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全新版大学英语综合教程第一册 Unit7

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Unit 7
Emergency

Part I Pre-reading Task

Listen to the recording1 two or three times and then think over the following questions:
1. How did the father understand courage at first?
2. What did courage mean to the father after the fire was put out?
3. The poet says that firemen fight a war they can never win. What does he mean?
4. How does courage as described in the poem relate to the theme of the unit — emergency?

The following words in the recording may be new to you:

clad
(clothe的过去式和过去分词)穿上

armor
n. 盔甲(文中指防火衣)

at stake
在危险中

lair2
n. 兽穴

talon3
n. 魔爪

Part II

Text A

At first it seemed as if it might just be an old box or rags ahead of the train. But then they realized just what it was.

"KIDS ON THE TRACK!"

Jack4 Murphy

Monday, May 1, 1989 was a pleasant morning in Ramsey, N.J. Kate Pritchard bent5 over her car trunk and struggled with the bags of groceries she'd just brought home. She heard the distant cry of a locomotive horn. The trains of Conrail passed less than 300 feet from the Pritchards' house. No fence separated their backyard from the track — only a thick row of trees. But, her sons, 3(1/2)-year-old Todd and 18-month-old Scott, were nearby, playing on the driveway.
"Stay right there," Kate said, "while Mommy puts the groceries away. Then we'll go inside and have lunch, okay?"
"Okay!" said Todd, giving a thumbs-up gesture he'd seen his father make.
"Okay!" echoed Scott, trying to copy his older brother.
They watched their mother enter the house with several bags.
Kate shut the refrigerator and hurried outside. Good. The boys were playing right where she'd left them.
As she lifted more bags from the trunk, Kate heard a train race past — a passenger express, she judged from its speed. She carried more bags into the house.
The sounds of the train apparently6 drew the boys' attention to the track. After making their way through the trees, they climbed to the top of the steep roadbed, knelt down along the railroad and began to play.
A few thousand feet west, a freight train rolled slowly toward the children. Overhead lights signaled to engineer Rich Campana that the passenger train ahead was out of the way, and they could resume their normal speed of 40 miles per hour. The engineer adjusted the accelerator, then turned to conductor Anthony Falzo, a man, medium in height and strongly built, who had worked for Conrail for almost half of his 35 years.
"So what'd you do over the weekend, Anthony?"
"Oh, not much. Mostly messing around — a little TV, then bed. What else?"
Campana smiled. "Hey, you'd better cool down, Anthony — you're getting to be a real party animal!"
The two men laughed. They were still laughing as the train began gathering7 speed, moving at 21 miles per hour.
Rich and Anthony spotted8 something ahead at the same instant.
"What's that up there?" asked the engineer. Anthony didn't answer. Staring intently, he was trying to identify the curious shape on the track ahead. A box? Old rags?
Suddenly both men realized what it was. Rich threw on the emergency brake and pulled on the air-horn handle with all his strength.
The horn's blast and Anthony's words exploded at the same time: "Kids on the Track!"
Anthony sprang through the cab door onto a narrow running board six feet above the wheels and raced to the front of the swaying train. Climbing quickly down a steel ladder, he paused at the bottom, two feet above the roadbed flashing by.
Now he could clearly see the two little children. They were sitting alongside the rail. Anthony waved wildly and shouted, "Get away! Get away!"
He mentally calculated the train's deceleration rate and groaned9. We'll never stop in time.
Absorbed in play, Todd and Scott did not hear the train. Finally, as the sound became thunderous, Scott looked up and froze.
Though the train was slowing, Anthony knew it was still going faster than he could run. So he forced himself to wait until he would be close enough to leap off and grab the boys. With perhaps ten feet left between them and the sharp-edged snowplow blade at the front of the train, Anthony sprang forward from the ladder. Landing on the loose, fist-size stones alongside the track, he had to struggle to keep his balance. In two giant steps he almost reached the children. They stared up at him in wide-eyed shock. Anthony, throwing his body into space, flew toward them.
The unending blast of the train horn struck Kate Pritchard like a hammer blow. "The boys! " she cried, and raced out the door. They were gone!
The track, she thought. I must get to the track!
As his body crashed downward, Anthony covered Todd while reaching out with one arm to grab Scott and pull him clear of the track. But the train had caught up to them. Anthony saw the black steel edge of the snowplow blade hit the young child under the chin, driving his head back and scraping over his face. Instantly, blood flashed across the boy's forehead.
Part of the train then punched into the back of Anthony's work jacket, tearing the nylon fabric11. Still, Anthony managed to pull Scott completely under him.
He's dead, Anthony thought. He felt sick with horror. Burying his face in the stones, he pushed downward on the two boys with all his strength as the train passed inches above them.
The first person Kate saw when she reached the halted train was Todd. Her older boy was jumping up and down and crying uncontrollably. But Kate could see he wasn't injured. She grabbed and hugged him. Then she saw the still figure of a man lying under the third car. Scott's head, a mask of darkening blood, was visible under him. Kate ran to them. "Scott!" she screamed.
Anthony twisted to face her. "Lady," he said, his voice calm, "go to your house. Call the police and ambulance." Kate, only half hearing him, extended her arms to take her baby. Anthony spoke12 again, more sharply, "Ma'am, listen! Go to your house and call the police — call an ambulance. Go!"
Kate tore back to the house, made the calls, then reached her husband, Gary, via his beeper.
When the first police car arrived, Anthony was still holding little Scott. The conductor knew from the child's cries that he was alive, but Scott might have internal injuries that any movement could worsen. So Anthony insisted the emergency personnel check the boy before he would release his grip. Miraculously13, Scott's injuries were not serious, requiring just 13 stitches.
There had only been 14 inches between the plow10 blade and the ground. Reporters later asked Anthony if he had hesitated before risking his life.
"No," he replied. "All I could think was that those two little kids have their whole lives still ahead of them, and if I do nothing, they're dead. There was no way I could let that happen."
Soon after the incident, Anthony visited the Pritchards' home. He recalls putting his arms around Todd and Scott and lifting them. "It made me remember the moment when I first sheltered them under the train. It was a strange feeling, holding them again — and wonderful too."
Since that first visit, the Pritchards say that Anthony has almost become a member of the family. They also report that a fence now separates their neighborhood from the railroad track.
(1161 words)

New Words and Expressions

trunk
n. 汽车后部的行李箱

struggle with
have difficulty handling or coping with 费力地对付

grocery
n. (usu. pl) 食品杂货

locomotive
n. 机车

horn
n. 喇叭

nearby
a., ad. 附近的;在附近

thumbs-up
n. 翘拇指(赞同或满意的表示)

gesture
n. 手势;姿势

echo
v. repeat (another's words, ideas, etc.) 重复

draw sb.'s attention to
make sb. aware of (sth.) 引起(某人)注意

steep
a. rising or falling sharply 陡峭的

kneel
vi. go down on the knees; rest on the knees 跪下;跪着

freight
n. 货物;货运

overhead
a. above one's head; in the sky 在上头的;架空的

signal
v. send ( sth. such as a warning or a message) by a light or an act 发信号传达

out of the way
远离,不碍事

resume
vt. begin again after a pause 重新开始,恢复

per
prep. for each 每

accelerator
n. 加速器,加速装置

conductor
n. (AmE) 列车员

medium
a. coming halfway14 between; not extreme 中等的
n. a means which can be used to express or communicate sth. 媒质,媒介

mess
vt. put into disorder15 弄乱;弄脏
n. 混乱;脏乱

mess around
(infml) do things in an aimless way; spend time playing 随意做事;闲荡

hey
int. 嗨(用以唤起注意等)

cool down
(cause to) become calmer (使)冷静下来

spot
vt. see or recognize 看出,认出

instant
n. 片刻,瞬息

intently
ad. with great attention 专心地

rag
n. 破布;抹布;(pl)破旧衣服

brake
n. 制动器,刹车

pull on
用力拉

with all one's strength
使劲,用全力

blast
n. (汽笛等的)鸣叫

explode
vi. burst with a loud noise 爆发;爆炸

sway
v. (cause to)move or swing slowly from side to side (使)摇动;(使)摇摆

flash
vi. move very fast; produce a sudden bright light 飞驰,掠过;闪烁

calculate
v. 计算

deceleration
n. 减速

groan▲
v. 呻吟

thunderous
a. extremely loud 雷鸣似的;极响的

leap
vi. jump 跳,跃

grab
v. seize suddenly; take roughly and quickly 猛地抓取

blade
n. 刀刃,刀身;刀片

loose
a. 松散的

hammer
n. 榔头,锤

crash
vi. fall or strike suddenly, violently, and noisily 突然重重倒下;坠毁;碰撞

reach out
stretch one's arm, usu. in order to get or touch (sth.) 伸手抓

clear of
free from, not in contact with 离开;不接触

scrape
v. 刮,擦

instantly
ad. at once; immediately 立即,即刻

forehead
n. 前额
punch
v. hit hard 猛击,用力击

nylon
n. 尼龙

fabric
n. 织物,织品;构造,结构

horror
n. great fear or shock 恐惧,震惊

up and down
一上一下地

injure
vt. harm, hurt;damage 损害;伤害

injury n.

hug▲
vt. hold tightly in one's arms 紧抱

mask
n. 面具,面罩

visible
a. that can be seen 看得见的,可见的

twist
v. 转动;(使)扭曲;扭伤

ambulance
n. 救护车

ma'am = madam
女士,小姐

via
prep. by means of; by way of 通过;经过

beeper
n. BP机,拷机

internal
a. of or in the inside 内部的;内在的

miraculously
ad. like a miracle 奇迹般地

stitch▲
n. (缝合伤口、缝纫、刺绣等的)一针,针脚

risk
vt. put (sth.) in a dangerous position 使遭受危险
n. 危险,风险

no way
(infml) in no way; definitely not 不行;决不

incident
n. sth. that happens 事情;事件

shelter
vt. protect; cover 保护;遮蔽
n. 隐蔽处;躲避处

Proper Names

Jack Murphy
杰克·墨菲

Ramsey
拉姆齐(地名)

N.J.= New Jersey
(美国)新泽西州

Kate Pritchard
凯特·普理查德

Conrail
联铁(一家主要在美国东北部营运的铁路公司,Consolidated Rail Corporation的缩合词)

Todd
托德(男子名或姓氏)

Scott
斯科特(男子名或姓氏)

Rich Campana
里奇·坎普纳

Anthony Falzo
安东尼·法尔佐

Gary
加里(男子名或姓氏)


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1 recording UktzJj     
n.录音,记录
参考例句:
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
2 lair R2jx2     
n.野兽的巢穴;躲藏处
参考例句:
  • How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?不入虎穴,焉得虎子?
  • I retired to my lair,and wrote some letters.我回到自己的躲藏处,写了几封信。
3 talon WIDzr     
n.爪;(如爪般的)手指;爪状物
参考例句:
  • Can you get a little tighter with the talon?你能不能把摄像探头固定住不动?
  • This kind of spice is made of eagle's talon and has a unique flavor.这种香料味道独特,是用鹰爪作原料制成的。
4 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
5 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
6 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
7 gathering ChmxZ     
n.集会,聚会,聚集
参考例句:
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
8 spotted 7FEyj     
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
参考例句:
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
9 groaned 1a076da0ddbd778a674301b2b29dff71     
v.呻吟( groan的过去式和过去分词 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦
参考例句:
  • He groaned in anguish. 他痛苦地呻吟。
  • The cart groaned under the weight of the piano. 大车在钢琴的重压下嘎吱作响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 plow eu5yE     
n.犁,耕地,犁过的地;v.犁,费力地前进[英]plough
参考例句:
  • At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
  • We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后,我们将马上耕田。
11 fabric 3hezG     
n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
参考例句:
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
12 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
13 miraculously unQzzE     
ad.奇迹般地
参考例句:
  • He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。
  • A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。
14 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
15 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
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