rare 为形容词，意为"少有的，罕见的，难得的，稀有的"。

rarely 为副词，意为"很少"，相当于hardly, 用在句首时，句子要部分倒装。

2．survive

【观察思考】

Is it enough to have survived for a long time?

文化遗产足够幸存很长时间吗？

1）Of the six people in the plane that crashed, only one survived.

在失事飞机上的六个人中，仅一个幸存。

2）In such dry weather the flowers will have to be watered if they are to survive.

这些花要想在这样干旱的天气里存活的话，必须得浇水。

3）Few buildings survived the earthquake.

地震过后幸存的建筑物寥寥无几。

4）The old lady has survived her husband.

那们老妇人的丈夫先她而去了。

5) "How are you?" "Oh, (I'm) surviving (= life is satisfactory, but not very good)."

您好吗? 奥, 还说得过去

6) Santos is survived by his wife of 49 years.

桑托斯的妻子比他多活了49年。

7) I can't survive on ￡30 a week

我每周收入30英镑难以活命.

【归纳拓展】

survive 用作不及物或及物动词，意思为"幸存，活下来；继续存在；设法对付（完成）"。

短语：没有某人活得长；仅靠......维持生计。

名词为survival。

3. amaze

【观察思考】

Frederick William I , the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history. 普鲁士国王腓特烈·威廉一世绝不可能想象到他送给俄罗斯人的厚礼会有这样一段令人吃惊的历史。

1) I'm amazed at your fluent English. Have you ever studied abroad?