2014年自考英语(一)考前要点复习:第十八单元
Text A Why Are Maps Drawn with North at the Top?
搭配:
1. Little more than 仅仅是
2. Place sth. on a sound footing 把什么建立在可靠的基础上
3. Be known to sb./sth. 为某人或某事所知
4. Base on 建立在什么基础之上
5. Rather than 而不是
6. Attempt to 试图做某事
7. In the form of 以某种形式
8. Be unaware that+从句 没有意识到
9. The reason for sth. 什么的原因
10. Interfere with 干涉
11. In accordance with 根据
12. With the spread of sth. 随着什么的扩展
13. Increasing reliance on sb./sth. 越来越依赖
语言点:
1. It was not until many centuries later that the ancient Greeks placed the science of map-making on a sound footing. 这是一个典型的强调句型,not until many centuries later是被强调的成分。
2. Flattened 平面的
3. Given(考虑到) the state of knowledge of those times, he got things wrong.
4. His estimate of China and the Atlantic Ocean was far from being accurate.(动名词作介词宾语,表示一点不准确)
5. Move(v.移动)-immovable(adj.固定不变的);use(v.使用)-useless(adj.无用的)
6. Assume 假定
