新概念英语第二册第4课:An exciting trip
Lesson 4 An exciting trip激动人心的旅行 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Why is Tim finding this trip exciting? I have just received a letter from my brother, Tim. He is in Australia. He has been there for six months. 我刚刚收到弟弟蒂姆的来信，他正在澳大利亚。他在那儿已经住了6个月了。 Tim is an engineer. He is working for a big firm and he has already visited a great number of different places in Australia. 蒂姆是个工程师，正在为一家大公司工作，并且已经去过澳 大利亚的不少地方 了。 He has just bought an Australian car and has gone to Alice Springs, a small town in the centre of Australia. 他刚买了一辆澳大利亚小汽车，现在去了澳大利亚中部的小镇艾利斯斯普林斯。 He will soon visit Darwin From there, he will fly to Perth. 他不久还将到达尔文去，从那里，他再飞往珀斯。 My brother has never been abroad before, so he is finding this trip very exciting. 我弟弟以前从未出过国，因 此，他觉得这次旅行非常激动人心。 New words and expressions 生词和短语 exciting adj. 令人兴奋的 receive v. 接受，收到 firm n. 商行，公司 different adj. 不同的 centre n. 中心 abroad adv. 在国外 Notes on the text课文注释 1 He has been there for six months.他在那儿已经住了6个月了。关于动词的现在完成时，可以参看第1册第83至87课。 2 a great number of ... 许多…… 用于修饰复数可数名词。 3 in the centre of... 在……中部 Lesson 4 自学导读First things first 课文详注 Further notes on the text 1．He is working for a big firm and he has already visited a great number of different places in Australia. （他）正在为一家大公司工作，并且已经去过澳大利亚的不少地方了。 （1） work for指“在……上班／任职”： Where do you work? 你在哪儿上班? I work for a shoe factory. 我在一家鞋厂上班。 表达“上班”这个意思时还可以说work at： She works at a department store. 她在一家百货商店上班。 （2）a number of只能接可数名词的复数形式。通常，number前有great, large, good, small, certain等形容词，数量大小也随之改变： A large/ great number of our students are Danish. 我们的学生中有许多是丹麦人。 There are a small number of spelling mistakes in your homework. 你的家庭作业里有少数几个拼写错误。 2．He will soon visit Darwin. 他不久还将到达尔文去。 will 表示将来要发生的事。这句话的时态是一般将来时。（cf. 第12课语法）下一句话From there, he will fly to Perth也是一般将来时。 3．My brother has never been abroad before, so he is finding this trip very exciting. 我弟弟以前从未出过国，因此，他觉得这次旅行非常激动人心。 （1）这句话由两个简单句组成，后一句由连词so引导，为表示结果的状语从句。 （2）find作“发现”、“发觉”讲时宾语往往带补足语（一般为形容词），说明宾语的状况、性质等： I find the film very interesting. 我觉得这电影很有趣。 She found Ton's room very dirty. 她发现汤姆的房间非常脏。 She has already found herself wrong. 她已经发现自己错了