泛读4期末复习要点.ppt

泛读IV 期末复习要点 考试时间：120分钟 题型： I. Vocabulary (10’) II. sentence making and translation(25) III. Reading comprehension(50’) IV. writing(100 words) 1. Mastery is genius afoot. afoot：in operation. Sentence-making:道路上正在施工，以改善路况。(afoot) There is a project afoot to improve the roads. Translation：高超的技艺是天赋的显现。 2. But many people question whether its a good idea for fallible human beings to go mucking about with the genes of other species. muck about with something : spoil something by interfering with it Sentence-making：有人正在摆弄我的自行车。(muck about with) Someone is mucking about with my bicycle. Translation：但是，许多人提出疑问:让容易犯错的人类摆弄其他物种的基因是否是个好主意。 3. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison... Make a hit: be popular or successful Sentence-making：这个男孩很受女孩子欢迎。(make a hit) The boy makes a hit with girls. Translation：蒙生特公司生产了颇受大众欢迎的除草剂Roundup，他们的转基因作物的生产线也非常轰动。因为这种转基因作物对Roundup毒性有免疫作用 4. Rheumatic fever is triggered by an invading bacterium that elicits antibodies from the immune system. elicit: evoke or draw out Sentence-making：这种药会引起副作用。(elicit) This medicine will elicit by-effects. Translation：风湿热的形成是由于细菌入侵诱发免疫系统产生抗体 5. The Pylos I was looking for turned out to be a short but terrifying taxi ride away: fourteen kilometer north of town, along the Bay of Navarino and then several hundreds yards abruptly uphill, to the beak of a sharp ridge called Ano Englianos. turn out: prove to be. Sentence-making：她原来是我一位老朋友的女儿。(turn out to be) She turns out to be the daughter of one of my old friends. Translation：要到达我所寻找的皮勒斯，需要再乘坐出租车。这是一段虽短却极为艰难的旅途，出城北行14公里，经过那瓦利诺海湾，然后沿着突兀的山坡爬行数百码，爬上被称作阿诺·恩格利诺斯的陡峭山脊顶部。 . ...nothing of this qualitative difference enters into the objective world which physics endeavours to crystallize out of direct experience. endeavour to do sth:to try very hard to do something Sentence-making: 我会努力完成这项任务。（endeavour to ） I will endeavour to fini