Unit 13
Lesson 49
1. What’s the population of Germany? = How large is the population of Germany?
2. Do you think it will increase?
3. 英语中基数词用法

Lesson 50
1. What can be done to slow down the population increase?
2. slow down (ant.) speed up
3. Standing room only.
4. During that time, the population of the world increased by 25%.
5. Multiply this by 365.
6. People say that by the year 2010, it may be seven billion.
7. However, during the next hour, over 15,540 more babies will be born on the earth.
8. So it goes on, hour after hour.
9. What will happen in a hundred years?
辨析: in, after 与later
10. The world’s population is growing faster and faster.
11. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the world’s population was about 1.700 million.
12. There will be hardly enough space for anybody else.

Lesson 51
1. Do you know that as people’s lives get better, more of them, will buy cars?
2. I don’t agree with you two.
agree with sb. agree to sth. agree on sth.
3. When their car becomes old, they prefer to buy a new one rather than repair it.
4. How much does a car cost in China?
辨析: cost, spend, take 与pay
5. I beg your pardon!
6. That’s worth more than two million yuan in China.
be worth + sth. be worth doing

Lesson 52
1. Then have a discussion about why your car is the best.
2. As he was busy searching the internet, he became interested in how different countries were.
3. He wanted to start with the smallest country and end with the largest country.
4. Help him make a better travel plan.

Unit 14
Lesson 53
1. Are you excited about going to Beijing?
2. Yeah, but I’ve got to go shopping first.
3. My leather tennis shoes are worn out.
4. I think I need a new pair of tennis shoes.
5. What size do you need?
6. I don’t have a 38 in this colour.
7. Would you like me to look in the back?
8. I don’t really like those.
9. You’d better try them on first.
10. Even though they’re a little expensive, I’ll take them.
11. think about, thin of, think over

Lesson 54
1. Why do people like to own a camera?
2. shopping online
3. This was a very special trip because they were traveling to Beijing.
4. As she lives out in the country, there is no place to buy a very good camera.
5. She had searched the internet for two hours when she found an ad for the Canon digital camera.
6. Then he found ads for other camera as well.
7. After ha had checked out all the information about different kinds of camera, he believed his daughter had made a good decision.
8. Miyoko clicked on the screen, and a form appeared for her to fill in her personal information.
9. Her father helped her fill in the form and typed in his credit card number.
10. A week later Miyoko received the camera she had ordered.
11. They were very excited to see many different places of interest there.
12. She enjoyed her visit to Beijing so much that she took a lot of photos with the new camera.

Lesson 55
1. Ed lent me an umbrella so that I wouldn’t get wet in the rain.
2. I went over what I had written again and again so that I wouldn’t make any mistakes.
3. so that… , so… that… , such…that

Lesson 56
1. Read her diary and put the picture in the right order.
2. We went to the hotel by taxi and dropped off our things.
3. While we were in a boat on Kunming Lake, we heard someone singing Beijing Opera on the bank.
4. The singing sounded very beautiful.
5. In the evening we walked to Tian’anmen Square because it was close to our hotel.
6. We had our pictures taken in the middle of the square.
7.Continue writing, Miyoko’s diary for April 3rd. 生词表:

standing [´stændiŋ]   n.持续 a.直立的   (初中英语单词)

multiply [´mʌltiplai]   v.增加；倍增；繁殖   (初中英语单词)

beginning [bi´giniŋ]   n.开始，开端；起源   (初中英语单词)

repair [ri´peə]   v.&n.修理，修补   (初中英语单词)

discussion [di´skʌʃən]   n.讨论；辩论   (初中英语单词)

expensive [ik´spensiv]   a.费钱的，昂贵的   (初中英语单词)

screen [skri:n]   n.银幕 vt.遮蔽   (初中英语单词)

writing [´raitiŋ]   n.书写；写作；书法   (初中英语单词)

tennis [´tenis]   n.网球(运动)   (高中英语单词)

umbrella [ʌm´brelə]   n.伞   (高中英语单词)