英语新概念2第40篇（新概念英语第二册知识点汇总及原创小作文96-5）

Lesson 5 No wrong numbers

1、message 和 information 都有信息的意思，区别如下：

message 是可数名词，也可以做动词，表示向……传递信息。

例句：There were two messages in my inbox.

information 是不可数名词，后面不能加s，一条信息要说 a piece of information.

例句：Tom refused to give her any information about Sara.

2、pick up and delivery service 上门取送业务

3、from Silbury 中的介词from 作“距……”, ‘离……’ 讲，常与away连用。

例句：It is far away from here.

4、up to now = up till now 到现在为止，多用于现在完成时

5、a great many 和a great number of 许多，用于可数名词

6、一般过去时，表示过去某一特定时间发生的事情或动作，句中常有表示过去某一时刻的短语。

例句：I wrote to him last month.

7、现在完成时，表示发生在过去但对现在仍有影响的一个动作，句中常有一些表示时间的词和短语。

例句：Up till now he has won five prizes.

8、几个带way的短语：

in the way 挡在……中间

例句：Please move this chair. It is in the way.

on the way 去……途中

例句：On the way to the station, I bought some chocolate.

in this way 用……方法

例句：He saves old envelopes. In this way, he has collected a great many stamps.

by the way 顺便说一下

例句：By the way, have you seen Harry recently?

in a way 在某种意义上

例句：In a way, it is an important book.

9、spare 作形容词和动词的意思不同，注意如下例句用的用法：

I can not spare the time. (动词，拿出（时间）)

I can not buy spare parts for this car. (形容词，备用的)

There is a spare room in this house. (形容词，空置的)

Caligula spared the slave’s life. (动词，饶恕)

10、按要求回答问题，组成不超过50个单词的段落。

Mr. Scott has opened his second garage in Pinhurst. Silbury is his first garage. Pinhurst is only five miles away from Silbury. Mr. Scott can not get a telephone for his new garage. He has bought twelve pigeons. They carry messages from one garage to the other in three minutes.

11、根据课文内容及知识点，试着自己写个小作文。

This text described that the owner of a garage opened another garage for himself. He could not get a telephone for the new garage. The distance between two garages is not so long that he bought twelve pigeons and began his own private ‘telephone’ service.

Once telephone is luxury goods for general families. People can not get a fixed telephone when they want, it is the privilege to officers.

Following the economic developed fixed telephone can be acquired by general families, but it is still very expensive in those days.

However it is different now, everybody has cell phone and more and more families needn’t fixed telephone any more.

The function of a cell phone is comprehensive, it is almost alternative of all daily necessaries. Including watch, alarm, calendar, camera etc. The same, a cell phone is the alternative of computer, we can edit articles and send and receive mails by cell phone.

Following the development of science and technology, our life are getting convenient more and more.