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* * * * * * * 战略战术： 拿不准的题目先不做，有取有舍（第一段最难把握） List当中的地名要小心 选项和段落首尾句当中的方向词要注意 重复出现的信息，同义替换是主旨（送分题） 下定义的句子是主旨 例句，问句不用看 注意段中的关系词 段落大意题实战练习 But it is not only in technology and commerce that glass has widened its horizons. The use of glass as art, a tradition going back at least to Roman times, is also booming. Nearly everywhere, it seems, men and women are blowing glass and creating works of art. “I didn’t sell a piece of glass until 1975.” dale said. He now has a new commission-a glass sculpture for the headquarters building of a pizza company – for which his fee is half a million dollars. List of Headings I. Growth in the market for glass crafts II. Computers and their dependence on glasses III. What makes glass so adaptable IV. Historical development of glass Scientists dreams cost millions Architectural experiments with glass Glass art galleries flourish Exciting innovations in fiber optics A former glass technology Everyday uses of glass The secret of the versatility of glass lies in its interior structure. In the melting process, the atoms in the raw materials are disturbed from their normal position in the molecular structure; before they can find their way back to crystalline arrangements the glass cools. This looseness in molecular structures gives the material what engineers call tremendous ‘formality’ which allows technicians to tailor glass to whatever they need. List of Headings Growth in the market for glass crafts Computers and their dependence on glasses What makes glass so adaptable Historical development of glass Scientists dreams cost millions Architectural experiments with glass Glass art galleries flourish Exciting innovations in fiber optics A former glass technology Everyday uses of glass Today, scientists continue to experiment with new glass mixtures and building designers test their imaginations with applications of special types of glass. A London architect, Mike Davi