大学英语写作Unit 5.doc

Unit 5 英语文章段落展开方法与技巧（2） 在第4单元我们讨论了展开段落的六种方法、选择这些方法 的标准、什么时候可以同时使用几种方法以及标题与论题的关系 等。为了加深印象，同时学到更多的论述方法，本单元继 续展开段落的话题，并介绍新的论述方法。如常识法和对比法。 这里我们想提醒同学在选择段落展开的方法时一定要根据自己所 写内容的要求来选择恰当合适的论述方法，切忌先确定展开方法， 然后确定文章内容。例如，要论述“当前大学生的素质为什么滑 坡”这一议题，作者首先应该为“素质”一词加以定义，然后从 定义出发对照现实举出大学生素质滑坡的例子，最后分析推理找 出导致滑坡的真正原因。如果作者开始不对“素质”一词定义， 也没有给出滑坡的事例，而是首先分析这种现象的原因，这样展 开段落就会缺乏说服力，因为所有的分析都没有可以参照的依据。 下面让我们读一组有关如何欣赏现代艺术的作文。三位作者对艺 术都有一定的了解，因为他们学习的专业与艺术有关。 Student Essay 13 Understanding Modern Art 1 Many people complain that modern art is too abstract to understand. Many others can’t stand it or even consider it rubbish. 2 In fact, modem art doesn’t tell but express. The composers just want to express the feeling but not to show you the fact. Modern art describes the world in a special language, which can’t be translated. The only thing that you can do is to taste it, to touch it with your heart and then, you’ll discover another world in it. The new world is fantastic. Believe it or not, some ridiculous figures and several colors mixed together can express the anarchy of modern society exactly [the modern society exactly]. 3 Those composers have really extraordinary eyes. They observe their surroundings in strange ways. Those so-called sensitive individuals always take interest in the strong perspective, the uncommon angle, the odd spaces and the contrast of light and shade, most of which are tiny things and ignored everywhere. That’s why people have the sense of strangeness and think modern art an unreasonable thing. Take Henry Moore for instance, the goal of his composition was to create abstract form and emphasized [emphasize] the quality of nature and put human being secondary [put human beings as secondary]. As a result, many people can’t read his mind and regard his sculptures as strange stones. 4 Modern artists are misunderstood very often. Many people think them cheating and knowing nothing about art. Therefore their composition means to put some element [elements or parts] together and