新概念英语第三册第12课.pptVIP

Lesson 12Life on a desert island Lesson 12Life on a desert island (Ⅰ) 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. Lesson 12Life on a desert island (Ⅱ) 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 cans 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 rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it ate like kings. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave. desert desert n. [‘dez?t] [c;u] a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it. Many deserts are covered by sand.沙漠；荒漠，荒原 e.g. 撒哈拉沙漠 the Sahara Desert v. [di’z?:t] [vn] to leave sb without help or support抛弃，离弃；遗弃（某人）（syn) abandon e.g. 她被丈夫遗弃了。 She was deserted by her husband. 2.[vn] [often passive] to go away from a place and leave it empty舍弃，离弃（某地方）(syn) abandon e.g. 这些村庄已经荒无人烟了。 The villages had been deserted. deserted adj. [di’z?:tid] 1. (of a place) wi