A、Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
B、A Red, Red Rose
C、Auld Lang Syne
D、My Heart’s in the Highland
第2题
A.A.William Wordsworth
B.B.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.C.John Keats
D.D.Robert Burns
第3题
A.idiomatic
B.informal
C.formal
D.musical
第4题
A、Shelley
B、Robert Burns
C、William Wordsworth
D、Samuel Taylor Coleridge
第5题
A.William Wordsworth
B.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.John Keats
D.Robert Burns
第6题
The bad economy has been good news for Rand's legacy. Her fierce denunciations of government regulation have sent sales of her two best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, soaring. Yet her me-first brand of capitalism has been exccoriated (严厉批评) for fomenting (引发) the recent financial crisis. And her most famous former acolyte-onetime Fed chairman Alan Greenspan--has been blamed for inflating the housing bubble by refusing to intervene in the market.
In the midst of the newly rekindled debate, two excellent biographies have just been published: Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday; 592 pages), is a comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand's personal life, and Goddess of the Market : Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jenniter Burns (Oxford; 369 pages), leans more heavily on Rand's theories and politics.
From her earliest years, Rand was a woman on a mission. Born in 1905 to a bourgeois Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Rand was 12 when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Her family, suddenly poor, was forced to flee, and Rand's hatred of communism and any sort of collectivism would guide her life. Arriving in the US in 1926 with a new name, Ayn (rhymes with fine) made her way to Hollywood, where she had modest success as a screenwriter and married an aspiring actor, Frank O'Connor. Her politicization came when she and her husband worked on Republican Wendell Willkie's losing presidential campaign in 1940. According to Burns, "Before Willkie she had been pro-capitalist yet pessimistic, writing 'The capitalist world is low, unprincipled, and corrupt. ' Now she celebrated capitalism as the 'noblest, cleanest and most idealistic system of all'. "
The Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine (一种兴奋剂的名称) to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame.
The word "Melodramatic" (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means "______".
A.Exaggerated
B.Melodic
C.Decent
D.Dramatical
第7题
In the morning he changed his mind, led partly by the dim foreshadowing of the result of his literary adventure for the little book caught all Scotland by storm. Not only scholars, literary men, but even cowboys and maid servants, eagerly spent their hard earned shillings for the new book. Instead of going to America, the young poet hurried to Edinburgh to arrange for another edition of his work. His journey was a constant success, and in the capital he was welcomed and feasted by the best of Scottish society. This unexpected triumph lasted only one winter. Burns' extreme fondness for a fast life shocked his cultured entertainers, and when he returned to Edinburgh next winter, he received scant attention. He left the capital and went back in disappointment to the soil, where he was more at home.
Burns had the first edition of his poems published because______.
A.he could not bear the temptation of being famous
B.he thought that it would bring him a large sum of money
C.he felt like going to travel for pleasure
D.he needed money to go to another country
第8题
A.where
B.it
C.that
D.which
第9题
A.famous
B.solemn
C.accidental
D.satisfied
第10题
The first writing which made Mark Twain nationally famous was
A.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
B.Life on the Mississippi.
C.The Gilded Age and Innocents Abroad.
D.The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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