研究生英语阅读教程Unit3

Unit Three

Contents

Introduction Text (A) analysis Some comments 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 .3

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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 Twice4

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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 Side5

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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 become an icon of freedom and of the United States.6

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Text analysisText 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9

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Point 1

Second, there is the New York of the commuter — 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。10

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Point 3

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness Metaphor 通勤者使这个城市似潮涨潮退，永不停息。

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Paragraph 2

What an experience does New York bring to the people who were born somewhere else and come to New York in quest of something?

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Point 1

Whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference;13

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a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neigh

bors Say by way of comment 评论； 一位为了逃避被邻居指指点点的屈辱从密 西西比州的一个小镇远道而来的少女14

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a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart See Note 3 来自玉米地带，提箱里装着手稿，心中充 满痛苦的男孩

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Paragraph 3

Why is the commuter the queerest bird of all? (the first sentence)

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