During what season of the year does the conversation take place()
A. Fall.
B. Winter.
C. Spring.
D. Summer.
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I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for courage. They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up just by listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in this way is that the crowd is doing it. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a greater barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come--with the people who respect you for whom you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true
A. There is no popularity that really counts.
B. What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths.
C. It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree wit his or her classmates.
D. Most teenagers are not actually rebellin
A Poster Just as the sun is starting to shine and the days are getting longer, the examination period begins! I’d like to wish all students the very best luck in your exams and with your dissertations. For those of you who will be leaving us this summer, I hope that you will take with you fond memories of Birmingham and that you keep in touch. If you are staying in Birmingham over the summer, do try to come along to our summer garden party on 18 June. Spouses and children are very welcome to join us too. Summer Garden Party Wednesday 18, June 2007 From 2 p. m.—5 p. m. Celebrate the end of exams and the end of term with a summer garden party in the beautiful grounds of Westmere on Edgbaston Park Road. All international students, their spouses and children are welcome to join us. We’ll have lots of party games as well as food and drink. What better way to mark the end of the academic year If you would like to come along, please contact Mal Graham, international Student Assistant: 0121 414 2894 M. M. Graham@bham. ac. uk. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Have a great summer. What can we learn from the passage
A. The party will last for 4 hours.
B. Some students will graduate this summer.
C. The party will be held during the examination period.
D. All the students there are marrie
Aesthetic thought of a distinctively modern bent emerged during the 18th century. The western philosophers and critics of this time (31) much attention to such matters as natural beauty, the sublime, and representation— a trend (32) the central position they had given to the philosophy of nature. Since that time, however, the philosophy of art has become ever more (33) and has begun to (34) the philosophy of nature. Various issues (35) to the philosophy of art have had a (36) impact on the orientation of 20th-century aesthetics. (37) among these are problems relating to the theory of art as form and (38) the distinction between representation and expression. Still another far-reaching question has to do with the (39) of art. Two opposing theoretical positions have been (40) on this issue: one holds that art and its appreciation are a means to some recognized moral good, (41) the other maintains that art is intrinsically valuable and is an end in itself. Underlying this whole issue is the concept of taste, one of the basic (42) of aesthetics. In recent years there has also been an increasing preoccupation with art as the prime object of (43) judgment. Corresponding to the trend in contemporary aesthetic thought, critics have followed (44) of two approaches. In one, criticism is restricted to the analysis and interpretation of the work of art. (45) it is devoted to articulating the response to the aesthetic object and to (46) a particular way of perceiving it.Over the years, aesthetics has developed into a broad field of knowledge and inquiry. The concerns of contemporary aesthetics include such (47) problems as the nature of style and its aesthetic significance; the relation of aesthetic judgment to culture; the (48) of a history of art; the (49) of Freudian psychology and other forms of psychological study to criticism; and the place of aesthetic judgment in practical (50) in the conduct of everyday affairs. (34)()
A. plant
B. supplant
C. transplant
D. replant