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1、NewHorizonCollegeEnglish BookⅢUnit8SectionB:WhoWillTakeAdvantageofHumanCloning?ContentsI.ReadingskillII.FastreadingIII.StructureofthetextIV.ImportantWordsV.DetailedstudyofTextVI.ExercisesI.Readingskill--IdentifyingtheWriter’sPurpose1.Howtoidentifythewriter’spurpose?Information
2、alwritingfeaturesfactsandevidence,notopinionsorvaluejudgments.Thewritermaypresenttheoriestoexplainthefacts,buttheaimisnotsomuchtochangethereader’sopinionasitistoclarifyaquestionorsituation.Persuasivewritingfeaturesemotionalappeals,opinionsandarguments,rhetoricalquestions,evalu
3、atinglanguageand/orjudgmentallanguage.Textswrittenmainlytoentertaincan,ofcourse,beveryvaried---buttheyoftentheyoftenuseratherinformallanguage,simplesentencestructure,dialogs,punsand/orfiguresofspeech.2.PracticeIsthetextinformational,persuasiveormeantmainlytoentertain?Studythet
4、itlecarefully.Whatdoesthetitletellyouaboutthecontentofthetext?Thetitleisactuallyaquestion.Byusingaquestionasatitle,theauthortrieshisbesttoattractthereader’sattention.Obviously,it’saboutthepossibilityorevenlegalityofhumancloning.Theauthorgivesusathoroughanalysisastowhowilltakea
5、dvantageofhumancloning.Isthelanguagetheauthorusesratherformalandserious?Informalandlight-hearted?Orstronglyemotional?Thelanguageisformalandserious.Besides,itisemotional.Theevidenceforthisistherepeatedemploymentofrhetoricalquestions.Howmanyquestionsarethereinthetext?Whatarethey
6、?Altogether,therearesevenquestions,includingtheoneinthetitle.Oftheseven,fourarerhetoricalquestions.TheyappearrespectivelyattheendofPara.2,Para.3,Para.4,andatthebeginningofPara.6.What’sthefunctionoftherhetoricalquestions?Rhetoricalquestionsaremainlyintendedtostirupthelisteners’
7、orreaders’emotions,toputthemoffguard,makingthemreadytoacceptthespeaker’sorwriter’sopinion.Rhetorically,thisiscalledemotionalappeal.Byusingrhetoricalquestionsfourtimes,theauthorofthistextisappealingtothereaderstoacceptheridea“don’tjustsaynotohumancloning”.Withalltheaboveinview,
8、wecanseethatthetextispersuasive.BackII.Fastreading1.Muchofthe
