Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒岛生活【Text】§Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒岛生活What was exceptional about the two men’s stay on the desert island?Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and tins of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rain-water in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.参考译文我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
新概念英语第三册第12课习题答案及解析新概念英语第三册第12课习题答案及解析新概念3课后习题答案：Lesson 12 1c 2d 3a 4b 5d 6c 7b 8c 9b 10d 11d 12a新概念3课后习题解析：1.C 要么是过度乐观, 要么是过度的悲观unreal adj.不真实的, 虚幻的present vt.介绍, 赠送, 表现wretchedness n.可怜, 悲惨idleness n.闲散, 懒惰, 赋闲无事unduly adv.不适当地, 过度地, 不正当地optimistic adj.乐观的pessimistic adj.悲观的, 厌世的2.D essential(adj.必需的, 基本的)= very necessaryequipment n.装备, 设备3.A fend for oneself 独立的照料某人4.B think of sb/sth as… 把某人、某事看作为...5.D few of us 我们当中没有几个人6.C after(介词)其后要和名词、动名词搭配-- after(连词)引导时间状语从句, 表示动作在前。
(A答案变为they had rowed就对了)7.B Refrigerators are useful.= A refrigerator is useful.Scarce adj.缺乏的, 不足的, 稀有的, 不充足的8.C 为做过的事情后悔：regret + doing be sorry that是否能够表示后悔去做某事?9.Binhabited(adj.有人居住的) uninhabited(adj.无人居住的)unpopular adj.不流行的, 不受欢迎的barren adj.不生育的, 不孕的, 贫瘠的 n.荒地10.D 完全不同的 entirely differentnaturally adv.自然地, 天然地11.D觉得、发现某人或某事怎么样：find sb/sth to be -- They found the trip to be very exciting.某人或某事被发现怎么样, 常用被动语态。
L121.desert island:①a tropical island where no people live 荒无人烟的热带岛isolated / uninhabited; dessert2.unrealistic: not showing or accepting things as they are 不切实际的；不实事求是的unrealistic expectations不切实际的期望Some parents have totally unrealistic expectations of teachers / their children.It is unrealistic to expect them to be able to solve the problem immediately.3.paradise:①(often Paradise) [U] (in some religions) a perfect place where people are said to go when they die （某些宗教所指的）天堂，天国②[C] a place that is extremely beautiful and that seems perfect, like heaven 天堂，乐土，乐园（指美好的环境）There is paradise above and Suzhou Hangzhou below.③[C] a perfect place for a particular activity or kind of person(某类活动或某类人的)乐园，完美去处HK is a shopper's paradise. / Hawaii is a paradise for surfers.a children's ~ =a ~ for children④[U] a state of perfect happiness 至福；极乐→blissBeing alone is his idea of paradise.他视独处为至乐之事。
