1) In China as well as in west countries, more and more youth are joining the rank of risk-takers who devote their leisure hours to hair-raising sports. For example, there spring up many clubs of rock climbers, sports car drivers and so on. Why are people consumed by such passion for peril? (第一句扼要归纳了图画所反映的现象,第二句进行简单描写)

2) Psychologists say the desire to experience and conquer danger is human nature.(主题句:体验和战胜危险是人的本性。后面两句通过古今两方面来说明)In the past when we were faced with real dangers almost daily to satisfy the basic needs of hunger and thirst, challenges required us to stretch ourselves to survive. Although we now live in a world that is rather more civilized, we are born to seek our new challenges in order to feel good about ourselves.

3) But the most immediate causc for the enthusiasm for dangerous sports is an increasingly comfortable life. (主题句:对极限运动的热情归根结底是当代生活太舒适)We live in a world with little danger or risk from our natural surroundings. And modern technology develops so rapidly that it makes life more comfortable and monotonous. But the desire remains to seek physical exertion, to have a taste for adventure and to test their own limit. Hence, to engage in hazardous activities is to compensate for humdrum lives.

4) Of course, there are some people both biologically and peychologically endowed with a constitution that leads them to seek very high levels of stimulation and sensation. But we can't deny that to take part in extreme sports for most people is an escape from a mundane nine-to-five existence.(最后一句进一步说明人们追求极限运动是对日复一日单调的朝九晚五生活方式的不满)

5) Our society is increasingly obsessed with safety. One consequence of the safety culture has been the growth of pastimes that can inspire a little terror but that pose no real danger. As life becomes more comfortable, more and more people will take part in the risk-taking activities.(最后一句和文章第一句的内容形成首尾呼应)

闪光点:

1. 结构多样:there spring up many clubs,in the past when we were faced with, biologically and psychologically endowed with, that can inspire a little terror but that pose no real danger

2. 用词变化:hair-raising sports 一 dangerous sports 一 extreme sports - hazardous activities - risk-taking activities, passion for peril - enthusiasm for dangerous sports- a taste for adventure, humdrum lives -a mundane nine-to-five existence-monotonous, engage in - take part in -- join, desire - thirst -- need

3. 低频词: hair-raising, consume, peril, hazardous, exertion, compensate for, humdrum, endowed with,constitution, constitution, obsessed with, mundane

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