参考译文

我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响了，它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯了下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。

就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔所发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来了个急刹车。司机的妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉在马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶，成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。这又引起了一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到了好处，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！

Comprehension理解

Give shoft answers to these questions in your own words as far as possible. Use one complete sentence for each answer.

1What can mark the beginning of an unforeseen series of catastrophes while you are preparing a meal?

2Why are your husband's guests not welcome?

3What began all the trouble in Parramatta recently?

Vocabulary

词汇

Explain the meanings of the following words and phrases as they are used in the passage: happens (1. 3); precisely(1．4)；preparing (1．6); catastrophes (1．8)；smashing (1．9); in the process (1．9); reduce you to tears (1．10).

Summary writing

摘要写作

In not more than 80 words describe what happened from the time when the learner driver stopped her car. Use your own words as far as possible. Do not include anything that is not in the last paragraph.

Composition

作文

In not more than 250 words describe a similar ‘chain of reactions’. Expand the ideas given below into a plan and provide a suitable title. Your Composition should be in three or four paragraphs.

Ideas: Man loaded with parcels ---- looking for his car ---- saw one exactly like it ---- mistook it for his own --- found his key with difficulty ---- tried to open the door ---- key wouldn't turn ---- forced the lock ---- broke the key ---- dropped the parcels ---- infuriated ---- deliberately broke the window of the car ---- the owner saw him ---- rushed towards him ---- called a policeman ---- the man arrested ---- tried to explain ---- was not believed.

Letter writing

书信写作

You have been trying to sell your car and an unknown person has written to you making an offer. Write a reply in about 100 words in three paragraphs accepting the offer and making arrangements for the sale.

Key structures

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Special difficulties

关键句型和难点

Exercises 练习



1We have all experienced days . . . (l. 1). Write two sentences using the following: he experienced; a lot of experience (ISD 31a) (参见第2册第31课难点a)

2A day may begin well enough (I1. l-2). Write sentences using the following: good enough; enough money; fairly. (ISD86a) (参见第2册第86课难点a)

3You are on the phone. The baby pulls the tablecloth off the table. He smashes half your best crockery. He cuts himself in the process. (11. 8-9) Join these sentences together to make one sentence. Compare your answer with the sentence in the passage. (IKS 49) (参见第2册第49课关键句型)

4people recently discovered (1. 12). Write two sentences illustrating the difference between discover and invent. (ISD 61a) (参见第2册第61课难点a)

5His wife was sitting beside him. (1. 15) Write two sentences illustrating the difference between beside and besides. (ISD 18b) (参见第2册第18课难点b)

6a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car (1. 17). Explain the meaning of drawing up in this sentence. Write sentences using draw back and draw off: (ISD 64) (参见第2册第64课难点)

7the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles (11. 20-21). Write two sentences illustrating the difference between had to take and should have taken. (IKS 65) (参见第2册第65课关键句型)

Multiple choice questions

多项选择题

Choose the correct answers to the following questions.

Comprehension 理解

1What would have most upset the woman the day everything went wrong for her?

a．She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.

b．The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.

c．Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.

d．She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2What might have prevented a chain reaction following the initial collision?

a．If the two drivers who had collided had not begun to argue.

b．Had there been a more experienced driver behind the two cars.

c．If, instead of panicking, the woman had made no attempt to stop.

d．Had the wife of the man who braked not thrown a cake through the window.

3There was a second angry argument because ______ .

a．the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accident

b．the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move again

c．the lorry driver did not think he should be made to sweep up the glass

d．two dogs had devoured what was left of the cake

Structure 结构

4It is as if a single event that is ______ a chain of reactions. (11. 4-5)

a．no importance set up

b．of no importance set up

c．not any important sets up

d．not any importance sets up

5- you are preparing a meal ______ keeping an eye on the baby. (11. 6-7)

a．at the same time

b．as you are

c．as well

d．while

6As if this ______ you to tears . . . (1. 10)

a．has not already reduced

b．were not already reducing

c．did not already reduce

d．would not already reduce

7Immediately behind the two cars ______ happened to be a learner. (11. 13-14)

a．was a woman who

b．a woman

c．the woman

d．there was the woman who

8The police spent nearly an hour ______ the traffic on the move again. (11. 19-20)

a．to get

b．until getting

c．getting

d．having got

Vocabulary词汇

9You are preparing a meal and ______ the baby at the same time. (11. 6-7)

a．looking at

b．seeing

c．watching

d．seeing to

10She stopped her car ______ a sudden panic. (1. 14)

a．into

b．in

c．from

d．with

11Hundreds of them ______ the back of the vehicle . . . (11. 18-19)

a．slipped off

b．slid down

c．slid over

d．slipped under

12They greedily devoured the ______ of the cake. (11, 21-22)

a．left

b．leave

c．leftover

d．remains