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现代大学英语精读4 Unit Four

During an eclipse, the moon blocks our view of the sun.
We have a good/bad/wonderful view of the mountains from our balcony.
The visitors gradually disappeared/vanished from view.
2. ①Curl up: to move so that you are lying or sitting with your arms and legs bent close to your body 蜷缩 eg: 我只想蜷着身体睡觉。 I just wanted to curl up and go to sleep. 萨拉蜷缩在沙发上。
Belvedere Castle is to the south of Delacorte Theater. Belvedere means "beautiful view" or "panoramic view" in Italian. It offers visitors a wonderful view. It is now home to the Henry Luce Nature Observatory, where simple displays show how naturalists observe the world.
different ways of “looking”
General Verbs: to look/see/ watch Specific Verbs: to scan/glimpse/glare/stare/gaze/glance/peep/ peek/eye/spot

现代大学英语精读4第四课正文lions and tigers and bears课文原文带段落

Lions and Tigers and BearsBill Buford1．So I thought I'd spend the night in Central Park, and, having stuffed my small rucksack with a sleeping bag, a big bottle of mineral water, a map, and a toothbrush, I arrived one heavy, muggy Friday evening in July to do just that: to walk around until I got so tired that I'd curl up under a tree and drop off to a peaceful, outdoorsy sleep. Of course, anybody who knows anything about New York knows the city's essential platitude—that you don't wander around Central Park at night—and in that, needless to say, was the appeal: it was the thing you don't do. And, from what I can tell, it has always been the thing you don't do, ever since the Park's founding commissioners, nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, decided that the place should be closed at night. Ogden Nash observed in 1961:If you should happen after darkTo find yourself in Central Park,Ignore the paths that beckon youAnd hurry, hurry to the zoo,And creep into the tiger's lair.Frankly, you'll be safer there.2．Even now, when every Park official, city administrator, and police officer tells us that the Park is safe during the day,they all agree in this: only a fool goes there at night.Or a purse snatcher, loon, prostitute, drug dealer, murderer—not to mention bully, garrotter, highway robber.3．I arrived at nine-fifteen and made for the only nocturnal spot I knew: the Delacorte Theatre.Tonight's show was The Taming of the Shrew.Lights out, applause, and the audience began exiting.So far, so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America,except in one respect: a police car was now parked conspicuously in view, its roof light slowly rotating.The police were there to reassure the audience that it was being protected;the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning what's out there to stay away.4．During my first hour or so, I wandered around the Delacorte, reassured by the lights, the laughter,the lines of Shakespeare that drifted out into the summer night.I was feeling a certain exhilaration, climbing the steps of Belvedere Castle all alone,peeking through the windows of the Henry Luce Nature Observatory, identifying the herbs in the Shakespeare Garden,when, after turning this way and that, I was on a winding trail in impenetrable foliage, and, within minutes, I was lost.5．There was a light ahead, and as I rounded the corner I came upon five men, all wearing white T-shirts, huddled around a bench.I walked past, avoiding eye contact, and turned down a path, a narrow one, black dark, going down a hill, getting darker, very dark.Then I heard a great shaking of the bushes beside me and froze.Animal? Mugger? Whatever I was hearing would surely stop making that noise, I thought.But it didn't. How can this be?I'm in the Park less than an hour and already I'm lost, on an unlighted path,facing an unknown thing shaking threateningly in the bushes, and I thought, Shit! What am I doing here?And I bolted, not running, exactly, but no longer strolling—and certainly not looking back—turning left, turning right, all sense of direction obliterated,the crashing continuing behind me, louder even, left, another man in a T-shirt, right, another man,when finally I realized where I was—in the Ramble.As I turned left again, I saw the lake, and the skyline of Central Park South.I stopped. I breathed. Relax, I told myself. It's onlydarkness.6．About fifteen feet into the lake, there was a large boulder, with a heap of branches leading to it.I tiptoed across and sat, enjoying the picture of the city again, the very reassuring city.I looked around. There was a warm breeze, and heavy clouds overhead, but it was still hot, and I was sweating.Far out in the lake, there was a light—someone rowing a boat, a lantern suspended above the stem.I got my bearings. I was on the West Side, around Seventy-seventh.The far side of the lake must be near Strawberry Fields, around Seventy-second.It was where, I realized, two years ago, the police had found the body of Michael McMorrow, a forty-four-year-old man (my age),who was stabbed thirty-four times by a fifteen-year-old.After he was killed, he was disemboweled, and his intestines ripped out so that his body would sink when rolled into the lake—a detail that I've compulsively reviewed in my mind since I first heard it.And then his killers, with time on their hands and no witnesses, just went home.7．One of the first events in the park took place 140 years ago almost to the day: a band concert.The concert, pointedly, was held on a Saturday, still a working day, because the concert, like much of the Park then, was designed to keep the city's rougher elements out.The Park at night must have seemed luxurious and secluded—a giant evening garden party.The Park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walk inside a painting.George Templeton Strong, the indefatigable diarist, recognized, on his first visit on June 11, 1859, that the architects were building two different parks at once.One was the Romantic park, which included the Ramble, the carefully "designed" wilderness, wild nature re-created in the middle of the city.The other, the southern end of the Park, was more French: ordered, and characterized by straight lines.8．I climbed back down from the rock. In the distance, I spotted a couple approaching.Your first thought is: nutcase?But then I noticed, even from a hundred feet, that the couple was panicking:the man was pulling the woman to the other side of him, so that he would be between her and me when we passed.The woman stopped, and the man jerked her forward authoritatively.As they got closer, I could see that he was tall and skinny, wearing a plaid shirt and black horn-rimmed glasses;she was a blonde, and looked determinedly at the ground, her face rigid.When they were within a few feet of me, he reached out and grabbed her arm.I couldn't resist: just as we were about to pass each other, I addressed them, forthrightly: "Hello, good people!"I said. "And how are you on this fine summer evening?"At first, silence, and then the woman started shrieking uncontrollably—"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!"—and they hurried away.9．This was an interesting discovery. One of the most frightening things in the Park at night was a man on his own.One of the most frightening things tonight was me.I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.10．Not everyone likes the Park, but just about everyone feels he should.This was at the heart of Henry James's observations when he visited the Park, in 1904.The Park, in James's eyes, was a failure, but everyone, as he put it, felt the need to "keep patting the Park on the back."By then, the Park's founders had died, and the Park, no longer the domain of the privileged, had been taken over by immigrants.In fact, between James's visit and the nineteen-thirties, the Park might have been at its most popular, visited by ten to twenty million a year.The Park in fact was being destroyed by overuse, until 1934, when the legendary Robert Moses was appointed the Park's commissioner.Moses was responsible for the third design element in the Park—neither English nor French, neither Romantic nor classical,but efficient, purposeful, and unapologeticallyAmerican.He put in baseball diamonds, volleyball courts, and swimming pools.He even tried to turn the Ramble into a senior citizen's recreation center, but was stopped by the protesting bird-watchers.The irony was that by the end of the Moses era the Park was dangerous.11．In my new confidence I set out for the northern end of the Park.Near the reservoir, a gang of kids on bicycles zoomed across the Eighty-fifth Street Transverse, hooting with a sense of ominous power.A little later, there was another gang, this one on foot—about a dozen black kids, moving eastward, just by the running track.I kept my head down and picked up my pace, but my mind involuntarily called up the memory of the 1989 incident,in which a young investment banker was beaten and sexually assaulted by a group of kids on a rampage.12．Around Ninety-fifth Street, I found a bench and stopped.I had taken one of the trails that run alongside the Park's West Drive, and the more northern apartments of Central Park West were in view.I sat as residents prepared for bed: someone watching television, a woman doing yoga, a man stepping into the shower.Below me was the city, the top of the Empire State Building peeking over the skyline.George Templeton Strong discovered the beauty of Central Park at night on July 30, 1869, on a "starlit drive" with his wife.But tonight, even if it weren't clouding over, there'd be no stars.Too much glare. The Park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city,but there was no escaping the recognition that this city—contrived, man-made, glaringly obtrusive,consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy—was very beautiful.I'm not sure why it should be so beautiful; I don't have the vocabulary to describe its appeal.But there it was: the city at night, viewed from what was meant to be an escape from it, shimmering.13．I walked and walked. Around one-thirty, I entered the North Woods, and made my way down to what my map would later tell me was a stream called the Loch.The stream was loud, sounding more like a river than a stream.And for the first time that night the city disappeared: no buildings, no lights, no sirens.14．I was tired. I had been walking for a long time.I wanted to unroll my sleeping bag, out of view of the police, and fall asleep.I was looking forward to dawn and being awakened by birds.15．I made my way down a ravine. A dirt trail appeared on my left. This looked promising.I followed it, and it wound its way down to the stream.I looked back: I couldn't see the trail; it was blocked by trees.This was good. Secluded. I walked on. It flattened out and I could put a sleeping bag here.This was good, too. Yes: good. There were fireflies, even at this hour,and the place was so dark and so densely shrouded by the trees overhead that the light of the fireflies was hugely magnified;their abdomens pulsed like great yellow flashlights.16．I eventually rolled out my sleeping bag atop a little rise beside the bridle path by the North Meadow,and then I crawled inside my bag and closed my eyes.And then: snap! A tremendous cracking sound. I froze, then quickly whipped round to have a look: nothing.A forest is always full of noises.How did I manage to camp out as a kid? Finally, I fell asleep.17．I know I fell asleep because I was awake again.Another branch snapping, but this sound was different—as if I could hear the tissue of the wood tearing.My eyes still closed, I was motionless. Another branch, and then a rustling of leaves.No doubt: someone was there. I could tell I was being stared at; I could feel the staring. I heard breathing.18．I opened my eyes and was astonished by what I saw.There were three of them, all within arm's reach. They looked very big.At first I didn't know what they were, except that they were animals.Maybe they were bears, small ones.Then I realized; they were—what do you call them?Those animals that Daniel Boone made his hat out of.19．They weren't moving; I wasn't moving. They just stared, brown eyes looking blankly into my own.They were obviously very perplexed to find me here.Suddenly, I was very perplexed to find me here, too."Imagine this," one of them seemed to be saying. "A grown man sleeping out in Central Park!"20．"Obviously, not from New York."21．"Hi, guys," I muttered. I said this very softly.22．My voice startled them and they scurried up the tree in front of me.Then they stopped and resumed staring. And then, very slowly, they inched farther up.They were now about forty feet directly above me, and the tree was swaying slightly with their weight.23．It was starting to drizzle.I heard a helicopter, its searchlight crisscrossing the path only ten feet away.So maybe there were bad guys.24．I looked back at the raccoons. "Are there bad guys here?" I asked them.It was stupid to speak. My voice startled them and, directly overhead, one of them started peeing.And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.25．But not for long. The rain stopped. And I fell asleep.I know I fell asleep because the next thing I heard was birds. A natural, naturally beautiful sound.。

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Key to Exercise of Unit Four9. to put back one’s headput down a drink11. in casesquint at sth. Out of the corner of one’s eye13. to stand next to sth.14. to be lost in the contemplation of sth.15. to feel like sth.16. with---and all17. round the cornerthis/that time19. to start off20. to walk abreast21. to be at one’s ease22. to weave sb. In23. to save sb. From24. to talk one’s heart to sb.25. not for all the money in the world knock sb. Down27. to say sth. In a strained voiceget beyond sb.29. for God’s sake30. to do sth. By accidentMarch the words or expressions in the two columns that have similar meanings.A. 1=B. 4 A. 2=B. 6A. 3=B. 8 A. 4 =B. 10 A.A. 5=B. 12 A. 6=B. 11=B. 15 A. 8==B. 16 =B. 1= B. 3 =B. 7=B. 18 =B. 20=B. 5 A. 16=B. 14.=B. 9 =B. 2=B. 13 =B. 196. Give the equivalent of the following in British English.1. lift 3. lorry 4. autumn6. term7. film8. cinema9. motorbike 10. sweet 11. cock 12. toilet13. pavement 14. clever 15. cheque 16. boot17. railway 18. undergroundMore Work on the Test1.T ranslate1.)Into Chinese1.难以解决的问题2.一本难以看懂的书3.一个爱交际的女人4.黑市5.黑色幽默6.害群之马7.黑人权利8.缺少表达能力的人9.全国性运动10.赞扬或恭维的话11.调皮的男孩12.某些大人物们13.种族隔离的学校14.他的无可争议的权威15.一个地位很高的人士16.公海17.上流社会18.机密消息19.冷淡而缺少人情味的门20.冷淡的公文式的信21.真诚的羡慕22.不自然的，紧张的说话的声音2） Into English1. to celebrate the Golden Jubilee2. to excite admiration3. to touch the conscience4. to win the prize5. to receive the reprimand6. to omit the words7. to renounce the prizes8. to avert a crisis9. to attend the ceremony10. to exhibit a works of art11. to indulge the pleasures12. to guard a child13. to feel up to it14. to bring sth. to a close15. to weave sb. in16. to save sb. from a situation17. to talk out one’s heart to sb.18. to knock sb. down19. to pour sb. a drink20. to raise (lift ) one’s glass二．Translate1.Import of the country’s beef wassuspended because of the mad cowscare.2.During the war, they had to suspendthe construction of the railway.2. it was a serious offence to take drugs, Robert was suspended from school for two weeks.3. She was reading in a hammock suspended from two tree branches.4.The sales suspension has brought us heavy losses.5.This is perhaps the longestsuspension bridge in Asia.6.The author is very good at creating suspense.7.He used to watch wit great envy children of wealthy people go to school.8. I rather envy their school for its beautiful campus.9.She averted her face so that people would not see her blush.10.He has always had an aversion to publicity.11.The government’s policy succeeded in averting a serious economic recession.12.Michael Jordan is the envy of many black kids.13.Every summer, hundreds of thousands of people are sent to guard the riverbanks against floods.14.it was not easy to get the golden apple, for it was guarded by a furiousgiant.15.Xicheng was practically unguarded so Zhuge Liang narrowly escaped being captured.16.The prisoners of war killed the guards and escaped into the woods. 17.He is probably the greatest guard in the history of basketball.18.They took Americans off guard by launching a sudden attack on a Sunday.19.There were two armed soldiers standing guard at the bridge.20.Napoleon exhibited his military talent early in life.21.These exhibits are all insured and carefully guarded.22.When the exhibition is over, the exhibit will be given to the host country as gifts.23.She is going to exhibit some of her most recent sculptures at the National Art Gallery.四．Put the most appropriate words in the blanks.1. C2. A3. B4. A5. D6. B7. C 8. D 9. A五． Study the difference between the following pairs or groups of words1. 1) renounce 2) announce3) renounce 4)denounce2. 1) avoid , prevent 2) prevent3. 1) divided 2) segregated3)divided 4)separated4. 1) personage 2) person3) personality 4)person5. 1)complementary 2) complimentary 3) complimentary 4) compliment6. 1) secret 2) confidential3) secret 4) confidential, secret七． Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied inbrackets.2. larger3. Unfortunately4. original5. receipt6. rejoin7. viciously8. demanded9. marched 10. assumed 11. cases 12. get away 13. protest 14. had spoken to15. couldn’t really have comfortedMore Work on the Text二．Complete the following sentences with the right form ofthe verb in the brackets.1.is2. are3. was4. frightens5. are6. is7. were all8. was9. knows 10. are 11. are, am 12. is13. was 14. has 15. is, is三．Rewrite the sentences using the patternshown in the example.1.It is now believed that foreignlanguage are most easily learnt by children under 14.2.It is reported that the negotiationsbetween the two countries had made headway.3.It has been confirmed that a majorbreakthrough has been achieved in cancer research.4.It is strongly recommended thatfishing in the lake be strictly forbidden during the spring season.5.It is agreed among the rival companiesthat joint efforts should be made to prevent the price of color TV from going through the floor.6.It shouldn’t be assumed that all ourproblems will be resolved overnight.7.It is generally assumed thatdepression affects a person’s health in many ways.8.It was announced yesterday that a newtax law would be imposed beginning next year.9.In ancient times, it was believed thatthe heart , not the brain, was the center of thought.10.It is predicted (in a medical report)the number of AIDS victims in Asia will increase sharply in the next decade.四．Translate the sentences into English1.I t’s widely rumored that Linda’sbeing promoted.2.I t is estimated that the projectwill cost RMB three billion.3.I t is assumed that the Labor Partywill remain in power.4.I t was proposed a few years ago thatthe president be elected for oneterm only.5.I t was announced that anotherbridge across the Yangtze would be built next year.6.i t was believed even then that theabnormal state of affairs wouldn’t last long.二．Paying special attention to subject –verb agreement.1. The jury is having trouble reachinga verdict.2. Whenever either of us is in a tight corner, we always come to each other’s help.3. Statistics are facts obtained from analyzing information given in numbers.4. Statistics is a branch of mathematics concerned with the study of information expressed in numbers.5. Neither his friends and nor his father was admitted by Tsinghai University.6. Xiao Li is one of the best foot players at our university who have ever participated in intercollegiate championships.五．Put in appropriate connectives. 1.a s, where, that/which, if/whether ,but. if2.W hen, if, Then, that/which, than六．Complete each of the following sentences with the most likelyanswer.1. B2. A3. A4. D5. C6. A7. D 11. B 13. A 14. D 16 C。

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▪ 4. delivery n. 1)投递，送交；2)投递的邮件，发送的货物；3)分娩；4)讲话的方式，演讲风格
▪ ----- Please pay on delivery.
▪ Phr. cash on delivery 货到付现金
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take delivery (of sth.) 收到某物
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delivery note 货单
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▪ 8. echo n.回音，回声，共鸣 vi.发出回声，产生回响 vt. 模仿，重复，附和
▪ ----- They echoed their leader’s every word.
▪ ----- He has no original opinion; he is just his brother’s echo.
▪ Phr. echo sth. (back) (指地方)传回回声
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echo to/ with sth. (指地方)产生回声
▪ ----- The valley echoed (back) his song.
▪ ----- The hills echoed to the sound of their laughter.
----- He always wears a sour expression.
▪ acid表示讽刺、刻薄或严厉的批评。 ----- an acid remark ----- I read an acid comment on the political situation.
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▪ Phr. the company one keeps 经常与之为伍的人；伙伴

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Central Park
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Maybe it looks like an oil painting, but it’s true!
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Night here is silent, but not peaceful…
The night in the Central Park
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Central Park
Central Park is one of those places that make New York such a great place to live. The huge park, 341 hectare large (843 acres), is located in the center of Manhattan. Its design has served as an example for city parks around the world. The park boasts several lakes, theaters, ice rinks, fountains, tennis courts, baseball fields, many playgrounds and other facilities. It is also home to the Central Park Zoo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Especially during the weekends, when cars are not allowed into the park, Central Park is a welcome oasis in this hectic city.

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We're going to buy a gift for her. It's very cold, isn't it?Yes, it's cold.Toni, what are you going to do for the Spring Festival?We are going to England.Is it going to snow there?You must be joking. It wouldn't even be cold, it's just raining. It may also be windy. Betty, are you going to the United States?We haven't decided yet. We may go to Australia.That sounds great! What's the weather going there?I think it would be good. At that time, Australia was summer, so it could be very hot and sunny. What about you, Daming?We're going to Hongkong. It may be cool, but it may be very dry. When is the best time to go to the United States, Betty?It's not so cold... It's not too hot to go.Come on, or to go!What are you going to buy for Lingling?Wear warm things!Unit2When is the best time to visit your city or countryThe United States is a big country, so if you want to go thereand play, you must be careful in the choice of time and place. Maybe you want to walk around, so take a good map.It was a good time to go to New York and Washington, D.C., in May or October, when the weather was not very hot. There will be a lot of snow in winter.It was a good idea to play new England in September, and the weather began to cool and the trees began to change color. Maybe you have to take photos of the leaves of the fall, so taking your camera is a good idea.In Losangeles, California, four thousand miles away, the weather is good all year round. It's so nice to see the sun in December. With a swimsuit, you might want to swim in the sea.The northwest is not very cold, but there is a lot of rain, so you have to take an umbrella. It's very comfortable to go to Alaska in July and August. But at night, it may be cool so remember to wear warm. But the winter do not go there, because all day long is dark and cold.In the Texas and southeastern regions, there are frequent storms in summer and fall. Compared to many other places, there are often jiaoyangsihuo.So, when is the best time to go to the United States?M12 unit1You have to wait a moment and open it laterDon't talk to everyone. She's here! Happy birthday, Lingling.Oh, you still remember it!We have a gift for you.Thank youYou can open it! Hurry up!Oh, no! I can't open it now. It will be a moment!Wait! In the United States, when someone gives you a gift,you have to open it immediately.No, you can't open the gift at once in China.And remember that when you pick up a gift, you have to connect it with your hands.Hands! In Britain we can use one hand!That's true。

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多维立体的“考拉进阶异常1+1记忆法”与课文篇章精析完美结合；每个核心必考词都从【记】【考】【串】【辨】【警】【源】【真题再现】几个方面出发，全方位构建记忆大厦，协助读者对词汇举行多层次、多角度的理解。

本书主要大栏目的设置理念为：文化背景衔接：文化，开阔视野。

该栏目为课文中涉及的重要人物、习俗、历史事件、科学技术等提供背景资料，图文并茂，为您打开瞭望西方文化的窗口。

教材内容全解：全解教材，面面俱到。

全面网罗每单元的所有栏目，两篇精读课文中涉及的所有重点难点都用最精炼的语言收拾、分析、解答、点拨。

语法要点归纳：归纳语法，搜索密钥。

本栏目紧扣每单元语法要点，以最精炼的语言，最地道的例句，解除最让人头疼的难题。

专四真题演练：牵手真题，能力跨越。

大学英语精读4 课文_中英文对照

Text Book 4Unit 1TextTwo college-age boys, unaware that making money usually involves hard work, are tempted by an advertisement that promises them an easy way to earn a lot of money. The boys soon learn that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. 一个大学男孩，不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动，被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。

男孩们很快就明白，如果事情看起来好得不像真的，那多半确实不是真的。

BIG BUCKS THE EASY WAY轻轻松松赚大钱John G. Hubbell"You ought to look into this," I suggested to our two college-age sons. "It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time." I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone had hung on our doorknob. “你们该看看这个，”我向我们的两个读大学的儿子建议道。

“你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话，这兴许是一种办法。

”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。

A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work("Big Bucks the Easy Way!") of delivering more such bags. 塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。

现代大学英语精读四

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Apartheid
In 1960, a large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding（掌握、运用） the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law
around the world.
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Apartheid
With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948,
racial discrimination was institutionalized（使制度
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In the year 1960 the Union Africa celebrated its Golden Jubilee, and there was a nationwide sensation when the one-thousand-pound prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man, Edward Simelane.
• 25、50/60年等具有特殊意义的周年纪念
Do you know how many years they are marking?

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现代大学英语精读第四册课件lesson

Introduction of the author of the text
The author of the text, John Smith, is a renowned British writer and translator. He has published numerous works in both fiction and non-fiction genres, and is well-regarded for his unique style and insightful observations on modern society.
The theme and idea of the text
The theme of the text is the impact of technology on modern society. It explores how the rise of digital technology has transformed the way people live, communicate, and interact with each other.
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Answers to homework exercises after class
Multiple choice answer and analysis
Answer: B
Explanation: The correct answer is B because it is the only option that correctly identifies the main idea of the paragraph. The paragraph discusses the importance of language learning through immersion, and B选项 summarizes this idea by stating that immersion is the most effective way to learn a language.

现代大学英语精读第四课

Lesson FourPre-class WorkRead the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below.Glossarybeneathprep. (fml) below; directly underbloomv. to come into flowersbreastn. Here：the front part of a bird's bodybriden. a woman about to be married, or just marriedbridegroomn. a man about to be married, or just marriedbubblev. to make the sound like water boiling 发出汩汩的流水声budn. a young tightly rolled-up flower (or leaf) before it opens 花蕾；芽butterflyn. 蝴蝶chamberlainn. an important official in charge of housekeeping affairs in a king's court 内侍总管chillv. to make sb. or sth. very coldcoraln. 珊瑚crimsonadj. having a deep purplish red colourcrystaln. a transparent natural mineral that looks like ice 水晶cynicn. a person who sees little or no good in anything and shows this by making unkind a

现代大学英语精读4第四课正文lionsandtigersandbears课文原文带段落

现代大学英语精读4第四课正文lionsandtigersandbears课文原文带段落Lions and Tigers and BearsBill Buford1．So I thought I'd spend the night in Central Park, and, having stuffed my small rucksack with a sleeping bag, a big bottle of mineral water, a map, and a toothbrush, I arrived one heavy, muggy Friday evening in July to do just that: to walk around until I got so tired that I'd curl up under a tree and drop off to a peaceful, outdoorsy sleep. Of course, anybody who knows anything about New York knows the city's essential platitude—that you don't wander around Central Park at night—and in that, needless to say, was the appeal: it was the thing you don't do. And, from what I can tell, it has always been the thing you don't do, ever since the Park's founding commissioners, nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, decided that the place should be closed at night. Ogden Nash observed in 1961:If you should happen after darkTo find yourself in Central Park,Ignore the paths that beckon youAnd hurry, hurry to the zoo,And creep into the tiger's lair.Frankly, you'll be safer there.2．Even now, when every Park official, city administrator, and police officer tells us that the Park is safe during the day,they all agree in this: only a fool goes there at night.Or a purse snatcher, loon, prostitute, drug dealer, murderer—not to mention bully, garrotter, highway robber.3．I arrived at nine-fifteen and made for the only nocturnalspot I knew: the Delacorte Theatre.Tonight's show was The Taming of the Shrew.Lights out, applause, and the audience began exiting.So far, so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America,except in one respect: a police car was now parked conspicuously in view, its roof light slowly rotating.The police were there to reassure the audience that it was being protected;the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning what's out there to stay away.4．During my first hour or so, I wandered around the Delacorte, reassured by the lights, the laughter,the lines of Shakespeare that drifted out into the summer night.I was feeling a certain exhilaration, climbing the steps of Belvedere Castle all alone,peeking through the windows of the Henry Luce Nature Observatory, identifying the herbs in the Shakespeare Garden,when, after turning this way and that, I was on a winding trail in impenetrable foliage, and, within minutes, I was lost.5．There was a light ahead, and as I rounded the corner I came upon five men, all wearing white T-shirts, huddled around a bench.I walked past, avoiding eye contact, and turned down a path, a narrow one, black dark, going down a hill, getting darker, very dark.Then I heard a great shaking of the bushes beside me and froze.Animal? Mugger? Whatever I was hearing would surely stop making that noise, I thought.But it didn't. How can this be?I'm in the Park less than an hour and already I'm lost, on an unlighted path,facing an unknown thing shaking threateningly in the bushes, and I thought, Shit! What am I doing here?And I bolted, not running, exactly, but no longer strolling—and certainly not looking back—turning left, turning right, all sense of direction obliterated,the crashing continuing behind me,louder even, left, another man in a T-shirt, right, another man,when finally I realized where I was—in the Ramble.As I turned left again, I saw the lake, and the skyline of Central Park South.I stopped. I breathed. Relax, I told myself. It's only darkness.6．About fifteen feet into the lake, there was a large boulder, with a heap of branches leading to it.I tiptoed across and sat, enjoying the picture of the city again, the very reassuring city.I looked around. There was a warm breeze, and heavy clouds overhead, but it was still hot, and I was sweating.Far out in the lake, there was a light—someone rowing a boat, a lantern suspended above the stem.I got my bearings. I was on the West Side, around Seventy-seventh.The far side of the lake must be near Strawberry Fields, around Seventy-second.It was where, I realized, two years ago, the police had found the body of Michael McMorrow, a forty-four-year-old man (my age),who was stabbed thirty-four times by a fifteen-year-old.After he was killed, he was disemboweled, and his intestines ripped out so that his body would sink when rolled into the lake—a detail that I've compulsively reviewed in my mind since I first heard it.And then his killers, with time on their hands and no witnesses, just went home.7．One of the first events in the park took place 140 years ago almost to the day: a band concert.The concert, pointedly, was held on a Saturday, still a working day, because the concert, like much of the Park then, was designed to keep the city's rougher elements out.The Park at night must have seemed luxurious and secluded—a giant evening garden party.The Park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walk inside a painting.George Templeton Strong, the indefatigablediarist, recognized, on his first visit on June 11, 1859, that the architects were building two different parks at once.One was the Romantic park, which included the Ramble, the carefully "designed" wilderness, wild nature re-created in the middle of the city.The other, the southern end of the Park, was more French: ordered, and characterized by straight lines.8．I climbed back down from the rock. In the distance, I spotted a couple approaching.Your first thought is: nutcase?But then I noticed, even from a hundred feet, that the couple was panicking:the man was pulling the woman to the other side of him, so that he would be between her and me when we passed.The woman stopped, and the man jerked her forward authoritatively.As they got closer, I could see that he was tall and skinny, wearing a plaid shirt and black horn-rimmed glasses;she was a blonde, and looked determinedly at the ground, her face rigid.When they were within a few feet of me, he reached out and grabbed her arm.I couldn't resist: just as we were about to pass each other, I addressed them, forthrightly: "Hello, good people!"I said. "And how are you on this fine summer evening?"At first, silence, and then the woman started shrieking uncontrollably—"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!"—and they hurried away.9．This was an interesting discovery. One of the most frightening things in the Park at night was a man on his own.One of the most frightening things tonight was me.I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.10．Not everyone likes the Park, but just about everyone feels he should.This was at the heart of Henry James's observations when he visited the Park, in 1904.The Park, in James's eyes, was a failure, but everyone, as he put it, felt the need to "keep patting the Park on the back."By then, the Park'sfounders had died, and the Park, no longer the domain of the privileged, had been taken over by immigrants.In fact, between James's visit and the nineteen-thirties, the Park might have been at its most popular, visited by ten to twenty million a year.The Park in fact was being destroyed by overuse, until 1934, when the legendary Robert Moses was appointed the Park's commissioner.Moses was responsible for the third design element in the Park—neither English nor French, neither Romantic nor classical,but efficient, purposeful, and unapologeticallyAmerican.He put in baseball diamonds, volleyball courts, and swimming pools.He even tried to turn the Ramble into a senior citizen's recreation center, but was stopped by the protesting bird-watchers.The irony was that by the end of the Moses era the Park was dangerous.11．In my new confidence I set out for the northern end of the Park.Near the reservoir, a gang of kids on bicycles zoomed across the Eighty-fifth Street Transverse, hooting with a sense of ominous power.A little later, there was another gang, this one on foot—about a dozen black kids, moving eastward, just by the running track.I kept my head down and picked up my pace, but my mind involuntarily called up the memory of the 1989 incident,in which a young investment banker was beaten and sexually assaulted by a group of kids on a rampage.12．Around Ninety-fifth Street, I found a bench and stopped.I had taken one of the trails that run alongside the Park's West Drive, and the more northern apartments of Central Park West were in view.I sat as residents prepared for bed: someone watching television, a woman doing yoga, a man stepping into the shower.Below me was the city, the top of the Empire StateBuilding peeking over the skyline.George Templeton Strong discovered the beauty of Central Park at night on July 30, 1869, on a "starlit drive" with his wife.But tonight, even if it weren't clouding over, there'd be no stars.T oo much glare. The Park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city,but there was no escaping the recognition that this city—contrived, man-made, glaringly obtrusive,consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy—was very beautiful.I'm not sure why it should be so beautiful; I don't have the vocabulary to describe its appeal.But there it was: the city at night, viewed from what was meant to be an escape from it, shimmering.13．I walked and walked. Around one-thirty, I entered the North Woods, and made my way down to what my map would later tell me was a stream called the Loch.The stream was loud, sounding more like a river than a stream.And for the first time that night the city disappeared: no buildings, no lights, no sirens.14．I was tired. I had been walking for a long time.I wanted to unroll my sleeping bag, out of view of the police, and fall asleep.I was looking forward to dawn and being awakened by birds.15．I made my way down a ravine. A dirt trail appeared on my left. This looked promising.I followed it, and it wound its way down to the stream.I looked back: I couldn't see the trail; it was blocked by trees.This was good. Secluded. I walked on. It flattened out and I could put a sleeping bag here.This was good, too. Yes: good. There were fireflies, even at this hour,and the place was so dark and so densely shrouded by the trees overhead that the light of the fireflies was hugely magnified;their abdomens pulsed like great yellow flashlights.16．I eventually rolled out my sleeping bag atop a little rise beside the bridle path by the North Meadow,and then I crawled inside my bag and closed my eyes.And then: snap! A tremendous cracking sound. I froze, then quickly whipped round to have a look: nothing.A forest is always full of noises.How did I manage to camp out as a kid? Finally, I fell asleep.17．I know I fell asleep because I was awake again.Another branch snapping, but this sound was different—as if I could hear the tissue of the wood tearing.My eyes still closed, I was motionless. Another branch, and then a rustling of leaves.No doubt: someone was there. I could tell I was being stared at; I could feel the staring. I heard breathing.18．I opened my eyes and was astonished by what I saw.There were three of them, all within arm's reach. They looked very big.At first I didn't know what they were, except that they were animals.Maybe they were bears, small ones.Then I realized; they were—what do you call them?Those animals that Daniel Boone made his hat out of.19．They weren't moving; I wasn't moving. They just stared, brown eyes looking blankly into my own.They were obviously very perplexed to find me here.Suddenly, I was very perplexed to find me here, too."Imagine this," one of them seemed to be saying. "A grown man sleeping out in Central Park!"20．"Obviously, not from New York."21．"Hi, guys," I muttered. I said this very softly.22．My voice startled them and they scurried up the tree in front of me.Then they stopped and resumed staring. And then, very slowly, they inched farther up.They were now about forty feet directly above me, and the tree was swaying slightly with their weight.23．It was starting to drizzle.I heard a helicopter, its searchlight crisscrossing the path only ten feet away.So maybe there were bad guys.24．I looked back at the raccoons. "Are there bad guys here?" I asked them.It was stupid to speak. My voice startled them and, directly overhead, one of them started peeing.And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.25．But not for long. The rain stopped. And I fell asleep.I know I fell asleep because the next thing I heard was birds. A natural, naturally beautiful sound.。

现代大学英语精读四课件PPT,why historians disagree

Zimmerman Note
The Zimmerman Note was a communiqué（公报）authored by （公报） German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman and intercepted by American Intelligence. The note had been designed to entice （诱使）诱使） Mexico into declaring war against the United States should the U.S. declare war on Germany. As a reward, Mexico would then receive Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas after the war.
Most students usually come to have their first experience of the study of history through the reading of a thick history textbook and soon are overwhelmed by a large number of names, dates, events and statistics.
Zimmerman Note
You are instructed to inform the President of Mexico of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the President of Mexico, on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate （斡旋） between Germany and Japan.