大学四级英语课文

2016年英语四级考试题型包括四大部分：作文、听力、阅读理解、翻译。

大学英语四级的试卷结构、测试内容、测试题型、分值比例和考试时长如下表所示：

大学英语四级考试，即CET-4，College English Test Band 4的缩写，是由国家教育部高等教育司主持的全国性教学考试。考试的主要对象是根据教育大纲修完大学英语四级的在校大学本科生或研究生。大学英语四、六级标准化考试自1986年末开始筹备，1987年正式实施。

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。国家教育部委托“全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会”（1993年前名为“大学英语四、六级标准化考试设计组”）负责设计、组织、管理与实施大学英语四、六级考试。

包括听力、阅读、写作、完型、翻译、快速阅读，详情如下：听力： （题型：短对话、长对话、短文、复合式听写） 1.问题不印在试卷上，事先不知道，所以会难些 2。复合式听写是丢分重点， 要将听到的句子写出看来 3。如果是“机考”要多练习“听新闻”，短对话会以新闻形式出现阅读、完型： （阅读题型：仔细阅读、选词填空 ） 选词填空（15选10），有技巧，仔细阅读（重点）写作：背模版很重要翻译：5道汉译英，题不难，得满分难快速阅读：7选择，3填空，要好好练练，有几年题挺难的， 有时比仔细阅读还难做ps1.想得高分把听力、仔细阅读、写作答好就没啥问题，完型翻译不用费时间准备，只是锦上添花的项目2.四级是先做一卷（写作+快速阅读）交上去之后才做二卷，包括所有剩余题 一上来先写作文可能不适应，练练就好预祝楼主考试顺利

新视野大学英语4：Unit1 Text A (课文+译文)

你知道新视野大学英语4：Unit1 Text A都讲哪些内容吗?下面是我为大家带来的新视野大学英语4：Unit1 Text A，欢迎阅读。

Love and logic : the story of a fallacy

爱情与逻辑：谬误的故事

1.I had my first date with Polly after I mad the trade with my roommate Rob .That year every guy on campus had a leather jacket, and Rob couldn’t stand the idea of being the only football player who didn’t ,so he made a pact that he’d give me his girl in exchange for my jacket.He wasn’t the brightest guy.Polly wasn’t too shrewd,either.

1.在我和室友罗伯的交易成功之后，我和波莉有了第一次约会。那一年校园里每个人都有件皮夹克，而罗伯是校足球队员中唯一一个没有皮夹克的，他一想到这个就受不了，于是他和我达成了一项协议，用他的女友换取我的夹克;他可不那么聪明，而他的女友波莉也不太精明。

2.But she was pretty,well-off,didn’t dye her hair strange colors or wear too much makeup. She had the right background to be the girlfriend of a dogged,brilliant lawyer.IF I could show the elite law firms I applied to that I had a radiant,well-spoken counterpart by my side,I just might edge past the competition.

2.但她漂亮而且富有，也没有把头发染成奇怪的颜色或是化很浓的妆。她拥有合适的家庭背景，足以胜任一名坚忍而睿智的律师的女友。如果我能够让我所申请的顶尖律师事务所看到我身边伴随着一位光彩照人、谈吐优雅的另一半，我就有可能在竞聘中以微弱优势获胜。

3.“Radiant”she was already.I could dispense her enough pearls of wisdom to make her “well-spoken”.

3.“光彩照人”，他已经是了。而我也能施予她足够多的“智慧之珠”，让她变得“谈吐优雅”。

4.After a banner day out,I drove until we were situated under a big old oak tree on a hill off the expressway.What I had in mind was a little eccentric.I thought the venue with a perfect view of the luminous city wold lighten the mood.We stayed in the car, and I turned down the stereo and took my foot off the brake pedal.”What are we going to talk about?”she asked.

4.在一起外出度过了美好的一天之后，我驱车来到了高速公路旁一座小山上一棵古老的大橡树下。我的想法有些怪异，而这个地方能够俯瞰灯火灿烂的城区，我觉得他会使人的心情变得轻松。我们待在车子里，我调低了音响并把脚从刹车上挪开。“我们要谈些什么”她问道。

5.“Logic.”

“Cool,”she said over her gum.

“The doctrine of logic,”I said,”is a staple of clear thinking.Failures in logic distort the truth ,and some of them are well known.First let’s look at the fallacy Dicto Simpliciter.”

“Great,”she agreed.

“Dicto Simpliciter means an unqualified generalization. For example : Exercise is good.Therefore,everybody should exercise.”

She nodded in agreement.

5.“逻辑学。”

“好酷啊，”她一边嚼着口香糖一边说

“逻辑学的原理，”我说道，“即清晰思考的主要原则。逻辑上出现的问题会歪曲事实，其实有些还很普遍。我们先来看看一种叫做‘绝对判断’的逻辑谬误”

“好啊，”她表示同意。

“‘绝对判断’是指在证据不足的情况下所作出的推断，比方说：运动是有姨的，所以每个人都应该运动，”

她点头表示赞同。

6.I could see she was stumped.”Polly,”I explained,”it’s too simple a generalization. If you have,say,heart disease or extreme obesity, exercise is bad,not good.Therefore, you must say exercise is good for most people.”

6.我看得出她没弄明白。“波莉，”我解释说，“这个推荐太过简单化了。去过你有心脏病或者超级肥胖症什么的，运动就变得有害而不是有益。所以你应该说，运动对大多数人来说是有益的。”

7.“Next is Hasty Generalization.Self-explanatory,right?Listen carefully:You can’t speak French.Rob can’t speak French.Looks like nobody at this school can speak French.”

7.“接下来是‘草率结论’。这似乎不言自明，对吧?仔细听好了：你不会说法语，罗伯不会铄法语，那么这所学校里好像是没有人会说法语。”

8.“Really?”said Polly,amazed.”Nobody?”

“This is a fallacy,”I said.”The generalization is reached too hastily. Too few instances support such a conclusion.”

She seemed to have a good time. I could safely say my plan was underway.I took her home and set a date for another conversation.

Seated under the oak the next evening I said,”Our first fallacy tonight is called Ad Misericordiam.”

She nodded with delight.

“Listen closely,”I said .”A man applies for a job.When the boss asks him what his qualifications are,he says he six children to feed.”

“Oh,this is awful,awful,”she whispered in a choked voice.

“yes,it’s awful,”I agreed，”but it’s no argument.The man never answered the boss’s question.Instead he appealed to the boss’s sympathy-Ad Misericordiam.”

8.“是吗?”波莉吃惊地说。“没有人吗?”

“这也是一种逻辑谬误。”我说，“这一结论太草率了，因为能够支持这一结论的例证太少了。”

她似乎学的很开心，而我也可以放心第说我得计划正在稳步推进中。我把她送回家，并且定下了下一次约会交谈的日子。

第二天晚上，坐在那棵橡树下，我说：“今天晚上我们要谈的第一个逻辑谬论叫做‘文不对题’。”

她高兴地点了点头。

“听好了，”我说，“有个人去申请工作，当老板问他有什么应聘资格时，他说他有六个孩子要抚养。”

“哇，这太可怕了，太可怕了。”她哽咽着轻声说道。

“对，是挺可怕的，”我表示赞同地说，“但这不是理由。这个人根本没有回答老板的问题，而只是在博取老板的同情，这就是‘文不对题’。”

9.She blinked,still trying hard to keep back her tears.

“Next,”I said carefully,”we will discuss False Analogy.An example.students should be allowed to look at their textbooks during exams,because surgeons have X-rays to guide them during surgery.”

“I like that idea,”she said.

“Polly,”I groaned,”don’t derail the discussion.The inference is wrong.Doctors aren’t taking a test to see how mach they have learned ,but students are.The situations are altogether different.You can’t make an analogy between them.”

“I still think it’s a good idea,”said Polly.

9.她眨着眼睛，仍在竭力的忍住眼泪。

“接下来”，我小心的说，“我们来讨论‘错误类比’。举个例子：学生考试时应当允许看课本，因为外科医生在做手术时可以看x光片。”

“我喜欢这个主意，”她说。

“波莉，”我抱怨道，“别打岔这一推论是错误的。医生们不是在参加考试以检查他们学到了多少，而学生却是，他们的情况完全不同，你不能将他们类比。”

“我仍然认为这是一个好主意，”波莉说。

10.With five nights of diligent work,I actually made a logician out of Polly.She was an analytical thinker at last.The time had come for the conversion of our relationship from academic to romantic.

10.经过了五个晚上的辛勤努力，我竟然真的将波莉打造成了一个逻辑行家，他总算能过分析思考了。现在应该是时候让我们的关系从学术向浪漫发展了。

11.“Polly,”I said when next we sat under our oak,”tonight we won’t discuss fallacies.”

“Oh?”she said,a little disappointed.

Favoring her with a grin, I said ,”we have now spent five evenings together.We get along pretty well .We make a pretty good couple.”

“Hasty Generalization,”said Polly brightly.”Or as a normal person might say,that’s a little premature, don’t you think?”

11.“波莉，”当我们又一次坐在那棵橡树下的时候我对她说，“今晚我们不讨论逻辑谬论了。”

“哦?”她回答说。有一点失望。

我赞许地对她笑了笑，说:“我们在一起已经度过了五个晚上，相互之间挺合得来，我们是蛮相配的一对。”

“草率结论，”波莉伶俐地说，“或者是按一般人的说法，这个结论有些不成熟，你不这样认为吗?”

12.I laughed with amusement.She’d learned her lessons well,far surpassing my expectations,”Sweetheart.”I said, patting her hand in a tolerant manner,”five dates is plenty.After all,you don’t have to eat a whole cake to know it’s good.”

12.我被逗得笑了起来，她功课还真学的不错，大大超了我的预期。“亲爱的，”我开口说，同时宽容地拍了拍她的手，“五次约会已经够多了，毕竟你不需要吃掉整个蛋糕才知道它是不是好吃。”

13.“Fals Analogy,”said Polly promptly.”Your premise is that dating is like eating.But you’re not a cake.You’re a boy.”

13.“错误类比，”波莉立即回应。“你的前提是约会就如同吃东西。可你不是蛋糕，你是个男孩。”

14.I laughed with somewhat less amusement,hiding my dread that she’d learned her lessons too well.A few more false steps would be my doom.I decided to change tactics and try flattery instead.

14.我又笑了笑，不过不觉得那么有趣了，同时还不能表露出我害怕她学得太好了。再错几步我可就无法挽回了。我决定改变策略，转而尝试奉承她的办法。

15.“Polly,I love you.Please say you’ll go out with me.I’m nothing without you.”

“Ad Misericordiam,”she said.

15.“波莉，我爱你。答应做我的女朋友，没有你我什么也不是。”

“文不对题，”她说。

16.“You certainly can discern a fallacy when you see it,”I said,my hopes starting to crumble.”But don’t take them so literally.I mean this is all academic.You know the things you learn in school don’t have anything to do with real life.”

16.“你还真是能在遇到逻辑谬误时一一辨别它们了，”我说，心里的'希望已经开始动摇。“不过不要对他们太死板，我是说这都是些学术的东西。你知道，学校里学的东西和实际生活根本没有什么联系。”

17.“Dicto Simpliciter,”she said.”Besides,you really should practice what you preach.”

I leaped to my feet,my temper flaring up.”Will you or will you not go out with me?”

“No to your proposition,”she replied.

“Why?” I demanded

“I’m more interested in a different petitioner-Rob and I are back together.”

17.“绝对判断，”她说道，“而且，你自己教的东西应该自己身体力行。”

我一下跳了起来，怒火中烧“你到底愿不愿意做我的女朋友?”

“我不愿意，”她答道。

“为什么?”我追问。

“我对另一位求爱者更感兴趣-罗伯和我重归于好了。”

18.With great effort,I said calmly,”How could you give me the axe over Rob?Look at me,an ingenious student,a tremendous intellectual,a man with an assured future.Look at Rob,a muscular idiot,a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from.Can you give me one good reason why you should be with him?”

18.我极力地保持着冷静，说道:“你怎么会甩了我而选择罗伯?看看我，一个聪明过人的学生，一个不同凡响的学者，一个前途无亮的人。在看看罗伯，一个肌肉发达的蠢材，一个有了上顿没下顿的家伙，你是否能给我一个充足的理由，为什么要选择跟他?”

19.“wow, what presumption!I’ll put it in a way someone as brilliant as you can understand,”retorted Polly,her voice dripping with sarcasm.”Full disclosure-I like Rob in leather.I told him to say yes to you so he could have your jacket!”

19“喔，这是什么假设啊!为了让像你这么聪明的人能够明白，我这么说吧，”波莉反驳道，声音里充满了讽刺，“事情的真相是一我喜欢罗伯穿皮衣。是我让他同意你们的协议的，这样他就能拥有你的夹克!”

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英语的学习就是要多看多背，大学英语课本也有要背诵的段落，下面是我为大家整理的大学英语4背诵段落翻译，欢迎大家阅读!大学英语4背诵段落翻译：第一单元 In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, led his Grand Army into Russia. He was prepared for the fierce resistance of the Russian people defending their homeland. He was prepared for the long march across Russian soil to Moscow, the capital city. But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow -- the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter. 1812年，法国皇帝拿破仑·波拿巴率大军入侵俄罗斯。他准备好俄罗斯人民会为保卫祖国而奋勇抵抗。他准备好在俄罗斯广袤的国土上要经过长途跋涉才能进军首都莫斯科。但他没有料到在莫斯科他会遭遇劲敌—俄罗斯阴冷凄苦的寒冬。 In 1941, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, launched an attack against the Soviet Union, as Russia then was called. Hitler's military might was unequaled. His war machine had mowed down resistance in most of Europe. Hitler expected a short campaign but, like Napoleon before him, was taught a painful lesson. 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Each satellite contains four "atomic clocks," which vibrate at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory. 开车最头疼的两大麻烦是迷路和交通堵塞。虽然计算机革命不可能彻底解决这两个问题，但却会带来积极的影响。你汽车上与绕轨道运行的卫星发出的无线电信号调谐的传感器能随时精确地确定你汽车的方位，并告知交通阻塞情况。我们已经有24颗环绕地球运行的导航卫星，组成了人们所说的全球卫星定位系统。通过这些卫星我们有可能以小于100英尺的误差确定你在地球上的方位。在任何一个特定时间，总有若干颗全球定位系统的卫星在11000英里的高空绕地球运行。每颗卫星都装有4个“原子钟”，它们根据量子理论法则，以精确的频率振动。 As a satellite passes overhead, it sends out a radio signal that can be detected by a receiver in a car's computer. The car's computer can then calculate how far the satellite is by measuring how long it took for the signal to arrive. Since the speed of light is well known, any delay in receiving the satellite's signal can be converted into a distance. 卫星从高空经过时发出能被汽车上计算机里的接收器辨认的无线电信号。汽车上的计算机就会根据信号传来所花的时间计算出卫星有多远。由于光速为人熟知，接收卫星信号时的任何时间迟缓都能折算出距离的远近。 大学英语4背诵段落翻译：第三单元 When a recent college graduate came into my office not too long ago looking for a sales job, I asked him what he had done to prepare for the interview. He said he'd read something about us somewhere. 不久前一个新近 毕业 的大学生到我办公室谋求一份销售工作。我问他为这次 面试 做过哪些准备。他说他在什么地方看到过有关本公司的一些情况。 Had he called anyone at Mackay Envelope Corporation to find out more about us? No. Had he called our suppliers? Our customers? No. 他有没有给麦凯信封公司的人打过电话，好了解更多有关我们的情况?没打过。他有没有给我们的供应厂商打过电话?还有我们的客户?都没有。 Had he checked with his university to see if there were any graduates working at Mackay whom he could interview? Had he asked any friends to grill him in a mock interview? Did he go to the library to find newspaper clippings on us? 他可曾在就读的大学里查问过有没有校友在本公司就职，以便向他们了解一些情况?他可曾请朋友向他提问，对他进行模拟面试?可曾去图书馆查找过有关本公司的剪报? Did he write a letter beforehand to tell us about himself, what he was doing to prepare for the interview and why he'd be right for the job? Was he planning to follow up the interview with another letter indicating his eagerness to join us? Would the letter be in our hands within 24 hours of the meeting, possibly even hand-delivered? 他事先有没有写封信来介绍自己，告诉我们自己为这次面试在做哪些准备，自己何以能胜任此项工作?面试之后他是否打算再写一封信，表明自己加盟本公司的诚意?这封信会不会在面试后的24小时之内送到我们手上，也许甚至是亲自送来? The answer to every question was the same: no. That left me with only one other question: How well prepared would this person be if he were to call on a prospective customer for us? I already knew the answer. 他对上述每一个问题的回答全都一样：没有。这样我就只剩一个问题要问了：如果此人代表本公司去见可能成为我们客户的人，他准备工作会做得怎样?答案不言自明。 大学英语4背诵段落翻译：第四单元 For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me. 三十年来，我一直研究我的人类同胞，但至今了解不多。每当有人跟我说他对一个人的第一次印象向来不错的时候，我就耸耸肩。我想这种人不是无知，就是自大。拿我自己来说，我发现，认识一个人的时间越长，我就越感到困惑。 These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning's paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years. I knew him very little, but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him. He was always neatly and quietlydressed in accordance with his age and station. 我产生这些想法，是因为我在今天早上的报纸上看到爱德华·海德·伯顿在神户去世的消息。他是个商人，在日本经商多年。我跟他并不熟，但是对他挺有兴趣，因为有一次他让我大吃一惊。要不是听他亲口讲述这个 故事 ，我根本不会相信他能做出这种事来。这件事之所以特别令人惊讶，是因为无论是外表还是风度，他都让人想到一种非常明确的类型。要说真有表里如一的人的话，那就是此公了。他个子很小，身高不过5英尺4英寸，身材纤细，白头发、蓝眼睛，红红的脸上布满皱纹。我估计自己认识他时，他大约有60岁光景。他向来衣着整洁素雅，合乎他的年龄和身份。 Though his offices were in Kobe, Burton often came down to Yokohama. I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship, and I was introduced to him at the British Club. We played bridge together. He played a good game and a generous one. He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was sensible. He had a quiet, dry humor. He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards, when he had gone, they described him as one of the best. It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him. I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters. It was evidently a united and affectionate family. I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness. There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes. His voice was gentle; you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger; his smile was benign. Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of an athlete. He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail; he aroused your instincts of protection. You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly. 伯顿的办事处设在神户，但他常常到横滨来。有一次，我正好因为等船，要在那里呆几天，在英国俱乐部经人介绍与他相识。我们在一起玩 桥牌 。他打得不错，牌风也好。无论在玩牌的时候，还是在后来一起喝酒的时候，他的话都不多，但说的话却都合情合理。他挺幽默，但并不咋呼。他在俱乐部里似乎人缘不错，后来，在他走了以后，人家都说他是个顶呱呱的人。事有凑巧，我们俩都住在格兰德大酒店。第二天他请我吃饭。我见到了他的太太――一位肥肥胖胖、满面笑容的半老妇人――和他的两个女儿。这显然是和睦恩爱的一家人。我想，伯顿当时给我印象最深的主要还是他这个人和善。他那双温和的蓝眼睛有种令人愉快的神情。他说话的声音轻柔;你无法想象他会提高嗓门大发雷霆;他的笑容和蔼可亲。这个人吸引你，是因为你从他身上感到他对别人的真正的爱。同时他也喜欢玩牌，喝鸡尾酒，他能绘声绘色地讲个来劲儿的段子什么的，他年轻时多少还是个运动 员呢。他是个阔佬，但他的每一个便士都是自己挣来的。我想，人们喜欢他还有一个原因，那就是他非常瘦小、脆弱，容易引起人们的恻隐之心。你觉得他甚至连只蚂蚁都不忍伤害。 大学英语4背诵段落翻译：第五单元 As Godbey points out, the stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it. "It's the kid in the candy store," he says. "There's just so many good things to do. The array of choices is stunning. Our free time is increasing, but not as fast as our sense of the necessary." 正如戈德比所指出的，我们的紧张感并非源于时间短缺，而是因为我们试图在一个个时段中塞入过多的内容。“就像糖果店里的孩子，”他说，“有那么多美好的事情要做。选择之多，令人眼花缭乱。我们的空余时间在增加，但其速度跟不上我们心中日益增多的必须做的事。” A more successful remedy may lie in understanding the problem rather than evading it. 更有效的解决方式或许在于去理解这一问题，而不是回避这一问题。 Before the industrial revolution, people lived in small communities with limited communications. Within the confines of their village, they could reasonably expect to know everything that was to be known, see everything that was to be seen, and do everything that was to be done. 工业革命前，人们居住在交通联系不方便的小社区里。在本村范围内，人们自然而然地期望了解该了解的一切，见到该见的一切，做该做的一切。 Today, being curious by nature, we are still trying to do the same. But the global village is a world of limitless possibilities, and we can never achieve our aim. 如今，生性好奇的我们仍试图这么做。然而，地球村是一个有着无限可能的世界，我们永远无法实现自己的目标。 It is not more time we need: it is fewer desires. We need to switch off the cell-phone and leave the children to play by themselves. We need to buy less, read less and travel less. We need to set boundaries for ourselves, or be doomed to mounting despair. 我们需要的不是更多的时间：是更少的欲望。我们定要关掉手机，让孩子们自己玩耍。我们定要少购物，少阅读，少出游。我们定要在有所为、有所不为方面给自己设定界限，不然则注定会越来越感到绝望。 猜你喜欢： 1. 英语四级段落翻译强化题及译文 2. 四级英语段落翻译 3. 英语四级段落翻译4篇 4. 英文文章四级带翻译阅读 5. 大学英语四级课文段落翻译