Unit 1 tales of the unexplained   Module 2

第一部分:重点句子

1.       This incident has received great interest due to reports of strange light in the sky and of alien visits around the time the boy disappeared.

2.       Standing inside were lots of strange creatures with white skin and large black eyes.

3.       However, since…, she assumed that Kelly was having a bad dream.

4.       it happened to me

5.       The aliens took me aboard the UFO so that they could do research on me.

6.       luckily, they returned me home without any injuries

7.       When asked about the possibility that …detective XX, who has taken charge of the case , told journalists…

8.       While we have not dismissed the idea, we are looking into other possibilities as well.

9.       analyze the statistics gathered from a number of questionnaires

10.   This is followed by…

11.   For this reason, we suggest that we organize a school basketball tournament…

12.   For centuries, people have reported seeing a wild creature in the Himalayas called Yeti.

13.   the Yeti is said to be a large, hairy animal that walks on two feet like a human being。

14.   Because of these reports and the tracks, there have been several organized searches for this creature, but no hard/strong evidence for its existence has ever been found.

15.   In his opinion, this animal made its way to other parts of the world, and continues to survive even today.

第二部分:重点短语

1.       be full of

2.       run into

3.       step up

4.       search sp

search for sth/sb

5.       a fifteen-year-old boy

a girl aged nine

at the age of nine

at one’s thirties

6.       go straight to

7.       put on his favourite CD

8.       around midnight

9.       the full moon

10.   pull back the curtains

11.   see /hear…doing

see/hear … do

12.   a flash of light

13.   show up

14.   aboard the UFO

15.   make up amazing stories.

16.   land on

17.   set foot on

18.   evidence of life

19.   space shuttle

tracking ship

launch tower

20.   solar system

21.   respond to sth

22.   draw conclusions

23.   make suggestions

24.   get into shape

25.   play against

26.   offer awards to sb

27.   six feet tall

28.   33 centimetres in length

29.   be similar to

30.   be known as/for

31.   dozens of

32.   move with amazing speed and strength

33.   become convinced

34.   be linked to sth

第三部分:重点单词

1.       tale

2.       unexplained

3.       puzzled

4.       incident

5.       alien

6.       disappear

7.       witness

8.       spaceship

9.       creature

10.   assume

11.   construction

12.   occur

13.   possibility

14.   detective

15.   case

16.   journalist

17.   amazing

18.   evidence

19.   injury

20.   dismiss

21.   astronomer

22.   enthusiastic

23.   exist  existence

24.   questionnaire

25.   tick

26.   statement

27.   disagree

28.   appropriate

29.   humor

30.   discount

31.   organize

32.   tournament

33.   hairy

34.   attack

35.   track

36.   length

37.   examine

38.   reserve

39.   strength

40.   convince

41.   ancestor

42.   survive