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The phrase "in bed" is pronounced as _ in real speech.
A . /in'bed/
B . /im'bed/
C . /'inbəd/
D . /imbəd/
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Diogenes is a philosopher and practitioner of the ancient Cynicism, a Socratic thinker who seeks to find a different path to a real free life.
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Greek mythology is A and God-centered. Because Greece is a country composed of B chains and seas. So in their myths, the gods live high on top of Olympus. They are far away from real life and filled with romanticism .
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In his famous play The God of Hell, Sam Shepard combined wild humor, grotesque satire, myth and a haunting language to present a subversive view of American life.
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In real life, we never use the idiom the apple of one's eye.
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The real Christopher Paul Gardner is an American businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist. What does “philanthropist” mean?
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The vulture is the symbol of death both in real life and in Hemingway’s story.
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______ is the real founder of the realist novel in the history of English literature. In his novels, he gives a panaramic view of the life in the English society of his age.
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Greek mythology is A and God-centered. Because Greece is a country composed of B chains and seas. So in their myths, the gods live high on top of Olympus. They are far away from real life and filled with romanticism .
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The author of Passage 1 asks the students to remember to regulate and balance their time because too much time online can mean little time in real-life studying or exercising or visiting with friends.
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The hours____the children spend in their one-way relationship with television people, undoubtedly affect their relationships with real-life people.
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This mobile app has enabled people to make connections and virtual friendships can ________ into real-life relationships.
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What are the ideals of the Rastafarian way of life that has influenced American culture?
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The American lady talked about her father’s sickness and death in a smiling way to show she still has the way to treat the future life.
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According to the American federal government， residents of Hawaii have the longest life ________： 77.2 years.
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The hours______the children spent in their one-way relationships with television undoubtedly affect their relationships with people in real life.
A．in which
B．on which
C．when
D．that
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In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngster(年轻人)who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we transfer them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally ill patients--even when those patients are their parents. This deprives(剥夺)the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed approximately 500 terminally ill patients in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients' communications in order to truly understand their needs, fears, and fantasies(幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their tremendous need to be informed, to be kept up-to-date on their medical condition, and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.
Five hundred critically ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of ______.
A．learning how to best help them and their families
B．observing how they reacted to the crisis of death
C．helping them and their families overcome the fear of death
D．finding out their attitude towards the approach of death
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According to the theory of______, literature must be true to life and exactly reproduces real life, including all its details without any selection.
A．Realism
B．Romanticism
C．Naturalism
D．Aestheticism
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Passage Three:Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness, if fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor (单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
第31题：According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ________.
A) he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B) he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C) he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D) he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
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One of the well-known of American writers is Samuel Clemens, whose pen name is Mark Twain. Born in 1835, Twain grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. As did many other boys of his day, Twain dreamed of traveling on river boats and of someday becoming a riverboat pilot. Twain used his memories of the life of a river town in his two most famous books, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
As a young man, Twain held many jobs. He was a printer, a good miner, and, for a time, he was a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he adopted the name Mark Twain. This was a term used by the boatmen to mean that the water measured two fathoms, or twelve feet, which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking, and became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain's style. of writing was simple and direct. Among the things he wrote about were superstitious(迷信的)people and people who were easily fooled. He used his unusual gift for humor to write about many things of importance.
Generally speaking, this article is about ______.
A．a riverboat pilot
B．a printer
C．a gold miner
D．a famous writer
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Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don&39;t think it&39;s possible to be middle-class,conservative,educated and still be truly black. Once, during an Abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn&39;t have a clue about real African American life. "If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice. "
James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. How would you counsel that woman, asked James.
"Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life. "
"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you&39;re interested,the quality of my life is just fine!"
1、"To move the tables" means__________.
A.to move the tables
B.to carry the tables away
C.to gain courage
D.to gain an advantage after having been at a disadvantage
James' mother__________.A.was educated
B.was conservative
C.was poor
D.A and B
James' family led a__________life when she was born.A.miserable
B.happy
C.well-off
D.hardly
James' father__________.A.divorced his wife
B.liked to drink
C.deserted his family
D.B and C
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！
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Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature—from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway—one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face—the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life.
Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or because of a drying up of the floodgates of religious intensity, the American avoids dwelling on death or even coming to terms with it; he finds it morbid and moves back from it, surrounding it with word avoidance (Americans never die; they "pass away") and various taboos of speech and practice. A "funeral parlor" is decorated to look like a bank; everything in a funeral ceremony is done in hushed tones, as if it were something secret, to be concealed from the world; there is so much emphasis on being dignified that the ceremony often loses its quality: of dignity. In some of the primitive cultures, there is difficulty in under-standing the causes of death; it seems puzzling and even unintelligible. Living in a scientific culture, Americans have a ready enough explanation of how it comes, yet they show little capacity to come to terms with the fact of death itself and with the grief that accompanies it.
"We jubilate over birth and dance at weddings," writes Margaret Mead, "but more and more deal with the death off the scene without ceremony, without an opportunity for young and old to realize that death is as much a fact of life as is birth." And one may add, even in its hurry and brevity, the last stage of an American's life m the last occasion of this relation to his society—is as standardized as the rest.
Unwillingness to face death is
A．a characteristic of American society.
B．a quality found in all civilizations.
C．a quality inherited from our Latin ancestors.
D．a quality of the American character.
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He talks in _____ terms about the promise of American life. （uplift)
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Dream is a story that a person “watches”or even takes part in during sleep.Dream events are imaginary, but they are related to real experiences and needs in the dreamer's life.They seem real while they are taking place.Some dreams are pleasant, others are annoying, and still others are frightening.
Everyone dreams, but some persons never recall dreaming.Others remember only a little about a dream they had just before awakening and nothing about earlier dreams.No one recalls all his dreams.
Dreams involve little logical thought.ln most dreams, the dreamer cannot control what happens to him.The tory may be conf ing, and things happen that would not happen in real life.People see in most dreams, hut they may also hear, smell touch, and taste in their dreams.Most dreams occur in color.But people who have been blind since birth do not see at all in dreams.
Dreams are a product of the sleeper's mind.They include events and feelings that he has experienced.Most dreams are related to events of the day before the dream and strong wishes of the dreamer.Many minor incidents of the hours before sleep appear in dreams.Few events more than two days old turn up.Deep wishes or fears-especially those held since childhood-often appear in dreams, and many dreams fulfill such wishes.Events in the sleeper's surrounding-a loud noise, for example, may become part of a dream, but they do not cause dreams.
Some dreams involve deep feelings that a person may not realize he has.Psychiatrits often use material from a patient's dreams to help the person understand himself better.
Dreaming may help maintain good learning ability, memory, and emotional adjustment.People who get plenty of sleep but are awakened each time they begin to dream become anxious and restless.
21.This passage is mainly about().
A.why we dream during sleep
B.how we dream during sleep
C.what dreams are
D.what benefits dreams bring to people
22.According to the passage, dreams result from().
A.the sleeper's wishes
B.the sleeper's imagination
C.the sleeper's feeling
D.the sleeper's own mind
23.Which of the following is NOT true？ ()
A.Dream is a confusing story which involves little logic thought.
B.Dream is related to the dreamer's real life.
C.Dream is an imaginary store which seems real while taking place.
D.Dream involves events that always happen in real life.
24.This passage suggests that psychiatrists are().
A.trying to help the dreamer recall his earlier dreams
B.trying to make the sleeper dream logically
C.studying the benefits of dreams
D.helping the sleeper fulfill his dreams
25.We may infer form. the passage that dreaming().
A.is beneficial to people
B.disturbs people's life
C.makes people always restless
D.deprives people of a good sleep
