自考英语讲座(上) 第25讲:The Difference Between plants And A
日期:2008-01-31 23:42

(单词翻译:单击)

1. If we did not have air, there would be no sound.
Without air, there would be no life.

2. not…but…不是而是连接并列状语

eg: In the past three years, he did not study for his doctoral degree, but worked to support his family.
3. not 用在代词all, both, every(thing,body)和副词always, necessarily, quite, altogether等词之前,表示部分否定.

Eg: I don’t know both of them.

Both they are not here.

All men are not honest.

Not everybody like reading.

4. It+takes+somebody(宾格)+时间(金钱,等)+to do 花费时间,金钱等去做某事。

Eg: It took him five minutes to solve the problem.

It takes many hands to do the work.

It took me 150 dollars to buy this coat.

LESSoN SIX TEXT B
The Difference Between plants And Animals
If you were asked, What is the difference between a plant and an animal? what answer do you think you would give? Your first thought might be that a plant has leaves and roots and flowers, which an animal has not. Yet that would not be correct; for there are many plants which have neither roots nor leaves nor flowers, while there are some animals which seem to have all three.
Look up into the sky, and then down at the earth beneath your feet. It is easy enough, you think, to tell which is earth and which is sky; but if you live in the wide, open country, or near the sea, you will often find when you look far away to the place where sky and earth seem to meet, that this is a matter of some difficulty. You see only the thin blue haze, like smoke, which is the dividing line between the heavens and the earth. But just where the one ends and the other begins, you cannot tell.

Just so it is throughout all the world of Nature. You may look at a group of cows standing under the trees or catch a bee at his early drink in a morning-glory bell, and you would laugh if any one should ask you whether you can tell an animal from a plant.
But suppose you turn aside from these familiar, everyday things, and study objects which you have to look at through a magnifying glass, and you will find many things that will puzzle you. You will find plants without roots, leaves, flowers, or seeds; and you will find animals without heads, legs, eyes, mouths, or stomachs.

Foggysunny ainysnowywindy
Set aside o turn aside from
Confuse---confused---confusing
puzzle----puzzling----puzzled
Melon-seeds
observe---observer---observation
Watch
Latter
Dweller
Narrow-------wide
Taste delicious
The ice-cream tastes delicious.
The idea sounds good.
Close---open
Shut up
Suck in
Be dissatisfied with
Happen occur
This animal lives on grass.
Take over----hand over
ofamong
Tell a from b distinguish
Tell a story
Tell a lie
Heaven and hell.
If I were you , I would go abroad.

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重点单词
  • dissatisfiedadj. 不满意的;不高兴的;流露不满的 v. 使不满(
  • dwellern. 居民
  • solvev. 解决,解答
  • puzzlen. 谜,难题,迷惑 vt. 使困惑,使为难 vi. 迷
  • distinguishvt. 区别,辨认,使显著
  • minutesn. 会议记录,(复数)分钟