Day 11
英文重现
Utterly various ways of experiencing the planet still do survive,though tenuously and in scattered fashion.Bajau people look up,and the Sun crossing the sky tells them any number of things,including their place,their time,and how the sea creatures on which their living depends will be behaving.In another world,spanned with satellites and a global money market,the Sun is just a noun,a hot and dazzling object rising with the Japanese stock market in Tokyo and setting with the New York Stock Exchange.
——SAT 2009年1月题，Section 3
解析
1.“tenuously”和“in scattered fashion”都是状语修饰动词“survive”，表示存在的方式。
2.“how the sea creatures on which their living depends will be behaving”是一个宾语从句，其功能相当于名词。其中，“on which their living depends”是带介词的定语从句修饰“sea creatures”；这个定语从句中的介词是动词短语“depend on”的介词前置，当介词与引导定语从句的关系代词之间存在介宾关系时，可以将介词置于关系代词前。
3.后置的过去分词短语可作非限制性定语，前后可用逗号隔开，相当于省略式的非限制性定语从句，“spanned with satellites and a global money market”即为一个后置的分词定语结构，修饰前面的“another world”。
4.“a hot and dazzling object”是前面“a noun”的同位语，“rising with the Japanese stock market in Tokyo and setting with the New York Stock Exchange”是两个并列的现在分词短语同时作定语修饰前面的“object”。
词意辨析
参考翻译
各种认识地球的方法仍然存在，尽管不重要也不成系统。Bajau人抬头仰望天空，太阳在天空中的运行告诉他们很多事情，包括他们的位置、时间以及他们赖以为生的海洋生物的习性。而在另一个用卫星和全球性的货币市场构架出的世界中，太阳不过是一个名词，一个炙热而耀眼的物体，随东京的日本股市的开盘而升，伴纽约证券交易所的闭盘而落。
实战演练
A consumer-based cultural uniformity is still some way off but is already advanced enough for certain grim futures to be imagined.Utterly various ways of experiencing the planet still do survive,though tenuously and in scattered fashion.Bajau people look up,and the Sun crossing the sky tells them any number of things,including their place,their time,and how the sea creatures on which their living depends will be behaving.In another world,spanned with satellites and a global money market,the Sun is just a noun,a hot and dazzling object rising with the Japanese stock market in Tokyo and setting with the New York Stock Exchange.
In lines“Bajau people…New York Stock Exchange”,the author presents two images of the Sun primarily to____.
(A)contrast a holistic outlook with a scientific perspective
(B)convey the unique relationship between the heavens and the sea
(C)juxtapose two disparate approaches to life
(D)applaud two impressive bodies of knowledge
(E)emphasize the common bond between two cultures
答案：C
答案解析
该文章整体比较抽象，比较晦涩，越是这样的文章，我们越应该利用所有能用的方法，尽量排除选项。在讨论两种有关太阳的“image”的句子“Bajau people…New York Stock Exchange”中，根据“in another world”，我们可以感觉到作者是在将两种“image”进行对比”，由此可以判断出只有选项A“contrast…”和选项C“…two disparate…”可能正确，选项B“表达天空和海洋的独特关系”，选项D“赞同两大知识体系”和选项E“强调两种文化的共同联系”均没有展现对比，都可排除。而选项A中“将全局性的世界观和科学的世界观进行对比”明显不对，与本段第二句中的“Utterly various ways of experiencing the planet”明显不符，因此可确定正确选项应该是C“并列对照两种不同的对待生活的方式”（“approaches to life”与第二句中的“ways of experiencing the planet”类似）。