复习资料大学英语四1-6

1) The Labor Party's electoral (竞选的) strategy, which was based on a tactical alliance with other smaller parties, has proved successful.

2) The New York fire fighters'heroic deeds in rescuing the September 11 victims were celebrated across the country.

3) By a stroke of good luck, Genelle, who had been buried in the rubble (瓦砾) for more than 26 hours, came out alive.

4) My brother wasn't badly hurt, but he injured his leg and had to limp around for a few weeks.

5) The aircraft was subjected to a test of temperatures of minus 65 degrees Celsius and plus 120 degrees.

6) Tax incentives will be used to attract companies to the western regions of our country away from the east coast.

7) The opening speeches sounded more like declarations of war than offerings of peace.

8) After a three-day siege by the police, the terrorists who had seized the restaurant had to give in.

9) Once we stepped off the plane and onto the prairie , we were greeted by a gust of raw and biting wind.

10) Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat from the city.

11) The harassing problems of the past few months have taken their toll on her health and there are shadows beneath her eyes.

12) Workers who have to work on weekends are paid twice the normal wages.In the case of national holidays, they get triple pay.

13) The endless public appearances and shaking of hands are an inevitable part of an election campaign

14) The government troops recaptured the city from the rebels at the cost of two thousand casualties.

15) Production in many factories has been brought to a halt by the delayed arrival of raw materials due to the dock workers' strike.

Unit2

1) Before Anglo-American westward expansion, North America had been shaped by many other cultures.

2) After the United States entered World War II in 1941, General Motors (GM) ceased civilian automobile production and started manufacturing tanks, airplanes, weapons, and other war supplies for the Allied forces.

3) Warmer air is able to hold more water vapor than cold air and so has a higher humidity.

4) In most communities in the United States, the local American Red Cross chapter has been authorized to take control of certain local public buildings in times of emergency.

5) Traffic control establishes a set of rules and instructions that drivers, pilots, train engineers, and ship captains rely on to avoid collisions(碰撞) and other hazards.

6) Since the launching of the first artificial satellite in 1957, thousands of "man-made moons" have been rocketed into the Earth's orbit, each designed to serve a specific purpose or mission.

7) Telecommunications devices convert different types of information, such as sound and video, into electronic signals.

8) Radio telescopes have provided valuable information about other stars and about the magnetic fields of other planets in our solar system, especially Jupiter's.

9) At the beginning of the race, the runners were bunched together on the track, but later some of them got ahead and left the others behind.

10) From the control tower, air traffic controllers coordinate aircraft movement both in the air and on the ground.

11) Further troubles developed in October 1995 when the tape recorder in the orbiter Galileo got/was stuck in the "rewind" position for 15 hours, wearing out a section of the tape.

12) In 1978, at the beginning of the reform period, approximately 11,000 Chinese students went abroad to pursue further studies.

13) The development of a new tool for detecting infectious (传染的) diseases is another step in commercial application of the growing science of nanotechnology (纳米技术).

14) "Our routine on Mir (和平号空间站) rarely changed, but the days were not monotonous at all. I was living every scientist's dream," said one Russian astronaut.

15) In 1885 the German engineer Gottlieb Daimler and the German inventor Wilhelm Maybach mounted a

gasoline-powered engine onto a bicycle, creating a motorcycle.