Our Body and Healthy Habits

prefer doing a to doing b＝prefer to do a rather than do b＝would rather do a than do b 寧愿做a而不愿意做b
【歸納總結】
①we would rather listen to some fairly quiet and peaceful music.
我們寧愿聽點兒稍微恬靜柔和的音樂。
②i would rather not go out ，if you don’t mind.
如果你不介意的話，今晚我不想外出了。
③i would rather walk than take a bus.
我寧愿走路也不愿坐公共汽車。
【例句探源】
④she would rather have met him when she was young.
她真希望在年輕時就遇到他。
⑤i would rather not have lent her my car.
我真希望自己當初沒有把車借給她。
⑥we would rather you came tomorrow.
我們寧愿你明天來。
⑦i’d rather he hadn’t done it.
我真希望他沒干過那件事。
【即境活用】
7.(XX年高考江蘇卷)george is going to talk about the geography of his country，but i’d rather he________more on its culture.
a.focus　　　　　　　　   b.focused
c.would focus     d.had focused
解析：選b。句意：喬治打算談論本國的地理，但是我寧愿他把話題多集中于文化上。本題考查虛擬語氣。would rather后加從句，如果表示過去的動作應用過去完成時態，如果表示現在或將來的動作則用過去時態。根據句意可知答案為b項。
★8.—will you join us in the game?
—thank you，________.
a.but why not    b.but i’d rather not
c.and i won’t    d.and i’ll join
解析：選b。本題考查情景交際。若同意參加，直接用thank you就可以了；若不想參加，常用but來解釋原因，因此選擇b項。
⑥ begin with　以……開始
(回歸課本p9) begin with some information about yourself.
以你自己的一些情況開始。
【歸納總結】
①the english alphabet begins with ‘a’ and ends with ‘z’.
英文字母表從a開始，以z結束。
②to begin with，it is important to create a positive attitude.
首先，要有一個積極的態度，這點很重要。
【例句探源】
【即境活用】
9.完成句子
(1)i can’t come.____________， i don’t feel well.besides，i don’t have much money.
我不能來。首先是因為身體不舒服，其次我也沒有太多錢。
答案：to begin with
(2)the teacher ____________a joke.
老師上課前先講了個笑話。
答案：began his lesson with
句型梳理
① 【教材原句】　but that’s because i was stupid enough to play football in the rain.(p3)
但那是因為我太傻了，竟然在雨中踢足球。
【句法分析】this/that/it is because...為表語從句的常用句型結構。表示“這/那是因為……”的意思。
that’s why...那是……的原因
that’s how...那是如何……
that is when...那是……的時候
that is where...那是……的地方
①that’s how he made a living when he stayed in london.
那就是他在倫敦逗留期間如何謀生的。
②that was because world war ⅱ broke out.
那是因為二戰爆發了。
③that’s why we see the colours spread out like a rainbow.