I. Dialog 实用会话

Customer: Can you help me gift-wrap this, please?
Salesgirl: Sure. (after a while)
Customer: Wow! You did that beautifully.
Salesgirl: Well, I practice daily.
Customer: Practice makes perfect, right?
Salesgirl: Certainly!

顾客：请你帮我把这个东西用礼品纸包起来好吗?
女店员：好啊。(过了一会儿)
顾客：哇!你包得好美啊。
女店员：嗯，我每天都在练习嘛。
顾客：熟能生巧，对吗?
女店员：那是当然的喽!

II. Key Points 重点提示

1. Can you help me gift-wrap this, please?
   (请你帮我把这个东西用礼品纸包起来好吗?)
   a. gift-wrap ['ɡift,ræp] vt. 将······包装成礼品
   例: My wife and I gift-wrapped our children's Christmas gifts last night.
   (昨晚我和太太把要女孩子们的圣诞礼物包装起来。)
   b. Can you help me gift-wrap this, please?
   =Can you help me to gift-wrap this, please?
   本句help为及物动词，之后接“人”为宾语，可再接虚词to引导的动词不定式作宾语补足语to往往予以省略。即
   help+人+to+动词原形
   =help+人+动词原形
   例: I helped him to write the letter.
   = I helped him write the letter.
   (我帮他写这封信。)
2. wow [wou] int.哇 !
3. practice ['præktɪs] n. & vi. 练 习
4. daily ['delɪ] adv. 每天 (= every day)
   例: Dave jogs daily at 6:30 in the morning.
   (大卫每天早上六点半都去慢跑。)
5. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。(谚语)
   perfect [ˈpɝfɪkt; (for v.) pɝˈfɛkt] a.完美的
6. certainly ['sɝtnli] adv. 当然 (= sure)

III. 请选出下列各句中正确的一项

1. The other day I ____ a very good movie.
   (A) will see (B) saw (C) watch (D) see
2. Roger believes that someday he ____ an English professor.
   (A) will be (B) will (C)was (D) is
3. Steve ____ fast.
   (A) very read (B) reading very (C) read much (D) reads very
4. My father works slowly and ____.
   (A) very happy (B) happy (C) happily (D) is happily
5. In the beginning, Chris was very sad; ____ in the end, he was happy.
   (A) so (B) but (C) moreover (D) as a result
6. He helped me ____ the problem.
   (A) handle (B) handled (C) handling (D) to handled

解答→ 1.(B) 2.(A) 3.(D) 4.(C) 5.(B) 6.(A)