Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single...
Is there anything more boring than hearing about someone else’s dream And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own The voluptuous pleasure of Haruki Murakami’s enthralling fictions—full of enigmatic imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in...
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that’s your own self. 这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进,那就是你自己。 I have only one life, and I can’t give it generously to someone I don’t love. 我只有一生,无法慷慨赠与不爱之人。 I’ve never ...
The worker and writer haswritten a new novel. 这位工人兼作家写了一部新小说。(两个名词共用一个冠词) Thereis a journalist and writerliving in America whose name is Alex Haley. 在美国有一个名叫亚利克斯·哈利的记者兼作家。 Truth and honesty isalways the best policy. 真...
36.根据上文“Here’s a riddle: What do traffic jams, long lines and waiting for a vacation to start all have in common? There’s one answer. (这里有一个谜语:交通堵塞、排长队和等待假期开始有什么共同之处?答案只有一个)”可知,本句说明上文谜...
Most astonishing, someone posted a bogus version of the novel that ran to well over 600 pages. That it wasn’t much good is beside the point. Has anyone ever done this: sat down and composed an entirely fake version of anything on the eve of the real thing’s debut No book, no ...
Though the call on my cellphone may be the one–in–a–million from Steven Spielberg–who has finally read my novel and wants to make it his next movie. But most likely it is not, and I’m better off thinking about the idea I just had for a new story, or the slice of pizza I...
Someone once described the terra-cotta warriors and horses in this way, “There have already been seven wonders in the world, and the terra-cotta warriors and horses can be as the eighth. You can never say you have been to China without visiting the cotta warriors and horses. The Museum ...
"If we have a horseshit month, if we lose this lead, they will be paying attention to what time I come into the office," he says. "They will be thinking we got complacent. It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is. Inexplicable sh...
So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win. 在东方,挑选小公牛去竞技场格斗有一定的程序。每只小牛都被带进场地,向手持长矛刺它们的斗牛士发起攻击...