【故事复现】探测器寻宝记
• 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: What did the team find?
问题：探险队发现了什么？
• 词汇准备
• mine 矿
• treasure 财宝
• revealer 探测器
• invent 发明
• detect 探测
• bury 埋藏
• seashore 海岸
• pirate 海盗
• arm 武装
• soil 泥土
• worthless 毫无价值的
• thoroughly 彻底地
• trunk 箱子
• confident 有信心的
• value 价值
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
Dreams of finding lost treasure almost came true recently.
最近，找到失踪宝藏的梦想差一点儿变成现实。
A new machine called ‘The Revealer’ has been invented and it has been used to detect
gold which has been buried in the ground.
一种叫“探宝器”的新机器已经发明出来，并被人们用来探测地下埋藏的金
子。
The machine was used in a cave near the seashore where —it is said— pirates used to
hide gold.
在靠近海边的一个据说过去海盗常在里面藏金子的岩洞里，这种机器被派上了
用场。
The pirates would often bury gold in the cave and then fail to collect it.
海盗们过去常把金子埋藏在那个洞里，可后来却没能取走。
Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried
treasure.
一支用这种新机器装备起来的探宝队进入了这个岩洞，希望找到埋藏着的金
子。
The leader of the party was examining the soil near the entrance to the cave when the
machine showed that there was gold under the ground.
当这个队的队长正在检查洞口附近的土壤时，那台机器显示出它的下面埋有金
子。
Very excited, the party dug a hole two feet deep. They finally found a small gold coin
which was almost worthless.
队员们异常激动，就地挖了一个两英尺深的坑，但最后找到的是一枚几乎一钱
不值的小金币。
The party then searched the whole cave thoroughly but did not find anything except
an empty tin trunk.
队员们接着又把整个洞彻底搜寻了一遍，但除了一只空铁皮箱外什么也没找
到。
In spite of this, many people are confident that ‘The Revealer’ may reveal something
of value fairly soon.
尽管如此，很多人仍然相信“探宝器”很快就会探出值钱的东西来。
• Step 3: Listen again and answer the questions.
第三步：再听一遍，回答下列问题。
1 Is “The Revealer” a new machine or an old machine? Is it used for detecting
buried gold or not? (which)
2 Did a search party use this machine or not? Where did they find gold recently?
(Using this machine ...)
3 Did they examine the cave thoroughly or not? Did they only find a small gold
coin? Was it valuable or was it practically worthless? (Although ...which)
4 Do many people believe that the machine may reveal something of value soon or
not? (However)
Answer: “The Revealer” is a new machine which is used for detecting buried
gold. Using this machine, a search party recently tried to find gold in a cave
near the seashore. Although they examined the cave thoroughly, they only
found a small gold coin which was practically worthless. However, many
people believe that the machine may reveal something of value soon.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1 The search party was looking for _______.
(a)gold
(b)a gold mine
(c)pirates
(d) a tin trunk
2 The search for gold proved that 'The Revealer' _________.
(a)works very well
(b)doesn't work well
(c)is quite useless
(d) isn't very good
3 ‘The Revealer’ has been used for _______ gold.
(a)to detect
(b)detecting
(c)detect
(d) detected
4 Pirates used to hide gold there, __________.
(a)and they always do
(b)and they still do
(c)and they still do sometimes
(d) that's what they would do
5 They hoped to find buried treasure. They hoped they _______ it.
(a)would find
(b)had found
(c)will find
(d) are going to find
6 Where did they ________ the hole?
(a)dig
(b) digging
(c)dug
(d) have dug
7 How ________ was the hole?
(a)deeply
(b)depth
(c)deep
(d) down
8 ‘The Revealer’ is very good _________.
(a)machine
(b)engine
(c)machinery
(d) mechanic
9 The leader of the party was examining the soil. He was ________.
(a)testing it
(b)looking at it carefully
(c) watching it
(d) trying it
10 The coin was almost worthless. So it was of small __________.
(a)worthy
(b)honour
(c)price
(d)value
11 They searched the cave thoroughly They searched it
(a)completely
(b)across
(c)inside
(d) finally
12 Some people are confident. They ________the machine will be useful.
(a)confide
(b)believe
(c)confuse
(d) confess
Key: 1a 2a 3b 4d 5a 6a 7c 8a 9b 10d 11a 12b
第四十四单元【语法点拨】
关系副词引导的定语从句
▶ 关系副词when, where, why引导的定语从句
在表示时间、地点和原因的限制性及非限制性定语从句中,可以用when, where
和why来代替介词+关系代词，when和where相当于“介词+ which”，why相当
于“for+ which”，在句中均作状语。
• 1976 was the year when (=in which) my daughter was born.
1976年是我女儿出生的那一年。
• The summer of 1969, when (=during which) men first set foot on the moon,
will never be forgotten.
1969年夏是人们永远不会忘记的，这一年人类第一次登上了月球。
• This is the place where(=in which) I grew up.这是我长大的地方。
• The Tower of London, where (=in which) so many people lost their lives, is
now a tourist attraction.
在伦敦塔中曾有许多人丧命，它现在是旅游胜地。
• This is the reason why (=for which) he was dismissed from office.
这就是他被罢官的原因。
• My success in business, the reason why (= for which) he dislikes me, has
been due to hard work.
他因我在事业上的成功而不喜欢我，我的成功归功于我努力工作。
▶ 关系副词that引导的定语从句
用that代替when, where, why只能用在限制性定语从句中，that有时可以省略。
• I still remember the summer that(=when= during which) we had the big flood.
我仍然记得我们遭遇大洪灾的那个夏天。
• Never shall I forget the day that(=when=on which) I first came to this
university.我永远不会忘记我第一次来到这所大学的那一天。
• That is the place that(= where= at which) he stayed when he was in Shanghai.
那是他在上海住过的地方。
• The reason that (=why= for which) he dropped out was that his family was
too poor.
他辍学的原因是他家太贫穷。
• This is the manner that (=in which) they act.
这就是他们做事的方法。
▶ 关系副词where和when引导的非限制性定语从句
关系副词where和when引导的非限制性定语从句，通常由逗号将主句和从句隔
开,对主句作补充说明，注意不要同状语从句相混淆。
• After graduation, I decided to stay in Shanghai, where I spent my childhood
and four years of college life.
毕业后，决定留在上海，在那里我曾度过了童年和四年大学生活
• Albert Einstein left Germany for the United States during World War Two,
when Jews were badly treated in Germany.
第二次世界大战期间，爱因斯坦离开德国去了美国，那时犹太人在德国
受到了迫害。
第四十五单元