2008NBF行文逻辑配套讲义.doc

Contextual Logic Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order. Passage 1 He belongs very much to the 20th century and uses a camera to “say” things that can be as incisive as the pronouncements of many representatives in other, more traditional disciplines. The photographs he produces, capturing what he calls “miraculous fractions of a second”, have the same validity and authority as, say, the cameos evoked by Richard Hoggart in Uses Of Literacy or by the paintings of LS Lowry. James Ravilous is a social commentator with a difference. Passage 2 1) There have been dramatic alternations in the iceline: 1,300sq km of ice snapped off and floated north from the Larsen shelf last year, and in 1995 an iceberg the size of Oxfordshire calved from the Antarctic peninsula. 2) Since the seventies, scientists have been able to estimate the area covered by ice each year by studying satellite photographs. 3) But, overall, the record has been too brief, and the picture has been ambiguous. 4) An Australian scientist delving into whaling records has confirmed what many have suspected: the Antarctic ice cap is shrinking. 5) But nobody knows whether this is really a sign of global warming, triggered by the burning of fossil fuels, or simply part of a natural cycle. 6) Between 1950 and 1970, the area covered by sea ice declined by a colossal 25 per cent. Passage 3 1) Those who up to now have had to wait years before obtaining redress at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg-----vulnerable minorities including prisoners, homosexuals and immigrants-----will be able to argue for their rights in British courts. 2) It is not an arcane issue of interest merely to constitutional theorists. 3) Ministers and officials will in future be required to be “fully seized” of the implications for human rights before enacting new legislation. 4) The Human Rights Bill and its accompanying white paper published last week are to be applauded. 5) More than that, the bill