外刊精读：The amazing shipping container 灵活实用的集装箱学案-2024届高考英语一轮复习

2024届高考备考 外刊精读 Day 6 The amazing shipping container灵活实用的集装箱 学案 文本导读：集装箱是一种用于存储和运输货物的大型金属容器。它容积巨大，方便长途运输大批货物，让人们有机会接触到来自世界各地的商品，对贸易全球化做出了贡献。本文介绍集装箱的奇妙之处. Step 1:词汇温习 imported 进口 goods 商品，货物 cost-effective 划算的 container 集装箱 universal 通用的，广泛适用的 port 港口 world trade 世界贸易 globalisation 全球化 versatile 多功能的，多用途的 cargo （轮船或飞机装载的）货物 terminal 码头 shipment 运输 trade route 贸易路线 ripple effect 连锁反应 staggering 惊人的，令人震惊的 take its toll 造成破坏 storage 储物，储藏 Step 2: 原文精听+精读 Look at many of the items around your home and some will probably have been imported from abroad by ship. Moving goods around the world by sea is the easiest and most cost-effective way to do it. But what has made it more practical is the invention of the shipping container. They're not the most amazing thing to look at, but because of their design, and especially their universal size, it means they can be loaded and unloaded on to huge vessels at any port that is big enough to accommodate them. The standardisation of these simple metal containers in the 1950s and 60s marked a turning point in world trade, driving down costs and ultimately leading to globalisation. Inside these versatile metal boxes could be anything from nappies to cars, and they are transported on container ships that ply our seas and oceans. They have been described as 'the monsters of the seas' because of their huge size. The very biggest are almost half a kilometre long and are piled high with more than 20,000, 20-foot-long (6.06m) boxes. In fact, the world's largest, The Port of Rotterdam, has a capacity of 24,346 TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit) – an exact unit of measurement used to determine cargo capacity for container ships and terminals. With around 5,500 container ships globally, it's incredible to think about the amount of goods being moved around the world. However, because we now rely so much on these global shipments of goods, there can be problems when things go wrong. In 2021, the Ever Given, loaded with 18,000 containers, got stu