Life on a desert island新概念

1、Reading ComprehensionNew Words and ExpressionThe Extended Section Homework目錄CONTENTSCONTENTS1. Reading comprehensionREADING COMPRHENSIONREADING COMPRHENSION1.Listen to the tape then answer the 1.Listen to the tape then answer the question belowquestion below. According to the text, what are peoples

2、opinion about staying on the desert island? What was exceptional about the two mens stay on the desert island?2. Read the passage by yourself and answer the following 2. Read the passage by yourself and answer the following questions. Make a summary writingquestions. Make a summary writing.(1) Was t

3、he mens boat damaged or not?(2) Where were they taking it?(3) What happened to it on the way?(4) What did the men load on to their rubber dinghy?(5) Where did they row?(6) Where did they arrive?(7) Where did the men collect water during their stay there?(8) How did they catch fish and lobster?(9) Ho

4、w were they rescued?SummarySummary: Two men set out on a badly damaged boat to Miami. Unfortunately, the boat began to sink on their way. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches and cans of beer. They rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean and finally arrived at a tiny coral

5、 island. On the island they collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. They caught lobster and fish with a spear gun. 5 days later, they were rescued by a passing tanker. They were sorry that they had to leave. 3. Multiple choice 3. Multiple choice (1) In what way are the pictures we form of life (1)

6、 In what way are the pictures we form of life on a desert island unreal? on a desert island unreal? A. They fail to present the wretchedness of such a situation.B. We forget that we would be too weak to work and only imagine the pleasure of idleness.C. They are either unduly optimistic or unduly pes

7、simistic.D. They lack any truth at all as most of us have never visited one.CD D(2) What was the equipment the men had brought (2) What was the equipment the men had brought that proved essential to their survival?that proved essential to their survival?A. Tools with which they had been going to rep

8、air their boat.B. Food, matches and tins of beer.C. Rainwater, lobster and fish.D. A spear gun and a rubber dinghy. A A(3) What made the men wish to stay on the desert (3) What made the men wish to stay on the desert island?island?A. Discovering how pleasant life can be fending for oneself.B. Having

9、 seen very few trees and no rainwater on the coral island.C. The fact that they were able to eat the same food as kings eat.D. Knowing they no longer needed to take their boat to Miami for repair.Intensive readingWould the men still wish that they had stayed longer if they had been on the island for

10、 more than a year? Why?If you have to stay on a island by yourself, what would you bring with you? (three things at most)2. New words and expressionsNew words and expressionsdinghy n. 小艇；小船 救生艇；橡皮救生艇rubber dinghy:救生筏、橡皮艇Translation: They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and c

11、ans of beer .lobster lbst n 1. flesh of a lobster 2. a sea animal with eight legs, a shell, and two large clawsNorway lobster 蟬蝦 ; 挪威龍蝦Lobster sauce 豆豉 ; 龍蝦汁 Spiny lobster 龍蝦 ; 多刺龍蝦 milk tanker 奶罐車(chē)water tanker供水消防車(chē)tankera cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk genuine geniusadj. 真實(shí)的，真正的；誠(chéng)懇的n

12、. 天才，天賦；精神genuinely denjuinli ：in accordance with truth or fact or reality.e.g. both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.Life on a desert island is wretched.wretched retid 1. of very poor quality or condition 2. characterized by physical misery 3. very unhappy; full of misery adv.wretchedly 鄙劣地；可憐地n.wretch 可憐的人，不幸的人Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the opportunity to find out.You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, w