VOLUME 3 - UNIT 4 大学英语基础教程课件第三册.ppt

UNIT 4 WORDS AND PHRASES 1. stress: continuous feelings of worry about your work or personal life, that prevent you from relaxing 压力，紧张 2. make demand on: take up 占用 3. stimulate: to encourage someone by making them excited about and interested in something 激励 4. manifest: to appear or to become easy to see 清楚表示；显露 5. undermine: to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective 暗中破坏； 逐渐削弱 6. counter: to say something in order to try to prove that what someone said was not true or as a reply to something 反驳，反击 7. alert: giving all your attention to what is happening, being said, etc. 警惕的，警觉的，注意的 8. distract: to take someone’s attention away from something by making them look at or listen to something else 使(人)分心, 分散(注意力) 9. maintain: to make something continue in the same way or at the same standard as before 保持, 继续 10. explode with: to suddenly express strong feelings such as anger 突然发作 EXPRESSIONS in a sense 从某种意义上说 step into 进入 apart from 除了 concentrate on 致力于；专心于 due to 由于 be renowned for 以……闻名 acquaint oneself with 使熟悉, 了解，知道 last but not least 最后但并不是最不重要的 Complete each of the following sentences with the expressions you have just learned. 1. __________ being punished, he should be rewarded. Rather than 2. One should always__________ one’s opinion facts. base...on 3. The question of cost will __________important __________ our decision. play an...part in 4. Traffic __________ in the tunnel. was bottled up 5. All roads __________ Rome. lead to 6. The factory __________ very well __________ the sudden increase in demand. coped...with 7. This year the company__________ improving its efficiency. has concentrated on 8. They decorated the house __________ the cost. regardless of Text A Internet Information related to the text Introductory remarks Language points COMPREHENSION CHECK Understand the General Ideas Discuss the following questions in pairs or groups. The