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新标准大学英语4课文复述Summary(2020年整理).pdf

新标准大学英语4课文复述Summary(2020年整理).pdf
新标准大学英语4课文复述Summary(2020年整理).pdf

Book 4 Retelling the passage

Part I Please retell Unit 1 AR2 “If you ask me”

The writer has been in trouble in the past. She couldn’t even last till end of the year. After getting her master’s, she didn’t really go out to work just yet. She had her eyes on the course at the LSE. But her family couldn’t afford to pay for it.

After leaving university, she went to London to get a job. She wanted a job about finance and investments. But she didn’t get it. Finally, she got a job in the pub. It was a quiet demanding job, and she liked it.

In the pub, she met a customer whose name is tony. And she told her unlucky story to tony. Tony gave the writer a loan for her to set up her business.

Fortunately, the writer succeeded. So she paid back Tony and set up her own firm. Tony wrote her a thank-you note.

Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR1 “Danger! Books may change your life”

When we pick up a book, we are about to enter a new world. We

know we live in a world of variety and difference. Reading books allows us to enjoy and celebrate this variety and difference in safety, and provides us with an opportunity to grow. After taking the trouble to go to our local library or bookstore, we could realize the truth of the power of reading books. We may not always understand every word or sentence, but whether we're enchanted or whether we feel excluded, our emotions are nevertheless stimulated. As soon as we are able to listen, books are supremely influential in the way we live. When we become adults, books define our lives. As adults, we are always looking for our own home-run books which give us such pleasure and satisfaction that we can not put it down. Books may change our lives. Such is the power of reading.

Part I Please retell Unit 2 AR2 “They were alive and they spoke to me”

I have a collection of books which are selected by me. And in the past I did most of my work without the aid of a library I look upon as an advantage rather than a disadvantage. One of the first things I associate with the reading of books is the struggle I waged to obtain them. A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another. Books are one of the few things men cherish deeply. And the better the man the more easily will he part

with his most cherished possessions. Here an irrepressible impulse seizes me to offer a piece of gratuitous advice. It is this: Read as little as possible, not as much as possible! Indubitably the vast majority of books overlap one another.Knowledge and awareness of this repetitive quality in books can help us select and read all that is worthwhile in the entire realm of literature.

Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR1 “Fifty years of fashion”

No history of fashion in the years 1960 to 2010 can overlook or underestimate two constant factors: the ubiquitous jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines for women's skirts and dresses. Jeans was used by miners in the Californian in the mid-19th.But then became associated with youth, new ideas, rebellion and individuality. It has often been noted that there is a precise correlation, with only a few exceptions, between the length of women's skirts and the economy. Perhaps the most important development in fashion in the 1960s was the miniskirt. The hippie movement of the mid-1960s and early 1970s influenced the design of jeans. The mid-1980s saw the rise of a number of different styles. The late 1980s in the US saw the rise of the more conservative style called Preppy style. In the 1990s, Boots and Converse or Nike trainers

remained popular, but the predominant colors became olive green and oatmeal. Sometimes the hemline indicator, as it's called, can even precede and predict a change in the mood of the stock market long before it actually happens. Fashion styles have ranged widely, and have usually been sparked off by a desire to identify people as belonging to a particular sub-culture.

Part I Please retell Unit 3 AR2 “Eco-jewellery: sea glass”

Although sea glass is disappearing, jewellery designer Gina Cowen is still on the hunt for the elusive treasure. It has the ability to transform magically from something ordinary to luminous treasure after a stint in the sea. There is no hard and fast rule about how long chunks of glass must spend in the waves before they can officially be called sea glass. Cowen decided to become a jeweller came after stints in journalism and music management in her 20s and 30s. Her favourite hunting ground—and popular among collectors—is Seaham Beach in County Durham. The creation of sea glass is a form of recycling, but more than that. The decline in supply, combined with an increase in demand, has produced a boom in the market. Its eco-credentials lend sea glass further appeal, at a time when people have started to question jewellery's

origins. In 50 years, plastic may be the only thing being washed up, but Cowen is confident artists will find ways to put it to use.

Part I Please retell Unit 4 AR1 “The credit card trap”

Several years ago, I became unhappy because my credit card was only a fairy pathetic, but my friend get a gold one. And I thought that she couldn’t get it. So, I wanted a gold one, and I applied. However, I was turned down, I asked why. It appears that I am not the kind of person that they want to have their gold credit card. 3 years ago, my No.2daughter applied for a credit card and needed me to act as a guarantee. At last, I’d hauled her back into the house. Another friend’s daughter came across a more serious problem. Because of her credit card, she even did not get the loan. At last, she had to drop out of university. The banks set traps which appears to our vanity and greed and sometimes to our basic neede for survival. And then we fall into their traps. As for me, I don’t want any more credit cards, no more status symbols.

Part I Please retell Unit 4 AR2 “The key to wedded bliss? Money matters”

In fact, when it comes to finances, your marriage is likely to be your most valuable asset—or your largest liability. Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. Making those choices as a team is one of the most important ways to preserve your marital assets, and your union, experts say. These guidelines are compiled from the successfully married and from experts on psychology, divorce and finance. TALK AND SHARE GOALS. Before walking down the aisle, couples should have a talk about their financial health and goals. RUN A HOME LIKE A BUSINESS. BE SUPPORTIVE OF CAREERS. Having a supportive partner helps you professionally, which should trickle down to your mutual bottom line. ENJOY, BUT WITHIN REASON. Create a cash cushion, and live a lifestyle you can sustain. USE A MEDIATOR. Perhaps both of you have strong yet divergent opinions about how to invest.MAINTAIN SOME INDEPENDENCE. INVEST IN YOUR MARRIAGE. Think of it as dollar-cost averaging your marriage, where you make small investments over time.

Part I Please retell Unit 5 AR1 “Sex differences in English gossip rules”

Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that men gossip

just as much as women. Men were certainly found to be no more likely than women to discuss "important" or "highbrow" subjects. In fact, recent research has revealed only one significant difference, in terms of content, between male and female gossip: Men spend much more time talking about themselves. In my focus groups and interviews, most English males initially claimed that they did not gossip, while most of the female readily admitted that they did. Clearly, there is a stigma attached to gossip among English males, an unwritten rule to the effect that, even if what one is doing is gossiping, it should be called something else. The English women I interviewed all agreed that a particular tone of voice was considered appropriate for gossip. Among English women, it is understood that to be a "good gossip" requires more than a lively tone and attention to detail. Among English women, it is understood that to be a "good gossip" requires more than a lively tone and attention to detail..

Part I Please retell Unit 5 AR2 “Marked: women in the workplace”

The term "marked" is a staple of linguistic theory. The unmarked forms of most English words convey "male". Being male is the

unmarked case. Unfortunately, marking words for female also, by association, tends to mark them for frivolousness. For man no make-up is unmarked. There is no unmarked woman. There is no woman's hairstyle that could be called "standard". Women have to choose between shoes that are comfortable and shoes that are deemed attractive. If a woman's clothes are tight or revealing (in other words, sexy), it sends a message—an intended one of wanting to be attractive but also a possibly unintended one of availability. A woman wearing bright colors calls attention to herself, but if she avoids bright colors, she has (as my choice of verb in this sentence suggests) avoided something. Women can't even fill out a form without telling stories about themselves. A married woman who wants to have her cake and eat it too may use her surname plus his. In a list (Harvey O'Donovan, Jonathon Feldman, Stephanie Woodbury McGillicutty), the woman's multiple name stands out. It is marked.

Part I Please retell Unit 6 AR1 “Winston Churchill”

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone on the brink of invasion. This was the moment when Britain had to be at its greatest. And in Churchill we found it. Churchill was born in 1874 in a grand family. His family had

been fighting for king and country for generations. So did him. But his parents was not kind to him. When he was s child, he was not outstanding. So his father thought that he would be a loser. After leaving school, Churchill joined the army. Then he behaved good as a hero of Boer War. Because of that, he become a MP. As a politician, he thought highly of law and order. But his dream is to become a general. So he must be happy when he became First Lord of the admiralty. But he failed in Gallipoli. Then he became depressed. But he recovered because of his wife. To amends his mistake, he took himself off to the trenches of France to fight. At last, he succeeded. In 1930s, he was on the backbenches. When War II broke out, he became the leader of Britain. In 1940, he lead British people to ride out a storm. When he died in 1965, the new rock-and-roll Britain stood still.

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The surprising thing is that many people who consider themselves qualified music lovers abuse that plane in go to concerts in order to lose use music as a consolation or an enter an ideal world where one doesn’t have to think of the realities of everyday course they aren’t thinking about the music allows them to leave it, and they go off to a place to dream, dreaming because of and apropos of the music yet never quite listening to it. Yes, the sound appeal of music is a potent and primitive force, but you must not allow it to usurp a disproportionate share of your sensuous plane is an important one in music, a very important one, but it does not constitute the whole story. The second plane on which music exists is what I have called the expressive , immediately, we tread on controversial have a way of shying away from any discussion of music’s expressive not Stravinsky himself proclaim that his music was an “object”, a “thing”, with a life of its own, and with no other meaning than its own purely musical existenceThis intransigent attitude of Stravinsky’s may be due to the fact that so many people have tried to read different meanings into so many knows it is difficult enough to say precisely what it is that a piece of music means, to say it definitely to say it finally so that everyone is satisfied with your that should not lead one to the other extreme of denying to music the right to be “expressive”. Listen, if you can,to the 48 fugue themes of Bach’s Well-tempered to each theme, one after will soon realize that each theme mirrors a different world of will also soon realize that the more beautiful a theme seems to you the harder it is to find any word that will describe it to your complete , you will certainly know whether it is a gay theme or a sad will be able, on other words, in your own mind, to draw a frame of emotional feeling around your study the sad one a little closer. Try to pin down the exact quality of its it pessimistically sad or resignedly sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sadLet us suppose that you are fortunate and can describe to your own satisfaction in so many words the exact meaning of your chosen is still no guarantee that anyone else will be need they important thing is that each one feels for himself the specific expressive quality of a theme or, similarly, an entire piece of if it is a great work of art, don’t expect it to mean exactly the same thing to you each time you return to it. The third plane on which music exists is the sheerly musical the pleasurable sound of music and the expressive feeling that it gives off, music does exist in terms of the notes themselves and of their listeners are not sufficiently conscious of this third plane. 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