Napoleon Bonaparte was prepared for the fierce ________ of the Russian people defending their homeland.
A.resistance
B.assistance
C.reliance
D.campaign
- · 有5位网友选择 D,占比50%
- · 有4位网友选择 C,占比40%
- · 有1位网友选择 A,占比10%
A.resistance
B.assistance
C.reliance
D.campaign
When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, some Egyptians thought ______.
A.this invasion was the largest invasion in the history of Egypt
B.they were responsible for this invasion
C.they were better off under his role
D.this invasion was brought about by the Copts
A.vociferously
B.patriotically
C.verbosely
D.loquaciously
The issue of the movie is displayed around ______.
A.the surprisingly looking likeness between Napoleon Bonaparte and a grubby deckhand named Eugene
B.the treacherous gap between Napoleon Bonaparte and a poor deckhand named Eugene
C.the cheap streets of Palookaville to the lavish pomp of costume drama
D.the story on how the captive emperor was smuggled off the island of St Helena
"The latest analysis suggests a criminal intent," said Dr. Pascal Kintz, a toxicologist who regularly gives expert evidence in court cases, and who conducted a new study on Napoleon's hair.
For International Napoleonic Society (INS) spokesman Jean-Claude Damamme, the new study by Dr. Kintz has produced "the definitive proof of the criminal poisoning of Napoleon.'
Napoleon died aged 51 in 1821, on the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic, where he had been ban ished after his military defeat by British and Prussian forces at Waterloo.
A previous analysis of Napoleon's hair, conducted by Dr. Kintz in 2001, had found abnormally high levels of arsenic.
However, supporters of the natural death theory said the arsenic could be explained by environmental factors such as the winemakers' custom at that time of drying their casks and basins with arsenic.
The shrinking size of the emperor's trousers was also used to support the death by stomach cancer theory in a Swiss study which concluded that the emperor lost more than 11 kilos during the last five months of his life.
Dr. Kintz in his latest study used sophisticated new chemical techniques to analyze hair samples, taken by Napoleon's servant Abraham Noverraz and General Bertrand, who was deported to St Helena with the emperor.
The toxic form. of arsenic, used for centuries as rat poison, was found in Napoleon's hair samples at 37 to 42 times above the normal level in the new study.
"I can't imagine Napoleon fed himseff rat poison, even ff he WaSh't a gourmet," joked Damamme of Montreal-based INS.
"The arsenic was in the 'spinal cord' of the hair, which implies that it came from the blood and food ingested," he said.
Damamme further discounted the wine theory saying Napoleon "drank little, at the most one glass per day, and then mixed it with water."
"Somebody in his circle gave him arsenic in small doses to poison him little by little to avoid another violent uprising by those who still supported the emperor in France," Damamme said.
It had been believed that Napoleon Bonaparte ______.
A.died of arsenic poisoning
B.died of a stomach cancer
C.was killed by British army
D.was murdered by Prussian forces
Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English while in exile,
documents show in Britain for the first time reveal. 【M1】______
The deposed French emperor apparently wanted to learn the
language of his foes so he can read what the London papers were 【M2】______
writing about him.
Scraps of paper from his English lessons in captivity on the
island of St Helena go on show at London's National Maritime Museum.
They contain lines of French partly translated by Napoleon into 【M3】______
English.
Count Emmanuel de las Cases, who accompanied the emperor
into exile after he surrendered to the English at the Battle of
Waterloo, wrote about the emperor's desire to learn the language by 【M4】______
his memoirs.
According to him, Napoleon had his first lesson on 17 January,
1816, when he asked las Cases to dictate to him some sentences in
French, what he then translated, using a table of auxiliary verbs and a 【M5】______
dictionary.
According to historian Dr. Peter Hicks, las Cases describes how
Napoleon hated being sat down to work as a schoolboy but steeled 【M6】______
himself for the task.
Dr. Hicks said: "He was not necessary anti-English. He had to 【M7】______
fright because it was the enemy of France."
He added: "In France people are amazed to find that he was
learning English. But he didn't do it for pleasure. He wondered how
much money he could have saved in translation if he could learn 【M8】______
English."
The documents are to feature in the Greenwich Museum's
Nelson and Napoleon exhibition, being held to mark the 200th
anniversary of Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar.
They are among a wide range of letters, paintings, personal
items and objects lent by galleries and museums across Europe.
The English lesson papers, described by Dr. Hicks for "quite 【M9】______
remarkable", are loan from the Foundation Napoleon in Paris. 【M10】______
【M1】
It works well until Napoleon's escape ship is diverted to Antwerp and his imposter(冒名顶替的) gets drunk on delusions of grandeur. The twists are. as old as Aesop, and Holm has played the diminutive tyrant enough times to improvise his tics with impunity(不受惩罚).
But the period detail, so often a hollow distraction, is welded into the melodrama with quiet ingenuity. The image of Napoleon, trundling through the fields of Waterloo, the site of his 1815 humiliation and now a tacky jumble of souvenir stalls, is a bauble (小玩具)worthy of The Antiques Road Show.
Duly humbled by his lowly disguise, and forced to seek the kindness of shapely peasants—notably bly Hjejle' s fruit seller, Pumpkin--the toppled emperor is made painfully aware of the naked vanity of his own legend. Still, old habits die hard, and Napoleon's military campaign to keep Pumpkin off the gloomy corners of Paris and turn her ailing watermelon business into Tesco will make the iron shopkeepers of Grantham and Finchley blush with envy. The morals are as pungent as moth- balls; the sentiments spongy and sweet.
This is the inevitable fate of a film that has been carefully springcleaned for family consumption. The lopsided joy is Holm, and his touching, virtuoso turns as both Napoleon and his increasingly unruly imposter. Eugene abuses his spitting image to transform. his island prison into a fool's paradise. The "free" Napoleon realises that only a total lunatic could possibly aspire to be Bonaparte.
Under the Ucertificate flap that reads, "To tame a dictator, all you need is a good peasant and a warm fire", is a ghostly, and surprisingly adult, sense of pathos.
The Emperor's New Clothes introduced here is a feature movie ______.
A.well-based on historical facts
B.functioned story about Napoleon Bonaparte
C.describing the treacherous gap of French history
D.of costume drama
Some adults require little sleep; others need eight to ten hours in every twenty-four. Infants sleep sixteen to eighteen hours daily, the amount gradually going less as they grow older. Young students may need twelve hours; university students may need ten. A worker with a physically demanding job may also need ten, whereas an executive working under pressure may manage on six to eight. Many famous people are repute to have required little sleep. Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison, and Charles Darwin apparently averaged only four to six hours a night.
(77) Whatever your individual need, you can be sure that by the age of thirty you will have slept for a total of more than twelve years. By that age you will also have developed a sleep routine; a favorite hour, a favorite bed, a favorite posture (姿势), and a formula (程式) you need to follow in order to rest comfortably.
(78)Investigators have tried to find out how long a person can go without sleep. Several people have reached more than 115 hours nearly five days. Whatever the limit, it is absolute. Animals kept awake for from five to eight days have died of exhaustion. The limit for human beings is probably about a week.
The writer implies that ______.
A.sleep is important for good mental and physical health
B.a light sleep is as restful as a deep sleep
C.memory is improved during sleep
D.sleep is relatively unimportant for human beings
Some adults require little sleep; others need eight to ten hours in every twenty-four. Infants sleep sixteen to eighteen hours daily, the amount gradually going less as they grow older. Young students may need twelve hours; university students may need ten. A worker with a physically demanding job may also need ten, whereas an executive working under pressure may manage on six to eight. Many famous people are reputed to have required little sleep. Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison, and Charles Darwin apparently averaged only four to six hours a night.
(76) Whatever your individual need, you can be sure that by the age of thirty you will have slept for a total of more than twelve years. By that age you will also have developed a sleep routine: a favorite hour, a favorite bed, a favorite posture (姿势), and a formula (程式) you need to follow in order to rest comfortably.
(77) Investigators have tried to find out how long a person can go without sleep. Several people have reached more than 115 hours---nearly five days. Whatever the limit, it is absolute. Animals kept awake for from five to eight days have died of exhaustion. The limit for human beings is probably about a week.
The writer implies that ______ .
A.sleep is important for good mental and physical health
B.a light sleep is as restful as a deep sleep
C.memory is improved during sleep
D.sleep is relatively unimportant for human beings
A. sleep is important for good mental andphysical health
B. a light sleep is as restful as a deepsleep
C. memory is improved during sleep
D. sleep is relatively unimportant for humanbeings
听力原文:W: Hi, Sam! Haven't seen you for ages. Where have you been these days?
M: Hi, Linda. I went to Paris on business and then I did some sightseeing there.
W: So you were in Paris. Tell me about it, will you?
M: Well, there's so much to say about it. I don' t know where to begin.
W: Tell me about the Eiffel Tower first.
M: Oh, it's great. It's the symbol of the city, you know. Hard to imagine how it was built over a hundred years ago.
W: Did you go to the top of the tower?
M: Sure. I dined at a restaurant on the top platform. and enjoyed the splendid view of Paris at night. The footlights on the magnificent buildings and palaces are so beautiful that the city has got a nickname of a City of Light.
W: What about the Louvre Palace? Did you go there?
M: How could I miss it! I spent a whole day inside and still couldn't finish seeing all its collections of world-famous treasures.
W: What treasures?
M: You must have heard about Mona Lisa, haven' t you?
W: Yes, of course. Did you see the original painting?
M: Yes. And I saw the Greek statue of Venus de Milo, too.
W: The Greek goddess of love? Oh, You're so lucky, Sam. I really wish I could have a chance to visit Paris.
M: You will, I'm sure. And there is the Arch of Triumph.
W: Is that the one that was built in Napoleon's time?
M: Well, it was Napoleon who started building it but the Arch was not completed until fifteen years after his death.
W: Where else did you visit in Paris?
M: I walked along the Seine River and enjoyed the views on both banks.
W: Did you take any pictures?
M: Yea. I took a great many. I'll show them to you and tell you more about the city.
W: That's great.
(23)
A.He was having a vacation in Paris.
B.He was visiting some friends in Paris.
C.He was visiting some famous sights in Paris while on a business trip there.
D.He was studying art in Paris.
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