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Text A General Understanding

发布时间:2021-08-14 17:10   发布人:仪秀芳   浏览次数:471

Global Reading >> Word Web

 

Think of as many words and phrases as possible about a ship.

hooter 汽笛    cabin 船舱    boiler room锅炉房

wheelhouse操舵室  engine room轮机舱  deck 甲板 

propeller螺旋桨   rudder     mast 桅杆

radar 雷达     anchor     life buoy (jacket) 救生圈(衣)

harbor 港口    dock 码头    crew 船员

captain 船长    chief officer 大副   second (third) officer二(三)副

Think of the English equivalents for the following different types of “”.

航空母舰:aircraft carrier  独木舟:canoe    (大型)游艇:yacht

快速大帆船:clipper   集装箱船:container ship  油轮:oil tanker

巡洋舰:cruiser    驱逐舰:destroyer    破冰舰:icebreaker

摩托艇:motorboat   舢板:sampan    潜水艇:submarine

气垫船:hovercraft

 

Global Reading >> Part Division of the Text

 

Parts

Para(s)

Main Ideas

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1~9

The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother respectively.

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10~16

The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother respectively.

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17~23

The writer received three letters in reply.

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24~26

The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it.

 

Global Reading >> Further Understanding

 

I. For Part 1 Questions and Answers

1. Where did the writer spend that Thanksgiving? Where was he going? 

(=He spent that Thanksgiving on a ship. He was going to a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.)

2. Why do you think they were sailing there? 

(They were sending thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods and five-hundred-pound bombs there.)

3. What made the writer as a cook extremely busy on that Thanksgiving Day? 

(=As a cook, he was preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey. It was a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away.)

4. What was the writer thinking about on the deck after the day’s hard work? 

(=He got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest.)

 

II. For Part 2 & 3 Table Completion

Fill in the table with the main contents of the letters.

Correspondents

Letters Sent

Letters Received

Father

Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading.

Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.

The Rev. Nelson

Thanks him for his morning school prayers.

Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the reassurance brought to him by the writer’s letter.

Grandmother

Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer’s life with stardust.

Expresses her loving gratefulness for her grandson.