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[单项选择]Charles Beckwith was born in London in 1810; the son of Charles William Lohmeyer (born in England 1769/1770; died in Copenhagen 1855). His brother, John Henry (Beckwith-) Lohmeyer, was an employee in the publisher Richard Bentley of London. Charles worked in Copenhagen as a civil engineer and teacher of English. In Denmark he published schoolbooks and translations from English; in England Bentley published his translations from Danish, mainly of Hans Christian Andersen.
Confusion piles upon confusion.. Both Charles and John Henry are referred to at times as Beckwith, at times as Lohmeyer, and at times as Beckwith-Lohmeyer, with no consistency even in a close friends’ usage. Sometimes it seems that when they weren’t Beckwith-Lohmeyer, Charles was Beckwith and John Henry was Lohmeyer, but then Mr. Beckwith turns out to be John Henry and Mr. Lohmeyer Charles. A safer rule, at least for the 1840s and 1850s: if he is in England, whatever he is called, he’s John Henry; if in Denmark,
A. employee of the publisher Bentley
B. Danish-English translator
C. civil engineer
D. English teacher
[单项选择]Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer’s new book is flying off the shelves—and nobody knows exactly why.
Sitting atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for two months now, the conservative Washington Post columnist’s Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics, a collection of his writings, is not the kind of fiery, rash conservative commentary that generally climbs to the top of the bestsellers’ lists.
And yet, the collection has sold enough to make publicists and pundits (时事评论员) alike scratch their heads, It is, as conservative publisher Adam Bellow told Newsweek, "a phenomenon. "
Published October 22 by Crown Forum, a Random House imprint that specializes in conservative authors, it first hit the Times bestseller list in November. Within two weeks, it had surpassed the latest works of conservatives Glenn Beck and Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Brian Kilmeade to climb to No. 1. And t
A. the success of Things That Matter is a phenomenon
B. the success of Things That Matter is surprising
C. anthology collections don’t sell usually
D. conservative authors rarely make the bestsellers’ lists
[填空题]Which kind of shoes does Charles Austen’s area demand
Those in ______ range.
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Some people were just born to rebel；Charles Darwin was one of them． 21 Nicholas Copernicus，Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates．They were 22 “laterborns”-that is，they had 23 one older sibling-brother or sister-when they were born．
24 ，laterborns are up to 15 times more likely than firstborns to 25 authority and break new 26 ，says Frank J．Sulloway，a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology．
In his book“ Born To Rebel” being 27 this week，Sulloway claims that 28 someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important 29 shaping personality more significant than gender，race，nationality 30 class．
He spent 26 years 31 the lives-and birth orders-of 6，566 historical 32 to reach his conclusions．
A laterborn himself，Sulloway first 33 how birth order affected personality 34 a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University．
A. perceiving
B. watching
C. arranging
D. studying
