The expensive shops in a famous arcade near Piccadilly were just opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr Taylor, the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new window display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since 8 o'clock and had only just finished. Diamond necklaces and rings had been beautifully arranged on a background of black velvet. After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr Taylor went back into his shop.

The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade. It came to a stop outside the jeweler's. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stockings over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on, Mr Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving, Mr Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases, but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.

二、【New words and expressions】生词和短语

◆smash-and-grab n. 砸橱窗抢劫新东方新概念英语

◆arcade n. 有拱廊的街道(两旁常设商店)

◆Piccadilly n. 皮卡迪利大街

◆jewellery n. 珠宝(总称)

◆necklace n. 项链

◆ring n. 戒指

◆background n. 背景

◆velet n. 天鹅绒，丝绒

◆headlight n. (汽车等)前灯

◆blare v. 发嘟嘟声，吼叫

◆staff n. 全体工作人员

◆raid n. 偷袭

◆scramble v. 爬行

◆fantastic adj. 非常大的

◆ashtray n. 烟灰缸

★smash-and-grab n. 砸橱窗抢劫

smash vt. break sth. into pieces violently

vi. The dishes smashed on the floor.

smash into: 撞击到某处

Eg: The bus smashed into a big tree.

grab: seize suddenly

catch: get hold of sth. / sbb. moving

snatch: catch sth. / sb. suddenly and violently

seize: 强调抓住、抓到的结果 Fear seized her.

grasp: 强调掌握

hold： 强调抓牢、抓紧 He is holding an umbrella.

★arcade n. 有拱廊的街道(两旁常设商店)

★Piccadilly n. 皮卡迪利大街

★jewellery n. 珠宝(总称)

★necklace n. 项链

★ring n. 戒指

★background n. 背景

on the background of sth. 以什么为背景

background information

a man of excellent background

★velet n. 天鹅绒，丝绒

★headlight n. (汽车等)前灯

★blare v. 发嘟嘟声，吼叫

★staff n. 全体工作人员

★raid n. 偷袭

★scramble v. 爬行

scramble vi. creep quickly

climb vt. 爬上

mount: 登上

★★★fantastic adj. 非常大的

fantastic: very great / large a fantastics of money

strange

wonderful

★ashtray n. 烟灰缸

三、【课文精析】

in a famous arcade near Piccadilly介词短语修饰shops

Eg: The shoe shop in myneighbourhood was just opening.

Eg: Beijing, our capital, is eveloping enormously (at fantastic speed ).

Key sentence:

‘After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr Taylor went back into his shop.’

运用ing形式结构，其逻辑主语要和主句的主语保持一致

本课的重点句式：with 的复合结构

如果宾语和宾语补足语在逻辑上有主谓关系，应该采用动词的ing形式：

如果是动宾关系，应该采用过去分词形式作宾补

如果表达某事将要展开发生，要用动词不定式to

She sat staring into the distance with tears streaming down her cheeks.

She stood ther with her hands resting on her hips.

He ran into the room with his face covered with tears.

With his homework finished, he felt happy.

He used to sleep with all the windows open.

He went out with his hat on.

With the meeting over, we went home.

He came in with a knife in his hand.

Two others with black stockings over their faces jumped out.

With a lot of work to do, he can’t go to the cinama.

总结：

with 用于句首或句尾，常表示状语、行为方式、原因、伴随状况等;如果跟在名词之后，是用来修饰限定该名词

a thief with atocking over his face

a teacher with a book under his arm

a room with the windows open

come to 后面常接名词，表示达到

come to a stop, come to an end, come to a decision, come to an agreement, come to an understanding, come to success, come to fame

停车 stop, draw up, pull up

at the barbar’s, at the butcher’s, at the baker’s, at the greengrocer’s. at the grocer’s, at the stationer’s, at the tobacconist’s, at the chemist’s

help oneself to:自便

help yourselt to dish

My roommate helped herself to my clothes without asking me.

at a fantastic speed / at a tremendous speed / at a high(full) speed / with great speed

hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewel数十万美元的珠宝

Word building

前缀构词法

如何运用常见的前缀

dis-

agreeable disagreeable content discontent

graceful dis graceful honest dis honest

satisfactory dissatisfactory

dis还可以加在名词前

agreement disagreement

honesty dishonesty

ability disability

grace disgrace

comfort discomfort

dis可以加在动词前

agree dis agree

appear disappear

believe disbelieve

dis-还可表示除去、解除， 在名词前加dis-得到动词形式

courage discourage

root disroot

mask dismask

burden disburden

il-加在以l开头的形容词之前

legal illegal logical illbogical

literate illiterate

im-加在以b,m,p开头的形容词之前

possible impossible

mortal immotal

moral immoral

balanced imbalanced

ir-加在以r开头的形容词之前

regular irregular rational irrational

resistible irresistible

in-主要用于其他字母开头的词之前

human inhuman correct incorrect

justice injustice sinca\ere insincere

un-只能手于形容词和动词之前

不

happy unhappy friendly unfriendly

lucky unlucky

无

conditional unconditional limited unlited

非

official unofficial just unjust

未，主要用于过去分词之前

undecided unfinished unexpected unhurt

用于动词之前表示做相反的动作

lock unlock tie untie

cover uncover pack unpack

dress undress load unload