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1、Sentence Selecting and FillingSentence Selecting and FillingStaying young forever It used to be a matter of fact when Peter Pan a character from James Matthew Barries 1911 book said: “All children, except one, grow up.” (67)_ According to the NPD Group, a US market research company, sales of toys to
2、 adults in the UK increased by more than 20 percent in 2016, three times the pace of the childrens toy market itself. These toys ranged from puzzles and Lego building sets to vehicle models and action figures. And more than half of the sales came from millennials people born between the 1980s and 20
3、00s.“Adults of the 21st century are channeling their inner child, one toy at a time,” commented website Koreaboo. (68)_ According to Frederique Tutt, an analyst at NPD, the motivation of these grown-ups is to escape the stress of todays fast-paced world. They are driven toward the more immediate ple
4、asures brought by toys than those brought by, say, getting a promotion, which is far less easy to achieve. “It reminds me of the playful side of life,” Rob Willner, a 25-year-old PhD student in the UK, told The Telegraph when talking about his love for Lego, which he said brings him both comfort and
5、 entertainment.(69)_ To Frank Furendi, a professor at the University of Kent in the UK, the fact that so many adults are pursuing “the thrills of youth” is the evidence that “adulthood has got nothing attractive about it anymore”, he told The New York Times. “Thats actually quite sad.”(70)_ Accordin
6、g to Canadian comic book artist Todd McFarlane, collecting toys could simply be a way for people to express their individuality. “Its just pop culture stuff. Its stuff that says, I like a little of this and I like a little of that,” he told ABC News. “Its no big deal.”So now that over 100 years have
7、 passed since Peter Pan, perhaps its time to introduce a new “fact”, as stated in the tagline of the UK fashion brand KIDULT: “Growing old is mandatory(强制的), but growing up is optional.”Staying young foreverTask 1 Find the topic sentence and delete an irrelevant sentence1. Every day the mass media t
8、ell us in some new way that the American family is in trouble. The divorce rate is rising rapidlyin California it is supposedly already over 50 percent. And it is going up fastest among people who have been married 20 years or longer. Most of American families have at least a car and a house. Almost
9、 50 percent of all adult women work at least part time and many children are being cared for by people other than their parents. The family seems to be facing a major crisis.Task 1 Find the topic sentencMan has always depended on wood. It is one substance, which grows, that can provide him with shel
10、ter, fuel and clothing. The use of wood leads to deforestation and ecological unbalance. It is a substance which gives him materials ranging from the softest tissues to hard, metal-like plastics. A few years ago, it was found that man uses wood and wood products in at least 4,000 ways. Probably by n
11、ow, hundreds of new uses have been developed. Task 1 Find the topic sentence and delete an irrelevant sentenceMan has always depended on wooTask 2 Decide whether the supporting ideas are convincing1. Topic sentence: Library books are useless Supporting ideas: I borrowed a book from the library last
12、week. It was very boring and difficult. I read only ten pages. 2. Topic sentence: A great number of geniuses who contributed greatly to the development of science and technology did not have good academic records. Supporting ideas: Einstein, a giant in science, was viewed as a slow student at his sc
13、hooling age. Who would say Bill Gates is nobody even though he did not graduate from Harvard University?Task 2 Decide whether the su3. Topic sentence: Hard work leads to success. Supporting ideas: As the saying goes, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. 4. Topic sentence: Smokers should gi
14、ve up smoking. Supporting ideas: Medical research has convincingly proven that smoking may cause a variety of diseases, such as lung cancer, which considerably shortens smokers lifespan. The results indicate that those who smoke two packs of cigarettes a day live about ten years shorter than those w
15、ho never smokeTask 2 Decide whether they are convincing3. Topic sentence: Hard work lA. My work has its challenges 1. _Its discouraging when others see both my students and me as less worthy because we are not at universities. We sometimes struggle to get access to federal funding, scientific confer
16、ences, and other resources and opportunities. My pay is below the standard at 4-year research institutions, even though my teaching workload is greater. Task3 Practice A. My work has its challengesF. The Dutch have also had good ideas that make cycling safer and more inviting 2. _ At Dutch schools,
17、students must attend cycling lessons. Children aged 12 can ride on the roads very well. Cycle lanes are also designed to be wide enough for children to ride alongside adults. In Amsterdam, people can hire a bike from almost anywhere in the city. F. The Dutch have also had goB. Try to address their c
18、oncerns as they arise, no matter how minor. Foster (培养) a Sense of Belonging Young children may not understand how peer pressure works, but they feel it when theyre being excluded. Show your children that they are important by listening to and responding to their needs and ideas. As much as possible
19、, save grown-up conversations for later so that you can have family conversations. 3. _ B. Try to address their concerTip 1: At the beginning of the paragraphIn the middle of the paragraphThe relationship between topic sentence and supporting sentences. Tip 1: At the beginning of the Riding a Mobike
20、 on the street, you might hear people speaking Chinese aloud. 1. _ After walking into a store, its possible that you will see Huawei-smartphones for sale. This isnt referring to China, but Manchester, UK._关系 In the past, most Western people thought Chinese products were cheap and unreliable. But thi
21、ngs have changed greatly. 2._ _关系A. Many Chinese brands are also becoming more popular.B. Chinese food has been enjoyed in Western countries for a long timeC. In fact, you might see similar things in many other cities around the worldD. Turning to the right, you may see a Sichuan-style restaurant.E.
22、 Meanwhile, international brands are still enjoying great success in ChinaF Made in China has become cool and more people trust Chinese brands.Task 4 DF Riding a Mobike on the Ten years ago, after 2 years as a postdoc(博士后), I found myself wondering whether I should take a different road. Up to that
23、Point, I had stuck to a pretty traditional path, investigating cancer genetics, but I was losing interest in the research. At the same time, federal funding had decreased, which added to my dissatisfaction. 3. _ Then came the hard part: identifying a new career that would nurture my passion for scie
24、nce and allow me to make an impact with my work. _关系A. However, my work has its challengesB. Then a second bit of inspiration came my way.C. Distressed as I was, I resolved to pursue my interest in research.D. Besides the spiritual reward, there are other less apparent benefitsE. So I decided to lea
25、ve the academic path to find a better matchF. Here, at last, was a way to combine my interest in science with my passion for teachingE Ten years ago, after 2 yTip2:In the middle of the paragraph, Pay attention to the context, the logical relationship with the preceding and following sentences. Tip2:
26、In the middle of the paraTask 5 Group work Create a transitional sentence Between 1907-1913, Picasso and his colleague Braque started a revolution in painting. It was an analytical approach to art, which gave this style of painting its name: “analytic cubism”(解析立体主义). In the past, an artist had made
27、 a painting like a window they painted to make it look like there was depth. You could tell which objects were “close” to you and which objects were “far away”, as if the picture were a window you were looking through. _To them (Picasso and Braque), a painting wasnt a window on the world; it was mar
28、ks and lines on a flat surface. Why should an object like a guitar, they thought, be shown only from one angle? A guitar looks very different depending on which angle one looks at it from. Their answer was to show all the angles. Then they broke the guitar up into pieces.Task 5 Group work Create a C
29、reate a transitional sentence For the general public, Qi Baishis masterpieces are his paintings of shrimps, crabs and fish. At the start, he painted shrimps mostly by studying ancient painters. Later on, he developed a personal style by using shades of dark ink to portray a shrimps body in a realistic way. _ Some o
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