TPO7-2Ancient Rome and Greece 古罗马和希腊
古罗马和古希腊这两大文明是西方文化的摇篮，同时这二者之间也有着千丝万缕的关系。这篇阅读文章再给我们提供相关背景知识的同时，更给我们展示了英语的“形合”之美，简洁语句传达大量信息，大爱此篇，且学习且珍惜。
1. Like the stone of Roman wall,which were held together both by the regularity of the design and by that peculiarly powerful Roman cement, so the various parts of the Roman realm were bonded into a massive, monolithic entity by physical, organizational, and psychological controls. (句子简化题：stone of Roman wall和various parts of the Roman realm的类比。)
2. While the Greek world had expanded along the Mediterranean seas lanes, the Roman world was assembled by territorial conquest. Of course, the contrast is not quite so stark: in Alexander the Great the Greeks had found the greatest territorial conqueror of all time; and the Romans, once they moved outside Italy,did not fail to learn the lessons of seapower.(感受两个句子之间的递进关系，才能找到修辞目的题的答案。)
3. In all probability it was the fertile plain of Latium, where the Latins who founded Rome originated, that created the habits and skills of landed settlement, landed property,landed economy, landed administration, and a land-based society.(定语从句套定语从句，插入到一个强调句中，学来丰富自己的写作句式吧!推断题出处。)
4. From this arose the Roman genius for military organization and orderly government. (倒装)In turn, a deep attachment to the land, and to the stability which rural life engenders, fostered the Roman virtues: gravitas, a sense of responsibility, peitas, a sense of devotion to family and country, and iustitia, a sense of the natural order.
5. Modern attitudes to Romancivilization range from the infinitely impressedto the thoroughly disgusted.(段首总起句，现代人的态度褒贬不一。)
6. As always, there are the power worshippers, especially among historians, whoare predisposed to admire whatever is strong, who feel more attracted to the might of Rome than to the subtlety of Greece.
7.At the same time, there is a solid body of opinion that dislikes Rome.……Such indeed was the opinion of some of the more intellectual Romans. “Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we,” asked Horace in his epistle, “what work of ancient date wouldnow exist?”(智者之语可能难懂，整体态度却好把握，修辞目的题也就迎刃而解。)
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