TPO10问题求解

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阅读1：Chinese Pottery 下面这个题目该怎么做，大家有什么好的解题方法？
（ps：我做对了，但是把整段看完才做出来，太费时了）
9. In paragraph 5, the authorcompares the designs on Chinese pots to those on Greek pots in order to

emphasizethat while Chinese pots were decorative. Greek pots were functional

argue that the designs on Chinese potshad specific meanings and were not just decorative

arguethat twentieth-century scholars are better able to understand these designsthan were ancient scholars

explainhow scholars have identified the meaning of specific images on Chinese pots

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Paragraph 5：Just as painted designs onGreek pots may seem today to be purely decorative, whereas in fact theywere carefully and precisely worked out so that at the time, theirmeaning was clear, so itis with Chinese pots. To twentieth-century eyes, Chinese pottery mayappear merely decorative, yet to the Chinese the form of each object and its adornment had meaning and significance. The dragon represented the emperor, and the phoenix, the empress; the pomegranateindicated fertility, and a pair of fish, happiness; mandarin ducks stood forwedded bliss; the pine tree, peach, and crane are emblems of long life; andfish leaping from waves indicatedsuccess in the civil service examinations. Only when European decorative themes were introduced did thesemeanings become obscured（掩盖，使模糊） or even lost.