John Steinbeck was awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for

Floridas population growth owes much to its attractiveness both as a place of______and as a convenient place for______with central and south America.

A．business; retire

B．retire; business

C．travel; business

D．retire; travel

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All the following are mainly produced in Canada EXCEPT

A．nickel.

B．zinc.

C．asbestos.

D．steel.

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The essential point of the story is that ______.

A．Orwell regretted the streak of cruelty that had led him to shoot an elephant

B．Orwell, as an official, had to defend the Burmese crowd b shooting the elephant

C．A foreign ruling class has to behave in the way that the conquered natives expect it to behave

D．Circumstances can lead men--as they led Orwell in this story--to carry out more extreme actions than were necessary

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无声即沉默。沉默有各式各样—— 腹中空泛，思想一片苍白，故而无言可发，这是沉默；热情已如柴薪尽燃，故而冷漠处世．无喜无悲，无忧无愤，对人世的一切都失去兴趣和欲望，这也是沉默。 有过爱，有过恨，有过迷茫，有过颖悟，有过一呼百应的呐喊，有过得不到的呼唤，然而却守口如瓶．只是平静地冷眼察看世界，这是沉默；饱经忧患，阅尽人生百态，胸有千山万壑的屐痕，有江河湖海的涛声，然而却深思不语，这也是沉默。

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