It was an astonishing story.这故事令人惊讶不已。

　　We were astonished to hear that their football team had won the champion.

　　听说他们的足球队获得了冠军,这真叫人意想不到。

　　【要点归纳】

　　(1)astonish的现在分词astonishing表示"令人惊异的"；过去分词astonished表示"感到惊异的"。

　　(2)be astonished后面接to do 或at sth.表示造成"震惊"的原因。

　　【相关链接】

　　astonishment n.震惊；惊异

　　选译

　　(1)The news________us so much that all of us were________ at it.

　　A.astonished;astonished

　　B.astonishing;astonishing

　　C.astonished;astonishing

　　D.astonishing;astonished

　　解析:第一个空是谓语,意为"使我们非常震惊"；第二个空是形容词,意为"令人震惊的"。

　　答案:A

　　改错

　　(2)It is astonished to see him in the net bar.

　　答案:astonished改为astonishing

　　5.entertain vt.&vi.使欢乐；款待

　　【典型例句】

　　We were all entertained by his humourous stories.

　　他的幽默故事使我们大家都很开心。

　　They often entertained their friends at weekends.

　　他们常在周末招待朋友。

　　【相关链接】

　　(1)entertainer n.款待者；演艺者

　　(2)entertainment n.娱乐；款待

　　(3)entertaining adj.愉快的；有趣的　如:

　　The children staged an entertaining puppet show.

　　孩子们表演了一场十分有趣的木偶戏。

　　填空

　　用entertain的适当形式填空。

　　(1)A science fiction cannot be regarded as a mere________,but in fact it tells the reader much more.

　　(2)We were all________by her amusing words.

(3)The passenger is an ________ story teller.