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1、精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 1 -1经典教材精选的美文这个优秀文章 36 篇是我从新概念三、四的教材里精心挑选出来的，其中新概念三 20 篇和新概念四的 16 篇，从贴 近考研英语的角度来筛选，剔除了大部分的记叙文和说明文题材，主要就是论说文了。这些精选出来的文章作为必须背诵的素材。原来的文档很多都有或多或少的小错误。这里我都精心对照过，并且尽力避免出现错误。以前那个版本只有 20 篇文章（新三 12 篇，新四 8 篇），有网友反映排版使用不是很方便，这里重新排版。另外字体用稍微大一点的 5 号，眼睛会舒服一点， 还可以做一点点笔记，不过页数会增加一点。蓝色加粗是考研重点词汇，要从课文句
2、子中掌握其用法，不是很熟的最好查一下牛津或者其他词典；加阴影紫色字体是考研用短语和句型。划线的重点要熟练应用的句子，尽量应用到作文中去。对这 36 篇文章最好是听写、翻译、背 诵一步步来。先把文章听写出来，然后翻译成中文，再把中文翻译成英文，最后背 诵。不 过这个过程很花 时间，但是也能提高英 语能力。如果单纯考研应试，英语不想考那么高分，而其他科目需要的时间多点，那就只背 诵吧。背诵是一件很痛苦的事情，实在背不下来，可以 给自己定一个量的要求：“50 遍啊 50 遍！”甚至更强的 “100 遍啊 100 遍”读了 50 遍以上就算背不出来也很熟练了吧。语言是背出来，模仿磁带的读音，大声跟 读
3、大声的背，将可以达到听说读写齐头并进。精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 2 -2新概念三 Lesson 14 A noble gangster 贵族歹徒There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for protection. If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of busin
4、ess by destroying his shop. Obtaining protection money is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.Six hundred years ago
5、, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willin
6、g to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. In spite of this, the Ita
7、lians regarded him as a sort of hero. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue. 曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取保护。如果交款不及时,
8、歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产.榨取保护金并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.早在 14 世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手. 600 年前 ,约翰 .霍克伍德爵士带着一队士兵来到意大利,在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来,很快就出了名.意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.每次意大利各城邦之间发生战争,霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给愿给他出高价的君主。和平时期,当生意萧条时,霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦,纵火精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 3 -3烧毁一两个农场,然后提出,如向他们缴纳保护金,他们便主动撤离。霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.尽管如此,意大利人还是
9、把他视作某种英雄。他 80 岁那年死去时,佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,并为他画像以纪念这位骁勇无比的战士、杰出的领袖乔凡尼.阿库托先生.精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 4 -4there was a time when 曾有一个时期，when 引导状语从句修饰 timepay large sums of money to sb. 向某人付大笔大笔的费用in return for 目的是为了换取.作为对. 的回报put a man out of business: 使某人失业，破产put sb. / sth. out of . 使某人失去.e.g. You are putting me out
10、of patience. 你使我失去了耐心。e.g. You have already put everything out of order. 你把一切弄得乱七八糟。as long ago as 追溯回到 同义词组：date back to / date frommake the remarkable discovery 做出不同寻常的发现woulde rather do sth. than do sth 宁愿做什么，而不愿意做什么。life work 毕生的事业have sth. done（1 ）东西被破坏等不好的事情发生e.g. have sth. stolenbrokentaken 东
11、西被偷被毁被拿走（2 ）请人做某事（不是自己做）e.g. The Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a picture painted. .请人画画（文中的句子，注意区别这两个 have sth. done 的不同意思）e.g. I want to have the tree cut down.make a name for himself 意思是：become famouscome to / get to do 渐渐地（做成某事）come to be known 渐渐的被人所熟知in times of在 期间march into 大踏步
12、行军到offer to do 提出regard sb. as 认为某人是 . 精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 5 -5a sort of 某类give sb. a state funeral 给某人举行国葬to the memory of 为了纪念精选新概念必背优秀文章 36 篇 6 -6Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world 世界上最长的吊桥 Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and n
13、amed it Angouleme. He described it as a very agreeable situation located within two small hills in the midst of which flowed a great river. Though Verrazano is by no means considered to be a great explorer, his name will probably remain immortal, for on November 21st, 1964, the longest suspension br
14、idge in the world was named after him. The Verrazano Bridge, which was designed by Othmar Ammann, joins Brooklyn to Staten Island. It has a span of 4,260 feet. The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be taken into account by its designer. Two great towers support four huge cables. T
15、he towers are built on immense underwater platforms made of steel and concrete. The platforms extend to a depth of over 100 feet under the sea. These alone took sixteen months to build. Above the surface of the water, the towers rise to a height of nearly 700 feet. They support the cables from which
16、 the bridge has been suspended. Each of the four cables contains 26,108 lengths of wire. It has been estimated that if the bridge were packed with cars, it would still only be carrying a third of its total capacity. However, size and strength are not the only important things about this bridge. Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designers dream to create an enormous
