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创新国际英语教程 3 Unit 12 Difficult to believe

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[00:00.00]Unit 12 Difficult to believe
[00:04.88]4 While you read  Home alone
[00:13.14]’Home Alone’is one of the biggest box office successes in movie history.
[00:19.80]Along with its sequel,’Home Alone 2’,
[00:24.56]it grossed1 over half a billion dollars worldwide.
[00:29.91]If you ask me,they’re not particularly funny films.
[00:34.87]There’s too much slapstick humour for my liking2
[00:39.24]-people slipping over or having their faces covered in cream
[00:44.80]-but there is something about the films which appeals to a deep-held fantasy
[00:50.96]we all had when we were children:
[00:55.01]the freedom to escape from our parents and do whatever we wanted.
[01:00.68]When I was in my teens,my parents went away for the weekend
[01:07.13]leaving me and my sixteen-year-old brother to fend3 for ourselves.
[01:12.49]We immediately rang up all our friends
[01:17.66](and our friends rang their friends)and we had a party.
[01:23.30]The police came and broke it up at three in the morning
[01:28.06]because the neighbours were complaining about the noise.
[01:32.32]When we cleared up the following day,
[01:36.26]I found hundreds of cigarette burns in the carpet.
[01:41.83]Luckily,we had an old piece of the same carpet lying around,
[01:48.17]so I got my younger brother to go round the house
[01:53.21]and stick little bits in the holes to cover them up.
[01:57.89]It actually looked quite good and when my parents got back,
[02:02.93]it seemed they didn’t notice a thing and I thogh we were in the clear.
[02:08.68]Unfortunately,when my mum came to do the hoovering later in the week,
[02:15.52]all the bits we’d put in the holes came unstuck.
[02:20.49]She was not very pleased and I was grounded for a week,
[02:26.42]while my brother got away with it because he said I’d forced him into it.
[02:32.69]Typical!Still,this little story is nothing compared to some of the other
[02:39.82]horror stories about kids who have been left’home alone.’
[02:45.85]Terry and Jerry Schneider didn’t just find a few cigarette burns when they came back,
[02:52.98]they found their whole house burnt to the ground.
[02:58.05]The couple had left their two children,aged twelve and fourteen,
[03:04.11]in the house,while they went on a romantic weekend
[03:09.47]to Las Vegas to celebrate their wedding anniversary4.
[03:14.19]The children had bought what they thought were undoor fireworks
[03:20.54]and were playing with them.
[03:23.89]Unfortunately,the explosive5 Roman candle they lit was for use outside
[03:31.72]and it soon set fire to the sofa,
[03:36.08]curtains and carpet in the front room.
[03:40.53]By the time the children called the fire brigade half an hour later,
[03:45.88]the fire was already completely out of control.
[03:50.84]John thomas,a ten-year-old from Yorkshire,an area in the north of England,
[03:57.61]was arreted after he shot a dog and terrorised walkers near his home in keighley.
[04:04.87]He had taken the gun from a kitchen cupboard
[04:10.23]while his parents were out shopping
[04:14.30]and had decided6 to do some shooting practice in some fields nearby.
[04:20.55]’I didn’t realise I could kill anything,
[04:25.30]I just thought they were pretend bullets,’he explained.
[04:30.34]Lamine,a twelve-year-old French boy,
[04:35.20]went on a ten-day spending spree at the EuroDisney theme park near paris
[04:42.17]with the ten thousand pounds he found lying around in his parent’s home.
[04:48.73]As well as treating other children to ice creams,burgers and free rides,
[04:55.89]he hired a chauffeur-driven car
[05:00.25]and slept in a three hundred-pound-a-night hotel.
[05:05.82]Peter Kerry,a schoolboy of fourteen,went halfway7 round the world
[05:12.97]after he stole his father’s passport and credit8 card.
[05:18.22]He had visited three separate countries in twelve days
[05:23.97]and spent almost six thousand pounds before he was finally caought:
[05:30.53]his credit card was refused after his father cancelled it.
[05:35.99]It wasn’t actually the first time it had happened.
[05:40.95]Two years earlier he spent a week on his own in Germany.
[05:46.51]’I like travelling,’he said.
[05:50.59]1 While you read  Urban myths9
[06:03.76]Safety first!
[06:08.20]Did you hear about the plane which crashed somewhere in South America
[06:13.97]as it was coming in to land?
[06:17.31]Apparently,it was fitted with a device10
[06:22.59]which warns the pilot that he’s approaching the ground
[06:27.45]-a Ground Warning Alarm(GWA)system.
[06:32.41]Some pilots find this warning irritating,so they switch it off.
[06:38.05]When the black box was examned,the crash was blamed on pilot error.
[06:44.01]The dicision had been easy to reach.When the plane had been coming in to land,
[06:50.17]the GWA had gone off,telling the pilot he was too colse to the ground.
[06:56.65]On the tape the pilot can be heard saying,
[07:01.51]’Shut up,you stupid machine!’Then you hear the sound of the crash.
[07:07.47]Drowned in a drain11
[07:15.72]A man from Wakefield in Yorkshire
[07:19.67]went out one night for a few drinks at his local pub12.
[07:24.63]He left his car in the street near the pub.
[07:29.20]When he decided to go home,he went out to his car,
[07:34.24]took out the keys,and then accidentally13 dropped them down a drain in the road.
[07:40.41]He could see the keys down the drain on top of some leaves.
[07:46.08]So,he managed to lift the drain cover,
[07:50.23]but the keys were too far down for him to reach.
[07:55.27]He lay down in order to reach them.
[07:59.43]Suddenly,he fell into the drain head first.
[08:04.99]Just as he did that,it started to rain heavily.
[08:09.74]Nobody heard his cries for help.The next morning he was found drowned,
[08:17.19]his head down the drain,his legs sticking up in the air.
[08:22.65]What a rat!
[08:29.81]Then there was the story of the couple who were in Thailand on holiday.
[08:35.08]The morning after they arrived,
[08:38.84]they found a thin little cat sitting on their balcony.
[08:43.60]They immediately fell in love with it.They cleaned it and fed it.
[08:49.55]By the time they were ready to leave,they couldn’t bear to be parted from it.
[08:55.48]They arranged for the cat to come home was with them.
[09:00.21]Waiting at home was their pet poodle.
[09:04.57]The poodle and the cat seemed to get on together very well,
[09:09.62]so the couple decided to go out for dinner.
[09:13.87]When they got back,they found their sitting room covered in poodle hair
[09:19.83]and the dog halfway down the cat’s throat!
[09:25.16]it turned out the cat wa not a car,but an enormous14 Thai water rat!
[09:32.29]Sunk by flying cow
[09:41.56]A few years ago,the crew of a Japanese fishing boat
[09:47.62]were rescued from the wreckage15 of their boat in the Sea of Japan.
[09:52.77]They said theat their boat had been sunk by a cow falling out of the sky.
[09:59.85]Nobody believed them.
[10:03.51]A few weeks later the Russian Air Force admitted
[10:09.15]that the crew of one of their planes had stolen a cow in Siberia
[10:15.11]and put it into the plane’s cargo16 hold.
[10:19.68]At 30,000 feet the cow started to run around the plane out of control.
[10:27.54]The crew decided there was only one thing they could do.
[10:32.69]So,they opened the cargo door and the cow umped out,
[10:38.46]landing on top of the Japanese fishing boat.


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1 grossed e681e722980a8424cce93c0ba8f8610b     
获得(…的)总收入( gross的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Her last film grossed a million pounds. 她拍最后一部影片总共赚了100万英镑。
  • Her last film grossed (ie earned) a million pounds. 她拍最后一部影片总共赚了一百万英镑。
2 liking mpXzQ5     
n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢
参考例句:
  • The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
  • I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。
3 fend N78yA     
v.照料(自己),(自己)谋生,挡开,避开
参考例句:
  • I've had to fend for myself since I was 14.我从十四岁时起就不得不照料自己。
  • He raised his arm up to fend branches from his eyes.他举手将树枝从他眼前挡开。
4 anniversary Cw0zD     
n.周年(纪念日)
参考例句:
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
  • Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。
5 explosive HmBxG     
adj.爆炸的,爆发的;极易引起争论的;n.炸药
参考例句:
  • Where's the rest of the explosive?剩下的炸药在哪里?
  • Gelignite is a high explosive.葛里炸药是一种烈性炸药。
6 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
7 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
8 credit pOGzH     
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
参考例句:
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
9 myths 472f82f79e7bb7e83adf53fcb7fd9c64     
n.神话( myth的名词复数 );杜撰出来的人[事物]
参考例句:
  • They drew the material of their plays chiefly from myths and legends. 他们主要从神话传说中提取剧本的素材。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Jasper White is one of rare people who believes in ancient myths. 贾斯珀。怀特是少有的相信古代神话的人之一。 来自新概念英语第二册
10 device Bv8x6     
n.器械,装置;计划,策略,诡计
参考例句:
  • The device will be in production by the end of the year.该装置将于年底投入生产。
  • The device will save much time and effort for us.这种装置会使我们节省大量时间和气力。
11 drain kkmza     
n.排水沟,阴沟;消耗,负担;v.排去,放干
参考例句:
  • Drain off the rest of the wine from this barrel.把桶里剩余的酒排出去。
  • First,you have to drain the container of all the old oil.首先,你得从油箱中把所有的陈油都抽去。
12 pub 7knzjc     
n.[英]旅馆,小店,酒馆
参考例句:
  • He is the landlord of this pub.他是这家酒店的店主。
  • They saw that four large men marched into the pub.他们看到四个彪形大汉走进了酒吧。
13 accidentally kJ6yv     
adv.偶然地;意外地
参考例句:
  • Mary accidentally let out that her mother had telephoned.玛丽无意中说出她的母亲来过电话。
  • As I turned around,I accidentally hit him in the face.我转身时不经意撞了他的脸。
14 enormous xoExz     
adj.巨大的;庞大的
参考例句:
  • An enormous sum of money is injected each year into teaching.每年都有大量资金投入到教学中。
  • They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。
15 wreckage nMhzF     
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
参考例句:
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
16 cargo 6TcyG     
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
参考例句:
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
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