高中英语人教版2000年高三下02

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 14  Roots
[00:02.44]第十四单元根
[00:04.88]Lesson 53  1 Reading comprehension
[00:08.71]第五十三课1 阅读理解
[00:12.54]Read the text fast to find answers to these questions.
[00:15.78]快速朗读课文并找出问题的答案.
[00:19.02]1 What happened to  Kunta in this story?
[00:22.14]1 在这个故事里面昆塔发生了什么事?
[00:25.26]2 What do you think happened to many of the black people on the ship?
[00:28.80]2 你认为大量的黑人在船上发生了什么事情?
[00:32.34]JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN
[00:34.42]走向未知世界的旅程
[00:36.49]Kunta wondered why the white people had done this to him.
[00:39.22]昆塔想知道白人为什么这样对他.
[00:41.95]Born a free man,he was now in chains.
[00:44.43]他生来本是个自由人,现在却戴上镣铐.
[00:46.92]Heavy iron chains around his feet and hands were fixed to a metal bar
[00:50.60]沉重的镣铐围在他的脚上,手被绑在一条金属栏上.
[00:54.28]that ran round the hall about ten centimetres off the ground.
[00:57.06]一条绕着大厅而且离地面大约十厘米的镣铐.
[00:59.85]He was just able to lie down on the ground,but could not stand up.
[01:02.43]他只能躺在地上,却不能站起来.
[01:05.02]He sat in the darkness and listened to the people around him.
[01:07.75]他站在黑暗中听到有人在他周围.
[01:10.48]One man had a head wound and was in pain.
[01:12.91]一个人的头部受伤了而且很痛苦.
[01:15.34]Another,whose language Kunta understood,was crying softly to himself.
[01:18.81]另外一个人昆塔能听懂他的意思,他正向着昆塔呻吟.
[01:22.29]Kunta knew it was the middle of the night,
[01:24.21]昆塔知道那是中夜,
[01:26.13]for though the small open window high in the wall he could see stars.
[01:29.30]因为通过墙的上方开着的小窗,他能够看见星星.
[01:32.47]He could also hear night insects and the sound of waves on the shore.
[01:35.71]他也听到昆虫的鸣叫和海上的浪声.
[01:38.95]Kunta had been seized in the forest
[01:42.90]and then hit on the head with a hard object.
[01:45.22]昆塔知道这是在森林,他的头被一个硬东西打了一下.
[01:47.55]When he woke up, his hands and feet had already been tied together.
[01:50.63]当他醒来时,他的手和脚都已经被绑在一起了.
[01:53.71]What shocked him most was that the men who carried him were black.
[01:56.55]最让他惊讶的是抓他的人是一个黑人.
[01:59.38]He reasoned with them,and tried to persuade them to set him free.
[02:02.31]他跟他们讲道理,并试着说服他们放他自由.
[02:05.23]But they would not listen to him.
[02:06.90]但是他们并不听他的.
[02:08.57]When they came to the river,a white man was waiting in the boat for them.
[02:11.40]当他们来到河边,一个白人正在船上等他们.
[02:14.22]There was an argument about money,so it seemed,
[02:16.56]这是一笔金钱交易,所以看起来,
[02:18.89]in a language that Kunta did not understand.
[02:21.11]昆塔不明白这种语言.
[02:23.33]Finally,Kunta was thrown into the bottom of the boat
[02:25.97]最后,昆塔被扔进船底,
[02:28.61]and covered with an old smelly cloth.
[02:30.65]被一些发臭的衣料盖着.
[02:32.69]The men took him in their boat to the castle on the coast
[02:34.81]这些人把他带到海岸上的城堡.
[02:36.94]where he was now held prisoner.
[02:38.67]他现在被囚禁起来.
[02:40.39]Another thing which shocked Kunta
[02:44.15]was that women were held in the castle too.
[02:46.33]另外一个令他惊讶的是妇女们也被带到这个城堡上.
[02:48.52]He could hear their crying,also children's voices.
[02:51.14]他听到她们的哭声和孩子们的叫声.
[02:53.77]What was to become of them all,he wondered.
[02:55.69]他想知道接下来会发生什么事.
[02:57.61]For all his life,
[02:59.08]在他的一生中,
[03:00.56]he had known that people suddenly disappeared from their villages.
[03:03.08]他知道他们村的人们突然间全都消失了.
[03:05.60]He had known that it was not safe
[03:09.15]to travel alone in the forest near the coast.
[03:11.33]他知道独自一人在海岸线附近的森林行走是不安全的.
[03:13.52]But why did white people want to catch Africans and put them in chains?
[03:16.49]但是白人为什么想抓非洲人并把他们囚禁起来呢?
[03:19.47]Would they be killed or even eaten?
[03:21.55]他们会被杀害或者甚至被吃掉吗?
[03:23.62]The situation seemed hopeless and he knew his life was in danger
[03:26.55]情况看起来好像希望不大,他知道他的生命处于危险之中.