There was a great deal of machinery. This means there ____.
A、was one big machine
B、was one big engine
C、were many machines
D、was one powerful machine
A、was one big machine
B、was one big engine
C、were many machines
D、was one powerful machine
Led by______, the barons forced Henry HI to accept______.
A.Simon de Montfort; the Great Charter
B.Simon de Montfort; the Provisions of Oxford
C.Thomas Becket; the Great Charter
D.Thomas Becket; the Provisions of Oxford
The "sing-song" theory was put forward by the great Danish linguist ______.
A.Otto Jespersen
B.Ferdinand de Saussure
C.John Lyons
D.Daniel Jones
Why is M’dear asked when a person is of serious illness?
A.She specializes in treating deadly illness
B.She is the leader of the community
C.She is a great doctor of the community
D.She is like a priest who offers spiritual consolation
The author’s purpose in writing the passage lies in ___.
A.showing that we sometimes are deceived by our own eyes.
B.informing us about the different functions of the eye organs.
C.regretting that we are too slow in the study of eyes.
D.marveling at the great work done by the retina.
People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because ______.
A.it tasted like milk
B.it tasted more pleasant
C.it became a popular drink
D.Madame de Sevigne was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea
1)Brazil is a poor country in the world because much ofit has not yet been developed.
2)The new city is named Braillia.
3)Brasilla's wide roads have been carefully designed to gothrough lving areas.
4)The govermment had much dificultt in persuadingpeople move from Rio to Bralialt.
5)The best title for tipassase is Basillai the New Capital.
Like Corelli's Mandolin, which was set on a Greek island during its Italian occupation in World War Ⅱ, Birds Without Wings is also a story of two Mediterranean cultures living cheek by jowl. Eskibahce is a small hillside village on the southwestern coast of Turkey. At the beginning of the 20th century, Greeks and Turks--along with a smattering of Armenians and Jews--live amicably in the town. The community is so intermingled the Greeks speak only Turkish and the few Turks who can write use the Greek alphabet. The line between Greek Christianity and Turkish Islam is equally skewed. Muslim women think nothing of asking their Christian friends to light votive candles on their behalf, and the Christians have great respect for the local imam.
It is not unusual that Ibrahim, a Muslim boy, is in love with Philothei, the most beautiful Greek girl in town. Karatavuk, the son of the Muslim potter, and Mehmetcik, from a Christian family, are inseparable friends, never parted for a day until they are conscripted into service for the First World War. But anyone familiar with the history of the region can foresee that tragedy will befall this idyllic community: tragedy in the form. of hatred, war, expulsion and genocide. The blossoming of Turkish nationalism will reignite the tribalism that has always marked this region of the world. Eskibahce's way of life will be destroyed, and this coming cataclysm hangs over the novel like the sword of Damocles.
Readers familiar with de Bernieres' work know he has a very unusual way of unfolding a narrative. Different characters tell parts of the story, and sometimes an omniscient narrator chimes in with third person authority.
In Birds Without Wings, for instance, we get some of the story with hindsight, from survivors who were children at the time. Other events are told as they occur. Throughout, there are sections about the rise of Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk, the great military leader who westernized Turkey, that read almost like history. It is the tragic intersection of the stories that give the novel its substance and weight.
De Bernieres' brilliance is that he manages to recount bleak history cloaked in radiant garb. He is a gifted storyteller who offers up his tale at an unhurried pace, introducing violence or despair with the same inevitability as such happier impulses as loyalty and honor. Blood feuds, retaliation, religious intolerance--all are so ingrained in everyday life in Eskibahce that few among its likable inhabitants really take them seriously. But it is precisely because the novelist allows us to embrace these characters, warts and all, that we are shocked when these ordinary people are driven by a madness that will destroy everything and everyone they love.
Birds Without Wings is, among other things, a great anti-war novel. History, it tells: us, "is finally nothing but a sorry edifice constructed from hacked flesh in the name of great ideas." Strong sentiments, but a reminder that the same internecine hatred erupted in Europe countless times during the ensuing century.
Corelli's Mandolin was such a masterwork that it seems almost unfair that de Bernieres could produce another book as good, perhaps better. Birds Without Wings is a tour de force, a novel as complex and compelling, as instructive and unsettling as history itself.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Mustafa Kemal is a character in Birds Without Wings.
B.Eskibahce used to be a peaceful place before the war.
C.De Bernieres' two novels were set in different places.
D.The destruction of Eskibahce's way of life is avoidable.
Whom did Adrien de Gerlache have a direct effect on?
A.John Muir.
B.Lt. Robert Scott.
C.The tourists.
D.The author.
The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. It cost $7,143,789, but it soon gained its price many times over. Between 1825, when the canal was opened, and 1882, when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped, the state collected $121,461,891.
For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Witt Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it "Clinton's Ditch(沟)". Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it. He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful.
Clinton became governor of New York in 1817, and shortly afterwards, on July 4, 1817, broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. As the canal grew, towns along its course developed fast. The length of the canal is 363 miles.
We can see that the Erie Canal______.
A.joined the Great Lakes together
B.crossed New York from north to south
C.played an important part in developing New York City
D.was the first waterway built in the US
There would probably have been other successful commercial growers before Fish if Florida had not been under Spanish rule for some two hundred years. Columbus first brought seeds for citrus trees to the New World and planted them in the Antilles. But it was most likely Ponce de Le6n who introduced oranges to the North American continent when he discovered Florida in 1513. For a time, each Spanish sailor on a ship bound for America was required by law to carry one hundred seeds with him. Later, because seeds tended to dry out, all Spanish ships were required to carry young orange trees. The Spaniards planted citrus trees only for medicinal purpose, however, they saw no need to start commercial groves because oranges were so abundant in Spain.
What is the main topic of the passage?
A.The role of Florida in the American Revolution
B.The discovery of Florida by Ponce de Le6n in 1513
C.The history of the cultivation of oranges in Florida
D.The popularity of Florida oranges in London in the 1770's
D
The Erie Canal was the first important national waterway built in the US. It crossed New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie Troy to Albany on the Hudson River. It joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. The Erie Canal helped New York develop into the nation's largest city.
The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. It cost $7,143,789, but it soon gained its price many times over. Between 1825, when the canal was opened, and 1882, when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped, the state collected $121,461,891.
For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Witt Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it "Clinton's Ditch(沟)". Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it. He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful.
Clinton became governor of New York in 1817, and shortly afterwards, on July 4, 1817, broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. As the canal grew, towns along its course developed fast. The length of the canal is 363 miles.
We can see that the Erie Canal______.
[A] joined the Great Lakes together
[B] crossed New York from north to south
[C] played an important part in developing New York City
[D] was the first waterway built in the US
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