Unit 06 That's Impossible

Unit 6 Page 56 READING exercise 3 HOW ON EARTH DOES HE DO IT? Perhaps the world's most famous magician, David Copperfield has entertained his audiences for years with his fantastic magic tricks and thrilling illusions. Time and time again, people have wondered: 'How did he do that?' The Great Wall In a 1986 TV special, Copperfield appeared to walk through the Great Wall of China. He walked in one side and out the other. First, he stepped into a box and the audience could see his silhouette on the white screens around the box. Then, he appeared to enter the wall. Minutes later his silhouette could be seen pushing out through the wall into a similar box on the other side. The white screens were lifted and there stood the magician, on the other side of the wall. The Statue of Liberty A live TV event was staged in April 1983. A huge audience sat on Liberty Island in New York Harbour, facing the Statue of Liberty. There was a column on each side of the stage and the statue was visible between the two columns. A white screen was raised and the statue was hidden from view. Minutes later, the screen was lowered, and to the amazement of the audience, the statue had disappeared. There was nothing there. Then, as the stunned audience watched, the screen was raised again. But this time, when it was lowered, the Statue of Liberty was there again. Lucky 13 Imagine the scene at one of David Copperfield's shows. From the stage, 13 soft balls are thrown into the audience. People who catch one are invited to come up onto the stage. These 13 volunteers enter a cage, which is raised above the stage. The people inside are given torches to shine at the audience, and then a cover is lowered over them. When the magician lifts the cover, the cage is empty – but then, moments later, the 13 people reappear at the back of the theatre, still holding the torches they were given. The audience is absolutely amazed. This is David Copperfield's famous Lucky 13 trick, which he performed for nearly 20 years. How did he do it? The secret revealed Normally magicians guard their secrets, but this time we know the answer. In 2013, 55-year-old chef Gavin Cox was at one of Copperfield's shows in Las Vegas. He was called up to the stage by the magician to take part in the Lucky 13 illusion. As soon as the cage was covered, he and the other 12 volunteers were pushed quickly into a secret passage and outside the theatre. In the confusion, Mr Cox was injured. "They were shouting 'Hurry! Run, run, run'," he said. He didn't know where he was going. It was very dark and he fell. After the accident, there was a court case and Copperfield had to reveal the trick and the technique of his famous 'disappearing audience' illusion. Page 57 PRONUNCIATION exercise 1 Welcome to Film Night Television. Our guest is Tom Potts, who stars in an unusual thriller called Asian Treasure. Why did you decide to take on this role? It was a difficult decision, Helen. I play the part of an amazing illusionist. There are so many collisions and explosions in the film that I thought you would never find that treasure. It's true! Occasionally I was frightened for my own life! Page 57 PRONUNCIATION exercise 3 Welcome to Film Night Television. Our guest is Tom Potts, who stars in an unusual thriller called Asian Treasure. Why did you decide to take on this role? It was a difficult decision, Helen. I play the part of an amazing illusionist. There are so many collisions and explosions in the film that I thought you would never find that treasure. It's true! Occasionally I was frightened for my own life!

第六单元 第56页 阅读练习3 他到底是怎么做到的？ 也许是世界上最著名的魔术师， 大卫·科波菲尔多年来一直以他奇妙的魔术和惊险的幻觉来娱乐观众。 人们一次又一次地想知道：“他是怎么做到的？” 长城 在1986年的一部电视特辑中，科波菲尔似乎穿越了中国的长城。 他从一边走到另一边。 首先，他走进一个盒子，观众可以在盒子周围的白色屏幕上看到他的剪影。 然后，他似乎进入了墙壁。 几分钟后，可以看到他的侧影从墙上推到另一边的一个类似的盒子里。 白色的屏风被掀开，魔术师站在墙的另一边。 自由女神像 1983年4月，一场电视直播活动上演。 一大群观众坐在纽约港的自由岛上，面对自由女神像。 舞台两侧各有一根柱子，两根柱子之间可以看到雕像。 一个白色的屏幕被升起，雕像被遮住了。 几分钟后，屏幕降下，令观众惊讶的是，雕像不见了。 那里什么都没有。 然后，当目瞪口呆的观众观看时，屏幕再次升起。 但这一次，当它被降下时，自由女神像又出现了。 幸运13 想象一下大卫·科波菲尔的一场演出中的场景。 从舞台上，13个软球被抛向观众。 抓住一个的人被邀请上台。 这13名志愿者进入舞台上方的笼子。 里面的人拿到火把向观众照射，然后盖上盖子。 当魔术师掀开盖子时，笼子是空的——但过了一会儿， 这13个人再次出现在剧院后面，仍然拿着他们得到的火炬。 观众完全惊呆了。 这是大卫·科波菲尔著名的“幸运13”戏法，他表演了近20年。 他是怎么做到的？ 秘密被揭露了 通常魔术师会保守秘密，但这次我们知道答案了。 2013年，55岁的厨师加文·考克斯在拉斯维加斯参加了科波菲尔的一场演出。 魔术师把他叫到舞台上，让他参加幸运13的幻觉表演。 笼子一盖上， 他和其他12名志愿者被迅速推入剧院外的一条秘密通道。 在混乱中，考克斯受伤了。 他说：“他们大喊‘快点！跑，跑，跑’。”。 他不知道自己要去哪里。 天很黑，他摔倒了。 事故发生后，发生了一起法庭案件 科波菲尔不得不揭示他著名的“消失的观众”幻觉的技巧和技巧。 第57页 拨款练习1 欢迎来到电影之夜电视。 我们的嘉宾是汤姆·波茨，他主演了一部不同寻常的惊悚片《亚洲宝藏》。 你为什么决定担任这个角色？ 这是一个艰难的决定，海伦。我扮演一个神奇的魔术师。 电影中有太多的碰撞和爆炸，我以为你永远找不到宝藏。 这是真的！偶尔，我为自己的生命感到害怕！ 第57页 拨款练习3 欢迎来到电影之夜电视。 我们的嘉宾是汤姆·波茨，他主演了一部不同寻常的惊悚片《亚洲宝藏》。 你为什么决定担任这个角色？ 这是一个艰难的决定，海伦。我扮演一个神奇的魔术师。 电影中有太多的碰撞和爆炸，我以为你永远找不到宝藏。 这是真的！偶尔，我为自己的生命感到害怕！

Page 59 LISTENING exercise 7 and 8 James! What have you done? What? I've had my hair cut. You've had it cut and you've had it dyed. That's right. So do you like it? Do I like it? It looks awful! Your mum and dad are going to go crazy. Maybe. But it's great. It's just what I wanted. It's really not attractive. So how did they do it? It was pretty difficult. First, I chose the design. A lizard. Yes, a lizard. Either a lizard or a spider. I'm glad you didn't go for the spider. Then what? Then the hairdresser dyed the top of my hair green. And then he started to cut part of my hair. That took a long time because it's so thick. He had to be careful, too, to get the shape. And then he added a bit of blue and a bit of red. Magic! He's an artist. It's a work of art. A work of art? You must be joking. It's a disaster! And there's Emily's wedding on Saturday. She's your sister! You'll spoil her wedding photos. I'll make her wedding photos special. There isn't time for the hair to grow back, but we could change the colour and you could wear a hat. So you really don't like it? No, I don't. I think it was a really silly thing to do. Why? Because it looks terrible. And I repeat: your sister's wedding is coming up. It's her big day and she should be the centre of attention, not you. So you think Mum and Dad and Emily are going to be annoyed? Annoyed? I think they'll be furious! Well, I can have the lizard shaved off, I suppose. But what about the green? I can have it dyed brown or ... What are you doing? I'm just taking it off. You mean ... Yes. It isn't my real hair. It's false hair, just a kind of wig. How silly do you think I am? I don't want to spoil Emily's wedding. I can't believe you did that. Oh, look at the time. I have to go. I'm going to have my arms tattooed! What?! James Just joking! Ha, ha!

第59页 听力练习7和8 詹姆斯！你做了什么？ 什么？我剪了头发。 你把它剪了又染了。 这是正确的。你喜欢吗？ 我喜欢吗？看起来糟透了！ 你爸爸妈妈会发疯的。 也许 吧。但这很棒。这正是我想要的。 它真的没有吸引力。那么他们是怎么做到的呢？ 这相当困难。首先，我选择了设计。 蜥蜴。是的，一只蜥蜴。 要么是蜥蜴，要么是蜘蛛。 我很高兴你没有去抓蜘蛛。 然后呢？ 然后理发师把我的头发染成了绿色。 然后他开始剪我的一部分头发。 这花了很长时间，因为它太厚了。 他也必须小心才能得到形状。 然后他加了一点蓝色和一点红色。 魔术！他是个艺术家。这是一件艺术品。 艺术品？你一定是在开玩笑。这是一场灾难！ 周六还有艾米丽的婚礼。她是你妹妹！你会破坏她的婚礼照片。 我会让她的婚礼照片变得特别。 没有时间让头发长回来， 但我们可以改变颜色，你可以戴帽子。 所以你真的不喜欢？ 不，我不这么认为。我觉得这样做真的很愚蠢。 为什么？因为它看起来很可怕。 我再说一遍：你妹妹的婚礼就要举行了。 今天是她的大日子，她应该成为关注的焦点，而不是你。 所以你觉得爸爸妈妈和艾米丽会生气吗？ 恼怒 的？我想他们会大发雷霆的！ 嗯，我想我可以把蜥蜴剃光。 但是绿色呢？ 我可以把它染成棕色。.. 你在做什么？ 我只是把它摘下来。 你是说。..是的。 这不是我真正的头发。这是假发，只是一种假发。 你以为我有多傻？我不想破坏艾米丽的婚礼。 我真不敢相信你这么做了。 哦，看看时间。我得走了。我要把我的手臂纹身！ 什么？！詹姆斯开玩笑的！哈哈！

Page 60 READING exercise 2 BIG QUESTIONS BIGGER ANSWERS! I've just discovered a fantastic new show called Big questions – bigger answers! It's one of the best online series at the moment! The idea is simple: take a topic – like dolphins, for example – and then think of lots of little mysteries that can be explained. How do dolphins communicate? How do baby dolphins stay awake for a whole month? How can dolphins hear sounds that are so far away? That sort of thing. Then get two young, enthusiastic presenters to travel the world and find answers to these questions, add some cool graphics to explain the rest and there's your show. Get the idea? Each episode looks at a different subject. As well as Dolphins, topics that have already been covered include Famous buildings, The body, Around the house, Natural wonders and Magic – my favourite so far. Still to come are Sport and Travel. But back to dolphins. I really learnt a lot of fascinating facts about them. Here's one I liked: how can dolphins look in two different directions at the same time? The answer: one eye looks in front and the other looks behind – amazing! And what about this? Dolphins replace their skin every two hours. Yes, every two hours! Also, did you know that dolphins can dive 550 metres under water and hold their breath for 12 minutes? These are just a few of the things I learnt on this great new show. And yes, I think you've guessed that I love dolphins! What I like best about the show is that it's fun and you learn something at the same time, so you don't feel guilty about spending 60 minutes in front of a screen. We've been shown how birds make their way back to exactly the same place each summer (they use the stars), and how a touch screen works (that one didn't really make much sense to me). We haven't been shown how to eat chocolate without putting on weight yet, but I'm still hoping they might include that! In future episodes, secrets like how top athletes can run so fast and why elephants can't jump will be revealed. The one I'm personally looking forward to the most is how frogs can freeze without dying. So if you aren't already watching Big questions – bigger answers!, I strongly recommend that you make time to. It gives you facts that you can use to pretend that you're actually quite intelligent for a while – as long as you can remember them, of course. Why not log in and watch this week's show now or download the box set at the end of the series? Many fascinating questions will be answered. So get watching and start learning!

第60页 阅读练习2 大问题大答案！ 我刚刚发现了一个很棒的新节目，叫做《大问题——更大的答案》！ 这是目前最好的在线系列之一！ 这个想法很简单：以一个话题为例，比如海豚—— 然后想想很多可以解释的小谜团。 海豚是如何交流的？ 海豚宝宝是如何保持清醒一个月的？ 海豚怎么能听到这么远的声音？那种事。 然后让两位年轻、热情的演讲者环游世界，找到这些问题的答案， 添加一些很酷的图形来解释其余的部分，这就是你的节目。 明白了吗？ 每一集都关注一个不同的主题。 除了海豚，已经涵盖的主题还包括 著名的建筑、身体、房子周围、自然奇观和魔法——到目前为止我最喜欢的。 接下来是体育和旅游。 但回到海豚。 我真的学到了很多关于他们的有趣事实。 这里有一个我喜欢的问题：海豚怎么能同时朝两个不同的方向看？ 答案是：一只眼睛向前看，另一只眼睛向后看——太棒了！ 那这个呢？ 海豚每两小时更换一次皮肤。 是的，每两个小时一次！ 此外，你知道海豚可以潜入550米深的水下，屏住呼吸12分钟吗？ 这些只是我在这个伟大的新节目中学到的一些东西。 是的，我想你已经猜到我喜欢海豚了！ 我最喜欢这个节目的地方是它很有趣，同时你也学到了一些东西， 所以你不会因为在屏幕前呆60分钟而感到内疚。 我们已经了解了鸟类每年夏天是如何回到同一个地方的 （他们使用星星），以及触摸屏是如何工作的（这个对我来说没有多大意义）。 我们还没有学会如何在不增加体重的情况下吃巧克力， 但我仍然希望他们能包括这一点！ 在未来的剧集中，顶级运动员如何跑得如此之快以及大象为什么不能跳跃等秘密将被揭露。 我个人最期待的是青蛙如何冷冻而不死亡。 所以，如果你还没有在看大问题——更大的答案！，我强烈建议你抽出时间。 它给了你一些事实，你可以用这些事实来假装你在一段时间内实际上很聪明—— 当然，只要你能记住它们。 为什么不现在登录观看本周的节目呢 或者下载系列末尾的套装？ 许多引人入胜的问题将得到解答。 所以，开始观看并学习吧！

Page 62 Fiction exercise 2 THE MIND MAP BY DAVID MORRISON Lucho and Eva are classmates at a school in Salvador. Their teacher tells them to make a mind map together. Lucho starts one at home, around the word guaca, which are special gold objects made by South American tribes. At home Lucho has a gold pendant that his grandmother gave him. Here, Lucho and Eva go to a computer to find more information for the mind map Lucho started. Eva typed 'Kogi' and pressed Enter. (... Soon [she] had found the web page she was looking for. 'OK'. Eva started reading. 'The Sierra Nevada mountains are home to the Kogi tribe. The ancestors of the Kogi were the brave Tairona ...' she continued. 'Like their ancestors, the Kogi still make things from gold.' Should I write this down?' asked Lucho. 'Of course, or we will forget it,' Eva answered. Lucho put his notebook on the table next to the computer and looked at the screen, where there was a photograph of a Kogi chief. The chief was wearing a jaguar skin and he had jaguar teeth on a piece of gold string round his neck. He seemed to be looking straight at Lucho from the screen. [...] 'What are you waiting for, Lucho? Write these things on your mind map!' Eva said. [Lucho] opened his notebook and turned to the page where he had drawn his mind map, but when he saw what had happened, he almost fell off his chair. 'Eva, something's wrong!' Lucho shouted. 'Shh!' said Eva. 'We're in the library!" 'The mind map has changed, Eva. Look!' He showed her the mind map. There were words now in the four circles he had drawn with the pendant. The words were, 'Nebtashi', 'Hotel Continental', 'Esmeralda' and 'Ichua'. I don't even write like that, Eva!' 'Lucho,' said Eva, 'this is not the time for silly jokes. We don't have much time before the next class.' 'Eva, I promise. All I did last night was to draw the circles and the lines and write"guaca" in the centre circle. Something amazing has happened! Eva stood up. 'I'm sorry, Lucho.' Her voice was very serious now. 'I don't think you're a bad person, but you are a little strange. I will do the mind map alone. You can tell your story to Mr Parra on Monday.' Eva walked out of the library. Lucho didn't know what to think. How had the words appeared on the mind map? Something strange, something very strange, was happening. Quickly, he typed 'Ichua' into the computer, but couldn't find any information. He now knew that 'Nebtashi' meant 'jaguar', and 'Esmeralda' was his grandmother's name. He looked for information about the 'Hotel Continental', but could only find pages about hotels in places he had never heard of. 'I must show Eva that I'm not lying!' he said to himself as he put his notebook and pen into his bag and stood up. Suddenly he sat down again. Big red letters had started to appear on the computer screen and slowly the letters became words, three words: 'TAKE IT BACK.' Lucho could not believe his eyes.

第62页 虚构练习2 思维导图 大卫·莫里森 卢乔和伊娃是萨尔瓦多一所学校的同学。 他们的老师告诉他们一起做一个思维导图。 Lucho在家里开始了一个，围绕着“guaca”这个词，这是南美部落制作的特殊黄金制品。 在家里，卢乔有一个祖母送给他的金吊坠。 在这里，卢乔和伊娃走向电脑，为卢乔开始的思维导图寻找更多信息。 伊娃键入“Kogi”并按Enter键。 （……很快[她]就找到了她要找的网页。 好的伊娃开始阅读。 内华达山脉是科吉部落的家园。 科吉人的祖先是勇敢的泰罗纳人。……”她继续说道。 “和他们的祖先一样，科吉人仍然用黄金做东西。” 我应该把这个写下来吗？卢乔问。 “当然，否则我们会忘记的，”伊娃回答。 卢乔把笔记本放在电脑旁边的桌子上，看着屏幕， 那里有一张科吉酋长的照片。 酋长穿着美洲豹皮 他脖子上挂着一根金线，上面长着美洲虎的牙齿。 他似乎在屏幕上直视卢乔。 [...] 你还在等什么，卢乔？把这些东西写在你的思维导图上！伊娃说。 [卢乔]打开笔记本，翻到他画思维导图的那一页， 但当他看到发生了什么事时，他差点从椅子上摔下来。 伊娃，出事了！卢乔喊道。 嘘！伊娃说。“我们在图书馆！" “思维导图变了，伊娃。看！” 他给她看了思维导图。 现在，他用吊坠画的四个圆圈里都有字了。 单词是“Nebtashi”、“Hotel Continental”、“Esmeralda”和“Ichua”。 伊娃，我甚至都不是那样写的！” “卢乔，”伊娃说， 现在不是开玩笑的时候。 下节课之前我们没有多少时间了。” “伊娃，我保证。 昨晚我所做的就是画圆圈和线条，并在中心圆圈上写上“番石榴”。 令人惊奇的事情发生了！ 伊娃站了起来。 “对不起，卢乔。”她的声音现在很严肃。 “我不认为你是个坏人，但你有点奇怪。 我将独自绘制思维导图。 你可以在周一把你的故事告诉帕拉先生。” 伊娃走出了图书馆。 卢乔不知道该怎么想。 这些单词是如何出现在思维导图上的？ 奇怪的事情，非常奇怪的事情正在发生。 很快，他在电脑里输入了“Ichua”，但找不到任何信息。 他现在知道“Nebtashi”的意思是“美洲虎”，“Esmeralda”是他祖母的名字。 他寻找有关“大陆酒店”的信息， 但只能找到他从未听说过的地方的酒店页面。 “我必须让伊娃知道我没有撒谎！” 他边说边把笔记本和钢笔放进包里，站了起来。 突然，他又坐了下来。 电脑屏幕上开始出现大大的红色字母，慢慢地，这些字母变成了单词，三个单词： “把它拿回去。” 卢乔简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。

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