1、冠词
本课侧重复习第6课、第30课和第54课出现的冠词的用法。冠词主要分为不定冠词、定冠词和零冠词三大类，其中关键是要掌握不定冠词在短语中的用法、定冠词与形容词连用表一类人或物的用法、以及一些固定短语中的零冠词的用法。如：in a word（简言之）、the poor（穷人）、in short（简言之）。
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2、keep的短语
本课的难点部分出现了有关keep与不同介词或副词的短语搭配用法。如：keep on、keep off、keep away from、keep up、keep up with、keep out、keep in等。
| After reading an article entitled 'Cigarette Smoking and Your health' I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. | 1）注意本句话中作者的冷幽默：作者明明刚看了篇有关吸烟有害健康的文章，却还马上点上一支烟抽，旨在平复平复刚才看到文章的害怕心情。 2）entitled...用作an article的定语，其完整形式为which was entitled...。entitle，以...为名。该词由动词前缀en-和title（头衔、名称）构成。 3）注意light的过去式和过去分词都是lit，表示“点燃”。 4）calm one's nerves，使...镇定。 |
| I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. | 1）with concentration，专心地。concentration源自动词concentrate，其常见用法为concentrate on，集中注意力于...。 2）with pleasure，愉快地、乐意地。 3）as引导的是原因状语从句。 4）be sure that...，对...很肯定。 |
| For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. | 1）for a whole week，整个星期。 2）not...at all，根本不。 3）suffer，遭受（困难或痛苦）。 4）注意跟学生解释为什么作者的妻子会遭受这么大的痛苦（下一句话做了解释）。 |
| I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. | 1）have symptoms of，有...症状。 2）giving up smoking用作先行词someone的定语，其完整原形为that gives up smoking。 3）smoking后的冒号起着解释说明的提示作用。 4）a bad temper，坏脾气。 5）an enormous appetite，大胃口。注意appetite表示“胃口”，常见的短语用法为：have an appetite for，爱好...。 |
| My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket. | 1）keep on，反复地做；继续进行。 2）offer sb. sth.，给某人某物。 3）make an effort to do sth.，努力做某事。 4）hide，隐藏、躲藏。 5）amusement，娱乐、消遣。 6）produce，拿出。相当于take out。 7）a packet of，一盒、一袋。 |
| After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable. | 1）注意作者没有用one week of this，而是用了seven days of this，主要是为了强调对于他来说，这7天是很不容易的。 2）everybody around，身边的每个人。 |
| When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. | 1）urge sb. to do sth.，怂恿某人做某事。 2）more than sb. could bear，再也忍不住了。 |
| The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. | 1）not yet，还没有。 2）how引导的是宾语从句，用作decide的宾语。 |
| I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction. | 1）注意本句话采用三个动词并列的排比结构，凸显了作者在此吸烟后的那种迫切心情和满足感。 2）guiltily，内疚地。源自名词guilt（负罪感），形容词为guilty。 3）with satisfaction，满意地。 |
| My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more. | 1）delighted，高兴的。 2）return to normal，恢复正常。 |
| Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times! | 1）anyway，无论如何、不管怎么说。 2）point out，指出。 3）注意it用作形式主语，其逻辑主语（真正的主语）是后面的不定式结构to give up smoking。 4）himself放在he后面，起到强调作用。 5）最后一句话的潜台词是作者的朋友Brian也尝试过很多次要戒烟，始终都没能成功，所以他开玩笑说戒烟是最容易的，因为他自己都做过多次了。 |
The writer read an article on smoking and decided to give up smoking. He did not smoke for a week and his wife suffered because of her husband's bad temper and large appetite. His friends always offered him cigarettes, because they were amused whenever he produced a packet of sweets from his pocket. However, at a party he accepted a cigarette from a friend. And since then everything has returned to normal.
可介绍吸烟的害处。
1、注意课文插图中，戒烟者的朋友被画成了狼的模样，这也就解释了课文中urge（怂恿）的的用法了，因为urge一般是指怂恿别人做不好的事情。要注意与encourage（正面鼓励、鼓舞）的区别。
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