英语4级中的经典语句

1、2020/7/5,1,Hints,注意否定词not, cannot, never 注意比较级、最高级， than 比较的前后 插入语、同位语可略读，也可帮助理解生词 独立主格结构，分词作修饰等 熟悉各类语法现象，提取句子主要意思 意群阅读，不翻译，第一反映是意思而不是中文释义,2020/7/5,2,例1,The kind of reading demanded by college is different from the reading you did in high school or on the job or for recreation.,消遣,2020/7/5,3,例2,Have

2、 you ever been reading a page in your college text and suddenly realize that you have been thinking about the trouble youve been having with your car or a letter youve been meaning to write or anything except what is on that page in your book?,2020/7/5,4,例5,In the struggle for existence, only the fi

3、ttest, or the ones that are best able to adapt, will prevail.,取胜，成功,调整,生存,奋斗，努力,2020/7/5,5,例8,But they want to make sure that a woman works at home because she wants to, and not because she cant get a job outside the home, or because she dose not believe that she can do anything useful in her commun

4、ity.,2020/7/5,6,例13,Through all the history of mankind, the human brain has been bending nature to its will. If we had ready decided that the “natural” way was the right way, we would never have begun to make tools or build fires or develop agriculture or study science.,2020/7/5,7,例19,Three years in

5、 that job, which I would gladly have quit after the first day except for her insistence, produced at least one valuable result.,坚持,2020/7/5,8,例15,When discussing the issue of smoking at the workplace, perhaps the most important aspect is the risk smoking causes to both smokers and nonsmokers.,事件，问题，

6、争议,2020/7/5,9,例16,Fresh water and fruit were rationed early in the voyage to prevent shortages later, for these shortages led to death and outbreaks of scurvy - a disease which left a sailor weak, with gums as soft as pudding and with bleeding from his mouth and nose.,坏血病,牙龈,2020/7/5,10,例18,When I t

7、urned eight years old, mother decided that the job of starting me on the road toward making something of myself could no longer be safely delayed.,2020/7/5,11,例20,It seems unnecessary and foolish and wrong that English teachers should so often take what should be the most flexible, exciting, and cre

8、ative of all school courses and make it into something that most children can hardly wait to see the last of.,2020/7/5,12,例23,More probable is bird transport，either externally，by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers，or internally，by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent excretion of the s

9、eeds.,可能的,外部的,内部的,2020/7/5,13,例27,Myths differ from fairy tales in that they refer to a time that is different from ordinary time. The time sequence of myth is extraordinary another time the time before the conventional world came into being.,童话，神话,不同寻常的,传统的,2020/7/5,14,例29,A century ago “the movies

10、” were invented, and allowed us to empathize with other people in a way never before possible. But like all inventions the cinema is neutral, and we decide whether it makes our lives better or worse.,2020/7/5,15,例30,Only when one is aware of the marvelous complexity of the Earth sciences and yet can

11、 understand the division of the branches is one in a position to select those parts of the subject that are of greatest personal interest.,不可思议,2020/7/5,16,例34,As a consequence of such reporting biases, whereas over 50% of reported AIDS cases are from developed countries, about 80% of all estimated

12、AIDS cases are from the developing world.,结果，由于,2020/7/5,17,例36,About 350 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue: about one-tenth of the worlds population, scattered across every continent and surpassed, in numbers, though not in distribution, only by the speakers of the many v

13、arieties of Chinese.,分散于,超过,2020/7/5,18,例37,Both mangers and parents often lose sight of the common-sense practicality of getting others committed to doing things for them willingly.,忠心地，投入的,2020/7/5,19,例25,We shant know for a while, partly because we dont know of any precise relationship between ab

14、ilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum.,2020/7/5,20,例21,Robert M. Hutchins used to say that a good education prepares students to go on educating themselves throughout their lives. A

15、fine definition, to be sure, but it has at times made me doubt that my own students, who seem only too eager to graduate so they can lay down their books forever, are receiving a good education.,定义,2020/7/5,21,例22,For there dose come along, on occasion, that one of a hundred or so who is maybe at fi

16、rst a bit lost, certainly puzzled, who may indeed have trouble settling on a major, who will be distressed by sometimes passed for education, who might even be a temporary dropout; but who has a vital capacity for growth and is able to fall in love with learning, who acquires a taste for intellectua

17、l pleasure, who becomes in the finest sense of the world a Student.,2020/7/5,22,This is the one who keeps the most of us going back to class after class, and he or she must be oh-so-carefully cultivated. He or she must be artfully awakened, given the tools needed to continue learning for a lifetime,

18、 and let grow at whatever pace and in whatever direction nature dictates. For I try always to remember that this student is me, my continuing self. This person is my only hope that my own search for truth will continue after me, on and on, forever.,2020/7/5,23,例12,The Old European style, found in central and eastern Europe, where group singing is developed, is more relaxed and is sung with full voice in even rhythm, the voices blending well in the choruses.,混合,节奏，韵律,2020/7/5,24,例31,Little by little it dawned upon me th