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For Professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified’’. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics’’ because of the large horsepower used simply “moving one individual to work’’. But he admitted that Americans had painted themselves into a comer by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.
“The solution’’, Dr Weinerman said, “is not to find a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner-city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,’’ he declared. This, in turn, Dr Weinerman contened, is responsible for the “ arteriosclerosis(动脉硬化)’’ of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.
1、The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A. Americans are fond of their cars. B. Public transportation in America is well-developed
C. American cars are too fast D. Automobiles endanger health
2、It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. people are more interested in fast automobile than their health
B. Americans feel more closely tied to their cars than to their wives
C. kerosene-burning engines would pollute the environment more than gasoline-burning engines do
D. kerosene-burning cars would go faster than gasoline-powered cars
3、In Paragraph 3, Professor Sears implies that ______.
A. technology is always good for people B. Technology is not always good for people
C. financial profit is more important than technology advancement for Americans
D. American people care about both environment pollution and technological development
4、According to Dr Weinerman, the solution is that ______.
A. public transportation should be improved so that people can become less dependent upon their cars for inner-city transportation
B. people should get rid of their cars and take the bus to work
C. one family should own just one car D. A fuel less dangerous than gasoline must be found
书面表达经验总结（一）主题句原则
阅读英语文章时，我们会发现，每篇文章都有一个中心思想（在英语中通常叫做主旨大意）。一个或几个自然段又有一个段落大意。体现中心思想和段落大意的句子叫做主题句。经典的英语文章（特别是说明文和议论文）都有主题句，主题句通常放在段落的开头或结尾，阐述本段或本章的大意。因此，如果在高考书面表达中写上主题句，评卷老师读起来就会觉得一目了然，对你要表达的主旨更加清楚明了，这对提高分数很有帮助。
高分主题句句型突破
1、俗话说得好：“诚实为上策。”
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2、不用说，早睡早起是值得的。
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3、从经济的观点来看，这是一个很复杂的问题。
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4、在各种运动中，我尤其喜欢慢跑。
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5、时间最珍贵，这是很容易证明的。
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6、不可否认的是，成功的事业关键在于健康的身心。
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优美短文赏析 The Lesson of the Bamboo Trees
When I think about the bamboo trees’ ability to bounce back or return to its original position, the word “resilience’’comes to mind. When used to reference to a person this word means the ability to readily recover from shock, depression or any other situation that stretches the limits of a person’s emotions.
Have you ever felt like you are about to snap? Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point? Thankfully, you have survived the experience to live to talk about it.
During the experience you probably felt a mix of emotions that threatened your health. You felt emotionally drained, mentally exhausted and you most likely endured unpleasant physical symptoms.
Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next t breaking point, bend, but don’t break. Try your best not to let the situation get the best of you.
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