练习材料:

L12(2)：Life on a desert island

Two men who recently spent five days on acoral 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.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：coral/kɒrəl    Virgin /vɜːʤɪn    loaded /ləʊdɪd    dinghy/dɪŋgi    rowed /rəʊd    Caribbean /kærɪˈbiːən    brought/brɔːt    spear /spɪə    lobster/lɒbstə    genuinely/ʤɛnjʊɪnli

练习感悟：第二段比第一段长了很多，不过熟读后没有什么难度，就剩下朗读时需要注意的事了。今天是大年三十，加油，坚持一年。