Text 1 ①Of 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 in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage
【考点分析】灭绝师太常考（the most）本句的意思是"过去这些年英语报纸上所发生的最有影响力的变化的可能是艺术评论的在报道范围和严肃性的堕落"
①It 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 most big-city newspapers
②Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews
③ To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies
