?1. of all the changes that have taken place in english-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline inthe scope and seriousness of their arts coverage重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:2. it ?is ?difficult ?to ?the ?point ?of impossibility ?for ?the ?average ?reader ?under ?the ?age ?of forty ?to ? imagine ? a ?time ?when ?high-quality ? arts ? criticism ? could ?be ? found ? in ?mostbig-city newspapers.重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:3. for example, some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their wellbeing and abandoned them, nevertheless, they retained as parts of their oral ?tradition the 
myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for therartistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:颉 斌 斌 考 研 长 难 句 6 6 句 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
4. yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:5. we are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in england between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of world war i,at a time ?when news print was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament ?to the publications in which it appeared.?重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:6. so few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,”newman wrote,”that i am tempted to define journalism’as a termof contempt applied by
writers who are not read to writers who are.” 重点词汇:结构分析:语段分析:?
