英语基础教程1的笔记（在线课堂-Unit1-）

A. 大千世界

• Why do people want to go into space (进入太空)?

• I'd love to travel around the world (环游世界).

• You find oil in many parts of the world (在世界各地).

• It's the coldest (最冷的) place on earth.

• It's the hottest (最热的) place in the world.

• There's a five-hour time difference between (在...之间有时差)Britain and New York.

• Rio de Janeiro is only three hours behind (比...慢)London.

• They're nine hours ahead of (比...快) us in Sydney.

B. 物理特征

• I travelled through the continent of Asia (亚洲).

• China is an enormous country (大国).

• Elba is an island (岛屿) just off the coast of Italy.

• We flew over the Atlantic Ocean (大西洋).

• The Nile (尼罗河)is the longest river in Africa.

• We went driving in the Red Sea (红海).

• We travelled into the Sahara Desert (撒哈拉沙漠).

• Parts of the Amazon rainforest (亚马逊热带雨林) are disappearing.

C. 自然灾害

• The earthquake (地震) destroyed many homes.

• They said the hurricane (飓风)could hit Florida today.

• The floods (洪水)are terrible.

• There are many active volcanoes (火山)in the world.

随堂小练习：下列句子描述了哪些自然灾害？

• It lifted a car off the ground, and then we saw it disappear down the street.

• It was about two metres deep and we watched as our furniture just floated away.

• The walls began to move visibly, and large cracks opened up in the ground.

• The heat was incredible and we watched as the red hot lava came down the mountain.

来源：综合自教材English In Use, 牛津词典，云开英语等公开资源，供学习讨论用，非商用。

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