Lesson 33 A day to remember
prelude ['prelju:d]
n. 序幕，前奏
prelude (to sth.)
The high wind is the prelude to a heavy storm.
prologue (to …) preface (to …)
foreword (to …) epilogue (to …)
unforeseen [ʌnfɔ:'si:n]
adj. 意料之外的
unforeseen unexpected
foresee expect
foretell predict
Timely snow foretells a bumper harvest.
forecast weather forecast
series ['sɪəri:z]
n. 系列
series species
a series of books
a series of stamps
A series of rainy days spoiled my vacation.
a chain of …
a train of …
a trail of …
a string of …
a stream of …
catastrophe [kə'tæstrəfɪ]
n. 大灾难
mishap
accident contingency
disaster
calamity catastrophe
crockery ['krɒkəri]
n. 陶器
crockery pottery
earthenware
china chinaware
porcelain
suburb ['sʌbɜ:b]
n. 郊区
suburb suburban
rural urban
metropolitan cosmopolitan
panic ['pænɪk]
n. 惊慌
get into a panic in a panic
Lesson 36 A Chance in a Million 百万之一的机会
New words and expression 生词和短语
credulous ['kredjʊləs] adj.轻信的 （always believing what you are told, and therefore easily deceived）
(往往是形容人,表示一种不满的评价,也可以形容物,比如时代age.) 近义词 naïve能够看出
Credulous a.轻信的，易于相信的。
She was credulous when she listened to the salesman and bought the car for too much money.
credible ['kredɪb(ə)l a.可信的，可靠的（多形容物，也可形容人）。（to be able to be believed or trusted）
a credible friend 一个值得信赖的朋友 但形容人更多用reliable trustworthy
the student told the teacher a credible story that she missed classes because she was sick.
gullible ['gʌlɪb(ə)l] adj.轻信的，容易上当受骗的 gullible tourists 轻信的旅游者
naive: 天真的 not having much experience of how complicated life is so that you trust people too much and believe
that good things will always happen。 naive girls 天真的女孩
reliable adj. 十分可靠的
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Lesson 3:An unknown goddess ⽆名⼥神
Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
听录⾳，然后回答以下问题。How did the archaeologists know that the statue was a goddess?
Some time ago, an interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea. An American team
explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini. The city at one time must have been
prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization. Houses, often three storeys high, were built of stone. They had large
rooms with beautifully decorated walls. The city was even equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes
were found beneath the narrow streets.
The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from the 15th century B.C. until Roman times.
Lesson14 A noble gangster
There was a time when the owners of shop and businesses in Chicago had to
pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for' protection' If the money was not
paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying
his shop. Obtaining 'protechon money' is not a modern crime. As long ago as the
fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable
discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life
work destroyed by gangsters.
Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of
soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be
known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at
war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing
