老师：Hi everybody, welcome back to our class. Today you still have to learning objectives to grasp the meaning of some useful words and expressions in the reading parts and using language parts of Unit 4 global warning and use them in different situations correctly. As usual, we will begin with going through the words and expressions in the reading part. First, come about subscribe to quantities of 10 result in be opposed to range. Let's see the sentences from text which contain these words and phrases.
老师：Sentence number one. So how has it come about and does it matter? Come about here means happen. Let's look at another example. Any possible solution to Irish questioner can only come about through dialogue. Let's go over some other phrases related to come. See if you still remember their meanings. Come across. Peng Dao, Yu Dao. Come up with, coming to being, Xincheng. Come out, come along. Now time for practice. I'll show you some sentence with gaps and you decide which phrase we've just reviewed belongs to each sentence. Please tell me how the accident came about. I'm still in the dark. Sees the opportunity once it comes along. Could you tell me one paper making came into being?
老师：When coming across a new world. You may look it up in the dictionary. We had a heated discussion and came up with lots of good ideas. Sentence number two. All scientists subscribe to the view that the increase in the earth is due to the fossil fuels, subscribe to, it has the same meaning as agree to Zhantong.
老师：I like to give you some other sentences showing different meanings of subscribe to. Look at the first one. The gentleman subscribes to Project Hope regularly. Here subscribe to means donate money to. She subscribes to Vogue, her favorite magazine. And in this sentence, subscribe to men's pay money for magazines or newspapers. Thank you for subscribing to our online service. In this sentence, subscribe to means to apply to take part in an activity or receiver service.
老师：Next sentence, the problem begins when we add huge quantities of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Quantities of or a quantity of, which means numbers of or amounts of. It can be followed by a singular or plural form of a noun. Also, it can be followed by an uncountable noun. For example, in summer, quantities of fruit and vegetables are preserved in the fridge. Be careful with the verb when you use this phrase as a subject in your sentence. Look at these examples. Pay close attention to the agreement.
老师：There are quantities of books of water in the basement. A large quantity of books in the basement have been destroyed in the flood, in the flooded, in the flood, I'm sorry. A large quantity of books in the basement have been destroyed in the flood. A large quantity of water in
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