【正文】 rious puters. medium – ? media transaction ? a business deal That,perhaps,establishes… ? That, perhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go. The solid bans can bee almost abstract and invisible. This is perhaps the furthest limit of how solid objective things may be disappearing. haze ? a dispersion of fine sand, smoke, dust in the air that reduces visibility a slight confusion or vagueness of mind theme ? the disappearance and the insubstantiality of the world ? The thesis The result is described precisely in a phrase that is already familiar: the disappearance of history. ? nature disappears, history disappears and even the solid things, such as banks disappear Organizational pattern ? Sect. I para 18 ? Science is mitted to the universals. The basic concepts of science are understood, accepted and adopted by scientists all over the world. This universalizing effect is reflected in automaking, architectural, dress and musical styles. They all tend to bee world styles. ? The modern man is no longer a unique individual. He bees a cosmopolitan, a citizen of the world. “If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators”. Organizational pattern ? Sect. II. Para 915 Science has shown the insubstantiality of the world 1. The world is not made up of solid material objects that we see with our eyes. This is the basis of the writer’s central theme of “disappearance”, “insubstantiality of the world”. Organizational pattern 2. Beautiful art reflects the inner need of a man’s soul. Modern art does not depict the material objects in nature we see but things that we see in our minds. 3. The disappearance of history frees the mind from traditional concepts. Organizational pattern 4. The feeling of liberation is often expressed through play. The playfulness of science has produced game theory and virtual particles, in art it has produced the painting of Picasso and Joan Miro and so on . Organizational pattern 5. Modern culture is full of images 1) It includes a) the simple geometric designs of the international styles. b) the fanciful patterns of facadism c) the playfulness of the theme parks and museum villages Organizational pattern 2) It displays structures that reflect the straight lines a) It displays the fine artistic streamlining of cars and airplanes. b) It displays oil tankers and bulldozers. c) It displays the plicated designs and structure of Tinkertoy models, geodesic domes and lunar landers. ? Sect III. Para 1619 ? Banks are disappearing. Language features ? 1. Exhibiting certain features of scientific English ? 1) scientific and technical terms ? 2) short sentences/ simple present tense ? 2. The use of figurative language to reach a wider audience. ? Metaphors, analogies, rhetorical questions, repetition and balanced structure ? 3. Clear,concise, objective and logical Paraphrase: 1. Science is to make people of the world understand and accept its basic concepts. 2. The Fiesta seems to have disappeared pletely. 3. The idea of a world car is almost the same as the idea of having a world style for architecture. Paraphrase: 4. Things happening in automaking are similar to those happening in architecture. 5. The modern man is no longer an individual, no longer the one shaped and molded by a distinct environment and culture. 6. The disadvantage is that he loses a home in the old sense of the word. Paraphrase: 7. The advantage is that he begins to believe that traditional home means restriction. 8. The pulsory force of technology to universalize can not be resisted. 9. When every artist thought that he was bound to show his contempt for the Eiffel Tower, which they considered an unnatural architectural structure. Paraphrase: 10. a changing and flexible quality that was beyond human power and pletely new. 11. Science has weakened the people’s firm belief on the real material objects seen with their eyes. 12. Perhaps, that shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go.