课文
如何写出优秀的解释说明类文章(exposition)
1、语言生动活泼，充满趣味性。
2、用词准确清晰，避免模棱两可。
3、抽象说明与具体例证相结合。
课文理解
1）Has it ever happened to you?
- 固定搭配：happen to do
2）Have you ever put your trousers in the washing machine and then remembered there was a large bank note in your back pocket?
3）When you rescued your trousers, did you find the note was whiter than white?
- 固定搭配：rescue from从...营救；名词形式：come / go to one’s rescue 去救某人
- 同义词pick up，常形容用船来救、salvage... from 常形容在财务的角度营救
4）People who live in Britain needn't despair when they make mistakes like this(and a lot of people do)!
- 语法：who充当主语引导定从，修饰和限定人people；when引导时间从句
- 固定搭配：despair of sb./sth.
- The teachers began to despair of him.
- With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope
5）Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team called Mutilated Ladies which deals with claims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog.
- 固定搭配：deal with处理; feed sb. on sth. / feed sth. to sb.
- 语法：which充当主语引导定从，修饰和限定物team；who充当主语引导定从，修饰和限定人people
6）Dogs, it seems, love to chew up money!
- 通过插入语突出主次，例如突出蜘蛛为什么，将原主语变成插入语弱化成分；例如突出经济发展对中国至关重要，弱化许多人相信
- You may wonder why spiders are our friends.
- (NCE4-2 P11-L1) Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends?
- Many of us believe that economic development is of paramount importance to China.
- Economic development, many of us believe, is of paramount importance to China.
7）A recent case concerns Jane Butlin whose fiancé, John, runs a successful furniture business.
- whose充当定语引导限定性定从，补充说明fiance
- John插入语，补充含义,或解释说明
8）John had a very good day and put his wallet containing￡3,000 into the microwave oven for safekeeping.
- 语法：and引导并列句，for引导目的状语
9）When they got home, Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven and without realizing it, cooked her fiancé's wallet as well.
- 语法：when引导时间状语，cooked一般过去式时态，强调发生在过去，包括过去的习惯性动作
10）Imagine their dismay when they found a beautifully-cooked wallet and notes turned to ash!
- imagine one’s … when … 想象一下一个人的……什么时候....
11）John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains of wallet and the money to the special department of the Bank of England in Newcastle: the Mutilated Ladies!
- 定语从句简洁，通过它来实现另外一个功能：接续性分句
12）'So long as there's something to identify, we will give people their money back,' said a spokeswoman for the Bank.
- So long as引导条件状语
- provided / providing (that) …
- on condition (that) …