Once there was a king. He lived in a beautiful city. His garden was full (41) lovely flowers. The king (42) silver (银的) bells on each flower. Then everyone heard the bells (43) and looked at the flowers. The garden was very big. (44) the gardener (园丁) didn’t know how big (45) A small bird lived in one of the trees. It (46) the nightingale (夜莺). It sang so beautifully. People told the king how much they liked the city, (47) when they heard the little bird, they all said, "Nothing is as (48) as the nightingale." And they talked (49) the bird for a long time. Men wrote books about the city and they always wrote (50) things about the nightingale.
A. well
B. good
C. better
One day, I happened to (碰巧) talk to a stranger (陌生人,异乡人) on the bus. When he found (发现,找到,创办)out that I was from Chicago, he told me that one of his good friends lived there and he wanted to know if I happened to know him. At first I wanted to say that it was foolish (愚蠢的,可笑的) to think that I could possibly meet his friend since there were millions of people in Chicago. But, instead, I just smiled and said that Chicago was a very big city. He was silent for a few minutes, and then he began to tell me all about his friend. He told me that his friend was an excellent (优秀的) tennis player (运动员) , and that he even had his own tennis court (网球场). He added that he knew a lot of people with swimming pools, but that he only knew two people in the country had their own tennis courts. And his friend in Chicago was one of them. I told him that I knew several people like that, for example, my brother and my next- door neighbour (邻居,邻接). I told him that my brother was a doctor and he lived in California. Then he asked where my brother lived in California. When I said Sacramento, he said that last year his friend spent the summer in Sacramento and lived next door to a doctor. The doctor had a tennis court (法院,院子), I said that my next-door neighbour went to Sacramento last summer and lived in the house next to my brother’s. For a moment, we looked at each other, but we did not say anything. "Would your friend’s name happen to be Roland Little Wood" I asked finally (最终). He laughed and said, "Would your brother’s name happen to be Ray Hunter" It was my turn to laugh. The writer’s brother was a
A. doctor
B. manager
C. teacher
Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something m all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us. An artist’s choice of shapes and colors indicates that he believes them to be ______ .
A. meaningful in themselves
B. merely beautiful
C. a reflection of his experiences
D. worth looking at
根据不少用人单位的反映,在招收大学毕业生时,他们更注重的是毕业生的素质而不是他们的专业知识。随着教育改革的深入和学科口径的拓宽,毕业生都掌握了比较坚实的专业知识。问题是一些毕业生在求职时不是考虑如何发挥他们的潜力,而是一味追求高工资高待遇。所以,高校当前一个紧迫的任务是培养学生的社会责任感。