练习--写作(主题句)(WithKey)3-13.docVIP

写作： 找出下面段落的主题句： I. My sister was the first person who made me question my conventional ideas about teaching English. She had a son in the seventh grade in a fairly good public school. His teacher had asked the class to read Cooper’s The Deerslayer. The choice was bad enough in itself; whether looking at man or nature, Cooper was superficial, inaccurate, and sentimental, and his writing is ponderous and ornate. But to make matters worse, this teacher had decided to give the book microscope and X-ray treatment. He made the students look up and memorize not only the definitions but the derivations of every big word that came along – and there were plenty. Every chapter was followed by close questioning and testing to make sure the students “understood” everything. Being then, as I said, conventional, I began to defend the teacher, who was a good friend of mine, against my sister’s criticisms. What was wrong with making sure that children understood everything they read? My sister answered that until this class her boy had always loved reading, and had read a lot on his own; now he had stopped. II. Music is used in stores to encourage you to buy more. It is used in fast food eating places to make you eat faster and get out. Indeed, music is used in many ways to affect people’s feelings and actions. It is used in factories to speed up the workers and increase the amount of work produced. It is used in hospitals to make the sick feel better and more tranquil. And, at sports events, music is used to make players try harder. III. When on is speaking to one’s family, for example, one uses a certain level of speech, a certain diction perhaps, a tone of voice, an inflection, suited to the intimacy of the occasion. But when one faces an audience of strangers, as a politician does, for instance – and he is the most social of emn – it seems right and proper for him to reach for the well-turned phrase, even the poetic word, the aphorism, the metaphor. And his gestures, his stance,