【故事复现】充满智慧的高空探险家
• Step 1: Listen and answer the question.
第一步：听Freya慢速朗读的故事，回答下列问题。
Question: How was the plane able to clear the mountains?
问题：飞机是怎样飞过高山的？
• 词汇准备
• pole (地球的)极
• flight 飞行
• explorer 探险家
• lie 处于，位于
• serious 严重的
• point 地点
• seem 似乎
• crash 坠毁
• sack 袋子
• clear 越过
• aircraft 飞机
• endless 无尽的
• plain 平原
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R.E.
Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time.
美国探险家 R.E. 伯德在飞越北极3年之后，于1929 年第一次飞越了南极。
Though, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the
mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble.
虽然开始时伯德和他的助手们拍下了飞机下面连绵群山的大量照片，但他们很
快就陷入了困境。
At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. It could only get over the
mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet.
在有个地方，飞机似乎肯定要坠毁了。只有在飞至10,000英尺的高度时，它才
能飞过这些山头。
Byrd at once ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then
able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 400 feet.
伯德马上命令他的助手们把两个沉重的食物袋扔掉，于是飞机可以上升了，它
在离山头400英尺的高度飞越了过去。
Byrd now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles
away, for there were no more mountains in sight.
伯德这时知道他能够顺利飞抵 300 英里以外的南极了，因为前面再没有山了。
The aircraft was able to fly over the endless white plains without difficulty.
飞机可以毫无困难地飞过这片茫茫无际的白色平原!
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1 When did the American explorer R. E. Byrd become the first man to fly over the
South Pole?
2 Did he take a lot of photographs during the flight or not? Did he run into
difficulties or not?
3 Could his plane get over the mountains or not? What did he order his men to do?
4 Did the plane then fly over the mountains or did it crash? Did it continue without
further trouble or not?
Answer: The American explorer, R. E. Byrd, became the first man to fly over
the South Pole in 1929. He took a lot of photographs during the flight but then
he ran into difficulties. His plane could not get over the mountains so he
ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane then flew over
the mountains and continued without further trouble.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1. R. E. Byrd was the first man_______.
(a) to go to the South Pole
(b) to fly over the South Pole
(c) to go to the North Pole
(d) to take photographs of the South Pole
2 Byrd succeeded in flying over the mountains _______.
(a)because his plane rose 4004 feet
(b) by making his plane lighter
(c) because there were heavy sacks in the plane
(d) because they were under10,00 00 feet high no
3 Did the mountains ______ far below?
(a)lie
(b)lay
(c) laid
(d)lain
4 It could only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet. This means it____
_over the mountains.
(a)would succeed in getting
(b) got
(c)was able to get
(d)had got
5 The plane was then able to rise. This means it ______.
(a) could rise
(b) might rise
(c)might succeed in rising
(d) rose
6 Byrd knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole. It would be ______.
(a)impossible
(b)necessary
(c)able
(d) possible
7 He would be able to reach the Pole _______was 300 miles away
(a) which
(b)who
(c)it
(d) which it no
8 They soon ______ serious trouble.
(a)ran after
(b)followed
(c)had
(d)ran
9 Byrd at once ordered them to do this. He ordered them to do this ______.
(a)once
(b)soon
(c) immediately
(d)quickly
10 The plane cleared the mountains. It_______ them.
(a)covered
(b)cleaned
(c)emptied
(d) flew over
11 Byrd now knew he would be able to ______ the South Pole.
(a)arrive at
(b)arrive
(c)reach at
(d) reach in
12 There were no more mountains in sight. They ______.
(a) were blind
(b)couldn't see
(c)couldn't be seen
(d) were sightless
Key: 1b 2b 3a 4a 5d 6d 7a 8c 9c 10d 11a 12c
第三十四单元【语法点拨】
错综时间条件句和含蓄虚拟条件句
▶ 错综时间条件句
所谓错综时间条件句是指虚拟条件句与主句所指时间不一致，如从句指过去，
而主句指的却是现在或将来，这时应根据具体的语境，采用表示不同的动词形
式来进行调整。
• If it had rained last night, the ground would be wet now.
要是昨晚下过雨的话，现在地面就会是湿的。
(从句表示的是过去时间，主句表示现在时间)
• If the weather had been more favorable last winter, the crops would be
growing still better.
如果去年冬天天气更好的话，现在的庄稼长势会更好。
(从句表示的是过去时间，主句表示现在时间)
• If she had taken the doctor’s advice, she might still be alive.
她当时要是听医生的劝告，她现在也许还活着。
(从句表示的是过去时间，主句表示现在时间)
• If I were you, I would have accepted their terms.
我要是你，我当时就接受他们的条件了。
(从句表示现在时间，主句表示过去时间)
▶ 含蓄虚拟条件句
有时只有主句，不出现虚拟条件句，而是用 without, with, but except for(要不是)
等介词短语，或者用but, or, or else, otherwise等副词或连词，或者用动词不定式
或分词短语等来表示虚拟条件。
▪ 有时假设的情况并不以条件从句表示出来，而是通过介词短语表示
• But for (= If it had not been for) the storm, we should have arrived much
earlier.要不是暴风雨，我们也许早就到了。
• She would leave her husband except for (=if it were not for) the child.
要不是因为这孩子，她现在就离开了她的丈夫。
• We couldn’t have finished it without Mary (=if it had not been for Mary).
如果没有玛丽，我们是不能按时完成这个工作的。
• I would have done the same in that position. (= if I had been in that position)
如果我处在那个位置，我也会这么做。
▪ 将虚拟条件隐含在不定式短语中
• To hear him talk (= If you could hear him talk), you’d think he was the Prime
Minister.听他讲话你会以为他是首相。
• To have studied harder(=If you had studied harder), you would have passed
the examination.你学习更用功些，你早就考及格了。
▪ 将虚拟条件隐含在分词短语中
• Born in better times, he would have been a scholar.
(If he had been born in better times, he would…)
如果出生在更好的时代，他早就成为学者了。
• Given more time, I could have done it better.
( If I had been given more time, I could…)
要是多给一点时间，我会做得更好。
• Failing this time again, what would you do?
(If you failed this time again, what would…)
假若这次再失败，那你怎么办?
• Walking alone in the dark, Mary would be terrified.
( If Mary walked alone in the dark, she…)
要是一个人单独在黑暗中行走，玛丽会感到十分害怕。
▪ 将虚拟条件隐含在名词短语中
• A few minutes earlier (If you had come a few minutes earlier, you...), and
you would have seen the film star.
要是你早来几分钟，你就见到那位电影明星了。
▪ 将虚拟条件隐含在某些连词中
• I didn’t know that he was a cheat, or else (=if I had known he was a cheat)
I wouldn’t have believed him.
我不知道他是个骗子，不然我也不会相信他了。
• I would write to her, but I don’t know her address. (=If I knew her address, I
would write to her. But…)
我会给她写信的，就是不知道她的地址。
• I’m really very busy, otherwise(= if I were not so busy) I would certainly go
there with you.我真的是太忙了，不然我就会同你一道去了。
▪ 将条件隐含在定语从句中
• Anyone who had seen that painting (=If anyone had seen that painting, he…)
might have taken it for a photo.
凡是看过那画的人，都可能把它看成是照片。
• Any person who had behaved in that way (=If any person had behaved in that
way, he…,) would have been dismissed.
任何人这样做了都会被开除。
▪ 将虚拟条件隐含在一定的上下文中
• I would go abroad for further study but that (= but that I am poor= if I were
not poor) I am poor.
如果不是因为贫穷，我现在就出国深造。
• You might stay here forever. ( =If you wanted to, you might..)
你可以永远待在这儿。
• You cannot do that. It (It= If you did that, it would.. )would ruin your life.
你不能那样做，否则会毁了你的一生。
第三十五单元