2019年江西科技学院专升本英语科目考试大纲

一、考试对象

本大纲适用于报考江西科技学院专升本的考生

二、考试方式和时间

闭卷笔试，考试时间为120分钟，试卷满分为100分。

三、考试题型

语法词汇、阅读理解、完形填空、翻译题、作文题等。

四、参考教材

新视野大学英语读写教程4(第三版) 郑树棠 主编

外语教学与研究出版社

五、复习大纲

Unit 1: Life and logic

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A Love and logic: The story of a fallacy

2. Writing Activity—write a narrative essay

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Skimming

2. Text B Why do smart people do dumb things

3. Unit Project—Writing a survey report on logical fallacies

1.Some advice on how to write narrative essay.

2. The use of important words and phrases: fallacy, pact, shrewd, dye, makeup, elite, radiant, counterpart, pearl, banner, make a pact; in exchange for, set a date for, appeal to, make an analogy between.

II. Content focuses (重点)

3. Apply the writing skills to organize a paragraph

III. Difficult points (难点)

1. Talk about logic and narrative essay.

2. Practice the reading skill-Previewing.

Unit 2: Secrets to beauty

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A The confusing pursuit of beauty

2. Writing Activity—write a comparison/contrast essay

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Identifying the topic sentence

2. Text B Making the choice to be truly beautiful

3. Unit Project—Discovering your own beauty

II.Content focuses (重点)

1. Some useful fast reading skills.

2. The usage of important words and phrases: rehearsal, bald, arrogant, transient, affix, groom, strand, excuse oneself, come up with, stick to , etc.

III. Difficult points (难点)

1. The usage of some new words and phrases: excuse oneself, come up with, stick to sth, reach out to, be obsessed with, voice an opinion on, etc

2. Reading skills: Identifying the topic sentence

3. Writing skill: Write a comparison/contrast essay

Unit 3: Being entrepreneurial

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A Fred Smith and FedEx: The vision that changed the world

2. Writing Activity—write a narrative with biographical information

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Recognizing signal words of time

2. Text B Building the dream of Starbucks

3.Unit Project—Writing a report on starting one’s own business

II.Content focuses (重点)

1. Information of Fred Smith and FedEx.

2. The usage of important words and phrases: reshuffle，exquisite, stockholder, clan，invalid, terrain，revive, alumnus, charter, disrupt, prototype and etc.

3. Writing skill: Recognizing signal words of time.

III. Difficult points (难点)

1. The usage of important words and phrases: reshuffle，exquisite, stockholder, clan，invalid, terrain，revive, alumnus, charter, disrupt, prototype, touchdown, hold … in high regard, pick on , be onto something and etc.

2. Grasp the reading skill—Write a narrative with biographical information.

3. Grasp the writing skill—Recognizing signal words of time.

Unit 4: Nature: To worship or to conquer

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A Achieving sustainable environmentalism

2. Writing Activity—Write an argumentative essay

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Reading between the lines

2. Text B What nature is telling you

3. Unit Project—Writing a report on college students’ awareness of environmental protection

II. Content focuses (重点)

1. Students should be able to understand sustainable development and environmental protection.

2. The usage of important words and phrases: democracy, congressman, segregates, consolidate, differentiate, definitive, sane, ecological, ozone, deplete, correlation, thermal, differentiate between, take on, go against the grain and etc.

3. Writing skill: Write an argumentative essay.

III Difficult points (难点)

1. The usage of some new words and phrases: ozone, deplete, correlation, thermal, differentiate between, take on, go against the grain, be incompatible with, come through and etc.

2. Talking about information of environmentalism.

3. Reading skill: Reading between the lines

Unit 5: Why culture counts

І.. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A Speaking Chinese in America

2. Writing Activity—Write a narrative with direct dialog

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—finding out word meanings

2. Text B Culture makes the business world go round

3. Unit Project—Designing a book on Chinese culture

II. Content focuses (重点)

1. The usage of important words and phrases: peninsula, confidential, recipient, nominal, emigrant, taboo, scallop, garlic, flank, cucumber, lunar, mutter, tray, foil, breach, colony, starve to death, be attached to, on the side, etc

2. Reading skill: Finding out word meanings

III Difficult points (难点)

1. The information about your home culture.

2. The usage of taboo, scallop, garlic, flank, cucumber, lunar, mutter, tray, foil, breach, colony.

3. Writing skill: Write a narrative with direct dialog.

Unit 6: Gender equality

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A The weight men carry

2. Writing Activity—Support an argument with personal experiences and observations.

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Reading for supporting details.

2. Text B What does feminism really mean?

3. Unit Project—Conducting a survey on the gender-major relationships in universities.

II. Content focuses (重点)

1. The usage of important new words and expressions: grid, commonwealth, rooster, crow, shepherd, weld, cabinet, lubricate, tract, shutter, liver, copper, off grid, scrape by, extract from, etc.

2. Writing skill: Support an argument with personal experiences and observations.

3. Knowing men and women are alike in many essential ways, yet there are also various gender-based differences between them.

III Difficult points (难点)

1. Understanding sexes differences biologically and psychologically.

2. Practicing the writing skill: Support an argument with personal experiences and observations.

Unit 7: Energy and food crises

І..Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A The coming energy crisis

2. Writing Activity—Write a cause-and-effect essay

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Identifying the author’s purpose

2. Text B A worldwide food crisis?

3. Unit Project—Raising peer students’ consciousness of conserving energy and food

II. Content focuses (重点)

1. The usage of important words and phrases: density, triple, monopoly, fossil, treaty, poll, insurgent, extinct, indefinite, wisp, factor in, be projected to, on a scale.

2. Reading skill: Identifying the author’s purpose

III. Difficult points (难点)

1. The phenomena of energy and food crisis.

2. The usage of factor in, be projected to, on a scale, fill up, clear up.

3. Writing skill: Write a cause-and-effect essay

Unit 8: Passion guides life choices

І. Teaching Contents (内容)

Section A

1. Text A A meaningful life

2. Writing Activity—Write a personal narrative

Section B

1. Reading Activity

Reading Skill—Understanding figurative language

2. Text B A turning point of my life

3. Unit Project—Talking about a person who has made a difference in the world

II. Content focuses (重点)

1. Students can understand the turning point of their own lives.

2. The usage of important words and phrases: angel, obituary, seminar, specimen, assassin, secular, oath, graphic, brochure, leaflet, turn up, put out, alert to do, etc.

III. Difficult points (难点)

1. The usage of some new words and phrases: oath, graphic, brochure, leaflet, turn up, put out, alert to do, etc.

2. The significance of someone who changed the world

3. Critical thinking about figurative language