新概念英语第三册讲义：Lesson 12 Life on a desert island电子教案

新概念英语第三册讲义：L e s s o n12

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§ Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒岛生活

【New words and expressions】生词和短语

◆desert island 荒岛

◆unrealistic adj. 不真实的

◆Paradise n. 天堂，乐土

◆wretched adj. 可怜的，艰苦的

◆Starve v. 挨饿

◆element n. 成分

◆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 鲁滨逊·克鲁索（小说《鲁滨逊漂流记》主人公）

★desert island 荒岛

desert : 沙漠

v. 背弃，遗弃

dessert:甜点

★unrealistic adj. 不真实的

★paradise n. 天堂，乐土

a lot of people imagine the USA as their paradise.

heaven: 天堂，天国，也指死亡

★wretched adj. 可怜的，艰苦的

miserable

lead a wretched / miserable / terrible life

★starve v. 挨饿

starve to death

★element n. 成分

★opportunity n. 机会

golden opportunity 绝佳的机会

opportunity knocks only once 千载难逢的机会

chance 表机会时可以与opportunity 互换，表可能性时则不可

I had chance / opportunity of visiting Paris.

There is a chance that I will see him.

The chances are that he will be elected the president.

The chances are that he will past his examination next week. + of, to

He had not opportunity to see her.

★oral n. 珊瑚

★irgin 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

He is genuinely thankful to me.

adj. genuine

n. genuineness

★Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊·克鲁索（小说《鲁滨逊漂流记》主人公）【Text】

§ Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒岛生活

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 sort 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 which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of 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 it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and tins 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 this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rain-water in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun