?handsome, beautiful, pretty 与good-looking比较––––这些单词都可以表示“美”，但含义和用法各不相同。handsome通常用来形容男子，表示“漂亮的，英俊的”；beautiful表示“美的，给人美感的，令人愉悦的”等含义，多用于形容女子、孩童、花草、服饰等，不用来形容男子的长相；pretty表示“漂亮的，可爱的，令人怜爱的”等含义，多用于女子，孩子等；good-looking表示容貌“标致的，美貌的，好看的”，男女均适用，它所表示的美通常不及beautiful所表示的含义。?reach与arrive in/ at?reach表示“到达，达到”。表示抵达某地时通常为及物动词，比arrive in/ at要正式。reach使用的范围比较广，不仅仅限于地点，做不及物动词的情况较少：1.When you reach my age, you’ll be able to understand it.2.Can you get that book down for me please? I can’t reach it.?arrive为不及物动词，表示“到达，抵达”。它既可以单独使用，也可以与介词连用。在表示到达某个较大的地方时用arrive in，到达某个较小的地方/场所用arrive at，这由说话者决定类似词还有get?take part 与take place–固定短语take part (in) 表示“参加，参与”It was the oldest car taking part. 它是参赛车中最旧的一辆。–take place也是固定短语，表示“发生，进行，举行”。All these took place before you were born.II.Answer the questions below
①How often is a race held for old cars?②Which was the most unusual car entering for the race?③What speed did the winning car reach?④What did the writer say about the old car race in comparison with modern car races?III.Language Points
1.本文出现的不定量限定词（indefinite quantifiers）A lot of，a great deal of ，a great many，manyof不定量限定词表示不定数量，这类限定词可以分为五种类型。?只修饰复数可数名词：（a）few of, any of, many of, a great many of , several, a number of ?只修饰不可数名词：a little of, much of, a bit of, a great deal of, a great amount of?修饰复数可数名词与不可数名词：a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a quantity of?修饰一切名词：some, any, no, all?修饰单数可数名词和不可数名词：the least2.A lot of the cars entered for this race last year and there was a great deal of excitement just before it began.?enter for意为报名参加，注意enter后面不能加into，它的名词用法是entrance to …到……的入口?before引导时间状语从句注意before引导的从句不再用否定式的谓语，并且当before引导的从句位于主句之后，有时译成“就，才”。还要注意主句和从句之间的时间关系。当主句用将来时，从句总是用现在时；如果before引导的从句谓语用的是过去时，则主句动词多用过去完成时，这样以便体现动作发生的先后。After表示主句动作发生在从句动作之后。主句和从句的动作的时间关系正好与before引导的从句相反。例如：???It will be four days before they come back. 他们要过四天才能回来。Einstein almost knocked me down before he saw me.爱因斯坦几乎把我撞倒才看到我。My father had left for Canada just before the letter arrived.我父亲恰好在信到之前去加拿大了。?They had not been married four months before they were divorced. 他们结婚还不到四个月就离婚了。