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1、新 概 念 英 语 4 课 文名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 1 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料 1NEW CONCEPT ENGLISH(IV)(new version)2 Lesson 1 Finding Fossil man We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,where people first learned to write.But there are some parts of the world where even now people canno
2、t write.The only way that they can preserve their history is torecount it as sagas-legends handed down from one generation of story-tellersto another.These legends are useful because they can tell us something aboutmigrations of people who lived long ago,but none could write down what they did.Anthr
3、opologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesianpeoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these peopleexplain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even theirsagas,if they
4、 had any,are forgotten.So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first modern men came from.Fortunately,however,ancient men made tools of stone,especially flint,becausethis is easier to shape than other kinds.They may also have used woodand skins,but these
5、 have rotted away.Stone does not decay,and so the tools oflong ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.3 Lesson 2 Spare that spider Why,you may wonder,should spiders be our friends?Because they destroy somany insects,and insects include some of t
6、he greatest enemies of the humanrace.Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world;they woulddevour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds,if it were not for the protectionwe get from insect-eating animals.We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put t
7、ogether kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.Moreover,unlike some of the other insect eaters,spiders never dothe least harm to us or our belongings.Spiders are not insects,as many people think,nor even nearly related to them.One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spi
8、der always has eight legsand an insect never more than six.How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf?One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England,andhe estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre,that is something like 6,0
9、00,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch.Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill,but they are hungry creatures,not 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 2 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料content with only three mea
10、ls a day.It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.T.H.GILLESPIE Spare that Spider from The Listener 4 Lesson 3 Matterhorn man Modern alpinists try to climb mounta
11、ins by a route which will give them goodsport,and the more difficult it is,the more highly it is regarded.In the pioneeringdays,however,this was not the case at all.The early climbers were looking forthe easiest way to the top because the summit was the prize they sought,especially if it had never b
12、een attained before.It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature,equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought,but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.They had a single aim,a soli
13、tary goal-the top!It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers.Exceptfor one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix,which had rapidly become popular,Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.Such inns as t
14、here were were generally dirty and flea-ridden;the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old,all washed down with coarse wine.Often a valley boasted no inn at all,and climbers found shelter wherever they could-sometimes with the local priest(who was usually as poor as his
15、 parishioners),sometimes with shepherds or cheesemakers.Invariably the background was the same:dirt and poverty,and very uncomfortable.For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home,the change to the Alps must have been very hard indeed.5 Lesson 4 Se
16、eing hands In the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers,and even see through solid doors and walls.One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl,Vera Petrova,who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with di
17、fferent parts of her skin,and through solid walls.This ability was first noticed by her father.One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe.Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there,and even described the way the
18、y were done up in bundles.Veras curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of UIyanovsk,near where she lives,and in April she was given a series of tests by a special 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 3 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料commission of the Ministry of Health of t
19、he Russian Federal Republic.During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and,stranger still,by moving her elbow over a childs game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it;and,in another instance,wearing stockings and slippers,to make ou
20、t with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet.Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity.During all these tests Vera was blindfold;and,indeed,except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin.lt was also f
21、ound that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.6 Lesson 5 Youth People are always talking about the problem of youth.If there is one which I take leave to doubt-then it is older people who create it,not the young themselves.Let us get
22、down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings-people just like their elders.There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him:and maybe that is where the rub is.Wh
23、en I was a teenager,I felt that I was just young and uncertain-that I was a new boy in a huge school,and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.For one thing,being a problem gives you a certain identity,and that is one of the things the young are busil
24、y engaged in seeking.I find young people exciting.They have an air of freedom,and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.They are not anxious social climbers,and they have no devotion to material things.All this seems to me to link them with life,and the origins of th
25、ings.Its as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.He may be conceited,illmannered,presumptuous of fatuous,but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichs about respect for elders-as if me
26、re age were a reason for respect.I accept that we are equals,and I will argue with him,as an equal,if I think he is wrong.7 Lesson 6 The sporting spirit I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations,and that if only the common peoples of the world could
27、 meet one another at football or cricket,they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.Even if one didnt know from concrete examples(the 1936 Olympic Games,for instance)that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred,one could deduce it from general principles.Nearly all th
28、e sports practised nowadays are competitive.You play to win,and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.On the village 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 4 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料green,where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved,it is possible to play simply for th
29、e fun and exercise:but as soon as the question of prestige arises,as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose,the most savage combative instincts are aroused.Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.At the international level sport is frank
30、ly mimic warfare.But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators:and,behind the spectators,of the nations.who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests,and seriously believe-at any rate for short periods-that running,jumping and kicking a
31、 ball are tests of national virtue.刘晓华 8 Lesson 7 Bats Not all sounds made by animals serve as language,and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role.To get a full appreciation of what this means w
32、e must turn first to some recent human inventions.Everyone knows that if he shouts in the vicinity of a wall or a mountainside,an echo will come back.The further off this solid obstruction the longer time will elapse for the return of the echo.A sound made by tapping on the hull of a ship will be re
33、flected from the sea bottom,and by measuring the time interval between the taps and the receipt of the echoes the depth of the sea at that point can be calculated.So was born the echo-sounding apparatus,now in general use in ships.Every solid object will reflect a sound,varying according to the size
34、 and nature of the object.A shoal of fish will do this.So it is a comparatively simple step from locating the sea bottom to locating a shoal of fish.With experience,and with improved apparatus,it is now possible not only to locate a shoal but to tell if it is herring,cod,or other well-known fish,by
35、the pattern of its echo.A few years ago it was found that certain bats emit squeaks and by receiving the echoes they could locate and steer clear of obstacles-or locate flying insects on which they feed.This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar,the principle of which is similar.刘晓华 9*L
36、esson 8 Trading standards Chickens slaughtered in the United States,claim officials in Brussels,are not fit to grace European tables.No,say the Americans:our fowl are fine,we simply clean them in a different way.These days,it is differences in national regulations,far more than tariffs,that put sand
37、 in the wheels of trade between rich countries.It is not 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 5 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料just farmers who are complaining.An electric razor that meets the European Union s safety standards must be approved by American testers before it can be sold in the United States,and an American-
38、made dialysis machine needs the EU s okay before it hits the market in Europe.As it happens,a razor that is safe in Europe is unlikely to electrocute Americans.So,ask businesses on both sides of the Atlantic,why have two lots of tests where one would do?Politicians agree,in principle,so America and
39、the EU have been trying to reach a deal which would eliminate the need to double-test many products.They hope to finish in time for a trade summit between America and EU on May 28th.Although negotiators are optimistic,the details are complex enough that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.
40、Why?One difficulty is to construct the agreements.The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards for medical devices and then hammer out different pacts covering,say,electronic goods and drug manufacturing.The EU-following fine continental traditionswants agreement on general principles,w
41、hich could be applied to many types of products and have extended to other countries.刘晓华 10 Lesson 9 Royal espionage Alfred the Great acted as his own spy,visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel.In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere.They were not fighting men,and their harp
42、 was their passport.Alfred had learned many of their ballads in his youth,and could vary his programme with acrobatic tricks and simple conjuring.While Alfreds little army slowly began to gather at Athelney,the king himself set out to penetrate the camp of Guthrum,the commander of the Danish invader
43、s.These had settled down for the winter at Chippenham:thither Alfred went.He noticed at once that discipline was slack:the Danes had the selfconfidence of conquerors,and their security precautions were casual.They lived well,on the proceeds of raids on neighbouring regions.There they collected women
44、 as well as food and drink,and a life of ease had made them soft.Alfred stayed in the camp a week before he returned to Athelney.The force there assembled was trivial compared with the Danish horde.But Alfred had deduced that the Danes were no longer fit for prolonged battle:and that their commissar
45、iat had no organization,but depended on irregular raids.So,faced with the Danish advance,Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy.He was constantly on the move,drawing the Danes after him.His 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 6 页，共 42 页 -学习 好资料精品资料patrols halted the raiding parties:hunger assail
46、ed the Danish army.Now Alfred began a long series of skirmishes-and within a month the Danes had surrendered.The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!刘晓华 11*Lesson 10 Silicon valley Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.Carver Mead,a pioneer in in
47、tegrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology,notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design,test and produce chips right on their desks,much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.As the time and cost of making a chi
48、p drip to a few days and a few hundred dollars,engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures.Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the officespawning a new generation of garage start-
49、ups and giving the U.S.a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast.We vegot more garages with smart people,Mead observes.We reallythrive on anarchy.And on Asians.Already,orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.And C
50、hinese,Korean,Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from Californias colleges.As the heads of next-generation start-ups,these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim market.For instance,Alex Au,a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong