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Sentence Selecting and Filling
Staying young forever
It used to be a matter of fact when Peter Pan — a character from James Matthew Barrie’s 1911 book — said: “All children, except one, grow up.” (67)________________
According to the NPD Group, a US market research company, sales of toys to adults in the UK increased by more than 20 percent in 2016, three times the pace of the children’s 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 2000s.
“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 today’s fast-paced world. They are driven toward the more immediate pleasures 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 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. “That’s actually quite sad.”
(70)________________ According to Canadian comic book artist Todd McFarlane, collecting toys could simply be a way for people to express their individuality. “It’s just pop culture stuff. It’s stuff that says, ‘I like a little of this and I like a little of that’,” he told ABC News. “It’s no big deal.”
So now that over 100 years have passed since Peter Pan, perhaps it’s 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.”
Task 1 Find
the topic sentence
and delete an irrelevant sentence
1. Every day the mass media tell us in some new way that the American family is in trouble. The divorce rate is rising rapidly---in 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 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.
Man has always depended on wood. It is one substance, which grows, that can provide him with shelter, 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 now, hundreds of new uses have been developed.
Task 1 Find
the topic sentence
and delete an irrelevant sentence
Task 2 Decide whether the supporting ideas are convincing
1. Topic
sentence:
Library books are useless
Supporting
ideas:
I borrowed a book from the library last 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 schooling age. Who would say Bill Gates is nobody even though he did not graduate from Harvard University?
√
3. 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 give 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 who never smoke
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Task 2 Decide whether they are convincing
A. My work has its
challenges
1.
_________________
It's 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 conferences, 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
F. The
Dutch
have also had good ideas that make cycling
safer
and
more
inviting
2. ___________________ At Dutch schools, 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.
B. Try to address their concerns 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 they’re being excluded. Show your children that they are important by listening to and responding to their needs and ideas. As much as possible, save grown-up conversations for later so that you can have family conversations. 3. __________________
Tip 1:
At the beginning of the paragraph
In the middle of the paragraph
The relationship
between topic sentence and supporting sentences.
Riding a
Mobike
on the street, you might hear people speaking Chinese aloud. 1. _________ After walking into a store, it’s possible that you will see Huawei-smartphones for sale. This isn’t referring to China, but Manchester, UK.
______
关系
……
In the past, most Western people thought Chinese products were cheap and unreliable. But things 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 time
C. In fact, you might see similar things in many other cities around the world
D. Turning to the right, you may see a Sichuan-style restaurant.
E. Meanwhile, international brands are still enjoying great success in China
F "Made in China " has become cool and more people trust Chinese brands.
Task 4
D
F
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 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 science and allow me to make an impact with my work.
_____
关系
A. However, my work has its challenges
B. 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 benefits
E. So I decided to leave the academic path to find a better match
F. Here, at last, was a way to combine my interest in science with my passion for teaching
E
Tip2
:
In the middle of the paragraph,
Pay attention to the
context,
the logical relationship
with the preceding and following sentences.
Task 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 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 wasn’t a window on the world; it was marks 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.
Create a transitional sentence
For the general public,
Qi
Baishi’s
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 shrimp’s body in a realistic way. ___________________________ Some of his paintings are flowers, symbolic of prosperity, and vegetables, indicating rich harvests. People love these nature-based paintings because they remind them of the countryside and of their hometowns.
Tip3
:
Analyze
the logical relations
between paragraphs
Pay attention to
the transitional sentences
that connect
paragraphs coherently
Assignment
Choose a passage with 300 -350 words in the newspaper TEENS
issue
8 .
Design an exercise and exchange with your deskmates to finish the exercise
Requirement :
topic sentences
supporting sentences
transitional sentence
s
Traditional painting like a window
There were
depth
. You could tell which objects were “
close
” to you and which objects were “
far away
”
Delft Courtyard
Traditional Painting
Pablo
Picasso
Georges
Braque
Leonardo da Vinci
Analytic Cubism
Para. 1
Para. 2