The primary intent of his writing, from first to last, was to seize and project for the reader what he often called "the way it .was." This is a characteristically simple phrase for a concept of extraordinary complexity, and Hemingway's conception of its meaning subtly changed several times in the course of his career--always in the direction of greater complexity. At the core of the concept, however, one can invariably discern the operation of three aesthetic instruments; the sense of place the sense of fact and the sense of scene.
The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway is the sense of place. "Unless you have geography, background," he once told George Anteil, "You have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have s carefully charted out she geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so conspicuously unobtrusive. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you walk through the streets of Paris in search of breakfast at corner café… Or when, at around six o' clock of a Spanish dawn, you watch the bulls running from the corrals at the Puerta Rochapea through the streets of Pamplona towards the bullring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls from the corrals at the edge of town. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street. They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up street toward the bullring and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers who ere really running. Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls, galloping, tossing their heads up and down. It all went out of sight around the corner. One man fell, rolled to the gutter, and lay quiet. But the bulls went right on and did not notice him. They were all running together."
This landscape is as morning-fresh as a design in India ink on clean white paper. First is the bare white street, seem from above, quiet and empty. Then one sees the first packed clot of runners. Behind these are the thinner ranks of those who move faster because they are closer to bulls. Then the almost comic stragglers, who are "really running." Brilliantly behind these shines the "little bare space," a desperate margin for error. Then the clot of running bulls-closing the design, except of course for the man in the gutter making himself, like the designer's initials, as inconspicuous as possible.
According to the author, Hemingway's primary purpose in telling a story was ______.
A. to construct a well-told story that the reader would thoroughly enjoy.
B. To construct a story that would reflect truths that were not particular to a specific historical period
C. To begin from reality but to allow his imagination to roam from "the way it was" to "the way it might have been"
D. To report faithfully reality as Hemingway had experienced it.
Americans this year will swallow 15 000 tons of aspirin(阿斯匹林), one of the safest and【C1】______drags【C2】______by man, the most popular medicine in the world today. It is a pain【C3】______. Its bad【C4】______are relatively mild,【C5】______it is cheap.
For millions of people suffering from arthritis(关节炎), it is the only thing that works. Aspirin,【C6】______, is truly the 20th century wonder drug. It is also【C7】______suicide drug and is the leading【C8】______of poisoning among children. It has side effects that,【C9】______relatively mild, are largely unrecognized【C10】______users.
A small【C11】______of aspirin(two five - grain tablets)relieves pain and inflammation(炎症), It also reduces fever by interfering【C12】______some of the body' s reactions. Specially, aspirin seems to【C13】______the formation of the acids【C14】______in pain and the complex chemical reactions that【C15】______fever. The chemistry of these acids is not fully understood, but the slowing effect of aspirin is well - known.
Aspirin is very irritating to the stomach lining(内壁)and many aspirin takers complain【C16】______upset stomach. There is a right way【C17】______a wrong way to take aspirin. The best way is to chew the tablets【C18】______swallowing them with water but【C19】______people can【C20】______the bitter taste. Some people suggest crushing the tablets in milk or orange juice and drinking that.
【C1】
A. more effective
B. most effective
C. effectiver
D. effective
In its modern form. the concept of "literature" die not emerge earlier than eighteenth century and was not fully developed until the nineteenth century. Yet he conditions for its emergence had been developing since the Renaissance. The word itself came into English use in the fourteenth century, following French and Latin precedents; its root was Latin litter, a letter of the alphabet. Litterature, in the common early spelling, was then in effect a condition of reading: of being able to read and of having read. It was often close to the sense of modern literacy, which was not in the language until the late nineteenth century, its introduction in part made necessary b the movement of literature to a different sense. The normal adjective associated with literature was literate. Literary appeared in the sense of reading ability and experience in the seventeenth century, and did not acquire its specialized modern meaning until the eighteenth century.
Literature as a new category was ten a specialization of the area formerly categorized as rhetoric and grammar: a specialization to reading and, in the material context of the development of printing, to the printed word and especially the book, It was eventually to become a more general category than poetry or the earlier poesy, which had been general terms for imaginative composition, but which in relation to the development of literature became predominantly specialized, from the seventeenth century, to metrical composition and especially written and printed metrical composition. But literature was never primarily the active composition-- the "making"--which poetry had described. As reading rather than writing, it was a category of different kind. The characteristic use can be seen in Bacon ".learned in all literature and erudition, divine and humane"--and as late as Johnson "he had probably more than common literature, as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems." Literature, that is to say, was a category of use an condition rather than of production. It was a particular specialization of what had hitherto been seen as an activity or practice, and a specialization, in the circumstances, which was inevitably made in terms of social class. In its first extended sense, beyond the bare sense of "literacy" it was a definition of "polite" or "humane" learning, and thus specified a part interacted with a persist end emphasis on "literature" as reading in he "classical" languages. But still, in his first stage, into the eighteenth century, literature was primarily a generalized social concept, expressing a certain (minority) level of educational achievement. This carded with it a potential and eventually realized alternative definition of literature as "printed books: "the objects in and through which this achievement was demonstrated.
It is important that, within the terms of this development, literature normally included all printed books. There was not necessary specialization to "imaginative" works. Literature was still primarily reading ability and experience, and this included philosophy, history, and essays as well as poems. Were the new eighteenth century novels literature? That question was first approached, not by definition of their mode or content, but by reference to the standards of "polite" or "humane" learning. Was drama literature? This question was to exercise successive generations, not because of any substantial difficulty but because of the practical limits of he category. If literature was reading, could a mode written for spoken performance be said to be literature', and if not, where was Shakespeare?
At one level the definition indicated by this development has persisted .Literature lost its earliest sense of reading ability and reading experience, and became an apparently objective category, of printed works of a certain quality. The concerns of a "literary editor" a "literary supplement" would still be def
A. In the seventeenth century.
B. In the eighteenth century.
C. In the nineteenth century.
D. In the twentieth century.
Which of the following statements is true about the America's role at Cancun meeting?
America supported the expansion of W.T.O.'s jurisdiction on foreign investment.
B. America supported such nations as Brazil, Mexico and African countries.
C. America took a stand on government economic protection for domestic producers through restrictions on foreign competitors.
D. America took a moral high ground in pressing for freer trade.