【正文】 llside. We read evident sar casm in this sentence. 　3. (Para. 4) When it was taken 39。愛(ài)丑之欲幾年前的一個(gè)冬日，我乘坐賓夕法尼亞鐵路公司的一班快車(chē)離開(kāi)匹茲堡，向東行駛一小時(shí)，無(wú)論是童年時(shí)期還是成年時(shí)期，是其最賺錢(qián)、最典型活動(dòng)的中心，世界上最富裕、最偉大的國(guó)家的自豪和驕傲然而這兒的景象卻又丑陋得這樣可怕，凄涼悲慘得這么令人無(wú)法忍受，以致人的抱負(fù)和壯志在這兒成了令人毛骨悚然的、簡(jiǎn)直都無(wú)法想象也是在這兒，人們的居住條件又是如此之糟，連那些流浪街頭的野貓也為之害羞.，在這全長(zhǎng)25英里的路上，從火車(chē)上看去，而這些房子競(jìng)還是一些最重要的建筑教堂、商店、甚至回憶起來(lái)也是可怕的：珍尼特西面的一所樣子稀奇古怪的小教堂，就像一扇老虎窗貼在一面光禿禿的、似有麻風(fēng)散鱗的山坡上。 or caring. Here both ridicule and irony are suggested. 　4. (Para. 5) I award prayer. We read both sarcasm and irony in this sentence. 　5. (Para. 5) They are in design. Sarcasm is most appar ent in the description. 　6. (Para. 6) It is incredible of horror. Here the author obviously means to present the picture sarcastically and ironically. XVI. 　1. The topic sentence is: The Band Wagon is a device to make us follow the crowd, to accept the propagandistr s program enrnasse. The paragraph beginning with a topic sentence is a high level generalization. Each sentence in the rest of the paragraph states specific details that develop the main idea. This paragraph has a simple deductive arrangement. 　2. The main idea in this paragraph is stated in the last sen tence :The drug culture, as the newspapers call it, doesnrt just belong to the kids。 s journalistic skill became his chief hand icap as a critic. He had also carried out a fruitful study of the American Language, with some prehensive works pub lished in this field. By the time of his death on Jan. 29, 1956, in his beloved Baltimore, recognition of his service to the language was everywhere admitted. 　1. The writer is referring to industrial production which is the most lucrative and characteristic activity in the United States. 　2. All the noble aspirations of a man for a better, fuller and more beautiful life here on earth. 　3. All the houses were ugly. The houses look like bricks set on end. They were made of clapboards, with narrow, low pitched roofs. And the whole house is set upon thin brick piers. All the houses are streaked with grime and many of them are not even perpendicular but they lean this way and that. The writer suggests a chalettype house for the hill sides. A chalet with highpitched roof, to throw off theheavy winter snows, but still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall. 　4, According to the writer, the house has the most loathsome color. The color of a fried egg when and after some time they take on the color of uremic yellow. 　5. Strictly speaking, no. Most of them were most probably . citizens of European origin, with perhaps a few re cent immigrants from Europe. 　6. Mencken doesnI t believe that mere ignorance was the rea son for such ugliness. He believes on certain levels of the American race, there seems to be a great passion for the ugly. Ugliness seems to give some sort of satisfaction to this type of mind. Mencken, however, doesnf t understand they have such tastes. 　7. No. he is only implying in a sarcastic tone, that he does n~t understand why so many Americans seem to love ugli ness for its own