1、 opportunity n. 机会 coral n. 珊瑚 Virgin Islands维尔京群岛 Miami n. 迈阿密(美国最南的城市) Dinghy n. 救生筏,小船 Caribbean n. 加勒比海 spear gun捕鱼枪 lobster n. 龙虾 tanker n. 油轮 genuinely adv. 由衷地 Robinson Crusoe鲁滨孙.克鲁索(小说鲁滨孙漂流记主人公) 参考译文荒岛生活我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。在那里,生活简单又美好。成熟的水果从树上掉下来,人们根本无需劳动。另一种想法恰恰相反,认为荒岛生
2、活很可怕,要么饿死,要么像鲁滨孙那样,天天盼船来,却总没见船影。也许,这两种都像都有可信之处。但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。最近有两个人在一座珊瑚岛上呆了5天,他们真希望在那儿再多呆一些日子。他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。途中,船开始下沉,他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里,到了一座珊瑚岛上。岛上几乎没有一颗树,也没有淡水,但这不算什么问题。他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪,因此,吃饭不愁。他们天天捕捉龙虾和鱼,正如其中一位所说,吃得“像国王一样好”。5天后,一条油轮从那儿路过,搭救了他们。这二位不得不离开那个荒岛时,
3、还真的感到遗憾呢! 阅读理解Choose the correct answers to the following questions.1. In what way are the pictures we form of life on a desert island unreal?a. They fail to present the wretchedness of such a situation.b. We forgot that we would be too weak to work and only imagine the pleasure of idleness.c. They
4、are either unduly optimistic or unduly pessimisticd. They lack any truth at all as most of us have never visited one2. What was the equipment the men had brought that proved essential to their survival?a. Tools with which they had been going to repair their boat.b. Food, matches and tins of beer.c.
5、Rainwater, lobster and fish.d. A spear gun and a rubber dinghy.3. What made the men wish to stay on the desert island?a. Discovering how pleasant life can be fending for oneself.b. Having seen very few trees and no rainwater on the local island.c. The fact that they were able to eat the same food as
6、 kings eat.d. Knowing they no longer needed to take their boat to Miami for repair. 阅读练习二A day to rememberWe have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of thing
7、s choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
8、 While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arri
9、ves, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened t
10、o be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air,
11、a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police ne
12、arly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!prelude n. 序幕,前奏unforeseen adj.
13、意料之外的series n. 系列catastrophe n. 大祸,灾难crockery n. 陶器,瓦器suburb n. 郊区collide v. 猛撞learner n. 初学者panic n. 惊慌,恐慌windscreen n. (汽车的)挡风玻璃alongside prep.在的旁边,与并排slide (slid, slid) v. 滑stray adj. 迷失的,离群的confusion n. 混乱greedily adv. 贪婪地devour v. 狼吞虎咽地吃难忘的一天我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时,可能还不错,但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的,许
14、许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题,好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭,同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时,孩子把桌布从桌子上扯下来,将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎,同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话,赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时,饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪,你的丈夫接着回来了,事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样,有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时,一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车,两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者,她一惊之下突然把车停了下来
15、。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正坐在他身边,手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲,蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉到马路上。此时,一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上,司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降,紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。这又引起一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时,后面的车辆排成了长龙,警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。在这段时间里,卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到好处,它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天!1. What would have most upset the woman the da
16、y everything went wrong for her?a. She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.b. The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.c. Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.d. She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with2. What might have preve
17、nted a chain reaction following the initial collision?a. If the two drivers who had collided had not begun to argue.b. Had there been a more experienced driver behind the two cars.c. If, instead of panicking, the woman had made no attempt to stop.d. Had the wife of the man who braked not thrown a ca
18、ke through the window.3. There was a second angry argument because _.a. the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accidentb. the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move againc. the lorry driver did not think he should be made to sweep up the glassd. two dogs had devoured what left
19、of the cake 阅读练习三Fifty pence worth of troubleChildren always appreciate small gifts of money. Mum or dad, of course, provide a regular supply of pocket money, but uncles and ants are always a source of extra income. With some children, small sums go a long way. If fifty pence pieces are not exchange
20、d for sweets, they rattle for months inside money boxes. Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money box. For most of them, fifty pence is a small price to pay for a nice big bar of chocolate.My nephew, George, has a money box but it is always empty. Very few of the fifty pence pieces and p
21、ound coins I have given him have found their way there. I gave him fifty pence yesterday and advised him to save it. Instead he bought himself fifty pence worth of trouble. On his way to the sweet shop, he dropped his fifty pence and it bounced along the pavement and then disappeared down a drain. G
22、eorge took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and pushed is right arm through the drain cover. He could not find his fifty pence piece anywhere, and what is more, he could no get his arm out. A crowd of people gathered round him and a lady rubbed his arm with soap and butter, but George was firml
23、y stuck. The fire brigade was called and two fire fighters freed George using a special type of grease. George was not too upset by his experience because the lady who owns the sweet shop heard about his troubles and rewarded him with large box of chocolates. appreciatev. 欣赏,感激 pocket money 零用钱 thri
24、ftyadj. 节约的 nephewn. 侄子,外甥 bounce 弹起,跳起 pavement 人行道 stick (stuck, stuck) 卡住,夹住,不能再动 brigade 旅,(消防)队 grease 润滑油五十便士的麻烦孩子们总是喜欢得到一些零花钱。爸爸妈妈当然经常给孩子零花钱,但是,叔舅婶姨也是孩子们额外收入来源。对于有些孩子来说,少量的钱可以花很长一段时间。如果50便士不拿来换糖吃,则可以放在储蓄罐里叮当响上好几月。但是能把储蓄罐装满的只有屈指可数的几个特别节俭的孩子。对大部分孩子来说,用50便士来买一大块好的巧克力,是算不了什么的。我的外甥乔治有一个储蓄罐,但总是空空的。
25、我给了不少50便士的硬币,但没有几个存到储蓄罐里。昨天,我给了他50便士让存起来,却拿这钱给自己买了50便士的麻烦。在他去糖果店的路上,50便士掉在地上,在人行道上跳了几下,掉进了阴沟里。乔治脱掉外套,卷起袖子,将右胳膊伸进了阴沟盖。但他摸了半天也没找到那50便士硬币,他的胳膊反倒退不出来了。这时在他周围上了许多人,一位女士在乔治胳膊上抹了肥皂,黄油,但乔治的胳膊仍然卡得紧紧的。有人打电话叫来消防队,两位消防队员使用了一种特殊的润滑剂才使乔治得以解脱。不过,此事并没使乔治过于伤心,因为糖果店老板娘听说了他遇到的麻烦后,赏给他一大盒巧克力。Choose the correct answers t
26、o the following questions:1. What do most children do with the money they are given?a. They put it in their pockets.b. They wait until their money boxes are full before spending it.c. They go straight to a sweet shop and spend it.d. They spend a little of it on chocolate.2. When the writer gave him fifty pence, George_.a. did not hear the writers adviceb. decided
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