【正文】 ion of British soldiers burning Washington, D. C. in the war of 1812. She describes President James Madison on horseback as “perfectly shaking with fear” during the troubled days. George Washington, she writes, mistook her for the wife of a French man, and praised her excellent English.2. A but B結(jié)構(gòu)，這種結(jié)構(gòu)數(shù)量甚多，一般來說B是本段的重點。Allan goes everywhere with Birgitta Anderson, a 54yearold secretary. He moves around her office at work and goes shopping with her. Most people don39。t seen to mind Allan, says Birgitta, who thinks he is wonderful. He39。s my fourth child, she says. She may think of him and treat him that way, buying his food, paying his health bills and his taxes, but in fact Allan is a dog./The idea of fighting a noise by making more noise sounds strange, but that’s exactly what motor engineers are doing in Germany and some other countries./Computer people talk a lot about the need for other people to bee puterliterate. But not all experts (專家) agree that this is a good idea./If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all pared to a man who didn’t even speak EnglishWilliam the Conqueror./The best treatment for fatness is to reduce the internal fat. But unfortunately it seems that dieting simply makes…/Some engineers believe that the noisekilling system will be used in most cars in 1996. But the carmakers haven’t decided if they will put it into production because it would add several hundred dollars to the cost of their cars./David Tebbutt thinks Computertowns are most successful when tied to a puter club but he insists there is an important difference between the two./Holidaymakers who are bored with baking beaches and overheated hotel rooms head for a big igloo. Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo hotel. Built in a small town in Lapland, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over.*/When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the StoneAge hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can’t think of./Today, roller skating is easy and fun. But a long time ago, it wasn39。t easy at all. Before 1750, the idea of skating didn39。t exist. That changed because of a man named Joseph Merlin. Merlin39。s work was making musical instruments. In his spare time be liked to play the violin. Joseph Merlin was a man of ideas and dreams. People called him a dreamer./Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals e together in a partnership (伙伴關系) which does good to both of them./4. A 意味著B，重點在B上。A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that panies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green,” that is, friendly to the environment.5. 背景和主題。In the 1930s, a lot of people in the USA were out of work. Among these people was a man named Alfred Butts. He…6. 具體例子和抽象現(xiàn)象。Three lies in one day! Yet Dick Spivak is just an ordinary man. Each time, he told himself that sometimes the truth causes too many problems. Most of us tell much the same white lies, harmless untruths that help to save trouble. How often do we tell white lies?二、總分型1. 評價(現(xiàn)實)和解釋Physicists have known about the technique for a long time. Sound is made up of pressure waves in the air. If two sound waves…/People in Sweden pay taxes on everything, so aren39。t surprised to find that owning a dog means yet more taxes. Some people are paying as much as 500 Swedish kronor in taxes a year for the right to keep their dog, money that is spent by the government on dog hospitals and sometimes medical treatment for a dog that falls ill. 2. 整體和側(cè)面Most of us tell much the same white lies, harmless untruths that help to save trouble. How often do we tell white lies? It depends in part on our age, education, and even where we live./The great mathematician John won Neumann was one of the founders of game theory. In particular, he showed that all games fall into two classes:3. 總述和分述Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in Supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket product8 cop labels (標簽) to show that the product is green. Some panies have made the manufacturing (生產(chǎn)) of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising./The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms. “You can get a lot of people in,” explains Bergqvist. “The beds are three meters wide by two meters long, and can fit at least four at one time.”/Fat on human beings is distributed in different ways. Some fat people have a large stomach and on waistline which makes them look round, rather like apples. Others are fatter below the waist, which makes them appear pearshaped./However, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?”/“It was the best night we’ve ever had,” said Angela Carraro, who runs an Italian restaurant on 42nd street. “We had lots of candles on the table