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Unit 5 Lesson One A Sea Story
Lesson One 重点词组:
1. something terrible 某件可怕的事情
2. happen to sb. 发生在某人身上
3. break my body and soul 击垮我的身心
4. less than a single day 不到一天
5. change my hair from black to white. 把我的头发从黑变白
6. risk doing 冒险做某事
7. All at once =Suddenly 突然
8. be covered with dark clouds 被乌云覆盖
9. in less than a minute 在不到一分钟之内
10. put his mouth close to my ear 把他的嘴巴凑近我的耳朵
11. cry out喊出
12. the moment=the minute=the instant=Immediately=as soon as 一......就
13. in the direction of the whirlpool 朝着漩涡的方向
14. on the edge of the whirlpool 在旋涡的边缘
15. in such a way 以这样一种方式
16. at great speed 以高速
17. make three important observation 有三个重要的发现
18. two objects of equal extent 两个同等面积的物体
19. two objects of the same size 两个同等大小的物体
20. tie myself to a barrel 把我自己绑在木桶上
21. make the right decision 做出了正确的决定
22. be pulled into the bottom of the whirlpool 被拖入了旋涡底部
23. In the end =Finally=Eventually 最后
24. be unable to recogise sb. 不能够识别
25. expect sb. to do sth. 期待某人去做某事
About three years ago, something ___1__(terror) happened to me.
That was the day __2___ it took only six hours to break my body and soul. You think I am a very old man—but I am not. It took less than a single day __3___ (change) my hair from black to white.
One day, my two brothers and I were coming back from the islands where we often risked __4___(go) and got more fish than others. All at once, the sky was ___5___(cover) with dark clouds and in less than a minute we were in a terrible storm. A huge wave covered our boat and my younger brother fell into the sea. My elder brother put his mouth close to my ear and cried out “Moskoe-strom!” The moment I heard the word I became very __6____(frighten). I knew what he meant by that one word well enough.
With the wind and waves, we were going _7_ the direction of the whirlpool. We were hopeless. Nothing could save us. I felt sick, as if I was falling from a mountain top in a dream. We went round and round, nearer and __8___ (near) to the horrible edge of the whir