全新版大学英语1Unit Three Understanding Science-Text Analysis.ppt

Text Analysis Unit 3 Book One * * Text Analysis: Exposition Exposition means explaining. An expository essay explains something, such as why a certain phenomenon happens, how a problem is solved, or what a word or term means. In a sense, exposition is the process of making a statement and then supporting it with evidence. Topic sentence Supporting details Text Analysis: Exposition Statement: No one could put the clock back. Evidence: 1.Without money for research, the force of competition would still bring about advances in technology. 2.One cannot stop inquiring minds from thinking about the basic science. 3.Human initiative and inventive-ness are such that anyone who wants to suppress anything new will not succeed. Text Analysis: Exposition Topic: Different people watch different TV programs. Details: 1. Old men like Beijing opera. 2. Young guys enjoy football games. 3. Little children prefer cartoon films. 4. House wives choose TV series. Text Analysis: Exposition Topic: Why is America lagging behind in the globe PR race? Details: First, Americans tend to take more of an interest in local affairs. Second, Americans lag behind their European and Asian counterparts in knowing a second language. Finally, people involved in PR abroad tend to keep a closer eye on inter-national affairs. The writer uses 11 “buts” in this article. Find all of them in Text A, and try to tell the relationship between the contexts. Eleven “Buts” Para. 1: 1. But as history shows, the past was not that wonderful. Eleven “Buts” 2. But for the vast majority of the population, life was nasty, brutish, and short. Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to … 但正如历史所表明的，过去并非那么美妙。 但对占人口大多数的民众而言，生活是艰难、残忍而又短暂的。 It was not so bad for a privileged minority, … Eleven “Buts” Para. 3: 3. …but it also distrusts science because it doesnt understand it. At the moment, the public is in two minds about science. It has come to expect the steady increase… to continue,