高中英语人教版高二下10

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 10  Frightening nature  Speaking      1 Example
[00:10.00]A:Are there any typhoons in the area where you live?
[00:14.86]B:There are,sometimes but not very many.
[00:19.83]A:Are you afraid of them?
[00:23.20]B:Yes,I remember one that happened last summer.
[00:29.26]It was a bit scary.but I wasn't really afraid.
[00:34.72]I saw the tops of trees moving in circles,
[00:39.68]and sand piece of wood were swept up into the air.
[00:45.32]What about you?Have you ever experienced one?
[00:50.08]A:No,but I know about a friend whose parents lived in Guangdong.
[00:56.63]One day a real typhoon hit their village.
[01:01.60]It was very frightening and destroyed most of the houses.
[01:07.34]My friend said he was scared to death.
[01:12.07]Some people got into a total panic,
[01:16.93]when the typhoon pulled the roofs off their houses and cars went up in the air.
[01:23.91]B:How terrible!
[01:26.96]A:Yeah,man.NOw that kind of thing would really frighten me.
[01:33.02]Reading  Under the volcano
[01:40.28]My dear Tacitus,
[01:43.84]You asked me to write you something about the death of my uncle Pliny,
[01:49.40]who died in an unforgettable disaster.
[01:53.55]I will tell you all I remember and real in my uncle's notes.
[01:59.72]I hope you can use it for the history book that you are writing.
[02:05.18]We lived in southern Italy.
[02:09.12]On the 24th of August in 79 AD,between two and three in the afternoon
[02:17.46]my mother drew my uncle's attention to a cloud of unusual size and shape.
[02:24.61]We watched it rising from a mountain at such a distance
[02:30.57]we couldn't tell which one,
[02:34.23]but we later learnt that it was Mount Vesuvius.
[02:39.27]Some of the cloud was white;
[02:42.72]in other parts there were dark spots of dirt and ash.
[02:48.78]The sight of it awoke the scientist in my uncle to go and see it from closer at hand.
[02:55.75]he ordered a boat to be prepared.
[02:59.80]As he was leaving the house,
[03:03.77]he was brought a letter from His friend's wife rectina,
[03:08.92]who was frightened by the danger.
[03:12.47]Her house lay at the foot of Vesuvius,
[03:17.43]and there was no way out except by boat.
[03:22.29]She begged him to save her.He changed his Plans.
[03:28.25]What started out as a trip for knowledge now called for courage.
[03:34.52]he hurried to a place from which others were fleeing,
[03:40.08]and held his course directly into danger.
[03:44.63]Was he afraid?
[03:47.79]I don't think so,because he wrote a report about all the observed during his trip.
[03:55.02]Ash and bits of rock that were burnt black were falling onto the ship now,
[04:01.66]darker and more,the closer they went.
[04:05.89]he paused for a moment wondering whether to turn back as the captain urged him.
[04:12.42]But after rescuing Rectina he wanted to rescue his friend Pompy.
[04:18.69]On the other side of the bay
[04:22.22]Pompy had made his ships ready even before the danger arrived.
[04:28.38]He had to wait for a good wind,
[04:32.51]blowing the other way than the one that carried my uncle right in.
[04:38.15]upon arrival,my uncle hugged Pompy and tried to give him courage.
[04:45.52]In order the help the other calm down,he asked to be taken to the baths.
[04:52.60]he bathed and had dinner,
[04:56.36]giving everyone the impression that there was no danger at all.
[05:01.51]After dinner my uncle said he wanted to sleep,
[05:06.76]and it seemed as if he really did so.
[05:11.20]Flames lighted up many parts of Vesuvius;their light scared people
[05:17.65]but my uncle told them that the flames came from the homes of farmers
[05:23.29]who had left in a panic with the kitchen fires still on.
[05:28.12]Of course this was not true.
[05:31.57]They discussed what to do:to stay in the house or to try the open air.
[05:39.15]There were earthquakes and a rain of burning rocks was coming down.
[05:44.79]They decided to go outside.
[05:49.05]They tied pillows on top of their heads as protection against the shower of rocks.
[05:55.60]It was daylight now in other parts of the world