One busy day, I was racing around trying to get too much done, and I exclaimed to my three kids in the car, "We can get both things done and kill two birds with one stone!" My daughter Annie quietly suggested, "You mean feed two birds with one crumb, Mom, don’t you " I stopped short, realizing how steeped my language is in the culture of war. I had used "weapon" language without even knowing it. I was embarrassed and yet felt a grace: if a child can become conscious of using a new language of peace, then there is hope.
Think about the business language: strategies, bullets, high-caliber, power point; about win-lose sports language like "decimate", "attack", "destroy the other team" , not to mention the movies and video games that simulate the most gruesome annihilations over and over. The lies of propaganda, one-sided media coverage, the alienation of others (those terrorists, the axis of evil) , all part o
A. Gratified
B. Ashamed
C. Indignant
D. Panicked
| One busy day, I was racing around
trying to get too much done, and I exclaimed to my three kids in the car, "We
can get both things done and kill two birds with one stone!" My daughter Annie
quietly suggested, "You mean feed two birds with one crumb, Mom, don’t you" I
stopped short, realizing how steeped my language is in the culture of war. I had
used "weapon" language without even knowing it. I was embarrassed and yet felt a
grace: if a child can become conscious of using a new language of peace, then
there is hope. Think about the business language: strategies, bullets, high-caliber, power point; about win-lose sports language like "decimate", "attack", "destroy the other team", not to mention the movies and video games that simulate the most gruesome annihilations over and over. The lies of propaganda, one-sided media coverage, A. Gratified. B. Ashamed. C. Indignant. D. Panicked. [填空题] One day a police officer manager to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so 【B1】 what he had bought that he offered to 【B2】 the mushrooms with his brother officers. When their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on his plate. "Let the dog 【B3】 a piece first," suggested one 【B4】 officer who was afraid that the mushrooms might be poisonous. The dog seemed to 【B5】 his mushrooms, and the officers then began to eat their meal saying that the mushrooms had a very strange 【B6】 quite pleasant taste. An hour 【B7】, however, they were all astonished when the gardener rushed on and said 【B8】 the dog was dead. 【B9】, the officers jumped into their cars and rushed into the nearest hospital. Pumps(泵) were used and the officers had a very 【B10】 time getting rid of the mushrooms that 【B11】 in their stomachs. When they 【B12】 to the police station, they sat down and started to 【B13】 the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pains that he had felt and they agreed that 【B1
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