Day 26

英文重现

I read all the Southern writers I could find in the Vallejo library;then I began to read any writer who wrote about nature or about people who worked the land.So I discovered John Steinbeck and his Salinas Valley;and Willa Cather and her Nebraska-anyone who would say something about dirt and trees,clear streams,and open sky.

——SAT 2009年5月题，Section 7

解析

1.第一个句子中的“I could find in the Vallejo library”是省略了关系词“that”的定语从句，修饰“writers”，当关系代词在定语从句中作宾语时，可以省略；“who wrote about nature or about people who worked the land”为定语从句修饰前面的“writer”，“who”作从句的主语，从句中的“or”连接前后两个并列的成分：“about nature”和“about people who worked the land”，都跟在“wrote”后面，该定语从句当中又嵌套了一个定语从句“who worked the land”，用来修饰“people”。

2.破折号后面的内容“anyone who would say something about dirt and trees,clear streams,and open sky”是对前面所举的例子“John Steinbeck and his Salinas Valley;and Willa Cather and her Nebraska”进行总结概括。

词意辨析

参考翻译

我读了在Vallejo图书馆里能找到的所有南部作家写的书，然后我开始读所有描写（该地）自然风光或在那片土地上辛勤劳作着的人们的作家的作品。因此我找到了John Steinbeck和他的萨利纳斯山谷以及Willa Cather和她的内布拉斯加州——任何会（在作品中）描写泥土和树木、清澈小溪和广袤天空的作家。

实战演练

I read all the Southern writers I could find in the Vallejo library;then I began to read any writer who wrote about nature or about people who worked the land.So I discovered John Steinbeck and his Salinas Valley;and Willa Cather and her Nebraska-anyone who would say something about dirt and trees,clear streams,and open sky.

John Steinbeck and Willa Cather serve as examples of writers who were selected by the author because of their____.

(A)colorful and unusual settings

(B)intriguing intellectual ideas

(C)focus on the natural world

(D)portrayal of strong characters

(E)literary reputation worldwide

答案：C

答案解析

题目问“作者为什么用John Steinbeck 和 Willa Cather来举例子”，本段中的表示因果关系的逻辑词“so”提示了其后面的内容就是前面“我开始读所有描写自然风光或人物的作品”的结果，John Steinbeck和 Willa Cather后面的破折号之后的内容则是进行了一个总结，就是这两个人的作品都有一个共性：描写泥土和树木、清澈小溪和广袤天空，这些东西正是大自然的一部分，所以选项C“关注自然世界”正确。选项A“丰富多彩和不寻常的场景”和选项B“有趣而聪明的想法”文中未提及，选项D“强烈的性格描写”和选项E“世界闻名的文学声望”都没有在文中体现。