There were many reasons why the whole character of the twentieth century should be very different from that of the nineteenth. The great wave of vitality and national expansions, which, during the Victorian Period, swept both England and America to a high wa-ter-mark of national prosperity, left in its ebb a highly developed industrial civilization and a clear path of all the currents of scientific and mechanistic thought which were to flood the new century. But literature, which had been nourished by the general vigor of the time, and not at all by the practical interests of the period, declined as the spirit itself dispersed.
The great age of groups and "movements" began. The eighteenth century poets did not call themselves classicists, nor the nineteenth century poets call themselves romanti-cists; their poetic coloring was simply the quality of their whole response to the whole of life. But the literary history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
A. growth.
B. warfare.
C. depression.
D. literary corruption.
There were many reasons why the whole character of the twentieth century should be very different from that of the nineteenth. The great wave of vitality and national expansions, which, during the Victorian Period, swept both England and America to a high wa-ter-mark of national prosperity, left in its ebb a highly developed industrial civilization and a clear path of all the currents of scientific and mechanistic thought which were to flood the new century. But literature, which had been nourished by the general vigor of the time, and not at all by the practical interests of the period, declined as the spirit itself dispersed.
The great age of groups and "movements" began. The eighteenth century poets did not call themselves classicists, nor the nineteenth century poets call themselves romanti-cists; their poetic coloring was simply the quality of their whole response to the whole of life. But the literary history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
A. prosperous.
B. homogeneous.
C. on the wane.
D. vitally energetic.
There were many beautiful buildings in ancient (古代的) Rome (罗马), but the living conditions for ordinary people were bad. Most of their homes were so poorly made that they fell down or were fire hazardous (危险的) with their steep (陡), narrow wooden stair ways. Most people were packed (挤满) into apartment (公寓) buildings that rose six to twelve floors, above the ground. The apartments were rooms about three metres square, and each building housed about five hundred people.
These tall buildings faced each other across streets only three metres wide, so no sunlight reached the ground. Even so, apartments were costly, though cheaper places could be found outside Rome. But people wanted to be near their work and entertainment (公众娱乐). So the streets became crowded and it was hard to move quickly. At night, the streets were filled with noise as food and supplies were brought into the city on carts.
| The sources of anti-Christian feeling
were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique
against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an
understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders
only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was
a virile tradition of ethnocentrism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism,
which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity.
Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under may in the
mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as
missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that
in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility
abounded. In part, the very presence of the missionary evoke A. the mere presence of invaders B. a generalized unfocused feeling C. the introduction to the West D. none of the above [单项选择]There were many talented actors out there just waiting（）
A. to discover B. to be discovered C. discovered D. being discovered [填空题]There were many people in the shopping center.
The shopping center was ______ ______ ______.
[填空题]There were many people in the shopping center.
The shopping center was ______ ______ ______. [单项选择]
The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism, which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded. 我来回答: 提交
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