8.Going it alone（八单元）

1.a:2 kitted out 3 hassle 4 foraging 5 persisted 6 popping out 7 repercussions 8 stumbled upon

2.a:2 PO 3 PO 4 PP 5 PP 6 PP 7 PO 8 PP

b:2e 3h 4a 5b 6g 7d 8f

c:2 If the town wasn't so small, we wouldn't have seen everything in a day.

3 If she didn't love Almodovar films, she wouldn't have bought all his films on DVD.

4 If he hadn't gone on holiday with his friends, he'd have some money left.

5 If I were fitter I'd have finished the race.

6 If they liked me they'd have invited me.

7 If you hadn't told him my secret, nobody would know about it.

8 If he hadn't lived alone for a long time, it wouldn't be hard for him to meet new

people.

3.a:2e 3f 4a 5b 6g 7d

b:1 Time's up! 2 in no time at all 3 at all times 4 time on your hands 5 time 6 killing time 7 filled the time

c:2g 3a 4f 5b 6c 7d 8h

4.2 You can go out now provided that you clean up your room when you come home.

3 I couldn't move to another country unless I already spoke the language.

4 Buy a ticket for the car park, otherwise the police will tow your car away.

5 We'll get there in no time unless the traffic is bad.

6 I always write a list, otherwise I never remember all the things I have to buy.

7 Imagine you weren't studying English, what would you be doing right now?

5.a:3 √4 having 5 into 6 that 7 just 8√ 9 the 10 to 11 who

b:2 execution 3 undertaken 4 sealed 5 ashore

c:1 That the Mediterranean Sea was formed by the inflowing Atlantic Ocean.

2 A report of his journey and a note.

3 He wanted people to know about the New World, so he sent a message in a bottle in

case he didn't survive the journey.

4 Because they might contain confidential information from the navy.

d:1T 2F 3F 4T 5T 6T 7T 8F

Queen Elizabeth I even created an official position of 'Uncorker of Ocean Bottles', and anyone else who opened the bottles could face execution. Now, you might think that the idea of messages in bottles is a thing of the past. Well, yes and no.

Only recently, a message in a bottle helped to save the lives of 88 people who were shipwrecked in a boat near the coast of Costa Rica on their way to the United States. They saw a fishing boat but couldn't attract the attention of the fishermen, so they wrote an SOS message and put it in a bottle, which they then tied to one of the long lines holding the fishermen's net. When the fishermen hauled the net in, they found the note and rescued the people.

And, while messages in bottles may not be so common nowadays, there are variations on the theme. For instance, balloon mail is a similar method of sending undirected messages. The advantage of balloon mail is that a balloon can be launched anywhere and can, in principle, reach any point on earth. A further advantage is that a balloon will always end up somewhere, whereas a bottle dropped from land could be washed back ashore by the tide and so it might never go anywhere.

And so, nowadays, with things like balloon mail, the phrase 'message in a bottle' has now really come to mean a message with no particular intended destination, as opposed to the original versions which were always cries for help. Other 'messages

in bottles' have been launched by NASA. the American space agency. A graphic message in the form of a six by nine-inch aluminium plaque, known as the Pioneer plaque, was bolted to the frames of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft that was launched in

1972, and also to Pioneer 11 , launched in 1973. These are messages that say 'we exist, and this is where we are'

In the summer of 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft together called the Voyager Project. The spacecraft each carry a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, known as the Voyager Golden Record, containing recorded sounds and images representing human cultures and life on Earth. No replies as yet- but don't forget that it took 300 years for Columbus' message to be found, so who knows?

6.a:1. 21 2. 27 3. 29 4. 18 5. 34 6. 23

b:1 She/ He is glad not to be able to see her/ his own face.

2 She/ He doesn't know what they are.

3 She/ He has lost feeling in her/his legs, and has lost the sense of touch. He/ She doesn't feel any pain.

4 The writer thinks she/he is going to die.

c:Students' own answers.

Unit check

1.2 hands 3 pop out 4 repercussions 5 kitted out 6 imagine 7 if 8 wouldn't 9 being 10 space

2.2b 3b 4b 5b 6a 7a 8b 9a

3.2 space 3 high 4 world 5 nick 6 hands 7 all 8 playing 9 long