目录 Unit 1 Rail Transport 1 Text A A Brief History of Rail Transport 1 Text B The Effect of Urban Rail Transit 6 EST Stylistics: Brief Introduction 9 Unit 2 Urban Rail Transit 12 Text A Urban Rail System 12 Text B Trains 17 EST Stylistics: Technical Words & Semi-technical Words 21 Unit 3 Railway Infrastructure 23 Text A Railway Infrastructure I 23 Text B Railway Infrastructure II 28 EST Stylistics: Abbreviations 31 Unit 4 High-speed Railway 34 Text A High-speed Rail in China 34 Text B Chinas High-speed Railway Era 40 EST Stylistics: Compound Words 43 Unit 5 Underground Railway 46 Text A Taipei Metro 46 Text B Shanghai Metro 52 EST Stylistics: Nominalization 55 Unit 6 Light Railway Transit 58 Text A The Rebirth of Trams: The Promise of Light Railway Transit 58 Text B Construction and Operation Costs of LRT 64 EST Stylistics: Passive Voice 67 Unit 7 Suburban Railway 70 Text A Commuter Rail 70 Text B Metro-North Railroad 74 EST Stylistics: Parallelism 77 Unit 8 Single Line Operation 81 Text A Single Line Operation I 81 Text B Single Line Operation II 87 EST Stylistics: Long and Complex Sentences 90 Unit 9 Inter-city Rail Service 94 Text A The Inter-city-Express 94 Text B TGV 99 EST Stylistics: Classification 102 Unit 10 Magnetic Levitation for Transportation 105 Text A Shanghai Maglev 105 Text B SC Maglev 110 EST Stylistics: Inversion 113 WORD BANK 116 参考文献 124