讀新概念，NCE 3 - 12 荒島餘生

Lesson 12

　　Life on a desert island

　　Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

　　What was exceptional about the two men's stay on the desert island？

　　Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe，waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures， but few us have had the opportunity to find out.

Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey， their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food， matches， and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water， but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them， they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day，and， as one of them put it 'ate like kings'. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later， both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.

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• 真難挑呀! -lilac09- ♀ (128 bytes) () 10/02/2009 postreply 17:44:40

• 我從不挑人口音,我隻從整體分析. -suvescape- ♂ (103 bytes) () 10/02/2009 postreply 19:40:13

• 你的分析有道理 -馬奎- ♂ (126 bytes) () 10/02/2009 postreply 20:06:04

• 回複：真難挑呀! -馬奎- ♂ (114 bytes) () 10/02/2009 postreply 19:57:08

• 回複：回複：真難挑呀! -lilac09- ♀ (998 bytes) () 10/02/2009 postreply 20:12:33

• 謝謝總結！ -馬奎- ♂ (38 bytes) () 10/03/2009 postreply 09:51:07

• 我的兩分錢，跟大家探討 -天使號角- ♀ (281 bytes) () 10/03/2009 postreply 23:22:41

• 俺是沒事找事 -lilac09- ♀ (232 bytes) () 10/04/2009 postreply 11:36:08

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• Good read! -eyeyey- ♀ (28 bytes) () 10/03/2009 postreply 05:25:42

• 棒！ -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/04/2009 postreply 14:39:28