Part Three—Pre-reading Questions
Part Four—Integrated Structure
Part Five—Introductory Remarks
Part Six— Study in Detail
I．Translation
1. 随着T型福特汽车的成功，汽车工业受到了应有的重视。（come into its own）
2. 出版社请读者多多包涵。（indulgence）
II．Identify the name of the figure of speech used in the following sentences. You must write down English words.
1. We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.
2. The headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line.
3. Are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individuals as bees or coral insects?
Key:
I．
1. With the success of the Model T Ford, the automobile industry came into its own.
2. The publisher seeks the indulgence of our readers.
II．
1. metaphor; 2. simile; 3. rhetorical question
Read the following paragraph carefully and analyze what the dominant impression of this paragraph is and how the impression is portrayed.
Please help me find my dog. He is a mongrel with the head of a poodle and the body of a wolf hound, and his fur is patchy and dingy-gray. He has only three legs, but despite his arthritis, he uses them pretty well to hobble around and scratch his fleas and mange. His one seeing eye is cloudy, so he runs with his head sideways. He ragged, twisted ears enable him to hear loud sounds, which startle his troubled nervous system and cause hem to howl pitifully. If you give him a scrap of food, he will gum it up rapidly and try to wag his broken tail. He answers to the name of Lucky.
Key:
From the passage we can infer that the dog is miserable or unlucky. In order to portray such a dominant image, the author chooses the details carefully and makes sure that all the details are consistent with the dominant impression. All the details which are incongruent with the dominant impression are omitted.
