Exercise 1:长难句分析
1. By the end of the century, we will have discovered other places in our solar system suitable for living and we will have discovered ways to go further into space.
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【句式分析】
【词语点拨】suitable adj.合适的,适当的;构成短语:be suitable for适合……
他们认为这篇文章不宜发表。
约翰想换一个更加适合的工作。
【语法点拨】将来完成时的构成:will/shall have done,表示“到将来某一时间为止已经完成的
动作”。常与by + 将来时间,before+将来时间和by the time 引导的表示将来时间的从句连用。如:
到明年年底他就会写完他的小说了。
我们到那里时她会已上班去了。
2. In today’s world, winners are celebrated and treated as heroes, but if doping and gene-therapy continue to affect the outcomes of major sporting events, the word “hero” will have lost all meaning.
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【句式分析】
【词语点拨】1) celebrate vt.庆祝
全城放焰火来庆祝新年。
2) affect vt.影响,感动
我坚定的告诉他,他的观点不会影响我的决定。
在场的听众都被他的演讲深深地打动了。
【语法点拨】将来完成时, 具体用法参见第6句。
3. One of the earliest epidemics on record happened about 500-550 AD when the Roman emperor at the time was attempting to rebuild the Roman Empire.
【句式翻译】
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【句式分析】
【词语点拨】attempt v.& n.尝试,试图
威廉试图到问题的解决办法。
他在试图游到对岸去时差一点被淹死。
【语法点拨】过去进行时的构成:was/were doing,表示“过去某个时间正在进行的动作”。常用的时间状语有this morning, the whole morning, from nine to ten last evening, when, while等。如:
上周日他一整天都在写什么?
我哥哥骑自行车的时候从车上摔下来受伤了。
4. The last few years have seen environmental disasters on a grand scale, and experts are predicting far worse to come.
【句式翻译】
【句式分析】
【词语点拨】on a grand scale大规模地,大张旗鼓地
我们应该大规模普及科学。
【语法点拨】现在完成时的构成:has/have done,常表示“某一动作或状态发生在过去,对现在有影响”,也可表示“持续到现在的动作或状态”。常用的时间状语:for或since引导的时
间状语及before, until now, up till now, so far, up to the moment, in the last few years等。如:
我们已经预订了今天和明天的房间。
这幢房子已经空了相当长时间了。(现在仍空着)
5. In the last few decades, scientists have reached consensus and reported that human beings are causing changes in the Earth’s climate -- something previously seen as beyond our control.
【句式翻译】
【句式分析】
【词语点拨】1) reach (a) consensus 达成共识,达成一致意见
他们在这个问题上很难取得一致意见。
2) beyond prep. 超过;越过;在…较远的一边
延迟是由恶劣天气造成的,我们无法控制。
景之美无与伦比。
琳达总是纳闷着地平线的那一边是什么。
Exercise 2:阅读练习
We may think we’re a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new,but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices(装置) well after they go out of style.That’s bad news for the environment—and our wallets—as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.
To figure out how much power these devices are using,Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life—from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s.Devices were grouped by generation.Desktop computers,basic mobile phones,and box-set TVs defined 1992.Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997.And MP3 players,smart phones,and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002,before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.
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