Learning about Languageppt配套的板书设计及意图

Unit 2

测试题

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词汇

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However, it was a_______ to use as one of the points of reference was the moving ship itself.

2.

This was a more precise and s_______ version of the astrolabe.

3.

It proved to be the most accurate and r_______ of these early navigational instruments.

4.

This seems to have been the first and most useful form of exploration which carried the m___________ amount of risk. 5. Once we were at sea, our r_______ every day was the same.

6.

There is a special cloud formation which i_________ there is land close by.

7.

Seamen could follow the birds to land even if they were o__________ and in the open sea.

8.

Wise seamen could a____________ the speed, but they could also be dangerous.

9.

There is no s_______ method of measuring longitude until the 17th

century when the British solved this theoretical problem.

10.

An early method of measuring speed involved throwing a k_________ rope tied to a log over the side of the ship.

11.

The compass has a special m_________ pointer which always indicates the North Pole.

12.

The sextant was the u_________ version of the astrolabe and quadrant which reduced the tendency to make mistakes.

13.

It was s_______ quantities but the extreme lack of water was the hardest to cope with psychologically.

14.

The d_____________ of staying on the ship seemed to grow as I thought about how wrong it was to treat Captain Bligh in this way. 15.

The t__________ in the boat got worse as the supply of food and water gradually disappeared.

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翻译句子

1．我们很可能感到奇怪，在经纬度用来在地图上标出船只位置之前，海员是如何对海洋探索的。

2．在看不见陆地的时候，可以用海鸟来指明通往陆地的去路。

(be used to do)

3．你简直无法想象我们被放逐在小船上漂泊了40天后在帝汶岛登陆时的凄惨样子。

4．在公园里，我看见一个小男孩手持风筝线，风筝在他的头顶上正由风摆布，忽上忽下。

（overhead, at the mercy of）

5．他总是使我们忙个不停，并且竭力使我们忘记饥渴。

（take one’s minds off）

参考答案

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词汇

1. awkward

2. simplified

3. reliable

4. minimum

5.routine 6. indicates

7. offshore

8. accelerate

9. secure

10. knotted 11. magnetic

12. updated

13. starvation

14. drawback

15. tension 三

翻译句子

1.We may well wonder how seaman explored the oceans before latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship’s position on a map.

2. Sea birds could be used to show the way to land when it was nowhere to be seen. 3. You could not imagine a more disturbing sight than what we looked like when arriving in Timor over forty days after being set loose in our small boat. 4. In the park I saw a small boy holding the string of a kite overhead, which was rising and falling at the mercy of the wind. 5. He kept us busy and tried to take our minds off our stomachs and our thirst.

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