One year Mary decided to spend a holiday in Italy. She didn’t speak much Italian, but wherever she went, she was lucky enough to find people who knew enough English to be able to understand what she wanted, until one day she decided to have lunch in a small restaurant in a village in Italy. She has seen some nice mushrooms in the market of another village near there and thought they would taste very good. So when the waiter came to take the order, she asked whether she could have some mushrooms for her meal. But she had great difficulty in explaining to him, because she didn’t know the Italian word for mushrooms. At last she took out a pencil and drew a picture of a mushroom. The waiter’s face brightened at once, and he hurried to the kitchen. A minute later, he returned carrying an umbrella.
Q11. Where did Mary spend her holiday one year
| One year ago we stared aghast at images
of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the
everyday pleasures of the beach were suddenly turned to quivering utility as
they documented the panic and mayhem of a natural disaster. Who can forget the
disbelief in the recorded voices This can’t be happening to us. Human beings
are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into
our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than
confront the possibility of destruction, It may happen, we seem to believe, but
not now, and not to us. Mount Vesuvius has been erupting since historical
records began. The eruption of A. D. 79 both destroyed Pompeii and preserved it
for posterity. Pliny the Younger starkly recorded the details in prose that can
still be read as a A. The disaster caused by some creeping plate. B. The disaster caused by the wrath of the gods. C. The disaster caused by the over population. D. The disaster caused by our willing blindness. 我来回答: 提交
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