【重點(diǎn)詞組或短語】

1. make sure 確信；確認(rèn)

3. beat against... 拍打……

5. fall asleep 進(jìn)入夢鄉(xiāng)；睡著

7. die down 逐漸變?nèi)酰恢饾u消失

9. wake up 醒來

11. in a mess 一團(tuán)糟

13. break... apart 使……分離

15. in times of difficulty 在困難的時(shí)候

17. at the time of 當(dāng)……時(shí)候

19. make one’s 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(xué)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(cuò)過公交車

8. pick up 接（電話）

10. bring... together 使……靠攏

12. in the area 在這個(gè)地區(qū)

14. miss the event 錯(cuò)過這個(gè)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(diǎn)句子】

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

當(dāng)開始下雨的時(shí)候，本正在幫他媽媽做晚飯。

2. —What was Jenny doing while Linda was

sleeping？

琳達(dá)在睡覺的時(shí)候，珍妮正在干什么？

—While Linda was sleeping， Jenny was

helping Mary with her homework.

琳達(dá)在睡覺的時(shí)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(shí)是午夜。

4. Ben’s 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(jī)能正常使用。

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

當(dāng)雨點(diǎn)開始重重地打在窗戶上時(shí)，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(diǎn)風(fēng)勢逐漸減弱的時(shí)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(dāng)紐約世貿(mào)大樓被恐怖分子襲擊的時(shí)候自己當(dāng)時(shí)正在做什么。