高中英语 Unit2《Sailing the Oceans》5 新人教版选修9.ppt

. ①voyage n./ vi. 航海, 航行 The voyage from England to India used to take six months. 过去从英国航行到印度要六个月。 go on /make / take a sea voyage 去航海旅行 voyager n. 航行者, 航海者 ② at the mercy of : without any protection against; helpless before 任由…摆布; 在…面前无助 They were lost at sea, at the mercy of wind and weather. I don’t like to be at the mercy of such a man. 我不愿受这样一个人的摆布。 have mercy on / show mercy to 对……表示怜悯 The terrorists showed no mercy to the hostages. without mercy 毫不留情地 The mother left the dying baby in the hospital without mercy. It’s a mercy (that) (口)幸运的是,幸亏 (用于表示更遭的情况得以避免总算是幸运) It’s a mercy the accident happened so near the hospital. 幸亏事故发生在离医院很近的地方。 It’s a mercy she wasn’t seriously hurt. 4. minimum (min) adj. 最小的, 最低的 n. 最小值, 最小化。 其反义词为 maximum (max) adj. 最高的, 最多的, 最大极限的 n. 最大量, 最大限度, 极大 1. How many navigational instruments are mentioned in search of longitude and latitude? A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7 2.There are 2 methods to find longitude, what are they? 3. What does the word “random” in “Finding latitude” stand for? A. organized B. intentional C. arbitrary D. planned B C 4. Without secure method of measuring longitude before the 17th century, the British sailors really knew______. A. how to estimate longitude using speed and time. B. how to measure speed involved throwing a knotted rope. C. how to count the knots as a ship advanced through the water. D. how to deal with the pass to calculate longitude A 5. We can infer from the passage_____. A. Earliest seamen explored the oceans since latitude and longitude made it possible to plot a ship’s position. B. The first seamen began to use navigational instruments to find longitude instead of using nature. C. In history of sailing the oceans, man mainly used nature to sail before navigational instruments were made. C 1.Seamen can’t sail the sea if they don’t know l