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[简答题]Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. {{U}}(71) They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages;{{/U}} the picture for us the marvels and beauties of nature, help up in our difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves.
{{U}}(72) Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest happiness to books. {{/U}}Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and {{U}}(73) yet he tells us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his life to books.{{/U}} He says, "If any one would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not r
[简答题]Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
[单项选择] Television: The Cyclops That Eats Books
What is destroying America today is not the liberal breed of politicians, or the International Monetary Fund bankers, misguided educational elite, or the World Council of Churches. These are largely symptoms of a greater disorder. But if there is any single institution to blame, it is television.
Television, in fact, has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system or government or church. Children particularly are easily influenced. They are fascinated, hypnotized(着迷的) and tranquilized by TV. It is often the center of their world. Even when the set is turned off, they continue to tell stories about what they’ve seen on it. No wonder, then, that when they grow up they are not prepared for the frontline of life; they simply have no mental defenses to confront the reality of the world.
The Truth About TV
One of the most disturbing truths about T
A. recording
B. imitating
C. creating
D. falsifying
