When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family.After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less.Chekhov’s medical and science experience can be seen through the indifference (冷漠) many of his characters show to tragic events.In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories.
Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia.Tragic events control his characters who are filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair.
It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhov’s stories and plays.He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters.Chekhov’s work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity(敏感) of an artist.
Some of Chekhov's works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s.One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell, about a school teacher’s extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.
【小题1】Which of the following is the right order of the events?
a.became a doctor
b.became a full time writer
c.started to publish comic short stories
d.wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
e.entered the Moscow University Medical School
A.e→c→b→a→d |
B.d→a→b→c→e |
C.e→c→a→d→b |
D.a→e→d→c→b |
A.as an illegal writer |
B.had a lawful lover |
C.used to be a lawyer |
D.was a competent doctor |
A.studied medicine in Moscow University |
B.published his most memorable stories |
C.became a full-time writer |
D.practiced medicine in his hometown |
A.Sensitive. |
B.Warm-hearted. |
C.Quick-minded. |
D.Cool. |
In 2012, there were more than 4,000 American students completing bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in Germany. The Institute of International Education (IIE) says that the number of U.S. students completing college degrees in Western Europe increased by about 5 percent from 2010 to 2012. American students choose to study in another country for two main reasons. First, international experience is becoming more important in the modern job market. Second, the cost of higher education has continued to rise in the United States. Rising tuition (学费) costs make education abroad—particularly in countries that charge no tuition-attractive to American students, says the IIE.
Many American students choose Germany because of the low cost of education there. German public universities do not charge tuition fees. And many universities in Germany offer courses in English, too. College education in the US is seen as a privilege and expected to cost money but in Germany it is seen as an extension of a free high school education where one expects it to be provided.
The German government has been eager to encourage students to come to Germany for another reason. Like many countries in Western Europe, German's population is becoming older, and fewer young people are entering college and the job market. The German government hopes to attract skilled foreign students who will stay in Germany.
【小题1】Which country attracted American students most in the 2011-2012 school year?
A.Germany. | B.France. | C.Britain. | D.Italy. |
A.many universities there offer courses in English |
B.the cost of education is relatively low there |
C.studying abroad matters in their job hunting |
D.it is much easier to find a job than in the USA |
A.Overseas education. | B.High school education. |
C.College education. | D.Public education. |
A.More and more US students choose colleges overseas. |
B.Reasons why more students study in foreign countries. |
C.Western Europe manages to attract foreign students. |
D.Advantages and disadvantages of German education. |
Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong mottos,but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. “Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “ a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By belief she was a sensualist(感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist, In Illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America, her story of a19thcentury Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.
【小题1】The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.
A.was a symbol of American cultural life |
B.developed world literature, film and art |
C.published many essays about world culture |
D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture |
A.her story of a Polish actress |
B.her book Illness as Metaphor |
C.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings |
D.publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review |
A.Sontag looked down upon the pop culture· |
B.Sontag was a sensualist as well as a moralist. |
C.Sontag blamed the victim of cancer for the disease. |
D.Sontag thought content was more important than form. |
A.Susan Sontag,a Leading Figure in Culture |
B.Susan Sontag,a Productive and Tireless Writer |
C.Susan Sontag,an Examiner of the Old Concepts |
D.Susan Sontag,a Writer Defending Seriousness |
My father was always a good gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled (翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller (耕作机) ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow com, and our favorite ― red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the comer of my eye and I had to smile, It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
【小题1】Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?A.The garden was planted with colorful flowers. |
B.The garden was just freshly tilled by his father. |
C.He loved what his father grew in the garden. |
D.He enjoyed being in the garden with his father. |
A.devoted more to gardening |
B.turned to other hobbies |
C.stopped his gardening |
D.focused on planting tomatoes |
A.The author’s son took charge of it. |
B.No plant grew in the garden at all. |
C.The garden was almost deserted. |
D.It brought the author a great harvest. |
A.the author’s son played happily in the garden |
B.the author’s son reminded him of his own father |
C.the author’s son was very glad to help the author |
D.the author’s son will continue gardening as well |
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