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　　（1）would rather...than...是一惯用句式，表示"宁可（愿）......（而）不要（愿）......

　　（2）would rather＋从句时，从句要用虚拟语气，用动词的过去时表示，如：

　　I would rather you didn't go to Tom's party tomorrow evening.

　　考点例题：

　　---Would you mind my smoking? ---I would rather _____.

　　A. you don't B. you didn't

　　He _____________________（rather） walk home _____________ take a bus.

四. 其它短语：

　1. lead a ...life过着......的生活

　　If the operation succeeds, the patient will be able to lead a normal life.

　2. supply...to 提供......给......

　　The media supplies a lot of information to us every day.

　　拓展：

　　supply sth. to sb. = supply sb. with sth. = sth. be supplied to do

　　the water supply供水

　　in short supply供应不足

　3. be satisfied with对......表示满足或满意=be content with

　　You've done well at school. I am really satisfied with you.

　4. refer to指的是提到，查阅

　　When I said some people are stupid, I wasn't referring to you.

　　I don't know the word. I have to refer to a dictionary.

　5. bump into （=knock into）碰撞；偶然碰到

　　He bumped/knocked into his teacher in the street yesterday.

　6. pick up捡起，（用车）接某人，学会（语言），接收（节目），（无意）获得

　　She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.

　7. deal with 与do with处理；对待

　　________ can they deal with waste water in this way?

　　_________ should do with the problem?

五. 重点句型：

　1. Wishing for things, however, cost nothing.然而，愿望是不花本钱的。

　　wishing for things为动词的-ing形式做主语.动词的-ing形式由动词原形＋ing构成，如：

　　Collecting information is very important to businessmen.

　　Learning a foreign language is very useful to me.

　　to do 也可以作主语，但是表示一个具体的特定的动作，而doing更强调一个抽象的平常的动作。

　　________________________ basketball is very popular with boys in our school.

　　________________________ basketball is what I want to do this afternoon.

　2. Using his hybrid rice framers are producing harvests twice as large as before.用他的杂交水稻种子，农民种出比以前多一倍的粮食。

　　倍数表达法：

（1）A＋be＋倍数＋as＋adj.＋as＋B