| We are profoundly ignorant about the
origins of language and have to content ourselves with more or less plausible
speculations. We do not even know for certain when language arose, but it seems
likely that it goes back to the earliest history of man, perhaps haft a million
years ago. We have no direct evidence, but it seems probable that it took the
earliest forms of human cooperation. In the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene(更新世)
period, our earliest human ancestors established the Old Stone Age culture; they
made stone tools and, later, tools of bone, ivory, and antler; they made fire
and cooked their food; they hunted big game, often by methods that called for
considerable cooperation and coordination. As their material culture gradually
developed, they became artists and drew pebbles as well as wonderful paintings
[单项选择] Don’t you think it’s the most worst film we have seen since we came here ten years ago
A. Don’t you B. the most worst film C. have seen D. since [单项选择]
TEXT A We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners, our home adjacent to the vineyards and the winery. It’s a very pretty place, and in order to earn the money to realize our dream of making wine, we worked for many years in a business that demanded several household moves, an incredible amount of risk-taking and long absences from my husband. When it was time, we traded in our old life, cinched up our belts and began the creation of the winery. We make small amounts of premium wine, and our lives are dictated by the rhythm of nature and file demands of the loving vines. The vines start sprouting tiny green tendrils in March and April, and the baby grapes begin to form in miniature, so perfect that they can be dipped in gold to form jewelry. The grapes swell and ripen in early fall, and when their sugar content is at the right level, they are harvested carefully by hand and crushed in small lots A. may vary. B. is traditionally set. C. depends on the approval of the regulatory bureau. D. is determined by the availability of the pickers. [单项选择]Text 3
We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American
A. prosperity and growth B. efficiency and practicality C. restraint and confidence D. pride and faithfulness [单项选择]TEXT A
We have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming The world economy No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who’s responsible Actually, it’s more like, What is responsible The Internet, of course, and everything that comes with it--Facebook, Twitter(微博). You can write your own list.
There’s been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived; in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before--there are more and more readers, and more and more books.
The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of e-book rea
A. Technology pushes the way forward for reading and writing. B. Interconnectivity is a feature of new reading experience. C. Technology is an opportunity and a challenge for traditional reading. D. Technology offers a greater variety of reading practice. 我来回答: 提交
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