2008年度4级真题A卷阅读分析
1.Global warming may or may not be the great invironmental crisis of the 21 century,but-regardless of whether it is or it isn't-we won't do much about it.
核心单词:global:全球的 invironmental:环境方面的
crisis:危机
核心短语:regardless of :不管
核心句型:or...but...
中心意思:不管全球变暖是否是21世纪最大的环境危机,我们都不会为之倾注太多。
2.we will argue over it and may even, as a nation,make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it.
核心单词:nation:国家 fairly:相当 solemn:严肃的
commitments:承诺,奉献
核心短语:argue over 为...而争论
核心句型:...and may even....
中心意思:我们会为之而争论不休,甚至于以一个国家的姿态,作出相当严肃的承诺来避免全球变暖。
3 But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed.
核心单词:damatic :戏剧性的,引人注目的
meaningful:意义深远的 likely :可能
observe:观察,注意到
核心句型:But the more...,the less...
核心语法:动词不定式的被动:they are to be observed
中心意思:但是承诺越是引人注目、意义深远,便越是可能不被注意。