BOOK ONE · LESSON 069

The car race

汽车比赛

A bilingual lesson in which the narrator and his wife describe a very big car race near their town in 1995: hundreds of people, twenty cars from six countries, an exciting finish, and the winner Billy Stewart in car number fifteen — followed by the wife's comment on the way home, 'Don't drive so quickly! You're not Billy Stewart!'. Includes a complete-the-text gap fill, answering questions on the text, a there was/were gap fill, and grammar on in/on/at time prepositions, completing dialogues with was/were, and were-questions with cues. 课文讲述作者和妻子1995年在镇附近观看的一场盛大的汽车比赛：数百名观众、来自六个国家的二十辆赛车、激动人心的冲刺，获胜者是15号车里的比利·斯图尔特——回家路上妻子对他说：“别开得这么快！你可不是比利·斯图尔特啊！”配合课文填空、课文问答、there was/were 填空，以及 in/on/at 时间介词、was/were 完成对话和带提示的 were 问句语法练习。

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Lesson 课文

Listen then answer this question.
Which car was the winner in 1995?
听录音，然后回答问题。哪辆车在 1995 年的比赛中获胜？

Listen then answer this question. Which car was the winner in 1995?

There is a car race near our town every year.
In 1995, there was a very big race.

在我们镇子附近每年都有一场汽车比赛。1995年举行了一次盛大的比赛。

There were hundreds of people there.
My wife and I were at the race.
Our friends Julie and Jack were there, too.
You can see us in the crowd.
We are standing on the left.

许许多多的人都去了赛场。我和我的妻子也去了。我们的朋友朱莉和杰克也去了。你可以在人群中看到我们。我们站在左面。

There were twenty cars in the race.
There were English cars, French cars, German cars, Italian cars, American cars and Japanese cars.

有20辆汽车参加比赛。有英国、法国、德国、意大利、美国和日本的汽车。

It was an exciting finish.
The winner was Billy Stewart.
He was in car number fifteen.
Five other cars were just behind him.

比赛的结尾是激动人心的。获胜者是比利·斯图尔特。他在第15号车里，其他5辆汽车紧跟在他后面。

On the way home, my wife said to me,
'Don't drive so quickly! You're not Billy Stewart!'

在回家的途中，我妻子对我说：“别开得这么快！你可不是比利·斯图尔特啊！”

Before-listening question

Listen then answer this question. Which car was the winner in 1995? 听录音，然后回答问题。哪辆车在 1995 年的比赛中获胜？

Answer the question according to the text. 根据课文回答问题。

The text says 'The winner was Billy Stewart. He was in car number fifteen.'

1Which car was the winner in 1995?

New words & expressions 生词和短语

year /jɪə/: n. 年
race /reɪs/: n. 比赛
town /taʊn/: n. 城镇
crowd /kraʊd/: n. 人群
stand /stænd/: v. 站立
exciting /ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ/: adj. 使人激动的
just /dʒʌst/: adv. 正好, 恰好
finish /ˈfɪnɪʃ/: n. 结尾, 结束
winner /ˈwɪnə/: n. 获胜者
behind /bɪˈhaɪnd/: prep. 在……之后
way /weɪ/: n. 路途

Notes on the text 课文注释

hundreds of ...

数以百计的……，用来表示不确定数量的复数形式。

On the way home

在回家的途中。on the way 是指“在路上”。

参考译文
在我们镇子附近每年都有一场汽车比赛。1995年举行了一次盛大的比赛。

许许多多的人都去了赛场。我和我的妻子也去了。我们的朋友朱莉和杰克也去了。你可以在人群中看到我们。我们站在左面。

有20辆汽车参加比赛。有英国、法国、德国、意大利、美国和日本的汽车。

比赛的结尾是激动人心的。获胜者是比利·斯图尔特。他在第15号车里，其他5辆汽车紧跟在他后面。

在回家的途中，我妻子对我说：“别开得这么快！你可不是比利·斯图尔特啊！”

Full Chinese reference translation of the lesson text.

MAKE IT YOUR OWN

Practice 练习

A The car race

Read this. Fill in the missing words. 阅读课文并填空。

Read the text and fill in each blank with the missing word from the lesson text.

The key prints the completed lines; the missing words are underlined in the key. Each blank is one item; sentences with two blanks have two entries.

1There is a car race ______ our town every year.

2In 1995 there ______ a very big race.

3There ______ hundreds of people there.

4My wife and I ______ at the race.

5There were twenty ______ in the race.

6It was an ______ finish.

7The winner was Billy Stewart and he ______ in car number fifteen.

8There were English, French, German, Italian, American and Japanese ______.

9The winner was Billy Stewart and he was in car number ______.

10Five other ______ were just behind him.

11On the way ______, my wife said to me, 'Don't drive so quickly!'

B Answering questions

Look at the text on Students' Book page 137 and write short answers to these questions. 参见学生用书第 137 页上的课文，用简短形式回答下列问题。

Answer each question with a short answer, according to the lesson text.

Item 1 is a printed example and is not editable. The key gives only item 1 ('Yes, there is.'); the remaining answers are constructed from the lesson text and follow the printed example pattern and are labelled suggested.

1Is there a car race near your town every year?

Yes, there is.

2Was there a very big race near the town in 1995?

3Were there hundreds of people there?

4Were there thirty cars in the race?

5Were there twenty cars in the race?

6Was it an exciting finish?

7Was Billy Stewart in car number fifteen?

8Were there five other cars just behind him?

C There was and there were

Fill the blanks with There was or There were. 用 There was 或 There were 填空。

Fill in each blank with 'There was' or 'There were'.

The key lists 1 there was, 2 there were, 3 There were, 4 There was (capitalised where the blank begins a sentence). Item 1 has two blanks, so it has two entries.

1There isn't a butcher's shop here now, but ______ one here in 1996.

2There aren't any people here today, but ______ some here on Monday.

3______ hundreds of children here at 6.00, but there aren't any here now.

4______ a dairy in our village in 1960, but there isn't one here now.

5There aren't any children here now, but there ______ some here at 6.00.

BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION

Grammar 语法练习

I. Fill in the blanks with 'in', 'on' or 'at'. 用 in, on 或 at 填空。

Fill in the blanks with 'in', 'on' or 'at'. 用 in, on 或 at 填空。

Fill in each blank with the correct preposition of time: in, on or at.

Some sentences have two blanks; both are filled in one answer.

1He must be ______ Japan ______ March 10th.

2He was ______ church ______ Sunday.

3She was here ______ August 9th.

4We're going to spend our holidays ______ England.

5I work ______ London, but live ______ the country.

6Mary was ______ the hairdresser's ______ Tuesday.

7They were ______ Canada ______ September.

8Were you ______ church ______ Sunday?

9My parents always go to bed late ______ night.

10We were ______ home ______ Christmas Day.

11What are you doing ______ the moment?

12I was born ______ the 1st of September.

13Was he ______ the meeting ______ Wednesday?

14They are going to get married ______ May 1st.

15There were fifteen cars ______ the race.

II. Complete the dialogues, using the cues given according to the examples. 仿照例句用所给的词完成下列对话。

Complete the dialogues, using the cues given according to the examples. 仿照例句用所给的词完成下列对话。

Complete each dialogue with a short answer and a full sentence, following the printed examples.

Items 1-2 are printed examples and are not editable. The key gives answers for items 3-8; items 7-8 belong to a further part of the exercise not reproduced in the workbook scan and are not editable here. The printed exercises show one blank per line; each answer contains the two lines (short answer + full sentence) on one line.

1Were you and your friends in the country last weekend? (yes)

Yes, we were.

2Were Tom and Mary absent from school last Friday? (yes)
Where were they? (home)

Yes, they were.
They were at home.

3Were you and your wife at the car race on May 16th? (no)
Where were you? (the park)

4Were they at Jane's birthday party on Monday evening? (yes)
When were they there? (from eight thirty to nine thirty)

5Were they in Greece in August 1999? (no)
Where were they? (Austria)

6Were you in Turkey in 2000? (no)
Where were you? (Japan)

III. Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer the questions, using the cues given according to the example. 仿照例句用所给的词回答下列问题。

Answer each alternative were-question using the given cue, following the example.

Item 1 is a printed example and is not editable.

1Were the boys out or at home last night? (out)

They were out.

2Were Ann and Susan at home or at the game on Friday night? (at the game)

3Were the girls at the party or at the basketball game on April 1st? (at the party)

4Were the Sawyers at the car race or at the horse race on Saturday? (at the car race)

5Were you at school or in the office on Tuesday? (in the office)

6Were you in the city or in your country house for the weekend? (in our country house)

7Were you and your friends at your mother's or at your house on Wednesday? (at my mother's)

8Were they at the grocer's or at the butcher's on Thursday morning? (at the grocer's)

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Original sources 原始资料

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A little practice, every day. 每天一点，慢慢积累。