2003年秋开始使用的新教材，内容广泛，富有较强的时代气息。然而， 我们在使用过程中，发现高一教材(下册)学生用书特别是同册配套《教师教学用书》中存着一些问题值得商榷。下面谈点个人看法，望专家同行指正。

　　1. 课本P.127: People walk around and wearing nineteenth century clothes.

　　很明显该句为错句。因为and为并列连词，前后要保持一致。应改为: People walk around and wear nineteenth century clothes.

　　2. 课本P.157: John hates children, and it is difficult to say why. 课本将该句归为it作人称代词，指代事件。

　　我们认为，句中it没有具体意义，而只是起形式主语的作用，它帮助把真正主语to say why移到了句子后面。从用法归纳上，该句应编排在“3. it作形式主语或形式宾语”项下，这样才能避免误解。

　　3. 《教师教学用书》P.5 :在归纳段落主题句时，教学用书把“Many people today make choices about their eating habits based on what they believe”作为“We are what we eat”第三段的主题句，这似乎欠妥。

　　文章第三段不仅谈到：“人们根据自己的信念来选择吃的习惯”，而且还谈了“人们根据食品的生长制作方式来决定选取”，即：We also make choices based on how the products are grown or made. 因而该段的主题应归纳为：People make choices about their eating habits based on what they believe and how the products are grown or made.

　　4. 学生用书P.109：练习用not only...but also...连接句子：

　　A. The book talks about farming.

　　B. The book talks about gardening.

　　教学用书P.174答案：The book does not only talk about farming but also about gardening. 句中does是否多余？请看句子：

　　He not only writes his own plays, he also acts on them. 《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

　　可见上述连接句子答案最好为：The book not only talks about farming but also about gardening. 或:The books talks about not only farming but also gardening.

　　5. 教学用书 P.184: Today, there are over 50 clowns, almost all of them come from Clown College.

　　该句应改为：Today, there are over 50 clowns, almost all of whom come from Clown College. 这是因为英语中逗号不能用于并列的句子之间。再如：

　　The car ran into a crowd of people, several of whom were sent to hospital immediately.

　　I met the sportsmen, two of whom were studying in universities.

　　6. 课本P.98有这样一道动词填空题，并说明可有两个答案：Two and three ________ (is / are) five.

　　教学用书P.123所给答案只用is,而没有给出are形式，这似乎告诉我们该题只能用单数。

　　其实，用and表示加法算式，谓语动词单复数均可：

　　Two and two makes (make) four. ——张道真《实用英语语法》

　　Five and six is (或are) eleven. ——《新英汉词典》但使用plus时只用单数：

　　Four plus one equals five. —— 《新英汉词典》

　　Two plus five is seven. ——《现代高级英汉双解词典》

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