高中英语人教版高二下10

[06:00.05]but there the darkness was darker and thicker than any night.
[06:05.61]They carried to torches.My uncle drank some cold water.
[06:11.88]They came a smell of sulphur,and then flames.
[06:16.63]helped by two slaves he stood up,and immediately fell down dead.
[06:23.69]When daylight came again two days after he died,his body was found.
[06:29.85]He looked more asleep than dead.I will stop here.
[06:35.60]I have written down everything that I saw and heard
[06:39.86]while memor-ies are still fresh.
[06:43.62]You can pick out the important bits,
[06:47.46]for it is one thing to write a letter,another to write history,
[06:53.31]one thing to write to a friend,another to write for the public.
[06:59.87]Farewell.Pliny,the Younger.
[07:06.81]Integrating skills   reading TYPHOON
[07:12.98]The Nan shan was on her way from the south to Fuzhou,
[07:18.83]with Chinese workers on board,
[07:22.31]returning to their home villages in the province of Fujian.
[07:27.87]The morning had been fine, for there was no wind.The heat was close.
[07:34.24]Observing the fall of the barometer,
[07:38.29]Captain MacWhirr thought,"There's some dirty weather knocking about."
[07:44.22]He lifted his eyes to the sky.
[07:48.19]"What's up?" Jukes,the engineer,asked.
[07:53.05]"It looks as if a typhoon is coming on," said the Captain.
[07:59.11]"Whatever there might be," said Jukes,
[08:03.55]"we are moving straight into it."
[08:07.39]"A storm is a storm, Mr Jukes," answered the Captain,
[08:13.43]"and a full-powered steamship has got to face it."I must have been asleep.
[08:20.79]What was that loud noise?
[08:24.14]Wind?Why had I not been called?
[08:29.20]"Came on like this," shouted Jukes,
[08:33.46]"five minutes ago...all of a sudden."
[08:37.83]The storm grew stronger and huge waves swept over the ship.
[08:44.07]It was unbelievable how much water came down on the ship.
[08:49.42]Something told Captain Mac Whirr that the Nanshan was lost.
[08:55.90]"She's done for," he said to himself.
[09:01.05]This weather was simply impossible.
[09:06.01]They were all on the bridge when the full force of the hurricane struck the ship.
[09:12.57]"Will she live through this?.
[09:16.54]Ship ..may ...through this..all fight yet," the Captain shouted.
[09:23.59]"Do you think she may?"Jukes screamed.
[09:28.56]But the wind swallowed the reply,
[09:32.79]and Jukes heard only one word,spoken with great energy "..Always .."
[09:40.34]This was their work
[09:43.50]to move the ship over the high sea and into the very eye of the wind.
[09:49.66]Captain MacWhirr saw a white tower of water,
[09:54.21]so high that he couldn't believe his eyes,advancing towards them.
[10:00.16]It raced to meet the ship.The Nanshan jumped.
[10:05.73]With a tearing crash,tons of water fell upon the deck,
[10:10.69]as though the ship passed under a waterfall.
[10:15.26]"Another one like this,and that's the last of her," cried the Captain.
[10:21.19]"Seems as if the wind had dropped,Sir." There was no wind, not a breath.
[10:28.74]The unexpected silence made Jukes feel uncomfortable.
[10:33.78]"We have done it,Sir," he whispered.
[10:38.35]"Wind fell all at once."
[10:42.40]"The trouble's not over yet," said Captain MacWhirr,half aloud.
[10:49.77]He went to the bridge.There was no light there;he struck a match,
[10:56.72]and held out the little flame towards the barometer.
[11:01.47]It stood very low--incredibly low. There was no mistake.
[11:07.35]It was the lowest reading he had ever seen in his life.
[11:14.51]The worst was to come yet!
[11:18.35]He listened for the first sounds of returning wind.
[11:22.89]Not yet. "It will come very sudden," said Captain MacWhirr,
[11:30.26]"and from over there, I think." A minute passed.
[11:35.82]"What's that?A puff of wind." The roar of the winds drew near fast.
[11:43.09]The hurricane,with its power to sink ships and to destroy strong walls,
[11:49.54]had found this little ship in its path.
[11:53.59]Before the second storm fell on his ship Captain MacWhirr swore,
[11:59.65]"I wouldn't like to lose her." ...