[简答题]Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of possessing a single talent or skill: singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. The successful performer develops a style that it marketed aggressively and gains some popularity, and it is this popularity that usually convinces the performer to continue performing in the same style, since that is what the public seems to want and to enjoy. But in time, the performer becomes bored singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter becomes bored painting similar scenes or portraits, or the actor is tired of playing the same character repeatedly. The demand of the public holds the art- ist hostage to his or her own style, success, fame. If the artist attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, etc; the audience may turn away and look to confer fleeting fickle fame on another and then, in time, on another, and so on and so on.

[简答题]Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of possessing a single talent or skill: singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. The successful performer develops a style that it marketed aggressively and gains some popularity, and it is this popularity that usually convinces the performer to continue performing in the same style, since that is what the public seems to want and to enjoy. But in time, the performer becomes bored singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter becomes bored painting similar scenes or portraits, or the actor is tired of playing the same character repeatedly. The demand of the public holds the art- ist hostage to his or her own style, success, fame. If the artist attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, etc; the audience may turn away and look to confer fleeting fickle fame on another and then, in time, on another, and so on and so on.

[单项选择]Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the (31) of the year, or manured a field; but we know (32) about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so (33) so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are (34) that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, (35) they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in (36) an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to
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D. requesting