| Two conflicts convinced Western
countries that they dared not reduce their forces too drastically, The first was
the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. This came at the height of the
happiness at the end of the Cold War and the new era of peace that was expected
to follow. By January 1991 it was apparent that attempts to persuade Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein to withdraw through a combination of military threats,
economic pressure, and diplomatic inducements had failed. American, British, and
French forces found themselves using military equipment and concepts designed to
deal with the Warsaw Pact in central Europe to defeat a moderate-sized Third
World country. This brought home the lesson that in a world in which total war
had become too horrific to contemplate even a limited war was no small matter
an A. the world has realized that a limited war was a piece of cake and demanded no matter B. the people urged to launch a limited war C. the world has realized that even a limited war was still terrible and needed to do a lot of things to finish it D. people were afraid to begin a limited war so the have done a lot of things to prevent it [单项选择]Employees attending the writing seminar are expected to practice imaginative and ______ writing as well as develop their technical writing skills.
A. detective B. negative C. descriptive D. cooperative [单项选择]When should volunteers expect to begin working
A. Immediately. B. Tomorrow. C. In a couple of days. D. In six days. [单项选择]English speakers expect to be immediately informed of （ ） the letter they have received is written.
A. the purpose for which B. the reasons for which C. the date on which D. the place in which [填空题]Americans no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John Mcwhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another criticism against the decline in education. Mr. Mcwhorter’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of "whom", for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case endings(词格)of Old English. But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly educated sought an el 我来回答: 提交
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