英语每篇课文的十个句子

Unit 1

Passage A

1. What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

2. This policy could isolate the country from other members of the United Nations.

3. They seemed to be blind to the consequences of their decision.

4. In your research, what environmental issues do you find most pressing? (line14, Passage A)

5. This is why we don’t see the consequence s of our actions. (line11-12, Passage A)

6. Trees bring water up from the ground, allowing water to evaporate into the atmosphere. (line20-21, Passage A)

7. Global warming results from the burning of fossil fuels, such as petroleum products, resulting in the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (line25-27, Passage A)

8. The simplest way to help the environment is not to impact on it. (line34-35, Passage A)

9. Tread as lightly as you can,take as little as possible, put back as much as you can. (line35-36, Passage A)

10. Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loads.

11. What is your specific area of concern regarding the current and future state of the environment? (line37-38, Passage A)

12. These are two elements that are not inexhaustible, and we must realize that once we reach the point of no return, there will be nothing left for future generations. (line40-42, Passage A)

13. I hope these interviews encourage the readers of Awareness Magazine to take action and develop your own strategy. (line56-57, Passage A)

14. Too many of us just sit back and say”I`ll let the experts deal with it.” (line57-58, Passage A)

15. In humans, if the mother is ailing, the child suffers. (line52-53, Passage A)

Passage B

1. A couple of odd things have happened latelty. (line1, Passage B)

2. As a tool of that trade I have a computer and a studio. (line5, Passage B)

3. I also have a tree frog that has taken up residence in my studio. (line6, Passage B)

4. How odd, I thought, last November when I first noticed him sitting atop my sound-board over my computer. (line9-10, Passage B)

5. I figured that he (and I say he, though I really don’t have a clue if she is a he or vice versa) would be more comfortable in the greenhouse. (line10-12, Passage B)

6. He would be there with me survey ing the world. (line14, Passage B)

7. As I looked at him, dead on, his eyes looked directly at me and I heard a tone. (line22, Passage B)

8. That’s weird. (line24, Passage B)

9. I came to understand that frogs simply want to hear other frogs and to communicate. (line26, Passage B)

10. At that rate I knew that the maple trees that I

love to tap each spring for syrup would not survive for my children. (line30-31, Passage B)

11. My beautiful Wisconsin would become a prairie by the next generation. (line31-32, Passage B)

12. He then reached up his hand to his left ear and cupped it there. (line34, Passage B)

13. He then began to turn a very subtle, but brilliant shade of green and leaped full force onto the computer. (line36-37, Passage B)

14. The frogs have a message for us and it is the same message that some sober folks have had for us. (line42, Passage B)

15. We have reached the time when we must be the adults for the planet, for the sake of future generations of humans and for frogs. (line43-44, Passage B)

16. That we, for the sake of our relatives, must act now. (line47, Passage B)

17. Then I understood that there are no boundaries, that there is no more time. (line46, Passage B)

Unit 2

Passage A

1. They might have thought him slow, but there was something else evident. (line2, Passage A)

2. But when his mother presented him with his new baby sister, all Albert could do was stare with questioning eye. (line4-5, Passage A)

3. When Albert was 5 years old and sick in bed,

Hermann Einstein brought him a device that did stir his intellect. (line6-7, Passage B)

4. He lay there shaking and twist ing the odd thing, certain he could fool it into pointing off in a new direction. (line9-10, Passage A)

5. The invisible force that guided the compass needle was evidence to Albert that there was more to our world than meets the eye. (line12-13, Passage A)

6.” I have no special gift,” he would say,”I am only passionately curious.” (line16-17, Passage A)

7. Maja watched in wonder as her brother Albert methodically built his card buildings to 14 stories. (line22-23, Passage A)

8. Later he would say,” It’s not that I`m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” (line23-24, Passage A)

9. His thinking was also stimulated by a medical

student who came over once a week for dinner and lively chats. (line27, Passage A)

10. At age 12,Albert Einstein came upon a set of ideas that impressed him as ”holy”. (line28, Passage A)

11. He was convinced that beauty lies in the simplistic. (line32, Passage A)

12. Perhaps this insight was the real power of his genius. (line32, Passage A)

13. In 1905 he wrote 3 fundamental papers on the nature of light, a proof of atoms, the special theory of relativity and the famous equation of atomic power: E=mc2. (line40-42, Passage A)

14. For the next 20 years, the curiosity that was spark ed by wanting to know what controlled the compass needle and his persistence to keep pushing for the simple answers led him to connect space and time and find a new state of matter. (line42-44, Passage A)

15. Yet when pressed for an example that people could relate to, he came up with this:”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” (line37-39, Passage A)

16. what was his ultimate quest? (line45, Passage A)

17.” I want to know how God created this world……I want to know His thoughts; the rest is details.”(line46, Pasage A)

18. It was not right for Jean to fool Robert into believing that she was in love with him.

19. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes all the way to the bone!

20. Something must be done before the situation reached the point of no return.