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late in his life.
He was born in San Francisco, California in 1874. He lived in California during his early childhood.
He was named after the chief Southern general in America"s Civil War. The general"s name was Robert
Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to honor the general.
Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best
thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost"s childhood was unhappy
enough to make him a very good writer. Robert Frost"s father was a reporter who wanted to be a
politician. He often drank too much wine and became angry. Robert was the victim (受害者) of his anger.
Robert Frost finished high school in 1891. After high school, Robert"s grandfather offered to pay his
costs at Dartmouth College. But Robert left the school after a few months. He did not like it. He spent the next few years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes.
He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.
Robert Frost attended Harvard University for two years. After that, he returned to the many jobs he
held before. For a while, Frost tried to take care of a farm in the state of New Hampshire. He was not a
successful farmer. And he continued to write poetry. He said that until 1930, he earned only about ten
dollars a year from writing.
In 1912, he decided to try to make a new start. He took his family to Britain. The cost of living was
low. In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called A Boy"s Will.
When it appeared in 1913. Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had
not received in his own country.
Ezra Pound, another American poet living in Britain, read the poems and liked them very much. He
wrote a magazine article about Frost. He also helped get Frost"s second book of poems published in
America. That book was called North of Boston.
B. Robert Lee Frost
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Ezra Pound
B. Frost" s poetry style was the same as Hemingway"s
C. Frost was unhappy because he was the victim of his father
D. Frost spent his childhood unhappily
B. After leaving Harvard University, he began to learn to write poetry.
C. Frost was found lo have a gift in poetry while he studied in high school.
D. Robert Frost"s father was angry and drank a lot because he didn"t realize his dream.
B. Roberl Frost"s first and second book.
C. Roberl Frost"s family and jobs.
D. Roberl Frost"s life and poetry.
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of humor,liked to play jokes on others. But once a joke was played
on him. One day Mark Twain was invited to give a talk in a small
town. At lunch he met a young man,one of his friends.
The young man said that he had an uncle with him. He told
Mark Twain that his uncle never laughed or smiled, and that
nobody and nothing was able to make his uncle smile or laugh.
"You bring your uncle to my talk this evening," said Mark
Twain. "I"m sure I can make him laugh. "
That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the front.
Mark Twain began to speak. He told several funny stories and
made everyone in the room laugh. But the man never even smiled.
Mark Twain told more funny stories, but the old man still kept
quiet. Mark Twain continued to tell his funny stories. Finally he
stopped. He was tired and quite disappointed.
Some days later,Mark Twain told another friend what had
happened." Oh," said his friend, "I know that man. He"s been
deaf for years. "
B. tell readers a joke played on Mark Twain
C. tell readers Mark Twain was a great writer
D. tell readers how to tell a funny story
B. his brother
C. his teacher
D. a young girl
B. Because he wanted to get to know the old man.
C. Because the old man could tell stories.
D. because he wanted to learn from the old man.
B. sorry
C. ill
D. sleepy
B. the old man wasn"t interested in the jokes
C. the old man could tell more funny jokes
D. the old man was deaf
to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided
that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for
a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing
many letters asking for admission (录取) to medical schools, she
was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so
determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get
money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided
to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科
医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon retuming to the United States, she found it difficult to
start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857
Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman
doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and
children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding
her own hospital, she also set up the first medical school for women.
B. She decided to further her education in Paris.
C. A serious eye problem stopped her.
D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn"t graduate from medical school.
D. She couldn"t set up her hospital.
her hospital?
B. Ten years.
C. Nineteen years.
D. Thirty-six years.
that she _____ .
B. was the first woman doctor
C. and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children
D. set up the first medical school for women
B. Paris
C. the United States
D. New York City
recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century.
Miller" s father had moved to the USA from Austria. Hungary,
drawn like so many others by the "Great American Dream".
However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family
business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Millers" s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a
powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of
doing business and its insistence on money and social status as
indicators of worth.In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a
man who has got into trouble with his worth. Willy is "burnt out"
and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if
he can"t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the
Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this,
and at loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to
face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with
enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the
New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama.It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury,
Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th
anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on
Broadway.
B. He was attracted by the "Great American Dream".
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues
B.won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists
B.The awards Arthur Miller won
C.The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.
D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
Charles Handy
In his book The Age of Unreason Professor Handy describes the dramatic changes that are taking
place in our lives today and warns that we must adapt to these changes if we want to survive in the
future.
Handy believes that in the future less than 50% of the workforce will be employed full-time by an
organization. These full-time employees will be the qualified professionals, technicians, and managers
who are essential to an organization. Their working lives will be a lot more demanding than today, but in
return they will be well-paid and they will retire earlier. The rest of the workforce will Be self-employed
or will work part-time, providing organizations with the products and services they require on a
contract basis. Handy forecasts a big increase in the number of working mothers in future and believes
there will be a large number of unemployed.
Handy gives us plenty of figures to worry about. He estimates that by the year 2040, one person in
five will retire, and one in ten will be over seventy-five years old. There will be one retiree to every three
people of working age, and even more than that in countries such as Germany and Switzerland, where
the proportion will be as much as one to two. Retirees will remain healthy and active for longer than
they do today and many will live to be a hundred years old, a fact which leads Handy to suggest that the
term retirement will no longer be appropriate. He suggests the third age is a more appropriate
description, since it will be as important a part of our lives as the first age of learning and the second age
of working are for us today.
B. predict the leading professions in the coming years
C. describe the effect of unemployment on society
D. suggest a better term for future retirement
B. be mainly self-employed
C. have fewer full-time workers than today
D. work on a contract basis
B. ageing will be a common and serious problem
C. 10% of the population will live to be 100 years old
D. the third age will be the most important part of our lives
performances and interview her for my newspaper.
I went to a nightclub in New York and watched the stage lights go up. After the band played an
introduction, Wesla Whitfield wheeled herself onstage in a wheelchair. As she sang, Whitfield"s voice was
so powerful and soulful that everyone in the room forgot the wheelchair was even there.
At 57, Whitfield is small and pretty, humorous and modest. Raised in California, Whirfield began
performing in public at age 18, when she took a job as a singing waitress at a pizza shop. After studying
classical music in college, she moved to San Francisco and went on to sing with the San Francisco
Opera Chorus.
Walking home from rehearsal (排练) at age 29, she was caught in a random shooting that left her unable
to move her body from the waist down. I asked how she dealt with the realization that she"d never walk
again, and she admitted that at the beginning she didn"t want to face it. After a year of depression she
tried to kill herself. She was then admitted to a hospital for treatment, where she was able to recover.
Whitfield said she came to understand that the only thing she had lost in this misfortunate event was
the ability to walk. She still possessed her most valuable asset--her mind. Pointing to her head, she said,
"Everything important is in here. The only real disability in life is losing your mind. "When I asked if she
was angry about what she had lost, she admitted to being annoyed from time to time, "Especially when
everybody"s dancing, because I love to dance.
But when that happens I just remove myself so I can focus instead on what I can do. "
B. A hospital.
C. A pizza shop.
D. A news agency.
B. It made her sad and depressed at first.
C. It seriously affected her singing career.
D. It happened when she was a college student.
B. When Wesla is singing on the stage.
C. When Wesla goes out in her wheelchair.
D. When Wesla sees other people dancing.
B. Be modest and hard-working to earn respect from other people.
C. Acquire a skill so that you can still be successful and famous.
D. Try to sing whenever you feel upset and depressed.
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