《2025年成才之路高中新课程学习指导高中英语选择性必修第一册人教版》

2. switch vt. 转换；交换 vi. & vt. (使)改变；转变 n. 开关；转换器；改变
教材原句
Or, have you ever forgotten to switch off the TV or computer?
或者你忘记过关掉电脑或电视吗？
经典例句
Then the driver switched on the radio and was absorbed in the song.
然后司机打开收音机，全神贯注地听着歌。
If weather doesn't permit, we had to make a switch in our arrangements.
如果天气不允许，我们不得不对我们的安排做出变动。
联想拓展
make a switch 改变
switch off 关(电灯、机器等)；切断(电流、气体等)
switch on 开(电灯、机器等)；打开(开关)；接通(电流等)
switch (from...) to... (从……)转变成，(从……)转换到
switch sth. with sb. 和某人交换某物
switch over 转换，转向
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单句语法填空
(1) To break the ice, we switched the conversation from one subject to another.
(2) However, if I had to give up one of them, I would turn off the TV rather than switch off my cell phone or cut off the Internet.
完成句子
(3) (2023·浙江1月卷)也许你的家庭不会完全改变，但你可能可以控制自己的个人空间，以做出你想要的改变。
Perhaps your household won't entirely make the switch, but you may have some control over your own personal spaces to make the changes you desire.

答案：
(1)to
(2)off
(3)make the switch

3. distant adj. 遥远的；远处的；疏远的；心不在焉的
教材原句
However, in the not-too-distant future...
然而，在不久的将来……
经典例句
(2023·浙江1月卷) To calculate your speed as you do, divide 3,600 (the number of seconds in an hour) by the number of seconds it takes you to travel one mile (the distance between two mileposts).
要计算你的速度，用3,600(一小时的秒数)除以你走一英里(两个里程碑之间的距离)所花的秒数。
On a distant hill behind the swing, a huge bull with long, sharp horns watched the red sweater swinging back and forth in the sunlight.
在秋千后面远处的小山上，一头长着长而尖的角的大公牛看着那件红色毛衣在阳光下来回摆动。
联想拓展
in the distance 在远处
at/from a distance 隔开一段距离；从远处
at a distance of... 在……远的距离
keep sb. at a distance 对某人冷淡；与某人疏远
keep one's distance from sb. / sth. 与某人/某物保持一定距离
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单句语法填空
(1) The bear soon came to the tree, and we followed at a distance.
(2) Much to our delight, the sound of water in the distance caught our attention and drove us to the riverbank.
(3) I felt so close to him. However, after I went to high school, somehow I became distant (distance) from him.
完成句子
(4) 从你家到学校的距离是多少？
What’s the distance from your home to school?

答案：
(1)a
(2)the
(3)distant
(4)What’s the distance