Mark Twain once observed that giving up
smoking is easy. He knew, because he’ d done it hundreds of times himself.
Giving up for ever is a trifle more difficult, apparently, and it is well known
that it is much more difficult for some people than for others. Why is this
so Few doctors believe any longer that it is simply a question of will power. And for those people that continue to view addicts as merely "weak", recent genetic research may force a rethink. A study conducted by Jacqueline Vink, of the Free University of Amsterdam, used a database called the Netherlands Twin Register to analyze the smoking habits of twins. Her results, published in the Pharmacogenomics Journal, suggest that an individual’ s degree of nicotine dependence, and even the number of cigarettes he smokes per day, are strongly genetically influenced. The A. he is a man with very Strong will power. B. it is easy to give up smoking temporarily. C. famous writers are often heavy smokers. D. only few people have his determination. [单项选择]While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, ______ was an admirer of ancient European civilization.
A. Washington Irving B. Henry James C. Walt Whitman D. Jack London [填空题]We (occasion)()saw him walking along the river bank.
[填空题]Mark Twain seemed unhappy in his later years because his wife and ______ had died.
[填空题]Mark Twain became the most outstanding writer of his time because he knew his people and the Missis sippi River very well, and he inherited from his mother ______.
[单项选择]Mark Twain once observed that giving up smoking is easy. He knew, because he’ d done it hundreds of times himself. Giving up for ever is a trifle more difficult, apparently, and it is well known that it is much more difficult for some people than for others. Why is this so
Few doctors believe any longer that it is simply a question of will power. And for those people that continue to view addicts as merely "weak", recent genetic research may force a rethink. A study conducted by Jacqueline Vink, of the Free University of Amsterdam, used a database called the Netherlands Twin Register to analyze the smoking habits of twins. Her results, published in the Pharmacogenomics Journal, suggest that an individual’s degree of nicotine dependence, and even the number of cigarettes he smokes per day, are strongly genetically influenced. The Netherlands Twin Register is a voluntary database that contains details of some 7,000 pairs of adult twins (aged A. he is a man with very strong will power. B. it is easy to give up smoking temporarily. C. famous writers are often heavy smokers. D. only few people have his determination. [单项选择]D
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H. B. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struckthema
A. slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters B. slaves babies could pickup slave holders‵ way of speaking C. blacks‵ social position was shaped by how they were brought up D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice 我来回答: 提交
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