1. Writing Skills: 1) long complicated sentences with clear meaning and clear logic; 2) Americanism
2. Rhetorical Devices: 1) metaphor; 2) personification; 3) metonymy; 4) parallelism; 5) transferred epithet; 6) synecdoche
3. Stylistic features: 1) typical exposition; 2) effective use of topic sentences; 3) clear and simple structure
Translate the following passage into English.
Most of the world’s victims of AIDS live—and, at an alarming rate, die—in Africa. The number of people living with AIDS in Africa was estimated at 26.6 million in late 2003. New figures to be published by the United Nations Joint Program on AIDS, the special UN agency set up to deal with the pandemic, will probably confirm its continued spread in Africa, but they will also show whether the rate of spread is constant, increasing of falling.
Key:
世界上大多数艾滋病患者生活在非洲，并以惊人的速度大批死亡。据估计，2003年底非洲的艾滋病患者达到2660万人。联合国防防治艾滋病计划署是联合国为对付艾滋病而设立的专门机构，该机构将要公布的最新数字可能证实艾滋病还在非洲继续蔓延，但同时也可以说明它蔓延的速度是维持不变， 或在加快，还是在放慢。
Rewrite the following sentences, emphasizing the main idea in each.
1. He decided to take the job, and it was something unexpected.
2. China will not be the first to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.
3. Yang alone can do the work, and there are twenty students in the class.
4. Mrs. Jones, the famous writer, was among his neighbours.
Key:
1. Unexpectedly, he decided to take the job.
2. Under no circumstances will China be the first to use the nuclear weapons.
3. Of the twenty students in the class, Yang alone can do the work.
4. Among his neighbours was the famous writer, Mrs. Jones.
