高中英语必修三第一单元重点、难点Unit one Festivals around the world1、Discuss when they take place. 讨论一下它们什么时候发生。

take place 发生When did the wedding take place? 婚礼是什么时候举行的。

The opening of the play will take place tomorrow night. 这出戏明天晚上开始演出。

易混辨析：happen; take place; break out 发生happen指“偶然发生”。

还可指运动会的“举行”。

可以和occure互换，但occure有“It occures/ occurred to sb. that…突然想起”句型，happen没有此句型。

A traffic accident happened in the street this morning. 今天早上大街上发生了一起交通事故。

take place指“有计划，有安排让发生”。

Great changes have taken place in China in the past 30 years. 过去三十年中国发生了巨大变化。

break out“爆发”。

多指爆发灾难性的事情，如战争、火灾、地震、瘟疫等。

The first world war broke out in 1914. 第一次世界大战1914年爆发。

特别提示：（1）happen; take place; break out 都没有被动式。

（2）take the place of表示“代替…的位置”。

即时活用：1、A terrible accident ______ on No.6 Street yesterday, where a couple were killed by a truck.A. foldedB. broke outC. took placeD. occurred2、A quarrel ___________ last Sunday, and he ___________ his family.A. was broken out; broke awayB.broke out; broke awayC.was broke out; broke away fromD. broke out; broke away from3、Don’t you believe it! Glass can ________ steel in many ways in life.A. take place ofB. take the place ofC. in place ofD. instead of4、The question occurred to me ______ we were to get the machines mended. A. that B. what C. why D. where5、–When did the concert_____? ---Oh, two days ago.A. happenedB. take placeC. holdD. start 答案：DDBAB2、At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months.那个时候如果食物难找人会饿死的，尤其是寒冷的冬天。

starve 用法归纳：（1）饿死；挨饿(vi.) Many children in Africa are starving to death. 非洲的许多儿童正在被饿死。

Because there is no food, the people are starving. 由于没有粮食，哪儿的人正在挨饿。

（2）使挨饿(vt.) If you waste any food again, I will starve you. 如果你再浪费粮食，我就让你挨饿。

Some people starve themselves to lose weight. 有些人在挨饿减肥。

联想扩展：be starved of 很需要starve for 渴望得到starvation n. 挨饿；饿死3、For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.在日本的盂兰盆节，人们要扫墓、烧香，以缅怀祖先。

in memory of 纪念；追念We held the meeting in memory of the soldiers who died in the war.我们举行这个会议以纪念在战争中阵亡的将士。

联想扩展：in honor of纪念某人in praise of…表扬；赞扬in search of 寻找in face of 面对in need of 需要in defense of 保卫in charge of 负责in possession of 拥有in terms of 至于；关于in case of 要是… in favor of 同意；赞同即时活用：Washington , a state in the United States , was named ______ one of the greatest American presidents .A. in honor ofB. instead ofC. in favor ofD. by means of 答案：A4、The Western holiday Halloween also had its origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirits of dead people.西方节日万圣节也源自人们古老的信念，认为亡者的灵魂会返回人间。

beliefs 信念特别提示：belief变复数时直接加s。

联想扩展：名词的几种特殊变化(1) 复数名词以“s”或“es”结尾，其读音规则是：清辅音之后发[s]，浊辅音和元音之后发[z]，[s，z，∫，t∫，d]之后发[iz](2) 以o结尾的名词变复数，多数加“s”，少数几个加“es”。

可归纳为：黑人和英雄吃土豆和西红柿。

Negroes and heroes eat potatoes and tomatoes.(3) 以th. 结尾的名词加“s”后，th.发生音变的有：一个青年去洗澡，回来路上撇着嘴。

即“youth”，“bath”,“path”,“mouth”这四个词发生音变，其它th.结尾的名词加s变为复数时th.不发生音变。

(4) 以f结尾的名词变复数时大都变f为ves，但有几个直接加s变为复数。

可归纳为：一个农奴（serf）从海湾（gulf）来到房顶（roof）上，找到首长（chief），有了证据（proof），增加了信仰（belief）。

(5) 名词修饰名词，除man和woman随后边的名词的单复数变化外，其余名词一律用单数。

可以归纳为：所有名词都用单（数），男人女人随名词变化。

即时活用：– Where are you going to do your shopping? --- I am going to the _________.A. shoe’sB. shoe storeC. shoes storeD. shoes’ store答案：B5、It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbor’s homes to ask for sweets.现在成了一个儿童节日，节日期间孩子们打扮起来，去邻居家要糖果。

dress up用法归纳：（1）打扮成某种样子；穿上最好的衣服（2）The dress up as Father Cristmas during Cristmas. 圣诞节期间他们打扮成圣诞老人。

It’s only an informal party, you needn’t dress up. 只是个非正式的聚会，你没必要打扮。

（2）把…打扮起来Would you please dress the children up? 能把孩子们打扮一下吗？Why are you dressed up? 为什么要打扮？6、If the neighbors do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.如果邻居们不给他们糖果，孩子们就会作弄他们。

play a trick on sb. 开玩笑；欺骗It is acceptable to play tricks on your friends on April 1st. 在愚人节那天作弄朋友是可以接受的。

联想扩展：take…into…坑人trick sb. out of 骗取play a joke on sb. 戏弄某人have a joke 说笑话make a joke about sb. or sth.. 拿某人或某事说笑话laugh at sb.嘲笑某人make fun of sb. 取笑某人7、Some people might win awards for their farm produce, like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster.由于他们的农产品，如最大的西瓜，或者最漂亮的公鸡，有些人会得到奖励的。

award n.奖；奖品v.授予；判定He won first award of talking big competition. 他在演讲大赛中获得了第一名。

The school awarded Mary a prize for her good work. 由于她优秀的工作学校给玛丽发奖。

易混辨析：award , prize , reward 奖award “奖，奖品”。

对于优异成绩获卓越贡献经过评定后正式授予的奖励。

奖励可以是精神的，也可以是物质的。

其获得这并不一定参加某种竞赛，但其成绩却达到获奖水平。

prize “奖赏，奖品”。

确认某人在竞赛中取得优异成绩并给与特殊奖励。

含有优胜者几经拼搏，胜利来之不易的意思。