高中英语必修四第一单元知识点

You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State UniversityMore and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicants lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors（骗子）; another refers to them as special cases. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by no such people.To avoid outright（彻底的）lies, some job-seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony （假的）diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from Smoot State prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.6. The main idea of this passage is that.A）employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB）lying about college degrees has become a widespread problemC）college degrees can now be purchased easilyD）employers are no longer interested in college degrees7. According to the passage, special cases refer to cases where.A）students attend a school only part-timeB）students never attended a school they listed on their applicationC）students purchase false degrees from commercial filmsD）students attended a famous school8. We can infer from the passage that.A）performance is a better judge of ability that a college degreeB）experience is the best teacherC）past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees doD) a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job petition9. This passage implies that.A）buying a false degree is not moralB）personnel officers only consider applicants from famousschoolsC）most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from schoolD）society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications10. As used in the first line of the second paragraph, the word utter means.A）address B）thorough C）ultimate D）decisiveToday we had a chemistry test. I found the test difficulty, but I tried hardly to do it. Suddenly Mary,my best friend, asking me to let her to copy my answers. After think for some time, I let her copy myanswers. But after the test, all of us were called to the teacher’s office. The teacher was angrybecause we had same answers in the tests. We were warned not to cheat again so she would need tosee our parents. I was very upset. I d idn’t cheat. I was just helping a friend. Why does she punish meBook 4 Unit 1 Great women and their achievementsof achievement 成功女士【词语拓展】achieve vt. 获得；达到achievement n.(成就；成绩)achievable adj.(可完成的；可达到的) achieve one’s end 达到目的achieve nothing 一事无成helped improve prison conditions and gave prisoners work and education.(P1)【词语拓展】condition n.(条件，情况，状况) conditional adj.(有条件的；视……而定的)on condition that...条件是……如果……in (out of) condition 状况好(不好)make it a condition that...以……为条件under condition of 在……情况下devoted all her life to medical work for Chinese women and children.(P1)【词语拓展】devote vt.奉献；贡献devotion n.奉献；贡献devotional adj.奉献的；虔诚的devote...to...致力于，献身于(to为介词)4.J ane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.(P2)【词语拓展】behave v.表现；举止；行为behaviour n.行为；举止；态度behave well守规矩behave oneself 举止得体well-behaved 表现良好的badly-behaved 表现差的,the evening makes it all worthwhile.(P2)worthwhile adj.值得的，重要的It’s worthwhile taking the trouble to explain a job fully to new employees.【词语辨析】worth；worthy这两个词都有“值得”的意思，但worth只能作表语，后接名词或动名词。