新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第30课

Lesson 30 Adventures of Ideas 大胆的想法 Each civilization is born, it culminates, and it decays. There is a widespread estimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities. Now, slowly and at first

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第35课

Lesson 35 The Pegasus Book of Inventors 发明者的灵感 Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft. In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第34课

Lesson 34 Patients and Doctors 病人与大夫 This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第33课

Lesson 33 The Raising of the Vasa 瓦萨号出水 From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden, the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea. For nearly three and a half cen

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第31课

Lesson 31 Non-auditory Effects of Noise 噪音的非听觉效应 Many people in industry and the Services, who have practical experience of noise, regard any investigation of this question as a waste of time; they are not prepared even to admit the p

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第29课

Lesson 29 Pieces of Mind 思想片断 A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond. It is difficult for any of us in moments of

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第28课

Lesson 28 Countryman's Creed 乡下人的信条 No two sorts of birds practise quite the same sort of flight; the varieties are infinite, but two classes may be roughly seen. Any ship that crosses the pacific is accompanied for many days by the small

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第27课

Lesson 27 The Personality of Man 人的性格 Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world ? Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming more and more manifest. Although mankind h

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第26课

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新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第23课

Lesson 23 The Stuff of Dreams 说梦话的本质 It is fairly clear that the sleeping period must have some function, and because there is so much of it the function would seem to be important. Speculations about its nature have been going on for lit

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第22课

Lesson 22 Window in the Sea 海洋之窗 There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save drowning men by pushing them to the surface, or protect them from sharks by surrounding them in defensive formation. Marine Studio bio

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第21课

Lesson 21 Science Makes Sense 知识源于科学 In the early days of the settlement of Australia, enterprising settlers unwisely introduced the European rabbit. This rabbit had no natural enemies in the Antipodes, so that it multiplied with that pro

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第20课

Lesson 20 Man,the Unknown 人类神秘的巨人 In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected. Modern industry is based on the conception of th

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第4课

Lesson 4 Seeing hands看手 In the Soviet Union several cases have 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 'eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第12课

Lesson 12 The Language of Hollywood 好莱坞的语言 What characterizes almost all Hollywood pictures is their inner emptiness. This is compensated for by an outer impressiveness. Such impressiveness usually takes the form of truly grandiose realis

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第11课

Lesson 11 Spies in Britain英国的间谍 Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised as a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp was their passport.

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第10课

Lesson 10 Thoughts in the Wilderness 荒野里的遐想 In our new society there is a growing dislike of original, creative men. The manipulated do not understand them; the manipulators fear them. The tidy committee men regard them with horror, knowi

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第8课

Lesson 8 Education 教育 Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made,washing can go to the laundry, food can be bought cooked, canned or pr

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第15课

Lesson 15 The Consumer Society and the Law消费者社会和法律 When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another p

新概念英语85年上外美音版第四册 第18课

Lesson 18 The Social Founction of Science 科学的社会作用 Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific in industry. One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out, the other the lack of freedom of the i