精读4unit9配套课件
大学英语精读修订版第四册课件
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▪ 4. delivery n. 1)投递,送交;2)投递的邮件,发送的 货物;3)分娩;4)讲话的方式,演讲风格
▪ ----- Please pay on delivery.
▪ Phr. cash on delivery 货到付现金
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take delivery (of sth.) 收到某物
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delivery note 货单
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▪ 8. echo n.回音,回声,共鸣 vi.发出回声,产生回响 vt. 模仿,重复,附和
▪ ----- They echoed their leader’s every word.
▪ ----- He has no original opinion; he is just his brother’s echo.
▪ Phr. echo sth. (back) (指地方)传回回声
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echo to/ with sth. (指地方)产生回声
▪ ----- The valley echoed (back) his song.
▪ ----- The hills echoed to the sound of their laughter.
----- He always wears a sour expression.
▪ acid表示讽刺、刻薄或严厉的批评。 ----- an acid remark ----- I read an acid comment on the political situation.
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Book4 Unit One By Miranda
▪ Phr. the company one keeps 经常与之为伍的人;伙伴
大学英语精读Unit9 What is happiness课件
明天将是你的第一天
.if you'd like to work here as a broker. 如果你想在这里做经纪人的 话 Would you like that,Chris? 你愿意吗,克里斯?
Chris:Yes,sir. 是的,先生 。
Mr.Frohm:Good. We couldn't be happier. 好极了,我们太高兴了
?面朝大海春暖花开?从明天起做一个幸福的人?喂马劈柴周游世界?从明天起关心粮食和蔬菜?我有一所房子面朝大海春暖花开?从明天起和每一个亲人通信?告诉他们我的幸福?那幸福的闪电告诉我的面朝大海春暖花开?我将告诉每一个人?给每一条河每一座山?取一个温暖的名字?陌生人我也为你祝福?愿你有一个灿烂的前程?愿你有情人终成眷属?愿你在尘世获得幸福?我只愿面朝大海春暖花开definitionsofhappinesswhatshappiness
This definition is a good starting point and we can dig deeper from it. The best way to do that is to consult some of the greatest minds in history. So we researched what these people say about Happiness and found 10 essential definitions. Each of them has deep meaning. Take your time to absorb it.
with spring blossoms.
May you have a brilliant future!
May you lovers eventually become spouse!
Inside_view 视听说 Book 4 Unit 9 Words of wisdom 教学课件
9 Shakespeare only published one of his
works while he was alive. That was
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Henry VI.
7 Watch Conversation 2 again and complete the sentences.
Joe So one more week and you’ll be going back to Oxford.
up to?
Answers
The expressions that are used are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Now explain the meaning of the expressions.
1 Hello, mate, what are you up to?
Quite well.
I hope to meet you again in the pub.
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6 I was completely lost. I could not understand at all.
7 I haven’t a clue what he said.
I have no idea what he meant.
He explains what Jack said to Janet.
4 Watch Conversation 1 again and check (✓) the expressions that are used in Conversation 1.
Hello, mate, what are you
I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter. studying all night
Listening_in 视听说 Book 4 Unit 9 Words of wisdom 教学课件
Listening in
Example answers
1 The answer is important in finding the evolutionary origins of human language. It may help with research into the brain and language. Humans are interested in knowing how they are different from other species.
• Yes, they are part of the treasury of human culture and history. It would be nice if everyone had two languages – one of the big ones and a small local one to give a sense of identity.
➢ The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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Listening in
➢ Beware of bottles labeled "Gift" in Germany. In German, Gift means poison.
Listening in
3 Can the bees’ dance be described as a language in the human sense?
No.
4 Why might dolphins have a type of language?
Because they have large brains and appear to respond to one another’s communications.
现代大学英语精读4lesson9知识点
现代大学英语精读4lesson9知识点Language points lesson 9Paragraph 21. The general raised his eyebrows. He seemed hurt.raise one’s eyebrows: to move one?s eyebrows upwards in order to show surprise or disapproval e.g.: 'Really?' she said, raising her eyebrows.This decision caused a few raised eyebrows→be up to your eyebrows in sth: spoken to have more of sth than you can deal with I'm absolutely up to my eyebrows in work.[→be up to your n eck in sth: infml1) to be very busy with sth e.g.: She's up to her neck in work.2) to be in a difficult situation that is hard to escape from e.g.: Jim's up to his neck in debt.]Paragraph 32. He saw the dead black eyes of the general on him, studying h im. General Zaroff’s face suddenly brightened.Meaning: Rainsford sees the general staring at him with his cold, severe, expressionless eyes. The general was surprised at Rainsford?s responses.brighten (up): to become happier or more excitede.g.: She brightened up a bit when she saw us.我们开始谈到钱时,他的眼睛为之一亮。
精读4unit9配套课件
Warming up
Objectives
• Understand the structure of the essay • Understand what the author really intends to say • Appreciate Mark Twain’s writing style • Reflect on the so-called “human nature”
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Warming up
Warming up
Questions / Activities
Which of the following words can best describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical? What is the main idea of this essay? What is the Darwinian theory? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment? Is Mark Twain serious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness? How does the author contrast human beings wit
大学英语精读第四册 Unit9 The Education of a Physicist
Idly watching fish swimming in a pond and allowing the mind to wander can lead to some surprising result.Unit 9 The Education of a PhysicistTwo incidents from my childhood greatly enriched my understanding of the world and sent me on a course to become a theoretical physicist.I remember that my parents would sometimes take me to visit the famous Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. One of my happiest childhood memories is of crouching next to the pond, fascinated by the brilliantly colored carp swimming slowly beneath the water lilies In these quiet moments, I felt free to let my imagination wander; I would ask myself silly questions that only a child might ask, such as how the crap in that pond would view the world around them. I thought, What a strange world theirs must be!Living their entire lives in the shallow pond, the carp would believe that their “universe”consisted of the dark water and the lilies. Spending most of their time moving around for food on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface. The nature of my world was beyond their comprehension I was intrigued that I could sit only a few inches from the carp, yet be separated from them by a very huge gap. The carp and I spent our lives in two distinct universes, never entering each other’s world, yet were separated by only the thinnest barrier, the water’s surface.I once imagined that there may be carp “scientists” living among the fish. They would, I thought laugh at any fish who proposed that a parallel world could exist just above the lilies. To a carp “scientist”, the only things that were real were what the fish could see or touch. The pond was everything. An unseen world beyond the pond made no scientific sense.Once I was caught in a rainstorm. I notice that the pond’s surface was bombarded by thousands of tiny raindrops. The pond’s surface became turbulent, and the water lilies were being pushed in all directions by water waves. Taking shelter from the wind and the rain, I wondered how all this appeared to the carp. To them, the water lilies would appear to be moving around by themselves, without anything pushing them. Sine the water they lived in would be appear invisible, much like the air and space around us, they would be baffled that the water lilies could move around by themselves.Their scientists,” I imagined, would make up a clever invention called a “force” in order to hide their ignorance. Unable to comprehend that there could be waves on the unseen surface, they would conclude that lilies could move without being touch because a mysterious invisible entity called a force acted between them. The might give this illusion impressive, lofty names (such as action – at-a-distance, or the ability of the lilies to move without anything touching them).Once I imagined what would happen if I reached down and lifted one of the carp “scientists” out of the pond. Before I threw him back into the water ,he might struggle furiously as I examined him. I wondered how this would appear to the rest of carp. To them, it would be a truly unsettling event. They would first notice that one of their “scientists” had disappeared from their universe. Simply vanished, without leaving a trace. Wherever they would look, there would be no evidence of the missing carp in their universe. Then, seconds later, when I thew him back into pond, the “scientist” would abruptly reappear out of nowhere. To the other carp, it would appear that a miracle had happened.After col lecting his wits, the “scientist” would tell a truly amazing story. “Without warning,” he would see, “I was somehow lifted out of the universe (the pond) and hurled into a mysteriousworld, with blinding lights and strangely shaped objects that I had never seen before . The strangest of all was the creature who held me prisoner, who did not resemble a fish in the slightest.I was shocked to see that it had no fins whatsoever, but nevertheless could move without them. It struck me that the familiar laws of nature no longer applied in this other world. Then, just as suddenly, I found myself thrown back into our universe.”(This story of course, of a journey beyond the universe would be so fantastic that most of the carp would dismiss it as utter nonsense.)I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own “ pond ” confident that our universe consist of only those things we can see or touch. Like the carp, our universe consist of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us.A second incident from my childhood also made a deep, lasting impression on me. When I was 8 years old, I heard a story that would stay with me for the rest of my life. I remember my schoolteachers telling the class about a great scientist who had just died. They talked about him with great reverence, calling him one of the greatest scientists in all history. They said that very few people could understand his ideas, but that his discoveries changed the entire world and everything around us. I didn’t understand much of what they were trying to tell us, but what most intrigued me about this man was that he died before he could complete his greatest discovery. They said he spent years on this theory, but died with his unfinished papers still sitting on his desk.I was fascinated by the story. To a child, this was a great mystery. What was his unfinished work? What was in those papers on his desk? What problem could possible be so difficult and so important that such a great scientist would dedicate years of his life to its pursuit? Curious, I decide to learn all I could about Albert Einstein and his unfinished theory.I still have warm memories of spending many quite hours reading every book I could find about this great man and his theories. When I exhausted the books in our local library, I began to visit libraries and bookstores across the city, eagerly searching for more clues. I soon learned that the unfinished papers on Einstein’s desk were attempt to construct what he called the unified theory, a theory that could explain all the laws of nature, from the tiniest atom to the largest galaxy. However, being a child, I didn’t understand that perhaps there was a link between the carp swimming in the tea Garden and the unfinished paper lying on Einstein’s desk. I didn’t understand that higher dimensions might be the key to solving the unified field theory.Nevertheless I could see that this story was far more exciting than any murder mystery and more important than anything I could ever imagine. I decided that that I would try to get to the root of this mystery, even if I had to become a theoretical physicist to do it.。
精读4 paraphrase unit9
paraphrase1,I have been studying the traits and……the result humiliating to me.Paraphrase : I have been studying the characteristics of the so-called “ lower-animals “ in comparison with those of man. The result of this study makes me, as a man, feel terribly ashamed.2,For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance……from the Higher Animals.Paraphrase : Because the result of my study forces me to give up / to abandon my loyalty to / firm belief in Darwin’s theory of evolution and to change the theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals to the theory of the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.3,In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion……the scientific method.Paraphrase : In coming to this unhappy conclusion I have not just guessed, but have used the so-called scientific method.4,That is to say, I have subjected every postulate……test of actual experiment……. Paraphrase : In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis I can think of to the decisive test of actual experiment…5,It also seemed to suggest that ……a good deal in the transition.Paraphrase : It also seemed to show that the earl came from the anaconda and had lost a lot of anaconda ‘s good qualities in the process of changing from the anaconda to the earl.6,I was aware that many men who have accumulated……appease that appetite. Paraphrase : I knew that many men who have more money than they can ever use have shown a mad desire to get more, and they have not hesitated to cheat poor people and steal their few savings in order to satisfy that desire.7,…among the animals man is the only one……unknown to the higher animals. Paraphrase : …among the animals man is the only one that remembers insu lts and injuries, thinks about them for a long time, waits until a chance comes up and then takes revenge.8,In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooter.Paraphrase : As far as ethics or morality is concerned ,man is inferior to or worse than the cock.9,Cats are loose in their morals,……the saving grace which excuses the cat.Paraphrase : Cats are immoral, but they do not know it. They just can’t hel p it. Man has inherited cats’ looseness , but not their innocence, which excuses the cat for its low morals.10,these are strictly confined to man : he invented them.Paraphrase : These are only man’s problems. They are limited to man. They only happen to man.11,Man is “The Animal that laughs.”……that is called the laughing jackass.Paraphrase : People say that man is the animal that laughs. So what ? The monkey can laugh too according to Darwin. So can an Australian bird.12,No--- Man is the Animal that Blushes. ……---or has occasion to.Paraphrase : No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to.13,Man --- when he is King John , with a nephew……he uses a red-hot iron.Paraphrase : In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot iron to torture him….14,He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.Paraphrase : He is the only one that enjoys causing pain / Only man can be sadistic.15,The higher animals engage in individual fights,……the atrocity of atrocities, War. Paraphrase : The higher animals fight as individuals, but unlike man, they never fight wars16,There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner…Paraphrase : Not a single piece of land is in the hands of its original owner. Every piece of land has been stolen.17,…and in the intervals between campaigns ……”the universal brotherhood of man”--- with his mouth.Paraphrase : … and when they are not fighting each other, they will start talking about peace and universal brotherhood, but without any sincerity. Man, according to MarkTwain , is not only cruel and warlike, but also hypocritical.18,He is the only animal that loves his neighbor……if his theology is not straight. Paraphrase : He is the only animal that talks about loving his neighbors, but only when they have the same religion. Otherwise he will kill them.19,He has made a graveyard of the globe……his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. Paraphrase : In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and to go to Heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard20,And we are told that they are going……It seems questionable taste.Paraphrase : And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world (Heaven ). I wonder why ?It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animals and allow only human beings to go to Heaven.21,Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.Paraphrase : Human beings say that they are the only animals who have reasoning power / who can think. But I think this rather doubtful22,It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal.Paraphrase : It seems clear to me that he is anything but a reasoning animal.23,When I came back to note results,……--- not a specimen left alive.Paraphrase : When I came back to check the results, the cage of animals was all right, but in the other cage it was a terrible mess. No one was left alive. There was only bloody odds and ends of turbans and plaids and bones and flesh.24,These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on……carried the matter to a Higher Court. Paraphrase : These so-called reasoning animals had a quarrel over a minor point in theology and had decided to go to Heaven ( to kill each other ) to ask God to settle the matter.25,the long highway of perfect innocence :Paraphrase : the long process of our change from one insect into another, one animal into another and one reptile into another, all completely innocent, until we become human beings and lose all our innocence.。
大学英语精读 第四册 Unit Nine
Unit Nine:Journey WestTextIn 1976, during America's bicetennial celebration, a family decided to travel to the American West instead of joining the majority of people that were celebrating on the East Coast. They wanted to follow the trails that the pioneers had made when they began to settle the West. The family was looking forward to making their own discoveries. JOURNEY WESTJim DohertyWe began our trip out West on June 19, 1976, a time when millions of other American families were preparing to crowd into the Bicentennial shrines of the East. We sized up America's 200th birthday celebration a bit differently. Although the Republic may have been born in the East, it had spent most of its time and energies since then moving west. So we resolved to head in the same direction in 1976, following the old pioneer trails and the famous rivers. Concentrating primarily on Wyoming and Montana, we would explore such legendary mountain ranges as the Big Horns, the Bitterroots and the Swan.There was one problem though, I was sure our four kids -- educated about the West through the movies -- would be disappointed. As an environmental editor, I knew that strip mining was tearing up manyscenic areas and that clear-cutting was causing widespread damage in the mountains. I was well aware that draining and damming were making a mess of many rivers and wetlands. The grasslands were overgrazed and coal-burning power were befouling the air. Wildlife was on the run everywhere and tourists were burning the national parks into slums.I was prepared for the worst. But how to prepare the kids?The answer, we decided, was to undertake our journey not just as tourists on a holiday, but as reporters on the trail of "the real West." So all of us, from my kids to my wife, pledged to do our homework before we left and to record on the way everything we did, saw, hear, felt or thought.Predictably, we did not uncover any new truths about the West in three short weeks. But there were plenty of surprises on that5,200-mile journey and the biggest one was this: I had been wrong. Some of the troubles we saw were every bit as bad as I had dreaded. But by and large, the country was as glorious, as vast and as overwhelmingly spectacular as those know-nothing kids had expected! Half the fun of going west is discovering, along the way, how much the past is still with us. Old wives'tales. Little old farm towns shaded from the summer heat by enormous maple trees on streets. White-haired folks reading the paper on their farmhouse porches at sunset.Worn-out windmills standing alone in pasture… All in all, we did not see much evidence that small-town America is vanishing as we traveled through rural Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. It's true that many new homes are rising in many old cornfields. But for the most part, life in vast areas of the American heartland remains pretty much the same as it was 30 and 40 years ago.In the hilly farmlands of southern Wisconsin and Minnesota, we found the fields and forests green and the creeks still flowing. The farms, with their "eggs for sale" signs and enormous "grandma's gardens" in the front yards, looked prosperous and secure. Not much further north, though, a drought was threatening the land.In South Dakota, the situation was far worse. "Haven't seen anything like this since the dirty thirties," one farmer told us. Even in normal times, most of South Dakota is dry. Now it was being burned to a crisp. The water holes were dried up and we saw dead cattle lying here and there on the treeless, rolling range. Some farmers were hauling water out to their thirsty stock daily; others were trying to drill deep wells. We saw two distinctly different Wyomings. We crossed the first Wyoming between the Black Hills and the Big Horns. Wide-open grassland, fenced and colorless, with red rocks and sweet-smelling shrubs scattered about, it was typical of a hard-used land. Cattle grazed on it. Oil rigs pumped on it and power lines zigzagged all over it.Freight trains labored across it, hauling coal from strip mine to power plant, hauling uranium and other minerals to refineries. This Wyoming, clearly, was booming.The other Wyoming started some miles east of Buffalo, an unexpectedly graceful community in the foothills of the Big Horns. On one side of town, antelope abounded by fours and fives in the hills, and yellow wild flowers lined the roads. On the other side rose the Big Horns and nearly 10,000 feet up, Powder River Pass cut through them. The Big Horn canons were incredible, with four and five distinct layers of pine trees somehow clinging to the steep, rocky walls. Far, far below, Ten Sleep Creek was a thin, white torrent on the rampage. In some of the less wild terrain, we saw deer on the high green hillsides and, as we climbed up toward our picnic spot, we flushed two does and two fawns. That night, we fell asleep with the roar of Ten Sleep in our ears.We had picked by chance for our stopping place an area rich in western lore. At one time, Ten Sleep -- a small village at the western base of the Big Horns -- lay midway between two great Indian camps. In those days, the Indians measured distances by the number of sleeps and the halfway mark between those two camps was exactly ten sleeps.We crossed the Continental Divide for the first time on a cool morning,cutting through the Rockies in northwestern Wyoming at a place called Togwatee Pass (at a height of 9,656 feet). Our van had just leveled off and we were rounding a downhill bend when, all at once, there they were, stretched out before us in a spectacular procession of massive white peaks: the Tetons. My wife gasped and, behind us, the kids began to yell. In truth, it was a startling sight—— a sight none of us will ever forget.We had seen mountains before, but we had never experienced anything even remotely like that initial impact of the Tetons. It was exactly what we had in mind when we decided to take our first trip "out West."New Wordsbicentenniala. happening once in 200 years; of a 200th anniversaryn. 200th anniversaryshrinen. a building or place associated with sth. or sb. deeply respected 神殿,圣地resolvevt. make up one's mind (to do sth); decide 决心;决定n. a path across rough country made by the passing of people or animals 小径,小道legendarya. of, like or told in a legend 传奇(似)的mountain rangea row of connected mountains 山脉disappointeda. sad at not getting what was hoped for 失望的environmentala. having to do with environment 环境的environment n.editorn. 编辑strip minen. a mine which is operated from the surface by removing the overlying layers of earth 露天矿vt. take (a mineral or ore) from a strip mine 露天开采(矿物)a. of or having to do with natural scenery 天然风景的clear-cutvt. cut all the trees in (a given area or forest) 将……的树木砍伐光drainvt. carry away the surface water of 排(水等)damn. a wall or bank built to keep back water 坝,水闸vt. build a dam acrossmessn. staate of confusion, dirt or disorder 混乱、肮脏wetlandn. land or areas containing much soil moisture; swamp 沼泽地grasslandn. land covered with grass, esp. wild open land for cattle to feed on 草地;牧场overgrazevt. allow animals to graze to the point of damaging the grass cover 在……上过度放牧power plant发电厂befoulvt. make dirty 弄脏wildlifen. animals and plants which live ad grow in natural conditions 野生动植物touristn. a person making a tour for pleasure 游客slumn. (often pl.) street, alley, or building in a crowded, run-down, dirty part of a city or town, where the poorest people live 贫民窟undertakevt. take up (a duty, etc.); start on (work) 承担;从事pledgevt. make a solemn promise or agreement 发誓,保证predictablyad. as one may predictuncovervt. remove a cover from; find out, discover 揭开……盖子;发现know-nothinga. ignorantn. ignoramusshadevt. shelter from direct light or heat 荫蔽maplen. 槭树,枫树folk (AmE folks)n. peopleworn-outa. used until no longer fit for use; very tired 破旧的;精疲力尽的windmilln. a mill operated by the action of the wind on sails which revolve 风车pasturen. grassland for cattle; grass on such land 牧场;牧草rurala. of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture 农村的cornfieldn. (AmE) 玉米田;(BrE)小麦田,谷物田heartlandn. any area or region that is the center of, or vital to , a country 心脏地带,中心地带hillya. full of hillsgrandman. (informal) grandmothersecurea. safe; having no doubt, fear, or anxiety 安全的droughtn. a long period of dry weather, when there is not enough water干旱crispa. dry; hard; easily broken 脆的;易碎的n. something crisprollinga. rising and falling in long gentle slopes 绵延起伏的haulvt. pull or drag with force 拖曳stockvt. farm animals, usu. cattle 牲畜distinctlyad. clearlygrazev. feed on growing grass (in) 吃(……的)草rign. 钻塔pumpvt. force (water, etc.) out by using a pump 泵zigzagvi. go in a zigzag 弯弯曲曲地行走,蜿蜒曲折n. a line shaped like a row of z'sfreightn. the goods carried from place by water or by land 货物fright trainn. (AmE) goods trainn. 铀refineryn. a building and apparatus for refining sth. (metals, oil, or sugar) 精炼厂,提炼厂boomvi. grow rapidly; develop rapidly in population and importance 迅速发展,兴盛gracefula. (of shape or movement) pleasing to the eye 优雅的grace n.foothilln. a low hill at the foot of a mountain 山麓小丘antelopen. a deer-like, fast-running animal with thin legs 羚羊aboundvi. have or exist in great numbers or quantities (物产)丰富n. a deep narrow steep-sided valley (usu. with a river flowing through) 峡谷distincta. easily seen, heard, understood; plain; clearly different or separate 明显的;不同的pinen. 松树;松木clingvi hold tightly; remain close 紧握着;粘着steepa. rising or falling sharply or at a large angle 陡峭的torrentn. a violently rushing stream of water 激流rampagen. excited and violent behavior 横冲直撞,狂暴行径terrainn. a stretch of land, esp. when considered in relation to its nature 地带,地形n. the sloping side of a hill 山腰picnicn. 野餐roarn. a deep loud sound as of a lion, or thunder, etc. 吼叫,轰鸣westerna. of, in, from, characteristic of the west.loren. tradition and knowlege, esp. handed down from past times (口头)传说midwaya.& ad. in a middle positioncontinentala. (typical) of a very large mass of land; (AmE) of or in the North American continent 大陆(性)的;北美大陆的vann. a covered motor-vehicle for carrying goods and sometimes people 客货两用车v. bring or come into a horizontal planedownhilla. (sloping or going) towards the bottom of a hillstretchv. (cause to) become wider or longer; spread out 伸延processionn. a line of people, vehicles, etc. moving forward in an orderly way 行列,队伍massivea. large, heavy and solid; huge 粗大的,巨大的gaspv. struggle for breath with open mouth, esp. because of surprise, chock, etc. 喘息n. catching of the breath through surprise, pain, etc.yellv. make a loud sharp cry or shout, as of pain, excitement, etc.; say or shout loudlyad. to a very small degree; far away 很少地,极小地;遥远地remote a.initiala. occurring at the beginning; first 最初的,开始的impactn. a strong effect; the striking of one thing against another 影响;冲击Phrases & Expressionssize upform an opinion or judgment about 估计;品评a bitto some degree; rather 有点儿,相当tear updestroy completely by tearing 撕毁,毁掉make a mess ofdisorder, spoil or ruin 把……弄脏;把……弄糟running or hurrying from place to place; in flight 奔跑着;奔逃着do one's homeworkmake necessary preparations before taking part in an important activity 作必要的准备by and largeon the whole; in generalall in all(informal) on the wholehere and therescattered about; in various places 零星分散,在各处burn to a crispburn black or dry 烤焦cut through穿过,穿透cling tokeep a firm hold on 紧紧抓住be/go on the / a rampagego about in an excited, mad and violent manner 横冲直撞by chanceunintentionally; by accident 偶然地;意外地at one timeformerly 从前,曾经level off/outmove horizontally (after climbing); remain steady (after a rise) (爬高后)水平移动;(上升后)达到平稳stretch outextend prolong 延伸,延续in truthtruly; really 的确have in mindbe considering, intend 考虑,打算Proper NamesWyoming怀俄明(美国州名)Montana蒙大拿(美国州名)the Big Horns大霍恩山脉(美国山名)the Bitterroots比特鲁特山脉(美国山名)the Swan斯旺山(美国山名)Wisconsin威斯康星(美国州名)South Dakota南达科地(美国州名)the Black Hills布莱克山(美国山名)Buffalo布法罗(美国城市名)Powder River波德河(美国河流名)Ten Sleep Creek十眠河(美国河流名)the Rockies洛矶山脉(美国山名)Togwatee Pass托格瓦堤关(美国地名)the Tetons提腾山脉(美国山名)。
2024版大学思辨教程精读4教学课件Unit
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通过本课程的学习,学生应该能够掌握 批判性思维的基本方法和技巧,学会独 立思考和分析问题,提高自己的学术素 养和创新能力。
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《大学思辨教程4》是一本专门针对 大学生思辨能力培养的教材,涵盖了 批判性思维、论证方法、逻辑谬误等 多个方面的内容。
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提高学生分析问题和解决 问题的能力
通过案例分析,学生可以学会如何识别问题、 分析问题、提出解决方案,并培养批判性思维 和创新能力。
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案例分析可以将抽象的理论知识与具体的实践情境相 结合,帮助学生更好地理解和应用所学知识。
常见问题
选题不当、文献综述不充分、研究方法不 合理、数据分析不深入、论文结构混乱、 语言表达不清等。
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重新审视选题意义和价值,加强文献综述 的广度和深度,选择合适的研究方法和技 术,深入挖掘和分析数据,调整论文结构 和逻辑关系,提高语言表达的准确性和流 畅性。同时,多向导师和同行请教,积极 参加学术交流和讨论,不断提升自己的学 术素养和写作能力。
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思辨能力定义
思辨能力是指对问题进行深入、全面、客观的思考和分析,形成独立、理性、 创新的观点和判断的能力。
思辨能力重要性
思辨能力是现代社会中不可或缺的重要能力,它有助于我们更好地理解和应对 复杂的社会现象和问题,提高我们的决策和创新能力,促进个人和社会的进步 和发展。
泛读4 Unit 9 politics PPT
这次不像自1945年以来的任何一次,因为风险太大了。
Language Points
4. swamp : to suddenly cover an area with a lot of water〔骤然〕 淹没,浸没 e.g. Huge waves swamped the vessel.
vt. 资助,支持;系…于桩上;把…押下打赌 vi. 打赌 hold/have a stake in sth:与某事物有利害关系 e.g. He holds a 51% stake in the firm. 他在这家公司拥有 51% 的股份。 e.g. Young people don’t feel they have a stake in the country’s future. 年轻人觉得自己与国家的未来没有关系。
[+ to] Farmers have appealed to the government for help. 农场主请求政府帮助。 2)上诉;申诉 [+ against] Both men intend to appeal against their convictions. 两名男子都打算对判决提出上诉。 3) 有吸引力 The idea of working abroad really appeals to me. 去国外工作的这个想法对我很有吸引力。
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2. Incumbent adj. currently holding an office 现任的;n. 现任者 e.g. the incumbent governor
杨立民《现代大学英语精读(4)》学习指南(Unit 9)【圣才出品】
Uni t 9一、词汇短语Text Adisposition [] n. 处置;性情;部署;倾向【例句】The child had a placid disposition. 这个孩子性情温和。
【助记】dispose 布置+position,布置的位置是靠喜好,倾向humiliate [] v. 羞辱,(使)丢脸,耻辱【例句】He felt humiliated by her scornful remarks. 她说的那些嘲讽的话使他感到屈辱。
【词组】humiliate oneself丢脸,出丑【派生】humiliation n. 丢脸,耻辱;蒙羞;谦卑oblige [] vt. 强迫,迫使;责成;(使)感激(常用被动语态);施恩于vi. 帮忙;施恩惠【例句】Could you oblige me by closing the door? 请你为我关上门好吗?【词组】be obliged to sb. 感谢(某人)oblige (sb.) with 给…【派生】obligation n. 义务;职责;债务allegiance [] n. 忠贞,效忠【例句】My allegiance to Kendall and his company ran deep. 我对肯达尔和他的公司的拥戴持久深厚。
【词组】pledge of allegiance 效忠誓言allegiance to one's native land 忠于自己的祖国give allegiance to 忠诚于…【派生】allegiant adj. 忠实的;忠心的ascent [] n. 上升;上坡路;登高【词组】ascent curve 上升曲线ascent rate上升速率【例句】Burke pushed the button and the lift began its slow ascent.伯克按下按钮,电梯开始了其缓慢的上升。
大学英语精读4 Unit 9 讲课ppt课件
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Which do you think is more important for a scientist, book learning or a creative imagination?
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Main Ideas
Michio kaku recalls two crucial childhood experiences that set him on the path to be a theoretical physicist.
2. PH.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972
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1. a lecturer at Princeton University in 1973
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Warming up
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Questions / Activities
Which of the following words can best describe this essay? Serious and matter-of-fact? Scientifically detached and objective? Hilariously humorous? Bitterly satirical? What is the main idea of this essay? What is the Darwinian theory? How does the author come to doubt this? Is that the result of scientific experiment? Is Mark Twain serious when he says that he has done many months of painstaking and fatiguing work in the London Zoological Garden? What effect do you think he hopes to achieve with this mock seriousness? How does the author contrast human beings with other animals?
(paras. 3–17) III. Conclusion (paras. 18)
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I. Thesis statement (paras. 1–2) II. “research process” (paras. 3–17) III. Conclusion (paras. 18)
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• Paraphrase the following sentences
• 1. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cat’s looseness with him, but had left the unconsciousness behind– the saving grace which excuses the cat. • 2. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.
Unit 9 The Damned Human Race
Mark Twain
The Damned Human Race
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ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้he Damned Human Race
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I. Thesis statement (paras. 1~2) • Why does the author mimicking a scientific experiment? • What is the author’s research topic/purpose? • What is the hypothesis? • What theory does he check? • What is his research method? • Where does the research take place?
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Within his essay of The Damned Human Race, author Mark Twain powerfully declares that the human race is both flawed and corrupt, and that people actually should be classified as "lower animals" rather than the formerly known "higher animals.”
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• Understand the structure of the essay • Understand what the author really intends to say • Appreciate Mark Twain’s writing style • Reflect on the so-called “human nature”
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• Define the following words
• • • • • • • • renounce scruple inflict atrocity odds and ends brood over furnish conjecture
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Detailed Analysis
• Vocabulary • Please find synonyms of the following words.
• • • • • • • • • Characteristics and temperament Shameful Force someone to… Abandon or give up Loyalty Guess Assumption, hypothesis Happen or exist In the process of…/on the way to …
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• Present itself: happen, appear, exist Eg. When a favorable opportunity presented itself he would submit his proposition.
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Social Background
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel.“Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age,"[ and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
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• Please list the specific human traits and dispositions that he condemns in this essay.
• Why does he say that man is the cruel animal? What examples does he give to illustrate the point? What arguments does the author give to support his views? • Do you think we should take Mark Twain’s views seriously? Do you agree with him? Are we really that bad? Isn’t there some saving grace in the human race? • What devices does the author use to make the article interesting?