Lesson 1 The end of a dream
美梦告终

一、词汇部分

1.tired /taɪrd/ adj. 厌烦的
表达：tired/exhausted/beat 疲惫的
例句：I’ve been working like 18 hours in a row. I’m exhausted. 我已经连续工作了18个小时了。我累死了。

2.real /ˈriː.əl/ adj. 真正的

3.owner /ˈoʊ.nɚ/ n. 主人

4. spring /sprɪŋ/ n. 弹簧
备注：in spring/summer/autumn/fall/wineter

5.mattress /ˈmæt.rəs/ n. 床垫
6.gust /ɡʌst/ n. 一阵风
搭配：a gust of wind 一阵风

7.sweep /swiːp/ v. 扫，刮
8.courtyard /ˈkɔːrt.jɑːrd/ n. 院子
9.smash /smæʃ/ v. 碰碎，摔碎
搭配：smashed potato 土豆泥

10.miraculously /məˈræk.jə.ləs/ adv. 奇迹般地
单词助记：miracle 奇迹

11.unhurt /ʌnˈhɝːt/ adj. 没有受伤的
12.glance /ɡlæns/ v. 扫视
13.prompt /prɑːmpt/ adv. 迅速地

文章讲解

Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress. Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously unhurt. When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.


文章精讲：
1.Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed.

1）句型：be (sick and) tired of sth/doing sth 对某件事情很厌烦
例：I’m sick and tired of being ignored. 我已经受不了这样被忽视了。
例：I’m sick and tired of working here. 我已经受不了在这继续工作了。

2）sleep on the floor 谁在地板上
扩展：crash at someone’s place
表达：sleep 5个高频用法

1.Sleepy adj. 困的，想睡觉的；
2.Sleep on it 考虑；
3.Oversleep v.睡过头；
例：I overslept this morning because my alarm clock was broken.
4.I didn't sleep a wink last night. 我昨晚一夜没合眼；
5.Heavy/light sleeper 睡觉沉/轻

3）知识点：后置定语
结构：名词＋后置定语

1.名词＋非谓语动词（done/to do/doing）
2.名词 +短语（介词短语＋形容词性短语）
3.名词+定语从句

2.For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress.

1）搭配：for the first time in one’s life 某人第一次
例句：I kissed a girl for the first time in my life yesterday. 我昨天人生第一次亲了一个女生。
例句：For the first time in my life, I called 110 but I didn’t get through. 我人生第一次，打110，但是没打通。

2）搭配：be proud of 对…很自豪
例句：I’m very proud of you son. 儿子我们对你很自豪。

3）语法：定于从句
he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress.

3.Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up.

1）句型：sunny, warm, hot, mild, cool, chilly, cold, freezing, icy, frosty;
例句：it is …. (天气词)
表达：I’m hot. 我很性感。I’m sweating.我一直在出汗。

2）搭配：How was your sleep last night? Did you sleep well?

3）表达：on the third night
1.介词on
2.on the third night 中定冠词的使用。
3.blow-dry 吹干；blow-dryer；You’d better blow-dry your hair before you go to sleep. 你睡觉之前最好把头吹干？

4.A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground.

1）搭配：a gust of wind一阵大风

2）语法：wake up 叫醒
例句：I woke up at five and didn’t get up until 11 o’clock.

5.Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously unhurt. When he woke up, he was still on the mattress.

1）搭配：although 引导的让步状语从句，不能和but连用
扩展搭配：even though 即使＝ even if

2）语法：get up 起床，stay in bed 赖床

6.Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.

1）搭配：分词做状语 + 定语从句
Doing sth, 句子。

Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house

第一：glance的逻辑主语是the man
第二：the man 和glance 之间是主动发生的

可以拆分为两个句子：
第一个句子：The man glanced at the bits of wood and metal that lay around them.
第二个句子：The man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house.

延伸阅读

A new study revealed that almost one third of cancer deaths among Americans over 35 are due to smoking cigarettes.

分子：基数词
分母：序数词

1/3-——one third
1/5 --- one fifth
2/3--- two thirds
2/5---- two fifths

The rate is a lot higher in the South, perhaps due to their lax smoking laws.
Patricia Folan of the Center for Tobacco Control at Northwell Health said, “States with underfunded tobacco-control programs have the highest prevalence of smoking, as well as the highest proportion of cancer deaths attribute to cigarette smoking.”

The study found that cancer deaths affected men more than women.

一项新的研究显示，35岁以上的美国癌症死亡人数中近三分之一与吸烟有关。
南方的比率更高，可能与他们宽松的吸烟法有关。
烟草控制中心的帕特丽夏•科兰表示，烟草控制计划资金不足的州最盛行吸烟，以及最高的吸烟引起的癌症死亡比例。
研究发现，癌症死亡对男性的影响高于女性。