Some people say that seals are the fairies of the sea and should not be killed. The seals are the cleverest creatures that have ever been found in the sea.
"In the Kingdom of the Seals" is an English fairy story by Donald A. Mackenzie. It tells of a seal hunter who wounds a seal. The seal swims away with the hunter’ s knife still in its back. That evening a stranger on a black horse calls at the home of the seal hunter and takes him to the edge of a cliff. Suddenly the seal hunter finds himself falling. He falls to the bottom of the sea.
The stranger Changes into a seal and leads him towards a huge underwater palace. Inside the palace he sees an old grey seal lying on a bed in terrible pain. Beside the bed is a knife which the hunter recognizes as his own. He is ashamed of his cruelty and begs forgiveness of the old seal. Because this is a fairy story, the wound is healed when the seal hunter lays his hand on it and wishes. The old seal reg
A. C．Donald Mackenzie knows a lot of the seals
Some say that nothing is more vivid or memorable than a picture. We disagree. No visual image is as vivid as the image created by the mind in response to words. The main function of the poet or the artist, in fact, is to enable people to see more deeply into things than they can with the unaided eye, and this is what good prose or poetry or painting is all about.
It is not true that one picture is worth a thousand words. It takes only a few words if they are the right words-to ignite the imagination and produce picture far more colorful than anything within the range of electronic communication.
Yet the ultimately importance and power of print is represented not by its superior images but by its ability to convey abstract ideas. No matter how intensive or prolonged a person's formal schooling may be, he is only partially educated if he is unable to think abstractly. He knows that the most vital ingredient in the making of decisions is sequential thought; This
A. It can help to produce excellent visual images.
B. It can help to eliminate illiteracy.
C. It can convey abstract ideas quickly and accurately.
D. It can help people communicate with each other.
Most young people enjoy some forms of physical activity. It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some (36) -- football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering.
Those who have a passion for (37) high and difficult mountains are often (38) with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to (39) cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains This astonishment is caused, (40) , by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to (41) men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and (42) a game. There are no man-made roles, (43) there are for such games as golf and football. There are, (44) rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to (45) , but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering (46) to many people. Those who climb mountains are (47) to use their own met
A. dealt
B. coped
C. looked upon
D. disgusted
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