金银岛(Treasure Island)

            导读(How To Use This  Book)       

     罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson）的《金银岛（Treasure Island）》是一部经典的探险小说，这也是给小读者增加词汇量的书籍 —— 为了考试也是为了日常的写作和表达。

    柯普朗（Kaplan）将使得你很容易地就学到几十个甚至几百个新单词通过阅读这个经典故事。在书的右边一页上，你将看到Stevebson 的经典小说。其中的一些词已经用粗体标注。这些词将出现在你参加的特殊测试和标准测试中在书的左边一页上，你将看到这些单词的信息：怎样发音、它们有哪些音节组成、它们的意思是什么、甚至还有它们的近义词。总之，你能够在这个故事中找到一切关于你需要掌握的每一个特殊的词  并不是所有在《金银岛》中出现的、具有挑战性的、或者是不同寻常的单词都会经常在测试中出现。一些出现在<<史蒂文森的一天>>中的词是125年前或者更早些时候经常用的，（而现在不一定常用。）你可能也想去学这些词，即使它们不太可能出现在你所参加的考试中。因为这个原因，我们也将它添加下划线，并将它们的信息列在书后的词汇表上。

    你还将发现本书的一些其他史蒂文森提供了一些十分有用的信息，关于史蒂文森生活和他的书，这些将会帮助你更好地享受阅读。这本书最后还包括一部分帮助你写《金银岛》读书报告的内容；用它来帮助和指导你更好的理解这本书。

  在这本书里，你还能找到一些讨论的话题，它会帮助你对本书各个人物、重大事件和这本经典小说的意义进行更深入的思考。它们也将帮助你作好在班级里讨论的准备，或者与朋友，甚至与你的家人。 

   现在是到了开始阅读这本一直以来最著名的经典小说的时候了。

How to use this book

Robert Louis Stevenson’ s Treasure Island is a classic tale of adventure.It also is a way for today’s young people to enrich their vocabularies—for tests as well as for daily writing and speaking.

Kaplan makes it as easy for you to learn dozens –even hundreds --of  new words just by reading this classic story .On the right-hand pages you will find the words of Stevenson’s famous novel.Some of these words have been bolded(put into heavy,dark type).These are words found on tests you take ,both for specific subjects and for standardized tests.On the left-hand page you’ll find information about those words :how to pronounce them,what part of speech they are ,what they mean,and even what synonyms they have.In short ,you’ll find everything you will need to master each of these special words in the story.

Not all of the challenging or unusual words in Treasure Island are usually found on tests。Some are words that were used most often in  Stevenson’ s day,125 years ago and more . You might want to learn these words as well,even though they are not likely to appear on tests you take .For this reason we have underlined them and put information about them in the glossary at the of this book.

You’ll also find other helpful features in this book. “Robert Louis Stevenson ”provides useful information about Stevenson’ s life and his book,which will help you enjoy your reading even more .The back of the book also contains a section that will assit you in writing a book report about Treasure Island.Use it to develop and order your thoughts and ideas about the book.

You will also find some discussion questions .These will get you thinking about the characters,evevts,and meaning of this classic novel.They will also help you get ready to discuss it in class,with friends or even with your family members.

Now it’s time to get started reading one of the most famous classics of all time.