1 Unit2 Sailing the ocean 一 词汇 1. 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. 二 语法填空 I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh ____1___ his journey of over 40 days through about 4,000 miles in an open boat across _____2____ Pacific Ocean in 1789. Our outward voyage in the “Bounty” to Tahiti ______3____ (fill) with the kind of incidents that I ____4____ (think) would be my stories when I returned home. ___5____ how wrong I was! On our departure ____6____ Tahiti , some of the crew took over the ship. They deposited the captain into a small ____7____ to let him find his own way home. But ____8__ else was to go with? Those of us on board the “Bounty” ____9____ (catch) in a dilemma. Was it ____10___ (good) to risk certain death by sitting close together on a small, crowded open boat with very little food and water? 三 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 一 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 二 语法填空 1.on 2.the 3. had been filled 4. thought 5. But 6. from 7. boat 8. who 9. were caught
2 10. better 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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