新世纪大学英语课后精讲 (1)

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1、Unit1DifficultSentences1.ThereisoftenareferencetoWilliamShakespeareorCharlesDickenstoencouragehimevenmore.Whoare“WilliamShakespeare”and“CharlesDickens”?(=Shakespeareistheworld’smostpopularplaywrightwhileDickensisthegreatestEnglishnovelistofthe19thcentury.)Whyaretheymentionedintheadve

2、rtisements?(=Thepeoplewhoruntheadvertisementsjustwanttousequotationstosupporttheirpoints.)2.IfitwereaseasytolearnEnglishastheysay,Iwouldhavetolookforanotherjob,becauseveryfewqualifiedteacherswouldbeneeded.Whatistheauthor’sprofession?(=HemustbeanEnglishteacherwhosejobistotrainqualifie

3、dEnglishteachers.)3.…,anditisnousepretendingthatanyonehasdiscoveredaperfectwayofteachingEnglishineverypossiblesituation.Whatarethemeaningandtheusageofthephrase“itisnouse…”?(=1)Thephrasemeans“ithasnoeffect…”.2)WheneverweusethisphraseweshouldalwaysusetheV-ingformafterit.Moreexamples:*I

4、t’snousecomplaining.*It’snousecryingoverspiltmilk,—he’sspentallthemoney,andthere’snothingyoucandoaboutit.)TranslatethispartintoChinese.(=而且也无需装模作样地声称有什么人已经找到了一个万能的适合所有学习环境的教学方法。)4.Nodoubtthisistruetoacertainextent,butitisnotveryhelpfultostudents.Whatcanwelearnfromtheexpression“Thisis

5、truetoacertainextent,but…”?(=Wecanseetheauthordoesn’ttotallyagreewiththepreviousstatement.Then,what,intheauthor’sopinion,ishelpfultostudents?(=StudentsshouldhavesomegoodmethodsinlearningEnglish.)5.Somestudentsgototheoppositeextremeandthinktheycanteachthemselvesathomewithdictionaries.

6、Whatcanweinferfromthephrase“gototheoppositeextreme”?(=Fromthisphrase,wecanseethattheauthordoesn’tthinklearningEnglishbyusingdictionariesonlyisagoodmethod,either.)6.ButitiswrongtoassumethateachwordinEnglishhasapreciseequivalentinanotherlanguageandviceversa.TranslatethesentenceintoChin

7、ese.(=如果你认为英语中的每一个词在另一语言中都有完全对等的词（或反之亦然），那就错了。)7.Ifwewereparrotsorchimpanzees,thesemethodsmightbesuccessful.Whatcanweinferfromthesentence?(=Theauthorusessubjunctivemoodheretoshowhedisagreeswithbehaviorists.)8.Humanbeings,unlikeparrotsandchimpanzees,…canrelatethemtotheirownlives.Whydo

8、estheauthorc