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William, who conquered England some 930 years ago, had wealth, power and a ruthless army. Yet although William was stupefyingly rich by the standard of his time, he had nothing remotely resembling a flush toilet. No paper towels, no riding lawn mower. How did he get by
History books are filled with wealthy people who were practically destitute compared to me, I have tripe-tracked storm window; Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldn’t buy cat food in bulk. Czar Nicholas Ⅱ lacked a compound-miter saw.
Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, you’d think I’d be content. The trouble is that, like most people, I compare my prosperity with that of living persons: neighbors, high-school classmates, TV personalities. The covetousness I feel toward my friend Howard’s kitchen is not mitigated by the fact that no French monarch ever had a refrigerator with glass doors.
There is
A. Flush toilet
B. Ruthless army
C. Paper towels
D. Riding lawn mower
[填空题]Unless he (tell) () us who he is, we won’t let him in.
[填空题]Unless he (tell) ______ us who he is, we won’t let him in.
[单项选择]No matter who he is, young or old, people’s state of mind tends to keep()with the rapid change of society.
A. contact
B. progress
C. touch
D. pace
[单项选择]The teacher tells William that he () work hard next year.
A. will have to
B. would rather
C. has better
D. had rather
[单项选择]Who is he looking for()
A. The Personnel manager.
B. Mr. Price.
C. Jenny Santini.
D. Chris Grey.
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Conversation One
Who will he have dinner with( )
A. His wife.
B. His associate.
C. His friend.
[单项选择]The old lady was () to the young man who helped her find her lost grandson.
A. touched
B. grateful
C. cheerful
D. generous
[单项选择]A. He was the only person who helped.
B. He shouldn’t have helped.
C. He was well-intentioned.
D. He finds it hard to paint the fence.
[填空题]William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had [1] _______ edu- [1] _______.
cation, then he joined the British Royal Air Force in Canada because he
was too short. After the war he stayed at the University of Mississippi and
began to publish poems or essays, In New Orleans, he met Sherwood Ander-
son, who helped him a lot. [2] _______.
With the publication of Sartoris (1929), he found Yoknapatawpha [3] _______.
[2] a regional myth of 200 - year - long history, which was written [4] _______.
in a [3]__ but often baroque style and considered as a [4]______
Among all novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I lay Dyig (1930), [5] _______.
Sanctuary (1931) ,Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom (1936) ,re- [6] _______.
ceived much critical [5] ______.
Apart from the creation of long novels, Faulkner often used short sto-
ries to fill [6] ______. in the historical developme