新目标英语八年级(下)Unit 5知识要点归纳

【重点词组或短语】

1. make sure 确信；确认

3. beat against... 拍打……

5. fall asleep 进入梦乡；睡着

7. die down 逐渐变弱；逐渐消失

9. wake up 醒来

11. in a mess 一团糟

13. break... apart 使……分离

15. in times of difficulty 在困难的时候

17. at the time of 当……时候

19. make one’s way to在某人去……的路上

21. important events重大事件

23. for example 例如

25. be killed 被杀害

27. a school pupil 一名小学生

29. in silence 沉默；无声

2. go off （闹钟）发出响声

4. take a hot shower 洗热水澡

6. miss the bus 错过公交车

8. pick up 接（电话）

10. bring... together 使……靠拢

12. in the area 在这个地区

14. miss the event 错过这个事件

16. by the side of the road 在路边

18. walk by 走路经过

20. more recently 最近；新近

22. the World Trade Center 世贸中心

24. take down 拆除；摧毁

26. have meaning to 对……有意义

28. remember doing sth. 记得做过某事

30. at first 首先；最初

【重难点句子】

1. When it began to rain， Ben was helping his mom make dinner.

当开始下雨的时候，本正在帮他妈妈做晚饭。

2. ―What was Jenny doing while Linda was

sleeping？

琳达在睡觉的时候，珍妮正在干什么？

―While Linda was sleeping， Jenny was

helping Mary with her homework.

琳达在睡觉的时候，珍妮正在帮玛丽

做作业。

3. With no light outside， it felt like midnight. 外面没有一丝光亮，让人感觉这时是午夜。

4. Ben’s dad was putting pieces of wood over the windows while his mom was making sure the flashlights and radio were working.

本的爸爸正在把木头块搭在窗户上面，而他的妈妈正在确保手电筒和收音机能正常使用。

5. Ben was helping his mom make dinner when the rain began to beat heavily against the windows.

当雨点开始重重地打在窗户上时，本正在帮他妈妈做晚饭。

6. He finally fell asleep when the wind was dying down at around 3：00 a.m.

大约凌晨三点风势逐渐减弱的时候，本终于睡着了。

7. More recently， most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists.

最近，大部分美国人还记得当纽约世贸大楼被袭击的时候自己当时正在做什么。