[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire does NOT include （　）.
A. An American Tragedy
B. The Financier
C. The Titan
D. The Stoic

[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser entitled his greatest work with ______ intending to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.
A. Death in the Woods
B. Tender is the Night
C. The Sound and the Fury
D. An American Tragedy

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Who...
· died at the age of 89 71. ______
· graduated from Yale after some unhappy years there 72. ______
· described daily life in America and made his readers laugh at some silliness of their country 73. ______
· made Europe his permanent home 74. ______
· wrote his first novel about a prostitute 75. ______
· was usually too shy to take part in his brothers’ activities when he was young 76. ______
· died in England 77. ______
· was a journalist

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Theodore Dreiser is old-he is very, very old. I do not know how many years he has lived, perhaps forty, perhaps fifty, but he is very old. Something gray and bleak and hurtful, that has been in the world perhaps forever, is personified in him.
When Dreiser is gone men shall write books, many of them, and in the books they shall write there will be so many of the qualities Dreiser lacks. The new, the younger men shall have a sense of humor, and everyone knows Dreiser has no sense of humor. More than that, American prose writers shall have grace, lightness of touch, a dream of beauty breaking through the husks of life.
Those who follow him shall have many things that Dreiser does not have. That is a part of the wonder and beauty of Theodore Dreiser, the things that others shall have because of him.
Long ago, when he was editor of the Delineator, Dreiser went one day, with a woman friend, to visit an orphan asylum. The woman once told me the story of that aft
A. criticize Theodore Dreiser
B. praise Theodore Dreiser
C. defend Theodore Dreiser
D. ridicule Theodore Dreiser

[单项选择]What does the man mainly express a desire for
A. A better gymnasium
B. A diet that really works
C. A more comfortable work schedule
D. A chance to exercise more

[填空题]What does Mr. Shin desire to see before ordering Additional information on the ______ for frames in 450 series.

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Cultural differences in business entertaining include issues such as whom one entertains and where and how one entertains. In countries in which status is important, it is not advisable to invite people of different statuses to the same dinner party. Americans will often invite people to their homes. While in some societies the home is considered too private, unworthy, or embarrassingly small to serve as an appropriate forum for business entertaining. In some countries there is a "help yourself " approach to entertaining done in the home. This approach does not work well when entertaining people whose culture teaches them to wait to be asked three time before accepting an offer of food. In one instance, a Chinese guest went an entire evening without eating though he was quite hungry because he was too embarrassed to take food after only being asked to do so once. In another case, an American woman executive was being entertained at tea in London. After having the tea se
A. a big gift
B. large payment as a gift
C. a small gift from one’s home
D. a gift from Singapore