北师大版高中英语模块3--Unit 9 Wheels sport1

[00:02.32]Unit 9 Wheels  Literature Sport 3
[00:07.41]FRANKENSTEIN  by Mary Shelly
[00:10.26]Read and listen to the story.
[00:12.83]Are the sentences in you book true (T)
[00:16.17]or false (F)?
[00:19.96]My name is Captain Walton.
[00:23.64]My ship was exploring the Arctic¹
[00:26.44]when we found a man on a piece of floating ice.
[00:30.08]He was called Victor Frankenstein.
[00:33.43]One night, he told me a strange tale.
[00:38.65]"My dear captain, how shall I begin?
[00:41.92]I grew up near Geneva.I was a happy child.
[00:46.52]My parents had two other sons,
[00:48.11]Ernest and William,
[00:49.87]and they took in an orphan², Elizabath.
[00:52.72]When I was seventeen,
[00:54.22]I went to the University of Ingolstadt.
[00:56.76]Aprofessor there inspired me to study chemistry
[01:00.60]This changed my life as I become obsessed³
[01:02.81]with the search for secret of life.
[01:05.53]I worked day and night for two years and,
[01:08.46]finally, I found the secret.
[01:11.62]To test my discovery,
[01:13.70]I decide to create a new life in the laboratory
[01:16.37]

1 Arctic   

adj.北极的；n.北极

参考例句：

• They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
• The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.这种动物生活在北极圈里。

2 orphan   

n.孤儿；adj.无父母的

参考例句：

• He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大，并且把自己的医术传给了他。
• The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。

3 obsessed   

adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的

参考例句：

• He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
• The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。