大学英语四 topic U1-6（按单元排列） 四人组

Unit 1 之一

Talk about the power of humor and share the humorous

story or joke with your classmates

A: Is so funny! I can not help myself!

B: What makes you so happy!? Share it to us!

A: A joke! A very interesting joke. Let me tell you. A match walks on the street, suddenly; he feels that his head is itchy, so he scratches his head. And then, guess, what happens? Oh, his head catches fire! Haha……

C: I don’t think there is anything that worth laughing. Just so so.

D: I think it is really interesting. Maybe your level of laughing is so high. You are seriously lack of humor.

B: You can not say that she is a humorous less person just because she don’t think the joke is not funny enough. What’s more ,lacking of humor is a bad thing.

C: Although I don’t have enough humor, I firmly believe that sense of humor is very important. The truly humorous individual is often the focus of attention.

D: En, the humorous individual is often the focus of attention, and maybe popular with others, they can find out many topic to communicate with other beings.

Humor is indeed very important. Because humorless people always make the atmospheres freezing cold.

B: I agree to the opinion that people without humor are boring but it isn’t vital.

C: Although not fatal, but humorous people really can resolve the awkward situation well.

D: Besides, when you have a lecture or in a public places, humorous words can create a relaxed atmosphere. A: Yes, I think so!

Unit 1 ②

What is more important, study/work or leisure-time

activities? Can they reinforce each other?

A: What is wrong with Lucia? She looks pale.

B: I am so tired because of staying in self-study room a day.

C: You should go out instead of sitting here. Studying without rest isn’t go for our health. You should spend more time on leisure-time activities.

D: Leisure-time activities is of course important, but you give up study and only to assume is not advisable.

A: Yeah, leisure-time activities and study are both the necessary parts of our daily life. B: What should I do in arranging time of study and leisure-time activities? I have less free time.

C: Since we don’t have much free time, why not doing them in the same time? Such as fishing which memorizeEnglish words.

D: If we do like this, perhaps we can not do well in both things. While you are reciting the words, you should also concern whether there are fishes, it may be tired. A: I think the method is not good as well. But, in fact, leisure-time activities and study can reinforce each other.

B: I like concentrating on one thing. For example ,learning time is used to learn ,and relaxing time is used to relax.

C: Center of your life is to learn, so you have little leisure time.

D: Rest is in order to better learning, so we just have a break in a class.

A: You do not have to study for a long time at once. I think you’d better to have a break every hour and have a little water. In that way, not only can you have a rest, but it is good for your health.

B: It sounds reasonable. I will try tomorrow. C:To relaxyouself.

D: Good luck with you.

Unit 2 之一

Is letter writing better than calling?

A: I haven’t called my best friend for a long time. In the past few years, we were used to write letters to each other.

B: I have never written letters. I think it is so terrible.

C: So it is. Writing letter is just waste of time, calling is far more convenient.We can connect anywhere by phone.

D Nowadays, it is convenient to make telephone. But sometimes, we are lack of a truly feeling. So we can experiencesomething traditional occasionally.

A: Yeah, sometimes you can’t express your real feelings by language rather than writing down. So, I think writing letters is better than calling.

B: But there are risks during the translation. Our letters may be sent wrong and may be lost. Our emotion can’t be delivered.

C: And by writing letters, a lot of information will not be received in time. Iprefer to calling to writing letters

D The calls sometimes are really in time, but through telephone many intonationscan not be keeping. Once we forget it, it will bring some troubles.

A: Letters are also good reminders, they can help us to find something important but we may have forgotten. They can call on us to the past years.

B: People have invented telephone, it is proved that telephone brings us convenience and it has advantages.

C: Calling has replaced writing letters into the main way of communication D Having said that, do you want to write to your classmates?

A: Oh! Come on! I do not have enough time. I ought to prepare for my English test.

Unit2 ②

Does criticism do more harm than good to people?

A: Hello, Lucia, what’s wrong with you?

B: I was criticized by teachers today. Because I can’t answer an easy question.

C: The season of teacher’s criticizing you is that he want you to be better. Teacher often judgewhether the student listen carefully by asking question. D: But the teacher went too far to you, it is not all of your error.

A: As a matter of fact, the purposes of teachers are not so bad. Their criticisms Won’t do much harm to students besides sometimes may heart their self-esteems.

B: Yeah…The reason I feel wronged isn’t I can’t answer. That is because the way he asked me I can’t understand.

C: You’re right. The teacher often does like this. Sometimes, neither he noryou feel goodafter hecriticizeyou. But his starting point is good, he hopeyou progressing.

D: I think we are mature enough to adjust whether it is right or not, it is not necessary always reminding us of it.

A: I agree. And recently, we always have strong self-esteems and good memories; the criticisms can cause untreatable harm lifelong. B: Er… Is it true that I am stupid as he said.

C:Maybe we should communicate with the teacher. The teacher will understand us. D: Actually criticism have different influence in different ages of people.

A: Emm， we may have to be faced with many criticisms from our boss when we come to works.

B: Encouraging is useful for us ,I think.

C: I agree. Sometimescriticism makes usafraid to go ahead and unable to innovation. D: All right, criticism does more harm than good to us.