【精品资料】高中英语 Module 1《Deep South-Language points》课件 外研版选修8.pptVIP

* 1. With annual rainfall close to zero, Antarctica is technically a desert. 南极洲年降雨量几乎为零，严格来说该区域就是一片荒漠。 with annual rainfall close to zero 为介词短语，表示原因，由介词＋名词＋形容词（词组）组成，也即“with +宾语＋形容词短语”构成的复合结构。例如： With so many students weak in their pronunciation, they started from the beginning. He sat there quietly with mouth half open, listening to the radio. He sat there with his eyes ________(fix) on the sky. fixed He sat there with his hand ________ (point) at me. pointing He went to the classroom with a lot of homework _____. to do 2. Covering about 14 million square kilometers around the South Pole, it is the fifth largest continent in the world. 南极洲覆盖了南极圈周围1,400万平方公里的面积，是世界第五大洲。 1) covering about…在句子中作状语。 2) the fifth largest continent in the world. 形容词最高级前面的修饰成分为序数词。 Is it the third longest river in the world? 形容词最高级前面还可有其他的成分。 It was by far the best university I have visited. It was of the very highest quality. 3. On average it is two kilometers thick, but in some places it reaches a depth of five kilometers. (南极洲)冰层平均厚度为2，000米，但某些地方厚度可以达到5，000米。 词组two kilometers thick，形容词thick 增加了修饰成分 two kilometers。例如： The rope is two meters long. The well is 12 meters deep. 但是注意下面情况： It is a 12-meter-long rope. The 12-meter-deep well is the deepest one in our village. 4. As a result, it has become a window on the past, and can give researchers lots of useful information. 因此，它已经变成人们了解过去的窗口，可为研究者提供大量有用的信息。 window 窗户，窗口 在此引申为“获得信息的渠道” 。 International news broadcasts provide a window on the world. 5. But the long Antarctic winter night, which lasts for 182 days (the longest period of continuous darkness on the earth ) as well as the extreme cold and lack of rainfall, means that few types of plants can survive there. 但是南极洲冬天的夜晚长达182天(地球上持续时间最长的黑暗时期), 气候极度寒冷降雨量极少,这意味着很少有植物能够在这里生存。 1) which lasts for 182 days… 这是一个非限制性定语从句。在非限制性定语从句中，which 有时并不代表一个名词，而是代表前面句子的全部或部分意思： He changed his mind, which made all of us angry. The students finished the work by themselves, which w