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[单项选择]On the map there’s just one island, but when you get there you’ll find two distinct Sardinias. If you’re wondering which is the right destination for you, take the ice-cream test and try two gelati in Sardinia. On the wealthy Costa Smeralda I was served an ice-cream with enormous speed and efficiency by a Tom Cruise look-alike—all teeth, tan and ambition. But on Sardinia’s quieter western coast—the Riviera de Corallo—it was served, quite slowly and with elegance, by a girl with the face of an angel.
My vote goes—narrowly—to this less-visited shore. There I found a seat in Alghero’s Piazza Civica, where the late afternoon sun was warming the old stones and the fishing boats were back at anchor just through the archway of the Porta al Mare.
I reflected, as I ate my ice-cream and watched the locals make their evening passeggiata through the ancient square and the Door to the Sea, that the world is not such a bad place after all. By contrast, at a little cafe near the marina at P
A. Alghero’s Piazza Civica
B. the Riviera del Corallo
C. Costa Smeralda
D. Sardinias
[单项选择]Miguel knocked on one of the doors. When no one answered, he pushed the door open. He immediately realized his mistake. He’d blundered into another dressing room. Miguel knew he should leave the room immediately, but he couldn’t help staring at the guy in the room. He seemed to be taking to himself. No one in the room was talking back. Yet there was someone else there. A girl. Most of her was hidden behind the speaker’s broad-shouldered body. Miguel saw a flash of slender hands reaching up, fussing with the front of the guy’s light brown hair.
"Glenn, hold still!" the girl’s voice suddenly cut through the speaker’s monologue, "If you don’t stop wriggling. I might burn you with this curling iron!"
Miguel’s blood turned to boiling acid. Leanna! She hadn’t wasted any time getting a new boyfriend. Miguel had to see what this loser looked like.
"Excuse me," Miguel said, walking toward the couple. "Can you tell me the supply closet"
"This isn’t the supply closet," Gle
A. honesty, diligence and the same color in skin
B. sense of humor and his family
C. honesty and his money
D. broad and profound knowledge
[单项选择]When you are small, all ambitions fall into one grand category: when I’ m grown up. When I’ m grown up, you say, I’ll go up in space. I’ m going to be an author. I’ll kill them all and then they’ 11 be sorry. I’ll be married in a cathedral with sixteen bridesmaids in pink lace. I’ll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away. None of it ever happens, of course-- or darn little, but the fantasies give you the idea that there is something to grow up for Indeed, one of the saddest things about gilded adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on, it’s all downhill; I read with horror of an American hippie wedding where someone said to the groom (aged twenty) "you seem so kinda grown up somehow", and the lad had to go round seeking assurance that he wasn’t. No, really he wasn’t. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents are fine, but to refuse to grow up at all is just plain unrealism.
Right, so then you get some of what you want, or somet
[单项选择] When you were small, all ambitions fell into one category: when I am grown up, I’’ll go up in space. I’’m going to be an author. I’’ll kill them all and then they’’ll be sorry. I’’ll be married in a cathedral with sixteen bridesmaids in pink lace. I’’ll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away.
None of it ever happened, of course to dam little; but the fantasies gave you the idea that there was something to grow up for. Indeed one of the saddest things about gilded adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on, it’’s all downhill; I read with horror of an American hippie wedding where someone said to the groom (age twenty) "You seem so kind of grown up somehow", and the lad had to go round seeking reassurance that he wasn’’t, no, really he wasn’’t. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine, but to refuse to grow up at all is just unrealistic.
Right, so then you get some of what you wanted, or something like it, or somet
A. there will be compensations
B. she will be delighted
C. she will be desolated
D. there will be nothing to do