外研版新标准英语八下M5U2的主要内容是介绍了几个备受欢迎的卡通形象，包括美猴王、史莱克、尼莫、丁丁和史努比等。这些卡通人物深得年轻人的喜爱，尽管有的并不美，比如史莱克。

U2重点句子

1.They look very different, but both of them have won the hearts of young people all over the world.他们看起来完全不同，但是他们两个却赢得了全世界年轻人的喜爱。（1）look different 看起来完全不同/与众不同（2）both 两者都，常与and/of 连用（3）win the heart of...赢得某人的心

2.He is the hero of a story called Havoc in Heaven.他是《大闹天宫》故事中的主人公。（1）the hero of a story 故事中的主人公（2）called =named 叫做......（3）Havoc in Heaven 大闹天宫

3.He leads a group of monkeys against the Emperor of Heaven and his men.他带领一群猴子抵抗玉皇大帝和他的手下。（1）a group of...一群......（2）lead...against...带领......抵抗......（3）the Emperor of Heaven 玉皇大帝

4.Parents and children laugh together as Monkey King makes a terrible mess in heaven.父母和孩子们看到美猴王把天宫弄得乱七八糟时会一起开怀大笑。（1）as 当....时候，引导时间状语从句，有伴随的意思。As it was getting dark, he left work and went home.（2）make a terrible mess 弄得乱七八糟（3）in heaven 在天堂/天宫

5.They always expect to see more Monkey King cartoons.他们总期待着观看更多的美猴王卡通片。expect 预料；盼望，动词。expect+名词We expect his visit.expect to do sth.期待去做某事 She expected to visit the Great Wall.expect sb.to do sth.期待某人去做某事 They expected us to arrive early.expect+句子，预料......盼望......(和think用法相同，有否定前移功能）We don&39;t expect that she will come back tomorrow.

6.He has been popular for over eighty years, ever since the artist Hergé invented him in 1929.自从卡通画家Hergé在1929年创作出丁丁，他已经受欢迎80多年了。（1）be popular（with）...受......欢迎（2）ever since 从那时到现在；自从；自......以后，用于现在完成时态

7.He works for a newspaper and has lots of exciting experiences.他为一家报社工作，有很多激动人心的经历。（1）work for a newspaper 为报社工作（2）have lots of exciting experiences 有很多激动人心的经历，lots of=a lot of=plenty of...许多+（可数和不可数名词）；exciting 令人心奋的，修饰物；experience 经历（可数名词），经验（不可数名词）

8.Tintin appeared in China in the 1980s.丁丁于20世纪80年代出现在中国。in the 1980s在二十世纪八十年代

9.Snoopy lives in his own private world and finds real life hard to understand.Snoopy生活在自己的私人世界里，发现现实生活很难理解。（1）own 自己的，形容词，常放在形容词性物主代词后面，名词前面使用This is his own book.（2）hard to understand 很难理解

10....and drew the cartoons to satisfy older people as well as children.画这些卡通人物为了使老人和孩子们都开心。（1）to satisfy 动词不定式表示目的（2）satisfy 满足；使满意，动词。His homework satisfied the teacher.satisfied满意的，形容词。be satisfied with...对......满意 Our teacher was satisfied with our homework.（3）as well as 也；并且，连接两个人作主语时，谓语动词看前面的主语来决定 She as well as I is at school today.

U3重点句子

1.The faces came to life.这些脸栩栩如生。come to life 苏醒过来；活灵活现；栩栩如生Everything comes to life in spring.春天万物复苏。

2.Today，over a hundred years later,cartoons are still popular with people of all ages.今天，一百多年以后，卡通片仍然受各种年龄的人喜爱。（1）be popular with 受......欢迎；喜爱（2）of all ages 各种年龄的

3.In 1977 he appeared in daily newspapers.在1977年他出现在日报中。in daily newspapers 在日报中

4.People have also made films based on Batman and Spiderman.人们已经制作了以蝙蝠侠和蜘蛛侠为基础的电影。（1）make films 拍电影（2）based on 以......为基础；在......基础上；以......为依据