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She once said," When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing; the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the type-writer with the thought that one more task had to be done."Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her. but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plains with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers."It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. ’A great many people find it very dull: they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card... But when I come to the open plains, something happens. I’m home. I breathe differently.\ When she said "It takes hold of yon. or it leaves you perfectly cold" Wills Cather meant ().
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She once said," When people ask me whether writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying: The end is nothing; the road is all. That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the type-writer with the thought that one more task had to be done."Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her. but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the great plains with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers."It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. ’A great many people find it very dull: they like a church tower, an old factory, a waterfall, the country all made to look like a German Christmas card... But when I come to the open plains, something happens. I’m home. I breathe differently.\ What was the place like where Cather grew up().
Britain was a wealthy (富裕的) country. A hundred and fifty years (36) , there were a (37) very rich people (38) received money from land or investments, and did not need to work. They used to have large (39) of servants to look (40) them. There were al so many middle class people, who worked as businessmen or as doc tots or lawyers. They usually had several servants to (41) their houses and cook their meals.But there were also many poor people, and there was a big (42) between the rich and the poor.The poor had very difficult lives. Many worked as servants. They used to be (43) little, and they had to work long hours. But at least they lived in a warm house and were well (44) (45) who worked in factories were often less (46) . They used to work many hours a day, in dangerous and unhealthy conditions. But, even so, they did not use to (47) enough to feed their families. They often lived in slums (贫民窟)which were built cheaply by the factory owners.The (48) paid people were those who worked (49) the farms. At certain times of the year, they did not earn (50) because there was no work (51) them to do.Life for the poor was not always bad. There were kind farmers and factory owners who helped their workers. And many people were (52) about the poor. One of them was Charles Dickens, the famous British writer. When he was young, his family was always short (53) money. His father was a clerk, who used to (54) more than he earned. When Dickens was eleven, his father was (55) to prison; and Dickens had to work in a factory. At this time, very young children used to work in factories and mines, and clean chimneys. 39().
The Channel Tunnel(海底隧道), to be opened officially by British Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand on March 8, links(连接) British and France for the first time since the Ice Age. The project spent eight years completing and cost an estimated(估计)$13.5 billion. The channel is considered an engineering wonder of the 20th century. Le Shuttle is the channel’s specially built train. The total journey time between Calais, France and Folkstone Britain is 35 minutes. The service is scheduled to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week in both directions. The underlined word" scheduled" in this passage means to ().
The Channel Tunnel(海底隧道), to be opened officially by British Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand on March 8, links(连接) British and France for the first time since the Ice Age. The project spent eight years completing and cost an estimated(估计)$13.5 billion. The channel is considered an engineering wonder of the 20th century. Le Shuttle is the channel’s specially built train. The total journey time between Calais, France and Folkstone Britain is 35 minutes. The service is scheduled to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week in both directions. The Channel Tunnel is considered as a wonder because().
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