英语学习复习资料.docx

We've been able to make up the difference in income by cutting back without appreciably lowering our standard of living. We continue to dine out once or twice a month, but now we patronize local restaurants instead of more expensive places in the city. We still attend the opera and ballet in Milwaukee but only a few times a year. We eat less meat, drink cheaper wine and see fewer movies.Extravagant Christmases are amemory, and we combine vacations with story assignments.For instance, something uppermost about my father was how he had impressed upon me from boyhood to love books and reading. In fact, this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned. My love of books never diminished and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books.Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them.He was past sixty and had a long white beard curling down over his chest. Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard dog to the two young artists in the studio above.And it has taken over. If you work for a medium- to large-size company, chances are that you don't just wander in and out of work.You probably carry some kind of access card, electronic or otherwise, that allows you in and out of your place of work. Maybe the security guard at the front desk knows our face and will wave you in most days, but the fact remains that the business you work for feels threatened enough to keep outsiders away via these "keys." replaced consider quit world tough fuels provide luxuries balance idealassistance involved estimated coincidence emerged referred numerous stationed concern capturetougher liable shift electric cautious sophisticated thieves break chances signs extent inventions bet manages vision eventually achievement poverty utilized breakthroughInstead possessions richer breath cherish special specific shining miracles giftMission involve jail not collect deliver beautiful vacation need smalldidn't read come money because earning doing own Obviously valueprospect intention Despite developing publish condemned among standpoint standard rejection