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1、 新概念英语第三册学习手册Lesson12：Life on a desert island荒岛生活Listen to the tape then answer the question below.听录音，然后答复以下问题。What was exceptional about the two men”s stay on the desert island?Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a so
2、rt of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat
3、 which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the opportunity to find out.Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have
4、it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but th
5、is did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it ”ate like kings”. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were
6、 genuinely sorry that they had to leave.New words and expressions 生词和短语desert island荒岛unrealisticadj. 不真实paradisen. 天堂，乐士wretchedadj. 可怜的，艰难的starvev. 挨饿elementn. 成分opportunityn. 时机coraln. 珊瑚Virgin Islands维尔京群岛Miamin. 迈阿密(美国最南的城市)dinghyn. 救生筏，小船Caribbeann. 加勒比海spear gun捕鱼枪lobstern. 龙虾tankern. 油轮genui
7、nelyadv. 由衷地Robinson Crusoe鲁滨孙.克鲁索(小说鲁滨孙漂流记仆人公)参考译文我们很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，生活简洁又美妙。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，认为荒岛生活很可怕，要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，每天盼船来，却总没见船影。或许，这两种都像都有可信之处。但很少有人能有时机去弄个毕竟。最近有两个人在一座珊瑚岛上呆了5天，他们真盼望在那儿再多呆一些日子。他们驾着一条严峻损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。途中，船开头下沉，他们快速把食物、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。他们每天捕获龙虾和鱼，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，还真的感到圆满呢!
