U1 Cultural relics reading
3. however, the next king of prussia, frederick william i, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it.
1) however/whatever:__________________________-
whatever是代詞，在句子中可以扮演名詞能夠充當的所有成分,例如主語,賓語等 eg. whatever he said that day is true. eg. he could give up whatever he had to please her.however是表轉折的連詞，只能用來連接兩個分句。
eg. they promised to tell him the address, however, in the end they cheated him again
2) belong to
4. this was a time when the two countries were at war.
be at war處于交戰狀態。
e.g. the two countries have been at war for many years. people there are suffering a lot.
聯想：介詞+名詞 (表狀態)
at war / work / home / table
on show / duty / sale / holiday / fire / watch
in trouble /danger / battle / doubt
under repair / discussion / construction
5. after that, what really happened to the amber room remains a mystery.
remain 1) vi. 留下,遺
2)后接n / adj / 介詞短語/表位置的adv
my friend became a boss, but i remained a teacher.
the death of the old man remained unknown.
the problem remains to be discussed.
nothing remains but to send the invitation out. (只要…就行了)
it only remains for me to sign the paper that you gave me. (某人所要做的只是某事)
he bought a new book with the __________(剩下的) 40 yuan.
=he bought a new book with the 40 yuan _________. (剩下的)
連接高考：
*---why do you look so upset?
---there are so many troublesome problems ___.
remaining to settle b. remained settled c. remaining to be settled d. remained to be settled.
6. there is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for konigsberg, which was at that time a german city on the baltic sea.
聯想：
there’s no doubt that… there’s no need to do / for sth / sb
there’s no possibility that… (it’s) no wonder (that)…難怪…
there’s no hope of doing sth
鏈接高考
1. —how about going camping with us this weekend?
—_____
a. is that right? b. i’d like to, but i have no time.
c. what are you planning ？ d. what’s for?
2. believe it or not, this old custom has a history of over 2,000 years, and it has _____ into the twenty-first century.
a. flowed b. survived c. spread d. followed