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Sir, you ask me what I think of the expedition to China. You must feel that it was praiseworthy, well done. You are very polite, putting a high premium upon my feelings. In your opinion, the expedition, performed under the joint banner of Queen Elizabeth and Emperor Napoleon, was nothing short of a British-French glory. Therefore, you would like to know to what extent I appreciate this glory.
Since you ask, I will answer as follows:
In a corner of the world there existed a man-made miracle the Winter Palace. Art has two sources., one, an ideal, whence has come European art; two, fancy, whence has issued Oriental art. The Winter Palace belongs to the art of fancy. The Winter Palace, indeed, was the crystallisation of all the art that an almost superman race could have fancied. The Winter Palace was a huge-scale prototype of fancy if fancy can have a prototype. If only you can imagine an ineffable architectural structure, like a palace in the moon, a fairyland, that is the Winter Palace. If you can imagine a treasure-island, a pool of human perceptive power, expressed in the concrete form. of palaces and temples, that is the Winter Palace. It took two generations of manpower to create the Winter Palace, which subsequently went through improvement and perfection over several centuries. Great artists, poets, philosophers-they all knew about the Winter Palace. Many people at different times compared the Winter Palace to the Parthenon, the. Pyramids, the Arena, and the Notre Dame. If they could not see the Winter Palace with their own eyes, they could dream about it-as if in the gloaming they saw a breath taking masterpiece of art as they had never known before-as if there above the horizon of European civilization was towering the silhouette of Asian civilization.
Now, the miracle is no morel One day, two pirates broke into it. One of them went plundering; the other set every building and everything in it all ablaze! Judging by what they did, we know that the victors could degenerate into robbers. The two of them fell to dividing between themselves the spoils. What meritorious feats they had done! What a heaven-sent bonanza! One stuffed his pockets full to over followings the other filled in his trunk chockfull Theni hand in hand they made off, guffawing gloatingly. This episode reflects the history of the two brigands.
Standing before the tribunal of history is one brigand named France and the other named Great Britain. Against both I protest. Incidentally, I must thank you for giving me the opportunity to make this accusation. The rulers commit crimes but the ruled do not; the government becomes a robber, but the people will never.
France has gained a large portion of the spoils. Now, quite naively, she thinks herself the rightful owner of the property, and she is displaying the riches of the Winter Palace! I can only hope that there will come one day when France will disburden herself of the heavy load on her conscience and cleanse herself of the crime by returning to China all the spoils taken from the Winter Palace.
Sir, such is my eulogy of the expedition to China.
The tone of the passage is______.
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The problem with history is simple. There is too much of it, And more of it comes along every day. We need something that will cut the past down to size. We want heroes and heroines that a modern person can identify with. That is where Hollywood comes in.
Film makers have often based their work on historical events. Why go to the trouble of writing a brand new story when so many exciting things have happened in the pasty People will often already know the story, That leaves the director free to thrill us with details of what life as like in imperial China or ancient Rome.
Most historians dislike this attitude. They see history as a complex thing, influenced by great political and economic forces. Film audiences are not very interested in this. They want kings and queens. They pay their money to see fancy clothes and a good fight. And this is what the film industry tries to give them.
Sometimes this approach can cause trouble. The film Titanic was a success around the world. In one of the film's most dramatic moments, a member of the ship's crew begins shooting into the crowd trying to get into the lifeboats as the ship sinks. When the film was released, the real life sailor's surviving relatives protested. They pointed out that this was not what had actually happened The film makers made a public apology. But everyone who has seen the film remembers the sight of the man shooting into the crowd.
Defenders of "Hollywood history" say that most of the time the film makers get the facts right. The action is based on real events and the clothes are accurate. People talk in the way that they would have done in the past even if they do it with a modern American accent. For many people, a historical film will be the closest they come to discovering the past.
It is still possible to find mistakes. Millions have been spent on putting together a replica of ancient Rome. The costumes are right and the atmosphere is perfect. Yet if you look very closely, a plane can be seen passing through the sky above.
Some film makers say that history needs to be simplified if it is to be filmed. The film maker's job is to make viewers interested. If they want to know more, they can do their own research.
The difference between film history and real history is the difference between the facts and the truth. We can watch a "costume drama" and know that all the materials used are probably accurate. But if we want to find out the whole story, we have to do it ourselves. We have to go back to the books.
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听力原文： Israel massed troops and tanks at the Gaza frontier and gave a free hand to security forces to stop Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes on Sunday, but suggested it would delay a major escalation of violence.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of undermining his efforts to cahn the violence but vowed in remarks to reporters to do "all we can" to prevent further rocketing.
The worst surge in bloodshed since a truce was agreed in February has threatened to hamper Israel's withdrawal from Jewish settlements in occupied Gaza, starting next month, and amplified doubts over prospects for peacemaking ....
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he had instructed the army "to act without limitation to stop the strikes on Israeli communities" after rocket and mortar salvoes.
But Sharon later hinted Israel would not be quick to launch a major incursion into Gaza, telling his cabinet he would "weigh our response" to further truce violations.
Israeli political sources said a new Israeli offensive into the occupied territory was unlikely before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits lat er this week to try to salvage the crumbling ceasefire
Six more Israelis were injured in rocket and mortar barrages on Sun day.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Israel killed Saeed Seyam, a commander of Hamas, a group bent on Israel's destruction and behind
much of the rocket fire, with a shot from a settlement. The army called it part of a revived assassination policy.
Israel said its soldiers also killed a gunman nearing a settlement in central Gaza.
In northern Gaza, an Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car carrying three Hamas militants leaving a site in Belt Lahiya used to fire rockets at Jewish settlements, witnesses said. The militants jumped out but one was wounded by shrapnel.
Faced with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sharon's threat, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas______.
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A．foreverB．storeC．scoreD．north
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