大学英语四第四单元PPT

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The credit card trap1

I have a confession. Several years ago, I was standing in a queue to collect some theatre tickets for my family, and my friend was doing the same for hers. I got mine, and paid for them by credit card, feeling contented by the convenience of this cash- free transaction. It was then her turn to pay. The whole operation passed as smoothly as mine, but my delight soon turned to abject shame. My credit card was a fairly pathetic, status-free dark blue, whereas hers was a very exclusive gold one.

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西蒙顿说，如果事业上取得巨大成就者具有什么共性的话

If great achievers share anything, said Simonton, it is an relenting drive to succeed. “There is an tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal,” he explained. “But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes. It’s a difference in degree. Greatness is built upon tremendous amounts of study, practice and devotion.”

He cited Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, as an example of a risk-take

Unit 4

1. The rain was heavy and ______ the land was flooded. A) consequently B) continuously C) constantly D) consistently

2. Bruce Stephen gripped the ______ wheel hard as the car bounced up and down. A) stirring B) driving C) steering D) rotating 3. Accuracy is ______ to the programming of computers. A) elementary B) fundamental C) principal D) typical

4. The ______ of finding gold in California were good in the 1840’s. A) proposals B) promises C) prospects D) privileges

5. Because of

Key to Exercises

Opener

1. Winston Churchill led Britain to defeat Germany in WWII. Nelson Mandela ended apartheid in South Africa.

2. The young Winston Churchill was a military officer, a war correspondent and a writer before becoming a Member of Parliament. The young Nelson Mandela was a law student before getting involved in political opposition to white rule in South Africa.

3. When Winston Churchill was forced out of government he learned to paint and lay bricks, wrote tirelessly, gave speeches, and seized opportunitie

LESSON 13: In Praise of Flattery

Richard Stengel

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1. __________ we need more practice is quite clear. A. When B. That C. What D. /

22. __________ I accept the gift or refuse it is none of your business. A. If B. Whether C. Even if D. No matter when

3. __________ that there is another good harvest this year. A. It says B. It is said C. It was said D. He was said 4. I’ll tell you __________ he told me last week.

A. all which B. all what C. that all D. All

5. She heard a terrible noise, __________ bro

语言写作

大学语英四写级简作介一.写作的目及的要求 二、评分原则 、四三级短文写作

语言写作

.写一作目的的及求要的目：试学生测用英书面语达表想思能的力， 够能直有接地测效考生出综合 用运语的言力，能准较地确映反 生的英语水考平

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语言写作

求要: 学大英作语文试要求测考能够运生用学到 语言的识知，按矩的题规目要求在3, 0分内写出钟一篇201个左右的词短，文义 语连，贯表达确正无重大语法，误错题目的。内容 括包科，技社会文，,或日常生活化等 方面一的常识般题。形式目种多多样，提有纲作文 ，首段句作文关键，作词，图文表 文，书信作作文和，定规景作文情等。

语言写作

二. 评原分则 . 四级1文题采作总用体评分方法阅卷。人 就总员的象给出奖励分印而，不按是语言 的错点误目扣分数。 2. 从容和语内言两方面对作文进行综 合个评判。内和语言是一容统一体。个作 应表达文目题所定的规内，而内容容 通过语要来言表达要。考作虑是文否切， 是题充分否达表思，也想要考虑否用英是 语楚清适切而的表思想，也达就是考要 虑言上的错误语是造成否解上的障理碍

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语言写作

语言写作

、四级短文写作三考生要较坚有的语实功底言具，一定的有英语 文的写短知识作，且也要而具一定的备 作写技

1. __________ we need more practice is quite clear. A. When B. That C. What D. /

22. __________ I accept the gift or refuse it is none of your business. A. If B. Whether C. Even if D. No matter when

3. __________ that there is another good harvest this year. A. It says B. It is said C. It was said D. He was said 4. I’ll tell you __________ he told me last week.

A. all which B. all what C. that all D. All

5. She heard a terrible noise, __________ bro

1. __________ we need more practice is quite clear. A. When B. That C. What D. /

22. __________ I accept the gift or refuse it is none of your business. A. If B. Whether C. Even if D. No matter when

3. __________ that there is another good harvest this year. A. It says B. It is said C. It was said D. He was said 4. I’ll tell you __________ he told me last week.

A. all which B. all what C. that all D. All

5. She heard a terrible noise, __________ bro

四级神器

大学英语四级语法精要

Ⅰ动词(时态,语态,用法,省略,一致性等)

1. 时态

1)现在完成进行时态 (have/has been + -ing 分词构成): 动作或状态从过去某时开始,继续到现在,可能继续下去,也可能刚刚结束.

I’ve been writing letters for an hour.

I’ve been sitting in the garden.

2)过去完成进行时(由had been + ing分词构成): 过去某个时刻以前一直在进行的动作

I’d been working for some time when he called.

We had been waiting for her for two hours by the time she came.

3)将来完成进行时: 将来某个时刻以前一直在进行的动作.

By next summer, he will have been working here for twenty years.

In another month’s time she’ll have been studying here for three years.

4)将来完成时(由shall/will have