He devotes all his spare time to ___________（learn) English.

______other courses, he devotes all his time to studying English.

A．Not liking

B．Liking not

C．Having not liked

D．Not having liked

In the authors opinion, a person is more likely to be happy if he

A．has achieved his dreams and made a lot of money

B．has fewer desires and devotes all his efforts to work

C．spends more time to enjoy all the good things in life

D．takes a positive attitude toward everything in his life

was a construction worker and moved his family all around the southern states of America, stopping wherever he could find work. Eventually they settled in Mississippi. Graduating from law school in 1981, Grisham practiced law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation (诉讼). In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.

One day at the Dessoto County courthouse, Grisham heard the horrifying testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. He decided to write a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her attackers. He proceeded to get up every morning at 5 a.m. to work on the novel, called A Time to Kill, which was published in 1988. Grisham's next novel, The Firm, was one of the biggest hits of 1991, spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Grisham lives with his wife and two children, div/ding their time between their Victorian home on a 67 acre firm in Mississippi and a 204 acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia.

When he's not writing, Grisham devotes time to charitable causes, including mission trips with his church group. As a child, he dreamt of becoming a professional baseball player, and now serves as the local Little League commissioner. He has built six ballfields on his property and hosts children from 26 Little League teams.

John Grisham is ______ at present.

A．a writer

B．a lawyer

C．a professional baseball player

D．a congressman

回答题。

John Grisham

John Grisham was born on February 2,1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in the USA. His father was a construction worker and moved his family all around the southern states of America, stopping wherever he could find work. Eventually they settled in Mississippi. Graduating from law school in 1981, Grisham practiced law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation (诉讼 )。In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990. One day at the Dessoto County courthouse, Grisham heard the horrifying testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. He decided to write a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl&39;s father had murdered her attackers. He proceeded to get up every morning at 5 a.m. to work on the novel, called A Time to Kill, which was published in 1988.Grisham&39;s next novel, The Firnwas one of the biggest hits of 1991, spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Grisham was then able to give up law and concentrate on writing. Grisham lives with his wife and two children, dividing their time between their Victorian home on a 67-acre farm in Mississippi and a 204-acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia.

When he&39;s not writing, Grisham devotes time to charitable causes, including mission trips with his church group. As a child he dreamt of becoming a professional baseball player, and now serves as the local Little League commissioner. He has built six hall fields on his property and hosts children from 26 Little League teams.

John Grisham is __________at present. 查看材料

A.a writer

B.a lawyer

C.a professional baseball player

D.a congressman

A、To work on learning is to increase day by day; to work on Tao (the Way, the Truth) is to decrease day by day.

B、If you can hold on to Dao, the world will come to you!

C、Learning consists in adding to one's stock day by day; The practice of Tao consists in “subtracting day by day.

D、He who devotes himself to learning (seeks) from day to day to increase (his knowledge); He who devotes himself to the Tao (seeks) from day to day to diminish (his doing).

e noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast．Diagnosed with diabetes，Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin（胰岛素）three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve dam-age，blindness and even death．And if that weren’t bad enough，he had no heMth insurance． After a month of feeling upset，Thomas decided he’d better find a way to fight back．He left Canton，Michigan for New York，got a job waiting tables，nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar，and created diabeticrockstar．com，a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones——a place where over l．100 people share information and resources． Jason Swencki’s son，Kody，was diagnosed with diabetes at six．Father and son visit the online children’s forums（论坛）together most evenings．“Kbdy gets so excited．writing to ki出from all over，”says Swencki，one of the site’s volunteers．“They know what he’s going through．so he doesn’t feel alone．” Kody is anything but alone：Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States，with 24 million diagnosed cases．And more people are being diagnosed at youn-ger ages． These days，Thomas’s main focus is his charity（慈善机构），Fight It，which provides medicine and supplies to people——225 to date—who can’t afford a diagnostic large expenses．Fight-it．org has raised about$23，000一in products and in cash．In Mav．Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Cafibbean． Even with a staff of 22 volunteers，Thomas often devotes up to50 hours a week to his cause，while still doing his full time job waiting tables．“of the diabetes charities out there．most are putting money into finding a cure，”says Bentliey Gubar，one of Rockstar"s original member．“But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now．”

Which of the follow．ing is true of Christopher Thomas？

A.He needs to go to the doctor every day．

B.He sdudies the leading cause of diabetes．

C.He has positive attitude to his disease．

D.He encourages diabetics by writing articles．

He devotes his time to the acquisition of knowledge.

A．achievement

B．handle

C．obtaining

D．provision

根据以下内容回答题：

Christopher Thomas，27，was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast．Diagnosed with diabetes，Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素)three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve dam-age，blindness and even death．And if that weren’t bad enough，he had no heMth insurance．

After a month of feeling upset，Thomas decided he’d better find a way to fight back．He left Canton，Michigan for New York，got a job waiting tables，nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar，and created diabeticrockstar．com，a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones——a place where over l．100 people share information and resources．

Jason Swencki’s son，Kody，was diagnosed with diabetes at six．Father and son visit the online children’s forums(论坛)together most evenings．“Kbdy gets so excited．writing to ki出from all over，”says Swencki，one of the site’s volunteers．“They know what he’s going through．so he doesn’t feel alone．”

Kody is anything but alone：Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States，with 24 million diagnosed cases．And more people are being diagnosed at youn-ger ages．

These days，Thomas’s main focus is his charity(慈善机构)，Fight It，which provides medicine and supplies to people--225 to date—who can’t afford a diagnostic large expenses．Fight-it．org has raised about$23，000一in products and in cash．In Mav．Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Cafibbean．

Even with a staff of 22 volunteers，Thomas often devotes up to50 hours a week to his cause，while still doing his full time job waiting tables．“of the diabetes charities out there．most are putting money into finding a cure，”says Bentliey Gubar，one of Rockstar's original member．“But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now．”

Which of the follow．ing is true of Christopher Thomas？ 查看材料

A.He needs to go to the doctor every day．

B.He sdudies the leading cause of diabetes．

C.He has positive attitude to his disease．

D.He encourages diabetics by writing articles．

in "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" by Nayan Chanda. It's easy to see why the subject fascinates Chanda; he's a self-proclaimed Francophile(崇拜法国的人) of South Asian origin, who studied French in Calcutta, then took courses on China in Paris, ran a magazine in Hong Kong and ended up launching an online journal devoted to globalization at a venerable Ivy League institution. And in this engaging analysis, he answers such intriguing questions as" How did the coffee bean, first grown only in Ethiopia, end up in our coffee cups after a journey through Java and Colombia？"

In examining these specific questions—and larger ones about how the world is interconnected in Chanda does not emphasize his own experiences. But when appropriate, he effectively uses small, personal details to cut very big social, economic, cultural and sometimes biological processes down to size. He shows how close scrutiny of the iPod he gave his son as a birthday present can reveal much about the multinational origins of such objects. It was officially touted as" designed" by an American company and "assembled in China"; he found that it actually contained component parts and software with ties to India, Japan, South Korea and Scotland. And he marvels at the speed with which it traveled from Shanghai to New haven via Alaska and Indiana, as well as at his ability to track its progress thanks to bar codes.

The debate over globalization has grown so polarized that many readers are probably itching to know whether Chanda belongs in the" pro" or" anti" camp. One theme of "Bound Together" is that thinking in these terms doesn't make sense. Those who gather at what are somewhat misleadingly called" anti- globalization" rallies, after all, don't oppose all the ways the world is shrinking. And their campaigns make use of many technologies (notably the Internet) that are crucial to 21st-century-style. globalization.

Indeed, Chanda's stand on the subject might be called that of a cautiously optimistic fatalist. He asserts that the only reasonable response to globalization is twofold: accept that the world is not going to stop shrinking and figure out ways to maximize the positive and minimize the negative effects. He acknowledges the downsides of globalization (social inequities, the spread of new diseases and so on), yet argues that in many ways being "bound together" ever more tightly can ultimately be a good thing, benefiting more and more individuals and groups.

This is a book filled with fascinating information. Even readers who disagree with his claims will come away with a host of new facts to draw upon. They will also learn a lot about the history and deployment of the term globalization, to which Chanda devotes an excellent chapter. In addition, many will never look at an iPod in quite the same way again.

According to the first paragraph, Nayan Chanda ______.

A．was born in India.

B．has worked in America.

C．has worked in France.

D．has studied in China.

Which of the following is the best assessment of the writer's credibility？

A．The approving tone of the selection and the author's thinly disguised enthusiasm for television commercials raise serious questions about his or her credibility.

B．Although readers arc unable to assess the representativeness of the case study discussed in the selection, the considerable amount of factual detail presented inspires faith in ;he writer's credibility.

C．The writer's credibility is questionable because the selection devotes more attention to actors than to the technical personnel involved in making a commercial.

D．Although the selection provides useful information about the procedures involved in producing a television commercial, the writer's credibility is weakened by a failure to say more about the costs.