研究生英语阅读教程unit3.ppt

Unit Three
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Contents
Introduction
Text (A) analysis
ments on writing
Text (B) analysis
Further reading
Exercises
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Introduction
In Text A, with an eye-catching title, “The Three New Yorks”, the author explored the mysterious quality of New York city, a riddle in steel and stone.
Text B introduces a unique theory of urban living. The authors pointed out it was time for a science of how city growth affects society and environment .
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What do you know about New York?
Alternative names:
The Big Apple
Gotham
The City That Never Sleeps
The Capital of The World
The Empire City
The City So Nice:They Named It Twice
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Scenic spots:
Broadway;
Times Square and Madison Square Garden (MSG);
The Bronx Zoo;
Central Park;
Columbia University ;
The Empire State Building;
The New York Public Library on 42nd Street;
The United Nations;
Upper West Side;
Upper East Side
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has e an icon of freedom and of the United States.
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Text analysis
Text A The Three New Yorks
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Paragraph 1
What does the first sentence mean?
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A Native of Beijing in New York北京人在纽约
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Point 1
Second, there is the New York of muter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.
Metaphor is employed here.
其次,这是通勤客的纽约----这个城市就像每天白天被蝗虫吞食,晚上又被吐出来一样。
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