新概念英语第二册 Lesson62（视频+音频+课文重点）

Lesson 62

After the fire
大火之后

First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
What was the danger to the villages after the fire?

Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control.
消防队员们同那场森林大火搏斗了将近3个星期才最后把火势控制住。

A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around.
就在不久之前，参天大树还覆盖着方圆数英里的土地。

Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills.
而现在，发热的地面上仍然升腾着烟雾，弥漫在荒凉的山丘上。

Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction,
冬季即将来临，这些山丘对周围的村庄具有毁灭性的威胁，

for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well.
因为大雨不仅会冲走土壤，而且还会引起严重的水灾。

When the fire had at last been put out,
在大火最后被扑灭后，

the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly.
森林管理当局订购了好几吨一种生长迅速的特殊类型的草籽。

The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes.
飞机把这种草籽大量地撒播在地上。

The planes had been planting seed for nearly a month when it began to rain.
飞机撒播近一个月后，开始下起雨来。

By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root.
然而到那时，很多地方的草已经生了根。

In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.

一片片的绿草开始出现在这片烧焦的土地上，代替了多少世纪以来一直生长在那里的参天大树。

 生字 

vocabulary

1 control [kən'trəul]n.控制

2 smoke [sməuk]n.烟

3 desolate['desəleit]a.荒凉的

4 threaten ['θretn] v.威胁

5 surrounding [sə'raundiŋ]a.周围的

6 destruction[di'strʌkʃən] n.破坏，毁灭

7 flood [flʌd]n.洪水，水灾

8 authority [ɔ:'θɔriti] n.(常用复数)当局

9 grass-seed['gra:s'si:d] n.草籽

10 spray[sprei] v.喷撒

11 quantity ['kwɔntəti]n.量

12 root[ru:t]n.根

13 century['sentʃəri]n.世纪

14 patch [pætʃ]n.小片

15 blacken['blækən]v.变黑，发暗

语法

grammar 

本课主要学习间接引语的用法。

在第一单元的第15课中侧重学习的是直接引语为陈述句时的用法，即用that来连接间接引语。

而在第二单元的第39课中侧重学习的是直接引语为疑问句时的用法，即：当直接引语为一般疑问句时，用if或whether来引导间接引语；当直接引语为特殊疑问句时，用特殊疑问句中的特殊疑问词来引导间接引语。

而在第三单元的本课里，则侧重学习的是当直接引语为祈使句时的用法，常见的有两种情况：

一、当主句动词为say时
此时如果要把直接引语改为间接引语时，一方面主句动词say一般要改为tell或ask（此时表“要求”），另一方面间接引语要用不定式to do（直接引语为肯定句）或not to do（直接引语为否定句）。比如：

直接引语：'Open the door for me please,' she said to me.

间接引语：She told / asked me to open the door for her.

再比如：

直接引语：'Don't make so much noise,' she said to the children.间接引语：She told / asked the children not to make so much noise.

二、当主句动词为insist、suggest等表建议、要求等的动词时
这种情况下，往往会因为这些动词本身常见的用法而把直接引语改为that引导的宾语从句（间接引语），而此时因为insist、suggest等表建议、要求等动词的用法要求，其后that从句中的动词一般要采用“should+do”的虚拟语气用法，且should可以省略。比如

直接引语：'Stay to lunch,' he insisted.

间接引语：He insisted that I should stay to lunch.

再比如：

直接引语：'Come with me,' he suggested.间接引语：He suggested that I should go with him.

【注意】

在上面的第二个例句中，come改为了go，这主要取决于对话的场景是否发生变化。