Pre-reading

Question: Were there any survivors on their ship except Robinson?

Intensive Reading

I wanted to travel more. I wanted to do more business. I also wanted to learn how to control the ship. The captain taught me the basic skills. I decided to go to Africa again. The journey started well. But soon we had big problems. A ship started to follow us. It was a pirate ship. It started in the morning. In the afternoon, the pirates came very close to us.

我想去更多的地方旅行。我想做更多的生意。我还想学习如何驾驶船。船长教给了我基础的技能。我决定再去一次非洲。旅程开始很顺利。但很快我们就遇到了大问题。一艘船开始跟在我们后面。那是一艘海盗船。它从早上开始跟着我们。下午，海盗们离我们很近。

They attacked us. They tried to connect our ships. We pushed them away. Then they attacked us again. This time, they were successful. Many men came on our ship during the second attack.

他们袭击了我们。他们试图把我们的船连接起来。我们把他们推开了。然后他们又袭击了我们。这一次，他们成功了。在第二次袭击中，许多人登上了我们的船。

They started to break everything. Some of our men were killed. Some men were injured. We couldn’t win. We stopped the fight. We all became prisoners of the pirates.

他们开始破坏一切东西。我们的一些人被杀了。一些人受伤了。我们赢不了。我们停止了战斗。我们都成了海盗的俘虏。

Notes:

1.do business: 做生意，“出差”可以用on business。

2.decide to do sth.: 决定做某事，“决定，选定”可以用decide on sth./sb.。

3.prisoner: 俘虏，囚犯，“监禁，拘押（某人）”可以用hold/keep/take sb. prisoner。

Exercise:

The men on Robinson’s ship finally gave up fighting against the pirates because ______ .