问答题他在父亲的教导下“发愤用功”,其实他读书还是出于喜好,只似馋嘴佬贪吃美食:食肠很大,不择精粗,甜咸杂进。极俗的书他也能看得哈哈大笑。戏曲里的插科打诨,他不仅且看且笑,还一再搬演,笑得打跌。精微深奥的哲学、美学、文艺理论等大部著作,他像小儿吃零食那样吃了又吃。厚厚的书一本本渐次吃完。诗歌更是他喜好的读物。重得拿不动的大词典、辞典、百科全书等,他不仅挨着字母逐条细读,见了新版本,还不嫌其烦地把新条目增补在旧书上。他看书常做些笔记。
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问答题What does the author mean by "the tech wreck may be over, but it has left a legacy of low prices"? (Para. 4)
问答题According m the author, why can't the Kyoto targets for CO2 emission cutting for 2008-2021 be attained?
问答题The book shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.
We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil fights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.
We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father"s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather; drawn to the brilliant, compelling lady whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.
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问答题Topic: Will petty criminals get light punishment? Questions for Reference: 1. A new prosecution guideline was recently released: people convicted of petty crimes may get light punishment if they are minors, the elderly people, and people who have slightly breached the law because of poverty. What do you think of this new law? 2. This new law is said to be a humane practice and it will help them put their lives back in order and better serve their families. Do you think it can achieve its end? 3. Some people think that if petty crimes are not punished in a timely way, more serious consequences will follow. What do you think of this argument?
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问答题Directions:
In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences only once. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet.
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问答题西塘是一个具有一千多年历史的水乡古镇,保存完好的明清时期建筑群是其他旅游景点所无法相比的。徜徉古镇街头,使人们仿佛置身于一副美丽的水墨画之中。河两岸高耸的粉墙和水中清晰的瓦房倒影,还有那在微风里婆娑摇曳的杨柳,似乎都在为这个古镇增添着异彩和生机。
在这个宁静的水镇里,生活的脚步似乎完全听命于那淌着潺潺流水的河流。西塘可以说是水的同义词。这里的河流是那样的蜿蜒曲折、波光粼粼,映射出一派宁静祥和的街景。夜幕降临,河岸边数千盏灯笼与晚霞一并点燃,把整个小镇映衬得灯火通明,为镇民们照亮了回家的路。
问答题News report:
Recently, an article about a high-income white-collar mother unable to afford her child"s summer camp tuition has gone viral in China. It is said that the mother earns 30000 yuan a month, but paid 20000 yuan for her daughter"s summer camp stay abroad. Overseas summer camp programs are becoming increasingly popular in China, as they may provide rare opportunities to experience Western lifestyle and culture. It is also believed that the practice gives children a competitive advantage over their peers. Some parents are willing to spend large sums of money on such programs, while others wonder whether it"s worthwhile.
Topic: Are Expensive Overseas Summer Camps Worthwhile?
Questions for reference:
1. What are the possible benefits and/or problems related to overseas summer camp programs?
2. Some people hold that a summer camp program is just an overseas tour. What do you think of this comment?
3. How should the supervision and regulation of overseas summer camp programs be strengthened?
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Same-sex couples Paul Katami (L), Jeff Zarillo (2nd L), and Kris Perry (2nd R) and Sandy Stier pose for photographs before the start of their trial in San Francisco, California January 11, 2010. California"s ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the US Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.
Two Californian men challenging a ban on same-sex marriage on Monday said they had been a couple for nine years and felt like third-class citizens, leading them to launch the federal case which could set a national precedent. The men and a lesbian couple unable to marry in California hope to take their case against the state" s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage all the way to the US Supreme Court and to overturn bans throughout the nation. A loss in the top court, two ranks above the action in the case which began on Monday, would seriously undermine efforts to win gay marriage rights in state courts.
The United States is divided on same-sex marriage. It is legal in only five states, though most of those, and the District of Columbia, approved it last year. Approval of Prop 8 in November 2008 was a sweet victory for social conservatives in a state with a liberal, trend-setting reputation, and maintained the steady success they have scored on the issue at the ballot box. Where it is legal, gay marriage has been championed by courts and legislatures, not voters.
"I don"t think of myself as a bad person," said Paul Katami, describing the persecution he felt from a media campaign warning California parents to "protect" their children by voting against same-sex unions in the 2008 poll. He and his would-be husband, Jeffrey Zarrillo, described slights in gay life that ranged from being pelted with rocks and eggs in college to the awkwardness of checking into a hotel and not being able to clarify the relationship. "Being able to call him my husband is so definitive," Katami said. "There is no subtlety to it. It is absolute. " Gays and lesbians have nearly equal rights under domestic partnership laws, but the two men said that left them feeling second-or third-class citizens and they wanted to be married to have kids. "We hear a lot of "What"s the big deal?" The big deal is creating a separate category for us," Katami said.
Gay rights lawyers in the case describe their battle as a continuation of the fight against racist laws stopping whites and blacks from marrying. Marriage is a fundamental constitutional right, and in addition gays and lesbians deserve special protection from discrimination, they say.
问答题What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented, has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.
You may say: "If one wants truth, why not go to the literally true book? Biography or documentary, these amazing accounts of amazing experiences which people have." Yes, but I am suggesting to you that there is a distinction between truth and so-called reality. What these people write in their accounts of happenings is not confining itself to what happened. The novel does not simply recount experience; it adds to experience. I hope you will see what I mean. It is not news at all, not anything sensational or spectacular. And here comes in what is the actual livening spark of the novel: the novelist's imagination has a power of its own. It does not merely invent, it perceives. It intensifies, therefore it gives power, extra importance, greater truth and greater inner reality to what may well be ordinary and everyday things.
So much is art—the art that, in common with poetry, drama, painting, and music, does, we all know, enter into the novel. But not less and absolutely joined with the art is craft, and craft—craftsmanship—is absolutely and surely an essential for the writing of a novel. I have said the novel is a story. It is the story aspect that I am talking about first and now, and the craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story telling.
Would you or I, as readers, be drawn into a novel if our interest was not pegged to the personalities and outlooks and the actions of the people whom we encounter inside the story? They are the attractive elements in the book.
This being so, which comes first actually into the mind of the novelist when he begins to work: the people, or character, or the plot? Do not think it strange when I say that the plot comes first. The actual idea or outline of a book is there—the possibilities of a situation—and then the novelist thinks, "what would be the kind of person who would perform such an action? What would be the other kind of person who would react in a particular way?" I think to myself "I need a proud man," or "I need a woman so idiotically romantic in temperament that she will do unwise things." or "I need perhaps an almost excessively innocent or ignorant young person." In that sense the characters are called into existence by the demands of the plot; but I do not want you to feel that the characters are merely invented to formula. That is not so at a11. Their existence having begun, they take into themselves a most extraordinary and imperative reality. And their relation with plot is a dual one because, though to an extent
the demands of the plot control them, the plot also serves to give them force and purpose. And, because of the plot, those characters are so shown and so brought into action that as little as possible of them shall go to waste.
The people, the characters in a novel, must carry with them into the book their own kind of inevitability. We are conscious when we meet the people involved in a story that they have something within them which will probably take them towards some inevitable fate or end. If that inevitability breaks down—if the characters are compelled by the author to do what we instinctively know they would not do—then I think we feel that there is a flaw in the reality of the novel.
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COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Disparaging comments by adults about a children's
presenter have led to an angry backlash in support of Cerrie Burnell, the
29-year-old CBeebies host who was born missing the lower section of her right
arm. One man said that he would stop his daughter from watching the BBC
children's channel because Burnell would give his child nightmares.
Parents even called the broadcaster to complain after Burnell, with Alex
Winters, took over the channel's popular Do and Discover slot and The Bedtime
Hour programme last month, to complain about her disability. And some of the
vitriolic comments on the "Grown Up" section of the channel's website were so
nasty that they had to be removed. "Is it just me, or does
anyone else think the new woman presenter on CBeebies may scare the kids because
of her disability?" wrote one adult on the CBeebies website. Other adults
claimed that their children were asking difficult questions as a result. "I
didn't want to let my children watch the filler bits on The Bedtime Hour last
night because I know it would have played on my eldest daughter's mind and
possibly caused sleep problems," said one message. The BBC received nine other
complaints by phone. While charities reacted angrily to the
criticism of the children's presenter, calling the comments disturbing, other
parents and carers labeled the remarks as disgraceful, writing in support of
Burnell and setting up a "fight disability prejudice" page on the social
networking site Facebook. "I think that it is great that Cerrie
is on CBeebies. She is an inspiration to children and we should not
underestimate their ability to understand and accept that all of us have
differences—some visible and some not," wrote "Surfergirlboosmum". Other
websites were flooded with equally supportive comments. "I feel we should all
post counter complaints to the BBC and I'm sure they will receive more
complaints about the fact they have even considered accepting these complaints,"
wrote Scott Tostevin on Facebook. "It's a disgrace that people still have such
negative views against people who are 'different'", he added.
Burnell, who described her first television presenting role as a "dream job",
has also appeared in EastEnders and Holby City and has been feted for
performances in the theatre while also worked as a teaching assistant at a
special needs school in London. She also has a four-year-old child. "I think the
negative comments from those few parents are indicative of a wider problem of
disabled representation in the media as a whole, which is why it's so important
for there to be more disabled role models in every area of the media," she said
in response yesterday. "The support that I've received ... has
been truly heartening. It's brilliant that parents are able to use me as a way
of talking about disability with their children and for children who are
similarly disabled to see what really is possible in life and for their worlds
to be represented in such a positive, high profile manner."
Charities said that much still needed to be done to change perceptions in
society. "In some way it is a pretty sad commentary on the way society is now
and that both parents and children see few examples of disabled people. The
sooner children are exposed to disability in mainstream education the better,"
said Mark Shrimpton at Radar, the U.K.'s largest disability campaigning
organisation. "She is a role model for other disabled people."
Rosemary Bolinger, a trustee at Scope, a charity for people with cerebral palsy,
said: "It is disturbing that some parents have reacted in this way ...
Unfortunately disabled people are generally invisible in the media and wider
society."
问答题Innovation is like a bamboo shoot. A bamboo shoot spends many years underground, and then it just peaks its head up like a seeding and it just shows up very quickly.
问答题传统的中国画,不模仿自然,是以表现心灵抒发情性为主体的意象主义艺术。画中意象与书法中的文字一样,是一种适于抒写的极度概括抽象的象征符号,伴随着意象符号的是传统的程式表现技巧。古代的大师们创造着独自心中的意象及其程式,风格迥异,生机勃勃。后来,多数人惯于对古人程式的模仿,所作之画千人一面。这样的画作一泛滥,雅的不再雅,俗的则更俗。近代中国画仍然在庸俗没落的模式漩涡中进退两难。阿文与当今的有识同行一样,有志标新立异,寻找自我,建立起现代的属于自己的新意象、新格局,且一直背靠着这高雅的传统。
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