What is the writer's attitude toward Shot Spooters? A.Be indifferent to it. B.Be for it. C
In the writer's view what is being used more efficiently.?
A.Money holdings.
B.Cheek deposits.
C.Coins.
D.Metering and vending machines.
What is the writer's attitude towards globalization?
A.Suspicioas.
B.Positive.
C.Indifferent.
D.Contemptuous.
What can be concluded from the passage?
A.Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.
B.A writer's success depends on luck rather than on effort.
C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.
D.The chances for a writer to become successful are small
Following the writer' s suggestions-, which of the following should we students d0?.
A.Set up a e-store and do business online.
B.Keep silent if you are not satisfied with what you' ve bought from your friends.
C.Return your purchases if you are not pleased with the goods from your friends.
D.Be careful when e-shopping and avoid making money from your friends on line.
Essays, however, hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: this is what I think, and this is what I am. Autobiographies which aren't novels are generally extended essays, indeed. A personal essay is like the human voice talking, its order being the mind's natural flow, instead of a systematized outline of ideas. Though more changeable or informal than an article or treatise, somewhere it contains a point which is its real center, even if the point couldn't be uttered in fewer words than the essayist has used. Essays don't usually boil down to a summary, as articles do, and the style. of the writer has a "nap" to it, a combination of personality and originality and energetic loose ends that stand up like the nap (绒毛) on a piece of wool and can't be brushed flat. Essays belong to the animal kingdom, with a surface that generates sparks, like a coat of fur, compared with the flat, conventional cotton of the magazine article writer, who works in the vegetable kingdom, instead. But, essays, on the other hand, may have fewer "levels" than fiction, because we are not supposed to argue much about their meaning. In the old distinction between teaching and storytelling, the essayist, however cleverly he tries to conceal his intentions, is a bit of a teacher or reformer, and an essay is intended to convey the same point to each of us.
An essayist doesn't have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he can shape or shave his memories, as long as the purpose is served of explaining a truthful point. A personal essay frequently is not autobiographical at all, but what it does keep in common with autobiography is that, through its tone and tumbling progression, it conveys the quality of the author's mind. Nothing gets in the way. Because essays are directly concerned with the mind and the mind's peculiarity, the very freedom the mind possesses is conferred on this branch of literature that does honor to it, and the fascination of the mind is the fascination of the essay.
According to the passage the changes in readers' taste ______.
A.contribute to the incompatibility of essays with stories
B.often result in unfavorable effect, to say the least
C.sometimes come to something undesirable, of course
D.usually bring about beneficial outcome, so to say
When he came back, he found that he had had a visitor. Someone had broken into his flat. The man had had a drink, smoked several of Tom's cigarettes--and had read his story. The visitor left Tom a note.
I have read your story and I don't think much of it. Please read my suggestions and then you can finish it. By the way, I am a burglar, I am not going to steal anything tonight. But if you become a successful writer, I will return!
Tom read the burglar's suggestions. Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He is still not a successful writer, and he is waiting for his burglar to return. Before he goes out in the evening, he always leaves a half-finished story near his typewriter.
What did Tom Smith write about?
A.Animals.
B.Policemen.
C.Children.
D.Soldiers.
What,according to the writer,is one of the most important tasks of our time?
A.To keep people from agin9.
B.To practice birth.contr01.
C.To make people still stronger.
D.To do away with starvation and disease.
The writer's attitude towards the use of the telephone is ______.
A.affectionate
B.approving
C.disapproving
D.neutral
A. as America's greatest writer
B. was America's greatest writer
C. America's greatest writer
D. to have been America's greatest writer
What does the writer imply according to the passage?
A.Male elephants are hunted more than female elephants
B.Both male elephants and female elephants are equally hunted
C.Each elephant has a long life
D.There are not any ivory hunters in the world now.