專四閲讀難點關鍵句精選

專四英語閲讀題，一直都是廣大考生頭疼的題型之一，那麼為了更好的幫助大家攻克這個難題，今天小編就給大家整理精選了一些閲讀中的關鍵句子，希望大家可以好好學習一番!

一、英語原句

1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.

2. But it will be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.

3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.

4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.

5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.

6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.

8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.

10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.

11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.

12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.

13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know , and make men of them.

14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth’s postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.

15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.

16. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.

17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.

18. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

19. The first time that the question “ What is at the bottom of the oceans?” had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

20. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

21. For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is available for the student to show to prospective employers.

22. All this imposes a constant pressure and strain of work, but in spite of this some students still find time for great activity in student affairs.

23. The effective work of maintaining discipline is usually performed by students who advise the academic authorities.

24. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.

25. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

26. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.

27. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyse and evaluate, and to communicate effectively.

28. The problem is, how to encourage a child to express himself freely and confidently in writing without holding him back with the complexities of spelling?

29. It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil’s technical abilities in writing, but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay, which contained some beautiful expressions of the child’s deep feelings.

30. The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors, but if his priorities had centred on the child’s ideas, an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement.

31. Given the nature of government and private employers, it seems most likely that discrimination by private employers would be greater.

32. The release of the carbon in these compounds for recycling depends almost entirely on the action of both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and certain types of fungi.

33. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t.

34. They are trying to find out whether there is something about the way we teach language to children which in fact prevents children from learning sooner.

35. Mathematicians who have tried to use the computers to copy the way the brain works have found that even using the latest electronic equipment they would have to build a computer which weighed over 10,000 kilos.

36. Since different people like to do so many different things in their spare time, we could make a long list of hobbies, taking in everything from collecting matchboxes and raising rare fish, to learning about the stars and making model ships.

37. They know that a seal swimming under the ice will keep a breathing hole open by its warm breath, so they will wait beside the hole and kill it.

38. We may be able to decide whether someone is white only by seeing if they have none of the features that would mark them clearly as a member of another race.

39. Although signs of dishonesty in school , business and government seem much more numerous in years than in the past, could it be that we are getting better at revealing such dishonesty?

40. It is not quite a matter of disagreeing with the theory of independence, but of rejecting its implications: that the romances may be taken in any or no particular order, that they have no cumulative effect, and that they are as separate as the works of a modern novelist.

41. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as “ racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,” can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.

42. Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of and so was crucial in sustaining — the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their African and American experiences.

43. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on , is not very dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived from the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience.

44. There are several steps that can be taken, of which the chief one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding the interests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards people.

45. It was possible to demonstrate by other methods refined structural differences among neuron types, however, proof was lacking that the quality of the impulse or its conduction was influenced by these differences, which seemed instead to influence the developmental patterning of the neural circuits.

46. According to this theory, it is not the quality of the sensory nerve impulses that determines the diverse conscious sensations they produce, but rather the different areas of the brain into which they discharge , and there is some evidence for this view.

47. The result of attrition is that, where the areas of the whole leaves follow a normal distribution, a bimodal distribution is produced, one peak composed mainly of fragmented pieces, the other of the larger remains.

48. The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more immediate concern, the reliability of present day economic forecasting, there are considerable difference of opinion.

49. A survey conducted in Britain confirmed that an abnormally high percentage of patients suffering from arthritis of the spine who had been treated with X rays contracted cancer.

50. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

51. Even the doctoral degree, long recognized as a required “ union card” in the academic world, has come under severe criticism as the pursuit of learning for its own sake and the accumulation of knowledge without immediate application to a professor’s classroom duties.

52. While a selection of necessary details is involved in both, the officer must remain neutral and clearly try to present a picture of the facts, while the artist usually begins with a preconceived message or attitude which is then transmitted through the use of carefully selected details of action described in words intended to provoke associations and emotional reactions in the reader.

53. Articles in the popular press even criticize the Gross National Production (GNP) because it is not such a complete index of welfare, ignoring, on the one hand, that it was never intended to be, and suggesting, on the other, that with appropriate changes it could be converted into one.

54. Other experiments revealed slight variations in the size, number, arrangement, and interconnection of the nerve cells, but as far as psychoneuaral correlations were concerned, the obvious similarities of these sensory fields to each other seemed much more remarkable than any of the minute differences.

55. The Chinese have distributed publications to farmers and other rural residents instructing them in what to watch for their animals so that every household can join in helping to predict earthquakes.

56. Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.

57. Neither would it prevent cruise missiles or bombers, whose flights are within the Earth’s atmosphere, from hitting their targets.

58. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies.

59. During the nineteenth century, she argues, the concept of the “useful” child who contributed to the family economy gave way gradually to the present day notion of the “useless” child who, though producing no income for, and indeed extremely costly to its parents, is yet considered emotionally “ priceless”.

60. Well established among segments of the middle and upper classes by the mid-1800’s, this new view of childhood spread throughout society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as reformers introduced child labor regulations and compulsory education laws predicted in part on the assumption that a child’s emotional value made child labor taboo.

　　二、中文翻譯

　　1.繫好安全帶能夠挽救性命，它能將喪生和重傷的概率減少一半以上。

2.但是司機有責任確保14歲以下的孩子不要坐在前排，除非他們繫好了安全帶。

3.當然，如果有以下情況你可以不繫安全帶：你在倒車時，或者你用一種特殊交通工具進行當地的貨物運送.收集時，或者你有合法的醫學證明你不能系安全帶時。

4.注意你如果不這麼做(系安全帶)的話，你有可能被告上法庭，而且你有可能被處以罰款除非你能證明你有不帶安全帶的理由。

u Matsuzawa 教授想找出為什麼日本北部的健康農民在相對年輕的年齡就顯得開始失去思考與推理的能力的原因以及怎樣才能延緩老化過程。

6.在東京國立大學的同事們的幫助下，他開始對一千來自不同職業的人羣進行了大腦體積的測量。

7.計算機技術幫助研究人員獲得人腦前部和側部的準確體積，這是與人的智能和情緒有關的部分，而且也決定人的性格特點。

8.有的人(大腦)前部和側部的收縮——隨着細胞的死亡——在三十多歲時就能被觀察到了，但是也有些人直到六七歲依然不明顯。

9.研究結果表明在農村的人大腦收縮基本上比城市裏的人要早。

10.在政府部門從事簡單重複工作的白領也像農場工人.公共汽車司機和商店職員一樣大腦細胞容易收縮。

11.我們知道你們很看重你們在大學裏面教育的學習方法，而且我們的年輕人與你們生活的花費即使對於你們來説也不便宜。

12.但是你們也要明白不同的民族看待事物有不同的方法，所以如果剛好我們的看法與你們的不一樣的話，你們也不應覺的被冒犯了。

13.當然，對於你們的盛情我們沒有被逼迫的感覺，儘管我們拒絕接受。而且，為了表示我們的感謝，如果維吉利亞洲的紳士們願意派來一些他們的子弟的話，我們會盡全力教育他們，並把他們培養成為真正的男人。

14.在這個像是計算機史前時代的時代，地球的戰後時代，人們普遍擔憂有一天計算機會取代人類控制世界。

15.今天或者不到五十年後，計算機將越來越多的減輕人們的工作事務和日常瑣事。我們也將面對一個沒有什麼戲劇性和更不可預測的問題。

16.顯然，如果你不得不檢查計算機提供的所有答案的話，對它投資就沒有任何意義了。但是當人們覺的計算機確實出了一些問題的`時候，應該靠自己內部的“計算機”來檢查機器。

17.當然牛頓在他的作品中寫到了一些理論方面的東西，但他不願進行更加深刻的研究。

18.除了一些洲際旅行者和以大海為生的人，對於大多數人來説，大海是遙遠的，沒有什麼必要提出太多問題，更別説思考大海海底的東西了。

19.當鋪設一條從歐洲到美洲的海底電報光纜的時候，出於商業動機，人們第一次不得不回答這個問題“海底是什麼東西”。

20.在早期的嘗試中，光纜鋪設失敗，不得不取出來維修。這時人們發現上面覆蓋有生物，這推翻了當時科學界認為深海沒有生命的理論。

21.學生們所學的每一門課程都有分數，而且要被記錄存檔，這可以用來提供給將來學生的僱主們。

22.所有這些給學生們施加了很大的壓力，儘管如此，學生們還是積極參加學生活動。

23.而有效遵守紀律的學生們往往是那些經常給校方提建議的學生。

24.當丈夫們和妻子們認識到這種能量圈的意思以及各個家庭成員所處的圈之後，許多家庭爭吵就結束了。

25.只要可能，在下午做那些程序化的工作，把需要更多能量的工作留到你效率最好的時候去做。

26.我們也很看重個人品德和社交技能，我們發現混合能力的教育對學習的各個方面都有幫助。

27.他們也要學習如何處理個人問題和怎樣思考，怎樣決策.分析和評估以及有效溝通。

28.問題是，怎樣鼓勵一個孩子在寫作時自由自信的表達自己，而不被拼寫的複雜所捆繞。

29.這可能是對學生在寫作中的技術能力的尖鋭批評，但也是老師的失敗的悲哀反映——忽略了朗讀文章，這其中優美的表達可以激發孩子們的深刻感受。

30.老師注重錯誤沒錯，但是如果他更注重孩子的思想的話，他失望的表現會使孩子有提高的動力。

31.根據政府和私人僱主的性質來看，私人僱主更有可能採取歧視。

32.這種化合物通過碳的釋放來實現循環，主要依靠喜氧和厭氧細菌以及一些菌類的活動。

33.一場激烈的爭論在一個女孩和一位少校中展開了，前者説女人們已經不再“看到老鼠就從椅子上跳起來”了，而後者説她們依然那樣。

34.他們在嘗試尋找是否我們教授孩子們語言的方法中有阻礙孩子們迅速學習語言的東西。

35.使用計算機來拷貝大腦工作方式的數學家們發現即使使用最先進的電子設備，他們也要建造一台超過10，000公斤的計算機。

36.既然不同的人們在他們的業餘時間做不同的事情，我們可以列出一長串愛好列表，包括從收集火柴盒到養珍稀魚類以及學習星學和製造航模等各種消遣。

37.他們知道在冰面下面游泳的海豹呼吸的熱氣會使冰面上出現洞口，於是他們就在洞旁守侯並捕殺海豹。

38.只要一個人沒有屬於其他人種的明顯的特徵，我們就可以判斷他是否屬於白色人種。

39.儘管在學校，企業和政府中不誠實的欺詐行為近年來比以往都要多，大那也許是因為我們在這些方面加大了揭露的力度。

40.並不是與獨立理論不一致，而是與其應用不相符合：愛情小説可以以任何一種形式展現或者根本沒有特殊的規律，他們沒有累積效果，就象現代小説家的作品一樣獨立。

41.對於針對美國黑人的種族歧視，他的理論相對成立得較好，但是他將種族偏見如此定義：“在某一特定區域內的種族競爭中被普遍接受的一個種族所受到的基於種族的負面偏見。”可以看作也包含有對象加州的中國人以及中世紀的猶太人等少數民族的敵視。

42.加特曼確鑿地説明黑人家庭的穩定鼓勵了黑人文化遺產的傳遞和維護，這些遺產包括從一代傳到另一代的民間傳説，音樂，和宗教表述，這些遺產使非洲和美洲的奴隸們特色顯著。

43.即使社會系統的民間知識中像掙錢，花費，組織，婚嫁，政治活動的參與，以及戰鬥等等，都與從社會科學中衍生出來更加精細的社會系統描述相差不多，儘管它是建立在一個不太完善的個人經驗上的模型。

44.有幾項措施可以採取，其中主要的是要所有宣佈以保護動物利益為目標的組織都明確宣佈他們對於人類所受到的暴力襲擊表決堅定的立場.

45.用其他方式來展示神經類型的細微差別也是可能的，然而，要證明脈衝質量和傳導受到這些差別的影響還缺乏證據，看起來這些差別影響的是神經單元的發展形成方式。

46.根據這一理論，不是由感覺神經脈衝的質量來決定他們產生的各種神經感覺的，而是由他們被髮射到大腦的哪一部位來決定的，對這一觀點是有證據的。

47.磨擦的結果是，在葉面上服從正態分佈的地方就會產生兩種分佈方式，頂點上主要是小塊，其他的地方是小塊，其他的地方是大塊的地方。

48.聖經沒有告訴我們羅馬的數據統計者們怎樣達到我們今天的經濟預測的可靠性的，我們進一步思考的話，其中的意見上有很大的不同。

49.在英國進行的一項調查證實經常接受X光照射的脊椎關節炎患者癌症的百分比高得不正常。

50.然而，穿過太空的港灣，那裏的意識對於我們的來説就像我們的意識比動物的意識一樣，冷酷廣博而無情的智慧，用嫉妒的眼睛看作地球，慢慢地肯定會制定針對我們的計劃。

51.即使是學術界被長時間認作必須“同盟卡”的博士學位，現在也因為僅僅為了學習本身和知識的累積而學習，卻不把知識應用到教授的教學職責中去而受到了嚴厲的批評。

52.儘管收集必要的信息對於兩者來説都是需要的，但官員必須以中立和清晰的態度來提供事實的畫面，而藝術家從已設字的信息或者態度開始，並將其過用激發讀者共鳴和情緒反應的詞語描寫的動用細節描述出來。

53.流行期刊中甚至有文章批評國民生產總值，因為它並不是一個福利目錄，一方面忽視了它從來就沒有這種傾向，另一方面的建議是通過正確的改變它才能被轉化過來。

54.其他的實驗揭示神經細胞的大小.數量.排列和連接的細微變化，但就神經關聯而言，這些感覺區域的相似性比那些細微的區別更有意義可言。

55.中國向農民和其它農村住户發放了宣傳刊物，指導他們觀察動物，以便每户人家都能參與幫助地震預報。

56.星球大戰防禦系統的支持者們希望它不僅能保護一個遭受核攻擊的國家，也希望它能成為使核攻擊永不發生的足夠威脅。

57.它也不能防止軌道在地球大氣層以內的洲際導彈和轟炸機命中目標。

58.人民活動家一直認為黑人和拉丁美人難以在生意上立足的原因是因為他們難以取得大公司的大宗定單和分包合同。

59.她認為十九世紀給家庭經濟作出貢獻的孩子才“有用”的概念慢慢改變了，今天提到那些沒有掙取收入的“無用”孩子，甚至還要花銷很多，仍然在情感上被認為是無價的。

60.這種關於孩子的觀點到19世紀時已在中上階級中建立，並於19世紀末20世紀初在社會上廣泛傳播，當時改革者們推行童工規定和義務教育法，部分來源於孩子的情感價值的假設，這都使得使用童工被禁止了。