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[简答题] Charles Dickens observed of revolutionary France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the spring of hope and the winter of despair. More recently, the US National Intelligence Council borrowed from A Tale of Two Cities for the title page in a report about how the world may look in 2030.
You can see why the authors alighted on Dickens’s observation. The tumultuous upheavals in the international system can stir optimism and pessimism in equal measure. The great prosperity that globalization has brought to the east and south sits alongside the risks and insecurities that accompany the passing of an older order.
The first instinct is to celebrate the way globalization lifts hundreds of millions of people out of poverty; the second to fret whether the rebalancing of global power will usher in a new era of might is right in international relations. Even Europeans, who have come to look at the world through normative lenses, are beginning to think that soft po
[单项选择]In 1859, Charles Dickens published his historical novel of the French Revolution entitled______.
A. Hard Times
B. Bleak House
C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. Our Mutual Friend
[填空题]Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost (1) today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today (2) of children is limited to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and (3) farms, rather than to large factories.
Girls (4) more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often (5) , it is often harmful to their health. (6) , children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working (7) . Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the (8) going to a parent or
[单项选择]Part of the reason Charles Dickens loved his own novel, David
Copperfield, was ______ it was rather closely modeled on his own life.
A. what
B. that
C. why
D. whether
[填空题]In the eyes of us, novels by Charles Dickens are worth (read) ______ .
