昂立新概念2全套 第二阶段讲义 L29 教师版

Lesson 29 Taxi

阅读理解：

1. Has Captain Fawcett taken passengers to many strange places in his plane?

Yes, he has.

2. Why is the plane called ‘Taxi’?

Because the plane can take passengers to almost anywhere they want.

单词详解

1. taxi n. 出租汽车

同义词：cab

（文化：早在18世纪，如果一个富有的英国人想进行一次短途旅

游，他往往会雇用一辆单马双轮轻便车（cabriolet）。Cabriolet

一词来源于一个法语动词，意思是“跳跃”。到了19世纪，人们

开始用这个单词的缩略形式“cab”来指城市中专供出租的大型马

车，今天我们常说的搭乘出租车（catching a cab）就是由此而来

的。【学生版不出现】）

2. Pilatus Porter 皮勒特斯·波特（飞机机名）

3. land v. 着陆

词组：land on the moon 登月

land at the airport 在机场着陆

n. 陆地，国家，国土，地带

扩展：mainland 中国大陆

4. plough v. 耕地

5. lonely adj. 偏僻的，人迹罕至的；孤独的，寂寞的

词组：a lonely farmhouse 人迹罕至的农舍

辨析：alone adj. 单独的，独自的adv. 独自地翻译：我独自住但我不感到孤独。

I live alone but I don’t feel lonely.

6. Welsh adj. 威尔士的

7. roof n. 楼顶

8. block n. 一座大楼

词组：a block of flats 一座公寓楼

v. 防碍，阻塞

翻译：My nose is blocked up. 我鼻子塞住了。

9. flat n. 公寓房

10. desert v. 废弃；放弃，遗弃，逃跑

翻译：他抛妻弃子，出国了。

He deserted his wife and children and went abroad.

派生：deserted adj. 荒芜的，荒废的，为人所弃的

desert n. 沙漠

词组：the Sahara Desert （世界上最大的沙漠）撒哈拉大沙漠

课文解析

1. Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The ‘taxi’ is a small Swiss aeroplane called a ‘Pilatus Porter’. 【思考1】

你知道the roof of the world 的意思吗？

世界屋脊（喜马拉雅山的别称）

【趣味知识】

撒哈拉沙漠约形成于250万年前，是世界第二大荒漠（仅次于南极洲），也是世界最大的沙质荒漠。“撒哈拉”是阿拉伯语的音译，在阿拉伯语中“撒哈拉”为大沙漠，源自当地游牧民族图阿雷格人的语言，原意即为“大荒漠”。

●单词：called是过去分词作后置定语修饰aeroplane

翻译：a dog called Snoopy 一只叫做Snoopy的狗

2. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.

●词组：a ploughed field 被耕过的田

written English 书面语

spoken English 口语

●语法：that引导的是表语从句(predicative clause)

3. Captain Fawcett’s first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.

●语法：who引导定语从句，who做主语不可省略（详见语法

重点）

●单词：fly的主语可以是人或物

翻译：This plane has flown to Brazil. 飞行

He will fly to Hong Kong tomorrow. 坐飞机去

4. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.

●单词：fly vt. 空运（乘客等）

翻译：他把他的跑车空运到法国去了。

He has flown his sports car to France.

5. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.

●词组：once …and on another occasion … 一次……还有一【思考2】

你知道fly high是什么意思吗？

to be successful 成功

次……

6. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.

●词组：a request from sb. 来自某人的请求

翻译：在她收到了一个来自老板的无理要求之后，她哭了。

After she (had) received an unreasonable request from

the boss, she cried.

7. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

●辨析：bring v. 带来

take v. 拿走

fetch v. （去某地将某物）取来

选词填空：你来看我的时候记得带来那本书哦。

Remember to bring the book with you when you

come to see me.

不要让任何人夺走你的梦想。

Don’t let anybody take your dreams away.

请给我拿杯水过来。

Please fetch me a glass of water.

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