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1、2020學年人教版英語精品資料
英語選修6(人教版)
第一學時 Reading and Comprehension
美文欣賞
The damage of a volcano eruption
Have you ever considered how weak humans are compared with the power of nature like a volcano,hurricane, flood or earthquake ?
Although people can admire exciting sight of volcano eruption,it ca
2、n also bring people a lot of damage.Take Mount Kilauea as an example.Its Hawaiis youngest but most active volcano, which first erupted in January,1983 and has been active ever since.Even more amazing,the eruption of Mount Vesuvio in 79 AD took the people of Pompeii by surprise causing almost all th
3、e people to have died and all the city was buried under 20 feet of stones and ashes.As a result,we need volcanologists to study volcano and reduce its damage to human beings.
課文助手
一、請將課文“An Exciting Job”翻譯成漢語,然后對照譯文助讀自主勘誤
譯文助讀
一份令人興奮的工作
我的工作是世界上最偉大的工作。我跑的地方是稀罕奇特的地方,和我一道工作的人來自世界各地。(我們)有時在室外工
4、作,有時在辦公室里,有時工作中要用科學儀器,有時要會見當地百姓和游客,但是我從來不感到厭煩。雖然我的工作偶爾也有危險。但是我并不在乎,因為危險能激勵我,使我感到有活力。然而,最重要的是,通過我的工作能保護普通百姓免遭世界上最大的自然威力之一的威脅——火山。
20年前,作為一名火山學家,我被派到夏威夷火山觀測站(HVO)工作。我的任務是收集有關基拉韋厄火山的數據資料,這是夏威夷最活躍的火山之一。收集和評估了這些信息之后,我就幫助其他科學家一起預測下次火山熔巖將往何處流失,流速是多少。我們的工作拯救了許多人的生命,因為熔巖要流經之地,老百姓都可以得到離開家園的通知。遺憾的是,我們不可能把他們的家
5、搬離巖漿流過的地方,因此,許多房屋被熔巖淹沒,或者焚燒殆盡。
當滾燙的巖石從火山噴發(fā)出來并撒落回地面時,它所造成的損失比想象的要小些。這是因為在巖石下落的基拉韋厄火山頂附近無人居住。而像波浪一樣順著山坡緩慢下流的火山熔巖所造成的損失卻大得多,這是因為火山巖漿所流經的地方,一切東西都被掩埋在熔巖下面了。然而,火山噴發(fā)本身的確是很壯觀的,我永遠也忘不了第一次看見火山噴發(fā)時的情景。那是在我抵達夏威夷后的第二個星期。那天我辛辛苦苦地干了一整天,很早就上床睡覺了。我在熟睡中突然感到床鋪在搖晃,接著我聽到一陣奇怪的聲音,就好像一列火車在我的窗外行駛一樣。因為我在夏威夷曾經經歷過多次地震,所以對這
6、種聲音我并不在意。我剛要再睡,突然我的臥室亮如白晝。我趕緊跑出房間,來到后花園,在那兒我能遠遠地看見基拉韋厄火山。在山的一邊有火山噴發(fā),紅色發(fā)燙巖漿像噴泉一樣,朝天上噴射達幾百米高。真是絕妙的奇景!
就在這次火山噴發(fā)的第二天,我有幸作了一次近距離的觀察。我和另外兩位科學家驅車上山,到最靠近這次火山噴口的地方才下車。早先從觀測站出發(fā)時就帶了一些特別的安全服,于是我們穿上安全服再走近火山口。我們三個人看上去就像宇航員一樣。都穿著白色的防護服遮住全身,戴上了頭盔和特別的手套,還穿了一雙大靴子。穿著這些衣服走起路來實在不容易,但我們還是緩緩往火山口的邊緣走去,并且向下看到了紅紅的沸騰的中央,
7、另外兩人攀下火山口去收集供日后研究用的巖漿,我是第一次經歷這樣的事,所以留在山頂上觀察他們。
如今,我和當初從事這項工作時一樣滿懷熱情。雖然我從事火山研究很多年了,但是我至今仍對火山的壯麗景色以及它那潛在的巨大破壞力感到驚愕不已。
二、課文精彩選段背誦部分
①I was appointed as a volcanologist working for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory(HVO)twenty years ago.My job is collecting information for a database about Mount Ki
8、lauea,which is one of the most active volcanoes in Hawaii.Having collected and evaluated the information,I help other scientists to predict where lava from the volcano will flow next and how fast.Our work has saved many lives because people in the path of the lava can be warned to leave their houses
9、.Unfortunately,we cannot move their homes out of the way,and many houses have been covered with lava or burned to the ground.
②Changbaishan is in JiLin Province,Northeast China.Much of this beautiful,mountainous area is thick forest.Changbaishan is Chinas largest nature reserve and it is kept in it
10、s natural state for the people of China and visitors from all over the world to enjoy.The land varies in height from 700 metres above sea level to over 2,000 metres and is home to a great diversity of rare plants and animals.Among the rare animals are cranes,black bears,leopards and tigers.Many people come to Changbaishan to study its unique plants and animals.Others come to walk in the mountains,to see the spectacular waterfalls or to bathe in the hot water pools.However,the attraction that arouses the greatest appreciation in the reserve is Tianchi or the Lake of Heaven.