句型转换(每空不超过3个单词)

1．This incident has received great interest due to reports of strange lights in the sky and of alien visits around the time the boy disappeared.(教材P2)

→People have shown great_interest_to this incident due to reports of strange lights in the sky and of alien visits around the time the boy disappeared.

2．The aliens took me aboard the UFO so that they could do research on me.(教材P3)

→To_research_me，the aliens took me aboard the UFO.

3．Luckily，they returned me home without any injuries.(教材P3)

→It is_lucky/fortunate_that they returned me home without any injuries.

4．In 2007，an American TV team saw Yeti tracks 33 centimetres in length in the snow near Mount Qomolangma.(教材P18)

→In 2007，an American TV team saw the 33­centimetre­long_tracks left by the Yeti in the snow near Mount Qomolangma.

5．He believed that these creatures are linked to a common ancestor，an animal that lived in Asia some 300，000 years ago.(教材P18)

→He believed these_creatures_linked/related to a common ancestor，an animal that lived in Asia some 300，000 years ago.

search v. & n. 搜索，搜寻，搜查

【课本原句】 Police in America have stepped up their search for a fifteen­year­old boy who went missing three days ago in Dover，New Hampshire.(P2)美国警方已加强了他们对一个在新罕布什尔州的多佛市失踪三天的15岁男孩的搜索。

search sp.for sth/sb从某处寻找某物或某人

in search of/in one's search for 寻找

辨析 search/search for

search是在某地或某人身上搜寻；search for与look for意思相近，后面跟要寻找的东西。试比较：