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Discourse analysis
Reading strategies
Reading
1.All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley's memoir(回忆录) about his 10 years working as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art(Met), brings new meaning to the term “art appreciation”. 2..Bringley is not the only Met staffer to write about the institution. But Bringley's “guard'seye view” is unique, and he presents his personal story with sincerity. After his brother Tom's death in 2008, Bringley gave up his job as a journalist for a job in which “I was happy to be going nowhere”. He explains, “I had lost someone. I did not wish to move on from that. In a sense, I didn't wish to move at all.”
B
What is Bringley's job?/What was Bringley's job?
What is unique according to the second paragraph?
24. What sets All the Beauty in the World apart from other books written by Met staffers?
26. How does Bringley present information about the Met in his memoir?
B
3.All the Beauty in the World offers wellchosen facts about the museum to support Bringley's personal tale. ......
25.Loss of his beloved brother caused Bringley to change his job.
What would he feel when he lost his brother?
What cured him and how?
谓语+宾语
C
2.The paper, published last week in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, analyzed data from previous trials that studied how bluelightfiltering glasses affect vision tiredness and eye health. The study's authors found that wearing bluelightfiltering glasses does not reduce the eyestrain people feel after using computers.
29. What can we infer from paragraph 2?C. The finding of the study comes as a surprise to the public.D. Data from previous trials help the study a lot.
D
1.“Silence is a source of great strength.”—Lao Tzu. When we stop bombarding(轰击) the body with sounds, we may see benefits for our brain, our blood pressure and our breathing. 2.Imagine a place where you can't talk, telephone, read, write or access the Internet. Boredom can soon turn into pleasure as the brain, from a state