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选修7 Unit 1 Living well-Reading
MARTY’S STORY
马蒂的故事
Hi, my name is Marry Fielding and I guess you could say that I am "one in a
million". In other words, there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle
disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other
people. In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into
furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me better, but I am
very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto is: live One day
at a time.
Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to climb trees,
swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football
and possibly representing my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker
and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. In the end I
went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. I think I
had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from
my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even after all that, no one could give my
disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds.
One problem is that I don't look any different from other people. So sometimes
some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath after
running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes, too, I
was too weak to go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after
an absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.
My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted
me. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me
annoyed, and I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found
many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is to
work for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up. Last year invented
a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a
very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. As well as going to
the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I
have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise. To look after my pets
properly takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work,
especially if I have been away for a while.
In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and
become more independent. I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been
worth it. If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this:
having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying. So don't feel sorry for the
disabled or make fun of them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for
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who they are, and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do.
Thank you for reading my story.
你好， 我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是“百万人中才有一个”的那种人。
换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非
常虚弱，所以我不能向别人那样快跑或快步爬楼梯。另外，有时候我还会笨手笨
脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。不幸的是，医生们不知道如何治好我的病
但是我很开朗乐观，学会了适应身体的残疾。我的座右铭是：活一天算一天。
十岁以前，我跟其他人是一样的。我常常爬树、游泳、踢足球。说实在的，我过
去常常梦想我会成为职业球员，代表我的国家参加世界杯足球赛。后来，我的身
体开始变得越来越虚弱，以至于只能坐在体育场的长凳上欣赏足球了。最后我到
医院去做了检查，住了将近三个月的医院。我想我至少做过十亿次检查了，包括
有一次检查，他们从我的腿部切下一小块儿肌肉，放在显微镜下观察。即使做过
了所有这些检查，也没有人能够确诊这个病。因此，很难知道将来会是个什么样
子。
问题是我看上去跟平常人一样，因此，当我跑了很短的一段路之后，就喘不过
气来，或者爬楼梯才爬到一半就得停下来休息，我的小学同学就会笑我。有时候
我的身体太虚弱，上不了学，因此落下了许多功课。每次缺课之后，我就觉得自己
很笨，因为我比别人落后了。
我在中学时期的生活（比在小学时）要轻松多了，因为我的同学已经接受
了我的状况。还有少数同学看不到我的内心世界，但是我并不生气，只是不去理
会他们罢了。总而言之，我生活得挺好。我很高兴我能做许多事情，比如写作和电
脑编程。我有雄心壮志，长大后我要在开发电脑软件的公司里工作。去年我开发
了一个电脑足球游戏，有一家大公司已经决定从我这儿买走。我的生活很充实，
没有时间坐着顾影自怜。除了同我的朋友一起去看电影和足球比赛外，我还花很
多时间和我的宠物在一起。我有两只兔子、一只鹦鹉，一缸金鱼和一只乌龟。我得
花大量时间来照顾这些宠物，但我觉得很值。此外，我还有好多功课要做，而别是
在病了一段时间之后。
在许多方面，我身体的残疾倒使我心理上变得更加坚强，更加独立。我必须努
力才能过上正常的生活，但这是值得的。假如我有机会跟健康孩子讲一句话，那
么，这句话就是：身体残疾并不意味着生活不美满。因此，不要感到残疾人可怜，
或者取笑他们，也别不理睬他们。要接受他们，给他们以鼓励，让他们能像你一样
过得丰富多彩、充实美满。
谢谢你读我的故事。
A LETTER TO AN ARCHITECT
致建筑师的一封信
Look at the pictures. Discuss the problems that people with walking difficulties
might have in a cinema.
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Ms L Sanders Alice Major
Chief architect 64 Cambridge Street
Cinema Designs Bankstown
44 Hill Street
Bankstown
24 September, 200__
Dear Ms Sanders,
I read in the newspaper today that you are to be the architect for the new
Bankstown cinema.I hope you will not mind me writing to ask if you have thought
about the needs of disabled customers. In particular I wonder if you have considered
the following things:
1 Adequate access for wheelchairs. It would be handy to have lifts to all parts of
the cinema. The buttons in the lifts should be easy for a person in a wheelchair to
reach, and the doors be wide enough to enter. In some cinemas, the lifts are at the
back of the cinema in cold, unattractive places. As disabled people have to use the
lifts, this makes them feel they are not as important as other customers.
2 Earphones for people who have trouble hearing. It would help to fit sets of
earphones to all seats, not just to some of them. This would allow hearing-impaired
customers to enjoy the company of their hearing friends rather than having to sit in a
special area.
3 Raised seating. People who are short cannot always see the screen. So I'd like
to suggest that the seats at the back be placed higher than those at the front so that
everyone can see the screen easily. Perhaps there could be a space at the end of
each row for people in wheelchairs to sit next to their friends.
4 Toilets. For disabled customers it would be more convenient to place the
toilets near the entrance to the cinema. It can be difficult if the only disabled toilet is
in the basement a long way from where the film is showing. And if the doors could
be opened outwards, disabled customers would be very happy.
5 Car parking. Of course, there are usually spaces specially reserved for disabled
and elderly drivers. If they are close to the cinema entrance and/or exit, it is easier
for disabled people to get to film in comfort.
Thank you for reading my letter. I hope my suggestions will meet with your
approval. Disabled people should have the same opportunities as able-bodied
people to enjoy the cinema and to do so with dignity.I am sure many people will
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praise your cinema if you design it with good access for disabled people. It will also
make the cinema owners happy if more people go as they will make higher profits!
Yours sincerely,
Alice Major
桑达斯女士 爱
丽斯·梅杰
总建筑师 剑
桥街64 号
影院设计公司 班
克斯敦
希尔街44 号
班克斯敦
200___年9 月24 日
亲爱的桑达斯女士：
今天我从报上了解到，您将成为班克斯敦新影院的建筑设计师。我希望您不
介意我写信询问您是否已考虑到残疾顾客的需要。尤其是以下几点不知您是否考
虑到了：
1．为乘坐轮椅的人进入电影院提供充分的便利。影院内的各个部分都安装电梯
就会很方便。电梯的按钮应当让乘坐轮椅的人容易够到，电梯门应足够宽。在有
些电影院里，（残疾人专用）电梯设在影院背后阴冷而不显眼的地方。由于残疾人
必须要使用这些电梯，这就使残疾人感到比别的观众低一等。
2. 给听力有障碍的人提供耳机。所有座位的旁边都装有耳机，而不是少数几个座
位，那会有帮助。这样可以使那些听力有缺陷的观众和那些听力正常的朋友坐在
一起欣赏，而不是让前者坐在一个特定的区域。
3. 抬高座位。身体矮小的人常常看不到屏幕。所以我想建议影院后排的座位应该
比前排的高，这样每个人都能很容易地看到屏幕。也许可以在每一排的排尾都留
出空位，以便坐轮椅的人坐在他们的朋友旁边。
4. 厕所。在影院入口处的附近安排厕所会让残疾人感觉更加方便。只在离放映大
厅很远的地下室为残疾人安排一个厕所，这种作法会给他们带来麻烦。如果厕所
的门能设计成向外开，残疾人会很高兴。
5. 停车场。当然还得专门为残疾司机和老年司机安排停车场。如果这些停车场离
影院出入口都很近，残疾人就会很轻松地到达影院。
感谢您阅读我的信，希望您能赞成我的建议。残疾人应当和健全人有同样的
机会来欣赏电影，同时能保持自己的尊严。如果您设计的电影院能够为残疾人提
供方便，那么，我相信许多人都会夸奖您的电影院，而且电影院的老板也会高兴，
因为有更多的人能够去看电影了，他们就能赚更多的钱了。
此致 敬礼
爱丽斯·梅杰
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选修7 Unit 2 Robots - Reading
SATISFACTION GURANTEED
包君满意
Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently it had begun
experimenting with a household robot. It was going to be tested out by Larry's wife,
Claire.
Claire didn't want the robot in her house, especially as her husband would be
absent for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn't harm her or
allow her to be harmed. It would be a bonus. However, when she first saw the robot,
she felt alarmed. His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a
machine. He was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his
facial expression never changed.
On the second morning Tony, wearing an apron, brought her breakfast and then
asked her whether she needed help dressing. She felt embarrassed and quickly told
him to go. It was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human.
One day, Claire mentioned that she didn't think she was clever. Tony said that
she must feel very unhappy to say that. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered
sympathy by a robot. But she began to trust him. She told him how she was
overweight and this made her feel unhappy. Also she felt her home wasn't elegant
enough for someone like Larry who wanted to improve his social position. She wasn't
like Gladys Claffern, one of the richest and most powerful women around.
As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home
more elegant. So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read, or
rather, scan. She looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and
suddenly reached for his hand. She was amazed by his fingernails and the softness
and warmth of his skin. How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine.
Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore. As he was
not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her. Claire
went into the city and bought curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding. Then she
went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace. When the clerk at the counter was rude
to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. The clerk immediately
changed his attitude. Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a "dear". As she
turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. How awful to be discovered by her,
Claire thought. By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that
Gladys thought she was having an affair. After all, she knew Claire's husband's name
was Larry, not Tony.
When Claire got home, she wept with anger in her armchair. Gladys was
everything Claire wanted to be. "You can be like her," Tony told her and suggested
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that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave
and Larry was to return. By that time, Tony expected the house to be completely
transformed.
Tony worked steadily on the improvements. Claire tried to help once but was
too clumsy.She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he
managed to catch her in time. He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth
of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the
day.
The night of the party arrived. The clock struck eight. The guests would be
arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room.At that moment, Tony
folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers. She cried out "Tony" and
then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt
more than just the desire to please her. Then the front door bell rang. Tony freed her
and disappeared from sight. It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the
curtains of the front window. Her guests had seen everything !
The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine. Just
before they left, Claire heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had
never seen anyone so handsome as Tony. What a sweet victory to be envied by those
women! She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a
handsome lover.
Then she remembered -Tony was just a machine. She shouted "Leave me
alone" and ran to her bed. She cried all night. The next morning a car drove up and
took Tony away.
The company was very pleased with Tony's report on his three weeks with
Claire. Tony had protected a human being from harm. He had prevented Claire from
harming herself through her own sense of failure. He had opened the curtains that
night so that the other women would see him and Claire, knowing that there was no
risk to Claire's marriage. But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to
be rebuilt -you cannot have women failing in love with machines.
拉里·贝尔蒙特在一家生产机器人的公司里工作。最近，该公司要对一个家用机器
人进行试验。这项试验将由拉里的夫人克莱尔来尝试。
克莱尔并不想把机器人留在家里，特别是在她丈夫离家三周的这个期间。但是
克莱尔被拉里说服了。他说，机器人不会伤害她，也不会让别人来伤害她。这样会
是个意外的收获。然而她初次见到机器人的时候就感到有点吃惊。机器人名叫托
尼，看上去更像一个人，而不像台机器。他虽然面部表情毫无变化，但是个子高大
相貌英俊，头发平整，声音低沉浑厚。
第二天早晨，托尼系着围裙，给她端来了早餐，然后问她是否需要帮忙穿衣打
扮。她感到有点儿不好意思，很快就打发他走了。机器人如此通人性，这使她觉得
心烦和害怕。
有一天，克莱尔说起，她觉得她自己并不聪明。托尼则说，克莱尔一定是很不
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高兴，才会说出这样的话来。克莱尔觉得，机器人会向她表示同情，这有点荒唐可
笑。但是她开始信任托尼了。她告诉托尼她太胖了，这让她很不高兴。还有对于像
拉里这样很想提高社会地位的人来说，她的家也不够高雅。她跟格拉迪斯·克拉芬
不一样，格拉迪斯是远近闻名的有钱有势的女人。
托尼为让克莱尔高兴，答应帮助她，使她变得漂亮，使她的家变得高雅大方。
于是克莱尔从图书馆借来一堆书给托尼阅读，或者说给他浏览一下。她惊奇的看
着他的手指翻动着书页，忍不住突然伸出手来摸他的手指。他的手指甲和他那柔
软温暖的皮肤使她感到大为惊异。她在想，这是多么可笑啊，他只不过是一台机
器呀！
托尼给克莱尔换了个发型，又改变了化妆风格。因为不允许托尼陪克莱尔去商
店，所以托尼就给她写了一份购物清单。克莱尔进城去买了窗帘、坐垫和床上用
品。然后她去了一家珠宝店买项链。柜台售货员对她很粗鲁，她就打电话给托尼，
让售货员同托尼讲话。售货员马上改变了态度。克莱尔对托尼表示感谢，并说他
是个“可爱的人”。她刚一转过身去，就看到格拉迪斯·克拉芬站在那儿。克莱尔
想，被格拉迪斯发现了，这多么难为情啊！从格拉迪斯脸上的那种有趣而又惊奇
的神色来看，克莱尔知道，格拉迪斯认为她有风流韵事了。毕竟格拉迪斯知道她
的丈夫是拉里，而不是托尼。
克莱尔回到家里，坐在扶手椅上气得直哭。格拉迪斯的一举一动都是克莱尔想
模仿的。托尼告诉克莱尔说，你可以同格拉迪斯一样，还建议克莱尔邀请格拉迪
斯和她的朋友到家里来玩，时间就定在托尼离去和拉里回家之前的那个晚上。托
尼想在此之前将房子改装得焕然一新。
托尼有条不紊地搞着装修。克莱尔有一次想来帮忙，但是太笨手笨脚了，竟从
梯子上掉了下来。尽管托尼当时在隔壁房间里，他还是及时赶过来把她接住了。
他把她紧紧地搂在怀里，她感觉到了他身上有股暖气。她尖叫了起来，把他推开，
跑回她的房里，那天她就再也没有出来过。
聚会的那天晚上来到了。时钟敲响八点，客人马上就要到来了。克莱尔叫托尼
到另一间房里去。就在那一瞬间，托尼弯曲胳膊搂着她，弯下身去把脸贴近她的
脸。她大叫一声“托尼”，然后听到托尼一本正经地说，明天他不想离开她，而且
他并不满足于仅仅使她开心。就在这时，前门的门铃响了。托尼放开了她，消失得
无影无踪了。也就在这时，克莱尔才意识到托尼早就把前边窗户的窗帘拉开了。
她的客人把这一切看得一清二楚。
克莱尔和他的房子、美食给女士们留下了深刻印象。就在她们离开之前，克莱
尔听到格拉迪斯跟另外一个女人小声地说，她从来没有见过像托尼这样英俊的男
人。受到那些女士的妒忌，这该是多么甜美的胜利！克莱尔也许并没有她们那样
漂亮，但是她们中没有任何一个人拥有这样英俊的情人。
这时候，她记起来了——托尼只不过是一台机器。她高声嚷着：“ 让我独自
呆一会儿！”就跑上床，哭了一个通宵。第二天早晨开来一辆汽车，把托尼接走
了。
公司对托尼同克莱尔相处三个星期的实验报告非常满意。托尼保护了一个人
免受伤害，他使克莱尔没有因为她的失败感而伤害自己。那天晚上，他拉开了窗
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帘，让其他女人看到了他和克莱尔在一起，他明白这么做对克莱尔的婚姻并不造
成危害。但是，尽管托尼很聪明，他还得作一番改建——总不能让女人和机器相
爱吧。
A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV
艾萨克
· 阿西莫夫传
Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books
that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the
Holy Bible and Shakespeare. But he is best known for his science fiction stories.
Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore
future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of
everything, in the present and the past.
Asimov's life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January, 1920. It ended in
New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had
got from a blood transfusion nine years earlier.
When Asimov was three, he moved with his parents and his one-year-old sister
to New York City. There his parents bought a candy store which they ran for the next
40 or so years. At the age of nine, when his mother was pregnant with her third child,
Asimov started working part-time in the store. He helped out through his school and
university years until 1942, a year after he had gained a master's degree in chemistry.
In 1942 he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a junior chemist and
worked there for three years. In 1948 he got his PhD in chemistry. The next year he
became a biochemistry teacher at Boston University School of Medicine. In 1958 he
gave up teaching to become a full-time writer.
It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became
obvious. He had told a friend two chapters of a story he had written. The friend
thought he was retelling a story from a book. This really surprised Asimov and from
that moment, he started to take himself seriously as a writer. Asimov began having
stories published in science fiction magazines in 1939. In 1950 he published his first
novel and in 1953 his first science book.
Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards, both for his science fiction
books and his science books. Among his most famous works of science fiction, one
for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953), three novels
about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future. It was loosely
based on the fall of the Roman Empire but was about the future. These books are
famous because Asimov invented a theoretical framework which was designed to
show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. He is also well known for his
collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three
"laws" for robots. For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure
human beings or allow them to be injured. Some of his ideas about robots later
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influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence.
Asimov was married twice. He married his first wife in 1942 and had a son and a
daughter. Their marriage lasted 31 years. Soon after his divorce in 1973, Asimov
married again but he had no children with his second wife.
艾萨克·阿西莫夫是美国的科学家兼作家。他写过大约480 本书，包括怪诞
小说、科学和历史方面的书，甚至还写过有关《圣经》和莎士比亚的书。但是，他最
有名的作品还是他的科幻小说。阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来
世界进行探索，而且还有着惊人的智力，使他能对现在和过去的各种事物作出解
释。
阿西莫夫的一生从俄罗斯开始，他生于1920 年1 月2 日；阿西莫夫的一生在
纽约结束，他死于1992 年4 月6 日。他是因为九年前的一次输血中感染了艾滋
病毒而去世的。
阿西莫夫三岁的时候，就随同父母和年仅一岁的妹妹迁到纽约。在那儿，他的
父母买下了一家糖果店，后来一直经营了大约40 年。阿西莫夫九岁的时候，母亲
怀了第三个孩子，他就开始在糖果店里工作了。他读中学和大学的那段时期都在
糖果店里工作，一直到1942 年，也就是他获得化学硕士学位一年以后他才停止
糖果店的工作。1942 年，他在费城海军造船厂里担任初级化学师，干了三年。
1948 年他获得了化学博士学位。第二年起他在波士顿大学的医学院任生化教员。
1958 年他放弃了教学工作成为专职作家。
早在阿西莫夫十一岁的时候，他的写作才华就已经显露出来了。他把他写的小
说中的两个章节念给一个朋友听，那个朋友还以为他是在复述某本书上的故事呢
这使阿西莫夫很惊讶。从此以后，他就开始认真地从事写作了。1939 年，阿西莫
夫开始在科幻杂志上发表故事，1950 年出版了自己他的第一部小说，1953 年出
版了他的第一部科学书籍。
阿西莫夫一生中多次获过奖，既有科幻小说奖，也有科学书籍奖。在他那些最
负盛名的科幻小说中，有本获奖的书叫做《基地》三部曲（1951-1953），有三个小
故事，讲的是未来银河系中一个伟大帝国的灭亡与复兴。基本素材取自罗马帝国
的衰败，但讲的是有关未来的事情。这些书之所以有名，是因为阿西莫夫创造了
一种理论框架，用以阐述各种想法在未来可能会如何发展。他的短篇小说集《我，
机器人》（1950)也是享有盛名的。在这本书里他提出机器人的三大“原则”。举
例来说，第一条原则就规定机器人不得伤害人类，也不能允许人类收到伤害。他
那些有关机器人的想法后来影响了其他的作者，甚至影响了那些从事人工智能研
究的科学家们。
阿西莫夫结过两次婚，他于1942 年同、他的第一任妻子结婚，生有一男一女。
这次婚姻持续了31 年。1973 年离婚后不久，阿西莫夫又结婚了，但是他与第二
任妻子没有生育儿女。
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OLD TOM THE KILLER WHALE
虎鲸老汤姆
I was 16 when I began work in June 1902 at the whaling station. I had heard of the
killers that every year helped whalers catch huge whales. I thought, at the time, that
this was just a story but then I witnessed it with my own eyes many times.
On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was I sorting out my'
accommodation, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. We ran down to the
shore in time to see an enormous animal opposite us throwing itself out of the water
and then crashing down again. It was black and white and fish-shaped. But I knew it
wasn't a fish.
"That's Old Tom, the killer," one of the whalers, George, called out to me. "He's
telling us there's a whale out there for us."
Another whaler yelled out, "Rush-oo ...rush-oo." This was the call that
announced there was about to be a whale hunt.
"Come on, Clancy. To the boat," George said as he ran ahead of me. I had
already heard that George didn't like being kept waiting, so even though I didn't have
the right clothes on, I raced after him.
Without pausing we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed
out into the bay. I looked down into the water and could see Old Tom swimming by
the boat, showing us the way. A few minutes later, there was no Tom, so George
started beating the water with his oar and there was Tom, circling back to the boat,
leading us to the hunt again.
Using a telescope we could see that something was happening. As we drew
closer, I could see a whale being attacked by a pack of about six other killers.
"What're they doing?" I asked George.
"Well, it's teamwork - the killers over there are throwing themselves on top of
the whale's blow-hole to stop it breathing. And those others are stopping it diving or
fleeing out to sea," George told me, pointing towards the hunt. And just at that
moment, the most extraordinary thing happened. The killers started racing between
our boat and the whale just like a pack of excited dogs.
Then the harpoon was ready and the man in the bow of the boat aimed it at the
whale. He let it go and the harpoon hit the spot. Being badly wounded, the whale
soon died. Within a moment or two, its body was dragged swiftly by the killers down
into the depths of the sea. The men started turning the boat around to go home.
"What's happened?" I asked. "Have we lost the whale?"
"Oh no," Jack replied. "We'll return tomorrow to bring in the body. It won't float
up to the surface for around 24 hours." "In the meantime, Old Tom, and the others
are having a good feed on its lips and tongue," added Red, laughing.
Although Old Tom and the other killers were fierce hunters, they, never harmed
or attacked people. In fact, they protected them. There was one day when we were
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out in the bay during a hunt and James was washed off the boat.
"Man overboard! Turn the boat around!" urged George, shouting loudly.
The sea was rough that day and it was difficult to handle the boat. The waves
were carrying James further and further away from us. From James's face, I could see
he was terrified of being abandoned by us. Then suddenly I saw a shark.
"Look, there's a shark out there," I screamed.
"Don't worry, Old Tom won't let it near," Red replied.
It took over half an hour to get the boat back to James, and when we
approached him, I saw James being firmly held up in the water by Old Tom. I couldn't
believe my eyes.
There were shouts of "Well done, Old Tom" and 'Thank God" as we pulled
James back into the boat. And then Old Tom was off and back to the hunt where the
other killers were still attacking the whale.
1902 年6 月，我开始在捕鲸站里工作，那时我才16 岁。在此之前我曾经听说过
虎鲸每年帮助捕鲸人捕捉大鲸鱼。当时我以为只是一个故事罢了，但是后来我亲
眼见过多次。
有天下午我来到捕鲸站，正在找住处的时候，听到从海湾那边传来一阵喧闹声
我们及时赶到岸边，看到对面有一个庞大的动物猛力跃出海面，然后又坠落到水
里。它黑白相间，样子像鱼，但我知道它并不是鱼。
“那是老汤姆，是虎鲸。”一位叫乔治的捕鲸人高声对我说，“它是在告诉我们
那边有一头鲸，叫我们去捕猎。”
另一位捕鲸人大声喊叫，“快走啊……走啊。”这是宣告猎鲸行动马上就要开
始的呼声。
“克兰西，快上，上船去。”乔治在我前面边跑边说。我以前就听说过，乔治不喜
欢等人。所以尽管我还没有穿上合适的衣服，就跟在他后面跑起来。
一刻不停地，我们和其他捕鲸人都跳进渔船，朝海湾方向驶去。我朝水里望去
可以看到老汤姆就在渔船旁边游着，为我们指路。几分钟之后，汤姆不见了，于是
乔治开始用桨拍打水面。汤姆出现了，转回到船边，又领着我们前往捕猎处。
通过望远镜，我们可以看到远处有情况发生了。走近一看，原来是一头大鲸受
到约六、七条虎鲸的攻击。
我问乔治，“它们在干什么呢？”
“啊，它们在协同作战呢——那些虎鲸正在往那头鲸的出气孔上扑去，不让它呼
吸，而其他那些虎鲸则阻止它潜水或逃跑。”乔治一边指着捕猎的情景，一边告
诉我。就在这时候，最精彩的场面出现了。虎鲸们在我们的渔船和那头鲸之间开
始追逐了，就像一群发狂的猎狗一样。
于是，猎鲸叉准备好了。站在船头的那个人把叉瞄准了那头鲸，扔了出去，恰
好击中了要害，鲸受了重伤，没过多久就死了。过了片刻，鲸的尸体就要被虎鲸们
迅速拖向深海中去了。捕鲸人于是调转船头往回走。
“怎么啦？”我问道，“我们失去鲸了吗？”
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杰克回答说：“不，我们明天再回来运鲸鱼的尸体。它在24 小时以内是不会
浮出水面的。”
瑞德笑着补充说：“在这段时间里，老汤姆和其他虎鲸会饱餐一顿的，鲸唇和
鲸舌就是它们的美食”。
虽然老汤姆和其他虎鲸都凶恶，但是它们从来不伤害人，也不袭击人。事实上，它
们还会保护人。有一天，我们出海捕鲸的时候，詹姆斯被冲下水去了。
乔治大声喊道：“有人落水了！把船头调回去！”
那天海上波涛汹涌，很难调转船头。海浪把詹姆斯冲得离我们越来越远。从詹
姆斯的脸上我能看出他非常恐慌，生怕被我们遗弃。随后我们看到一条鲨鱼。
我尖叫起来，“瞧，那边有一条鲨鱼。”
瑞德回答说：“别着急，老汤姆不会让它靠近的。”
我们花了半个小时才把船调转头来，回到詹姆斯落水的地方。当我们靠近他的时
候，我看到老汤姆正在水中稳稳托着詹姆斯，我几乎不相信自己的眼睛。
当我们把詹姆斯拉上渔船的时候，大家都欢呼着“老汤姆，好样的”，“感谢
上帝”。后来，老汤姆离开了，回到捕猎的地方，跟其他虎鲸一起捕鲸去了。
A NEW DIMENSION OF LIFE
崭新的生活空间
19th January
I'm sitting in the warm night air with a cold drink in my hand and reflecting on the
day – a day of pure magic! I went snorkelling on the reef offshore this morning and it
was the most fantastic thing I have ever done. Seeing such extraordinary beauty, I
think every cell in my body woke up. It was like discovering a whole new dimension
of life.
The first thing I became aware of was all the vivid colours surrounding me -
purples, reds, oranges, yellows, blues and greens. The corals were fantastic - they
were shaped like fans, plates, brains, lace, mushrooms, the branches of trees and the
horns of deer. And all kinds of small, neat and elegant fish were swimming in and
around the corals.
The fish didn't seem to mind me swimming among them. I especially loved the
little orange and white fish that hid in the waving long thin seaweed. And I also loved
the small fish that clean the bodies of larger fish - I even saw them get inside their
mouths and clean their teeth! It seemed there was a surprise waiting for me around
every corner as I explored small caves, shelves and narrow passages with my
underwater flashlight: the yellow and green parrotfish was hanging upside down,
and sucking tiny plants off the coral with its hard bird-like mouth; a yellow-spotted
red sea-slug was sliding by a blue sea-star; a large wise-looking turtle was passing so
close to me that I could have touched it.
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There were other creatures that I didn't want to get too close to - an eel with its
strong sharp teeth, with only its head showing from a hole, watching for a tasty fish
(or my tasty toe!); and the giant clam halt buried in some coral waiting for something
to swim in between its thick green lips. Then there were two grey reef sharks, each
about one and a half metres long, which suddenly appeared from behind some coral.
I told myself they weren't dangerous but that didn't stop me from feeling scared to
death for a moment!
The water was quite shallow but where the reef ended, there was a steep drop
to the sandy ocean floor. It marked a boundary and I thought I was very brave when I
swam over the edge of the reef and hung there looking down into the depths of the
ocean. My heart was beating wildly - I felt very exposed in such deep clear water.
What a wonderful, limitless world it was down there! And what a tiny spot I
was in this enormous world!
1 月19 日
我坐在温暖的夜空下，手里拿着一瓶冷饮，回忆着当天的事情——这是神奇的
一天！这天上午，我戴着呼吸器在近海的珊瑚礁上潜泳，这是我从来没有过的绝
妙经历。看到这样奇特的美景，我周身的每个细胞都苏醒了，就像发现了一个全
新的生活空间似的。
我首先注意到的是我周围那些鲜艳的色彩——紫色、红色、橘黄、明黄、蓝色
和绿色。那些珊瑚都是稀奇古怪的——有的形状像扇子、盘子、脑袋和彩条，有的
像香菇、树枝和鹿角。还有种类繁多、小巧整齐、姿态优雅的鱼穿行在珊瑚丛中，
或环游于珊瑚的四周。
我在那些鱼群中游泳，他们似乎并不在乎。我特别喜欢那些橘黄和白色相间的
小鱼，他们藏在波动着的细长的海藻里。我也喜欢那些为大鱼清洁身体的小鱼
——我甚至还看到这些小鱼游进大鱼的嘴里去帮他们刷牙。当我用水下探明灯探
索小石洞、岩石和狭窄通道的时候，似乎每个角落都有使我感到惊奇的东西等着
我：黄绿相间的鹦嘴鱼倒挂着，用它那像鸟一样的硬嘴从珊瑚上吸吮微小植物；
带着黄斑点的红色海蛞蝓从一个蓝色的海星旁边滑行过去；一只长相聪慧的大乌
龟紧贴着我的身旁而过，我几乎可以摸到它了。
还有一些其他动物，我不想太靠近他们——一条带有利齿的鳗鱼，只是把头从
石洞里伸出来，望着可供美餐的鱼过来（或者在等着我的美味脚趾伸过去）；一个
巨大的蛤蜊半掩在珊瑚礁中等着有什么东西游过来，游到它那宽厚的绿嘴唇中。
然后，还有两条灰色的珊瑚鲨，每条大约有1.5 米长，突然从珊瑚后边游了出来。
我自言自语地说它们并不危险，但是我这样说一点也不能抑制我那怕得要死的心
情。
海水是浅的，但是到了珊瑚礁的尽头，就有一个陡坡，一直下降到满是沙子的
海底。它是边界的标志。我游过珊瑚礁的边沿，浮在上面往下看海底的时候，我认
为我还是非常勇敢的。我的心急剧地跳动着——在这样深邃而清澈的海水中，我
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感觉我是彻底地曝光了。
这个水底世界是多么美妙，多么漫无边际！而我在这个海洋的世界中又是多
么渺小！
选修7 Unit 4 Sharing- Reading
A LETTER HOME
一封家书
Dear Rosemary,
Thanks for your letter, which took a fortnight to arrive. It was wonderful to hear
from you. I know you're dying to hear all about my life here, so I've included some
photos which will help you picture the places I talk about.
You asked about my high school. Well, it's a bush school – the classrooms are
made of bamboo and the roofs of grass. It takes me only a few minutes to walk to
school down a muddy track. When I reach the school grounds there are lots of "good
mornings" for me from the boys. Many of them have walked a long way, sometimes
up to two hours, to get to school.
There's no electricity or water and even no textbooks either! l'm still trying to
adapt to these conditions. However, one thing is for sure, I've become more
imaginative in my teaching. Science is my most challenging subject as my students
have no concept of
doing experiments. In fact there is no equipment, and if I need water I have to carry
it from my house in a bucket! The other day I was showing the boys the weekly
chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over
everywhere! The boys who had never come across anything like this before started
jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to these
students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway. To be
honest, I doubt whether I'm making any difference to these boys' lives at all.
You asked whether I'm getting to know any local people. Well, that's actually quite
difficult as I don't speak much of the local English dialect yet. But last weekend
another teacher, Jenny, and 1 did visit a village which is the home of one of the boys,
Tombe. It was my first visit to a remote village. We walked for two and a half hours to
get there - first up a mountain to a ridge from where we had fantastic views and then
down a steep path to the valley below. When we arrived at the village, Tombe's
mother, Kiak, who had been pulling weeds in her garden, started crying "ieee ieee".
We shook hands with all the villagers. Everyone seemed to be a relative of Tombe's.
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Tombe's father, Mukap, led us to his house, a low bamboo hut with grass
sticking out of the roof - this shows it is a man's house. The huts were round, not
rectangular like the school buildings.
There were no windows and the doorway was just big enough to get through.
The hut was dark inside so it took time for our eyes to adjust. Fresh grass had been
laid on the floor and there was a newly made platform for Jenny and me to sleep on.
Usually Kiak would sleep in her own hut, but that night she was going to share the
platform with us. Mukap and Tombe were to sleep on small beds in another part of
the hut. There was a fireplace in the centre of the hut near the doorway. The only
possessions I could see were one broom, a few tin plates and cups and a couple of
jars.
Outside Mukap was building a fire. Once the fire was going, he laid stones on it.
When hot, he placed them in an empty oil drum with kau kau (sweet potato), corn
and greens. He then covered the vegetables with banana leaves and left them to
steam. I sniffed the food; it smelled delicious. We ate inside the hut sitting round the
fire. I loved listening to the family softly talking to each other in their language, even
though I could not participate the conversation. Luckily, Tombe could be our
interpreter.
Later, I noticed a tin can standing upside down on the grill over the fire. After a
short time Tombe threw it out of the doorway.I was puzzled. Tombe told me that the
can was heated to dry out the leftover food. They believe that any leftovers attract
evil spirits in the night, so the food is dried up in the can and the can is then thrown
out of the hut. Otherwise they don't waste anything.
We left the village the next morning after many goodbyes and firm handshakes.
My muscles were aching and my knees shaking as we climbed down the mountain
towards home. That evening I fell happily into bed. It was such a privilege to have
spent a day with Tombe's family.
It's getting late and I have to prepare tomorrow's lessons and do some
paperwork. Please write soon.
Love
Jo
亲爱的罗斯玛丽：
谢谢你的来信，这封信两星期才到。收到你的信真是太高兴了。我知道你急于
了解我在这儿的生活情况。因此，我在信中附有几张照片，能够帮助你想象出我
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所谈到的地方。
你问起我中学的情况。噢，它是一所丛林学校——教室是用竹子搭起来的，屋
顶是用茅草盖的。我只要沿着一条泥泞的小路步行几分钟就到学校了。每当我走
到学校操场的时候，迎接我的是男孩子们一片“早上好”的声音。他们中许多人
走了很长的路，有时候要走两个小时才能到学校。
这里没有电，也没有水，甚至连课本也没有！我还在努力适应这儿的生活条件
但是有一点是肯定的，我在教学中变得更富有想象力了。理科对我来说是最富挑
战性的课，因为我的学生对做实验没有概念。实际上，根本没有设备。如果需要水
我还得从家里用水桶提过来！有一天，我正给孩子们做每周一次的化学实验的演
示，我还没有明白怎么回事，混合剂就到处冒气泡了！男孩们以前从来没有见过
这种情况，吓得都往窗外跳去。有时候，我真想知道，化学对这些孩子究竟有多大
的用处。他们中的大多数人学完八年级以后就要回到他们的村庄去了。说实在的
我真的不知道我教的课是否会让这些孩子的生活有所改变。
你问我是否了解当地的老百姓。哦，这实在是太难了，因为我还说不了几句当
地人说的英语。不过，上周末我和另外一位叫詹妮的教师真的去访问了一个村庄
那是其中一名男孩汤贝的家的所在地。这是我第一次到偏僻的村子里去。我们步
行了两个半小时才到达那里——先是爬山，爬到山脊能看到奇妙的景色，然后下
一个陡坡，一直走到下面的山谷。当我们到村庄的时候，汤贝的母亲齐亚克本来
在园子里拔草，看到我们就“嗳矣，嗳矣”地叫了起来。我们同所有的村民都握
了手。每个人看上去都是汤贝家的亲戚。
汤贝的父亲叫莫卡普，他把我们带到他的家里。这是一个低矮的竹屋，屋顶上
伸出一簇茅草——它代表这间竹屋是男人住的。屋子是圆的，不像学校那样是长
方形的。这里没有窗户，房门只够一个人进出。小屋内很黑，因此眼睛要过好一阵
子才能适应过来。地上摆放着一堆新鲜的草，还新做了一个平台，是供詹妮和我
睡觉用的。通常齐亚克是睡在她自己的小屋里的，而那天晚上她要同我们一起睡
在平台上。莫卡普和汤贝则睡在竹屋另一边的小床上。在竹屋中间靠近房门的地
方有一个火炉。我所看到的仅有的家具是一把扫帚，几个锡盘和锡杯，还有两个
罐子。
莫卡普在屋子外边生火。火着起来后，他往火里扔了几块石头。烧热以后，他
把石头放在一个空油桶里，加上一些考考（红薯）、玉米和青菜，然后用香蕉叶把
这些蔬菜盖上，等着它们蒸熟。我用鼻子嗅，食物闻起来很香。我们在房里围着火
炉坐下来吃东西。他们家里人轻声细语地用自己的语言在交谈。我很喜欢听他们
谈话，尽管我不能加入他们的谈话。幸好，汤贝能给我们当翻译。
后来，我发现有一个锡罐子倒放在火炉的烤架上。过了一会儿，汤贝把它从门
道里扔了出去。我不懂为什么这么做。汤贝告诉我说，罐子加热是为了把里面的
残菜剩饭烧干。他们相信剩饭在夜晚会引来邪灵，所以要把食物放在罐子里烧干
再把罐子一起扔到屋外去。否则的话，他们是不会浪费任何东西的。
第二天早晨，经过一番紧紧握手和道别之后，我们就离开了村庄。我们爬下山
回家，往回走的时候，我的腿部肌肉发痛，膝盖发抖。那天晚上我很开心，倒在床
上就睡了。跟汤贝一家度过了一天，真是一种殊荣。
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爱你
的，乔
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世上最有用的礼物清单
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the lives of people who really need it. Choose from this catalogue a really useful gift
for some of the world's poorest and bring hope for a better future to a community in
need.
When you purchase an item, we will send you an attractive card for you to send
to your special person. You can use the cards for any special occasion-
weddings ,births, birthdays,Christmas or anniversaries, etc.
To………………………………………………
To let you know that I am thinking of you, I have purchased a gift from the World’s
Most Useful Gift Catalogue for you to give to some of the world’s poorest.
This gift will train a whole village of around 40 families in India, Kenya, or
Bangladesh in new agricultural methods, and provide seeds and simple agricultural
equipment. Just 20% more produce will mean the difference between sickness and
health, between families going hungry and families providing for themselves.
From…………………………………………….
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你是否想要赠送一份特殊的礼物？那么下面这份礼单供你参考吧。你送的
礼物不是给你所爱的人留念的，而是给那些确有需要的人的一项生活上的无偿捐
助。
从这份清单中选择一份确实有用的礼物，送给世界上最穷苦的人吧。给急需帮
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特殊的人。这种卡片可以用在任何一种特殊的场合 —— 结婚、出生、生日、圣诞
节、周年纪念等。
礼物
A 20 株树苗 B 组建妇女自助会的贷款 C 一个人的用水 D 蔬菜园艺培训 E
预防六种儿童致命疾病的疫苗 F 学校用书 G 成人基础教育 H 基本保健服务
I 小学一年的学费 J 资助困难户一头羊 K 家用厕具
L 一个家庭的用水
价值（澳元）
5 8 10 15 20 20 25 30 35 40 50 65
M 建一家小型企业的贷款 N 一台缝纫机 O 家用营养补品 P 耕牛 Q 箱式图
书馆
85 100 130 180 200
R 对遗孤家庭的扶助金 S 社区小学经费 T 村庄拖拉机 U
水井和水泵
300 500 1000 1350
致_______
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份礼物，请你转送给世界上最穷苦的人。
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着会对人的患病与健康、家庭饥饿与自足产生影响。
来自______
选修7 Unit 5 Travelling abroad- Reading
KEEP IT UP,XIE LEI
CHINESE STUDENGT FITTING WELL
谢蕾，再接再厉中国学生适应能力强
Six months ago Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends in China and boarded a
plane for London. It was the first time she had ever left her motherland. "After
getting my visa I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long. But I
was also very nervous as I didn't know what to expect," Xie Lei told me when I saw
her waiting in a queue at the student cafeteria between lectures.
Xie Lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university to study for a business
qualification. She is halfway through the preparation year, which most foreign
students complete before applying for a degree course. Xie Lei highly recommends it.
"The preparation course is most beneficial," she said. "Studying here is quite
different from studying in China, so you need some preparation first."
"It's not just study that's difficult. You have to get used to a whole new way of
life, which can take up all your concentration in the beginning," explained Xie Lei,
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who had lived all her life in the same city in China. She told me that she had had to
learn almost everything again. "Sometimes I felt like a child," she said. "I had to learn
how to use the phone, how to pay bus fare, and how to ask a shopkeeper for things I
didn't know the English for. When I got lost and had to ask a passer-by for directions,
I didn't always understand. They don't talk like they do on our listening tapes," she
said, laughing.
Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice. Although some
foreign students live in student accommodation or apartments, some choose to
board with English families. Living with host families, in which there may be other
college students, gives her the chance to learn more about the new culture. "When I
hear an idiom that I don't understand, I can ask my host family for help," explains Xie
Lei. "Also, when I miss my family, it's a great comfort to have a substitute family to be
with."
Xie Lei's preparation course is helping her to get used to the academic
requirements of a Western university. "I remember the first essay I did for my tutor,"
she told me. "I found an article on the Internet that seemed to have exactly the
information I needed. So I made a summary of the article, revised my draft and
handed the essay in. I thought I would get a really good mark but I got an E. I was
numb with shock! So I went to my tutor to ask the reason for his revision. First of all,
he told me, I couldn't write what other people had said without acknowledging
them. Besides, as far as he was concerned, what other people thought was not the
most important thing. He wanted to know what I thought, which confused me
because I thought that the author of the article knew far more than I did. My tutor
explained that I should read lots of different texts that contain different opinions and
analyse what I read. Then, in my essay, I should give my own opinion and explain it by
referring to other authors. Finally he even encouraged me to contradict the authors
I'd read! At first I lacked confidence, but now I'm beginning to get the idea and my
marks have improved. More importantly, I am now a more autonomous learner."
Xie Lei told me that she feels much more at home in England now, and what had
seemed very strange before now appears quite normal. "I've just got one more thing
to achieve. I have been so occupied with work that I haven't had time for social
activities. I think it's important to have a balance between study and a social life, so
I'm going to join a few clubs. Hope- fully I'll make some new friends."
We will follow Xie Lei's progress in later editions of this newspaper but for now,
we wish Xie Lei all the best in her new enterprise. She deserves to succeed.
六个月前，谢蕾告别了她在中国的家人和朋友，登上了前往伦敦的飞机。
这是她第一次离开自己的祖国。课间休息时我在学生餐厅碰到正排队的谢蕾，她
告诉我说：“拿到签证后我很激动，因为我很久以前就梦想着能有这么一天，但
是我又非常紧张，因为我不知道我所期望的是什么。”
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谢蕾今年21 岁，来我们大学上学，希望获得工商管理
资格证书
。大多数外
籍学生在申请学位课程之前都要学习一年预科，而谢蕾已经读完半年了。她非常
看重预科课程。她说：“预科课程非常有益。在这儿学习跟在中国学习是相当不
同的。你必须事前做些准备。”
“困难不仅仅只在学习方面，你还必须习惯一种全新的生活方式，在一开
始的时候这就会占去你的全部精力，”谢蕾解释说。她在中国时一直居住在同一
座城市。她还告诉我，几乎每件事她都得重新学习。她说：“有时候我觉得自己像
个小孩似的，我得学习如何使用电话，乘公交车时该怎样付款，在商店买东西时
如果不知道商品的英文名字时，又怎样问店主。当我迷路不得不向过路人问路时
经常听不懂他们说的话。他们说的话不像我们在听力磁带上听到的那样，”谢蕾
说着笑了。
谢蕾同房东一家人住在一起，他们给了她许多建议。虽然有些外国学生住
在学生宿舍或公寓房里，但是有些学生选择寄宿在英国人的家中。有的房东家也
许会住着其他大学生，跟这样的人家住在一起会给她提供机会，更好地了解新的
文化。“当我听到我不理解的成语时，我可以向房东家里的人请教，”谢蕾解释
说。“还有，当我想家的时候，房东家就是我家的替身，和他们在一起给了我很大
的安慰。”
谢蕾的预科课程帮助她熟悉了西方大学里的学术方面的要求。她对我说：
“我还记得我交给导师的第一篇论文。我在网上找到一篇文章，看来跟我所需要
的信息恰好一样。于是我就那篇论文写了一篇小结性的文章，修改了草稿，然后
交给了导师。我原以为我会得到高分的，结果只得了一个E。我非常吃惊！于是
去找导师理论，想换个分数。他告诉我说，首先，我不能把别人的话写下来而不表
示感谢。此外，他认为，别人的想法并不是最重要的。他想要知道的是我所想的是
什么。这倒把我弄糊涂了，因为我认为该文作者所知道的比我多得多。导师给我
解释说，我得阅读大量的、有关不同观点的文章，并进行分析。然后，在我的论文
中，我得表明我自己的观点，并且引用别的作者的观点来说明为什么我相信我的
观点。最后，他甚至鼓励我反驳我读过的那些作者的观点！起初，我缺乏信心，而
现在我开始懂得了，并且我的分数也已经有所提高了。更重要的是，我现在是一
个自主学习者。”
谢蕾告诉我说，现在她在英国感到自在多了。以前看似很奇怪的事，如今
觉得似乎很正常了。“我还有一件事要做，我一直忙于学习，以至于没有时间参
与社会活动。我认为在学习与社会生活之间的平衡也是很重要的，所以我打算参
加几个俱乐部，我希望会结识一些新朋友。”
关于谢蕾的进步，我们将在今后几期报纸中做跟踪报道。同时我们衷心祝
愿她学业有成。她是应该取得成功的。
PERU
秘鲁
Peru offers a variety of experiences from ancient ruins and centuries-old Spanish
villages to thick forests, high mountains and desert coastline. TRAVEL PERU offers
tours for all ages and tastes. The following tours are based at Cuzco, the site of the
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ancient capital of the Inca civilization.
Tour 1
Experience the jungle and its diverse wildlife close up. During this four-day
walking tour, you will be amazed by mountain scenery and the ancient ruins we pass
on our hike. On the last day, we arrive at the ruins of Machu Picchu in time to see the
sunrise over the Andes. Spend the day visiting the ruins of this ancient Inca city
before catching the train back to Cuzco.
Tour 2
A full-day trip by road from Cuzco to Puno with fantastic views of the highland
countryside. From Puno, we travel by boat across Lake Titicaca, stopping on the way
at the floating islands of the Uros people. These floating islands and the Uros Indian's
houses are made of the water plants that grow in the lake. A full-day stay with a local
family gives you an opportunity to learn more about their life. Return to Puno on the
fourth day for your flight back to Lima.
Tour 3
Spend four days high in the-Andes at Cuzco. Learn about its history and visit
the museums. Admire the Spanish architecture, enjoy some excellent Spanish cuisine
and take some time to bargain for some souvenirs at the colourful markets. Take the
train up to Machu Picchu for a guided tour of the ruins and the royal tomb of the Inca
king.
Tour 4
A short flight from Cuzco takes you from the Andes into the lowlands of the
Amazon Jungle. From here you'll travel by boat to your accommodation in a forest
reserve, which holds the record for the most bird sightings in one area. From the
guesthouse you can explore the jungle in the company of a local guide.
秘鲁是南美洲临太平洋海岸的一个国家。从地理上讲，秘鲁有三大地区：狭长的
临海地带，与海岸平行的安第斯山脉以及东南部地势较高的平原地区。在高原地
区有的的喀喀湖，这是世界上海拔最高的湖，湖上可以行船。秘鲁有着多种多样
的植物，从沙漠中的草原到大片的丛林。秘鲁曾经是强盛而极为赋予的印加帝国
的中心，从16 世纪起，南美洲许多地区都是由西班牙统治的。秘鲁最终于1821
年脱离西班牙而独立。秘鲁的首都是利马，位于北部的临海地区。人们发现古印
加帝国的首都库斯科位于安第斯的高山之上。这儿是旅游的热点，因为它离马丘
比丘城著名的印加遗址近。库斯科有许多旅店和酒吧，是一座富有活力的城市，
在那儿你可以看到印第安和西班牙的文化艺术。1. 为什么库斯科是旅游人士喜
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欢去的地方？2. 的的喀喀湖有什么特色？3. 你认为秘鲁有哪两种官方语言？
PERU 秘鲁
秘鲁提供丰富的旅游资源，从古代的遗址、具有数百年历史的西班牙式的村庄，
到茂密的森林、高山和临海的沙漠。“秘鲁之旅”为各种年龄和品位的人提供旅
游服务。下列旅游项目都是从库斯科出发，库斯科是印加文化的古都所在地。
旅游路线1 体验丛林，近距离观赏各种类繁多的野生生物。在四天的徒步旅行中
山区的风景和步行途经的古代遗址将会令你叹为观止。最后一天到达马丘比丘遗
址，正好赶得上去安第斯山上观看日出。白天参观古印加城的遗址，然后乘火车
返回库斯科。
旅游路线2 全日乘车旅游，从库斯科到普诺，观赏高原乡村的秀丽景色。再从普
诺乘船穿过的的喀喀湖，半途停歇在乌罗族人的浮岛上。这些浮岛和乌罗印第安
人的房子都是用湖里的水草做成的。有一整天的时间待在当地居民的家里，这样
你会有机会更多地了解他们的生活。第四天返回普诺，再乘飞机返回利马。
旅游路线3 在库斯科的安第斯高山上玩四天，了解它的历史，参观博物馆。观赏
西班牙式的建筑，品尝西班牙美味，好好逛逛五颜六色的市场，花些时间讨价还
价买点纪念品。乘火车去马丘比丘，由导游陪同去参观遗址和印加国王的皇家墓
地。
旅游路线4 从库斯科乘飞机作短途飞行，从安第斯山到亚马孙河丛林的低地。从
这里可以乘船到森林保护区的接待站。这个护林区保持着一项观鸟记录，即在一
个地区可以看到最多的鸟类。你还可以在当地导游的陪同下，从接待站出发去丛
林探险。
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