一、单词自测

二、词组自测

三、句型及考点

1）  For some, medicine can help keep them alive, but the treatment is expensive and does not cure them.

[ alive 形容词，在句中常作表语、宾语补足语、后置定语]

2）  Dr. Richards told me that the test results showed that I was suffering from a serious disease.

[suffer vt 遭受、蒙受、后接“痛苦、寒冷、疾病、损失”等。作不及物动词，常跟介词from短语]

3）  That is the best way to show that you care and that we don’t have to feel lonely.

[ lonely 作形容词，意思为“孤独的，寂寞的，荒凉的，偏僻的”。alone 作形容词，意为“独自的，单独的，在句中作表语或后置定语。另外，alone还可作副词，表示独自地。]

4)     The disease is not the only thing that AIDS patients suffer from. They also have to deal with people’s fear of the disease. [ deal with相处，对待，论述，涉及，处理, 常和how搭配。do with 常和what搭配。deal in sth 买卖某物。 It’s a deal 一言为定]

5)     Every day is a new opportunity, and I have learnt to appreciate every minute of each day. [appreciate  vt. 欣赏、鉴赏、后面跟名词、代词、动名词作宾语。另外还有“感激，重视”之意。]

6)     I wish people would find out the facts and not act as if I were a bad or dangerous person. [注意虚拟语气的应用。as if 后可跟虚拟语气，还可跟动名词和不定式等]

7)     Many hospitals recommend that we use the letters DR ABC to remember what to do when we have to think fast. [recommend vt 推荐，介绍。常用搭配“recommend sb sth 或recommend sth to sb。还可作 “劝告，建议”解，常用搭配：recommend sb. to dos th 或recommend that 从句（用虚拟语气）]

8)     Why do you think so? [so可用来代替think, believe, hope, expect, imagine, guess, suppose 等动词后的从句。so可放在句首也可放在句末。

9)     20％ of the people on earth do not have access to clean drinking water. [access 主要作不可数名词，意思为“(向场所等的)接近，进入；接近/利用……的权利/机会”。作“通道”解，常与介词to连用。]

10)  Air pollution alone causes almost three million deaths. [alone 此处作副词，放在名词或代词之后，意思是“只有，仅仅”相当于only.]

11)  do whatever they can do do sth. =try one’s best to dos th.=do all/what/as much as they can to do sth.