全新版21世纪大学英语读写教程3 Unit1.pptVIP

The mails are available to everyone, and correspondence is not an intrusion（打扰）comparable to a personal call on a stranger. There is no reason why, if you have something friendly to say, you shouldn’t say it in a letter, even to an exalted（地位高的）personage（人物）whom you have never met. And its results can be momentous（重要的）for you. Para. 12 of Text B 信件能到达所有人的手中，和给一个陌生人打私人电话相比，写信对于他人几乎不构成干扰。如果你有一些友善的话要说，没有理由不在信里表达，哪怕对方是你素未谋面的大人物也一样。对于你来说，其结果可能会非同寻常。 Chinese Version e.g. These two methods clearly do not produce comparable data. 这两种方法所产生的数据显然不具备可比性。 The green part is comparable in size to the red part. 绿色部分和红色部分的大小差不多。 comparable: a. similar to 类似的，相似的 True, we are not all of us as fluent as men of letters are. But no flowery（辞藻华丽的）style is required. Your friends want to hear from you in your own characteristic style. No rhetoric（浮夸之词）takes the place of sincerity. (706 words) Paras. 13 of Text B 的确，我们并不都像作家那样文笔流畅。但是，写信不需要华丽的词藻，你的朋友们想读到你特有的风格，没有任何花言巧语能取代真诚。 Chinese Version e.g. She is fluent in three foreign languages. 她能流利地说3门外语。 My sister is a fluent Russian speaker. 我姐姐俄语说得非常流利。 fluent: a. (of speech, writing, etc.) expressed readily and without pause（说、写等）流利的 e.g. Her singing style has been influenced by jazz. 她的演唱风格受到爵士乐的影响。 Do you like Joyce’s writing style? 你喜欢乔伊斯的写作风格吗？ style: n. 风格 2 ) What does the author imply when he says, “we fool ourselves that we haven’t the time” (Para. 2)? A ) We pretend that we don’t have the time to write letters. B ) In fact most of us have the time to write letters. C ) It is foolish of us to say that we don’t have the time to write a letter. D ) We are deceiving others when we say we don’t have the time to write letters. Text B-Exercises Comprehension Check Complete the following statements by either making the best choice or filling in the blank with words from the text or of your own. You may turn back to the text if you wish to. 1 ) According to the author, sometime