高三英语专题阅读欣赏（日常生活篇） 一个航海者的自述 北师大版

高 考 英 语 专 题 阅 读 ：The Voyager I am a hearty seafaring type of individual,（我是个酷爱航海的人）so recently I spent a week sailing around the sea aboard the largest cruise (海上航游) ship in the world that has not yet hit an iceberg. It is called the Voyager, and it weighs 140,000 tons, which is approximately the amount I ate in desserts alone.（跟我从小到大吃的甜食总重量差不多） The Voyager sails out of Miami every week carrying 3,200 passengers determined to relax or dying to relax. The ship has (I am not making any of this up) （不是我吹）a large theater, a shopping center, a rock-climbing wall and a nine-hole miniature （小规模的） golf course. We have come a long way indeed from the days when the Pilgrims（朝圣者） crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, which — hard as it is to imagine today — had no shopping center and only four golf holes. While aboard the ship, we passengers engaged in a wide range of traditional cruise ship activities, including eating breakfast, snacking, eating lunch, drinking while lying on deck absorbing solar radiation until we glowed (油光满面) like exit signs, snacking some more, eating dinner, eating more snacks and passing out face-down in the midnight buffet. Needless to say I did not attempt to climb the rock wall, which is good because the resulting disaster would have made for a chilling newspaper headline: CRUISE SHIP EVACUATED ( 疏散) AS MAN FALLS, EXPLODES!When every passenger had attained ( 取得) roughly the same body weight, the ship would stop at a Caribbean island, and the passengers would waddle ashore to experience the traditional local culture, by which I mean shop for European jewelry and watches. I frankly don’t know why it makes economic sense for a tourist from Montana to fly to Miami, get on a ship and sail to Jamaica for the purpose of purchasing a watch made in Switzerland, but apparently it does, because shopping is very important to cruise passengers. If these people ever get to Mars, they WILL expect to find jewelry stores.用心 爱心 专心1