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[单项选择]When the British artist Paul Day unveiled his nine metre-high bronze statue of two lovers locked in an embrace at London’s brand new St Pancreas International Station last year it was lambasted as "kitsch", "overblown" and "truly horrific". Now, a brief glimpse of a new frieze to wrap around a plinth for The Meeting Place statue has been revealed, depicting "dream-like" scenes inspired by the railways.
Passengers arriving from the continent will be greeted with a series of images including a Tube train driven by a skeleton as a bearded drunk sways precariously close to the passing train Another shows the attempted suicide of a jilted lover under a train reflected in the sunglasses of a fellow passenger. Another section reveals a woman in short skirt with her legs wrapped round her lover while they wait for the next train.
Other less controversial parts of the terracotta draft frieze depicts soldiers leaving on troop trains for the First World War and the evacuation of London’
A. It has been completed with the rebuilding of the St Pancras International station
B. It is located at London’s new St Pancras International station.
C. It has been designed by the British artist Paul Day.
D. It is a nine metre-high bronze statue of two lovers locked in an embrace.
[填空题]他碰巧外出 when I called at his home the other day.
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Larry: So you consider yourself an artist.
Paul: Yes, in many ways.
Larry: And you don’t consider yourself an engineer
Paul: （）
A. Oh, a little bit of that, too
B. No, I do
C. Yeah, I don’t think so
D. Yeah, and it is the same
[填空题]Paul Salopek and his Chadian assistants were arrested on August 6 after crossing the border because they didn’t have a visa.
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When will Jason do his homework
[单项选择]"An artist’s heart is his head, "replied Trevor, "and besides, our business is to show the world as we see it, not to make it better. "（ ）
A. ...the artist’s duty is to reflect the reality, not to improve it.
B. ...the artist’s job is to make drawings of the earth instead of other planets.
C. ...the artist’s business is to paint anything real, not to use his imagination.
D. ...the artist’s responsibility is to create images rather than reflecting the reality.
[单项选择]When is Thanksgiving Day celebrated
A. On the fourth of November.
B. On the twenty-fifth of November.
C. On the first Tuesday of November.
D. On the fourth Thursday of November.
[单项选择]When Paul stopped the car, I opened the door and got（）beside him.
A. on
B. over
C. in
D. down
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When did Ford start his great Motor Company
[单项选择]When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone else to do him a favor, he is performing
A. an illocutionary act.
B. a perlocutionary act.
C. a locutionary act.
D. none of the above.
[单项选择]When Julius Caesar made his triumphal entrance into Rome in 45 BC, he celebrated by giving a feast at which thousands of guests ate gorged (狼吞虎咽) poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring excessive consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories-in war, sport, politics and commerce-since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat around the globe has more doubled.
Meat, it seems, is not just food but reward as well. But in the coming century, that will change. Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize (补助) or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry,, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely ineffi
A. Only a small percentage of the grain is directly consumed by man in the world.
B. Eating meat might be a symbol of richness in the future.
C. Humans can live without meat.
D. Many regions face the problem of fresh water shortage.
