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1、新概念英语第三册第33课:A day to rememberLesson 33 A day to remember难忘的一天 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What incident began the series of traffic accidents? We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to
2、get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephon
3、e rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets
4、burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both d
5、rivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through th
6、e windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another an
7、gry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left
8、of the cake. It was just one of those days! 参考译文 我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天起先时，可能还不错，但突然间好像一切都失去了限制。状况常常是这样的，许很多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题， 似乎是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话 时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急连忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。似乎这 一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来
9、3个客人吃饭。 就像很多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发觉的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆 车上的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一 冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉到公路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机望见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶 子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在公路上。这又引起一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。在这段时间 里
10、，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到好处，它们贪欲地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！ New words and expressions 生词和短语 prelude n. 序幕，前奏 unforeseen adj. 意料之外的 series n. 系列 catastrophe n. 大祸，灾难 crockery n. 陶器，瓦器 suburb n. 郊区 collide v. 猛撞 learner n. 初学者 panic n. 惊惶，恐慌 windscreen n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃 alongside prep.在…&hellip
11、;的旁边，与……并排 slide (slid, slid) v. 滑 stray adj. 迷失的，离群的 confusion n. 混乱 greedily adv. 贪欲地 devour v. 狼吞虎咽地吃 Notes on the text课文注释 1 get out of control，失去限制。 2 It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.就似乎一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。as if引导的从句中用的是虚拟语气;set up，引起，产生;a chain
12、 of,一连串。 3 keep an eye on，照看，照管。 4 you are on the phone，你在接电话。 5 reduce you to tears，使你流泪。 6 on a big scale，大规模地。 7 rush hour，上下班时间。 8 draw up，追上。 9 pull up。停车。 10 get the traffic on the move，使车辆动起来。Lesson 33 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第5页 共5页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页第 5 页 共 5 页