课文
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 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 cans 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 rainwater 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.
表达拓展
1、picture照片；图像
局面Just a few years ago, the picture was quite different.
大局；整个局面the big picture
明白get the picture
让人明白keep sb. in the picture
印象 I have a vivid picture of my friend.
2、wretched
可怜的=pitiful
糟糕的=awful
模仿表达
Most people have formed an unrealistic picture of life about volunteering.They sometimes imagine we are living in a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees, the most fresh fish wait in the river and kids are like angels. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Volunteering life is wretched. You either have nothing to eat or no water to use, not to mention surfing on the internet. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but we still can get the picture from people's sharing.
It is not very convenient to go shopping，but we have great Taobao. We can't find different kinds of food，but we can cook ourselves or go to students' home to enjoy tasty and fresh food. What's more, the most common situation is students are annoying when talking about study but they can become angel when they go back to nature.
