1148401 周余 写作第四次作业

①Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute—I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And—think of it!—I was only eighteen.
选自：Max Shulman—Love Is a Fallacy
评论:此文开篇，作者开门见山地对主人公的性格特征等进行了细致描写，并运用排比，比喻的修辞手法惟妙惟肖地刻画出了一个敏锐，机智，精明的主人公形象。以第一人称的口吻成功引导读者对文章产生了浓厚的兴趣。

②My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous.
选自：Amy Tan—Two Kinds
评论:Two Kinds主要叙述了我和母亲这两代人之间的故事。然而小说却以“My Mother”和 “You”的形式开篇，这充分地表达出母亲对我的各种严格要求。以“could do”排比的形式，展示出我的任务之艰巨，也无疑地表现了我的梦想和母亲的要求格格不入，这已为后文母女之间矛盾迭出埋下了伏笔。

③The difference between a brain and a computer can be expressed in a single word: complexity.
选自：Isaac Asimov—The Difference Between a Brain and a Computer
评论：此文开篇，简洁明了。作者直截了当地阐明了大脑与电脑的差异所在，高度概括，统领全文。但此种开篇直接叙述的方式似乎与题目有一丝累赘感。