外研社-新编大学英语综合教程4-Unit9-Science-and-Technology-Quiz
unit9新标准大学英语综合教程4答案(含Unit-text)
Reading 11Your answer Correct answer1. illustrate illustrate2. scarcely scarcely3. retain retain4. eliminate eliminate5. proficiency proficiency6. sufficient sufficient7. representation representation2Your answer Correct answer(1) proficiency proficiency(2) sufficient sufficient(3) representation representation(4) eliminate eliminate(5) retain illustrate(6) scarcely scarcely(7) illustrate retaining31. One of the most frustrating parts of learning a foreign language is feeling stupid when youcan't understand something.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerisolated dumb2. I have to admit that English spelling is difficult for foreigners to understand.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerconcede concede3. 3 After I accidentally spilt tea on my painting, the picture was a shape that was difficult to seeclearly.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerblurred blurred4. I need to read and learn again the vocabulary before the next lesson.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answermanipulate revise5. I have a hard time with PowerPoint slides sometimes because it's difficult for me to manage tocontrol and arrange both text and images.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerrevise manipulate6. I don't think you stop learning when you leave university. Learning should be a continuousprocess throughout your life.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerongoing an ongoing7. It's difficult to learn listening and speaking as separate skills. To be good at one, you shouldwork on both.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerdumb isolated8. During my speech, I made a terrible and embarrassing mistake when I mispronounced animportant word.Your replacement:Your answer Correct answerdisgraceful disgraceful4abbab aaaaaReading 21Your answer Correct answer1. elite elite2. infringe infringe3. descendant descendant4. unity unity5. statesman statesman21. Winston Churchill was a leading in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.Your answer Correct answerstatesman statesman2. It's understandable to envy the, who seem to have more privileges and opportunities.Your answer Correct answerelites elite3. I will leave my house and land to my when I die.Your answer Correct answerdescendant descendants4. It's difficult to maintain amongst such different groups with different goals.Your answer Correct answerinfringe unity5. Newspaper reporters have to be careful that they don't upon the privacy of the people thatthey write about.Your answer Correct answerunity infringe31. It is difficult to imagine how much slower communication was during the time period of thetelegraph.Your replacment:Your answer Correct answerepoch epoch2. He worked hard to argue against my claim, but I knew I had the truth on my side.Your replacment:Your answer Correct answerrefute refute3. The manager is supposedly responsible for losing nearly eight per cent of this year's profits.Your replacment:Your answer Correct answerallegedly allegedly4. I was proud to have my article accepted for publication in one of the leading scientific monthlypublications.Your replacment:Your answer Correct answerjournals journals4aabab bbLanguage use1I'm planning to live in South America for the next two years, so I guess there's nothing for it but to learn Spanish.I failed the exam, and my teacher says that there's nothing for it but to take it again.By the time we got to the theatre, the concert had already started and we couldn't get in, so there was nothing for it but to turn around and go home.Because I wasn't earning enough money at my job, there was nothing for it but to take a second job on the weekend.My computer crashed and I lost my essay, so there was nothing for it but to write it again.2I would drink soda water only if I were dying of thirst in the desert.I could marry you only if you were the last man on earth.I would jog only if someone ran behind me and beat me with a stick to make me do it.I would watch romantic comedies only if my girlfriend begs me.I would take care of a dog only if someone paid me.3Our teacher said we had to write a ten-page essay about the book we read. That's quite a few pages for a book report.In the summer, temperatures in Hangzhou can reach 42 degrees. That's quite a little hot for me.If you are not surrounded by city lights, it's possible to see around 6,000 stars at night without a telescope. That's quite a few stars.In 2008, there were about 93,000 scheduled airline flights per day. That's quite a few flights.Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to say a few words about the topic of global warming.41. It is believed that the meeting will help between the two countries.Your answer Correct answer(1) promote promote(2) growth understanding2. It is difficult to a conversation with all this noise around us.Your answer Correct answer(1) carry carry(2) on on3. Stress at work can often be into your home life.Your answer Correct answer(1) turned carried(2) down over4. The Department of Education has launched a(n) aimed at immigrants who want to learn English.Your answer Correct answer(1) personal advertising(2) remarks campaign5. Stressful environments lead to unhealthy behaviours such as poor eating habits, which increasethe risk of heart disease.Your answer Correct answer(1) turn in(2) to turn6. It took him the whole evening to pack all his.Your answer Correct answer(1) campaign personal(2) sales belongings7. The is aimed at teenagers to warn them of the dangers of tobacco.Your answer Correct answer(1) campaign anti-smoking(2) advertising campaign5你听说过万里长征吗?和学汉语相比,那简直就是在公园里漫步,不值一提。
综合英语教程四_Unit_9_Chinese_Food
What did people say about…
One should eat to live,not live to eat.
We are what we eat.
吃什么东西,就长什么样子。
Moliè re (1622 - 1673) French playwright
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
新编大学英语(第四版)综合教程3教学课件B3U4 Lead in
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2) I think of Roald Amundsen when hearing the word “explorer”. The Norwegian polar explorer was the first to reach the South Pole, during an Antarctic expedition of 1910 to 1912. He was also the first to sail through the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage, from 1903 to 1906.
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Warm-up activities
新编大学英语(第四版) 综合教程 Unit 4
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新编大学英语(第四版) 综合教程 Unit 4
新编大学英语(第四版) 综合教程 Unit 4
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2. Quote Read the following quote and answer questions. The road ahead is long and has no ending; yet high and low I will search with my will unbending.
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Which field do you have interest to explore?
新编大英四u9视听说听力测试答案2
1.Part 3 Video Appreciation2. Watch the video clip again and complete the following passage with the information you get. The first robots were made in Europe. About 350 years ago inventors designed 1) ______ like these. They could move their arms and legs and even 2) ______.But today robots have become much more useful. Robots don’t need 3)______. They never get bored and never 4) ______. And robots never complain or get tired or lazy either. They can do the same job over and over again without 5) ______. So now many factories use robots instead of humans for jobs like 6) ______. But there are some robots that help around the house today. This robotic vacuum cleaner can clean your carpets when there’s no one at home by following 7) ______.As it cleans it checks: Is the way in front clear? No,then go left. Now is the way in front clear?Yes, then 8) ______.This way it never bumps into anything or 9) ______. But there’s one thing it can’t do.In the future robots like this may well help us around the house. It may look as if there’s 10) ______ but there isn’t. It was designed to help humans do many different jobs, rather than just one like the vacuum cleaner. It can walk, pick things up and 11)______ but it still needs someone to 12) ______.正确答案:(1)extraordinary mechanical beings(2)play musical instruments(3)lunch breaks(4)daydream(5)making mistakes(6)welding or packing(7)a few simple instructions(8)go straight on(9)knocks anything over(10)someone inside this robot(11)climb stairs(12)program its actions2.Part 4 Further ListeningPart 4 Listening I1. Listen to a passage about soft contact lenses and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear on the recording.1 ______A Canada.B Czechoslovakia.C The United States.D The United Kingdom.2 ______A In 1954.B In 1961.C In 1964.D In 1971.3 ______A Fiber.B Glass.C Plastic.D Metal.4 ______A Duration.B Price.C Quality.D Brand.正确答案:(1)B(2)D(3)C(4)B3.Part 4 Listening I2. Listen to the passage again and complete the following table with the information you get. Advantages:1. Soft lenses are ______.2. No break-in period is necessary.3. Soft lenses are a ______,______ and attractive solution to the problem of ______ vision.Disadvantages:4.They cost more than ______ lenses.5. Their life is often measured in______.6. They ______ easily and become ______ by handling.7.They correct only a ______ range of visual problems.正确答案:(1)comfortable(2)safe(3)simple(4)poor(5)hard(6)months(7)tear(8)worn(9)limited4.Part 4 Listening II1. Listen to a conversation in which a woman is buying a spirometer and check (√) the words and phrases that the salesman uses in describing the spirometer.A easy to operateB beautifulC energy-savingD portableE clearly indicative of the diseaseF relatively inexpensiveG widely used in hospitalsH used to test lung problems______正确答案:(1)A D E F H5.Part 4 Listening II2. Listen to the conversation again and complete the following steps of operating the spirometer with the information you get.Step 1: Turn the machine on.Step 2: Take a ______ to fill your lungs up completely.Step 3:______ the mouthpiece in your mouth, ______ as long as possible.Step 4: The digital display unit of the machine ______ the volume of air that you blow out in ______.Step 5: ______ on the machine and the total volume of air that you have blown out will be ______.Step 6: The two numbers will provide a good ______ of how the lungs are working.正确答案:(1)deep breath(2)place(3)blowing out(4)records(5)one second(6)Move a switch(7)shown(8)Indication6.Part 4 Listening IIIListen to a conversation between Jim and Helen and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear on the recording.1 ______A This morning.B Last night.C Yesterday morning.D The day before yesterday.2 ______A This was the last time it could be filled.B It would cause no trouble any more.C It needed refilling some other time.D It would have been better to pull it out this time.3 ______A That the sound of drilling is painful.B That Helen has to have her tooth refilled.C That teeth cannot be transplanted.D That people can transplant hearts.4______A Dentists can transplant teeth the way cardiac surgeons transplant hearts.B Dentists have made plastic teeth work on animals.C Man can fly to the moon to have his teeth transplanted.D Dentists are trying to transplant a person’s tooth to another person.5 ______A Suspicious and funny.B Surprised but hopeful.C Doubtful and worried.D Shocked but moved.正确答案:(1)B(2)A(3)C(4)B(5)B7.Part 4 Listening IVIn this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 9 to 11 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.Modern science and technology have changed our lives in many 1) ______ ways. Airplanes, automobiles, communications satellites,computers, plastics, and televisions are only a few of the scientific and technological 2) ______ that have transformed human life. Research by nuclear physicists has led to the development of nuclear energy as a source of power. Agricultural output has 3) ______ as scientists have developed better 4) ______ of plants and highly effective fertilizers. The development of antibiotics and other new drugs has helped control many 5)______ diseases. Studies in anatomy and physiology have led to amazing new 6) ______ techniques and to the invention of 7) ______ machines that can do the work of such organs as the lungs, kidneys, and heart.Although scientific and technological achievements have benefited us in 8) ______ ways, they have also created serious problems. The rapid growth of industrial technology, for instance, has resulted in such grave side effects as environmental pollution and fuel shortages. 9) ______. Some people fear that advanced biological research will produce new disease-causing bacteria or viruses that resist drugs. 10) ______.The harmful effects of some technological applications of science have led some people to question the value of scientific research. But science itself is neither good nor bad. 11)______ .正确答案:(1)dramatic(2)inventions(3)soared(4)varieties(5)infectious(6)surgical(7)lifesaving(8)numerous(9)Breakthroughs in nuclear research have led to the development of weapons of mass destruction (10)Some people are also concerned that computerized information systems may end personal privacy(11)The uses that businesses, governments and individuals choose to make of scientific knowledge determine whether that knowledge will help or harm society。
外研社,新编大学英语综合教程4,Unit9 Science and Technology,Quiz
外研社,新编大学英语综合教程4Unit9 Science and TechnologyQuiz1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the sentences.1. A package holiday is a holiday where a travel ________ books your travel and accommodation foryou.A. agencyB. organizationC. foundationD. company2. People all over the world ________ Mother Teresa in high regard.A. payB. holdC. takeD. give3. Children everywhere love to have stories ________ to them.A. to be readB. being readC. readD. to read4. There is a ________ to the amount of time I'm prepared to spend on this.A. restrictionB. extentC. limitD. limitation5. Such is his confidence in his daughter ________ he believes she will be a great pianist one day.A. asB. thatC. so thatD. in that6. Our lives have changed ________ a considerable degree.A. atB. withinC. toD. by7. Many people believe that our species ________ threatened with extinction.A. isB. areC. are to beD. used to be8. A customer claimed ________ the old lady stealing a Christmas card.A. seeingB. to seeC. to have seenD. having seen9. They hoped to be able to move into the new building at the end of the month, but things did not________ as they had expected.A. work upB. work onC. work offD. work out10. Have you ________ the photographs that you'd like to have?A. picked upB. picked outC. picked onD. picked off11. I don't care when you mow the lawn. It is ________ you.A. settled byB. all forC. up toD. all by12. Nobody knows whom Mr. Johnson ________ for the job.A. bear in mindB. has in mindC. has a mind toD. sets his mind on13. He remembers his mother ________ him home all alone when she went to work.A. to leaveB. leftC. to have leftD. leaving14. Don't leave your bicycle where it will get ________ of pedestrians.A. in the wayB. on the wayC. out of the wayD. by the way15. There was a colorful ________ of vegetables on the market stall.A. batchB. seriesC. arrayD. arrangement16. Maria proposed that we ________ a party to celebrate the victory of our baseball team.A. heldB. holdC. would holdD. holding2. Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate word or phrase in the box. Change the form when necessary.Outline convert dawn storage assimilate disastrous requirementskeptical substitute on the grounds of17. The U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society thatthe traditions of people from all over the world.Your answer Correct answerassimilates assimilates18. A new era of peace is .Your answer Correct answerdawning dawning19. We red balls for blue, to see if the baby would notice.Your answer Correct answersubstituted substituted20. Candidates who fail to meet these will not be admitted to the University.Your answer Correct answerrequirements requirements 21. With another child coming, they wanted to the study into a nursery.Your answer Correct answerconvert convert22. Dr. Wilson left early ill health.Your answer Correct answeron the grounds of on the grounds of 23. Many doctors are about the value of this new drug.Your answer Correct answerskeptical skeptical24. The new president plans to deal with crime, drugs, and education.Your answer Correct answeroutlined outlined25. The new system has had a effect on productivity.Your answer Correct answerdisastrous disastrous26. This room is being used for at the moment.Your answer Correct answerstorage storage3. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate proposition or adverb.27. John wants to dispose his old car before he buys a new one.Your answer Correct answerof of28. Every student has free access the library.Your answer Correct answerto to29. Our first priority is to maintain the customer's confidence our product.Your answer Correct answerin in30. In order to reach the camp on time, they walked the rate of 6 kilometers an hour.Your answer Correct answerat at31. He found it hard to adjust working at night.Your answer Correct answerto to32. Somehow he has been trying to distance himself his coworkers.Your answer Correct answerfrom from33. Could you explain the plan more detail?Your answer Correct answerin in34. Your plan sounds fine theory, but I don't know if it'll work in practice.Your answer Correct answerin in35. They still believe that everyone has a right privacy.Your answer Correct answerto to36. This check is payable demand.Your answer Correct answeron on。
大学英语综合教程4第二版(上海外语教育出版社)unit9-howifoundmyvoice课后练习答
Key for the exercises in Unit 9VocabularyI.severe, smoothness in speaking, colleague, close relationship based on common interests,forced me to do anything, animatedII.retreat, pressed, gritted, critique, classics, kinship, is dubious about, round upIII.narrative, critical, fortunate, abundance, worship, dramatically, fluent, resurrectionIV.ABCDACBDd(agreeable, gentle,), passionate(enthusiastic, ardent), comment(assessment, evaluation), doubt(uncertainty), certain(definite, positive), scornful(mocking), instruction(teaching, tuition), enjoy(appreciate)VI.Place, preserve, whereas, despite, very well, extension,GrammarI.can and could can express ability, permission and possibility. In sentence 1, couldexpresses possibility. In sentence 9, can expresses permission. In sentence 8, could see shows the action is in progress. In sentence 3, 4, and 5, could expresses the general past ability, while in sentences 2, 6, 7 and 10, could is used in the negative sentences to refer to the past ability, general or specific.II.1.I can feel something crawling up my leg.2.He ran very fast and was able to catch the bus.3.By the time she finishes her course, she will be able to speak English well.4.correct5.In yesterday’s competition, Jane was able to spell the new words without making a singlemistake.6.correct7.I talked for a long time, and in the end I was able to make her believe me.8.correctIII.1.Could we meet again tomorrow?2.She could sing like an angel when she was a kid.3.John was so drunk that he couldn’t open the door.4.5.6. You could talk with your teacher.7. No one knows where he is. He could be in Paris. He could be in London.8. Could I use your phone?IV.A.Excuse me, would you open this door?B.I’m afraid it’s locked. Shall I get the key?A.Please, if you wouldn’t mind, as quickly as you can.V.1. Three pretty little French girls came to tea yesterday.2. I spent a long happy time living in Germany years ago.3. I have hardly ever worked so hard as I did yesterday.4. We rarely get more than three consecutive days of hot weather in summer.5. There were two hard wooden chairs in the waiting room.6. Mary has often spoken of your kindness to her when she was staying in Austria some years ago.7. Everybody concerned must be ready to leave at 8:30 tomorrow.8. We have not yet obtained all the information you requested yesterday.VI.1.In its present state, the economy couldn’t stand another rise in interest rates.2.He stood as if rooted to the ground.TranslationI.1. 从那生活温暖而舒适的鲶鱼之乡搬到气候严酷而且人似乎也不大相同的北方,是一件令人不安的事.2.我惊讶地站着,然后在一片激烈的掌声中恍恍惚惚地飘回到我的座位上.3.随着年龄的增长,我那种嗓音被卡在喉咙里的可怕感觉变得更加糟糕了.4.经管我的老师再也看不见了,他却依然生活在一个充满着他以前所收藏的奇珍异宝的世界里.II.1.With the development of economy large numbers of farmers flooded from the countrysideinto cities to seek a job.2.Young as he is, all judges share the opinion that his performance at the international pianocompetition has come close to perfection.3.4.Perhaps because of the spirits she had drunk, she was in a daze all the way to London.5.In this mountain retreat you can find the best climate in the country.6.He leaned back into his seat and relaxed, savoring the comfort.7.What makes this young couple proud is that their child could recite poems from memory atthe age of three.8.He repeated in public what he had said in private.9. A family vibrant with life and love is to be built with the joint efforts of all its members.III.从八岁到十一岁,我在英格兰巴思的一所教会小学上学.那是一所很小的学校,由四个班级组成,每个班大约二十五个孩子,按年龄分班.一般都是由一个老师负责教一个班的全部课程.但是校长罗纳德布罗克斯偶尔也会到班里来,用大约一个半小时的时间讲授他特别喜欢的课程.他对我很感兴趣,并且很快就知道我喜欢破解难题.他经常在我进教室的路上拦住我,从口袋里掏出一张纸条给我,上面通常写着数学或逻辑方面的难题.随着时间的推移,题目难度逐步增大,可我非常喜欢.这些小纸条点燃了我对数学和难题的热爱,这种热爱一直保持到今天.当我找出答案时,我会觉得那种智力活动很有价值,或许更重要的是,那是要一种巨大的乐趣.Exercises for integrated skillsI.As human beings, we have the special ability to share our thoughts by talking. We start byforming a thought in our brains. In the brain, this thought is changed into a code called language. Finally, the brain sends a message to the muscles, telling them to move and make the right sounds come out. Then the mouth, face, neck, tongue, and throat muscles move into motions.Sometimes this process doesn’t work perfectly, though. There might be an interruption or break in the flow of speech. This interruption is called disfluency.Disfluency becomes a speech problem when it gets in the way of everyday talking and is noticeable to other people. It can make it hard to get thoughts out. It can also cause a lot of embarrassment or frustration for the person who is talking.II.between, can, who, not, as, without, together, vary, when, some。
(完整word版)新编大学英语4课后习题答案完整版
新编大学英语 4 课后习题答案完整版(Book 4)Unit 1Reading comprehension1略2 BDCAC AADBBVocabulary1. 1) A.entertainingB. entertainmentC. entertainedD. entertainer2) A. recognizable B. recognizedC. recognition3) A. tempting B. temptation C. tempt4) A. reasoned B. reasoning C.reasonableD. reason5) A. analyzed B. analytical C. analystD. analysis6) A. valuable B. valuation C. valued/values values7) A. humorist B. humor C. humorousD. humorless8) A.understandableB. understandingC.understand D. misunderstood6)11)3) a sense of inferiority4) a sense of superiority a sense of justice 7) a sense of shame 9) a sense of direction 10) a sense of urgency3. 1) Lively behavior is normal 2) Fast cars appeal to 3) diverse arguments4) I asked my boss for clarification 5) sensitive to light 6) Mutual encouragement 7) made fun of him8) persists in his opinion/viewpoint 9) to be the focus/center of attention 10) we buy our tickets in advance4. 1) certain/sure 2) involved 3) end 4) behavior disciplining 6) agreed7) individually 8) first 9) response 10) question2. 1) a sense of responsibility2) a sense of safety/security5) a sense of rhythm 8) a sense of helplessness5)attempt 12) voice13) directly 14) followed 15) troubleUnit 2Reading comprehension1略2 FFTFTFTFTTFTFTVocabulary1.Creating Compound WordsSTEP ONE:Column A Column B The compound words createdthrough day throughout up man upbeat, uplift draw eareddrawback teen ready teenagehand conscious handout, handwritten birth back birthday,birthstone chair distance chairman rag beat rag-eared everlift ever-readyover age overdue, overage long due long-distance, long-eared self stone self-consciousmile out m ileage, milestonetype wishing typewriter, typewrittenwell writer/written well-wishing, well-writtenSTEP TWO:1) long-2) upbeat 3) ever-ready 4) distanceoverdue 5) typewriter6) milestone 7) handwritten 8) uplifted 9) self-conscious 10) rag-eared11) birthday 12) throughout 13) drawbacks 14) chairman 15) teenage2.1) A. intrigued v. interestB. intrigue n. the act or practice of secretly planning to harm someone or make them lose their position of power2)A. straining v. try very hard to do something using all your physical or mental strengthB. strain n. a force that stretches, pulls or puts pressure on something3)A. savor n. taste; flavorB. savored v. enjoy the taste or flavor of; enjoy as much as you can4)A. treasure v. treat something as being very special, important, or valuableB. treasure n. a store of gold, silver, jewels, etc.5)A. credited v. consider ⋯as having achieved something or being the reason for itB.creditn. trust; faith6) A. boost n. an encouraging act of cheering somebody upB. boost v. make someone feel more confident and less worried7) A. note n. a short, usually informal, letterB. noted v. notice or pay careful attention to something8) A. signedv. write your signature on a letter or document toshow that you wrote it, agreed with itB. sign n. gesture used to express one 's meaning,idea,etc.9) A. totaled v. come to a certain amountB. total n. the whole amount10) A. v. fill something with a substanceB. stuff n. substance or material11) A. count n. the number that is reached when something is being countedB. count v. be important12) A. last v. manage to remain in the same situationB. last n. the remaining part of something13) A. complimented v. express praise or admiration of somebodyB. compliment n. an expression of praise, admiration, approval, etc.14) A. flood n. a large number or amountB.floodingv. arrive in large numbers 15) A. contact n. communication with a person, organization,country, etc.B.contact v. reach (someone) by message, telephone, etc.3. 1) thrives 2) strategytough: 1) D 2) B 3) E 4) F 5) C 6) A8) enterprise 9) follow up 10) characterized 11) lingered12) acknowledgeddeserve 5) spontaneous 6) sincere3) annual 4)7) investments4. column: 1) D 2) A 3) B 4) C5.1)A. complementary B. complimentary C. complimentary complimentary: 1) expressing admiration, praise, etc.2)given free of chargecomplementary: making something complete or perfect; supplying what is lacking or needed for completion2) A. stationery B. stationary C. stationarystationary: not moving, or not changing stationery: writing materials (e.g. paper, envelopes, etc.)3)A. typist B. typewriter C. typisttypewriter: a machine with a keyboard that you use for typing words directly onto a sheet of papertypist: a person who types, especially one employed to do so 4)A. vulgar B. vague C. vague vague: 1) not clearly expressed, known, described or decided2) not clear in shape; not clearly seen vulgar: not having or showing good taste or good manners; not educated5)A. pad B. pat C. padpad: 1) several sheets of paper fastened together, used for writing, drawing, etc.2) a piece of soft thick cloth or rubber which is used to protect apart of the body, give shape to something or clean something 6)A. own B. owed C. owes D. ownedowe: 1) have to pay, for something already done or given2) feel gratefulown: 1) a. belonging to oneself and to no one else2) v. possess (something), especially by lawful right6.1)searched2) clever 3) solution 4) wasted 5) tolerate 6) hidden 7) dumb 8) subject 9) noise 10) extra 11) purchased 12) replaced 13) appreciation14) hurried 15)warrant 16) strangeUnit 31 Understanding the Organization of the Text(1)Introduction (para 1)It has been proven repeatedly that the various types of behavior, emotions, andinterests that constitute being masculine and feminine are patterned by both heredityand culture.(2)There is a cultural bias in education that favors boys over girls. (para. 2-4)Supporting evidenceA.Teachers called on males in class far more than on female students. (para 2)i)Its consequence: This has a tremendous impact on the learning process.ii)The reason for this: Active classroom participants develop more positive attitudesand go on to higher achievement.iii)Two examples:a.In many of the former all- women's colleges, the boys were taking over the class-room discussions and active participation by women students had diminished noticeably.b. A similar subordination of female to male students has also been observed in law and medical school classrooms in recent years.B.Teachers assigned boys and girls different tasks according to stereotyped gender roles. (para. 3)i) Its consequence: This prevented girls from participating as actively as boys in class.ii) An example: A teacher had the little boys perform the scientific experiment while the girls were given the task of putting the materials away.C.Gender-biased education is also reflected in the typical American teacher ' assumption. (para 4)i) The assumption: Boys will do better in the hard, masculine subjects of math and science while girls are expected to have better verbal and reading skills.ii) Three examples:a. American boys do develop reading problems, while girls, who are superior to boys in math up to the age of nine, fall behind from then on.b. In Germany, all studies are considered masculine and it is girls who develop reading problems.c.In Japan, where early education appears to be nonsexist, both girls and boys do equally well in reading.(3)The educational bias begins at home. (para 5)A.Supporting evidence:i) Boy preschoolers were permitted to go away from home in a much wider area than girl preschoolers.ii) Boys were encouraged to develop intellectual curiosity and physical skills, while girls are filled with fears of the world outside the home and with the desire to be approved of for their goodness and obedience to rules.B.The consequence when these lessons carry over fromthe home to the classroom: Girls are generally observed to be more dependent on the teacher, more concerned with the form and neatness of their work than its content, and more anxious about being right in their answers than in beingintellectually independent, analytical, or original.C.Conclusion: Through the educational process that occupies most of the child 'sw aking hours, society reinforces its established values and turns out each sex in its traditional and expected mold.2 CBDBCDVocabularyapproved 5) Bias1. 1) genetic 2) assign 3) noticeably 4)6) deprived 7) constituted 8) participation 9) unintentional 10) postgraduate2. conscious –unconscious negativeencourage –discourage –inferior positive –superiordirectly –indirectly biasedlimited – unlimiteddependentappropriately – inappropriately3. 1) C 2) D 3) A 4) E 5) B 6) C 7) F 8)B4. 1) turn out 2) carry over 3) calling on 4) put away 5) fallen behind 6) take overUnit 4Reading Comprehension 1. 1) Introduction(para 1)It is introduced in the article how teachers and parents canencouragecreativity in children.2) An important strategy for parents and teachers to follow (para. 2-3)A. The strategy:To encourage children to spend time thinking anddeveloping new ideas.fairsexistnonsexistindependentB.The significance for adopting the strategy:If children can be taught to think creatively, they will be better able tofunction in tomorrow 's society.3)The definition of creativity (para. 4-5)A.Who successful students and adults are:Those who can find a number of ways to approach problems.B.What creative people can do:They can use what they have to produce original ideas that are good forsomething.4) A big problem in school (para. 6)The problem: Children can obtain and give back information, but can 'tg fuireout ways to apply what they know in new situations.5)A new approach to teaching (para 7)A. The approach: Combining the basics with the activities where students mustuse their imaginations.B. How to do so: By asking questions and meanwhile praising their ideas andnew thoughts.C.How to facilitate the process: To create an atmosphere in which there is norisk in being creative-- a place where wild ideas are honored and valued,never scorned or dismissed.6)Things parents can do at home to encourage creativity (para. 8-10)A.To involve children in decision making.B.To help children to understand the consequences of various decisions.C.To encourage them to talk out loud about things they are doing. The reasonfor doing so: Talking out loud improves language skills and thinking skills.D.To show a sense of humor. The reason for doing so: Children can seecreativity in its purest form.E.To give children choices from their earliest age.Examples:a.When they are very young, let them choose between two food items forlunch.b. B. When they grow older, let them decide how to use their time or spendtheir money2 understanding specific informationTFFTTFFT2. 1) perfected2) approaching3) value 4) functions5) approach6) perfect7) honor8) function 9) honor10) value3. 1) dismiss2) consequences3) promoting 4)applies 5) vitalVocabulary 1. 1) confused, confusion humorous, humor4) strategy, strategic combination, combined7) creation, creative 2) intelligence, intelligent 5) motivated, motivation 8) pursuit, pursuing3)6)9)6) scorned 7) conventional 8) original4. 1) consciously 2) innovative 3) unconsciously 4) determines 5) Imagination6) aware 7) control 8) created 9) extension 10) technique11) vulnerable 12) unfolding 13) joyful 14) gain15) Applyunit 5Understanding the organization of the text1)Introduction (para. 1)Athletes are chosen to be role models, and they can choose only to be good orbad ones.2)Athletes should be role models. (para. 2-5)The author 's arguments:A. Athletes should not refuse the responsibility of being a role model whileaccepting all the glory and the money that comes with being a famous athlete.(para. 2)B. I try to be a positive role model, but that doesn 't mean I am perfect. (para. 3)C.Qualities of a positive role model: (para. 4)a. He influences people 's livesin a positive way.b. He gives of himself in time or money to help those who look up to him.c.He displays the values like honesty and determination.D.Athletes cannot take the place of parents, but can help reinforce what parentstry to teach their children. (para. 5)3)People sometimes expect so much that some athletes don 'twant to be rolemodes. (para. 6-7)A. Sometimes people put athletes on a pedestal.Example: I have had parents in Utah put my picture on the wall beside JesusChrist. (para. 6)B. Constantly being watched by the public can be hard to tolerate at times.Example: 1: Negative publicity Michael Jordan received aboutgambling.2. Ever since I played on the Dream Team, I cango anywherewithout being the center of attention and I can 't even buy amotorcycle I really want. (para. 7)4)Conclusion (para 8-9)The good things about being a role model outweigh the bad. A. It 's a great feeling to think you are part of the reason that a id decided to tryto be good.B. But parents should remind their kids that there are no perfect human beings.C.Charles Barkley is a good role model.2、 F T F T F F F F T F T FVocabulary2. 1) is bound to 2) follow their lead 3) goes too far/is going too far4)take the place of 5) dropped out 6) have a fit 7) measure up to8) look up to 9) Let 's face it 10) you name it3. 1) outgrown 2) outdo 3) outwitted 4) outweigh 5) outlivedUnit 6Vocabulary Practice1.1)sensiblesensible: having or showing good sense; reasonable sensitive: easily hurt, upset, or offended by things that people say2)relativerelevant: directly connected with the subject or problem being discussed or consideredrelative: considered in relation or proportionto somebody/something else; comparative3)mechanismmachine: 机器mechanism: a structure of working parts functioning together to produce an effect4)requiresrequire: need somethingrequest: ask for something politely or formally5)eliminatereduce: make something smaller in size, number, degree, price, etc.eliminate: completely get rid of something that is unnecessary orunwanted6)crashcrash: a breaking to pieces especially by or as if by collision collision: an accident in which two or more people or vehicles hit each other while moving in different directions2.1)character 2) end up 3) Rarely 4) casual 5) risky 6) all manner of 7) inform 8) sensible 9) definitively3.1) On the strength of 2) all manner of 3) feed on 4) reduce ⋯to 5) end up6) associated with 7) focus on 8) turned to 9) participatein 10) involved inunit 71. C E B D A F2. relearn 再学习regain 收回,重新获得redo 重做,再做rewrite 重写,改写rearrange 重新整理reclaim 要求归还,收回remodel 重新塑造,改变replace 取代rephrase 重新措辞rejoin 再结合,在加入reform 改革readjust 重新调整reunited (使)再结合rebroadcast 转播,重播reread 再读review 复习3. B A D A D C A A A Bunit 91. 1) observation 2) available 3) discoveries 4) acceptance5)experimentation6)inventions 7) evolution 8) adaptable 9) innovative 10) objectivity2. 1) out of the ordinary 2) preceded 3) To be exact 4) Contradict(ed) 5) ProsperityCOLUMN A COLUMN Binvention inventavailable AvailInnovation InnovateAdaptable AdaptDiscovery DiscoverAcceptance AcceptEvolution EvolveObjectivity ObjectiveObservation ObserveExperimentation ExperimentProsperity Prosperdisastrous disaster6) Gave birth to 7) Catch our breath 8) had in mind 9) proposed 10) converted 11) disastrous 12) negative3. 1) She had hardly sat down2)Especially if/ when you want to reserve a seat3)is not necessarily the most useful4)What sort/kind of person do you have in mind5)There 's a limit on the time6)Spend part of his childhood7)three times as many girls as boys8)as do most of the people who live in this village9)but on the other hand it would be sad to lose the family atmosphere10)Depite/ In spite of international pressure。
综合英语教程四_Unit_9_Chinese_Food.
▪ in matter of 与...有关 ▪ in the matter of 至于; 关于, 在...方面 ▪ it is no matter that ...是无关紧要的 ▪ let the matter drop [go, rest]听任事情自然发展
▪ make a matter 大惊小怪, 引起一场风波 ▪ make matters [it] worse更坏的是, 更糟的是 ▪ make sth. a matter of conscience凭良心做某事
stop 后面加不定式表示停下现在的动作去干另一件事, 加动名词表示停下现在正在做的事。
mean 后面加不定式表示打算去一件事,加动名词表示 意思是什么。
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2. Please make a list of three Chinese dishes and one Western dish.
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Tom McArthur, Professor of English at the University of Quebec , is editor of the journal English Today and the full Oxford Companion to the English . The text is taken from The Written Word , Oxford University Press 1987.
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▪ Roasting: ▪ Boiling: ▪ Shallow frying: ▪ Stewing ▪ Red-cooking ▪ Stir Frying ▪ Deep frying
外研社2024新编大学英语_第四版_综合教程B4U3教学课件B4U3 Lead in
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Music is a kind of cultural and artistic form, which can express emotions and ideas with beautiful and harmonious rhythm. It helps one learn to express himself in a wonderful and rational way, thus improving his perception and selfcontrol ability. In this way, one can perfect himself and become a man of virtue.
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新编大学英语(第四版) 综合教程 Unit 1
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新编大学英语(第四版) 综合教程 Unit 1
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Rites are significant in maintaining human dignity, improving human moral level and cultivating civilization. One is supposed to follow traditional etiquette and courtesy, so as to restrict and standardize his behavior and speech.
新编大学英语综合教程课文翻译第四册
Unit 1 Leisure Activities1-1 Entertaining Humor-What's Funny?Translation【1】听了一个有趣的故事会发笑、很开心,古今中外都一样。
这一现象或许同语言本身一样悠久。
那么,到底是什么东西会使一个故事或笑话让人感到滑稽可笑的呢?【2】我是第一次辨识出幽默便喜欢上它的人,因此我曾试图跟学生议论和探讨幽默。
这些学生文化差异很大,有来自拉丁美洲的,也有来自中国的。
我还认真地思考过一些滑稽有趣的故事。
这么做完全是出于自己的喜好。
【3】为什么听我讲完一个笑话后,班上有些学生会笑得前仰后合,而其他学生看上去就像刚听我读了天气预报一样呢?显然,有些人对幽默比别人更敏感。
而且,我们也发现有的人很善于讲笑话,而有的人要想说一点有趣的事却要费好大的劲。
我们都听人说过这样的话:“我喜欢笑话,但我讲不好,也总是记不住。
”有些人比别人更有幽默感,就像有些人更具有音乐、数学之类的才能一样。
一个真正风趣的人在任何场合都有笑话可讲,而且讲了一个笑话,就会从他记忆里引出一连串的笑话。
一个缺乏幽默感的人不可能成为一群人中最受欢迎的。
一个真正有幽默感的人不仅受人喜爱,而且在任何聚会上也往往是人们注意的焦点。
这么说是有道理的。
【4】甚至有些动物也具有幽默感。
我岳母从前经常来我们家,并能住上很长一段时间。
通常她不喜欢狗,但却很喜欢布利茨恩——我们养过的一条拉布拉多母猎犬。
而且,她们的这种好感是相互的。
布利茨恩在很小的时候就常常戏弄外祖母。
当外祖母坐在起居室里她最喜欢的那张舒适的椅子上时,布利茨恩就故意把她卧室里的一只拖鞋叼到起居室,并在外祖母刚好够不到的地方蹦来跳去,一直逗得外祖母忍不住站起来去拿那只拖鞋。
外祖母从椅子上一起来,布利茨恩就迅速跳上那椅子,从它那闪亮的棕色眼睛里掠过一丝拉布拉多式的微笑,无疑是在说:“啊哈,你又上了我的当。
”【5】典型的笑话或幽默故事由明显的三部分构成。
Unit 9 Science and Technology新编大学英语第二版第四册课文翻译
Unit 9 Science and TechnologyToo Fast?People who were born just before World War I remember waving at automobiles as they passed. Seeing a car was like watching a parade—exciting and out of the ordinary. The airplane—it was spelled "aeroplane" then—was another new invention. Refrigerators were "iceboxes," and a man delivered the ice for the box in the summer and the coal for the stove in the winter. Now, the iceman, like the blacksmith, survives only in literature.Today, change comes so fast that working people can become obsolete because their occupations vanish in the middle of their lives. Knowledge, and thus the rate of change, increases geometrically. Every idea gives birth to a dozen new ones, and each of them has a dozen children. The people of the pre-World War I generation had hardly assimilated the inventions of that era before they were attacked by a new batch of even more sophisticated inventions. The Atomic Age dawned in 1945, August 6 to be exact, and then, before we could catch our breath, the Space Age arrived.Change was not always this rapid. Certain important inventions, like the telephone, the airplane, the automobile, and the radio, had been invented by 1914, but the effects of these inventions upon the lives of ordinary citizens were not felt until many years later. We now have the technology to develop machines before people are ready to use them. For example, we have the technology to enable people to pay their bills by phone—but even people with phones resist. The change is too much too fast. People don't want to talk to machines, especially if the machines talk back to them.It is certain that technology, especially computer technology, will rule our lives to a greater and greater degree. This situation will not necessarily prove positive or negative in effect. Many people would be more comfortable if change came more slowly, but on the other hand, there are many for whom every innovation is like a new toy. They can't wait for the next invention to be available. When scientists talk about the remarkably adaptable nature of people, they probably have these people in mind.But there is a limit to everyone's ability to adapt. What will happen to us when change comes so rapidly that we can no longer adjust to it? These same scientists who talk about our adaptable nature also tell us that change is to some degree emotionally painful to everyone. What then, will happen to us when change comes so rapidly that we can no longer stand the pain, and we refuse to change?We have read a lot about scientific and technological change, but that is only part of the picture of modern life. There is often a great lag between scientific discovery andcultural acceptance. For example, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, proposed over one hundred years ago and accepted by all serious scholars for generations, is still rejected by large segments of society. These segments see science as contradicting a higher religious authority. They see science as questioning and destroying their beliefs and culture.The problem is not easily solved because it is in the nature of science to question, and it is in the nature of human beings not to want to question the things they believe in. Science is not merely a field of study like chemistry or physics or biology. Science is a method of looking at the world, a method that requires an open mind, objectivity, and proof based upon observation or experimentation. It is a method that ignores religion, race, nationality, economics, morality, and ethics. It pays attention only to the results of research. The scientific method has shown us endless marvels and wonders, but methods can't provide all the answers. Science cannot tell us whether or not to drop a bomb: That is a moral or political question. Science only tells us how to make one.As we have already said, technological innovations are being made at faster and faster rates. The future will be even more revolutionary than the past. Will we, as a species, survive the revolutions that we have begun? There is plenty of evidence to think that we will. Our species has enormous potential that we have just begun to use. For example, we have only begun to control the environment. One day technology will make every desert bloom. It's simple, really. To do so, all we need to do is lower the cost of converting sea water into fresh water. Then, when the deserts bloom, will they provide enough food for our growing numbers? Most likely, they will. We have only just begun to discover the possibilities of highly intensive desert agriculture. We already have the technology to increase production ten times and to use one-twentieth of the water we needed before.We know how to make agricultural miracles. What we need are the time and money to make the technology available to everyone.In the nineteenth century, people believed in progress. They believed that science would lead them to a new era of endless prosperity and happiness. Well, it didn't work out that way. Two disastrous world wars convinced people of that. Yet, in our disappointment and in our fears that science was a monster that would one day destroy us, we forgot that science was not the monster; we were the monster. Science was merely a servant, and like fire, a good servant when treated properly.Despite all the problems of the modern world, however, most people would not choose to live in any of the less scientific ages that have preceded ours. If—and this is abig if—we don't destroy ourselves in war, the future can only be better. Each year will bring a more bewildering array of scientific advances: diseases cured, space conquered, transportation and communication revolutionized, agriculture and industry completely transformed, etc. To some, the future sounds exciting; to others, frightening. But one thing is sure—it won't be boring.太快了?1 在第一次世界大战前夕出生的人仍然记得看到身边经过的汽车就挥手的情景。
新编大学英语4视听说材料unit9
Questions:
1. What is the speaker?
2. Why was the speaker excited to be involved in a research project?
3. What did the speaker have to do in the research project?
Mom: That's for sure. To think there are kids her age who have never changed a TV channel without a remote control! Can you imagine?
Dad: I'm sure you're right. Hey, remember our old computer?
2. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
3. What changed the two speakers' attitude toward computers?
My favorite question, lately, is why scientific research? The most basic answer is because I want to contribute something to the society that I have been taking from all my life, and I want to help animals somehow. But then the answers become the question. What could I possibly contribute, and how will my research help animals?
综合教程 第四册unit9
1. What do you think this text is about?2. How do you think a dying man will most probably behave?I spy on my patients. Ought not a doctor to observe his patients by any means and from any stance, that he might the more fully assemble evidence? So I stand in the doorways of hospital rooms and gaze. Oh, it is not all that furtive an act. Those in bed need only look up to discover me. But they never do.From the doorway of Room 542 the man in the bed seems deeply tanned. Blue eyes and dose-cropped white hair give him the appearance of vigor and good health. But I know that his skin is not brown from the sun. It is rusted, rather, in the last stage of containing the vile repose within. And the blue eyes are frosted, looking inward like the windows of a snowbound cottage. This man is blind. This man is also legless — the right leg missing from midthigh down, the left fromjust below the knee. It gives him the look of a bonsai, roots and branches pruned into the dwarfed facsimile of a great tree.Propped on pillows, he cups his right thigh in both hands. Now and then he shakes his head as though acknowledging the intensity of his suffering. In all of this he makes no sound. Is he mute as well as blinds?The room in which he dwells is empty of all possessions —no get-well cards, small, private caches of food, day-old flowers, slippers, all the usual kickshaws of the sickroom. There is only the bed, a chair, a nightstand, and a tray on wheels that can be swung across his lap for meals."What time is it?" he asks."Three o'clock.""Morning or afternoon?""Afternoon."He is silent. There is nothing else he wants to know."How are you?" I say."Who are you?" he asks."It's the doctor. How do you feel?"He does not answer right away."Feel?" he says."I hope you feel better," I say.I press the button at the side of the bed."Down you go," I say."Yes, down," he says.He falls back upon the bed awkwardly. His stumps, unweighted by legs and feet, rise in the air, presenting themselves. I unwrap the bandages from the stumps, and begin to cut away the black scabs and the dead, glazed fat with scissors and forceps. A shard of white bone comes loose. I pick it away. I wash the wounds with disinfectant and redress the stumps. All this while, he does not speak. What is he thinking behind those lids that do not blink? Is he remembering a time when he was whole? Does he dream of feet? Or when his body was not a rotting log?He lies solid and inert. In spite of everything, he remains impressive, as though he were a sailor standing athwart a slanting deck."Anything more I can do for you?" I ask.For a long moment he is silent."Yes," he says at last and without the least irony. "You can bring me a pair of shoes."In the corridor, the head nurse is waiting for me."We have to do something about him," she says. "Every morning he orders scrambled eggs for breakfast, and, instead of eating them, he picks up the plate and throws it against the wall.""Throws his plate?""Nasty. That's what he is. No wonder his family doesn't come to visit. They probably can't stand him any more than we can."She is waiting for me to do something."Well?""We'll see," I say.The next morning I am waiting in the corridor when the kitchen delivers his breakfast. I watch the aide place thetray on the stand and swing it across his lap. She presses thebutton to raise the head of the bed. Then she leaves.In time the man reaches to find the rim of the tray, then on to find the dome of the covered dish. He lifts off the cover and places it on the stand. He fingers across the plate until he probes the eggs. He lifts the plate in both hands, sets it on the palm of his right hand, centers it, balances it. He hefts it up and down slightly, getting the feel on it. Abruptly, he draws back his right arm as far as he can.There is the crack of the plate breaking against the wall at the foot of his bed and the small wet sound of the scrambled eggs dropping to the floor.And then he laughs. It is a sound you have never heard. It is something new under the sun. It could cure cancer.Out in the corridor, the eyes of the head nurse narrow."Laughed, did he?"She writes something down on her clipboard.A second aide arrives, brings a second breakfast tray, puts it on the night-stand, out of his reach. She looks over at me shaking her head and making her mouth go. I see that we are to be accomplices."I've got to feed you," she says to the man."Oh, no you don't," the man says."Oh, yes I do," the aide says, "after the way you just did. Nurse says so.""Get me my shoes," the man says."Here's the oatmeal," the aide says. "Open." And she touches the spoon to his lower lip."I ordered scrambled eggs," says the man."That's right," the aide says.I step forward."Is there anything I can do?" I say."Who are you?" the man asks.In the evening I go once more to that ward to make my rounds. The head nurse reports to me that Room 542 is deceased. She has discovered this by accident, she says. No, there had been no sound. Nothing. It's a blessing, she says. I go into his room, a spy looking for secrets. He is stillthere in his bed. His face is relaxed, grave, dignified. After a while, I turn to leave. My gaze sweeps the wall at the foot of the bed, and I see the place where it has been repeatedly washed, where the wall looks very clean and white.。
外研社-新编大学英语综合教程4-Unit4-Creativity-Quiz答案
外研社,新编大学英语综合教程4Unit4 CreativityQuiz答案1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.1. The servant was dismissed for being lazy and dishonest.A. neglectedB. ignoredC. firedD. sent2. He tried his best to mask his enmity (敌意) under an appearance of friendliness.A. faceB. concealC. revealD. present3. It rained practically all night.A. almostB. mostlyC. reallyD. actually4. Regular exercise is vital for your health.A. fatalB. energeticC. importantD. relevant5. Let's move to the next item on the agenda.A. paperB. planC. projectD. work6. She has been appointed to solve the problem.A. chosenB. appliedC. askedD. demanded7. Mere words won't help.A. ManyB. TrueC. RealD. Only8. She withdrew her eyes from the terrible sight.A. took overB. took upC. took awayD. took down9. It's often difficult to discern the truth of an event from the newspaper stories.A. understandB. distinguishC. findD. get10. The flavor of most foods can be enhanced by good cooking.A. improvedB. raisedC. changedD. forced11. In order to avoid students' utter reliance on teachers, students should be taught how tolearn instead of what to learn.A. independenceB. dispensationC. dependenceD. confidence12. Young children need stimulation.A. praiseB. challengesC. understandingD. help2. Complete the following sentences with the appropriate forms of the words in brackets.13. manual menu mental metalYour answer Correct answer(1) metal metal(2) manual manual(3) mental mental(4) menu menu14. adapt adoptA. This machine has beenYour answer Correct answer(1) adapted adapted(2) adapted adapted(3) adopted adopted(4) adopted adopted15. award rewardYour answer Correct answer(1) award award(2) reward reward16. incident accident business issue eventYour answer Correct answer(1) issue issue(2) accident accident(3) business business(4) incidents incidents(5) events events3. Translate the following sentences into English, using the expressions in brackets.17. 我再也没有见到过他,也没有收到过他的信。
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Unit 9 Science and Technology新编大学英语第二版第四册教案
Unit 9 Science and TechnologyUseful InformationScience is knowledge of facts, laws and relationships that is obtained through systematic observation and experimentation. When we think of science we normally think of exact sciences like biology, chemistry and physics. But many other branches of science have developed over the past century. Sociology and psychology, for example, are not exact sciences although their findings are based on the principles of scientific investigation.Since most people in society do not work as scientists, they tend to perceive science as it affects them in their daily lives. In other words, they see the practical and the applied aspects of science. Scientific knowledge applied to practical uses is normally referred to as technology. Robotics, for instance, is a branch of technology involving the study and production of manlike machines capable of performing human tasks. For many years, robots belonged to the realm of science fiction, but now they are used in various manufacturing sectors including the auto industry. Robots have become increasingly complex and sophisticated. Some people predict that, in the not too distant future, robots will be capable of feeling the same emotions as humans. It is hard to imagine an emotionally independent machine, but many of the things we take for granted now were once considered to be ridiculous dreams.The technological changes that took place in the 20th century revolutionized virtually every aspect of life from communication to material comfort. In the space of two or three generations, people witnessed major advances in medical research, nuclear energy and space exploration. In the early part of the century, it seemed that science and technology could do nothing but good. People had implicit faith in scientific progress. However, wars, pollution and new diseases have undermined our confidence. The consequences of technological innovations have not always been positive and the moral or political choices regarding new inventions have often been questionable.Video machines, computerized banking and the Internet have all affected our lives in one way or another. In some cases, they have made life more convenient and more pleasurable. In other cases, however, they have resulted in a serious erosion of our privacy. Information and activities that we consider private are now readily available to public and private agencies. Whether we like it or not, we are being watched and monitored on a regular basis.Despite the negative reactions which many technological inventions have generated in recent years, some people still regard science in such a positive light that they believe science can solve almost any problem. Such is the case for people who believe that cryogenics using liquid nitrogen holds the key to the long-term preservation of the body.These people often believe that death is merely an illness, which science will eventually be able to cure. Their hopes seem strange today. But who knows what the future will bring?Part One PREPARATION1. Cloudy Days in TomorrowlandNotes for the teacher: In doing this activity, the teacher should try to draw the students’ attention to what actually happened. The teacher may divide the quotations among different groups and ask each to collect data for what actually happened and do a presentation in class.Notes:1) Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) are famous for making the first powered flight in their aircraft in 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.2) Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English novelist. After studying biology with T. H. Huxley, he wrote some of the earliest science-fiction novels, such as The Time Machine(1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898). These combined political satire, warnings about the dangerous new powers of science, and a hope for the future.The prediction means: I don’t think that submarines will do anything except cause people to die (because of the lack of air) and move about helplessly in water.H. G. Wells failed to predict the important role that submarines would play.3) Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) was a French general. He strongly supported the use of offensive warfare, which resulted in many of his 30th Corps being killed by German machine-guns in August 1914. He became Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces on the Western Front in early 1918, and served as the senior French representative at the Armistice negotiations.He failed to predict the role of the airplane in military affairs.4) Henry Ford (1863-1947) was an American industrialist and maker of the first motor cars. He set up the Ford Motor Company in 1903, designed the famous Model T car in 1908 and over 15 million cars had been sold before the model was discontinued in 1928. He is known as one of the richest, most successful American businessmen.5) Lee De Forest (1873-1961) was an American inventor who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He failed to predict the magic power that science can make. Man can now go to the moon on spaceflight.6) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was a Scottish scientist and inventor who lived in the U.S. and Canada, best known for inventing the telephone in 1876. He also started the Bell Telephone Company.7) The first computers weighed several tons.8) Kenneth Olsen (1926- ) is a U.S. computer entrepreneur.He failed to predict the widespread use of computers beginning in the 1980s.9) Sir William Kelvin (1824-1907) was an Scottish physicist and inventor.Kelvin failed to predict the widespread use of radio in the 20th century.10) Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) was an American motion-picture producer and powerful studio executive, who led the 20th Century Fox film studio from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, which were among its most successful decades.He failed to predict the popularity of TV throughout the world.2. Making Your Own PredictionsSample answer:1) Medicine / biogeneticsIn the 21st century, cancer and AIDS will no longer be considered deadly diseases. Wonder drugs will be developed to cure all kinds of diseases. Medicine will be developed to prevent aging, and people will live much longer than now. Technology will develop so that a dead body can be kept for several years and then be resurrected.There will be all kinds of advanced equipment in hospitals, and doctors or nurses will be able to monitor the patients without going to the wards. Thus “visits” can be more frequent. The hospital wards will be clean and bright, but the medical costs will be much higher.With the use of computers and the Internet, patients will get treatment without leaving home. They can consult the best specialists at home or abroad with their symptoms, and diagnoses will be made online.2) Computer technologyComputer technology will be greatly developed in the 21st century. Anyone will have access to computers whenever they need or want to. There will be computers in almost all households, offices, small street-side stores, even on the sidewalk like telephone booths. People will be able to work without leaving home. People will be able to order all kinds of things through the computer and delivery will be much faster. A lot of sales clerks will be laid off.The future computers will be faster in speed and of any size or shape as the user wishes. Pocket computers will be very common in the near future and the price will be lower. Multimedia computer technology will gradually make television, VCD and DVD disappear.What’s more, operating a computer will be so easy that with a tiny chip implanted in your head you’ll be able to run it by thinking abo ut something or telling yourself what to do. The machine will work for you as you desire.3) EducationThere will be no national entrance exams and education at the tertiary level will be open to everyone so long as they desire it. Everyone can afford the expenses. Large campuses will be unnecessary. All the courses will be online and students can see and talkto their professors online too during the “office” hours. Students can learn by using computer software themselves, and watching educational programs online.Students will have more freedom in choosing and changing their majors. And those who already have or don’t need a degree can choose to take whatever courses they prefer for their personal development, future career or whatever.Education in the future will be available to people of all ages. A Bachelor’s degree may become the basic requirement for all professions. Education will be people’s life time pursuit since science and technology develop so fast and there will be an increasing need for upd ating one’s knowledge. At that time when Chinese people meet they will greet each other by saying “What are you studying now?”.3. Show TimeSample:(In the morning after a storm. Daughter wakes up.)Daughter: It’s cold. Mum, I’m freezing.Mum: It is. So n, get up and see what’s wrong.Son : Oh, fire. It’s the fire. It went out during the storm last night.Daughter: Mum, what are we going to do without fire? We’ll be cold. We can’t cook food. What can we do?Dad: Don’t you worry. We will get another fire.Mum: How can we do that?Dad: Let’s get the fire from our neighbor.(Neighbor comes.)Neighbor: Good morning. It’s too bad that last night’s storm blew out our fire. May I borrow your fire, so that I can cook breakfast?Mum: Ours has gone out too. We thought we could get the fire from you.Neighbor: Too bad. Now we are going back to life a thousand years ago when there was no fire.Son: Mum, Dad, I will go out to Cave Primitive to get the fire.Mum: Son, you’re too young to go that far. It takes five days t o get to Cave Primitive. There are all kinds of animals in the mountain.Son: I am eighteen. I am a grownup now. I can kill as many as animals as Dad and I am even quicker than he is.Dad: But I am more experienced. I have eaten more animals than you’ve ev er seen.Neighbor: Well, I am also an experienced hunter. I can go together with your son and we will surely come back safe and sound.Son: That’s a good idea. Mum, Dad, please let me go with Neighbor.Dad: Okay. Take good care of yourselves on the way. He re’s the spear and a sharp stone to protect yourselves and to hunt for food.Mum: And there’s some smoked meat to take with you.Daughter: Brother, take care. I love you.Son: I love you, too. Take care of Mum. I will be back in ten days.Part Two READING-CENTERED ACTIVITIESIn-Class ReadingI. Pre-Reading1) —I feel it’s really nice to live in the modern world. There are so many things that were not available in the past. Television, refrigerators, VCDs, DVDs, and computers make our life so colorful, enjo yable and convenient. I can’t imagine a life without all these.—I like to live in the modern world. The modern world provides us with so many wonderful things that our ancestors couldn’t even dream of. But on the other hand, I find living in the modern world is a bit exhausting. We are living and working at a fast pace and we just can’t slow down a little bit because we are only small parts of a huge machine. When the machine sets a pace its parts have to follow. In addition, modern society is full of competition and challenges. I find myself always in a rush.—If I had a choice, I would prefer to live in less scientific ages. People had more time with their families. They cared less about their jobs and had less pressure from their work. They didn’t have t o work so hard to make money to buy luxuries. Though they had no TV, phones or computers, they had more communications with their family members, their neighbors and their fellow workers. Since there was almost no pollution, they were breathing clean air, drinking pure water and having all kinds of natural food. It seems as if our modern world has developed advanced science and technology in order to solve the problems the development has created.2) —I don’t want to live in the future. I’m the sort of pers on who is satisfied with whatI have. From what I read in books, magazines, newspapers, etc., I somehow get the feeling that people in the future will become more indifferent to each other. Besides, there will be less and less communication between people in the future and the distance between people will be greater. So I’m happy to be living now.—I’d like to live in the future world. With the development of modern science and technology, more and more inventions will be made and we can have access to a greater variety of things. I once read a science fiction story depicting the future world as one where people lived in harmony and peace. This is exactly what I want. I don’t like to see people compete against each other. I hate wars and feel sorry for the victims of wars.II. Passage ReadingWords, Phrases and Grammatical Points1. …, had been invented by 1914, … (l. 14)The word “by” in this sentence means “not later than”.I) She had promised to be back by five o’clock.II) The application must be in by the 31st to be accepted.2. … will rule our lives to a greater and greater degree. (l. 21-22)The phrase “to a greater and greater degree”means “increasingly”, or “more and more”. Expressions like “to some degree”, “to a large/great degree” and “to a cert ain degree” are used to show that something is partly true, but not entirely true.I) I agree with you to some degree.II) What you say is true to some degree.3. They can’t wait for the next invention to be available. (l. 23-24)“can’t wait / can hardly wait to do something” is used to emphasize that one is so excited about something that one is eager to do it. It is usually used in spoken English.I) We can’t wait to get started.II) I could hardly wait to get out of there.4. … proposed over one hundred years ago … (l. 33)The word “propose” in this sentence means “to state that a theory is probably true because it fits in with the evidence that has been considered”.I) Einstein proposed his theory of general relativity in 1915.II) His theory proposes the existence of black holes in the universe.“Propose” is often followed by a that-clause in its subjunctive mood when it means “to suggest”.I) He proposed a motion that the chairman resign.II) It was George who first proposed that we store clothes in that locker.IV. Post-ReadingReading Comprehension1.before 2) automobiles 3) iceman 4) occupations 5) increases 6) Space 7) resist/refuse8) ability 9) acceptance 10) possible 11) innovations 12) miracles/achievements13) properly 14) scientific2.1) C 2) C 3) D 4) D 5) C 6) C 7) C 8) A3.Sample answers:1) The major benefits science and technology have brought us include:—more advanced facilities and equipment in offices;—higher yields in agriculture;Part Three FURTHER DEVELOPMENT1.1) B 2) A 3) B 4) C 5) B 6) C 7) C 8) B 9) A 10) A 11) B 12) C2.Sample answer:Student A: How do you feel when you look through the results of the opinion poll?Student B: There are certain points that I agree with; for example, the gap between the rich and poor in the United States as well as in the world in general will be wider.Student A: I agree. I also think that there will be more wars in the future.Student B: What do you think will be the greatest threat to world peace during the 21st century?Student A: I think it will be hegemonies. Some countries, with their economic wealth and strong military power, always want to control the world. In this process, they will wage wars against the countries that refuse to give in.Student B: You are right. As for work and play, I think people will have less leisure time, and books will still be common in the 21st century. The future world is highlycompetitive, and people will have to work harder and to learn more in order not to be eliminated.Student A: Yes, I think so. I find it strange that 42% of the people say that they would want to live only as long as they expect to now. What do you think?Student B: I don’t find it strange at all. I don’t want laboratory-made substitutes in my body, either.Student A: With regard to life in space, I think humans will travel again to the moon, but I don’t think humans will be able to walk on Mars. To my knowledge, no life is possible due to the high temperature there.Student B: But scientists may do something to change that.Student A: I hope so. I would really like to walk on Mars if I could.Stu dent B: Now I find the poll on “Out of the Lab” particularly encouraging. I do hope scientists can find cures for cancer, AIDS and other deadly diseases.Student A: Yes, but I don’t think scientists will be able to put a human mind onto a CD-ROM or computer chip, for use in a robot.Student B: Who knows? Many things which were considered impossible years ago have now become a reality.Student A: As to environment, I agree with the majority. I also think global warming will turn out to be a serious problem.Student B: In addition to that, I think pollution will also be a big problem.Student A: Yes, I think so, too.3.STEP ONEThe good or bad effects of modern science and technology on people’s lives:Sample Questionnaire:1) With the development of computer technology, people can get a lot of information in a few seconds, chat with friends they’ve never met on the Internet, go shopping by pressing a key or a button. Do you like this kind of life?A. Yes, it’s convenient and comfortable.B. It’s OK, but commu nication among people is reduced.C. I like talking with people face to face. I hate looking at a computer the whole day.2) How do you react to the constant increase in knowledge that science and technology have brought about?A. I feel nervous. I can’t t olerate my ignorance about many science fields.B. I like it. It is in the nature of science.C. I don’t care about it.3) High-technology makes it easier to arrest criminals, but it also makes it easier for criminals to commit crime. Do you think that society is getting safer or not?A. Safer.B. More dangerous.C. The same as before.4) If you could go back to the old days when there were blacksmiths, deliverers of ice and coal and beautiful manors, would you like to do that?A. Yes.B. No, I would like t o live in today’s modern world.C. It’s hard to say.5) In many countries, governments are reducing their military forces but, on the other hand, they are developing more high-tech and more deadly weapons. Do you think the world will be more peaceful or not?A. Yes, war will be less likely though it may still happen.B. No, the world will never have peace as long as there are countries that want to act as the international police.C. Superficially, the world may be peaceful, but in fact, there is a greater risk of war.6) Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the environment?A. Optimistic because without modern science and technology, the world would have been much worse.B. Pessimistic because the development of industry inevitably leads to new pollution.C. Neither of the above two. The battle of fighting against pollution will be endless because when one pollution problem is solved, more will arise.Work and life in the 21st centurySample Questionnaire:1) Do you think there will be more war with the development of science and technology?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.2) Do you think there will be less communication between people with the development of computers?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.3) Some people say that there will be fewer schools in the 21st century because most people can study by themselves with the help of modern facilities. Do you agree?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.4) The population of the world will be greatly increased in the 21st century and some people say that we may have to find another planet to live on. Do you think this will happen?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.5) Do you want to live on another planet?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.6) What role do you think women will play in the 21st century?A. Women will have a higher status in society.B. Women will have a lower status in society.C. No change will take place in this aspect.7) Do you think that no one will have to do physical work?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.8) Do you think that hunger and poverty will no longer be serious problems in the 21st century?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.9) Do you think that people will live forever because of the development of science?A. Yes.B. No.C. I don’t know.10) Will you feel safer in the future?A. Yes, because there will be less crime with the improvement of people’s living standard.B. No, because there will be more crime with the development of science and technology.C. I don’t know.STEP THREESample Report (using questionnaire for subject 1):I asked 12 students for their views on the good or bad effects of modern science and technology on people’s lives. Here are the results:To Question 1, 60% choose A, and 25% choose B.To Question 2, only a small percentage, 17%, feel nervous. Most people, or 67%, chose B.To Question 3, most of the people surveyed, i.e., 75%, think that society is getting more dangerous. Only one person thinks it will be safer.To Question 4, it’s surprising that most people, 75%, want to go back to the old days if possible.To Question 5, 75% choose B and only 1 person choose A, that is, war will be less likely.To Question 6, a vast majority (83%) are pessimistic about the environment.From the survey, we can see that people, while looking forward to a more advanced society, are quite concerned about the future world, especially in terms of world peace and the environment.4.Sample:—If I were to choose, I would choose teachers and scientists in certain advanced fields.A nation that lags behind others in science will always be the target of attack. History has provided us with countless examples of this. China suffered a lot before 1949 and even before the opening up and the economic reforms. “Revitalizing our nation throughscience and education” is something that we should always keep in mind. Scientists and teachers are the ones who can achieve this goal.—I would choose some experts in nuclear science. The future world wars will be nuclear wars. Without powerful nuclear weapons, we will suffer heavy losses. I would also like to choose some medical experts who can cure some serious diseases like cancer. It is they who can bring a lot of people back to life.—I would choose some world champions in sports because they win honors for our country. A world-class athlete won’t develop overnight. We can see the efforts that have been put in by the coaches, the family, the athlete himself/herself, etc. I would also like to choose some famous artists because they create great beauty and make the world colorful.5.Sample:For:—Human beings have traveled to outer space but they know little about their own bodies. I will volunteer my body for scientific research purposes. By testing on my body, scientists could learn more about the human body in general.—I am lazy. I don’t like doing housework. I want to enjoy life. When technology develops to an even higher stage, human beings would have all kinds of facilities to assist their lives. I like to live in the future when I don’t have to do any housework or I don’t have to work at all. I can just sit around, drinking, watching something like TV. Just enjoy life.Against:—You will feel depressed to imagine that all your friends and relatives won’t be there any more when you are revived. It is meaningless to live without friends and family members since human beings are sociable creatures.—There will be a huge generation gap between you and people who will live in a hundred years. A generation gap exists even between parents and kids, not to say people who belong to two generations that are so far apart. You will feel miserable to live among peopl e you don’t understand.6.Sample 1:We human beings are really the most advanced animals in the world. We can think, we can make things with our hands, we can walk on our feet, and we can communicate with language. We are imaginative, creative, and are able to turn our dreams into reality. Over the years, we have invented all kinds of things that help to make our life easier, interesting, and more enjoyable. We have turned barren land into fertile land, created oases in the desert, and made nature serve us human beings. We have made great breakthroughs in science, technology, military, medicine, education and various otherfields. We have worked miracles one after another. Thus, we have made our world smaller, more colorful and better to live in.Sample 2:Government is not likely to be popular with the public because it is in the nature of human beings to socialize, and it is also in the nature of human beings not to be regulated too much in socializing. Government is not merely a set of rules like laws or military commands. Government is a method of optimizing cooperation between individuals and institutions made of individuals, a method that requires equality, shrewd observation and the ability to foresee the future. It is a method that respects religion, race, nationality, and age in all their diversity. It pays attention not only to a country’s development over a short period of time, but to its potential to develop over a long time span. Efficient government is capable of endless power and incredible miracles, but the government can’t provide all the answers to social problems. Government cannot tell us whether or not to start a business. That is a private question. Government tells us only that it can take appropriate measures when some problems arise.Part Four WRITING AND TRANSLATION1. Translation Practice因为2000年和2001年连续的旱灾,2002年1月德比镇遭受了严峻的缺水问题。
新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案 Unit 9
Unit 9 History’s MysteriesUnit Goals1. Talk about the out-of-the-ordinary2. Present a theory about a past event3. Discuss how believable a story is4. Evaluate the trustworthiness of news source5. Write about one mysterious phenomenonLesson 1Lead-inOn-the-Stree t Interview: I don’t believe everything I read…A. Check each statement True or False.1. False2. False3. True4. False5. TrueB. Use information from the video segment to complete each sentence.1. the Internet, newspapers; television2. newspapers3. Austria, the USA, Great Britain4. spam, or unknown sourcesVideo ScriptInterviewer: Do you use the Internet at all?Mauro: Yes I do. Quite a lot, in fact.Interviewer: Do you use it to gather news, to ... like a newspaper, but ... ?Mauro: Well, I surf around a lot, actually. I tend to look for new sites and get information that is not so common in newspapers, for example.Interviewer: And do you feel that when you get information from the Internet, that you can trust it to be true? Do you fe el comfortable that it’s real?Mauro: You can never trust information, even from the newspapers. The newspapers sometimes print information that is not true for the mere fact that it comes from sources that are not true. And the same goes for the Internet.Maiko:I get news from Internet more than a newspaper or watching TV I think it’s, in terms of speed in how fast it gets to people, I think Internet is very good. In terms of credibility, I think; well, I think it’s almost the same thing, Internet, newspa per, and news on TVRob: I probably put too much faith in what I read although I try to use various sources in getting my news. That’s one way I judge to know if what I’m reading is ... is, you know, the truth or not.Christiane:I get my news over the Internet every day. I actually get three different newsletters on a daily basis. I get one from Austria, I get one from the USA, and I get one from Great Britain. So I get international news and thus can also evaluate which news are really, in the end, the real news, because I get them from all different sources. Lorayn:I don’t believe everything I read, whether it’s on the Internet or a newspaper or if I listen to it on TV I do believe that there are credible sources out there, and if I’ve heard … if I’ve he ard something or read something on the Internet, if it comes from a credible source, then I tend to believe it. There’s a lot out there that’s not too credible.You have to be very careful.Interviewer: And how do you try to be careful?Lorayn: If it’s spa m e-mail that comes or something that’s from a source that I don’t know, I tend not to ... not to put 100 percent trust into it. If it comes from the New York Times or if it comes from a reputable source, I tend to take that for 100 percent.ListeningTalk About a MysteryPart 1A. Sound BitesRead and listen to a conversation about a well-known mystery.Teaching Suggestions●Have students look at the image and read the caption. Ask:Who’s Bigfoot? (a hairy human-like creature)Where was he seen? (in the United States)Is this image proof that Bigfoot existed? (no)Why? (because the creature in the image is a man dressed in a costume)Do you think it was ever believed to be proof of Bigfoot’s existence? (Probably. It was taken in 1967, and Bob Heironimus di dn’t tell the truth until 2004.)●Have students read and listen to the conversation.●To check comprehension, ask:What led Victor to believe that Bigfoot exists? (a TV program)What would Patty need to believe Bigfoot exists? (to see it herself)Language note: Could’ve been is the short form used in spoken English of It could have been.There’s no such thing as ... is an expression that means that something does not exist.Culture note: The image is a still from a sixty-second film by Roger Patterson. It was one of the most important pieces of evidence that Bigfoot existed until Bob Heironimus confessed in 2004 that he dressed in a costume for the picture. People have claimed to have seen Bigfoot in the U.S. and Canada for hundreds of years. The creature was originally named Sasquatch, which means hairy giant, by Native Americans and then nicknamed Bigfoot because of large footprints that have been found and are thought to be from this creature.Corpus Notes:The expression buy [that] story is used almost exclusively in informal spoken English.B. Pair WorkRead the conversation again. With a partner, explain the meaning of each of the following statements.Answers will vary, but may include:1. I can’t believe you think that story is true!2. You always doubt everything!3. Bigfoot is definitely real.4. You’ve got to be kidding!5. You think up some crazy things!6. I have to see something with my own eyes to believe it’s true.Teaching Suggestions●Have students find and underline the statements in the conversation and note whosaid them. Encourage students to consider Victor's and Patty's views on the Bigfoot mystery to help them work out the meaning of the expressions.●In pairs, have students write a sentence explaining the meaning of each statement orquestion.●Review as a class. Call on different students to explain the meanings of thestatements.Option:If they haven’t already done so, have students underline the statements from Exercise B. Using their explanations of the meanings of the statements, have pairs think of different ways to say each of the statements. Call on pairs to read the Sound Bites conversation again, substituting the new statements for the underlined ones.Option:In pairs, have students describe Victor’s and Patty’s personalities. If necessary, prompt students by asking Who would you describe as gullible? Who would you describe as skeptical? Have students support their answers with information from the conversation. Encourage students to discuss who they identify with and why.Part 2Discuss How Believable a Story IsA. Word SkillsUsing adjectives with the suffix -able.Teaching Suggestions●Have students listen to the words and study the definitions. Then have students listenand repeat the words chorally.●Point out that words ending in the suffix -able are adjectives. Ask students what verbeach adjective comes from. (believe, debate, prove, question, solve)●To check comprehension, draw a continuum (without the answers) and word box onthe board. With books closed, have students choose the correct words from the box to complete the continuum with:Language note:Be sure students don’t confuse provable with probable, which means possible. Questionable also means possibly not honest or morally wrong; for example, His behavior is highly questionable. While believable implies that something is possibly true,unbelievable implies that something is almost certainly not true.Corpus Notes: The collocation highly questionable occurs much more frequently than very questionable.B. Complete each statement, using an adjective with the suffix -able. Use eachadjective only once.1. questionable2. believable3. debatable4. provable5. unsolvableTeaching SuggestionsHave students compare answers with a partner and review as a class.C. Listening Comprehension.Listen to Part 1 of a historical mystery.What happened to the Russian royal family? What was mysterious about this event?The entire family was murdered. It was mysterious because, until 1991, the bodies had not been found. There was also a woman who claimed to be one of the daughters.ScriptPart 1 [H = male host; J = Professor John Morgan, England]H: Our guest tonight is John Morgan, professor of Russian history at Cambridge University. Professor Morgan, the murder of Czar Nicholas II and the royal family of Russia in 1918 is one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century. Tell us the basic story of what happened.J:Well, in 1917, during the Russian Revolution --- with the end of the Russian monarchy --- the czar’s family was moved from St. Petersburg east to the Ural Mountains, supposedly for their protection. There was, of course, the czar ... his wife Alexandra ...and their children --- four daughters and a son, Alexei, who would have been the next czar --- and also the family doctor and several servants. According to the story, late one evening, they were all brought into a room and told that they were going to have their photograph taken. But to their surprise, soldiers suddenly came into the room firing guns and the entire family was murdered.H: And what makes this story such an enduring mystery?J: Well to begin with, until 1991 at least, no one had ever found the bodies. Stories spread about how the son, Alexei, and maybe also Anastasia, the youngest daughter, had escaped the execution and were still alive. Several women claimed to have been Anastasia --- the most famous person who claimed to have been Anastasia was an Anna Anderson, in Berlin in 1920. Many people found her story very believable, including other members of the Russian royal family. Anna Anderson --- or Anastasia, if you believed her --- died in the United States in 1984.Teaching SuggestionsPre-listening: Ask Who are these people? (the Russian royal family) Elicit from the class any information that they know about the Russian royal family.●Have students read the title, look at the map and photos, and read the captions.●First listening: Have students listen for information about what happened to the royalfamily and why it is a mystery. Then have students discuss in pairs.●Second listening: Have students listen to confirm or correct their answers. (Possibleresponse: They were murdered. It is a mystery because the bodies weren’t found until 1991, and Alexei and Anastasia were said to have escaped. Several women have claimed to be Anastasia.)●To review, have volunteers share their answers with the class.Language note:If necessary, explain the following: enduring(lasting for a long time); czar (ruler of Russia before 1917).Culture note: The October Revolution of 1917 put an end to the absolute monarchies that ruled Russia for centuries. After the revolution, the country was named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the first dictator of the USSR. Yekaterinburg (on the map) is where the family is believed to have been moved and then killed.D. Now listen to Part 2.What happened in 1991, and what facts did it seem to prove? Why is it still a mystery?Researchers found nine bodies in the Ural Mountains. Medical testing showed that five of them were members of the royal family. But the bodies of the son and one of the daughters were still missing.ScriptPart 2H:Professor Morgan, you mentioned no one had a clue where the bodies were until 1991. Tell us about that.J: Well, people assumed that the bodies must have been lost forever, until 1991, when researchers found nine bodies in the Ural Mountains. Through medical testing they were able to confirm that five of the bodies had to have been Czar Nicholas, his wife, and three of their four daughters.H:That must’ve been pretty exciting news for a lot of people.J: No doubt about it. And they were able to conclude that the other four bodies were definitely not members of the czar’s family. Instead, it was believed that they were most likely the bodies of the doctor and three of the servants. But the bodies of the son, Alexei, and one daughter were still missing.H: Well, what about Anna Anderson, who claimed to be their daughter, Anastasia?Wouldn’t her story have been provable through medical testing too?J: Yes --- and it was. After they found the bodies of the royal family in 1991, medical testing on Anna Anderson’s body proved that she was not a member of the royal family. As a matter of fact, it proved that she wasn’t even Russian!H: How do you like that! Well, that’s one mystery solved.J: Right. But just when we thought the mystery of what happened to their bodies wassolved, a team of scientists have recently argued that the results of the medical testing done on the nine bodies in the 1990s was highly questionable --- poorly done and full of errors, and it might not have proved without a doubt that the bodies were the royal family after all.H:Well, I guess some mysteries just never die, do they?J:Not this one. It might just be an unsolvable case.H:Well, thank you Professor Morgan. That was very interesting.J:Thank you for having me.Teaching Suggestions●Have students listen for the answers to the questions. Ask them to take notes whilethey listen.●To review, call on volunteers to share their answers with the class.Option: On the board, write:1. The results of the medical testing in 1991 are ______ because ______.2. Anna Anderson's story could have been ______ through medical testing if ______.3. Professor Morgan says the mystery might be ______ because ______.Have students complete the first blank with an adjective from Exercise A and the second blank with their own ideas to make a logical sentence. Review as a class. (Possible statements: 1. questionable, a lot of errors were made; 2. provable, it had been properly done; 3. unsolvable, proof of what actually happened may never be found)E. Complete each statement, according to the listening. Listen to Part 2 again ifnecessary.1. a2. b3. a4. aTeaching Suggestions●Have students complete the statements individually and compare answers with apartner.●If necessary, have students listen again to confirm or correct their answers.●In pairs, have students support their answers with information from the listening.●Review as a class. Have students support their answers. For example, 1. The correctanswer is A because Alexei’s body has never been found, so there is no proo f that he was executed.Option: To give students a chance to express their personal opinions, have them speculate about the mystery of Russia’s last royal family in small groups. Ask students to support their views. Encourage the use of perfect modals in the passive voice for speculating about the past. To finish, call on a few volunteers to share their speculations with the class.SpeakingSpeculate About the Out-of-the-ordinaryA. Conversation SnapshotTeaching Suggestions●Before students read and listen, have them look at the photo and predict what thewomen are talking about. To prompt students, ask What is the woman on the left looking at? (her watch) How many plates are there on the table? (three) What do you think they are talking about? (Possible response: the person they are waiting for)●After students read and listen, check comprehension by asking Who are the womenwaiting for? (Stacey) Do they know why she’s late? (no) What might have caused her delay? (the traffic)●Have students read and listen to the ways to say “I don’t know.” Point out that theyare all informal ways to say that you don’t know something. Beats me is very informal, but it is not offensive.Language note: The out-of-the-ordinary is something that is different from what is usual or expected. I’ll bet means that you’re almost sure something is true.Rhythm and Intonation PracticeTeaching SuggestionsHave students repeat chorally. Make sure they:✧pronounce the contraction ’d in She said she’d ...✧use rising intonation for Do you think something happened?✧use falling intonation for Why else would she be late?✧use emphatic stress for sure in I’m sure it’s nothing, for I’ll in I’ll bet she’s ... , for else inWhy else … , and for can’t in I can’t imagine.✧use the following stress pattern:B. Indirect Speech with ModalsTeaching Suggestions●Have a volunteer read the Remember note and the example out loud. Write theexample on the board:“I went to the store.” → She said [that] she had gone to the store.Point to the reporting verb in the indirect speech statement (said) and ask Is this verb in a present or past form? (past) Did the verb in the reported speech change?(yes) How did it change? (went changed to had gone)●Remind students that when the verb in the reported speech changes or “backshifts,”present becomes past and past becomes past perfect.●Have students read the second and third explanations and study the backshifts in theexamples.●Point out that both must and have to change to had to in indirect speech.●Point to the box of modals that backshift and modals that don’t backshift.●Read the Remember box and the example out loud. Remind students to changepronouns and possessives when they change direct speech to indirect speech.●To check comprehension, write on the board:John told Irene, “I may work late because 1 have to finish a report.”Ask What words in these sentences will change when we put them into indirect speech? Circle the words as students respond. (I, may, I, have) Then elicit the correct indirect speech from the class. (John told Irene [that] he might work late because he had to finish a report.)●Have a student read the last explanation out loud. To check comprehension, write thefollowing on the board. Elicit the indirect speech from the class:“They should have known.” → He said _________________.Corpus Notes: Indirect speech occurs much more frequently without that than with.C. Oral WorkChange each sentence from direct to indirect speech and practice with your partner.1. He told me [that] I shouldn’t worry if he arrives a little late.2. He said [that] students had to arrive fifteen minutes early.3. He said [that] Jack might have gotten lost.4. She said [that] they might have forgotten their luggage.5. She told me [that] she’d call me as soon as she got there.6. She told us [that] she might have to cancel the meeting.7. He told me [that] he would come early.8. She told me [that] I ought to phone first.Teaching Suggestions●To review the difference in use between say and tell, ask When do we use say andtell? (We use say when we don’t mention the listener. We use tell when we mention the listener.) Elicit contrasting examples from students. (Possible responses: He said that he would be late; He told me that he would be late.) If necessary, write an example with each verb on the board.●Model the first item with the class. Ask What is going to change in indirect speech?(You → I; I → he; arrive → arrived)●Have students compare answers with a partner and review as a class.ReadingText ABackground InformationAlabamaAlabama is located in the east south central United States, at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains and on the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of the principal states of the South and is often referred to as the Heart of Dixie. In the course of about 450 years, Spanish, French, British, and Confederate flags, as well as the Stars and Stripes, have flown over Alabama, and residents of the state have a deep-seated sense of history. Alabama entered the Union on December 14, 1819, as the 22nd state. The state capital, Montgomery, became the provisional capital of the Confederate States of America in 1861 and is popularly known as the Cradle of the Confederacy.Key Words and Expressionsconfirm v.证实The new evidence has confirmed the first witness’s story.Research has confirmed that the risk is higher for women.erase v.删除;抹去Unfortunately, the tape has been erased.The World Bank has agreed to erase the debt.knock … out打晕某人Tyson knocked out his opponent in Round 5.The shock from an electric eel is powerful enough to knock a man out. play tricks on 捉弄某人The girls were always playing tricks on their teacher.Fate played a cruel trick on him when he was badly injured in his firstinternational game.Reference Translation今日城市传说城市传说指被普遍认为真实的不确定或离奇故事。
新标准大学英语综合教程4Unit test9答案
Unit testDone with this task. Your score: 100%Part I: Vocabulary and StructureSection A: Choose the best way to complete the sentences.1. It's impossible for anyone to have complete _____ and know everything.a. conscienceb. presciencec. scienced. omniscience2. The odds are good that his team will be _____ during the first round of the competition.a. preliminaryb. eliminatedc. relegatedd. delineated3. After some research, I discovered that I'm actually a(n) _____ of Napoleon!a. ascendantb. transcendentc. resplendentd. descendant4. English lost its _____ long ago, and it now incorporates many words from other languages.a. purityb. purec. parityd. prurient5. Mario was _____ at the top of his class every year.a. consistentb. persistentc. consistentlyd. persistently6. The speaker was utterly _____, and I hung on his every word for the entire two-hour speech.a. disgracefulb. captivatingc. unqualifiedd. sufficient7. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth with uncontested _____.a. dominanceb. dominantc. dominantsd. dominate8. If you want to apply for a new passport, you cannot _____ your old one.a. refrainb. remainc. retraind. retain9. That new movie about the princess is a _____ based on the traditional Cinderella story.a. variantb. variationc. varyingd. variety10. Her performance on the field today is not a fair _____ of her skill as a soccer player.a. globalizationb. standardizationc. multiplicationd. representation11. We were _____ to see the destruction caused by the earthquake.a. horrifyb. horrifiedc. horribled. horror12. Three hours should be a(n) _____ amount of time to finish the test.a. proficientb. deficientc. sufficientd. efficient13. We need more time since we've _____ begun talking about the most relevant information.a. profoundlyb. scarcelyc. dreadfullyd. constantly14. At 8:30, it was clear that Dan had lost, and he was forced to _____ his campaign for governor.a. concedeb. concealc. consentd. consort15. The robbery suspect had several _____ tattoos and scars which made it easy for the police tospot him.a. exclusiveb. individualc. specializedd. identifiable16. When I travel, I like to write in a _____ so I can remember every little detail.a. journalb. novelc. sketchbookd. book17. The president launched a new program to help every adult become _____ and learn to read.a. literaryb. literaturec. literated. literati18. The emperor's death marked the end of an important _____ in the country's history.a. unityb. epochc. utopiad. elite19. I bought a _____ toy and need to return it for a full refund.a. detectiveb. defectivec. reflectived. directive20. To everyone's surprise, the politician decided not to _____ the charges against him.a. refuteb. provec. confirmd. infringeSection B: Fill in each of the blanks with a suitable word.21.All that stands i nthe way of reform is the idea that we shouldn't completely break fromtradition.Your answer Correct answerin in22.We were all aghast atthe audacity they showed in their defiance.Your answer Correct answer at at23.The new law has been criticized for infringing onpeople's privacy.Your answer Correct answer on on / upon24.That movie always brings a tear t omy eyes.Your answer Correct answer to to25.Our national flag is a representation ofeverything we value and hold dear.Your answer Correct answer of of26.If you think you'll be able to find the answers in a book, you're certainly in f orasurprise.Your answer Correct answerfor for27.The thing I'm anticipating least is the inevitable separation f r ommy dog when I move tocollege.Your answer Correct answerfrom from28.My boss wants me to write a report w i t hregard to this year's budget.Your answer Correct answer with with29.How dare you accuse me oftrying to overthrow the government?Your answer Correct answer of of30.Many different types of industry developed al ongthe bank of the Thames.Your answer Correct answeralong alongPart II: Banked ClozeQuestions 31 to 40 are based on the following passage.There has been a(n) (31)ongoi ngdebate for many years about the influence oflanguages upon one another. How much does one language (32)m ani pul at eanother?Your first reaction might be to think "not very much." The answer, though, is "quite a bit." To(33)i l l ust r at ethis point, let's consider English.This influence may not be evident to speakers of certain languages, but those who speak somelanguages (such as Spanish or German, for example) and those who have a high(34)pr of i ci encyin English understand this point very well. Over thousands of years,English had adopted many words from other languages, and vice versa. In addition, there are some words—known as cognates—that are nearly identical in multiple languages. Ever so slowly, the linesbetween languages are starting to (35)bl ur.English is not a(n) (36)i sol at edexample, either. This "language sharing" isevident in, between, and among many different languages. There are some groups of people who areworried that the (37)pur i t yof their language is being threatened by adopting andsharing words across languages. However, if you think about it, it's quite possible that in severalthousand more years, everyone might be speaking one (38)com m unallanguage that isa mix of every language spoken today. The trend of (39)gl obal i zat i onin almost every otheraspect of life makes me believe this will be a highly likely development.What do you think? Is one common language spoken by everyone your idea of(40)ut opi a, or is it a nightmare?Your answer Correct answer(31) ongoing ongoing(32) manipulate manipulate(33) illustrate illustrate(34) proficiency proficiency(35) blur blur(36) isolated isolated(37) purity purity(38) communal communal(39) globalization globalization(40) utopia utopiaPart III: Reading ComprehensionQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage.A Brief History of Sign LanguageIt comes as a surprise to many people to learn that the history and origins of American Sign Language are a bit vague and shrouded in mystery. It begins, though, with a young Thomas Gallaudet, soon after he graduated from Yale University. He was commissioned to help teach Alice Cogswell, the deaf daughter of a wealthy local doctor. Gallaudet was interested in learning the best method to help young Alice, so in 1815 he traveled to Europe to study communication among deaf people.In France, Gallaudet was invited to study at a school for deaf students. He soon met Laurent Clerc, a deaf sign language teacher, and recruited Clerc to help develop deaf education in the United States. In 1817, the two founded the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. The school was the country's first school created solely for deaf students. During the following years, the idea spread and many other schools in other states were organized.Several natural forms of sign language existed prior to the founding of the American School for the Deaf, but there wasn't one standardized form of signing for deaf people. Laurent Clerc began teaching American students the form of French Sign Language with which he was familiar. However, many of the students at the new school were already using their own, unique form of sign language that had independently developed in their communities. Over time, and with extensive use, the various forms eventually evolved into what we now know as American Sign Language (ASL).In 1864, President Lincoln signed into law a bill that established a national college for deaf students in Washington, D.C. Thomas Gallaudet served as the first president of the college, which had eight students during its first year. In 1954, the school was renamed Gallaudet College, and it remains the only liberal artscollege for deaf people in the world.Characteristics of Sign LanguageSign language is almost exclusively based on easily decipherable hand motions that represent letters and spoken words. Since deaf people rely heavily on their sense of sight, this method of communication is logical. Body language is extremely important in ASL, and subtle movements of the eyebrows, mouth, or fingers often indicate connotations that are typically represented by tone of voice in spoken language.It is important to note that sign languages are not dependent on spoken languages. In this way, American Sign Language is not simply a version of English. Interestingly, there is no universal form of sign language that is readily understood by deaf people around the world. Indeed, though people in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia all speak English, American Sign Language, British Sign Language, and Australian Sign Language are distinctly different and "speakers" of each form would not be able to easily communicate with one another.Just as spoken language continue to develop and adapt to the changing world, so too does sign language. American Sign Language continues to add words, such as terms for new technology, to its vocabulary. More than ever before, ASL has become much more prominent in everyday life. Many speeches, concerts, and public events have professional ASL interpreters. They help deaf people enjoy many events that they would otherwise miss out on.American Sign Language, like all sign languages and like all languages, is a living thing. It is used to communicate with the world and express personal thoughts and ideas. It is continually growing, changing, and developing. It is used by deaf people, and it is used by people who can hear. Its benefits are numerous, and the opportunities it rewards users are endless.41. Who is credited with laying the foundation for American Sign Language?A. Thomas Gallaudet.B. Alice Cogswell.C. Laurent Clerc.D. President Lincoln.42. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The first liberal arts college for deaf people was in Washington, D.C.B. People in every country can easily communicate with each other through signC. American Sign Language is a widely used form of communication.D. Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc worked together to help deaf people43. Which of the following words best describes Thomas Gallaudet?A. Shortsighted.B. Unqualified.C. Erratic.D. Sympathetic.44. Sign language relies heavily upon _____ to convey meaning.A. a written alphabetB. spoken wordsC. the sense of soundD. body language45. Which statement implies that ASL will remain in use for the foreseeable future?A. It is important to note that sign languages are not dependent on spoken languages.B. More than ever before, ASL has become much more prominent in everyday life.C. American Sign Language, like all sign languages and like all languages, is a livingD. Its benefits are numerous, and the opportunities it rewards users are endless.。
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外研社,新编大学英语综合教程4
Unit9 Science and Technology
Quiz
1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the sentences.
1. A package holiday is a holiday where a travel ________ books your travel and accommodation
for you.
A. agency
B. organization
C. foundation
D. company
2. People all over the world ________ Mother Teresa in high regard.
A. pay
B. hold
C. take
D. give
3. Children everywhere love to have stories ________ to them.
A. to be read
B. being read
C. read
D. to read
4. There is a ________ to the amount of time I'm prepared to spend on this.
A. restriction
B. extent
C. limit
D. limitation
5. Such is his confidence in his daughter ________ he believes she will be a great pianist
one day.
A. as
B. that
C. so that
D. in that
6. Our lives have changed ________ a considerable degree.
A. at
B. within
C. to
D. by
7. Many people believe that our species ________ threatened with extinction.
A. is
B. are
C. are to be
D. used to be
8. A customer claimed ________ the old lady stealing a Christmas card.
A. seeing
B. to see
C. to have seen
D. having seen
9. They hoped to be able to move into the new building at the end of the month, but things
did not ________ as they had expected.
A. work up
B. work on
C. work off
D. work out
10. Have you ________ the photographs that you'd like to have?
A. picked up
B. picked out
C. picked on
D. picked off
11. I don't care when you mow the lawn. It is ________ you.
A. settled by
B. all for
C. up to
D. all by
12. Nobody knows whom Mr. Johnson ________ for the job.
A. bear in mind
B. has in mind
C. has a mind to
D. sets his mind on
13. He remembers his mother ________ him home all alone when she went to work.
A. to leave
B. left
C. to have left
D. leaving
14. Don't leave your bicycle where it will get ________ of pedestrians.
A. in the way
B. on the way
C. out of the way
D. by the way
15. There was a colorful ________ of vegetables on the market stall.
A. batch
B. series
C. array
D. arrangement
16. Maria proposed that we ________ a party to celebrate the victory of our baseball team.
A. held
B. hold
C. would hold
D. holding
2. Complete each of the following sentences with an appropriate word or phrase in
the box. Change the form when necessary.
Outline convert dawn storage assimilate disastrous requirement
skeptical substitute on the grounds of
17. The U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society
Your answer Correct answer
assimilates assimilates
18.
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dawning dawning
19.
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substituted substituted
20.
Candidates who fail to meet not be admitted to the University.
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requirements requirements
21.
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convert convert
22.
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on the grounds of on the grounds of
23.
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skeptical skeptical
24.
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outlined outlined
25.
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disastrous disastrous
26.
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storage storage
3. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate proposition or adverb.
27.
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of of
28.
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to to
29.
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in in
30.
In order to reach the camp on time, they rate of 6 kilometers an hour.
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at at
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to to
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from from
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in in
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to to
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on on。