Part one—Pre-reading Questions
Part two—Integrated Structure
Part Three— Introductory Remarks
Part Four—Study in Detail
Paraphrase:
1. It isn’t the top anymore, at least if the top is measured by who begets the styles and sets the trends.
2. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and Humorist.
Key:
1. New York is no longer the leading ( the biggest and best) city in the United States, at least if being the leading city means a city that sets the styles and trends of the nation.
2. Since New York is no longer looked up to or copied as the undisputed fashion authority, it now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.
Analysis of the method in developing the main idea.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated, when Byron calls Rome “the Niobe of nations”, or says of Venice, “She looks a Sea-cybele fresh from the ocean,” he calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject, illustrations more vivid and striking than the pencil could furnish, but which are lost to the readers ignorant of mythology. Milton abounds in similar allusions. The short poem “Comus” contains more than 30 such, and the ode “On the Morning of the Nativity” half as many. Through “Paradise Lost” they are scattered profusely. This is one reason why we often hear persons by no means say that they cannot enjoy Milton.
Key:
The paragraph is taken from The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch. The main idea is expressed in the opening topic sentence “Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated”. The write uses multiple examples to develop and illustrate this view.
论文名称：从区域和全球角度看大城市空气污染(英文)
摘要：Megacities are leading drivers of economic and environmental change. Fueled by high population growth and vibrant economies, energy consumption in megacities are large and growing. In Asia megacities are projected to account for～40%of their country's GNP(gross national product) by 2030.Because fossil fuels will provide much of this energy, emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides and particulates could dramatically increase. Without strong intervention the situation will inevitably worsen.
作者： Gregory R. Carmichael
