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M: If I were you, I would study for four hours every night in order to improve my English.
W：Well, you see, I haven’t got that much time to spare.
I expect this course to open my eyes to story material, to unleash my too dormant imagination, to develop that quality utterly lacking in my nature—a sense of form. I do not expect to acquire much technique. I expect to be able to seize upon the significant, reject the trivial. I hope to acquire a greater love for humanity in all its forms.
I have long wondered just what my strength was as a writer. I am often filled with tremendous enthusiasm for a subject, yet my writing about it will seem a sorry attempt. Above all, I possess a driving sincerity—that prime virtue of any creative worker. I write only what I believe to be the absolute truth—even if I must ruin the theme in so doing. In this respect I feel far superior to those glib people in my classes who often garner better grades than I do. They are so often pitiful frauds-artificial-insincere. They have a line that works. They do no
| The study of philosophies should make
our own ideas flexible. We are all of us apt to take certain general ideas for
granted, and call them common sense. We should learn that other people have held
quite different ideas, and that our own have started as very original guesses of
philosophers. A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will ultimately be solved by science. I think this is true for a great many of the questions on which philosophers still argue. For example, Plato thought that when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and another from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now know that the light comes from the sun, and is reflected into our eyes. We don’t know in much detail how the changes in our eyes give rise to sensation. But there is e A. The argument whether philosophy will ultimately be solved by science or not. B. The importance of learning philosophies, especially the history of philosophy. C. The difference between philosophy and science. D. A discuss about how to set a proper attitude towards future. [单项选择]—— He looks so young!
—— I agree with you. He looks 30, but he is __________ 45.
A. actually B. basically C. accordingly D. entirely [填空题]When I was young, I drove a small car,
I used to _____________________ a small car when I was young.
[简答题]When I was young, I walked to school.
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