When I was a child in Sunday school, I
would ask searching questions like "Angels can fly up in heaven, but how do
clouds hold up pianos" and get the same puzzling response about how that was
not important, what was important was that Jesus died for our sins and if we
accepted him as our savior, when we died, we would go to heaven, where we’d get
everything we wanted. Some children in my class wondered why anyone would hang
on a cross with nails stuck through his hands to help anyone else; I wondered
how Santa Claus knew what I wanted for Christmas, even though I never wrote him
a letter. Maybe he had a tape recorder hidden in every chimney in the
world. This literal-mindedness has stuck with me; one result of it is that I am unable to believe in God. Most of the other atheists I know seem to feel freed or proud of their unbel A. the author was a Sunday school boy B. the author used to be puzzled at many things C. the school didn’t teach the children enough knowledge D. tape recorders were popular in daily life [填空题]Only three events were held at the first Olympics, one of which was the stadium footrace.
[单项选择]Three men were feared dead last night after a helicopter ______ off course into an oil platform and ditched into the North Sea.
A. veered B. instigated C. falsified D. exchanged [单项选择]Three Albanians were arrested for_______.
A. attacking the patrol boat. B. smuggling in refugees. C. causing the accident. D. injuring refugees. [单项选择]
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