【重點詞組或短語】

1. make sure 確信；確認

3. beat against... 拍打……

5. fall asleep 進入夢鄉(xiāng)；睡著

7. die down 逐漸變?nèi)?；逐漸消失

9. wake up 醒來

11. in a mess 一團糟

13. break... apart 使……分離

15. in times of difficulty 在困難的時候

17. at the time of 當……時候

19. make ones way to在某人去……的路上

21. important events重大事件

23. for example 例如

25. be killed 被殺害

27. a school pupil 一名小學生

29. in silence 沉默；無聲

2. go off （鬧鐘）發(fā)出響聲

4. take a hot shower 洗熱水澡

6. miss the bus 錯過公交車

8. pick up 接（電話）

10. bring... together 使……靠攏

12. in the area 在這個地區(qū)

14. miss the event 錯過這個事件

16. by the side of the road 在路邊

18. walk by 走路經(jīng)過

20. more recently 最近；新近

22. the World Trade Center 世貿(mào)中心

24. take down 拆除；摧毀

26. have meaning to 對……有意義

28. remember doing sth. 記得做過某事

30. at first 首先；最初

【重難點句子】

1. When it began to rain， Ben was helping his mom make dinner.

當開始下雨的時候，本正在幫他媽媽做晚飯。

2. —What was Jenny doing while Linda was

sleeping？

琳達在睡覺的時候，珍妮正在干什么？

—While Linda was sleeping， Jenny was

helping Mary with her homework.

琳達在睡覺的時候，珍妮正在幫瑪麗

做作業(yè)。

3. With no light outside， it felt like midnight. 外面沒有一絲光亮，讓人感覺這時是午夜。

4. Bens dad was putting pieces of wood over the windows while his mom was making sure the flashlights and radio were working.

本的爸爸正在把木頭塊搭在窗戶上面，而他的媽媽正在確保手電筒和收音機能正常使用。

5. Ben was helping his mom make dinner when the rain began to beat heavily against the windows.

當雨點開始重重地打在窗戶上的時候，本正在幫他媽媽做晚飯。

6. He finally fell asleep when the wind was dying down at around 3：00 a.m.

大約凌晨三點風勢逐漸減弱的時候，本終于睡著了。

7. More recently ， most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists.

最近，大部分美國人還記得當紐約世貿(mào)大樓被恐怖分子襲擊的時候自己當時正在做什么。endprint