练习材料:
Lesson 66 Sweet as honey!
In 1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island,
a remote place in the South Pacific,
a long way west of Samoa.
The plane wasn't too badly damaged,
but over the years,
the crash was forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed.
Then in 1989,
twenty-six years after the crash,
the plane was accidentally rediscovered in anaerial survey of the island.
By this time,
a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing.
The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France.
Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored.
It has four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines,
but the group will need to have only three of them rebuilt.
Imagine their surprise and delight when they broke open the packing cases and found that the fourth engine was sweet as honey
-- still in perfect condition.
A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!
应用配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：remote/rɪˈməʊt wreck/rɛk undisturbed/ʌndɪˈstɜːbd aerial/eərɪəl survey/sɜːveɪ rescuing/rɛskjuːɪŋ enthusiasts/ɪnˈθjuːzɪæsts restored/rɪsˈtɔːd colony/kɒləni hive/haɪv preserved/prɪˈzɜːvd beeswax/biːzwæks
练习感悟：到目前为止最艰难的一篇课文。用时应该超过了两个小时。早上时间实在是读到时间太晚，赶着出门于是终止，晚间接着花了一个多小时又重新复习，一遍遍读。录制了三四条完整的录音，都因为不满意或是读错几个单词而推倒重来，最后总算搞定。
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