新概念4填词记单词.docx

1、新概念4填词记单词本文本有助于学习新概念4的朋友利用文章句子记忆单词，希望各位好好利用它。P 代表是首字母为P开头的单词，本着排版方便而设 e表示单词尾字母是e 斜体是小部分短语。Finding man 发现化石人We can read of things that 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 cannot write. The only way that the

2、y can their is to it as sagas - handed down from one of story-teller to another. These are useful because they can tell us something about of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. wondered where the remote of the peoples now living in the Islands came from. The sagas of

3、 these people that some of them came from about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first modern men came from. , however, men mad

4、e tools of stone, , because this is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have away. Stone does not , and so the tools of long ago have when even the bones of the men who made them have without trace.Lesson 2 Spare that spider 不要伤害蜘蛛 Why, you may , shoul

5、d spiders be our friends? Because they so many insects, and include some of the greatest of the human race. Insects would make it for us to live in the world; they would all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the and who

6、 eat but all of them put together kill only a f of the number by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the harm to us or our . Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly them. One can tell the almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight

7、 legs and insect never more than six. How many spiders are in this workon our behalf ? One on spiders made a of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he that there were more than 2,250,000 in one ; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are b

8、usy for at least half the year in killing . It is to make more than the guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry , not with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects d by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total of all the human be

9、ings in the .Lesson 3 Matterhorn man马特霍恩山区人Modern try to climb by a which will give them good sport, and the more it is, the more highly it is . , however, this was not the case at all. The early were looking for the easiest way to the top, because the was the prize they sought, if it and never been

10、 before. It is true that during their they often faced and dangers of the most nature, , but they did not go out of their way to court such . They had a single aim, a goal - the top! It is hard for us to nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and

11、 Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine village tended to be settlements cut off from by the high . Such inns as there were dirty and ; the food simply local cheese by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a valley no inn at all, and climbers found wherev

12、er they could - sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his ), sometimes with shepherds or cheese-makers. I the was the same: dirt and , and very . For men to eating and sleeping between sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have very hard .Lesson 4 Seeing hands 能看见东西的手Seve

13、ral cases have been in Russia of people who can read and detect colours with their , and even see through solid doors and walls. One case and eleven-year-old , Vera Petrova, who has but who can also things with different parts of her skin, and . This was first noticed by her father. One day she came

14、 into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old locked away there, and even the way they were in bundles. Veras talent was brought to the notice of a research in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she , and in April she was g

15、iven by a special of the M of the Russian . During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an and, stranger still, by moving her over a childs game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it; and, in another , wearing , to make out with her foot the and colo

16、urs of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other showed that her knees and had a similar . During all these tests Vera was ; and, indeed, when she lacked the ability to things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her ha

17、nds were wet.Lesson 5 Youth青年People are always talking about the 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 down to and agree that the young are after all - people just like their elders. There is only one bet

18、ween an old man and a young one: the young man has a future before him and the old one has a future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a , I felt that I was just young and - that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something

19、so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a , and that is one of the things the young are busily . I find young people . They have an , and they not a c to mean or love of comfort. They are not social climbers, and they to things. All this seems to me to link them with li

20、fe, and the origins of things. Its as if they were, in some , cosmic beings in and lovely with us creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be , ill-mannered, or , but I do not turn for p to dreary about respect of elders - as if mere age were a for respect. I accept that

21、we are , and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.Lesson 6 The sporting spirit体育的精神I am always when I hear people saying that sport creates between the nations, and that if only the peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have to meet on t

22、he . Even if one didnt know from c examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that sporting contests lead to orgies of , one could it from . Nearly all the sports nowadays are . You play to win, and the game has little unless you do your to win. , where you pick up sides and no feeling of local

23、 is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and e : but as soon as a the question of arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be if you lose, . Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the level, sport is . But the thing is not the of the

24、 players but the of the : and, behind the , of the nations who work themselves into over these , and believe - at any rate for short - that running, jumping and kicking a ball are .Lesson 7 Bats蝙蝠Not all made by animals as language, and we have only to turn to that e discovery of in bats to see a ca

25、se in which the voice plays a u role. To get a full of what this we must turn first to some human . Everyone knows that if he in the of a wall or a m , an echo will come back. The further off this solid , the longer time will for the return of the . A sound made by on the hull of a ship will be r fr

26、om the sea bottom, and by the time between the and the receipt of the , the depth of the sea at that point can be . So was born the echo-sounding a , now in use in ships. Every solid object will a sound, varying to the size and nature of the . A shoal of fish will do this. So it is a simple step fro

27、m the sea to locating a shoal of fish. With , and with i a , it is now possible not only to locate a but to tell if it is , cod, or other well-known fish, by the of its echo. It has been found that bats emit and by receiving the echoes, they can and steer clear of - or locate flying insects on which

28、 they feed. This in bats is often with , the .Lesson 8 Trading standards贸易标准Chickens in the United States, in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables. No, say the : our fowl are fine, we clean them in a different way. These days, it is differences in national , far more than , that put sand i

29、n the wheels of trade between rich . It is not just farmers who are . An that meets the European Unions safety must be by American before it can be sold in the United States, and an American-made machine needs the EUs before is hits the market in Europe. As it happens, a that is safe in Europe is un

30、likely to Americans. So, ask businesses on both sides of the , why have two lots of tests where one would do? agree, in , so America and the EU have been trying to reach a deal which would the need to double-test many . They hope to finish in time for a between America and the EU on May 28TH. Althou

31、gh are , the are enough that they may be to get a deal at all. Why? One difficulty is to the . The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards for medical and them different pacts covering, say, electronic goods and drug . The EU - following fine traditions - wants agreement on , which could of products and perhaps to other countries.Lesson 9 Royal espionage王室谍报活动Alfred the Great acted his own , visiting Danish camps as a . In those days minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not men, and their harp was their . Alfred