“The Divinity School Address” is an essay written by the famous philosopher __________
A、"Nature"
B、"Self-Reliance"
C、"Divinity School Address"
D、"The American Scholar"
Which two speeches made Emerson famous?
A.Nature and Essays.
B.Representative Men and English Traits.
C.Nature and English Traits.
D.The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address.
There is no "divinity in man" because _________.
A.man has rejected God
B.man is the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself
C.the average man cannot compete with the large business interests
D.most men choose menial vocations for themselves
A、boundless freedom
B、“the servant of sin”
C、acuteness of senses, inquiry of reason and light of intelligence
D、“higher divinity”
As lapsed Catholics, they sought a group which had as little doctrine and dogma as possible, but what they considered having good moral and ethical values. After some searching, they joined the local Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Although my parents did not attend Meetings for worship very often, I went to first Day School there regularly, eventually completing the coarse and receiving an inscribed Bible.
At the Quake School, I learnt about the concept of the "inner light" and it has stayed with me. I was, however, unable to accept the idea of Jesus Christ being any more divine than, say, Buddha. As a result, I be came estrange from the Quakers, who, though believing in substantially the same moral and ethical values as I do, and even the same religious concept of the inner light, had arrived at these conclusions from a premise which I could not accept. I admit that my religion is the poorer for having not revealed word and no supreme prophet, but my inherited aversion to dogmatism limits my faith to e Supreme Being and the goodness of man.
Later, at another Meeting of Worship, I found that some Quakers had similar though not so strong reservations about the Christian aspects of their belief. I made some attempt to rejoin a Meeting for Worship, but found that, though they remained far closer to me than any other organized religious group, I did not wish to become one again. I do attend Meeting for Worship on occasion, but it is for the help on deep contemplation which it brings rather than any lingering desire m rejoin the fold.
I do believe in a "Supreme Being" (or ground of our being, as Tillich would call it). This being is ineffable and not to be fully understood by humans. He is not cut off from the world and we can know him somewhat through the knowledge which we are limited to--the world. He is interested and concerned for humankind, but on man himself falls the burden of his own life. To me the message of the great prophets, especially Jesus, is that good is its own reward, and indeed the only possible rewards that ark intrinsic in the actions themselves. The relationship between each human and the Supreme Being is an entire personal one.
It is my faith that each person has this unique relationship with the Supreme Being. To me that is the meaning of the inner light. The purpose of life, insofar as a human can grasp it, is to understand and increase this lifeline to the Supreme Being, this piece of divinity that every human has. Thus, the taking of any life by choice is the closing of some connection to God, and unconscionable. Killing anyone not only denies them their purpose, but corrupts the purpose of all men. (553)
If offered a reward for doing a good deed, the author would ______.
A.spurn the reward indignantly
B.accept it only as a token of the other person's feelings of gratitude
C.neither take nor refuse the reward
D.explain to the offerer that rewards are blasphemous
A、As a divine sign, Jesus sent thunderbolts to strike down the cross and the soldiers who carried out the crucifixion.
B、People did not believe Jesus was the Son of God. They mocked at him and dared him to come down from the cross and save himself to prove he was indeed the Son of God.
C、A sign with the words “THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH. THE KING OF THE JEWS” was placed over the head of Jesus on his cross to humiliate him.
D、One of the robbers sentenced to death on the same day with Jesus recognized the divinity in Jesus and asked Jesus to remember him when he ascended to his kingdom.
京剧(Beijing Opera)是中国的国粹。作为一门古老的艺术,京剧的服装(costume)、脸谱(facial mask)更易被人喜爱。不同的服装类型反映不同的人物身份特征。富贵者的服装缀满精美的刺绣;穷困者的服装则简单朴素,少有装饰(elemental)。脸谱是京剧中塑造人物形象的重要手段,它是用不同的颜色在脸上勾画出来的。脸谱的颜色让人一看便知角色(portray)的善恶。比如白色代表奸诈(treachery), 黑色代表正直不阿,黄色是骁勇,蓝、绿色多用于绿林好汉(rebellious fighters),金、银色多用于神佛(divinity and Buddhism)。(翻译)
I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form. of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle the masters that enslave both North and South. It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one, but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of your-self. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty is to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, is he? See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of him-self, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
The author's purpose in referring to Negro Slavery is to illustrate _________.
A.how frivolous our attitude is toward this very serious social problem
B.that there will always be slavery
C.the foreign origin of Negro Slavery
D.that the worst slave-driver of all is the slave-driver who drives himself
Task 3 Please fill in the blank with appropriate given word or phrase that best suits the logic connection. A. Whereas B. unlike C. for instance D. Generally E. contrast F. contrasted G. The Greek H. The Egyptian A brief consideration of Egyptian mythology 1 with the mythology of the Greeks is enough to convince us of the revolution in thought that must have taken place from one age to the other. The Egyptian gods had no resemblance to anything in the real world, 2 the Greek gods were fashioned after real Greek people. 3 artists’ interpretations of the divine were horrid bestial shapes that combined men’s heads with bird’s bodies or terrifying nightmares. The monstrosities of an invisible world were what the Egyptian’s worshiped. 4 interpretation of divinity stands in opposition to this dark picture. The Greeks were preoccupied with the visible world. 5 the Egyptian, they found their desires satisfied in what they could actually see around them. The ancient statues of Apollo, 6 , resemble the strong young bodies of athletes contending in the Olympic Games. 7 , the Greek artists found their gods in idealized beauty or intelligence of actual human counterparts. In direct 8 to the Egyptians, they had no wish to create some hideous fantasy that they called god.
The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectic. In (1)_____, there is everything (2)_____ blockbuster thrillers to Catherine Miller's La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M., a novel which has been (3)_____ praised as high art and (4)_____ as upmarket porn. Then there are novels (5)_____ the sticky questions of good and (6)_____ (Le Demon et Mademoiselle Prym) and faith versus science m the modern world (L'apparition). Philosophical (7)_____ continue in the non-fiction list. (8)_____ this week by Michel Onfray's "Antimanuel de Philosophic". a witty talk (9)_____ some of philosophy's perennial debates. Those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying Frederic Beigbeder's Dernier Inventaire avant Liquidation, a survey of France's (10)_____ 20th-century books, (11)_____ with Mr. Beigbeder's (12)_____ humor from the title on (The 50 books of the Century Chosen by You and Critiqued by Me),
In Britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over the non-fiction list. It's a major (13)_____ for Nigella Lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity (14)_____, whose latest (15)_____ of recipes tops the list. Annie Hawes, in second (16)_____. took herself (17)_____ to the sun-drenched hills of Italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them as did Carol Drinkwater, just (18)_____ the border in France. Fiction-wise, it's business as (19)_____, with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy and Harry Potter with The Goblet of Fire still burning (20)_____ at number three.
A.literature
B.narrative
C.story
D.fiction
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