人教新课标高中英语必修一Unit4 Earthquake课文重点知识分析讲解
1. Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei.
(1)sth. happen to. sb.某事发生在某人身上
Did you hear what happened _________ David last night?
(2)happen to do sth.碰巧做某事
I happened ______________(see)  Peter on the way to the bookstore yesterday.
  (3)It (so) happened that…碰巧......
It so happened that I saw Peter on the way to the bookstore yesterday.
countryside 高考链接（2015课标）
1）Now I am living in a city but I miss my home in countryside. (改错)
2. For three days the water in the village rose and fell, rose and fell.
  积累：rise—rose—risen            fall—fell—fallen
rise(vi.) “升起，升高”，其后不能接宾语，不能用于被动语态。
eg:  1.The sun rose at seven o'clock. 太阳七点种升起。
rise(vi.) （河水，物价等）上涨；提高；起身
eg: 1.The river is_______________(rise)  after the rain. 雨后河水涨了。
    2.Prices have _________(rise) steadily during the past decade. 过去十年间物价一直在平稳地上涨。
区分：  raise(vt.) 抬起，举起
eg:  1.He raised his arms above his head. 他把手臂举过头顶。
      raise(vt.) 提高；提出；增加
        With his head___________(抬头)， he listened attentively.
      raise(vt.) 抚养；饲养
eg: 1.She raised a lot of chickens. 她养了许多鸡。
raise(vt ) 筹集， 募捐  raise/ collect money  筹钱
3. In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to eat.
结构一般表示否定含义,意为"太...以致于不能"  eg: He is too old to work.
高中英语课文但在下列情况下却表示肯定含义:
⑴ “never / not too …to”这一结构意思是“不太……所以能……”。双重否定表示肯定意义。
  One is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
  It is never too late to mend.  亡羊补牢，犹为未晚。
(2)当too 修饰 happy, surprised, glad 等情感动词时“too…to…”结构不再表示否定意义，而是表示肯定意义。too相当于very，意思是“非常；十分”。例如：
  I am only too glad to become a member of you. 我非常高兴成为你们中的一员。
  We are but too eager to receive your invitation. 我们极渴望接到你们的邀请。
(3)与cannot连用时.不再表示否定意义，而是表示肯定意义，意思是“越……越好；无论……也/都不过分”。例如：
  You cannot be too careful to cross the street. 你过街时越小心越好。
eg: You cannot be too careful(=You can never be careful enough) to do your homework.
翻译：“In the 1960s we were all a little wild and couldn’t get away from home far enough fast enough to prove we could do it on our own,” says Christine Crosby, publisher of Grate magazine for grandparents.（2016高考）
你做作业越仔细越好(=无论怎样仔细也不过分).
常考题型： 1. The question is too difficult that I can’t work it out. (改错)
          2. The boy is so young to lift so big a stone.
4. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide.
  1) run out of the fields    跑出田野      2）looking for… 在句子中做_______________
常考题型：
1. The boy jumped out bed and pulled on his coat.
2. My teacher entered the classroom, ___________ (hold) many books under his arm.
5. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst.
在市内,有些建筑物里的水管爆裂开来。
burst(v.) （使）爆炸；胀破，爆破
eg:  1.Water-pipes often _____________(爆裂) in cold weather. 水管在寒冷的天气里经常冻裂。
拓展：
（1）burst into sth. 突然或猛烈地发出或产生出某事物
eg:  burst into tears/laughter 突然哭起来/笑起来
        burst into anger 勃然大怒
（2）burst out (+ doing) 突然开始做某事
eg: burst out crying/laughing/singing 突然哭起来/笑起来/唱起来
6. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.
  1）think little of    不放在心上；看扁，轻视
    eg:  1.Most people thought little of the 8-year-old boy. In fact, they were wrong.
        大多数人小看了这个8岁的男孩。事实上，他们错了。
拓展：think well / highly of 高度评价/赞扬
      think poorly / badly of 认为......很差；对......评价很低
另外：think of ... as ... 把...... 认为是......
      eg: I thought of him as my best friend. However, he treated me as an enemy.
  2）that night  那天晚上 前面无介词，无冠词。同类用法： this morning,  last week, next week等
常考题型：eg:  He went to work earlier in this morning. (改错)
7. It seemed as if the world was at an end. 世界似乎到了末日。
1）at an end 结束，终结 = finished，为固定短语，在句中常作表语。
eg: The war was _______________________. 战争结束了。
辨析：(熟读例句，理解用法)
at the end (of) 在......的尽头；在......的结束，可表时间或空间。
eg:  1.At the end of the street, you'll find a supermarket. 在大街的尽头，你会看见一家超市。
in the end 最后，终于 = at last，不能和of连用。
eg: He tried many times, and in the end he succeeded.他多次努力，最后终于成功了。
by the end of 到......末为止，到......结束时，通常和完成时连用。
eg:  1.How many words had you learned by the end of last term?
      到上学期末为止，你们已学习多少个单词了？
    2.We'll have finished the work by the end of this month.到本月底我们将完成这项工作。
It seemed + that从句是一个句型，表示“看起来好象”。
  eg: It seemed that he didn't notice this. 看起来他好象没注意这件事。
  It seemed 后还常跟as if从句。如果与事实相反，则用虚拟语气；如果与事实一致，则保持正常时态。
  eg:  1.There is a lot of cloud. It seems as if it's going to rain.