《综合英语教程教师参考书4》是教育部师范司组织编写的“中学教师进修高等师范本科（专科起点）”规划教材的重要组成部分。为《综合英语教程》提供了课文相关信息及主题思想大意，对主课文中出现的生词、短语和难点进行了解释。《综合英语教程教师参考书4》不仅对每个活动练习给出了参考答案，而且对其中一些活动提供了教学方法指导，对教师学习进修及课堂教学有较大的帮助。

UNIT 1 Global Warming
greenhouse effect：The atmosphere allows a large percentage of the rays of visible light fromtheSunto reachtheEarth’S surfaceandheatit．ApartofthisenergyiS reradiatedby the Earth’S surface in the form of long．wave infrared radiation．much of which iS absorbed by molecules of carbon dioxide and water vanour in the atmosphere and which iS reflected back to the surface as heat．This is roughly analogous to the effect produced by the glass panes of a greenhouse，which transmit sunlight in the visible range but hold in heat．
ThetrappingofthisinfraredradiationcausestheEarth'S surfaceandloweratmospheric layers to WalTll to a higher temperature than would otherwise be the case．Without this greenhouse heating，the Earth’S average temperature would be only about-73C （-100F）； even the oceans would be frozen under such conditions．Alternatively．a“runaway” greenhouse effect like that found on the planet Venus would result in surface temperatures as high as 500C（932F）．

Unit 1 Global Warming
Unit 2 Language and Silence
Unit 3 British Educational Tradition
Unlt 4 Snares
Unit 5 British Youth Culture
Unit 6 The Labour Market in Britain
Unit 7 About Face
Unit 8 Disasters
Unit 9 History
Unit 10 Book Reviews
Unit 11 Disease
Unit 12 Writing on the Hoof
Unit 13 Sports
Unit 14 Law and Justice
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权威性：本套教材系教育部师范司组编的英语专业规划教材。编者与审者均为国内知名专家、教授及多年从事师范英语教学的**教师。
针对性：本套教材汲取了国内外*新外语教学研究成果，理论与实践并重，针对中学进修教师实际需要精心编写。
实用性：本套教材在选材与练习设计上以培养学习者综合语言应用能力为宗旨，注重提高其业务能力。