After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising.The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.请问这里in ...
...ourite pastimes was doing nothing. His idea of an energetic afternoon when the sun was shining was to sit under a tree, with a pretty girl by his side, and all the time inthe world to talk of this and that, to count the blades of grass.All the time inthe world是做状语还是前面省略了he sp...
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that moment we were interrupted by the appearance of Madame Coutras, who had
been paying visits. She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing
creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in
alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets. She had a bold hooked nose and three
c...
...ic so I can help Mariainin her performance.”Mr Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but
has been the group’s official page turner for the past four years. His job is to
sit beside the pianist and turn the pages of the score so the musician doesn’t
have to break the flow of sound by doi...
...kept watching a young
woman in a window seat with a little boy on her lap. The woman’s eye fell on
the man’s face, and she immediately looked down and adjusted her scarf.As
the night wore on, people began to close their eyes, but the seats were so uncomfortable
that only a very heavy sleeper cou...
...ald
Wryson, in his crusading zeal for upzoning, was out in all kinds of weather,
and let’s say that one night, when he was returning from a referendum in an ice
storm, his car skidded down Hill Street, struck the big elm at the corner, and
was demolished.2. Finis,
his poor widow, either through lo...
...是一篇完整的文章）：When
I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That
meant beating out Miller King, who was the best player at our school.Football
season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my
football everywhere for practice. Jus...
In literary criticism of the
1960s and 1970s, responsibility for the resolution and communication of meaning
in a text was seen by some to shift
from author to reader. 在20世纪60年代和70年代的文学批评中，一些人认为解决和传播文本意义的责任从作者身上转移到了读...
K：How can business travelers increase their effectiveness while dealing with people from other cultures (in person, on the phone, in email)?C：The fastest and easiest way is to model the style of someone in person, on the phone, and by email.这两段对话里的介词in email和by email表达的...
...阅，严禁下载他用）【教材原文】Get to know new
people1 Match the
pictures with the sentences. Describe what the people inthe pictures are
doing.A My
name is Amy. I’d like to have a student ID card, please.B Hi, I’m
Max Jackson. I’m an exchange student
from the UK.C Hello,
everyo...
...ey was a most unfortunate man.When he died in 1963 he must have expired inthe confident belief that the event would be given wide coverage inthe press the next day.After all,his career had not been without distinction.Where he made his big mistake was in dying on the same day that John F.Kennedy w...
...考英语-全国1卷-语法填空【寻求原文出处】China has become the first country to
land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The unmanned Chang’e-4 probe (探测器)—the name was
inspired by an ancient Chinese moon goddess — touched down last week inthe
South Pole-Aitken basi...
InIndia and the Middle East,
it’s considered very rude to eat with your left hand. People in France expect
you to eat with a utensil in each hand. Mexicans
consider it inappropriate to eat with utensils, instead preferring to
use their hands. In Chile,
you may never touch any food with
your finge...