M: If I were you I wouldn’t interrupt the boss while he’s in an important meeting. Wait until he comes back to his office.
W: He told me to bring him this information as soon as it arrives, even if he was in the bathroom.
W: Were you hard-working when you were in high school, David
M: Yes, I studied hard. But I also liked football and music.
American humor and American popular heroes were born together, The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns. The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature.
The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the Old World heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman.
Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and wil
A. American popular literature was based on the legends of other times and places.
B. American popular heroes were characteristically comic.
C. Davy Crockett wrote humorous stories about mastering the nature.
D. The Davy Crockett stories reflected the adventurous spirit of early America.
Were you the first or the last child in you family Or were you a middle or an only child Some people think it matters where you were born in your family. But there axe different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children are smart and strong-willed. They are very likely to be successful. The reason for this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child, and they give him or her a lot of attention. So this child is very likely to do well. An only child will succeed for the same reason. What happens to the other children in the family Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, though, often gets special treatment. He or she is the baby. Often this child grows up to be funny and charming. Do you believe these ideas of birth order too A recent study saw things quite differently. The study found
A. Their parents pay a lot of attention to them.
B. Their ability is the same.
C. Their family have the same many people.
D. They are happy.
M: Hi, Ms. Rowling. How old were you when you started to write, and what was your first book
W: I wrote my first finished story when I was about 6. It was about a small animal, a rabbit I mean, and I’ve been writing ever since.
M: Why did you choose to be an author
W: If someone asked me how to achieve happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.
M: Do you have any plans to write books for adults
W: My fast two novels were for adults. I suppose I might write another one, but I never really imagine a target audience when I’m writing. The ideas come first, so it really depends on the idea that grabs me next!
M: Where did the ideas for the Harry Potter hooks come from
W: I’ve no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out. It would spoil my exci
A. Her books.
B. Her feelings.
C. Her children.
D. Her ideas.
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