Part 1 Listening and Speaking
Listening and Speaking
1.Brainstorming
2.Listening
3.Speaking
Brainstorming
Work with your group to think of as many words/phrases/expressions as possible regarding the following topics.
1.Difficult or problem situations
2.Fear
3.Solving problems
4.Rescue work
words/phrases/expressions regarding
situations Solving problems problem situation 问题状况
Difficult or Problem Situations
- accident
- incident
- event
- happening
- crash ( of vehicles, planes etc.)
- shipwreck ( of boats or ships etc.)
- overturn ( of automobiles or ships etc.)
- sink ( of boats, ships)
- bump ( of people/vehicles hitting sth.)
- be in difficulty/trouble/danger
- have difficulty/trouble in doing sth.
- have a hard time doing sth.
- be landed with ( unpleasant tasks, people, etc.)
- be caught/stuck/jammed in ( a traffic jam, etc.)
- get stuck
ac-cident 偶然发生的事故 in-cident 事件 vehicle automobile sink bump be landed with jam
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Fear
- afraid, alarmed, anxious, startled, unnerved
- frightened, scared, horrified, astounded, panicky
- become hysterical
- act frantically/furiously/desperately ( 因害怕而行为发狂)
- live in fear
- get a fright
- go as white as a sheet ( 苍白如纸 )
- nearly jump out of one's skin ( 大吃一惊 )
- scared stiff （惊慌极了）
alarm n 闹钟 frightened adj scared adj horrified adj panicky adj 惊慌的
afraid adj alarmed adj anxious adj
fright n 恐吓 惊吓 frighten v 恐吓 frightened adj 受惊吓的 fight n 打斗
frantic adj frantically adv furious adj furiously adv desperate adj 不顾一切的 desperately adv 不顾一切的
Solving problems
- take action
- fight against
- get to the bottom of things( discover the real cause of the problem 弄清...的真相 ）
- figure/work out what to do
- take measures(采取行动)
- get / act together
- put sth. right 使...恢复正常
- find a solution
- sort things out ( 整理事物 )
- clear things up
- straighten things out ( 解决事情 )
figure n 数字 人物 figure out what to do solution n 解决方法 straight adj 直的 straighten v 使...改正
Rescue Work
- save
- help
- rescue
- give first aid
- bandage
- pull out of ( a difficult situation, a calamity, etc. ) 摆脱困境/祸患
- dig out ( 挖出一条路 )
- save one's life
- come to one's rescue/help
- get sb out of ( a difficult situation )
- pick up sb ( from a dangerous place )
- be picked up ( by helicopter, boat, etc.) ( 呗直升机，船营救)
pick up 捡起，拾起 , 接
Listening
1. Pre-listening quesions:
Have you ever had any unforgettable experiences before? Can you still remember the feelings you has then?
Discuss the meanings of the following terms:
1) hesitate :
a. to pause during or before an action
e.g. He who hesitates is lost ( = loses his chance and will never succeed ).
b. to be slow in deciding:
e.g. She hesitated over the choice between the two dresses.
c. ( as polite form ) to be unwilling; find it unpleasant:
e.g. I hesitate to ask you, but will you lend me some money?
2) cabin: the cabin is where the passengers sit, the cockpit is where the pilot sits.
2. Listen to the story and take notes to prepare for the answers to the following questions.
1.What went wrong when the aeroplane was over the airport?
2.How did passengers take the news?
3.What did the speaker decide to do then?
4. How did the speaker deal with the situation?
Reference Answer
1.The airplane was circling over the airport and moving unsteadily through the air. In fact, the pilot had fainted and nobody was flying the plane.
2.When they heared the news, many passengers started to panic. The speaker could hear horrified screams all around, and he himself was also scared.
cabin cockpit fainted
3.After hesitating for a while, the speaker decided that he had to do sth. He unfastened his seat belt, got up and followed the hostess into the pilot's cockpit.
4.First, he moved the pilot aside and took his seat. He then followed the radio instructions from the airport below. After circling the airport several times to become familiar with the the controls, he managed to guide the plane towards the runway and landed safely.
3.Listen to the tape again and fill in the blanks with the words you hear on the tape.
One of my most unforgettable experiences was a flight back home from a business trip. I had had a very busty week and a long air journey. So when we were told to fasten our seat belts, for we were over the airport, I was already thinking of having a good sleep as soon as I got home. Soon I noticed that the plane was circling over the airport and, what's more, it ws moving unsteadily through the air. I sensed that sth was wrong.
At that moment, an airhostess appeared. She looked very pale, but was quite calm. She walked along the aisle and spoke quickly to everyone, almost in a whisper. She told us that the pilot had fainted and asked if any of us, the passengers, knew anything about machines, or at least knew how to drive a car. Many people started to panic at her words, and I heard a few hopeless or horrified screams here and there. To tell you the truth, I was scared, like everyone else. You simply couldn't help in a situation like this, could you? I felt I had to do sth before it was too late. I hesitated for a while, then I unfastened my seat belt, got up and followed the hostess into the pilot's cabin.
Speaking
Task 1 Dealing with difficult or dangerous situations
Task 2 Living on a deserted island
Task 3 Picture description
1. Interview your partner about one of the most difficult or dangerous situations she/he has been in. You may ask quesions listed in Exercise A & B on page 28.
2.Suppose you are left stranded on a deserted island.There are no people around you.
- How would you provide for the necessities of life such as fodd and fresh water?
- How would you send an SOS signal to let the rescue party find your location?
- How do you protect yourself from the danger of wild animals such as poisonous snakes, vampire bats, etc.?
- How would you shelter from bad weather and the cold night?
speculate suppose an sos rescue party poisonous vampire bat
deserted desert forget forgettable unforgettable cock cockpit
3.Look at the picture in Secion 3C on page 29 and speculate on the following questions:
- Who is the man in the bed and what is his job?
- Why is he in the ambulance?
- What had happened to him?
- How did the accident happend?
- Make up a story of this accident and see who is the most plausible one?
Note on the Book
- get to the bottom of things 弄清事情的真相
- sort things out 把...挑出来， 解决 清理
- a car/boat collision 碰撞
- mishap
- get stuck
- horrified 被恐吓的
- hysterial adj 歇斯底里的
You may ask them quesions like these
1. Have you ever been in a difficult or risky situation?
2. Suppose you were ... how would you cope with the situation?
3.What would you do if you were in an unpleasant situation, such as ... ?
4.How did you feel when ... happened?
5.Could you keep a level head in a situation like ... ?
Talk about the following topics
- Failure in an exam or a competition
- Lost one's way in a new place
- Taking a taxi for the first time
- Seeing a fire in city/town
- Visit a hospital for the first time
- Lost a valuable object
Useful Expressions
- Everything seemed all right at the begining .....
- It all started when ...
- At that moment ...
- Suddenly ... all of a sudden ..
- The place was in an uproar ..
- To my surprise ..
- To make matters worse ...
- Now the danger was ...
- What a relief when ...
force a smile 强作欢笑 roar with laughter 哄堂大笑 climax n 高潮 smile bitterly 苦笑 、
force a smile roar with laughter climax smile bitterly
uproar hospital ambulance value valuable fail failure hysterical
collision speculate
Jerry Cram set out to go coon hunting that gloomy afternoon. With him were his old shepherd dog and two beagle hound pups. At least he said they were beagles, but his older brother Bob had roared with laughter a month earlier, when Jerry had told him they had cost five dollars. '' It's another of your mistakes, Jerry!" He said. And that's what Bob called the pups " Mistake No.1 and Mistake No.2".
- set out to do 打算 着手 ( 带着目的 ）
- coon 浣熊
- gloomy
- shepherd adj 牧羊的
- beagle n 小猎犬
- hound n 猎犬
- roar with laughter
Even Jerry had to admit that the pups weren't much help, for he hunted for hours without any luck, till as last he ran out of shells. Then, toward evening, he spotted a racoon high in a beech tree. It was a forty-foot tree, an ancient one that had died years ago. The top of its trunk had been carried away in some storm, and the trunk itself had been gutted by rot and insects.
- hunt
- run out of shells
- toward evening
- gut n 肠子
- insect
Still, Jerry went up after the coon, intending to capture him by hand. But he never reached the animal. Just as he got level with the top of the broken trunk, the limb on which he was standing cracked ominously under his feet. Instantly he jumped to the rim of the tree trunk, and at once the edge crumbled. Down he plunged, too suddenly to make a sound, into the deep hollow of the dead tree.
- intend
- capture
- get level with
- trunk n 树干
- limb n 枝干
- crack n 裂缝 v 使破裂
- ominous adj 不吉利的
- ominously adv 不吉利地
- rim n 边
- crumble v 崩溃 破碎
- plunge v 突然跌落
- hollow adj 中空的
Halfway down Jerry's fall was broken for a moment by a jutting piece of wood that caught his clothing. Then he tumbled the rest of the way. Shaken, dazed, but miraculously unhurt, he picked himslef up.
- jut v 使... 突出
- jutting
- tumble v 打滚
- shaken adj 动摇的
- dazed adj 头晕的 睡眼惺忪的
- miraculously adv 奇迹般的
- pick oneself up 站起来
It was dark inside the tree. Above him there was only a pale disc of sky. At his feet a pear shaped hole framed a small patch of grey light. He could hear the pups sniffing and yelping to him, and Shep backed off and barked in alarm.
- pale
- disc
- frame n 框架
- patch n 斑
- sniff
- yelp
- bark
Jerry was scared. Some time passed before he calmed down and begun to look for a way to get out. There was no handholds on the inside of the trunk; the snag that had slowed him up on his way down was out of reach. And, though he tried desperately, he couldn't enlarge the hole at his feet by kicking. It would do no good to call, either, he was much too far from home for that. At last the idea came to him of sending dogs for help. " Go home, Shep! Go home!" He shouted. The dog give one sharp bark. " Go home" He shouted again. And, at that, Shep turned and streaked across the field, but the two pups remained, yelping encouragement to their master.
- scared
- some time passed before he calmed down
- handhold n 把手点
- snag n 障碍
- slow ... up
- out of reach
- desperate
- desperately
- kick v 踢
- do no good to
- at last the idea came to him of
- sharp bark
- at that / hearing that
- streak across the field
- encourage
- encouragement
- master
Night came. A storm broke. Lightning writhed above his head, and rain poured into the hollow cylinder of the tree. There was just room for Jerry to stand, and he was drenched by the rain. For a minute he wondered if he would drown there, but the water run out of the hole at the bottom as fast as it came in at the top. Outside, Jerry could hear the pups whimpering. They were frightened by the storm,but they didn't go away. Instead, they moved closer to the tree to comfort him, and stuck their muzzles through the hole to lick his feet.
- fight fright frighten frightened
- steak streak
- with writhe
- writhe v 扭曲
- pour
- hollow n
- cylinder
- room n 房间 空间
- drench v
- drown
- whimpering
- stuck
- muzzle muscle
- lick
Meanwhile Shep had run across the fields to the Cram home. Barking furiously, he got Bob to follow him back. But when they reached the fences the old dog, who had leaped them frantically as he came, was too tired to jump them again, and, in the end, it was only the barking of the sad-eyed little pups that guided Bob to the right tree.
- furious
- furiously
- fence
- leap
- frantic
- frantical
- rescue party
Even then it took a rescue party, ropes, and fifteen hours to get Jerry out of his sodden prison - wet, hungry, and exhausted.
"Oh, gosh," he said over and over after they had finally pulled him up, " I kept thinking, this is Jerry's last mistake: I'm going to die down here. But the pups didn't give up hope! Shep went for help, and the pups stayed with me all the time! Mistake No.1 and Mistake No.2 —— they saved me!"
- rescue
- rescue party
- rope
- sodden adj 浑身湿透的
Notes
1. that gloomy afternoon : The word "gloomy" can describe either weather / situation or people. If the weather is gloomy, the sky is covered with clouds. A gloomy situation is a situation with little hope. If a person is gloomy, he or she is depressed or unhappy.
2. at last he run out of shells: at last he used up all his bullets. To run out of sth means to have no more of sth left. E.g. The hospital has run out of medical supplies. We must speed up our work. Time is running out. Notice the meaning of the verb run in the following sentences : but the water run out of the hole at the bottom, which means the water flowed out from the hole.
3.Just as he got level with the top of the broken trunk: just as he reached the same height as the top of the broke trunk. Be / get level with sth. be at the same height, amount, degree as ...
4.Halway down Jerry's fall was broken: As he fell, he was temporarily stopped midway by...
fall here is a noun.
5.he picked himself up: he got to his feet rather slowly and with much effort. Pick oneself up : stand up with difficulty after one has fallen or been knocked down.
6.and Shep backed off and barked .. : Shep ( the shepherd dog ) moved backwards and barked ..
7. slowed him up on his way down : reduced the speed of his fall. " to slow sth/sb up" = " slow sth/ sb down". Slow up or slow down : make ... happen or move slowly.
8.It would do no good to call : It would be useless to call out for help.( since he was stuck inside the tree trunk in the first place and was much too far from home to cry for help ).
9. At last the idea came to him of sending the dog for help: the normal order should be " the idea of sending the dogs for help came to him" With the of phrase postponed after the verb, the sentence sounds more balanced.
10.streaked across the field : ran quickly in a straight line.
11.Lightning writhed above his head: The word writhe literally describes a person who twists his body about because of acute pain or discomfort. E.g. When the dentist was pulling out his rotten tooth, he writhed in agony. In the text the word is used figuratively to present a vivid picture of flashes of lighting dancing about in the sky.
- twist
- cute
- acute
- rot
- rotten
- agony
- figure
- figurative
- figuratively
12. Barking furiously, he got ... leaped over them frantically ... : The pronoun be, here referring to the shepherd dog, is ofen used to refer to a male animal while she, to a female animal. The adverb furiously often indicates fierceness of behavior out of irritation or anger.
- bark
- furious
- furiously
- leap
- frantic
- frantically
- referring
- adverb
- indicate
- fierce
- fierceness
- irritation
- property
13.a rescue party : a group of people organized to save people or property in a disaster.
14.Gosh: Goodness Gosh is an interjection to indicate how surprised you are, or how strongly you feel about sth. E.g. Gosh, it's nearly midnight I had no idea it's so late. ( expressing surprise )
Part II Reading Comprehension
reading comprehension
1.Pre-reading Task
Discuss the following questions.
1)Who would you turn to or what would you do if you were in a dangerous situation?
2)Some animals, expecially pets, as many people believe, could save their masters from danger. Have you read any such stories?
3)Do you believe the saying 'God help those who help themselves' ?
Text
- a fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智
- To err is human. 人非圣贤，孰能无过
- Every man has his fault. 金无足赤人无完人
Comprehension Work
Text Summary
The story is about a boy's adventurous hunting trip in which he was trapped in the deep hollow of a huge tree and was eventually saved with the help of his three dogs. The irony of the story is that the boy was saved by his mistakes - buy the two pups that he mistook for beagles and had paid a big price of five dollars to buy.
Questions for skimming:
1.What can you learn from the title?
2.What's the story about?
A man's adventurous hunting trip: his accidentally falling into the deep hollow of a huge tree and his rescue with the help of his dogs.
3. What do " his mistakes " refer to?
These are his two pups, Mistake No.1 and Mistake No.2 , which he had bought them for 5 dollars and were mocked at by his elder brother.
Questions for close comprehension:
1.What did Jerry Cram set out to do?
He was hunting for a racoon.
2. How did Bob respond when told that the two beagle hound pups cost Jerry five dollars?
He roared with laughter.
3.What did Jerry think about the pups when he hunted for several hours without any luck?
He also had to admit that they were not much help.
4. What did he spot toward evening?
A racoon high in a beach tree.
5. How was the tree described?
forty-foot tall, dead, its top carried away in some storm, the trunk gutted by rot and insects.
6. What did Jerry intend to do?
capture him by hand.
7.What happened when he got level with the top of the trunk?
The limb on which he was standing cracked ominously under his feet. He jumped to the rim of the tree trunk and the edge crumbled.He plunged down, too suddenly to make a sound, into the deep hollow of the dead tree.
- limb
- crack
- trunk
- ominous
- ominously
- rim
- crumble
- plunge
- hollow
9. Was he hurt when his fall was done?
No, he picked himself up miraculously unhurt; shaken and dazed.
- miraculously
- shaken
- dazed
- miraculously
- miraculously
- miraculously
- miraculously
10. What did Jerry hear then?
the pups sniffing and yelping to him; the shepherd barking in alarm.
11. What was the situation like? Could he find a way out?
desperate: no handholds inside, the snag out of reach; not able to enlarge the hole by kicking; nobody would hear him since he was too far away from home.
- handhold
- snag
- kick
12. What idea at last came to him?
Sending the dogs for help
13. What did the Shep do? How about the two pups?
He streaked across the field to Bob's home. The pups remained, yelping encouragement to their master.
- steak
- streak
- streak across
14. What happened later?
A storm broke and the rain poured into the hollow trunk. Jerry was drenched by the rain.
- pour
- hollow
- trunk
- drench
How did the pups help him at that moment?
They were frightened but still remained, moved closer to comfort the master and stuck their muzzles to lick his feet.
- frightened
- comfort
- muzzle
- lick
15. Who guided Bob to the right tree?
It was the barking of the sad-eyed pups that guided him to the right tree.
16. What efforts were made to rescure Jerry?
It took a rescue party, ropes and fifteen hours to get him out of his sodden prison.
17. Why did he say that Mistake No.1 and Mistake No.2 saved him?
The two pups stayed with him during the mishap, giving him hope and comfort. What's more, it was the barking of the two pups the guided Bob to the right tree to rescue Jerry.
Post-reading Tasks
Summary
1. Summarize the paragraphs:
The third & fourth paragraphs:
Jery fell from a broken limb of a dead beech tree when he tried to capture a racoon and plunged down into the deep hollow of a huge tree but was miraculously unhurt.
The fifth & sixth paragraphs:
Jerry examined his situation inside the tree, and having found no way out, he then send his dog Sheperd to get help from home.
Summarize the story
Reproduce the story
- go racoon hunting with three dogs - Shep and Mistake No.1 & 2
- run out of shells, spot, beech tree, dead, top gone, gutted
- capture, got level with, cracked, jump, rim, crumbled, plunge, too sudden, deep hollow
- halfway down, jutting wood, tumble, miraculously unhurt, shaken, dazed, pick up
- dark inside, hole at feet, hear
- scared, get out, no handholds, out of reach, enlarge by kicking, no good to call, send for, streak across, remain, encouragement
- storm, writhed, rain poured, drenched, move closer, lick
- Bob follow, too tired to jump, barking of pups, guide, right tree
- rescue party, rope, 15 hours, out, exhausted
- last mistake, not give up hope, saved
Words & Expressions
1. set out [ start a journey ]
2. gloomy
1) [ ( of weather ) dark and cloudy ] e.g. What a gloomy day we're having!
2) [ ( of a person ) depressed and unhappy ] e.g. The vet is rather gloomy about my cat's chances of recovery.
3) [ ( of a situation ) having little hope ] e.g. a gloomy economic forecast.
3.roar with laughter [ laugh loudly and nosily ] e.g. Those naughty boys roared with laughter when Tom made a silly mistake in class.
- naughty
- a gloomy economic forecast
- depressed
- set out
- shells
- bullets
4. shells [ bullets ]
5. run out of [ use up; have no more of .. ]
6. spot [ find, see, recognize ]
7. gut [ outside ]
8. get level with [ reach the same height as ]
9. ominous [ suggesting that sth unpleasant is likely to happen ]
e.g. There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewd.
The heavy clouds were ominous of a fierce storm.
10. crumble [ break into pieces ]
11. Down he plunged ... [ Word Study ] [ Down he fell suddenly ... ] e.g. The man never caught the handle. Down he tumbled to the stair landing.
12.a jutting piece of wood [ a piece of wood which stuck out ]
13. tumble [ fall quickly and with out control ] e.g. I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs.
14. miraculously [ surprisingly ]
15. pick oneself up [ get to one's feet slowly and with much effort ]
16. yelp [ sharp bark or cry ]
17. back off [ move backwards]
18.slow sth up/down [ make sth becom slower ] e.g. We slow up when we saw the police.
19.be out of reach [ be out of the distance within which they can strech out their arm and touch sth.]
e.g. The top shelf is out of reach.
20.It does no good to do sth. [ word study ] [ it is useless to do sth. ]
e.g. You must understand it does no good to cry over spilt milk.
21. （ an idea or a though ） come to sb. [ sb. remember or start to think about an idea/thought ]
e.g. I can't remember his name - it'll come to me in a minuit.
22. send sb for ... [ Word Study ] [ to ask sb to bring or deliver sth to you ]
e.g. Mum put the boy on the sofa and sent Tom for the doctor.
23. streak [ run quickly in a straight line ] e.g. The motorbike streak off down the street.
23. writhe [ twist one's body ] e.g. The pain was so unbearable that he was writhing in agnoy.
24. drench [ vt. ( often passive ) to make sb or sth extremely wet ] e.g. A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
25.whimper [ make small weak cries ]
26. frantic frantically
27. party [ a group of people involved in an activity or duty ] e.g. a search parth a rescure party
28. sodden [ adj. extremely wet ]
Language Work
- The aerplane went out of control. It plunged into a deep valley and crashed.
- As the doctor pressed his fingers on the patient's belly, the patient yelped in pain.
- The explosion caused a huge round store to tumble down the hill.
- The boy was nervous, so his mother hugged him to comfort him.
- The seriously wounded soldier miraculously recovered in a month.
- After years of neglect, the bridge one day crumbled.
- The kidnapper pointed his gun at the woman, grinning ominously.
- I don't like to go boating on such a gloomy winter day.
- The captain suddenly spotted an immense iceberg floating towards his ship.
- The ferryboat overturned and many passengers were drowned.
- The couple were rearanging their furniture to make room for the new piano.
- The wounded bird flapped its wings furiously to gain height.
- When the game was over, all the footballers were drenched with sweat.
- The general manager admitted that his corporation was on the verge of bankruptcy.
- Don't shout at the little girl, or you will scare her.
plunge yelp tumble comfort miraculously crumble ominously gloomy spot drown room furiously drench admitted
Language Work(B)
- Food production in this nation has got level with the population growth.
- My great-uncle intended to take up teaching in a private school when he resigned from the ministry.
- Early in the morning, the father set out to visit his daughter on farm.
- To his disappointment, the boy found that the bird nest up in the tree was out of reach.
- My nephew always runs out of pocket money before the end of each month.
- At first, he refused to accept any suggesion but in the end he gave in.
- The driver got lost in the mountains. He had to slow down to look for road signs.
- In a slip of the tongue, the speaker said in his opening reamarks " Good ladies, morning and gentlemen." The audience roared with laughter.
- The editor was not satisfied with the news story and sent the journalist for more information.
Language Work (C)
1.a. The naughty boys roared with laugher when Tom made a mistake when answering.
b. The comedian's funny remarks made the conference roar with laughter.
c. The young men roared with laughter when they heard the joke.
2. a. The man never caught the handle. Down he tumbled to the stair landing.
b. The murderer never got to know what happened to the basement door. Down he slipped into a deep hole at the bottom.
c. The pilot never saw who was behind his jet. Down the jet plunged into the sea.
3.a. You must understand that it does no good to cry over spolit milk.
b. It would do no good to talk to him; he wouldn't listen to you.
c. Did it do you any good to get yourself drunk like that?
4. a. Mum quickly put the boy on the sofa and set Tom for the doctor.
b. The soldiers on the top of the mountain sent the message for support.
c. She sent a letter to the university for an application form.
5. a. It took lots of struggling for her to get the fish bone out of his throat.
b. Finally it took an hour for the doctor to get the fish bone out of her throat.
c. It took almost years' struggle to get the political prisoner out of jail.
Part III Extended Activities
- Dictation
- Read More
- Grammar Work
- Vocabulary Work
- Translation
- Raise Questions
- Cultural Information
Dictation
Script of the dictation
Mary, who had been in a deep sleep, was woken suddenly by a strange noise, which seemed to come from outside her window. She sat up, startled. Then she froze as she saw that the window, which she thought she had locked the night before, was wide open. With a shock, she remembered that her husband had taken the children to visit thier sick grandmother, and that she was alone in the house. Something cracked ominously behind her. Turning, she saw, to her great relief, that it waas only the little dog, which had accidentally knocked over a pitcher on the small table. Suddenly it occured to her that she had left the window slightly open for the pup, as it had not returned after dark. At this moment, the little dog, whimpering,came to her side to lick her feet as it knew it had donw something wrong.
Translation
- It was dark inside the tree. 树洞里很暗
- Above him there was only a pale disc of sky. 抬头只见一圆盘大小的昏暗天空。
- At his feet a pear-shaped hole framed a small patch of grey light. 他脚边一个梨形的小洞透过一丝昏暗的光线
- Night came. A storm broke. 夜幕降临，暴风雨骤起
- Lightning writhed above his head, 他头顶上电闪雷鸣
- and rain poured into the hollow cylinder of the tree. 大量雨水涌入 圆筒状的树洞
Vocabularly Work ( 30' )
- miraculously
- frantically
- writh
- rescue party
- roar with laughter
- stick one's neck
- medium-sized
- pick oneself up
1.stick one's neck out : expose oneself to danger or take a risk
2.nothing ventured,nothing gained : If one doesn't take risk, one will not be likely to succeed.
3. take the plunge : decide on a course of action which you consider is difficulty or risky and which you will not be able to reverse later
take the plunge 冒险尝试 decide on a course of action 决定行动方针
reverse 逆置 撤销
4. beard the lion in its den : confront or attack a powerful or fearful person, in that person's own familiar surroundings.
5.bell the cat : attempt sth dangerous.
6. a leap in the dark : an action or risk taken without knowing waht will happen.
1.Gatsby took the plunge and quit school to start his own computer firm.
2. A politician supporting an unpopular bill is sticking his neck out, and is likely to lose in the next election.
3. I admit that there is some sort of risk involved in trusting him with the task, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
4. To save his friends, he was ready to beel the cat.
5. A heart transplant used to be a leap in the dark.
6. The boss is in his office, so let's beared the lion in its den now.
Word Study
- part of speech 词性
| Sentences | Part of Speech | Meaning |
| 1.He never leveled with his parents about the truth of the accident. | v | 坦白 |
| 2.To the relief of the government, the unemployment rate is leveling out for the first time in 10 months. | adj | 保持平稳的 |
| 3.He made his level best to win the race. | n | 水平 |
| 4.The flood water rose quickly and was immediately leveled with the window. | adj | 和...一样高 |
| 5. The three cars drive level with each other in front of the parade. | adj | 同等 |
| 6. The newspapers leveled a corruption charge against the mayor. | v | 指控 |
| 7. The earthquake leveled the city completely. | v | 破坏 |
| 8. The road levels out in front of the river. | v | 延伸 |
| 9. The criticism has been leveled against the government for failing to take effective measures to rescue the trapped miners. | v | 反对 抗议 |
| 10. Level wi me. Why did you do it? | adj | 跟...说实话 |
| 11.He wanted the government to level the playing field by breaking the large corporations so that the small ones can compete in a fair business environment. | ||
| 12.She's been level-headed about her chances to succeed as an actress. | adj | 清醒的 |
| 13.It's important to keep a level head in a situation like this. | adj | 冷静的 |
先说重点信息 再补充 原因
Translation
- Mom immediately sent Tom for the doctor.
- She failed to bake the cake because she had run out of sugar.
- I know how desperately busy you are.
- The whole class roared with laughter at Tom's slip of the tongue.
- Such things as needls and scissors should be kept out of children's reach
- The soldier was standing under the burning sun, drenched with sweat.
- He returned to his motherland in the end.
没做成 fail to do sth