Lesson Nine Text Dozens of people plunged into dead-end streets and found themselves trapped by crashing buildings.(49)They waited there,too frightened to run further,expecting the end.(50) The poison gas thickened as the terrible night advanced.It was possible to protect oneself from the pumice stones but not from the gas,and Pompeiians died by the hundreds.(51) Carbon monoxide gas prevents the body from (52)absorbing oxygen.Victims of carbon monoxide poisoning get sleepier and sleepier until they lose consciousness, never to regain it.(53)All over Pompeii,people lay down on beds of pumice stones,(54)overwhelmed
Dozens of people plunged into dead-end streets and found themselves trapped by crashing buildings. (49) They waited there, too frightened to run further, expecting the end. (50) The poison gas thickened as the terrible night advanced. It was possible to protect oneself from the pumice stones but not from the gas, and Pompeiians died by the hundreds. (51) Carbon monoxide gas prevents the body from (52) absorbing oxygen. Victims of carbon monoxide poisoning get sleepier and sleepier until they lose consciousness, never to regain it. (53) All over Pompeii, people lay down on beds of pumice stones, (54) overwhelmed Lesson Nine Text 第九课 课文
Lesson Nine Text by the gas,and death came quietly to them. All through the endless night,Pompeiians wandered about the streets or crouched in their ruined homes or clustered in the temples to pray.By morning few remained alive.Not once had Vesuvius stopped hurling pumice stones and ash into the air, and the streets of Pompeii were filling quickly.At midday on August 25,exactly twenty-four hours after the beginning of the first eruption,a second eruption occurred.(55)A second cloud of ash rose above Vesuvius's summit.The wind blew ash as far as Rome.But most of the new ash descended on Pompeii. 课
by the gas, and death came quietly to them. All through the endless night, Pompeiians wandered about the streets or crouched in their ruined homes or clustered in the temples to pray. By morning few remained alive. Not once had Vesuvius stopped hurling pumice stones and ash into the air, and the streets of Pompeii were filling quickly. At midday on August 25, exactly twenty-four hours after the beginning of the first eruption, a second eruption occurred. (55) A second cloud of ash rose above Vesuvius's summit. The wind blew ash as far as Rome. But most of the new ash descended on Pompeii. Lesson Nine Text 第九课 课文
Lesson Nine Text The deadly shower of stones and ash went into its second day.(56)But it no longer mattered (57)to Pompeii whether the eruption continued another day or another year.For by midday on August 25,Pompeii was a city of the dead (The end of the text) 第九课
The deadly shower of stones and ash went into its second day. (56) But it no longer mattered (57) to Pompeii whether the eruption continued another day or another year. For by midday on August 25, Pompeii was a city of the dead. (The end of the text) Lesson Nine Text 第九课 课文
Language points Language Points (1)far from a)indicating a great distance 远离 1.The sun is far from the earth. 太阳离地球很远。 2.Your birthday is not far from mine. 你的生日和我的相隔不远。 b)not at all 毫不，一点也不，远非 1.Your work is far from satisfactory. 你的工作一点也不令人满意。 2.The newspaper accounts are far from true 语言要点解释
Language Points (1) far from a) indicating a great distance 远离 1.The sun is far from the earth. 太阳离地球很远。 2.Your birthday is not far from mine. 你的生日和我的相隔不远。 b) not at all 毫不，一点也不，远非 1.Your work is far from satisfactory. 你的工作一点也不令人满意。 2.The newspaper accounts are far from true. Language points 语 言 要 点 解 释
Language Doints 报纸的报道远非事实。 (2)under the Italian sun:with the sun blazing hot in the sky The day when Pompeii was buried was a very hot summer day in Italian. 在意大利骄阳下 under the sun:(anywhere)in the world 太阳之下，在世界上（任何地方） 1.She's tried everything under the sun @ 她什么办法都试过了。 2.Nothing under the sun lasts for long 世上万物无一持久。 (3)Comparing the following words: except,apart from,besides,except for,except that 语言要点解释
报纸的报道远非事实。 (2) under the Italian sun: with the sun blazing hot in the sky . The day when Pompeii was buried was a very hot summer day in Italian. 在意大利骄阳下 under the sun: (anywhere) in the world 太阳之下，在世界上(任何地方) 1.She’s tried everything under the sun. 她什么办法都试过了。 2.Nothing under the sun lasts for long. 世上万物无一持久。 (3) Comparing the following words: except, apart from, besides, except for, except that Language points 语 言 要 点 解 释