全国公共英语等级考试阅读手册 四级PDF电子书下载

第一节 PETS第四级考试的形式、内容与结构 3

第二节 如何解答主旨大意题 25

第三节 如何解答事实细节题 32

第四节 如何解答语义理解题 38

第五节 如何解答推断题 43

第六节 如何进行英译汉 52

Unit One 59

Part A 59

Text 1 The Adaptations of Organisms 59

Text 2 A Bad Mood 61

Text 3 Food Shortage 63

Text 4 Polarity Reversals 66

Text Creative Thinking 68

Part B 68

Unit Two 70

Part A 70

Text 1 The Road Funding 70

Text 2 A Possible Cause of Aircraft Crashes 72

Text 3 The Abilities of Monkeys 74

Text 4 Earthquake Prediction 77

Part B 79

Text Critical Thinking 79

Unit Three 81

Part A 81

Text 1 The Problems of Injustice 81

Text 2 Short-term Memory 83

Text 3 New Physics 85

Text 4 Women s Images in Ads 88

Text Two Truths to Live 90

Part B 90

Unit Four 92

Part A 92

Text 1 Drinking Enough Water 92

Text 2 The Human Body 95

Text 3 Environmental Pollution 97

Text 4 The Fall of Population 99

Part B 101

Text The Balance of Nature 102

Unit Five 103

Part A 103

Text 1 General Washington 103

Text 2 Money Spent on Armanments 105

Text 3 Public Speech 108

Text 4 Storms 110

Part B 112

Text To Build a Body Part 112

Unit Six 114

Part A 114

Text 1 The Home and Market Economies 114

Text 2 The Dying Honor 117

Text 3 The Human-resource Management of American Firms 118

Text 4 Nature of Nurture 121

Part B 123

Text Inertia 124

Unit Seven 125

Part A 125

Text 1 Happy and Unhappy People 125

Text 2 Telecommuting 127

Text 3 Olestra:Fat Substitute 130

Text 4 The Supreme Conrt 132

Part B 134

Text Of Studies 135

Unit Eight 136

Part A 136

Text 1 British Family 136

Text 2 Cockneys 138

Text 3 Markey System 140

Text 4 Glaciers 142

Part B 145

Text Small Business 145

Unit Nine 146

Part A 146

Text 1 Protecting Consumers Rights 147

Text 2 Inflation 148

Text 3 Insurance Companies 151

Text 4 Weather Forecasting 153

Part B 155

Text Energy 155

Unit Ten 157

Part A 157

Text 1 Acting 157

Text 2 Cycle of People s Activity 159

Text 3 Origin of Money 162

Text 4 Eyes 164

Part B 166

Text Lincoln s Character 166

Unit Eleven 168

Part A 168

Text 1 Nuclear Waste 168

Text 2 Language Learning 170

Text 3 Job Hunting 172

Text 4 Journalistic Interview 175

Part B 177

Text Molecules and Atoms 177

Unit Twelve 180

Part A 180

Text 1 Three Economic Systems 180

Text 2 American Higher Education 182

Text 3 The Story of Amelia 185

Text 4 Disappearance of a City 187

Part B 189

Text Nutritioin 189

Part A 191

Text 1 Two TV Talk Shows 191

Unit Thirteen 191

Text 2 The Irreversible Change 193

Text 3 Aggressive Patriotism in the Olympic 195

Text 4 Pure Knowledge 198

Part B 200

Text Censorship 200

Unit Fourteen 202

Part A 202

Text 1 Popularity That Counts 202

Text 2 Amusement 204

Text 3 Toruism 206

Text 4 Two Aspects of Women s Well-being 208

Part B 210

Text Children When a Parent Dies 210

Part A 212

Text 1 A New Era 212

Unit Fifteen 212

Text 2 Syrup Making 214

Text 3 Problems of Old People 217

Text 4 Business Cycle of America 219

Part B 222

Text Feelings of Discontent with Your Job 222

Unit Sixteen 223

Part A 223

Text 1 Employees 224

Text 2 Allowance 226

Text 3 Water in the Plant 228

Text 4 Water Transport 230

Part B 233

Text Light and Laser 233

Text 1 Sleep Deficit 235

Part A 235

Unit Seventeen 235

Text 2 The Causes Affection Weather 237

Text 3 Greenspace Facilities 240

Text 4 About Work 242

Part B 244

Text Losing Weight 244

Unit Eighteen 246

Part A 246

Text 1 Senses 246

Text 2 Teenagers Behaviour 248

Text 3 The Young 250

Text 4 Plankton 252

Part B 254

Text Speech Changing 255

Text 1 The United States 256

Unit Nineteen 256

Part A 256

Text 2 Epcot Center 258

Text 3 Shyness 260

Text 4 The Cause of Inflation 262

Part B 265

Text Expansion and Contraction 265

Unit Twenty 266

Part A 266

Text 1 Sleep 266

Text 2 Biographers 268

Text 3 Beauty 271

Text 4 Academic Mobility 273

Part B 275

Text Televisions 275

Text 1 Advertising 277

Unit Twenty-one 277

Part A 277

Text 2 Civilization 279

Text 3 Standard of Living 281

Text 4 Manners 283

Part B 286

Text Language and Culture 286

Unit Twenty-two 288

Part A 288

Text 1 American Newspapers 288

Text 2 Schools 290

Text 3 Powerless Human 292

Text 4 Medicine 295

Text Physical and Chemical Changes 297

Part B 297

Part A 298

Unit Twenty-three 298

Text 1 About Children 299

Text 2 Emotion 301

Text 3 Container Gardening 303

Text 4 American Economic System 305

Part B 307

Text Living Things 307

Unit Twenty-four 309

Part A 309

Text 1 Patent 309

Text 2 Immune System 311

Text 3 Women Entrepreneurs 314

Text 4 AZQ 316

Text Netiquette 318

Part B 318

Unit Twenty-five 320

Part A 320

Text 1 Consumer Psychology 320

Text 2 Adolescence 323

Text 3 Mading Rain 325

Text 4 Archaeology Changing 327

Part B 329

Text Smoking 329

Unit Twenty-six 331

Part A 331

Text 1 American Judicial System 331

Text 2 Learning a Language 333

Text 3 Theory of Light 336

Text 4 Hydroponics 338

Part B 340

Text Cultural Shock 341

Unit One 345

Unit Two 349

Unit Three 353

Unit Four 357

Unit Five 362

Unit Six 367

Unit Seven 372

Unit Eight 377

Unit Nine 382

Unit Ten 387

Unit Eleven 391

Unit Twelve 397

Unit Thirteen 402

Unit Fourteen 407

Unit Fifteen 412

Unit Seventeen 412

Unit Sixteen 418

Unit Eighteen 428

Unit Nineteen 433

Unit Twenty 438

Unit Twenty-one 443

Unit Twenty-two 448

Unit Twenty-three 453

Unit Twenty-four 458

Unit Twenty-five 463

Unit Twenty-six 468

参考答案总表（选择题） 473