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TEXT E Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality. Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearancg of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (bout less proiuctive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life—to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe Since the late 1950’s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France isthreatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence. In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old. Which of the following is true about the critics
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It is Sunday. Mike and his father are going to the Walter Disney. They are going to learn skating. There are many children there. They are skating. They fly here and there like birds. Mike thinks skating must be very easy and interesting. Mike puts on the skating shoes. He is very scared. He can’t stand still. He falls to the ground again and again. He is black and blue. Mike’s father comes here and helps him to skate. He practices again and again. Soon he can skate slowly, but he can’t skate quickly. On his way home, Mike thinks he must work hard if he wants to learn something. No pains, no gains. When Mike puts the skating shoes, he is very happy.
Long, long ago people thought the sun went around the earth. In some countries, people said that sun was a god (神). They thought that he drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. But now we know the earth goes around the sun. Today men know how far it is for the earth to go around the sun. They tell us that the earth travels over 1,000 miles a minute on its way around the sun. The sun is really a star. It is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon, but we know that no one can ever get to the sun. It is too hot for people to live anywhere near it. The sun is 300,000 times heavier than the earth and more than a million (百万) times larger. The sun is bigger than _______.
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