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brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly
believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main
market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which
is what every writer should be doing."If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says.
With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer."I have this
great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back
to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like
to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said
I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer." So finally
I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine
that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third
person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想) and her
struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought thoughts of the
time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with
modern houses."I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my
childhood. I"ll never go back," she said."Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said,"I can
recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at
work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can"t exist for them,
as it did for us."
B. It should be attractive to young readers.
C. It should be based on original ideas.
D. It should not include too much conversation.
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views.
B. better informed
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers.
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the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International
University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for
its drawings and paintings. FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States.
You don"t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can
call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored
in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a
few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer
artists had no place to show their works.
A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others
to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the
computer artist needs an expensive laser printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make
computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work
much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge
audience for the electronic museum.
B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A.
C. art exhibitions in Florida International University
D. latest development of computer art
B. a computer and a printer
C. pictures and drawings on paper
D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line
B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists
C. art students needed a place to show their works
D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art
B. computer owners
C. exhibits in the museum
D. those who will enjoy art
uncles, aunts, and elder cousins--in a word, any relative who is older than you. But that doesn"t really answer
the question, does it? In a normal family, there is a big difference between being elderly and being an elder.
Elders are the storytellers, the cooks, the historians, the authorities, the knitters, and the workhorses. They
are the people we respect and turn to for answers or help when we are in trouble, because of their many years
of life experience. Most of all, they are the people who raised you and your loved ones and helped you growing
into the people you are. For many years, they carried the burden of caring for your family and leading it to
better times. Now it"s your turn to dote on them. Ensuring the welfare of your elders should come as naturally
to us as raising our children.
Unfortunately, too many people take their parents" and grandparents" ability to care for them for granted.
And in a country where so many of us live hundreds of miles from our families, looking after loved ones can
be difficult. Even so, you should make sure your loved ones are taken care of no matter where they live, and
try to look after the seniors living alone in your neighbor, too. Taking responsibility for the elders in our society
in an important thing that all citizens should do.
B. bring us up by working hard
C. give us money and food
D. have many interesting stories
B. It"s our duty to take care of the elders when they are old
C. We should take care of the elders even if a long distance separates us from them
D. Looking after the elders is as important as raising our children
B. Parenting
C. Society
D. Family
B. criticize those people who don"t respect elders
C. Explain why we should love elders
D. Call on people to respect and love elders
companies and countries to lose billions of dollars. One expert says that depression is like cancer because it is
"widespread,costly and deadly". Depression hits one person in five around the world.
Although people have believed depression to be a problem among the rich and educated, studies show that
depression is a problem among everyone. Over any six-month period, between five to seven percent of the
world"s population will be suffering from a serious depression.
Suicide (自***) rates among people suffering from the disease in its extreme,or clinical form were 80
percent higher than in the population at large, and sufferers were four times more likely to have heart attacks.
People who suffer from depression often have problems sleeping,getting upon time, and doing work
productively.
Depression,which researchers agree has its origin in the genes (基因), brings loss of confidence and
ability to concentrate-making it impossible for employees and managers to work efficiently.
Depression is made more serious in China by Chinese"s inability to face it.Many people believe that
depressed people are either weak or lazy. Besides, there is no good treatment,with few specialists available.
"Most patients in China just don"t get help, "a Chinese doctor says."In my hospital.I have to see 30 or 40
patients in a morning,just have time to say "Hello how do you feel?"
In Western countries,people are not afraid to admit that they have depression,but most do not tell it to their
boss,because they fear that their boss would fire them.
"In my experience, aging bosses are the most willing to admit they have it. Because they feel the most
secure about themselves,"an American doctor says.
Hopefully,in the near future,people around the world will be able to admit that they have depression so that
they can get the right treatment.
B. Depression brings great problems to its sufferers in their life and work
C. Depression is a commonly-existing problem only in rich countries.
D. The poorer and the less educated a person is,the less he will suffer from depression.
B. easy to avoid being hit by heart attacks
C. working efficiently and productively
D. either weak or lazy
B. the lack of treatment and doctors
C. their unwillingness to tell it to their boss
D. the doctors" careless work
B. The aging bosses around the world dare to say they are depressed.
C. More and more patients will turn to specialists for help.
D. Western people are braver than Chinese people.
and alone. Many people 2 winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to
read.
For many students reading means school; it means 3 . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it"s
something you"re 4 . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and
many other people, reading is the most 5 thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can 6 a cold
winter evening disappear. Dull grey skies are no 7 for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the
Rings《指环王》,or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen"s Emma《爱玛》, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye《麦田守望者》.
All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well written books
that 8 young people. 9 . even there, many high school students don"t enjoy reading the books because
they are 10 their school work: "Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I"ll never be able to read 11 much." But
sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the 12 .Suddenly, the world
inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they 13 . At the moment the thought 14 reading is work disappears and reading becomes 15 .
Reading anything is 16 but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers
write English very well and 17 you with good examples to follow. And good books will tell you more about
English 18 : what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don"t let me 19 it by
telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to 20 on a cold winter evening.
( )1. A. indoors | B. inside B. prefer B. worry B. tested on B. reasonable B. cause B. challenge B. respond B. Luckily B. part of B. very B. subject B. care about B. that B. a failure B. mean B. offer B. language B. spoil B. stand still | C. outdoors C. hate C. try C. tested out C. comfortable C. make C. competition C. appeal C. Unfortunately C. in place of C. this C. scheme C. hope for C. this C. a success C. great C. give C. culture C. make C. stay calm | D. outside D. love D. work D. tested in D. considerable D. force D. match D. catch D. Accidentally D. far from D. that D. theme D. live in D. which D. a pleasure D. worth D. award D. art D. develop D. stay cool |
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