NCE 3-32新概念三册32课课件.ppt

Lesson 32: A lost ship;New words and expression 生词和短语;cargo n.货物;scour vt.彻底搜查;chest n.箱子;piece v. 拼成整体;convoy n. 护航;submarine n. 潜水艇;naval n. 海军的;;The salvage operation had been a complete failure.;The small ship, Elkor, which had been searching the Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home.;A radio message from the mainland had been received by the ship’s captain instructing him to give up the search..;The captain knew what another attempt would be made later, for the sunken ship he was trying to find had been carrying a precious cargo of gold bullion.;Despite the message, the captain of the Elkor decided to try once more.;The seabed was scoured with powerful nets and there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the bottom.;Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found, the contents of the sea-chest proved them wrong.;What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.;The chest contained the personal belongings of a seaman, Alan Fielding.;There were books, clothing and photographs, tighter with letters, which the seaman had once received from his wife.;The captain of the Elkor ordered his men to salvage as much as possible from the wreck.;Nothing of value was found, but the numerous items which were brought to the surface.;In another sea-chest, which contained the belongings of a ship’s officer, there was an unfinished letter which had been written on March 14th,1943.;The captain learnt from the letter that the name of the lost ship was the Karen.;The most valuable find of all was the ship’s log book, parts of which it（形式主语）was still possible to read. ;From this the captain was able to piece tighter all the information that had come to light.;The Karen had been sailing in a convoy to Russia when she was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.;This was later confirmed by a naval official at the ministry of defense after the Elkor had returned home.;Multiple choice question