【看美剧学英语】从《荒岛余生》学托福阅读

荒岛余生 At the edge of the world, his journey begins...

暑假刷剧不免发现，僵尸类题材已成为美剧的一大亮点，然而不少看客无非只是冲着如何极限生存、食物管理而来。《荒岛余生》（CAST AWAY）可以更豪放的带你来到一个一穷二白的世界。

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Chuck 是一名美国联邦快递的系统工程师。忙碌，分身乏术的Chuck根本无暇顾及女朋友凯莉。然而一场飞机失事改变了这一切。所有人都以为查克丧生于这场灾难中，然而事实上他存活了下来，被困在一个荒无人烟的小岛上。荒岛上的生活就连吃喝都成问题，查克成为了现代版的鲁滨逊。当他失去现代生活的便利以及人与人之间的互动，生活唯一的目的就是求生，他的人生观反而逐渐有所转变。

影片中的排球叫做 vilson，主人公在岛上的5年时光中对着vilson说话、思考、与它争辩。主人公对vilson心存感激，付出了感情，以至于最后vilson漂走时他会悲痛的哭泣，那个画面应该是整个影片中主人公落泪的唯一场景。当他发现生活的压力顿时消失，便开始反思人生的目的，最后对于工作、感情，甚至生命本身都有了全新的体会和领悟。当他再回到现代社会时，人生价值观也随之改变了。

荒岛生活的一穷二白，让他没了工具的帮助，吃个椰子，也是能被累死的~

▼用扔的~

▼用敲的~

 ▼用砸的~

▼用打的~

▼然而这颗顽强的椰子，竟然把石头嗑碎了，也是没sei了~

▼钻木取火~你可能会钻一天哦

▼然而没有火的日子，也没法过了

▼没有火的世界，吃螃蟹是要用吸管的（真心被这画风恶心到了）

最后再来吐槽一下歪果人留长发+胡子的样子，简直可以成为现代版《疯狂原始人》了。

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这么艰难的探索，也难怪我们的 ancestors 吃不饱，睡不安稳，哈哈哈，这也就不奇怪ETS会如此钟爱"The Origin of Agriculture " "The First Civilizations"这类的题材。

下面来看TPO33的一篇阅读，重点词汇要注意哦~~

Evidence suggests that an important stimulus behind the rise of early civilizations was the development of settled agriculture, which unleashed a series of changes in the organization of human communities that culminated in the rise of large ancient empires.

【词汇拓展】
stimulus  n.刺激，激励
stimulate  v.刺激，激励
simulate  v.模仿，冒充  adj.模仿的，假装的
simultaneous adj. 同时发生的
culmination=peak=summit=acme=vertex 顶点，顶峰

The exact time and place that crops were first cultivated successfully is uncertain. Many prehistorians believe that farming may have emerged in dependently in several different areas of the world when small communities, driven by increasing population and a decline in available food resources, began to plant seeds in the ground in an effort to guarantee their survival. The first farmers, who may have lived as long as 10,000 years ago, undoubtedly used simple techniques and still relied primarily on other forms of food production, such as hunting, foraging, or pastoralism. The real breakthrough took place when farmers began to cultivate crops along the floodplains of river systems. The advantage was that crops grown in such areas were not as dependent on rainfall and therefore produced a more reliable harvest. An additional benefit was that the sediment carried by the river waters deposited nutrients in the soil, thus enabling the farmer to cultivate a single plot of ground for many years without moving to a new location. Thus, the first truly sedentary (that is, nonmigratory) societies were born. As time went on, such communities gradually learned how to direct the flow of water to enhance the productive capacity of the land, while the introduction of the iron plow eventually led to the cultivation of heavy soils not previously susceptible to agriculture.

【词汇拓展】
in an effort to 致力于
primarily  adv.首先，主要的，根本的
primal  n.主要的，原始的
deposit  n. 沉淀，存款   v. 沉积
settlement  n. 沉积物
precipitation  n. 沉积，降水
while  然而 （表对比）
be susceptible to 受。。。影响

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