四六级经典难句.doc

1.When a consumer finds that an item she or he bought is faulty or in some other way does not live up to the manufacturers claim for it, the first step is to present the warranty (保单), or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase. (CET-4 1993.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 1)当顾客发现他们购买的商品有问题或者跟厂家的宣传不一样时，首先要做的就是向商店出示保证书或者其他记录。2. As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway, devices installed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to determine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equipment in good working order. (CET-6 2001.1, Passage 3, Paragraph 2)当驾驶者行驶到高速公路入口时，安装在路边的仪器会用电子方式检测车辆，以确定它的目的地，以及它的自动装备运作是否正常。3. They think theyre okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5, eight or even more to feel ideally vigorous. (CET-6 1993.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 2)他们认为睡6个半小时就够了, 所以认为没有问题,其实他们需要7.5小时，8个小时甚至更多的时间来保持理想的精力。4. But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates, about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993. (CET-6 2003-1, Passage 1, Paragraph 3)然而，虽然经济萧条使商学院毕业生的需求明显降低，但1993年，仍有大约7万9千人希望接受MBA教育。5. Alternative fuels such as natural gas, burned in internal-combustion engines, could be introduced at relatively low cost, but they would lead to only marginal reductions in pollution and greenhouse emissions. (CET-6 2000.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 3)备选燃料，比如在引擎内部燃烧的天然气，倒是成本较低，但它对减少污染和温室效应的作用是微不足道的。6. It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupils technical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay, which contained some beautiful expressions of the childs deep feelings. (CET-4 1991.6, Passage 1, Paragraph 3)这是对孩子写作能力的尖刻批判，但是它也反映了老师没有仔细阅读作文的内容，而这作文中包含了一些美丽的句子，表达了孩子们内心深刻的情感。7. If they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. (CET-6, 1997.6, Passage 4, Paragraph1)如果听者没有看他，说话人会以为他对话题不感兴趣，因此他会暂停一下，直到眼神交流恢复或者他会结束谈话。8. In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details important notwithstanding (然而), as easy facilities for disposal of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages on the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing. (CET-4, 1995.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 1)在过去，高层公寓一直和低收入人群联系在一起，并且这些公寓缺少最起码的生活设施，比如集中供暖系统、24小时热水、直达电梯等等，以及其它尽管微不足道但是很重要的生活设施，诸如能方便处理垃圾的设施、一楼存放婴儿车的空间、楼顶的儿童游戏场地以及晾晒衣服的空地等。9. This violation of concentration, silence, solitude(独处的状态)goes to the very heart of our notion of literacy, this new form of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. (CET-6 2001.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 2)这种违背集中注意力、安静、独处的阅读损害了我们对读写能力的看法，这种新形式的在背景有干扰的情形下的半阅读、半感知方式几乎不能做到基本的欣赏和集中精力，更不用说称赞他/她真正喜欢的一首诗或一篇散文了，因为这是要用心去读的。10. However, children and teens with a cold or flu should not take aspirin for pain relief because of the risk of Reye syndrome（综合症）, a rare but serious condition of the liver and central nervous system. (CET-4 2005.1, Passage 1, Paragraph 7)不过，患感冒和流感的小孩和青年不要为了减轻病痛而服用阿司匹林，他们有得Reye综合症的危险， Reye综合症是一种极为少见却很严重的肝和中枢神经系统疾病。11. When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II , more than 10,000 people mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany were packed aboard. (CET-6 2004.6, Passage 1, Paragraph 1)就在二战后的最后一个冬季，德国巡洋舰Wilhelm Gustloff被苏联潜水艇发射的鱼雷击中，当时船上挤满了一万多人，他们大多是妇女、小孩和老人，正要逃离红军攻入纳粹德国的最后攻势。12. Believe it or not, optical illusion can cut highway crashes. (CET-4 2000.1, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)不论你相信与否，视觉上的错觉能被用来减少高速公路上的车祸。13. What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.（CET-4 1999.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 3）研究玩具的历史，我们会发现引人注目的不是它们随时间的变化而变化，而是它们随时间的变化而保持不变。(What is remarkable about sth is not so much A, but B这个句型对于写社会问题类作文是个极好的句型，请背诵仿写这句话50遍以上。)14. For example, employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employer negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in the workplace. (CET-6 2003-1, Passage 2, Paragraph 2)例如，被雇佣者必须证明他们受伤的直接原因是雇主的疏忽以及他们自己对生产过程中的潜在危险一无所知。15. Frustrated with delays in Sacramento, Bay Area officials said Thursday they planned to take matters into their own hands to regulate the regions growing pile of electronic trash. (CET-6 2005.1, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)由于对萨克拉曼多的一再拖延而失去信心，海湾地区的官员说星期四他们计划着手管制地区内不断增长的电子垃圾堆。16. Birds that are literally half-asleepwith one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleepingcontrol which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks. (CET-6 2001.1, Passage 1, Paragraph 1)一项对于睡眠状态的鸭子所进行的最新研究表明，那些可以说是“半边睡眠”的（一个脑半球处于清醒状态，另一个脑半球处于睡眠状态）的鸟类对由哪一边大脑保持清醒是能够控制的。17. We all enjoy our freedom of choice and do not like to see it restricted when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society. (CET-6 1993.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 1)我们都喜欢自由选择，不喜欢在社会的法律、道德框架内使自己的选择受限。18. But the careful use of small monetary rewards sparks creativity in grade-school children, suggesting that properly presented inducements (刺激) indeed aid inventiveness, according to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (CET-4 1997.1, Passage 4, Paragraph 2)但是慎重地使用少量的金钱奖励能激发小学生的创造力，这一点证明合理的刺激确实对创造力有帮助，这是个性与社会心理学杂志六月刊的研究结果。19. For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about repairing the mistakes of our forefathers. (CET-6 1993.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 3)为了我们自己和子孙后代的利益，我们必须从现在开始着手改正祖辈们的错误。20. But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading. (CET-6 2001.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 2)但我今天担忧的不是美国人最基本的认字问题，而是另外一个更奢华的问题，即美国中产阶层读者阅读技能的衰退，他们不愿意给自己留出安静的空间，不愿呆在家里，不愿花费时间和精力。这些事情与标准阅读行为形象相关。（注：这句话好像很变态啊，但是读后会感到很爽！J, 句子中有10个of, 主要结构是less A than B句型, 意思是“不是而是”，或“与其说，倒不如说”。第一个that和than后的代词 it均指代worry，前后都是同等结构，而problem分别带了两个介词短语decline和unwillingness；最后一个that在6级阅读中可以引导非限制性定语从句，指代前边的those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration，是复数概念所以surround不加s）21. “Rsums (简历) arrive with stains. Some candidates dont bother to spell the companys name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate,” Crossley concludes. (CET-4 1995.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 2)Crossley总结说，“有的简历上有墨水污迹，有的申请人把公司的名字都写错了，一旦发现这样的错误，我立刻取消申请人的资格。”22. Yet, as public school officials realize they stand little to gain by remaining hostile to the home-school population, and as home schoolers realize they can reap benefits from public schools, these hard lines seem to be softening a bit. (CET-6 1998.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 2)然而由于学校教育支持者认识到对家庭教育保持敌对态度会使他们获益极少，而家庭教育倡导者们发现他们可从学校教育中获益，两派的强硬立场有所缓和。23. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the environment is modified by the organism and vice versa(反之亦然). (CET-4 1996.1 Passage 3, paragraph 1)但是，在实际操作中，这种体系说法就不太容易行得通了，因为，环境和有机体通常是互动的，环境被有机体影响，而反过来有机体也是被环境所影响的。24. Attempts to prevent pollution by legislation, economic incentives and friendly persuasion have been met by lawsuits, personal and industrial denial and long delaysnot only in accepting responsibility, but more importantly, in doing something about it. (CET-6 1999.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 1)通过立法、经济刺激和善意劝说等防止污染的努力遇到诉讼、个人和企业的否认及旷日持久的拖延不仅在接受责任方面，更重要的是在有关其处理方面。25. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a persons gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. (CET-4 1996.6, Passage 1, Paragraph 1)对各种社交场合来说,在一段允许的时间内你可以与人对视,而不显得亲密、粗鲁或咄咄逼人。26. And with doubtful prospects for a short-term financial return, with the cold war a rapidly fading memory and amid a growing emphasis on international cooperation in large space ventures, it is clear that imperatives other than profits or nationalism will have to compel human beings to leave their tracks on the planets reddish surface. (CET-6 2001.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 3)尽管短期的经济利润未知，随着冷战在人们记忆中消退和国际间大规模太空探索的日益重要，很明显，除了经济利益和民族主义外还有一些职责义务促使人类在这座星球的红色地面上留下足迹。27. Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, commit suicide, or go to jail, computer criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good recommendations and perhaps other benefits. (CET-6 1997.1, Passage 1, Paragraph 5)与那些必须逃离到国外，畏罪自杀或者进监狱的违法者不同，电脑罪犯有时可以逃脱惩罚，他们不但要求不被起诉，且要求给予好的推荐或许还有其他好处。28. Reebok has already anticipated that walking shoes will be the next fitness-related craze replacing aerobics shoes the same way its brightly colored, soft leather exercise footwear replaced conventional running shoes. (CET-6 2000.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 4)锐步已经预测到步行鞋将掀起一股健康热，它将取代气垫鞋，就像拥有亮丽色彩、柔软皮革的气垫鞋取代了传统跑鞋一样。29. There is no such a thing as teaching someone how to use a computer. One can only teach peple to use this or that program and generally that is easily accomplished. (CET-4 1998.6 Passage 2, paragraph 4)我们不能说教人学会使用计算机，我们只能说学会使用这一套或是那一套软件，这点是很容易的。30. It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, in many cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease. (CET-6 2002.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 5)确实，在今天的社会，体重超重的人比以往多，而且多数情况下，超重都会引发心脏病或心血管病。31. Supporters of the biotech industry have accused an American scientist of misconduct after she testified to the New Zealand government that a genetically modified (GM) bacterium could cause serious damage if released. (CET-6 2005.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 1)一位美国科学家向新西兰政府证实，一种转基因细菌一旦被释放就可能造成严重危害，生物工业的拥护者谴责了她的误导行为。32. The issue of whether life ever existed on the planet, and whether it persists to this day, has been highlighted by mounting evidence that the Red Planet once had abundant stable, liquid water and by the continuing controversy over suggestions that bacterial fossils rode to Earth on a mctcorite(陨石) from Mars. (CET-6 2001.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 4)火星上是否存在过生命并且是否持续到现在的问题已经变的突出，因为越来越多的证据显示这座红色星球曾经有过大量稳定的液态水，另外，人们对细菌化石来自火星的这一联想的争议始终不断。33. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled (耍弄) the most confidential records right under the noses of the companys executives, accountants, and security staff. (CET-6 1997.1, Passage 1, Paragraph 6)犯罪者会在法庭上显示夸耀自己是怎样在公司的领导、会计师、保安人员的眼皮底下耍弄公司最高机密文件，一想到此，他们（对把犯罪分子绳之以法）就犹豫了。34. The fine points of etiquette (礼节) that children might once have learned at the table by observation or instruction from parents and grandparents (“Chew with your mouth closed.” “Keep your elbows off the table.”) must be picked up elsewhere.（CET-4, 2003.12 Passage 3, paragraph 6）本来孩子们可以在餐桌上通过观察或者由父母，祖父母指导而学会的礼节中的细节（“要闭上嘴巴咀嚼食物”，“肘部不要碰到餐桌”等）必须在其他场合去学习了。35. While it is true that this competition may induce efforts to expand territory at the expense of othes, and thus lead to conflict, it cannot be said that war-like conflict among nations is inevitable, although competition is. (CET-6 1996.1, Passage 2, Paragraph 4)尽管存在这样一个事实：这种竞争可能导致以他国领土为代价的本国领土的扩张，因而引发了冲突，但是不能认为这种国家之间的类似战争的冲突是不可避免的，尽管竞争的确存在。36. More important, perhaps, education teaches us to see the connections between things, as well as to see beyond our immediate needs. (CET-4 2002.12, Passage 2, Paragraph 5)更重要的也许是，教育教我们去发现事物之间的联系，同时去挖掘超越我们眼前需要的东西。37. The universities have threatened to impose an admission fee on students to plug a gap in revenue if the government does not act to improve their finances and scrap some public spending cutbacks. (CET-6 1999.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 1) 大学威胁说，如果政府不采取行动改善其经济状况，放弃削减公共开支的计划，他们将向学生收学费以弥补学校收入的不足。38. By day, Billes contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina(视网膜) that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter (屈光度). (CET-6 2003.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 2)目前，Bille的隐形眼镜能将光束如此精确地聚焦到视网膜上，因此一片小小的树叶或很远处一棵树的轮廓形成的映像清晰度超过了传统的改善视力的工具，而仅用其一半的屈光度。39. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes. (CET-6 1995.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 5)但有趣的是，实际上那些一夜成名的不漂亮的女官员要比漂亮的女官员更依赖于私人关系，而较少依靠能力。40. Its also true of children who suffer for years in foster homes（收养孩子的家庭）because of parents who cant or wont care for them but refuse to give up custody（监护）rights (CET-4 2003.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 1)同时，对那些由于父母没有能力或不愿意照顾他们，但又不肯放弃监护权而痛苦地生活在收养家庭的孩子来说也是如此。41. The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can be taught. (CET-6 2003.1 Passage 1, Paragraph 5)比尔盖茨和其他非MBA的毕业生，比如沃尔玛连锁店的萨姆沃尔顿的成功，在商学院校园里引起了有关工商学位的价值和管理技能是否可以通过教育获得等问题的自发讨论。42. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach(说教), their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. (CET-4 1998.1, Passage 1, Paragraph 3)如果他们对于自己说教的东西不真诚对待也不去执行的话，孩子们就会不知所措，而且从情感上来说会有不安全感。当他们成长到能够自己思考问题的时候，就会感觉到自己从某种程度上说被欺骗了。43. When I think about all the problems of our overpopulated world and look at our boy grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I could have turned to Planned Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me. (CET-6 2006.1 Passage 1, Paragraph 6)当我一边思索这个人口过剩的世界所产生的一系列问题，一边注视着孩子正伸手去抓沙发旁的灯，我真希望当年父母对我施加生育压力的时候，我能求助于“规划祖父母晚年”组织就好了。44. These symbols of distinction assure us and others that we believe strongly in the fundamental equality of all, yet strive as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens. (CET-6 2006.1 Passage 2, Paragraph 3)这些区别象征保证我们和其他人在深信每个人都是平等的原则上，尽所能与他人区分开来。45. In fact, the analysis showed, normal children ages 9 to 17 exhibit a higher level of anxiety today than children who were treated for mental illness 50 years ago. (CET-4 2003.12, Passage 1, Paragraph 1)据报告分析，事实上，当今正常的9至17岁之间的儿童比五十年前接受精神疾病治疗的儿童表现更高程度的焦虑。46. Coffman and district officials last week agreed on a state emergency plan freeing up a $ 9.8 million loan that enabled the payroll(工资单)to be met for 2,700 teachers and staff in time for the holidays. (CET-4 2005.12, Passage 2, Paragraph 4)上个星期，科夫曼以及区政府官员就一项州应急计划达成了一致，该计划将由州政府提供980万美元的贷款，用于在假期到来之前支付2700名教职工的薪水。47. The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. (CET-4 1996.1, Passage 4, Paragraph 1)社区大学的一位老师所发表的讲话得到了听众的支持。48. Although their missions blended commercial and political-military imperatives, the explorers involved all accomplished some significant science simply by going where no scientists had gone before. (CET-6 2001.6, Passage 4, Paragraph 2)虽然他们的任务带有商业、政治和军事的使命，但参与这些活动的探险家全部都到达了科学家从未去过的地方，从而完成了有重要意义的科学活动。49. Planned grandparenthoods carefully written literature would detail all the joys of life grand-child-free a calm living room, extra money for luxuries during the golden years, etc. (CET-6 2006.1 Passage 1, Paragraph 3)“规划祖父母晚年”组织精心编写的印刷资料详细描述了无孙一身轻的所有乐事；一个宁静的起居室、晚年黄金岁月有额外的钱买奢侈品，等等。50. Although the subsidiary that sold the sensitive technology to the Soviets had its own management, the Toshiba top executives said they “must take personal responsibility for not creating an atmosphere throughout the Toshiba group that would make such activity unthinkable, even in an independently run subsidiary.” (CET-6 2003.9 Passage 1, Paragraph 3)尽管这家把敏感的军事技术卖给前苏联的分公司有自己的管理体系，东芝的领导认为他们要为没有在集团内创造不犯这种错误的氛围中而承担责任，即使是在独立经营的分公司内。51. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random (随机的). (CET-4 2003.6, Passage 3, Paragraph 1)这些差错并不是毫无规律的。52. Medical Center of overweight police officers and other public employees confirmed that those who dieted without exercise regained almost all their old weight, while those who worked exercise into their daily routine maintained their new weight.（CET-4, 2005.1 Passage 4, paragraph 3）波士顿大学医疗中心通过对超重的警官和其他公职人员的研究证实，那些只节食不锻炼的人体重几乎都会恢复原样，而那些将锻炼纳入日常作息生活的人却能保持新的体重。（男女生都注意啦，要in good shape或保持Slim&Shape的最好方式除了培养一个自己很喜欢的运动之外，就是考好四六级噢J）53. It questions the integrity of individuals working in a profession that prizes intellectual honesty as the supreme virtue, and plays into the hands of those who would like to discredit scientists by representing then a venal (可以收买的). (CET-6 2006.1 Passage 3, Paragraph 3)人们因此对于在一个视学术诚信为最大美德的领域中的专业人员的品质提出了质疑，而这正中另外一些人的下怀他们巴不得往科学家身上泼脏水，将他们描绘成难逃金钱腐蚀的人。54. Beyond the realm of information technology, the accelerated pace of technological change in virtually every industry has created entirely new business, wiped out others, and produced a Pervasive( 广泛的) demand for continuous innovation. (CET-6 2006.1 Passage 4, Paragraph 4)在信息技术领域之外, 技术革新事实上遍及各行各业，发展势头迅猛，产生了全新的业务，优胜劣汰，并产生了对持续革新的广泛要求。55. The physicist expects the lenses to cost about a dollar a pair, abou