4.supply v.supply动词，意思为“供应，提供”，常用结构有:

　1)supply sth.to sb.或supply sb.with sth.，意思为“向某人提供/供应某物”。例如:

　The government supplied some textbooks to the village schools free.政府向乡村学校免费提供一些课本。

　The shop supplied milk to each house in bottles.商店供应各家各户瓶装牛奶。

　The factory supplied us with some parts of the car.

　2)supply也可用于名词，意思为“供应”。例如:The supply of electricity has been threatened by the flood.电力(正常)供应受到了洪水的威胁。

　The water supply here is good.

3.at least at least/at the least意思为“最少，至少”(=no less than)，其对应词是at most/at the most“最多，至多”(=no more than)。例如:

　He is at least fifty.

　I have at most 200 foreign stamps.What about you?

　It isn t expensive，It ll cost you 3yuan at most.

2.The building of a new car factory was agreed on last month...

　1)agree，动词，意思为“同意”，agree on表示“(就事情某一方面)大家达成一致意见”。例如:

　We agreed on the date for the meeting.

　They agreed on a price for the car.

　2)agree后面还可跟介词with，to。agree with表示“同意某人(的话、观点、想法、意见等)”，agree to表示“同意计划、建议等”。例如:

　I agree with you/what you said.

　He completely agreed with my views on politics.他完全同意我的政治观点。

　Do you think he will agree to our plan/suggestion?你认为他会同意我们的计划/建议吗?

　3)agree后面不可接名词，但可接动词不定式或that引导的从句作宾语。例如:I thought it was a good idea，but she didn t agree.

　We agreed to leave at once.

　We all agree that she is the best tennis player in the world.

1.a great many

　a great/good many意思为“许多”，用于肯定句中，后面接可数名词复数，相当于many，a large number of。注意:a great many后接可数名词复数，不加of。例如:

　I have a great many things to do.

　Xiao Ming has made a good many friends in England 如果a great many后接代词时，则须加上of。例如:A great many of them have seen the film.

4.Wear strong shoes as we shall do a lot of walking.请穿结实的鞋子，因为我们要走许多的路。

　wear的意思是“穿着”，“带着”，可用于穿衣服、穿鞋、戴 帽子、戴手套、佩带首饰等，强调穿着的状态。例如:Tom always wears black shoes.汤姆总穿黑鞋子。The girl wearing a red skirt is my sister.穿红裙子的女孩是我的妹妹。

　put on是“穿上”，“戴上”的意思，可用于穿衣服、穿鞋、戴帽等，着重于穿戴的动作。例如:

　Put on your coat before you go out.出去之前穿上大衣。

　He put on his hat and went out of the room.他戴上帽子然后走出了房间。

　dress可作及物动词和不及物动词，有“穿着”，“打扮”的意思。作“穿着”解时，只用于穿衣服，作及物动词时它的宾语是人，不是衣服，即dress sb.(给某人穿衣服)。例如:She always dresses well.她总是穿着讲究。

　Mary is dressing her child.玛丽在给她的孩子穿衣服。

　do walking的意思是“步行”，英语中有不少“do+动名词”结构，表示“做某事”，有较灵活的译法。例如:do washing(洗衣服)，do sewing(做针线活)，do reading(读书)，do shopˉping(采购)，do cooking(做饭)。

　Lessons 22 & 23

3.I say，let s go out for a drive.

　I say常用于口语中，置于句首，意思是“喂，我说”。例如:

　I say，Mary，what are you busy with?

　I say，let s go shopping，shall we?

2. How far have you been in it?这里in it指的是in the car，意思是“乘，坐”，表示交通方式，相当于by car。但要注意，在by car，by bike等短语中不用冠词或物主代词;而用其他介词时，要根据需要用适当的冠词或物主代词。又如:

　How far have you been on the bike?

　I went there in a car/in his car/by car.

1.How long have you had it?have在许多情况下可以替代一些短暂性动词和延续性的时间状语连用，因此它的译法较灵活。这儿had意思为“买”。例如:

　-How long have you had your new bicycle?

　-Only one year.

7.The population in and around San Francisco is now ten times more than it was in 1906.

　这里times意思是“倍，倍数”，通常“两倍”用twice，三倍或三倍以上用times。这里ten times表示是“(原数)的十倍”或“增加到十倍”。英语中表示倍数的句型有

　1)A...times+形容词/副词比较级+than B“A比B(大、高、长等)……倍”。例如

　My ruler is twice longer than his.我的尺子比他的长2倍。(即:我的尺子是他的3倍)

　The train runs at least six times faster than the boat.

　2)A...times as+形容词/副词原形+as B“A是B的……倍(大、高、长等)”。例如

　My ruler is three times as long as his.我的尺子是他的3倍长。(即:我的尺子比他的长2倍)

　The train runs at least seven times as fast as the boat.

　1 单项填空At the exciting news， I felt my heart fast.A. beat B. to beat C. beating D. beated

　[解析] 答案为C。本题考查feel sth. do/doing结构。在这一结构中，do表示“做过，做了”，动作已经结束，doing表示“正在做”，动作正在进行。

　2 单项填空After the new technique was introduced， the factory proˉduced tractors in 2003 as the year before.

　A. as twice many B. as many twice C. twice as many D. twice many as

　[解析] 答案为C。本题考查表倍数关系的句型。在这种结构中，表倍数关系的词放在最前面，然后再套用as...as，more than或the+名词+of句型。

　3 单项填空 houses and buildings were destroyed in the earthquake.

　A. Such many B. Too much C. A large number of D. The number of

　[解析] 答案为C。 A结构不对，该用So many;B只修饰不可数名词;D不合语境。

6.stay up stay up意思是“保持，持续(在高处)”，up是副词，意思为“向上”。本课中 stay up的意思是“(房子、建筑物经历过地震后仍然)站立着”。另外它还有“熬夜”的意思。例如

　The water level stayed up after twoˉday s rainstorm.两天暴雨之后，水位居高不下。

　He stayed up all night that day.那天他通宵未眠。