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[单项选择]"The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful", says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.What is the correct interpretation of "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad"
A. If the gods want to kill you, they make you crazy first.
B. If you always lose your temper, you will soon be finished.
C. If you cannot control yourself, you will become crazy.
D. If you are mad, you will be punished by the gods.
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When the first white man
arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to de- scribe
things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France, just after
the First World War , Jutes Romaine tested hundreds of blind people and found a
few who could tell the different light and dark. In Italy the neurologist Cesare
Lomrose discovered a blind girl who could "see" with the tip of her nose and the
lobe of her left ear. In 1956 a blind schoolboy in Scotland was taught to
differentiate between colored lights and learned to pick out bright objects
several feet away. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found
that, even with thick bandages over her eyes, she was able to distinguish
different colors and read short sections of large print.
Rose
Kuleshova can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in
a family of blind people she learned to read B
A. were not entirely blind
B. described things by touching them
C. could see with their hands
D. could see when they held hands
[单项选择]Washington Irving was the American first man of letters to be known internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in either country, delighting a large general public and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Tarwthorne in the United States. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his politeness, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the old World and the New. Thackeray described Irving as a "gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans". In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford -- an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation -- and received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature; America
[单项选择]Washington Irving was America’ s first man of letters to be known internationally. His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States. He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in the country, and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States. (76) The respect in which he was held partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New. Thackeray described Irving as "a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans." (77) England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation—and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature. America made him ambassador to Spain
A. America’ s first man of letters
B. a writer who had great success both in and outside his own country
C. a man who was able to move from literature to politics
D. a man whose personal charm enabled him to get by with basically inferior work
[填空题]Freud was the first man to help mental patients by having them talk about what made them anxious.
