(#10) Week of May 28- 英语阅读训练组

阅读小组训练第十周开始了，有关此次训练活动的初衷，请猛戳这里
前几周发起了阅读训练小组素材推荐的活动，我把版里已有的/训练小组同学正在阅读的，都总结到了素材推荐的一楼，欢迎大家继续推荐，请猛戳这里

参与的形式还是不变，希望已经参与的同学继续坚持并保持/提升阅读速度，观望的同学速速加入欢迎大家跟贴交流阅读感受。


前两周因为论坛调整，都成光杆司令了，大家快快回归填楼啊～～～～～

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参与形式：copy自己觉得好的句子，注明page number贴出来。同时最重要的，作为练习，必须把这个句法应用在自己生活的场景里面，也写出来。几乎天天都有汇报进度的话，会比较容易坚持。参见隔壁战拖组，凡是一个人单打独斗的，至少是帖子都没有follow下去，计划是否完成旁人就不知道了。跟组的看起来是坚持的要好些。

跟战拖组一样，每人一周只许占1楼，所有讨论集中在一个贴（这里）。一周内每日更新在自己的楼里，每完成一周一个学分。自己选的书或者指定书都可以，但是4周内必须完成（否则也太慢了）。全部学时完成的，还有1学分奖励。


3/26 周一开始吧，争取4周完成一本。任选1本开始就可以。不过大家都读同一本，争取match进度也不错，免得没有监督难以维持。这点暂时随意吧。

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暂时就是这些规矩。有其他书推荐的话，下一个学习组里面用。其他建议welcome

<Country Diving>5/29:
1. Most of them came from the growing middle class, for whom a car represented mobility, prosperity, modernity. (P5)
    Most of them came from the growing youth, for whom studying in a over crowded Starbucks represented prosperity, modernity.


2. Chinese applicants for a license were required to have a medical checkup, take the written exam, enroll in a technical course, and then complete a two-day driving test; but the process had been pared down for - people who already held overseas certification. (P6)
    Food safety applicants for a license were required to take the quick checking and then send the samples to the appointed department; but the process had been pared down for people who have already held license before.
    pared down : 削减下来，简化下来


3. I took the foreigner’s test on a gray, muggy morning, the sky draped low over the city like a shroud of wet silk. (P7)
    I took the interview on a gray, muggy morning, the sky draped low over the city like a shroud of wet silk.

. 1point3acres.com 4. The examiner was in his forties, and he wore white cotton driving gloves, the fingers stained by Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes.  (P7)
     He stood in front of the bus stop, and he wore jacket, the fingers stained by Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes, burned a half of it.
     stain: 给(木材,玻璃等)染色,给...着色
     Red Pagoda Mountain: 红塔山

<Country Driving>  (36-142/589) #10 Week of May 28

4.It was hard to set the record straight in a country with no academic traditionof studying the ancient structures.

5.By 2001, Beijing had suddenly become home to over one million vehicles, and the city’sinfrastructure struggled to catch up.

6.There was a similar fault line in Chinese culture. There was a fault linebetween a tremendous confidence in the strength of the culture and awarenessthat force may have to be invoked.

7.At one time the region was forested, but centuries of overpopulation stripped it bare.After the trees were gone, people began carving the hills into terraces, untilthe landscapeacquired the look o f a desperate human construction: a layered cakeof dust.

8.The Great Wall wasn’ta primary reason for the environmental degradation, but undoubtedly itcontributed.

9.But the Great Wall had already survived countless invasions, and undoubtedly itwould still be there, high on the ridgeline, whenever this latest wave ofbarbarians disappeared.

10.By learning more about other places, residents had lost touch with their immediate environment.

11.Long-term planning made no sense: the goal was gain some profit today before you found yourselfoverwhelmed by the next wave of change.

12.For a civilization that once believed it needed nothing from outsiders, it wasa traumatic introduction to the world of modern trade.

13.Diplomacy wasanother strong suit. Genghis Khan banned torture and looting,believing them to be counterproductive, and he established the concept ofdiplomatic immunity. He granted religious freedom to the lands heconquered.

14.The sense of movement became their most lasting legacy-new trade and culturalexchanges that continued after the brief empire.

15.For Mongols, tough, political legitimacy ultimately depended on genetics.Leadership was supposed to be confined to the direct heirs of Genghis Khan, andanybody outside this line had few ways of improving his standing.

16.The cities were easy to predict, at least in terms of growth-their trajectorywas already laid out in tracks of cement and steel.

17.Following them, Icrawled on hands and knees. The tunnel turned to the left; palewalls disappeared into darkness.

18.In the capital, nearly everybody is an only child, coddled and spoiled frombirth.

干.什么 发表于 2012-5-29 13:18
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