5. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the ideal of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascinating. （1998年第一篇）

6. Nowhere do 1980 census statistics dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West. （1998年第四篇）

7. But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not. （1999年第三篇）

8. Summer homes, European travel, BMWs—the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago. （2000年第五篇）

七、分隔结构

1. Sir Alexander Fleming did not, as legend would have it, look at the mold on a piece of cheese and get the idea for penicillin there and then. （1994年第五篇）

2. With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be—even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right—it can hardly be classed as Literature. （2000年第三篇）

3. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. （2002年第一篇）

八、关联结构

1. A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research. （1998年第三篇）

2. The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers. （2001年第三篇）

九、难词与词组

1. Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. （1995年第一篇）

2. The merits of competition by examination are somewhat questionable, but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful. （1995年第四篇）

3. Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English. （2005年第四篇）

十、指代

“The term ‘antiscience’ can lump together too many, quite different things,” notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science, “They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened.” （1998年第三篇）

 

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