高考英语作文段落发展方式素材例子

Although Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were fierce adversaries during the Civil War，their lives，both military and nonmilitary，has a great deal in common. Grant descended from a family whose members participated in the American Revolution. He received his commission of second lieutenant from West Point and served in the Spanish-American War. He was later summoned by President Lincoln to assume command of the Union Forces during the Civil War.

After the Civil War，Grant suffered financial problems and was forced to declare bankruptcy. Lee also descended from a family which engaged in the American Revolution. He，too，received his commission from West Point and later fought in Mexico during the Spanish-American War. His fame as a military strategist during the Civil War，when he was the commander of the Confederate armies，is well known. Although it is not always pointed out by historians he，like Grant，had financial difficulties after the civil War and was compelled to out by historians he，like Grant，had financial difficulties after the civil War and was compelled todeclare bankruptcy. By securing a post as president of Washington College，he was able to avoid additional poverty.

The television western of several years ago differs greatly from the western of today. Ten years ago, for example, the swindler or bank robber in a western could be identified not by the crimes he committed so much as by the color of the clothing he wore--which was black.

Today the television western reveals the villain by mannerisms and personality. At one time, every western had a superhuman, invincible "good guy" with whom the viewers could identify because he too lived out on the farm. Currently, the central figures of the western are average people who may live on a middleclass street in any part of the country. They are characters like the bus drivers, mailclerks and accountants who live next door to you in suburbia. At night they come in off the horses to ride the television range. They become parsons who respect otbers, drink and smoke only just a bit, and are able not only to outshoot the "bad guy", but also to outsmart him with good common sense.

--Ron Seugal

There is an essential difference between a news story, as understood by a newspaperman or a wire-service writer, and the newsmagazine story. The chief purpose of the conventional news story is to tell what happened. It starts with the most important information and continues into increasingly inconsequential details, not only because the reader may not read beyond the first paragraph but because an editor working on galley proofs a few minutes before press time likes to be able to cut freely from the end of the story. A news magazine is very different. It is written to be read consecutively from beginning to end, and each of its stories is designed, following the critical theories of Edgar Allen Poe, to create an emotional effect. The news, what happened that week, may be told in the beginning, the middle, or the end; for the purpose is not to throw information at the reader but to seduce him into reading the whole story, and into accepting the dramatic (and often political ) point being made.

Electricity is transferred from one place to another in much the same manner as water. A water pipe performs the same function as a length of wire. The pipe carries water to its point of use in the same manner as wire carries electricity to its point of use. A blown fuse results from the same thing as a burst water pipe. Both give out due to extreme pressure applied to the walls of the carrier. A switch is to electricity what a faucet is to water. Both of them control the flow of the