高中英语 Lesson 66 Sweet as honey阅读教材-人教版高中全册英语素材VIP专享

Lesson 66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一样甜！Read the text and then answer the question.读课文，然后回答以下问题。What was ‘sweet as honey’ and why?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 an aerial 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. I magine 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! New words and expressions 生词和短语Lancaster n. 兰开斯特package v.把……打包bomber n.轰炸机enthusiast n.热心人remote adj. 偏僻的restore v.修复packing case 包装箱wreck n.残骸colony n.群rediscover v.重新发现aerial adj. 航空的hive n.蜂房beeswax n.蜂蜡Notes on the text 课文注释1 The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France.法国政府让人把飞机包装起来，一部分一部分地搬回法国。句子中的动词 have 被称为使役动词，结构是 have+名词或代词+过去分词。在使用这种结构时，我们可能不知道或认为不必指明为我们服务的人是谁，然 而，这种结构比被动语态更强调“使”别人为我们服务这一事实。参考译文1963 年，一架兰开斯特轰炸机在瓦立斯岛坠毁。那是南太平洋中一个很偏僻的小岛，...