《新概念英语第四册》教材知多少
新概念英语第四册知识点整理
新概念英语第四册知识点整理一、重点词汇1、verbals（动词）名词化动词：即是名词又是动词，如：survival，advice，crisis动名词：动词的ing形式，如：writing，reading不定式：动词的to do形式，如：to write，to read2、elliptical sentences（省略句）省略主语：常常是祈使句，如：Go to the window.省略宾语：常常是介词短语或名词，如：With the help of my teacher.3、inverted sentences（倒装句）疑问句：助动词在主语前，如：Do you like English？强调句：助动词在主语前，如：It is I.4、participles（分词）现在分词：表示正在进行的动作或状态，如：reading，writing过去分词：表示已经完成的动作或状态，如：written，read5、conditional sentences（条件句）if条件句：if+主语+动词+其他，如：If I have time，I will go.虚拟条件句：if+主语+had done+其他，如：If I had known，I would have told you.6、relative clauses（定语从句）who，whom，whose，that，which等引导的定语从句，如：The book which I read is called 'The Catcher in the Rye'.7、gerunds（动名词短语）动名词短语作名词用，如：Reading is an important skill.8、comparative and superlative（比较级和最高级）比较级和最高级形式的变化规则和普通形容词相同，如：more beautiful，most beautiful.9、impersonal passives（无人称被动语态）表示没有明确的主语或动作执行者的情况，如：It is said that…据说…10、reported speech（间接引语）转述别人的话或文字时使用间接引语的形式，如：He said that he would go to the party.他说他会去参加聚会。
新概念英语第四册学习手册【Lesson34、35、36】
【导语】为了⽅便同学们的学习，为⼤家整理了新概念英语第四册学习⼿册，新概念英语作为⼀套世界闻名的英语教程，以其全新的教学理念，有趣的课⽂内容和全⾯的技能训练，深受⼴⼤英语学习者的欢迎和喜爱。
希望以下内容能够为⼤家的新概念英语学习提供帮助!Lesson 34Adolescence青春期What do adolescents respect in parents?Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the adolescents see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of disloyalty, or make some spiteful remark about the friends' parents. Such loss of dignity and descent into childish behaviour on the part to their parents about the place or people they visit. Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable. Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation. Parents would be greatly surprised and deeply touched if they realized how much belief their children usually have in their character and infallibility, and how much this faith means to a child. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.The adolescent, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child cannot forgive is the parent's refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude; in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt. Today we tend to go to the other extreme, but on the whole this is a healthier attitude both for the child and the parent. It is always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.DOTID OFLUM Journey Through AdolescenceNew words and expressions ⽣词和短语adolescencen.slurn. 青春期adolescentn. 底毁disloyaltyn. 青少年(12-18岁)spitefuladj. 恶意的，怀恨的disillusionmentn. 幻灭感evaluationn. 评价infallibilityn. ⼀贯正确resentv. 怨恨sincerityn. 诚挚victorianadj. 维多利亚式的retreatv. 后退unreasoningadj. 不凭理智的authoritarianadj. 专制的cowv. 吓唬参考译⽂当家长听到孩⼦赞扬⾃⼰朋友的家时，总感到不安，认为孩⼦在嫌弃⾃家的饭菜、卫⽣、或家具，⽽且愚蠢地让孩⼦看出⾃⼰的烦恼。
新概念英语第四册学习手册【Lesson31、32、33】
【导语】为了⽅便同学们的学习，为⼤家整理了新概念英语第四册学习⼿册，新概念英语作为⼀套世界闻名的英语教程，以其全新的教学理念，有趣的课⽂内容和全⾯的技能训练，深受⼴⼤英语学习者的欢迎和喜爱。
希望以下内容能够为⼤家的新概念英语学习提供帮助!Lesson 31The sculptor speaks雕塑家的语⾔First listen and then answer the following question.听录⾳，然后回答以下问题。
What do you have to be able to do to appreciate sculpture?Appreciation of sculpture depends upon the ability to respond to form in there dimension. That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts; certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions. Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind. The child learning to see, first distinguishes only two-dimensional shape; it cannot judge distances, depths. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensonal distances. But having satisfied the requirements of practical necessity, most people go no further. Though they may attain considerable accuracy in the perception of flat from, they do no make the further. Though they may attain considerable accuracy in the perception of flat form, they do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence.This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually to think of, and use, form in its full spatial completeness. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head-he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand. He mentally visualizes a complex form from all round itself; he knows while he looks at one side what the other side is like, he identifies himself with its centre of gravity, its mass, its weight; he realizes its volume, as the space that the shape displaces in the air.And the sensitive observer of sculpture must also learn to feel shape simply as shape, not as description or reminiscence. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird. And so with solids such as a shell, a nut, a plum, a pear, a tadpole, a mushroom, a mountain peak, a kidney, a carrot, a tree-trunk, a bird, a bud, a lark, a ladybird, a bulrush, a bone. From these he can go on to appreciate more complex forms of combinations of several forms.HENRY MOORE The Sculptor Speaks from The ListenerNew words and expressions ⽣词和短语colour-blindadj. ⾊盲的perceptionn. 知觉comprehendv. 理解spatialadj. 空间visualizev. 使具形象，设想reminiscencen. 回忆，联想tadpolen. 蝌蚪mushroomn. 蘑菇carrotn. 胡萝⼘budn. 花蕾larkn. 云雀ladybirdn. 瓢⾍bulrushn. 芦苇参考译⽂对雕塑的鉴赏⼒取决于对⽴体的反应能⼒。
新概念英语4册目录 中英双语版(2021新版)总计48课
林老师英语学习法新概念4册（总计48课词汇总量1800左右）Unit 01Part 1Unit 1 Instructions to the studentLesson 1 Finding fossil man发现化石人Lesson 2 Spare that spider不要伤害蜘蛛Lesson 3 Matterhorn man马特霍恩山区人Lesson 4 Seeing hands能看见东西的手Lesson 5 Youth青年Lesson 6 The sporting spirit体育的精神Lesson 7 Bats蝙蝠Lesson 8 Trading standards贸易标准Lesson 9 Royal espionage王室谍报活动Lesson 10 Silicon valley硅谷Lesson 11 How to grow old如何安度晚年Lesson 12 Banks and their customers银行和顾客Unit 02Lesson 13 The search for oil探寻石油Lesson 14 The Butterfly Effect蝴蝶效应Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry工业中的秘密Lesson 16 The modern city现代城市Lesson 17 A man-made disease人为的疾病Lesson 18 Porpoises海豚Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams话说梦的本质Lesson 20 Snake poison蛇毒Lesson 21 Williams S．Hart and the early‘Western’film威廉·S．哈特和早期的“西部”影片Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress知识和进步Lesson 23 Bird flight鸟的飞行方法Lesson 24 Beauty美林老师英语学习法Unit 03Lesson 25 Non-auditory effects of noise噪音的非听觉效应Lesson 26 The past life of the earth地球上的昔日生命Lesson 27 The‘Vasa’“瓦萨”号Lesson 28 Patients and doctors病人与医生Lesson 29 The hovercraft气垫船Lesson 30 Exploring the sea．floor海底勘探Lesson 31 The sculptor speaks雕塑家的语言Lesson 32 Galileo reborn伽利略的复生Lesson 33 Education教育Lesson 34 Adolescence青春期Lesson 35 Space odyssey太空探索Lesson 36 The cost of government政府的开支Unit 04Lesson 37 The process of ageing衰老过程Lesson 38 Water and the traveller水和旅行者Lesson 39 What every writer wants作家之所需Lesson 40 Waves海浪Lesson 41 Training elephants训练大象Lesson 42 Recording an earthquake记录地震Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space?宇宙中有外星人吗?Lesson 44 Patterns of culture文化的模式Lesson 45 Of men and galaxies人和星系Lesson 46 Hobbies业余爱好Lesson 47 The great escape大逃亡Lesson 48 Planning a share portfolio规划股份投资。
新概念英语第四册知识点：文化内涵
【导语】新概念英语⼀共144课。
整本书⽆论是语法还是词汇，题材还是语句，都有其出彩之处。
正是因为如此，新概念英语更是经久不衰，深受⼴⼤英语学习者的喜爱。
为您整理了语法解析及课后练习，希望可以帮助到您！ Lesson 5 Youth 学完Youth这篇课⽂，很多同学会觉得虽然⽂章⽂笔优美，论证逻辑尤为严密，但同时⼜会觉得奇怪：作为⼀个⽼年⼈，为什么作者⼏乎不惜⾛极端来褒奖年轻⼈，⽽把⽼年⼈说得⼀⽆是处？⼤家在了解了作者的⽣平以后就会打消这种疑问。
作者Fielden Hughes本⼈并没有⼤的名⽓。
他做过⼩学校长，做过战时的播⾳员，也进⾏过⽂学创作。
他之所以如此维护年轻⼈，很⼤程度上是由于他的⼉⼦David John Hughes。
David John Hughes是他的独⽣⼦，他对这个⼉⼦寄有很⼤的希望，⼀⼼想要让他上⽜津⼤学。
由于战争爆发，David John Hughes参加了英国皇家空军（RAF），暂时放弃了上⼤学的机会，但在战后他还是如愿上了⽜津⼤学。
David John Hughes没有辜负他⽗亲的期望，成为⼀名的⼩说家，在⽂坛上享有盛名。
Lesson 11 How to grow old 本⽂是新概念四最经典的课⽂之⼀，作者是20世纪最负盛名的⼤哲学家罗素（Bertrand Russell）。
罗素博学多才，在多个领域都有颇⾼的造诣。
作为⼀个哲学家，他的哲学领域也是⽆所不包：本体论、认识论、政治哲学、科学哲学等都在他的论述范围之内。
他的通俗哲学易于为⾮哲学专业的读者接受，其中最为的是《西⽅哲学史》。
罗素在数学领域的成就也令⼈瞩⽬，他与他⼈合著的《数学原理》（Principa Mathematica）被誉为“不朽之作”。
与⼀般⽂⼈不同的是，罗素有强烈的社会责任感，他经常参加社会活动（课⽂的插图就是罗素参加集会时的场景），提出⾃⼰的政治主张，就在去世前不久，罗素还在集会上发表了反对核武器扩散的演说。
新概念英语第四册学习手册【Lesson43、44、45】
【导语】为了⽅便同学们的学习，为⼤家整理了新概念英语第四册学习⼿册，新概念英语作为⼀套世界闻名的英语教程，以其全新的教学理念，有趣的课⽂内容和全⾯的技能训练，深受⼴⼤英语学习者的欢迎和喜爱。
希望以下内容能够为⼤家的新概念英语学习提供帮助!新概念英语4 Lesson 43Are there strangers in space?宇宙中有外星⼈吗?First listen and then answer the following question.听录⾳，然后回答以下问题。
What does the 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings in space depend on?We must conclude from the work of those who have studied the origin of life, that given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start. Of all the planets in our solar system, we ware now pretty certain the Earth is the only one on which life can survive. Mars is too dry and poor in oxygen, Venus far too hot, and so is Mercury, and the outer planets have temperatures near absolute zero and hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. But other suns, start as the astronomers call them, are bound to have planets like our own, and as is the number of stars in the universe is so vast, this possibility becomes virtual certainty. There are one hundred thousand million starts in our own Milky Way alone, and then there are exist is now estimated at about 300 million million.Although perhaps only 1 per cent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into highly complex and intelligent patterns, so vast is the number of planets, that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe.If then we are so certain that other intelligent life exists in the universe, why have we had no visitors from outer space yet? First of all, they may have come to this planet of ours thousands or millions of years ago, and found our then prevailing primitive state completely uninteresting to their own advanced knowledge. Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer, argued in Nature that such a superior civilization, on a visit to our own solar system, may have left an automatic messenger behind to await the possible awakening of an advanced civilization. Such a messenger, receiving our radio and television signals, might well re-transmit them back to its home-planet, although what impression any other civilization would thus get from us is best left unsaid.But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets -- the astronomical distances which separate us. As a reasonable guess, they might, on an average, be 100 light years away. (A light year is the distance which light travels at 186,000 miles per second in one year, namely 6 million million miles.) Radio waves also travel at the speed of light, and assuming such an automatic messenger picked up our first broadcasts of the 1920's, the message to its home planet is barely halfway there. Similarly, our own present primitive chemical rockets, though good enough to orbit men, have no chance of transporting us to the nearest other star, four light years away, let alone distances of tens or hundreds of light years.Fortunately, there is a 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings, as Walter Sullivan has put it in his excellent book, We Are not Alone. This depends on the precise radio frequency of the 21-cm wavelength, or 1420 megacycles per second. It is the natural frequency of emission of the hydrogen atoms in space and was discovered by us in 1951; it must be known to any kind of radio astronomer in the universe.Once the existence of this wave-length had been discovered, it was not long before its use as the uniquely recognizable broadcasting frequency for interstellar communication was suggested. Without something of this kind, searching for intelligences on other planets would be like trying to meet a friend in London without a pre-arranged rendezvous and absurdly wandering the streets in the hope of a chance encounter.ANTHONY MICHAELIS Are There Strangers in Space? from The Weekend TelegraphNew words and expressions ⽣词和短语Mercuryn. ⽔星hydrogenn. 氢⽓prevailingadj. 普遍的radio astronomer射电天⽅学家uniquelyadv. 地rationaladj. 合理的radio frequency⽆线电频率cmn. 厘⽶megacyclen. 兆周emissionn. 散发interstelleradj.星际的rendezvousn. 约会地点参考译⽂根据研究⽣命起源的⼈们所作的⼯作，我们必然会得出这样的结论：如果设想有⼀颗⾏星和我们地球的情况基本相似，那⼏乎肯定会产⽣⽣命。
新概念英语四册课文目录及适学人群
《新概念英语》是由外语教学与研究出版社和培生教育出版中国有限公司联合出版的一套英语教材。
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进入中国以后，《新概念英语》历经数次重印，而为了最大限度地满足不同层次、不同类型英语学习者的需求。
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目录To the teacher and student 致教师和学生Learning a foreign language in the classroom 中级以下水平的外语教学About this course 关于本教材的说明How to use this course 本教材使用说明Lesson 1 Excuse me！对不起！Lesson 2 Is this your…？这是你的……吗？Lesson 3 Sorry，sir. 对不起，先生。
Lesson 4 Is this your…；这是你的……吗？Lesson 5 Nice to meet you. 很高兴见到你。
新概念英语4-课文资料讲解
NEW CONCEPTENGLISH(IV) (new version)2Lesson1 Finding Fossil manWe can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only w ay that they can preserve their history is torecount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellersto another. These legends are useful because they can tell us somethin g aboutmigrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesianpeoples now living in th e Pacific Islands came from. The sagasof these peopleexplain that some of them came from Indo nesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that ev en theirsagas, if they had any,are forgotten. Soarchaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.Fortunately, however, ancient me n made tools of stone, especially flint, becausethis is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used woodand skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay,and so the tool s oflong ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.3Lesson2 Spare that spiderWhy, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy somany insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the humanrace. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they woulddevour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protectionwe get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts wh o eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never dothe least harm to us or our bel ongings.Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.One can t ell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legsand an insect never more th an six.How many spiders are engagedin this work on our behalf ? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, andhe estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a f ootball pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content wi th only three meals aday.It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed byspi ders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the c ountry.T. H. GILLESPIESpare that Spider from The ListeneLesson 3 Matterhorn manModern alpinists try to climb mountains by aroute which will give them goodsport, and the moredifficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneeringdays, however, this was not the case at all. The early climbers were looking forthe easiest way to the top because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explor ations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manne r which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their w ay to court such excitement. They had a single aim,a solitary goal--the top!It is hard for us to reali ze nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Exceptfor one or two places such as Zermatt an d Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheeseaccompanied by bread often t welve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a valley boasted no inn at all, and cli mbers found shelter wherever they could--sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as p oor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheesemakers. Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable. For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps mu st have been very hard indeed.5Lesson4 Seeing handsInthe Soviet Union several caseshave been reported recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an 'ele ven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things wit h different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. O ne day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Sudd enly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even desc ribed the way they were done up in bundles.Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a s cientific research institute in the town of UIyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was giv en a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the RussianFederal Repu blic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, strange r still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and c olours printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with h er foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed th at her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. lt was also f ound that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.6Lesson 5 YouthPeople are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one —which I take leave to doubt --then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human bei ngs--people just like their elders. There is only one difference be tween an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorio us future before him and the old one has a splendid future behi nd him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teena ger,I felt that I was just young and uncertain --that I was a new b oy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be r egarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thin g, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that isone o f the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.I find youn g people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have n ot a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, a nd the origins of things. It's asif they were in some sense cosmi c beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatur es. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may b e conceited, illmannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do no t turn for protection to dreary clich a bout respect for elders-- as if mere agewere a reason for respect. I accept that we are e quals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wron g. Lesson 6 The sporting spiritI am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport create s goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common pe oples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket , they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Eve n if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contes ts lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general pri nciples.Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You pl ayto win, and the game has little meaning unless you do youru tmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play si mply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of pr estige arises, assoon asyou feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instinct s are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level sport is frankly mim ic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the p layers but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the specta tors, of the nations. who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe--at any rate for short per iods--that running, jumping and kicking aball are tests of nation al virtue.刘晓华liuxiaohua72@ 8Lesson7 BatsNot all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a casein which thePeople are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one —which I take leave to doubt --then it is older people wh o create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human bei ngs--people just like their elders. There is only one difference be tween an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorio us future before him and the old one has a splendid future behi nd him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teena ger, I felt that I was just young and uncertain --that I wasanew b oyin a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to ber egarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thin g, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that isone o f the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.I find youn g people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they haven ot a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, a ndthe origins of things. It's asif they were in some sense cosmi c beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatur es. All thatis in my mind when I meet a young person. He may b e conceited, illmannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do no t turn for protection to dreary clich a bout respect for elders-- asifmere agewere areasonfor respect.Iacceptthat wearee quals,andIwill arguewith him,asanequal,ifIthink heiswron g.7Lesson6 The sporting spiritI am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport create s goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common pe oples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket , they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Eve n if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contes ts lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general pri nciples.Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. Youpl ayto win, and the game has little meaning unless you do youru tmost to win. Onthe village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play si mply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of pr estige arises,assoon asyou feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savagecombative instinct sare aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knowsthis. Atthe international level sport is frankly mim ic warfare. But the significant thing isnot the behaviour of the p layers but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the specta tors, of the nations. who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe--at any rate for short per iods--that running, jumping and kicking aball are tests of nation al virtue.刘晓华liuxiaohua72@ 8Lesson7 BatsNot all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a casein which thePeople are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one—whichI take leave to doubt --then it is older people wh o create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human bei ngs--people just like their elders. There is only one difference be tween an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorio us future before him and the old one has a splendid future behi nd him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teena ger, I felt that I was just young and uncertain --that Iwasanew b oy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be r egarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thin g, being a problem gives you a certain identity,and that isone o f the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.I find youn g people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have n ot a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, a ndthe origins of things. It's asif they were in some sense cosmi c beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatur es. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may b e conceited, illmannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do no t turn for protection to dreary clich a bout respect for elders-- asifmere agewere areasonfor respect.Iacceptthat weare e quals,and Iwill arguewith him,asan equal,ifIthink heiswron g.Lesson 6 The sporting spiritI am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport create s goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common pe oples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket , they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Eve n if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contes ts lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general pri nciples.Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You pl ayto win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your u tmost towin. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play si mply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of pr estige arises, as soon asyou feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instinct s are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level sport is frankly mim ic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the p layers but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the specta tors, of the nations. who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe--at any rate for short per iods--that running, jumping and kicking aball are tests of nation al virtue.刘晓华liuxiaohua72@ 8Lesson7 BatsNot all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a casein which the。
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