Questions 11~15
Eric Liu has spent most of his life climbing up the social ladder without looking back. The son of Chinese immigrants from Taiwan, he grew up learning to play down his ethnic identity in the mostly white community of Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Then he went on to amass a heap of power credentials: he graduated from Yale, at 25 he wrote speeches for President Clinton, and now he’s at Harvard Law School. In his provocative, wonderfully honest new book, The Accidental Asian, Liu, 29, finally pauses long enough to reflect on his assimilationist’s guilt, on the feeling that he’s left something behind without knowing exactly what it is. Half cultural commentary, half memoir, "Accidental" is a remarkable accomplishment—both a defense of assimilation and an intense recounting of personal loss. Though he’s one of A A. (A) criticism B. (B) indifference C. (C) compliment D. (D) admiration [单项选择]His desire to ()other people has caused trouble in his family.
A. please B. dominate C. force D. urge [填空题]
Every Dog Has His Say Kimiko Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. (1) When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置). The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you." "I realized that’s how he was feeling," says Fukuda. The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world’s first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it. (2) "Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs " Bowlingual has two parts. (3) The translation is done in the gadget using a database containing every kind of [单项选择]The teacher has his students ( ) a composition every other week.
A. to write B. written C. writing D. write [单项选择]People never() his sincerity as a public servant, for he had devoted himself to the nation.
A. suspect B. doubt C. distrust D. disbelieve 我来回答: 提交
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