The style that Urrea has adopted to
tell Teresita’s -- and Mexico’s ---story in his book "The Hummingbird’s
Daughter" partakes of this politics as well, being simultaneously dreamy,
telegraphic and quietly lyrical. Like a vast mural, the book displays a huge
cast of workers, whores, cowboys, rich men, bandits and saints while
simultaneously making them seem to float on the page. Urrea’s sentences are
simple, short and muscular; he mixes low humor with metaphysics, bodily
functions with deep and mysterious stirrings of the soul. These 500 pages --
though they could have been fewer -- slip past effortlessly, with the amber glow
of slides in a magic lantern, each one a tableau of the progress of earthy
grace: Teresita crouched in the dirt praying over the souls of ants, Teresita
having a vision of God’s messeng A. The language is elegant throughout the book. B. The language is simple. C. The language is forceful. D. The language mixes low humor with deep reflection on life. [单项选择]
M: Didn’t you tell Miss Green has been taking care of you A. In a library. B. In a factory. C. In a hospital. D. At hom [填空题]Every traveller has a tale to tell about bad driving. These are usually exaggerated
(21) of life on the main streets of cities where the motorists are crazy and traffic lights are treated as colourful (22) .
It all happened on a Sunday April morning. I (23) my intention to turn left into a side road and paused as the oncoming traffic cleared. But as I drove across the road, an elderly man driving a battered Renault 12 chose to overtake me (24) pass on the inside. There was a fearful bang and my car was pushed sideways. I felt groggy and bruised and was taken to hospital in the back seat of a police car. There my spleen was removed. Fortunately, though, my recovery was steady and (25) .
But that’s not the end of the tale. Yes, I had taken out insurance and it covered my medical expenses, (26) while I recovered and my flights home. However, as all ways, there was a catch to it. I had (27) hired my car from a backstreet firm called Kavis that had been recommended by the hotel front de
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