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1、Unit3ShipsintheDesertShrinkingSeaintheDesert:TheAralSeaTheAralseawasthefourthlargestlakeintheworldHowever,thewateroftheAralSeaiscurrentlydecliningrapidly,anditsareaisshrinkingyear-by-year.Around1989,itwasdividedintothesmallAralSeaonthenorthsideandthelargeAralSeaonthesouth
2、side.Moreover,thelargeAralSeaissoongoingtobedividedintoeasternandwesternparts.Image1depictstheAralSeaonNovember16,1996andImage2depictsthatofOctober14,2003.WecanreadilyseethattheoutlineofthelakehasdrasticallychangedduringthelastsevenyearsImage1image2Bleak:1.withoutanything
3、tomakeyoufeelcheerfulorhopefule.g.ableakoutlook/prospect/future暗淡的前景2.Gloomyandsomber;dreary暗淡的和昏暗的;阴郁的e.g.“LifeintheAranIslandshasalwaysbeenbleakanddifficult”(JohnMillingtonSynge)“艾伦群岛的生活一直是困苦不堪的”(约翰·米林顿·辛格)3.Coldandcutting;寒冷和刺骨的;阴冷的:e.g.bleakwindsoftheNorthAtlantic.北大西
4、洋的冷风vocabularyLap:1.Towashorslapagainstwithsoftliquidsounds:拍打:伴随着轻柔的液体声音冲洗或击打:e.g.waveslappingthesideoftheboat.波浪击打着船的侧面Divert:1.tochangethedirectionorpurposeofsomething使转向e.g.Trafficwasdivertedaroundthesceneoftheaccident.疏导交通绕过出事现场2.ToentertainsomeonevocabularyIll-consi
5、dered:decisions,actions,ideasthatareill-consideredhavenotbeencarefullythoughtabout.e.g.ill-consideredactionssuretoresultindisaster.必然导致灾难的不明智之举Cracked:somethingiscrackedhasbeendamagedandhasoneormorelinesonitssurface.e.g.Hisfaceiscrackedanddry.Peel:tolosetheouterlayerorsur
6、face脱皮vocabularyEmission:1.n[c]Anamountofgasorothersubstancethatamachineorfactoryproducesandsendsintotheaire.g.Britainhasagreedtocutemissionsofnitrogenoxidefrompowerstations.英国已经同意减少发电站的氧化氮排放量。2.[u]thesendingoutofgas,light,heatetcIcerunaway:astripofpavedicegroundforusebya
7、irplaneintaking-offandlanding.Becauseit’sinthesouthpole,soit’sanicerunaway.vocabularySkiplane:anairplanewithskisinsteadofwheelsforlandingandtakingoffinthesnow.SkiplaneatthesouthpolevocabularyInexorable:aninexorableprocesscan’tbestoppede.g.theinexorabledeclineofBritain’sma
8、nufacturingindustry.Pitch:1.pitchedatent;pitchcamp.搭帐蓬;扎营2.Tothrowortosssomething抛,扔,投:投或抛出某物3.沥
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