高中英语新高考-读高级外刊：读高级外刊《经济学人—英语的进化》-积累作文写作素材,提升阅读理解能力（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

高中英语新高考-读高级外刊: 读高级外刊:《经济学人—英语的进化》-积累作文写作素材,提升阅读理解能力（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展） 说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。 当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。 读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（孙三五编辑） 节选自The Economist（《经济学人》）一篇题为“The Evolution of English—Talking Down”（《英语的进化：日渐退化》）的文章。 P1①Americans no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift. ②Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. ③In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: TheDegradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counterculture as responsible for the decline of formal English. P2①Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another criticism against the decline in education. ②Mr. McWhorter's academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natur