伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料:

Lesson 90 What's for supper?

Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain,

but as the oceans have been overfished,

fish has become more and more expensive.

So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs.

Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water,

have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumpinginto them as they work.

Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.

The fish are not sharks or killer whales,

but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes,

sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.

Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large:

the warm water round the hot oilpipesunder the sea;

the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs;

the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.

As a result,

the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.

Who eats who?

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：supper/sʌpə    giant/ʤaɪənt    terrifying/tɛrɪfaɪɪŋ    frightened/friːkwəntli    wits/wɪts     bumping/bʌmpɪŋ     sharks/ʃɑːks     whales/weɪlz  varieties/vəˈraɪətiz    factors/fæktəz    pipes/paɪps     crews/kruːz     rigs/rɪgz 

练习感悟：今天得课文生词挺多，花在朗读上的时间太多了。头昏脑胀，但是一想到一天中也只有这个时间段才能有机会这么长时间练习英文，那也就不算什么了。调整心态，好好学习。