Unit 17 My teacher
一、教学目标与要求
通过本单元教学，学生应能熟练地运用表示“请求允许”的常用语；复习表语、
连系动词的用法；了解海伦·凯勒自强自立和她的老师的敬业的精神。
二、教学重点与难点
1．重点词汇
born, bring…into touch with, look back, get back, pity
2．重点句型
1) A born teacher, she thought she could turn a deaf-blind person into
a useful human being.
2) What a difficult case I must have been to this young teacher！
3) One of the first things Annie did was to teach me how to play.
4) It took great imagination as well as patience for Annie to teach me
to speak．
3．语法 表语 连系动词的用法
1) Fish goes bad easily in Summer.
2) The news sounds exciting.
3) The shop stays open until 10 p．m.．
4) The tree grows taller day by day.
5) The theory proved true.
4.日常交际用语
1) May/Can/Could I…? 2) I wonder if I could…？ 3) Do you mind if I?
4) Sure．5) Go ahea D．6) I'm sorry, but…
三、难点讲解
She also brought me into touch with everything that could be felt
soil, wood, silk．
1．touch用作名词
A．bring…into touch with使触摸……，使接触、认识……。例如：
This brought us into touch with many French students．这使我们接触了
许多法国学生。
B．keep in touch with与……保持联系。例如：
I still keep in touch with my old friends．我依然和老朋友保持联系。
C．get in/into touch with与……建立联系。例如：
I'll get in touch with her by phone.我通过电话与她联系。
D．be in touch with与……有接触。例如：
Are you in touch with him now?你现在和他还有联系吗？
E．be out of touch with与……没有联系。例如：
He is now out of touch with his old friends.他现在已没有和他过去的朋
友联系了。
2．touch用作名词，表示“触、”“碰”、“摸”。例如：
1) Don't touch that paint; it's wet.油漆未干，请勿触摸。
2) I felt someone touch my shoulder.我感觉有人碰了我的肩膀。
四、复习与检测
Ⅰ．选择填空。
1．What the young man said just now sounds strange, ______ it is
true．
A．And
B．while
C．Unless
D．but
2．Is this little shed ______the famous actor was born?
A．the one
B．where
C．That
D．the one where
3．Not a single word ______ since she heard the bad news．
A．does she say
B．has she said
C．she has said
D．did she say
4．I got impatient waiting for my new novel to ______.
A．work out B．get out C．come out D．set out
5．She is looking forward as much to his return as he himself to
______ her．
A．have seen B．Seeing C．See
D．be seen
6．One of the best ways to forget your own worries is to start
thinking about the trouble of ______.
A．Others
B．the other C．Other
D．another
7．I must leave．I ______ having tea with you．
A．Enjoy B．Enjoyed C．am enjoying D．was enjoying
8．----Did you telephone the manager's office?
----Yes, he ______ back before 9 O'clock this morning．
A．Expects B．Expected C．is expected D．was expected
9．I don't know what decision ______ at the conference, as Mike
hasn't reported to me yet．
A．is made B．was made C．has made D．had made
10．----The ceremony has already started.
----Look! The flag
A．Raises
B．is raising C．is raised D．is being raised
11．----I'd like to buy an expensive camera ______.
----Well, we have several models
A．to pick at B．to pick up C．to choose D．to choose from
12．The court hears about 120 cases a year, visitors are welcome to
see a case ______.
A．argued
B．to be argued
C．to be arguing
D．being argued
13．The policeman caught a thief ______ some money from a woman's
handbag．
A．steal
B．stole
C．stealing
D．to steal
14．Attempting to reach his home before the storm, ______．
A．John's bike broke down
B．the storm caught John
C．John had an accident on his bike
D．it happened that John's bike broke down
15．Power stations employ ______ water to produce electricity．
A．falling
B．fallen
C．to fall
D．fell
Ⅱ.完形填空
Once a man named Grant found a box of old papers in a room at the
top of his house．He 16 most of them, 17 he did not like old things
very much．But one of these papers was an old 18 ．At the bottom of
the letter was the 19 of a well-known writer．“When this letter was
written,” said Grant, “ 20 knew about the writer．But 21 everyone
knows him．Some people like to 22 letters like this．I may be able to
get much 23 for the letter if I sell it to the right man.”
“But there were a lot of dirty 24 all over the letter.”
“It doesn't look 25,” he thought．“No one wants to buy a letter if
it's 26．I'll have to clean it first.”
So he 27 a piece of cloth and some water and 28 the letter．He
worked hard and 29 a lot of care．At last the letter looked 30, and
he was very 31 with his work．
“Now it looks very nice,” he said to himself．“I'll be able
to 32 it for a lot of money.”
He took the letter to a 33 in London where old papers of this kind
were 34 and sold.
“I want to sell this letter,”Grant said to the man in the shop．“It
was written by a well known writer．You 35 about these things．How
much will you give me for it?”
The man looked at 36 for a long time.
“I'll give you 37 pounds for it,” he said at last．
“Only two pounds!” said Grant．“But people 38 a lot of pounds for a
letter like this．And just look! I've 39 cleaned it to make it look nice.”
“I can see that,” said the man．“That's 40．People who buy old papers like
them to be dirty!”
16．A．fired
17．A．and
18．A．letter
19．A．note
20．A．not one
21．A．then
22．A．buy
23．A．pounds
24．A．places
25．A．nice
26．A．clean
27．A．brought
28．A．cleaned
29．A．took
30．A．new
31．A．surprised
32．A．send
33．A．shop
34．A．brought
35．A．know
36．A．Grant
37．A．two
38．A．pay
39．A．still
40．A．good
B．produced
B．but
B．book
B．name
B．no one
B．now
B．sell
B．dollars
B．marks
B．bad
B．dirty
B．carried
B．washed
B．used
B．newer
B．pleased
B．buy
B．school
B．bought
B．talk
B．The letter
B．twenty
B．took
B．even
B．a thing
C．burned
C．because
C．paper
C．picture
C．none
C．later
C．see
C．francs
C．words
C．ill
C．good
C．took
C．swept
C．gave
C．well
C．sad
C．pay
C．factory
C．needed
C．sell
C．him
C．five
C．gave
C．just
C．why
D．destroyed
D．for
D．magazine
D．address
D．somebody
D．immediately
D．read
D．money
D．sentences
D．terrible
D．well
D．bought
D．brushed
D．spent
D．better
D．disappointed
D．sell
D．office
D．wanted
D．buy
D．me
D．three
D．hand
D．nearly
D．the trouble
Ⅲ．阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
A new hot line aimed at helping aging women will open on Monday by the
Maple Women't Psychological Counseling Centre (心理咨询中心) in
Beijing．
By dialing 010 ---- 64073800, people can get free consulting (咨询 )
service on such problems as health-care, marriage, family, social
welfare and psychological pressure．
The hot line, which will be open from 9 a．m．to 12 a．m., Monday to
Saturday, is aimed at protecting legitimate (合法的) rights and
interests of elderly women and helping them deal with the problems
that most worry them, said Wang Xingjuan, director of the centre.
Hot line advisers are volunteers (志愿者), mostly married women with
rich experiences in life, many with above college education and
special knowledge in psychology, marriage and family．
“The hot line hopes to meet the needs of aging women who suffer from
various problems．By setting up the hot line, we hope people can
pay more attention to the problems that affect their lives,” said
Wang．
She said the problems facing China's aging women have become
increasingly serious over the past years．
China's aging women enjoy an average life expectancy of 73, five
years longer than that of men, but many elderly women suffer from poor
health and loneliness．
China in the next century will have an elderly population of 120
million．More than half will be women.
41．if you ______ a number, you move the circle or press the buttons
on the front of a telephone in order to phone somebody.
A．Count
B．say
C．add to
D．dial
42．Hot line advisers are made up of ______.
A．married women
B．those women with high college education
C．those women with good qualities who work for the centre, for
which they are not paid
D．women who have special knowledge
43．If an elderly woman ______, she can ask the centre for help．
A．lives in the country
B．has two grandchildren
C．has a cruel husband
D．lives with her son
44．The underlined word “their” refers to ______.
A．people
B．elderly women
C．advisers
D．women at any age
45．The purpose of setting up the hot line is to ______.
A．tell people China will soon become a country with an elderly
population.
B．there will be more women than men in China in the next century
C．set a good example for the public
D．draw people's attention to helping aging women
Ⅳ．短文改错。
Jim arrived in home and discovered that he
46．______
has forgot his door key．He rang the bell, but nobody
47．______
came to open the door．He rang again and waiting,
48．______
but still there was not reply．He walked round the
49．______
house to see if he could find open window, but
50．______
they were all locked．It was beginning to rain, he
51．______
did not know how to do．Kate, his wife, had obviously
52．______
gone out．He didn't know where she had gone to or
53．______
when she'd return．Finally, he picked up a stone and
54．______
threw them at the kitchen window, Just then, his wife came
back.
55．______