Unit4 SectionⅠ Reading and Thinking-【精讲精练】2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修第四册人教版（教师用书）

Section Ⅰ　Reading and Thinking

原文呈现

VOLUNTEERING IN THE BUSH

8 March

I just got a parcel① from home!  It took about two weeks to arrive, and it was a bit damaged, but it was so nice to get some sweets  and jam② from home；I've been dying to③ have some of my favourite sweets, and it's always nice to get mail④！

So I've been here in the jungle for about a month now. My secondary⑤  school is a bush school. The classrooms are made of⑥ bamboo, with clay⑦  floors and roofs of grass. It takes me only a few minutes to walk to school down a dusty⑧  track covered in weeds⑨. When I reach the school grounds, I'm greeted by a chorus⑩ of “good morning” from the boys. ❶Unlike students in our country，these boys do not wear cotton⑪ uniforms⑫，and many of them also have to walk a long way，sometimes for up to⑬ two hours，just to get to school.

❶为简单句。主句为并列连词and连接的两个并列句；just to get to school作目的状语。

There's no electricity,  running water or even textbooks, not to mention⑭ laptops, tablets⑮， or other modern devices!  All the students have are pencils, rubbers⑯， and paper. I'm still trying  to adapt to⑰ these conditions. I've had to become much more imaginative in my teaching. Science

is my most challenging subject as my students have no concept of⑱ doing experiments. ❷There is no equipment, and since there isn't even a washroom⑲，if I need water I have to carry it from my house in a basin! It's important not to be too rigid⑳  about rules here, too. ❸The other day  I was showing the boys a chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling out of the test tube spilling everywhere! The class became a circus as the boys, who had never come across anything like this before, started jumping out of the windows.  Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to these students—few will ever become chemists—and most will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.  To be honest， I doubt whether I'm making any difference to these boys' lives at all.

❷是复合句。句中since引导原因状语从句；if引导条件状语从句。

❸是复合句。句中含有固定句式：be doing...when...“正在做某事，这时”；before在句中引导时间状语从句。

17 April

Last weekend I made my first visit to a remote village, home to one of our students, Tombe.  Another teacher and I walked for two and a half hours to get there—first, up a mountain from where we had fantastic views，and then down a shaded path to the valley below. When we arrived at the village, Tombe's mother, Kiak, saw us coming and started crying “ieee ieee”.  We shook hands with all the villagers. Everyone seemed to be related to Tombe.

❹Tombe's  father, Mukap, a man with a strong jaw  and a wrinkled forehead，led us to his house，a low, round bamboo hut with no windows，with a door just big enough to get through，and with grass sticking out of the roof—this shows it is a man's house. Such housing is dark inside so it took time for our eyes to adjust. Fresh grass had been laid on the floor and there was a platform  for Jenny and me to sleep on. There was a fireplace  in the centre of the hut. The only possessions I could see were one broom, a few saucers， a kettle， cups, pans， and a couple of jars.

❹为简单句。a man with...作同位语；hut后跟三个with介词短语作定语。

Mukap built a fire outside and laid stones on it to heat. He then placed the hot stones in an empty oil drum with kau kau(sweet potato)，ripe  corn, and greens. He then covered the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to steam. It smelled delicious.  We ate inside the hut sitting round the fire. ❺I loved listening to the family talking softly to each other in their language，even though I could not participate much in the conversation. Luckily, Tombe interpreted  for us.

❺是复合句。句中listening to the family talking...为感官动词的复合结构；even though引导让步状语从句。

Later，I noticed a can standing upside down on the grill over the fire. After a while, Tombe threw it out of the doorway. Tombe told me that the can was heated to dry out the leftover food.  His family believes that leftovers attract bad spirits in the night, so any leftover food is dried up in a can and the can is then thrown out of the hut.

We left the village the next morning after many goodbyes and firm handshakes.My muscles were aching and my knees shaking as we dragged ourselves down the mountain towards home. That evening I fell happily into bed. It was such a privilege  to have spent a day with Tombe's family.

语料积累

①parcel n．包裹vt.裹好；打包

②jam  n．果酱；堵塞

③be dying to do sth渴望做某事

④mail  n．邮件；信件；邮政

vt.邮寄；发电邮给

⑤secondary adj.中学的；次要的

⑥be made of由……制成(能看出原材料)

be made from由……制成(看不出原材料)

⑦clay  n．黏土；陶土

⑧dusty adj.布满灰尘的

dust n．沙土；灰尘

vi.&vt.擦灰

⑨weed n．杂草；野草

vt.&vi.除杂草

⑩chorus n．合唱曲；合唱团

vt.合唱；齐声说

a chorus of齐声；异口同声

⑪cotton  n．棉布；棉花

⑫uniform n．校服；制服adj.一致的；统一的

⑬up to  到；多达

⑭not to mention更不用说；且不说