大学英语4级主观题攻略(完形改错翻译

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《大学英语4级主观题攻略(完形改错翻译)》：名师名校，打造精品书，精讲精练，架设考试桥。在英国剑桥大学，有一座造型优美的石桥，因为学生在参加考试时要经过该桥，久而久之，这座桥就被称为“考试桥”。本丛书命名为“考试桥”，即是取自这一典故，这里可以理解为“通向考试成功的桥梁”，也可理解为“通过考试这一桥梁，达到拓宽知识、了解世界的目的”。

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插图：Americans are careful about how and when they meet one another’s eyes.In their normal conversion，each eye connect lasts only about a second before one or both individuals look back.When two Americans look searchingly into each other’s eyes，emotions are heightened and there lationship becomes more intimate.Therefore，they carefully avoid this，except for in appropriate circumstances.Proper street behavior in the United States inquires a nice balance of attention and in attention~You are supposed to look at a passer-by just enough to show that you are aware his presenc-If you look too little，you appear arrogate or secretive；too much and you are curious.Usually what happens is that people eye each other after they are about eight feet apart，atthat point both cast down their eyes.In England the polite listener stares at the speaker searchingly and blinks his eyes occasionally as a sign of interest.That eye-blink says nothing to Americans，they expect the listener to nod or to murmur something——such as“inm-hum”.Americans abroad sometimes find local eye behavior hard to interpret.Such complaints can often be heard：“People there were disturbed.Theystare at me on the street；they look me up and down.I kept wandering if 1was uncombed or unzipped.”They don’t know that people in some places think nothing of staring at others on the street.10The disease afflicting（使某人苦恼）Western societies have under gone dramatic changes.In the cause of a century，SO many mass killers have vanished that two-thirds of all deaths are now associated the diseases of old age.Those who die young are more often than not the victims of incidents,violence and suicide.These changes in public health are generally equated with progress an dare attributed to more or better medical care.In fact，there is no evidence of any indirect relation between changing disease patterns and the so-called progress of m