大学英语三复习资料

第一单元

课前10个句子

1.I have moved to the countryside recently, and I feel quite at home in the new surroundings.

2. At the back of my cottage, many kinds of wildflowers were in full bloom, a variety of which I couldn’t name.

3. John enjoyed a peaceful life in the countryside in his retirement, and he didn’t want it to be disturbed.

4. In the countryside, stores of grain are attacked frequently by pests, especially rats.

5. Human love is often compared to a rose, for like the flower, it blossoms and it withers .

6.Many people think that to be close to nature is a romantic thing; but how about finding a snake creeping into your tent at midnight?

7. When they became fed up with the routine of life in the small town, they moved to another place. They became migrants.

8. People need religious faith to carry on life when one misfortune after another befalls them. 、

9. In the past, the country people were often superstitious and talked about ghosts and specters (幽灵) when they encountered something mysterious.

10. Since cities are quite developed now, it is high time that the government made the coun-tryside prosperous.

短语

in harmony with: 和谐，一致，相配

delight one’s eye:赏心悦目

come into bloom: 鲜花盛开

as though: 好像，仿佛

apply to : 使用

词汇填空

organism stark vernacular surroundings

Patch spell misfortune film

1. Culture shock is generated by the anxiety that results from losing one's familiar signs of social interaction in new ___________.

2. Chemicals sprayed on forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living __________.

.3 This black dog looks very cute with a white __ ____ on its neck.

4 The landscape is gray and ______ in northern China in winter.

5. After several people were stricken by a strange illness, there was rumor that the town was under a _____ _.

6. My friend complained that it is a _________ to live in a polluted world.

.7 There is a ______ of oil on the surface of the river.

.8 One difficulty about moving to the countryside is that you might feel at sea with the natives’_________.

Translation

a variety of come into bloom stark specter

cold and clear chorus creep grim

in harmony with surroundings

1.你能够想像一个一年大多数的时间里都听不到鸟儿的合唱，看不到盛开的鲜花，尝不到清冽的水的地方吗？Could you imagine a place where no chorus of birds was heard, no flowers were seen in full bloom and no cold and clear water was available through much of the year?

2.在我们的周围，环境污染的幽灵已经悄悄逼近了我们：沙漠化(desertification)、沙尘暴、酸雨以及一些珍稀物种的灭绝等等。Around us the grim specter of environmental pollution has already crept upon us: desertification, sand and dust storm, the acid rain, the extinction of some precious species and the rest.

3.虽然距拉结卡森等预言性作家第一次呼吁我们关注环境生态问题已经有很长一段时间了It has been a long time since such prophetic writers as Rachel Carson first called our attention to the ecological problems.

4. 然而我们大多数人仍旧将我们今天所享有的一切看做理所当然。But most of us still take for granted what we are enjoying today.

5.如果我们继续这样下去的话，我们的明天会更严峻。We will have a starker future if we keep on going like this.

6.正如俗话所说：种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆.As the saying goes, one reaps only what one sows.

7.要想避免我们的环境进一步恶化，我们应该与自然环境，也是我们的生存环境和谐相处。To avoid the worsening of our surroundings, we should live in harmony with our natural environment, which is our living environment as well.

The Translation of Text A

一个关于明天的寓言

雷切尔·卡尔森

从前在美国中心有一个小镇，那里的万物看上去都与其四周的环境融洽相处。小镇的四周是象棋盘交错的生意盎然的农庄，还有一块块的田地和一座座遍布山坡的果园。春天来了，白色的鲜花云彩般地漂浮在田野上；秋天到了，橡树、枫树和桦树色彩斑斓，在一片松树林间火焰般地燃烧与跳跃。小山上狐狸吠叫，田野间小鹿静静地跃过，所有的一切都在秋天清晨的薄雾中半隐半现。

在路的两旁，一年中许多时候，月桂树、荚蒾、桤木、蕨类植物和各样的野花都能让过往的行人赏心悦目。即使是冬天，路边的景色依旧是美不胜收，那里无数的小鸟来觅取浆果莓和露在雪地上的枯枝上的种子。事实上，这乡村正是由于鸟类的数量和种类之繁多而出名的。在候鸟群潮涌而来的春秋季节，人们从大老远的地方慕名前来欣赏。还有的人来这里的小溪