In or out?

【课文】

Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and dark. Every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark until someone opened the gate. As the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband spent weeks training him to press his paw on the latch to let himself in. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gate. However, when I was going out shopping last week, I noticed him in the garden near the gate. This time he was barking so that someone would let him out! Since then, he has developed another bad habit. As soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes into the garden and waits until the gate shuts. Then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. After this he immediately lets himself in and begins barking again. Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since.

【课文翻译】

我家的狗雷克斯，过去常坐在大门外面叫。每当它想到花园里来时，便汪汪叫个不停，直到有人把门打开。由于邻居们对狗叫很有意见，所以我丈夫花了几个星期的时间训练它用脚爪按住门闩把自己放进来。雷克斯很快成了开门的专家。然而上星期我正要出去买东西时，发现它正呆在花园里边靠门的地方。这次它叫着让人把它放出去!从那以后，它养成了另外一种坏习惯。它从外面把门一打开，就走进花园，等着门自动关上。这之后他就坐下汪汪叫起来，直到有人来把它放出去。出去之后，它又马上把自己放进来，接着再开始叫。昨天，我丈夫把门卸了下来，雷克斯很生气，此后我们便再也没有见到它。

【生词汇总】

bark v. 狗叫，吠

press v. 按，压

paw n. 脚爪

latch n. 门闩

expert n. 专家

develop v. 养成

habit n. 习惯

remove v. 拆掉，取下

【短语汇总】

complain of就某件事而发牢骚，抱怨

so that目的在于，以期能够

【知识点讲解】

1，as用法汇总(As the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband spent weeks training him to press his paw on the latch to let himself in)

1，“作为”，后加名词

例：as a citizen, we should keep our city clean.作为一名市民，我们应该保持城市清洁。

2，“因为”，后加完整句子，和because用法一致，引导原因状语从句。

3，“当……时候”用法和when一致，后面加完整的句子，引导时间状语从句。

2，becaome an expert at doing成了干某事的行家(Rex soon became an expert at opening the gate)

意思上要比be good at强烈

例：She is an expert at solving problems.她是解决问题专家。

3，spend，cost，take的区别(my husband spent weeks training him to press his paw on the latch to let himself in)

spend的主语是人，后面用ing

例：I spend money buying cake.

cost主语是物，后面加to do

例：the cake costs me 200 yuan to buy.

take主语是物，后面加to do，但take是花时间，cost是花钱

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