新題型：英語(yǔ)四級(jí)真題及詳解精講版(2006年6月)

　　【實(shí)例拓展】The area can easily be worked out if you know the length and the breadth. 如果知道長(zhǎng)度與寬度，很容易計(jì)算出乘積。

　　【舉一反三】詞義擴(kuò)展work out ①產(chǎn)生結(jié)果 ②制訂出 ③了解某人的本質(zhì)

　　5. present v. 展現(xiàn)，顯示，呈現(xiàn)

　　【文中實(shí)例】His results to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction. 在人機(jī)互動(dòng)交流大會(huì)上，他的研究結(jié)果被公之于眾。

　　【實(shí)例拓展】The queen was presented with a bundle of flowers at the airport. 在機(jī)場(chǎng)，人們給女王獻(xiàn)了一束鮮花。

　　【舉一反三】短語(yǔ)擴(kuò)展 at present 現(xiàn)在，馬上;for the present 暫時(shí)，目前;present sb. with 把……給某人

　　6. deception n. 欺騙，詭計(jì)

　　【文中實(shí)例】…reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接觸) of emailing would make it easier to lie. ……其理由是欺騙會(huì)使人不安，因此以非直接接觸的方式發(fā)郵件使人說(shuō)起謊來(lái)更容易。

　　【實(shí)例拓展】This made Tom sadder than his deception. 這比受騙更令湯姆難受。

　　【舉一反三】派生詞deceive v. 欺騙;deceptious=deceptive 騙人的

　　7. crucial a. 決定性的，關(guān)鍵性的

　　【文中實(shí)例】But Hancock says it is also crucial … 但漢考克說(shuō)問(wèn)題的關(guān)鍵還在于……

　　【實(shí)例拓展】The success of this experiment is crucial to the project as a whole. 這次試驗(yàn)的成功是整個(gè)工程的關(guān)鍵所在。

　　【舉一反三】同義詞urgent，decisive，pressing，critical 決定性的

　　8. account n. 記述，描述，報(bào)道

　　【文中實(shí)例】People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account. 當(dāng)人們知道交流內(nèi)容日后可能被拿來(lái)與他們對(duì)證時(shí)，就不太敢說(shuō)謊了。

　　【實(shí)例拓展】President Bush says he will take all means necessary to hold North Korea to account if it attempts to transfer nuclear weapons. 布什總統(tǒng)聲稱，如果朝鮮試圖轉(zhuǎn)移核武器，他將用各種必要方式讓朝鮮承擔(dān)責(zé)任。

　　【舉一反三】短語(yǔ)擴(kuò)展hold…to account 讓……承擔(dān)責(zé)任;account for 做出解釋;keep an account of 記錄;settle accounts with 與(某人)結(jié)清賬目;take something into account (或 take account of) (在決定或行動(dòng)之前)將……考慮進(jìn)去;on account of 由于，因?yàn)?/P>

　　9. priority n. 優(yōu)先權(quán)，優(yōu)先考慮的事，重點(diǎn)

　　【文中實(shí)例】Work assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email. 重誠(chéng)信的工作業(yè)績(jī)考察，最好還是通過(guò)電子郵件展開(kāi)。

　　【實(shí)例拓展】The development of the national economy is a top priority. 優(yōu)先考慮發(fā)展國(guó)民經(jīng)濟(jì)。

　　【舉一反三】派生詞prior a. 優(yōu)先(權(quán))的;相關(guān)短語(yǔ) prior to… 在……以前，優(yōu)先于

　　三、難句解析

　　1. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.

　　【解析】本句的主干部分并不復(fù)雜，是The first study has found that…，意為“首項(xiàng)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)……”。較難的兩個(gè)部分，其一to compare honesty across a range of communications media，這部分是不定式短語(yǔ)做定語(yǔ)來(lái)修飾句子主語(yǔ)The first study;其二that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails在句中做賓語(yǔ)，從句中包含有as…as比較結(jié)構(gòu)。此句可以理解為that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are (likely to tell lies) in emails。

　　【譯文】首項(xiàng)比較各種通訊媒介的誠(chéng)實(shí)度的研究表明，人們?cè)陔娫捴姓f(shuō)謊的頻率可能是電子郵件中的兩倍。

　　2. The fact that e-mails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt (困擾) you—appears to be the key to the finding.

　　【解析】本句的主干部分是The fact appears to be the key to the finding。句子的主語(yǔ)The fact之后的that從句——that e-mails are automatically recorded—and can come back to haunt (困擾)，是同位語(yǔ)從句，用來(lái)解釋The fact 的具體內(nèi)容。

　　【譯文】電子郵件可以自動(dòng)保存記錄——并且這些記錄的保留會(huì)反過(guò)來(lái)困擾你——這似乎是這項(xiàng)研究結(jié)果的關(guān)鍵。

　　3. In it they noted the number of conversations or e-mail exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told.

　　【解析】本句的主干是they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges…, and confessed to how many lies they told。and 后面的句子簡(jiǎn)單，and前面的句子較長(zhǎng)，其中conversations or e-mail exchanges的后面，帶有兩個(gè)定語(yǔ)they had 和lasting more than 10 minutes。

　　【譯文】在日記中，學(xué)生們記錄了自己與人交流十分鐘以上的談話和電子郵件的數(shù)量，并且坦白自己在此期間撒了多少次謊。

　　4. Some expected e-mailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接觸) of e-mailing would make it easier to lie.

　　【解析】本句的主句部分簡(jiǎn)單明了，是Some expected emailers to be the biggest liars。較難的部分是主句后reasoning that的狀語(yǔ)部分。reasoning 之后的that 從句中，because deception makes people uncomfortable在從句中做原因狀語(yǔ)，意為“因?yàn)槠垓_會(huì)使人不舒服”。the detachment (非直接接觸) of e-mailing would make it easier to lie，是從句的主干部分。