Lesson 33
A day t 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 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 telephone 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 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 drivers 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 the 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 angry 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 of the cake. It was just one of those days!
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. 惊慌，恐慌
windscreen
n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃
alongside
prep.在……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. 贪婪地
devour
v. 狼吞虎咽地吃

我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题， 好像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。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这 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3个客人吃饭。 就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，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马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看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马路上。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，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，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！

■prelude n. 序幕，前奏
a prelude to sth ……的前奏
Eg: a prelude to serious trouble 麻烦的前奏
introduction 导言，绪论
introduction to the book
preface 序，前言
foreword 序

■unforeseen adj. 意料之外的
foresee == see before hand
I foresee a bright future for you.
foreseeable 可预见的
foreseeing 预料之中的
unforeseeing 意料之外的
foretell 预言，主语可以是人或物
predict 预言，预示（语气较强），主语必须是人
Eg: He predicted that it would happen in ten years.
forecast : 预测，预报（主要指天气的预报）
Eg: Timely snow foretells a bumper harvest. 瑞雪照丰年

■series n. 系列
series 单复数形式同形
a series of
We’ve got a series of good harvest.
chain 连串，连锁
a chain of 一系列
a series of reaction 一系列反应
a chain of reaction一系列反应
chain store 连锁店，
chain reaction 连锁反应
chain smoker 吸烟很严重的人
succession 侧重时间上的连续
a suucession of failures 一系列的失败
Eg.: We’ve got a succession of successes.
string 连续不断相似的事件
Eg.: a string of cars 一连串的汽车
train 一个接一个发生的事
a train of thoughts/ ideas 一个个的想法

■catastrophe n. 大祸，灾难
worldwide catastrophe 世界范围的灾难
national catastrophe 波及全国的灾难
disaster 灾难，不幸（语气较弱）
calamity 灾害，不幸事件
nature calamity 自然灾害

■crockery n. 陶器，瓦器
■suburb n. 郊区
■collide v. 猛撞
■learner n. 初学者
■panic n. 惊慌，恐慌
panic : uncontrollable quickly spreading fear or terror
get into a panic 陷入惊慌之中
He suddenly got into a panic and stop his car.
be struck with panic== be seized with panic 惊慌失措
He was seized with panic.
terror 惊骇
horror 恐惧
fright 害怕
alarm 惊恐
■windscreen n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃
■alongside prep. 在……的旁边，与……并排
■slide v. 滑
■stray adj. 迷失的，离群的
The dog strayed from home.
■confusion n. 混乱
condition out of order
in order 秩序井然
out of order 混乱
L33-01 end 10’19”

L33-02 begin 10’10”

in confusion 乱七八糟
be covered with confusion 局促不安
throw sb into confusion 使某人惊慌失措

■greedily adv. 贪婪地
■devour v. 狼吞虎咽地吃
devour:
1. eat like an animal
The dog devoured the cake
2. destroy 吞灭，席卷
The flames devoured the whole building
3. take in eagerly with eyes, ears, or mind 贪婪地看
His eyes devoured the scene. 他两眼贪婪地看着。

Every dog has its day 每个人都会有飞黄腾达的日子
get out of control 失控
uncontrollable, beyond control

invariably: always
What happened yesterday was that he couldn’t deal with the hot potato.
precisely: exactly

It is as if
It seems as if
It looks as if
似乎好象看起来

set up = cause 引起，导致，造成
What set up the accident?
set up a world record 创世界纪录
set up = creat 创立，建立
The unimportant event is the prelude to trouble. 不重要的事情是麻烦事的前奏。

keep an eye on tha baby 照料孩子
keep an eye on = look after = take care of
Please keep an eye on my bouse while I am out.
keep one’s eyes open 睁大眼睛
When I am out, please keep your eyes open.
have an eye to
eye for eye 以牙还牙
have eyes only for 只要，只爱
Eg: I have eyes only for you.
look sb in the eyes 两眼直视某人
eye to eye with sb 与某人看法完全一样
Eg: I invariably see eye to eye with my sister.
turn a blind eye to sth. 对……视而不见
Eg: He even turned blind eye to me.
make eyes at sb 含情报脉脉地看着某人
Eg: The boy is making eyes at his girlfriend.

on teh phone = answer the phone

pull off 拉下来
pick off 取下来
knock off 碰落下来
smash half 摔成两半
in the process 在这个过程中
hang up == put on the receiver

attend to == look after == deal with
Please attend to my baby.
Excuse me, I have something urgent to attend to.

reduce you to tears.
reduce sb to + 名词： 迫使某人处于……状态
Eg: You almost reduce me to tears.
His comforting words almost reduced his wife to tears.
His answer reduced me to silence.
The bomb reduced the city to ruins.

we can draw a conclusion.
Everything seems to get out of control suddenly and a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.

on a big scale == to a great degree == to great extent
as 引导非限制性定语从句（二册已详细说过）

Troubles never come single 祸不单行
as we know 众所周知
As we know, the earth is round.
As brane pointed out, giving up smoking is the easiest thing to do in the world.
As the headmaster mentioned, one is never too old to learn.
as重点突出整个句子的含义，而which有可能指代主句当中的某个词汇，也有可能指代整个句子的含义。
As we expected, John was admitted to the university.
She married him, which was unexpected.
She married him as (was ) unexpected.

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1 What would have most upset the woman the day everything went wrong for her?
a. She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.
b. The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.
c. Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.
d. She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2 What might have prevented a chain reaction following the initial collision?
a. If the two drivers who had collided had not begun to argue.
b. Had there been a more experienced driver behind the two cars.
c. If, instead of panicking, the woman had made no attempt to stop.
d. Had the wife of the man who braked not thrown a cake through the window.

3 There was a second angry argument because _____ .
a. the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accident
b. the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move again
c. the lorry driver did not think he shouldbe made to sweep up the glass
d. two dogs had devoured what was left of the cake

Structure
4 It is as if a single event that is _____ a chain of reactions. (ll.4-5)
a. no importance set up b. of no imortance set up
c. not any important sets up d. not any importance sets up
that is ...是定语从句修饰event
a single unimportant event

5 ---- you are preparing a meal _____ keeping an eye on the baby. (ll.6-7)
a. at the same time b. as you are c. as well d. while

6 As if this _____ you to tears …(l.10)
a. has not already reduced b. were not already reducing
c. did not already reduce d. would not already reduce

7 Immediately behind the two cars _____ happened to be a learner. (ll.13-14)
a. was a woman who b. a woman c. the woman d. there was the woman who

8 The police spent nearly an hour _____ the traffic on the move again. (ll.19-20)
a. to get b. until getting c. getting d. having got
spend ( time ) doing sth.

vocabulary
9 You are preparing a meal and _____ the baby at the same time. (ll.6-7)
a. looking at b. seeing c. watching d. seeing to

10 She stopped her car _____ a sudden panic. (l.14)
a. into b. in c. from d. with
in panic / in terror / in fear / in horror

11 Hundreds of them _____ the back of the vehicle … (ll.18-19)
a. slipped off b. slid down c. slid over d. slipped under
slid over 躲过
He slid over the question without answering it.

12 They greedily devoured the _____ of the cake. (ll.21-22)
a. left b. leave c. leftover d. remains
leftovers 吃剩的东西（常用复数形式）
The leftovers of the meal were fed to the dog.

【Key to Multiple choice questions】
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A 12. D