________________
3. 发生,进行 _________________
4. 为了纪念… _________________
5. add… _________________ 把…加到…上
6. a chance _________________sth. 做某事的时机
7. get together _________________
8. be allowed _________________sth. 被允许做某事
9. 不管,不顾 _________________
10. be made _________________flms被拍成电影
11. be based _________________以…为基础/根据
12. keep… _________________使…活着;使.…继续存在
13. regard… _________________把……视作…
14. one’s way _________________sth.某人做某事的方式
15. 超过,多于 _________________
16. address sth. _________________sb.把(信)寄给某人
17. It takes sb. some time _________________做某事花费某人一些时间
18. complain _________________sth.抱怨某事
19. _________________阻止某人做某事
20. _________________代替;而不是
21. wrap sth. _________________把某物包起来
22. a warning _________________sb.对某人的警告
23. 许多,大量_________________
24. as well as (doing) sth. _________________
Ⅱ. 构词法梳理与背诵
A. 转化法构词
1. _________________n.崇敬,敬重,敬意 → v. 以向…表示敬意
2. _________________v. 投票,表决 → n.投票;票数
B. 派生法构词
1. decorate v.装饰,布置,美化 → _________________n.装饰物
2. free adj.自由的→_________________n.自由,自由权利
3. participate v.参加,参与 → _______________ n.参加,参与→____________n.参加者,参与者
4. equality n.平等 → _________________n.(社会上的)不平等
5. novel n.(长篇)小说 → _________________n.小说家
6. limit n.限度,极限 → _________________adj.无限的 →_________________adj.有限的
7. regular adj.频繁的,经常的 → ____________adv.经常→ ______________adj.不规则的;无规律的
8. _________________n.(行星的)地极,(尤指地球的)北极或南极 → polar adj.极地的
9. warn v.警告,告诫,提醒→ _________________n.警告,警示,告诫
10. starve v.(使)挨饿;(使)饿死→ __________adj. 挨饿的,即将饿死的→__________n.饥饿;挨饿
Ⅲ. 课文选择
1.Letters from Father Christmas is designed for those _____________.
A. who think little of Christmas
B. who like to warn children to behave themselves
C. who regard Christmas as a special time of year
D. who complain about not having as many things as expected
2. Why did the children think the letters were from Father Christmas?
A. They were beautifully illustrated.
B. They were with North Pole stamps
C. They changed as the children got older.
D. They told wonderful adventures of Father Christmas.
3. What was the regular character in the letters?
A. Polar Bear.
B. Father Christmas’s helpers.
C. Tolkien
D. Tolkien’s children.
4. Which of the following best explains the title of the passage?
A. The real Father Christmas was actually Tolkien himself.
B. Tolkien wrote the letters as wonderfully as Father Christmas.
C. Tolkien’s love and care for his children madehim very like Father Christmas.
D. Tolkien was the real Father Christmas, because he wrote letters using the name "Father Christmas”
课文语法填空
Many people try to keep the magic of Father Christmas alive for their children for as long as they can. That is 1. _____________ Letters from Father Christmas could be the perfect book for those who regard
Christmas 2. ___________ special time of year. The man who wrote these letters is one of the most
famous 3. ___________ (name) in English literature-J. R .R. Tolkien. The letters were Tolkien’s way of
4. ___________(keep) Father Christmas alive for his four children. Every Christmas, an envelope with
a North Pole stamp arrived. It 5. ___________(address) to Tolkien’s children. Inside,they would find a
6.___________ (handwrite) letter from Father Christmas. The letters were also7. _________(beautiful)
illustrated-each must have taken its true author a long time 8. ___________(complete). The letters told
wonderful stories about Father Christmas’s life and adventures.
Interestingly,they did not contain the usual warnings to children 9. ___________they might not receive
their presents if they were not good. By 10. ___________(express) love for his children in such a special
way, Tolkien may indeed have been the real Father Christmas.
拓展语法填空
Every year there is a Sp