高中英语赏名言读外刊：你的性格和他人的感受(积累作文写作素材,提升阅读理解能力)

高中英语新高考-赏名言读外刊:你的性格和他人的感受（高度契合高考应试选材）-积累作文写作素材,提升阅读理解能力（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。

当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。

读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（孙三五编辑）

前言

今天的文章也是偶然碰到的，大西洋月刊官网刚刚出炉的好文，和高考选材完全一致。我认为，读者就应该常读这样的文章。

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语篇分析

本文是提出新概念型的说明文，此类文章的特点几乎都是一个模式，在高考中，这种行文颇受青睐。本文的结构是：

提出新概念：affective presence -->解释新概念的发现背景（本文是实验）--》分析两种对立的affective presence的影响–》总结：无论哪种都有其优点和缺点，譬如积极的affective也会有潜在的危害。

读者如果非常熟悉江苏高考阅读的话，就会发现，无论是厄尔尼诺现象还是电子垃圾现象，都是从利弊两个方面来陈述，最后提出建议。希望读者经常用心品味这种文章。

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赏析

Some people can walk into a room and instantly put everyone at ease. Others seem to make teeth clench and eyes roll no matter what they do. A small body of psychology research supports the idea that the way a person tends to make others feel is a consistent and measurable part of his personality. Researchers call it “affective presence.”

（形容一个人的死板，作者没有通过形容词，而是通过动作来刻画：teeth clench, eyes roll，我们的面前似乎就出现这样的人，这种人难道在你的生活中不常见吗？）

语篇分析：

通过对比手法说明有人容易使周围的人轻松愉快，有的则无论何时都是面无表情的死板，从

而提出概念：个人的性格通过周围的人对他的感受表现出来。

语言欣赏：

put everyone at ease使人舒适

supports the idea that支持这个观点

This concept was first described nearly 10 years ago in a study by Noah Eisenkraft and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. They put business-school students into groups, had them enroll in all the same classes for a semester, and do every group project together. Then the members of each group rated how much every other member made them feel eight different emotions: stressed, bored, angry, sad, calm, relaxed, happy, and enthusiastic. The researchers found that a significant portion of group members’ emotions could be accounted for by the affective presence of their peers.

（实验类通用的词块无非就是分组put…into groups, 做事情do project, 看反应rate。再看最后一个好句型：sth could be accounted for by sth.）

语篇分析：

本段时说明上述概念的缘由。一般重点关注实验的方法，结果。

方法：groups, enroll, project, rated eight different emotions

结果：a significant portion of group members’ emotions could be accounted for by the affective presence of their peers

语言分析：

enroll注册

semester学期

rate评估

enthusiastic充满热忱的

A could be accounted for by B.B是A的原因。

It seems that “our own way of being has an emotional signature,” says Elfenbein, a business professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

It’s been known for some time that emotions are contagious: If one person feels angry, s he may well infect her neighbor with that anger. But affective presence is an effect one has regardless of one’s own feelings—those with positive affective presence make other people feel good, even if they personally are anxious or sad, and the opposite is true for those with negative affective presence.

（如果想对新概念的说明非常形象化，莫非是比较，请看这种写作语言：It’s been known for some time that…, but…and the opposite is true for …）

语篇赏析：

这两段放在一起，都属于进一步解释上述实验结果。

第三段就一句话，总结上述结论。

第四段的主题句再but后，写作手法是对比手法。开始说过去的看法，然后对这种看法进行更新扩展，说明affective presence的特点。

语言赏析：

contagious /kənˈteɪdʒəs/ a contagious feeling or idea spreads quickly from one person or place to another （情绪或想法）有感染力的

may well 可能

infect …with…某人感染上

regardless of无论

the opposite is true for…某某恰恰相反。

名言素材积累：

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.