英语四级复习资料试题

英语四级考试目的是推动大学英语教学大纲的贯彻执行，对大学生的英语能力进行客观、准确的测量，为提高我国大学英语课程的教学质量服务。下面小编收集了有关英语四级复习资料试题，供大家参考。

第一部份：Phrases and Sentence:

1、 I don’t ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.这个句子中重点解析的是“ever”的意思。

翻译为：我甚至从未想过要给“给我留下印象的人”留下印象，在这一点上我感到十分失望。我用了许多年才克服这个毛病。

ever,在否定句中起加强语气的作用，not ever从未。

2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child’s one wish to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.这个句子中重点解析的是“because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.”的意思。

翻译为：我做的一件事就是带着许愿做事。如果一个病了的孩子的愿望是想看一个名人并且他选择的是我，然后我抽出时间去看望他。但是我必须非常小心的跟这些孩子相处，因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

其中attach是：使喜爱，使依恋：因情感因素，如爱戴或忠诚使联结。

set oneself up for loss是引起自己处于受损失或失去的状态。

3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel you’re contributing to something.这个句子中重点解析的是“you have to feel you’re contributing to something.”

翻译为：谢谢你给我关于等待的启示，在50岁时，你必须感到你正在做贡献。

“you have to fell you’re contributing to something”这句话的意思就是：你必须感到你正在对某些事情做贡献。

4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I’ll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-it’s a flying kite.这个句子中重点解析的是“ride”在这里怎么翻译。

翻译为：我们待在Ritz-Carlton并开了个狂欢会。否则我会给每个人乘坐一下“超轻型”——一个飞行的风筝。

ride就是乘坐。

5、"One day I’ll have my own barbecue." In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.翻译为：“有朝一日，我将拥有自己的烤肉”(比喻:实现自己的梦想)。换句话说，每代人必须在他上代人的梦想上有所提高。

6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.这个句子中重点解析的是“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”这句话的真正含义。

翻译为：但是这有一定的代价：因为当他饮酒的时候，我们有工作和工钱。当他戒酒了，我们就只有借酒消愁穷困潦倒了。

we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以……和……交易,以酗酒和穷困潦倒交易。

7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.这个句子中重点解析的是“so……that”在此句中的意义。

翻译为：一般so……that是如此……以至于……的意思，这里上下句不是因果关系: 变得糟糕的是，他既没有辞职也没有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的补充状语从句，补充说明so bad的细节，不要太拘泥语法结构，更应该注重的是：1.英语语序特征，2.英语国家的人的逻辑思维特征。

第二部份：Phrases and Sentence:

1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and keep house, too.注意的词语：call attention to(唤起注意)、keep house(当家)

2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of her kids and husband.注意的词语：take it for granted(视为当然)、be supposed to(应该、被期望)

3、 You’ve got to get to know them.注意的词语：have got to do(必须做……)、get to(在这里作“开始”的意思)

4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.注意的词语：take back：(在这里作“取消”的意思)、give sb. a hand(抽出空或腾出手帮助某人)

5、 They put me in mind for Italian food.注意的词语：put in mind(使记起、提醒)

6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.注意的词语：put aside(储存、备用)

7、 I was putting a machine together today.注意的词语：put together(把……加起来、装配)

8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.注意的词语：put forth(生出、作出)

9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?注意的词语：put away：(在这里作“放弃、处理掉”的意思)

此要注意一下五个以"put"打头的短语与词组的用法。

10、I was going by the store near your house…

注意的词语：go by(顺便走访)

11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.注意的词语：go with(伴随、与……相配)

12、He always goes beyond my expectations.注意的词语：go beyond(超出)

13、The kids can’t go along with you.注意的词语：go along with(一起去、附和)

14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.注意的词语：offer(在这里作为“提意”的意思)。

15、I could really go for a good comedy.注意的词语：go for：(在这里作为“主张”的意思)

16、we can barely make ends meet.注意的词语：ends meet指收支平衡

17、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.注意的词语：Goes in one ear and out the other(一个耳朵进，一个耳朵出。指听不进去的意思)

18、I’ve been keeping track of our phone bills.注意的词语：keep track of(明了、一目了然的意思)

19、I’ll have to call them and have them straighten it out.注意的词语：straighten out(改正、更正)

练习:

On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty of war.

Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the World Trade Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never really faded, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation American market.

Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), "Tall buildings", a show that runs at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has eyolyed the early 1990s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns.

Engineering is, among others, a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Renzo piano’s London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glittering stalagmite against the old city’s skyline. You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all about from the London Headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the small cucumber because it rises against the sky like a green pickle. But the building’s single feature is the inclusion of larger interior gardens throughout. But there’s a dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn’t requiring new fears of engineering-the Arcos Bosques Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that lightens the building’s mass brings the sky itself into play.

"Not only did American invent skyscraper", says the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava, "it invented the skyline." But American skylines have got a little dull. With some work, the world’s architects might bring them back to a very tall standard.

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世贸大厦倒榻的那一天，帝国大厦又一次成为纽约最高的建筑。在接下来的几个月，六家帝国大厦的商务住户搬走了，他们再也不想住在最高的楼里了，无论在什么地方。曾经有一度，当美国副总统迪克.切尼仍旧被不停地周转护送到隐蔽地点时，摩天大楼似乎突然间成了最暴露的地点。一时间，高楼大厦似乎成了战争的又一种牺牲品，至少美国是这样。

三年之后，人们依旧害怕恐怖袭击，但是高楼大厦再次成了美的化身。7月4号，纽约州州长乔治.帕塔奇和纽约市市长米歇尔.布鲁伯格主持了自由大厦的破土仪式，这座写字楼将建在世贸大厦原址上。在纽约的其他地方，甚至全美国，新摩天大楼的建设工程又开始火热地进行。同时，在摩天热从末褪去的其他国家，摩天大楼以截然不同的形态拔地而起，而这不仅仅是因为安全问题。从九十年代初期开始，高楼大厦的形态就被一些世界设计大师重塑了，这些设计大师的远见最终打入了较为保守的美国市场。

那些新设计中的一些杰作现在正占据着位于纽约皇后区的现代艺术博物馆的`两个临时展区。9月27号，现代博物艺术馆会举行一次名为"摩天大楼"的建筑模型(有些有四米多高)，以此来向人们展示九十年代初以来摩天大楼是如何发展的。至少在那些最有天赋的设计者手里设计出来或者是建造出来的建筑物，这些通常出现在别的国家，不再像一堆呆头呆脑的盒子簇拥在美国各城市的中心。

在众多领域里，工程建设是通向另类美丽的一种途径。看看雷佐.皮耶罗设计的伦敦塔，细长的玻璃金字塔组成一个闪耀的石笋直指伦敦上空，在空中形成美丽的轮廓。从瑞士在保险公司的伦敦总部大楼我们就能看出工程建设是多么的巧妙，那栋楼是由罗曼.弗斯特设计的。甚至在四月份对外之前，这座楼就被人们称为小黄瓜，因为它直耸入云，在天空的映衬下看上去就像一根绿黄瓜。但是这栋楼最显着的特点却是遍布室内各处的室内大花园。即使在不需要新工程技术的建筑物里也存在着非物质精神——墨西哥城的阿克斯.波斯克期公司大楼是一座拱行的楼，在这座楼的中间有一条狭槽从上通向底部，这座狭糟把光带到了楼里的大部分地方并且使楼里的人能看见天空。

“美国发明的不光是摩天大楼”西班牙设计师圣地亚哥.卡拉托弗说，“它发明的还有摩天大楼的空中轮廓。”但是美国的空中轮廓显得有些单调。一段时间的努力之后，世界建筑大师们或许会使其重返“高”标准。

第三部份：Phrases and Sentences:

1、He is famous for vigorously opposing the use of chemicals to kill pets.这个句子中重点解析的是 vigorously opposing 并翻译这句话。

注意的词语：vigorously opposing积极反对翻译为：他因为积极反对用化学品杀宠物而出名。

2、What would you recommend for a tenth-grader?这个句子中重点解析的是tenth-grader到底是十年级的学生，还是十岁的小孩? tenth-grade是“十年级”，所以tenth-grader当然是“十年纪的学生”了。十岁的小孩是：teenager

3、They used Singapore as a microcosm for examining a regionwide tropical biodiversity crisis.这个句子中重点解析的是and compiled population data from the past two centuries.翻译为：他们用新加坡作为检查热带地区的区域性的生活差异危机一个缩影，并用过去两个世纪(的历史)来编纂人口数据。

其中biodiversity是由前缀bio-和diversity组合而成的，意思是生命的差异性。

4、Animals that call the forest home have suffered enormously.这个句子中重点解析的是“call”在这句话的意思。

call称为，当作。

翻译为：以森林为家的动物们受到了巨大的灾难。

5、American and Europe will pool research into hydrogen-powered fuel cells.这个句子中重点解析的是“pool”在这句话的意思。

pool集中投入，pool的名词意思是“池塘”，动词本义是“汇合成塘”的意思，这里用的是比喻义，想象一下不难理解的。

翻译为：美国和欧洲将集中注资到氢燃料电池的研究中。

6、It shows the United States is out to make peace with eco-friendly Europe.翻译为：这表明美国将尽力与生态环境好的欧洲和平相处。

out这里是副词，表示“致力于”。

7、Fuel cells create electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen without broducing harmful emissions, and technical construction poses few basic challenges.这个句子中重点解析的是“call”在这句话的意思。

翻译为：燃料电池通过氧气和氢气反应来发电而不发出有害物质，并且在技术的组建上提出了很少的挑战。

这里没有call,只有cell,是电池的意思，名词。pose challenge提出挑战，就是指技术上的难关。

8、That means making use of renewable resources for the task, say wind and solar resources.这个句子中重点解析的是“say”在这句话的意思。

翻译为：那意味着该任务是要利用可再生资源，比如风能和太阳能。

其中的say是副词，比如，相当于for example.

9、Whitman assured the public that the air was safe before testing was conclusive. In addition, all EPA statements were required to be screened by the White House.翻译为：惠特曼向公众保证在测试下结论之前空气是安全的。而且，所有的EPA(美国环保署)申明都要求经过白宫的筛选。

注意的词语：screen 动词，筛选/过滤。

10、But New York Sen.(senator,参议员。)Hillary Clinton is calling for an investigation, saying somebody surely leaned on the EPA to lie, which Whitman strongly denies.翻译为：但是纽约的科学家希拉里·克林顿要求调查此事，说某些人明显的偏向于EPA(美国环保署)而说谎，对于这个，惠特曼坚决否认。

注意的词语：call for 相当于demand、require;lean on 偏向于。

练习:

When it comes to air pollution, the simple life isn’t necessarily the safest. The most poisonous atmosphere in Asia is found not in rapidly modernizing cities like New Delhi or Beijing but inside the kitchens of homes in rural Asia. Millions of families in the countryside heat their abodes and cook with open fires using cheap fuels that belch carbon monoxide and other noxious fumes at level up to 500 times international safety limits. Rural women and children often spend hours each day in poorly, ventilated kitchens, breathing this putrid air. "This is a problem that has been around forever, as long as humankind has existed, but it’s been ignored," says Eva Rehfuess, a World Health Organization expert on indoor air pollution. "If you walked into these kitchens, your eyes would start tearing and you would find it difficult to breathe. It’s terrible. "

The WHO estimates that indoor air pollution cause 1.6 million deaths per year in developing countries around the world, up to 555,000 of which occur in India alone-and overwhelmingly it’s the poor who are dying. Villagers have no choice but to use wood, coal or dung fires, raising the risk that young children will be killed by carboj-monoxide poisoning or a bad case of pneumonia ravaging weakened lungs. Likewise, the women who typically keep their home fires burning are vulnerable to chronic respiratory diseases. "Day in and day out for 50 years, some of these women might be cooking six hours a day, exposed to pollutions," says Rehfuess.

Curtailing indoor air pollution can be as simple as replacing open wood fires with better-ventilated cookstoves, but more sophisticated stoves can cost up to $120. China and India, home to the world’s largest rural populations, have launched ambitious national programs in recent decades to supply villagers with safer stoves at subsidized prices. But the programs have not always worked, in India, for example, some 33 million stoves were given out free to villagers in rural areas from 1984 to 2000-but because of a lack of health education or follow-up maintenance, most families abandoned the cookstoves for their old fires within a few years.

That’s left nongovernmental organizations like the shell Foundation to step into the gap. It has begun a pilot program with local Indian NGOs in a pair of rural states to develop and market clean, wood-burning stoves that cost just $5-$10 yet can reduce emissions by up to 40%. The project is on track to sell 1000,000 stoves by the end of 20xx, and the groups plan to expand the program nationally in the future. Program manager Karen Westley says Shell and its partner NGOs made an effort to sell their customers not just more efficient tools but also the idea that different is better. "You have to make sure people actually want that damn thing," says Westely. "They need to make the connection between having a better stove, breathing less smoke and experiencing better health in the end."

But habits ingrained by tradition can be hard to break. "They’ve been living with this always, and so have their mothers and grandmothers," says Rehfuess. "You have to give people the felling they can do something about it." And that they’ll breathe a lot easier for their trouble.

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说到空气污染，并不是说简单的日常生活就必然是最安全的。研究显示，在亚洲，毒气最浓的空气并不在新德里和北京这样的现代化速度很快的城市，而是在亚洲农村家庭的厨房里。在农村，上百万的家庭用明火取暖或是做饭，他们使用的是廉价的燃料，这些燃料所释放的一氧化碳量和其他有毒雾量是国际标准的500倍。农村地区的妇女和孩子经常每天在通风不好的厨房里待上几个小时，呼吸这种有毒的空气。"这个问题从人类诞生以来就一直存在着，但是却一直被忽视了，"一位名叫伊娃.瑞弗丝的世界卫生组织室内空气污染方面的专家说道，“走进厨房你的眼睛就开始流泪，而且你会觉得呼吸困难，这太可怕了。”

世界卫生组织估计，在发展中国家，室内空气污染造成每年160万人死亡，其中印度占55万——而且死亡的大部分都是穷人。村民们除了用木头，煤或者是粪肥来烧火之外别无选择，这样会增加小孩子一氧化碳中毒死亡的危险，肺功能减弱，肺炎得病率增加。同样，那些在家里生火的妇女很容易得慢性呼吸道疾病。瑞弗丝说“有些妇女一天要花6小时做饭，五十年里日复一日，每天都生活在污染中。”

减少室内空气污染其实非常简单，只要用一套通风比较好的厨灶来代替木头生火就可以了，但是比较高级的厨灶要花120美元。中国和印度是世界上两个农村地区人口最多的国家，在最近几十年里启动了全国范围的救助项目，以补贴价格供给农村居民安全性能最好的厨灶。但是，这个项目并不是一直起作用。例如，印度政府在1984-2000年间免费发放了三百三十万套灶给农村地区农民，但是由于缺少健康知识教育和相关维护，多数家庭几年之后就又回到他们原来的取火方式了。

这使得一些像谢尔基金会这样的非政府组织参与进来。该组织与印度当地非政府组织在一些乡村地区开始小规模实验项目，开发和推广干净的、燃烧木头的厨灶，并使之市场化。这样厨灶可以减少40%的氧化排放量，并且只需要5-10美元。这个项目计划到20xx年底出售15套厨灶，该组织准备今后在全国范围内推广这个项目。该项目的经理凯温.威斯特里说谢尔和它的非政府组织合作伙伴努力销售给顾客的不光是一种最高效的工具，而且还有一种理念，那就是：有所改变会更好。威斯特里说：“你必须要确定人们确实想要那东西与他们最终需要的联系，即在拥有一套好的厨灶，少呼吸烟雾和体验到健康的身体这三者之间建立一种联系。”

但是根深蒂固的传统习惯很难改变。瑞弗丝说：“他们一直是这样生活的，包括他们的母亲和祖母也是这样生活的，你需要给他们一种感觉，那就是他们可以对此做些改变。”这样人们会对自己的麻烦事感到轻松许多。