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1、【1997 年】But even in a prehistoric cave, man-kind stretched out a hand of not just to eat, drink or fight, but also to draw. The impulse towards culture, the desire to express and explore the world through imagination and representation is fundamental. In Europe, this desire has found fulfinment in t
2、he masterpieces of our music, art, literature and theatre.(物称主语)These masterpieces are the touchstones for all our efforts; they are the touchstones for the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the most profound messages that can be sent from one human to anoth
3、er.【1998年】 To speak of American literature, then, is not to assert that it is completely unlike that of Europe. Broadly speaking, America and Europe have kept step. At any given moment the traveler could find examples in both of the same architecture, the same styles in dress, the same books on the
4、shelves.(增词)Ideas have crossed the Atlantic as freely as men and merchandise, though sometimes more slowly. When I refer to American habit, thoughts, etc. , I intend some sort of qualification to precede the word, for frequently the difference between America and Europe (especially England) will be
5、one of degree, sometimes only of a small degree. The amount of divergence is a subtle affair, liable to perplex the Englishman when he looks at America. He is looking at e country which in important senses grew out of his own, which in several ways still resembles his own andwhich is yet a foreign c
6、ountry.(定语从句)There are odd overlappings and abrupt unfamiliarities; kinship yields to a sudden alienation, as when we hail a person across the street, only to discover from his blank response that we have mistaken a stranger for a friend.【2000年】 If people mean anything at all by the expression “unti
7、mely death” , they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule than others. Death in old age is rarely called untimelya long life is thought to be a full one.(被动语态)But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measure of that life was still to b
8、e taken.History denies this, of course. Among prominent summer deaths, one recalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Deans, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete.(增词定语从句) Writers cannot bear the fact that poet John Keats died at 26, and only half playfully judge their own lives as failures w
9、hen they pass that year. The idea that the life cut short is unfulfilled is illogical because lives are measured by the impressions they leave on the world and by their intensity and virtue. (被动语态)2001年】 We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no
10、game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun ofit. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty (词类转换). When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the rules.(意合) It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the w
11、holly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.(语序)No difficulty, no fun.【2002年】 Winners are not afraid of to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinions and don t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what
12、 they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them. (被 动语态)【2003年】 In his classic novel, “The Pioneersv , James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, with his cousin on a tour
13、of the city he is building.(词 类转换) He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a bustling metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. uWhere are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He s astonished she can t see them. aWhere! Why e
14、verywhere, “ he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.【2004 年】I m lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when from the time being I fe
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