Step Ⅲ While-Reading
Task one Predict the content
1.What are needed to conquer Mount Qomolangma?
(necessary equipment and preparations, climber’s skill, courage, strong will and wisdom)
1. What does “going high” mean?
2. What is the passage going to talk about? The pioneers or the third pole?
Task two Read and check information.
Read the first two paragraphs and answer the 3 questions of Exercise 1 on Page 17.
Task three Questions and Answers
Read para.3 to para.5 and answer the following questions:
1. Why can the Tibetans live at ease in such extreme conditions?
2. What makes Sherpas the most reliable guides in every attempt to climb Mount Qomolangma?
3. What might have been the possible reasons that made British expeditions fail in 1922 and in 1924?
4. Why could Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay make it to the summit of Mount Qomolangma?
5. How do you understand the sentence “Like winning in the Olympic Games, climbing a mountain
such as Mount Qomolangma is a great achievement”?
After the first successful climbing, why did so many people still want to climb Mount Qomolangma?
Step Ⅳ Language Points
Paragraph One:
1.the origins of the world’s major rivers世界上主要河流的源头
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try" (James Baldwin)“无论如何努力，我们也改变不了我们的出身”(詹姆斯•鲍德温)
Many Americans are African by origin.许多美国人是非洲血统。
2. accomplish / complete / finish / achieve
accomplish通常接task, aim, journey, voyage等名词,指成功完成预期目标;
complete可接建筑、工程、书籍等名词，指按预期目标把未完成的工作经过进一步的努力使之完成；
finish在许多情况下多与complete换用，但不及complete正式，指完成应做的事，强调事情的了结、终止；
achieve指完成计划、大业等，多指完成伟大功业。
Paragraph Two:
apart from除……之外(aside from)
All the children like music apart from Bobby.
The writer lives apart from his family.
Apart from being too large, the trousers don’t suit me.
Apart from a few words, I do not know any French at all.
apart adv. 相隔;相距;除去;分开地
Alice and her husband now live apart.
New York and Tokyo are thousands of miles apart.
They planted the trees three meters apart.
She lives apart from her family.
A few little things apart, the party was a great success.
Paragraph Three:
1. sacred adj.神圣的；与神有关的
Temples, mosques, churches and synagogues are all sacred buildings.宗教的，与宗教有关的sacred writings宗教经典
The Koran is the sacred book of the Muslims.
（常与to连用）神圣不可侵犯的He considered it a sacred duty to fulfill his dead father’s wishes.
严肃的；郑重的；庄严的: a sacred promise郑重的诺言
习惯用法be sacred from免除, 不受 hold sacred尊重, 保护
2. act as guides充当向导 act as 扮演;担当;充当。后面所接的名词常可不加冠词。
A trained dog can act as a guide to a blind man. He acts as manager.
One of his friends acted as go-between.
3. ideal adj.理想的；完美的
This dictionary is ideal — it’s exactly what I needed这本词典很理想，正是我所需要的。
空想的；想象中的: ideal plans for making money赚钱的空想计划
n.理想；理想的东西；最终目的: to realize one’s ideal实现最终目的
Paragraph Four:
1. be up against面对，对抗 up against difficulties面临困难
up against it面临极大的困难（多指经济困难）
2. refer to sth /sb as认为某人某物… refer vt., vi. (-rr-)（常与to 连用）查资料；参考
涉及；提到Keats is referring to epic poetry when he mentions Homer’s ’proud demesne’.
针对；有关: The new law does not refer to farm land. 新法律与耕地无关。
提交；交付: The shop referred the complaint to the manufacturers.商店把投诉转交给制造商。
refer oneself to依赖, 求助于
refer to提到, 谈到, 涉及,参考, 查阅,向...打听[查询],认为与...有关, 认为...起源于...
3.run out用尽，用完（= become used up）其主语通常为时间、食物以及金钱等名词。
His money soon ran out.
run out of用完了，表示主动含义，主语一般是人。
He is always running out of money before pay day.
[注意]run out of还有“从…中流出”之义；run out也表示“流出”，但其后不接宾语。
4. make it做成功，达成; make it to +地点 到达某地
Paragraph Five:
1. arise vi. (arose, arisen) 出现，呈现；发生 arise from / out of由…引起（产生）
Some unexpected difficulties / opportunities have arisen.出现了一些意外的困难（机会）。
2. in one’s attempt to do 尝试做某事 attempt n. vt. 尝试，企图；企图杀害
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