研究生英语阅读教程Unit3.pptVIP

Unit Three Contents Introduction Text (A) analysis Some comments on writing Text (B) analysis Further reading Exercises 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 . 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 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 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. Text analysis Text A The Three New Yorks Paragraph 1 What does the first sentence mean? A Native of Beijing in New York北京人在纽约 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。 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。 Paragraph 2 What an experience does New York bring to the people wh