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1、La.关于艺术家l.b.买东西 我家的好名声 羞耻感2a.卓别林2.b.革命家 妇女姆戈叭3.a.福利救济3.b.陪客人在泰国旅游4a.中国的发展4b.信息高速公路5a.关 于孤独5.b.萨拉 大学 室友冲突6a.商业道德6.b.警员配枪7.a.人类基因7.b.关于 天才的研究8.a.黑人白人8.b.青春 美容利害9a.迪斯尼 文化9.b.迪斯尼主题公园 l.We never go to church other than for funerals and weddings1.1 have no ambitions other than to live an independent lifel

2、.He insists the disigns have no great meaning,other than that they appealed to his eye . l.He doesnt eat pork but other than that, hell eat just about everything .1.1 dont know the exact location of the church other than that its somewhere in the town centerl.With all this work on hand,shouldnt have

3、 been to the cinema last night 1.1 would have told him the answer had it been possible,but I was so busy then l.They hurried there only to find the meeting canceled.In fact,they neednt have gone at alll.lf Henry did not attend the conference last night ,he must have had too much work to do 1.Philip

4、might have been injured seriously in the car accidentl.With so much going on at the office, it is a wonder to find that Mr has much time left for anything else.l.lt is a surprise for us to find that television enjoy its greatest competitive advantage on information. l.You will soon find that it is a

5、 waste of time to argue with him l.lts a comfort to know that theres always someone to keep an eye on the kid.l.lt is a relief for us to learn that the driver was able to control the car during the stormy weather. l.Mu father always gets information from the local library, You might as well go there

6、 to see whether there is the information you need.l.While you live alone,you can dou as you I ike,We might as well call it freedom. They miss you very .You might as well ring and tell them youre going to visit them. Its no good waiting for the bus.We might as well walk home.1 .This passage is too di

7、fficult for us to read. We might as well find an easier one to read. 1. The wanted man is believed to be living in New York.2 . Many people are said to be homeless after the floods. 3. Three men are said to have been arrested after the explosion. 4. The prisoner is thought to have escaped by climbin

8、g over the wall. 5. Four people are reported to have been seriously injured in the accident. 1. What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution. 2. This is nothing less than a call to restore the vitality of the American Dream. 3. Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary p

9、roject to bring computers and ordinary people together. ,4. The experience of sightseeing in the wonderful island is nothing less than exciting and I am moved to tears.5. He was very concerned that she should not be tired or bored; he wanted to make sure that the holiday would be nothing less than p

10、erfect for her.l.a.An artist who seeks fame is like a dog chasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it.The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction.Dont quit your day job!

11、is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed.The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt.Stillz impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and p

12、raise from peers may spur the artist on.The lure of drowning in fames imperial glory is not easily resisted.Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc.They develop a style that agents market aggressively to hasten pop

13、ularity, and their ride on the express elevator to the top is a blur.Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there.Artists cannot remain idle, though.When the performer, painter or writer becomes bored, their work begins to show a lack of continuity in its appeal and it becomes diff

14、icult to sustain the attention of the public.After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month.Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even minute changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the aud

15、iences favor.The public simply discounts styles other than those for which the artist has become famous.Famous authors stylesa Tennessee Williams play or a plot by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliotare easily recognizable.The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Dali

16、 and moviemakers like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou.Their distinct styles marked a significant change in form from others and gained them fame and fortune.However, they paid for it by giving up the freedom to express themselves with other styles or forms.Fames spotlight ca

17、n be hotter than a tropical junglea fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure.It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be.The performer, like the politician, must often please his o

18、r her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe.One drop of fame will likely contaminate the entire well of a mans soul, and so an artist who remains true to himself or herself is particularly amazing.You would be hard-pressed to underline many names of those who have not c

19、ompromised and still succeeded in the fame game.An example, the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, known for his uncompromising behavior; both social and sexual, to which the public objected, paid heavily for remaining true to himself.The mother of a young man Oscar was intimate with accused him at a

20、banquet in front of his friends and fans of sexually influencing her son.Extremely angered by her remarks, he sued the young mans mother, asserting that she had damaged his good name.He should have hired a better attorney, though.The judge did not second Wildes call to have the woman pay for damagin

21、g his name, and instead fined Wilde.He ended up in jail after refusing to pay, and even worse, was permanently expelled from the wider circle of public favor.When things were at their worst, he found that no one was willing to risk his or her name in his defense.His price for remaining true to himse

22、lf was to be left alone when he needed his fans the most.Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom!They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans.Failed artists may find comfort in knowing that m

23、any great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out.They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences.Single-minded artists who continue their quest for fame even after fa

24、ilure might also like to know that failure has motivated some famous people to work even harder to succeed.Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, had his first novel Look Homeward, Angel rejected 39 times before it was finally published.Beethoven overcame his father; who did not believe that he had an

25、y potential as a musician, to become the greatest musician in the world.And Pestalozzi, the famous Swiss educator in the 19th century, failed at every job he ever had until he came upon the idea of teaching children and developing the fundamental theories to produce a new form of education.Thomas Ed

26、ison was thrown out of school in the fourth grade, because he seemed to his teacher to be quite dull.Unfortunately for most people, however, failure is the end of their struggle, not the beginning.I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune: good luck.But alas, you may find that it was not

27、what you wanted.The dog who catches his tail discovers that it is only a tail.The person who achieves success often discovers that it does more harm than good.So instead of trying so hard to achieve success, try to be happy with who you are and what you do.Try to do work that you can be proud of.May

28、be you wont be famous in your own lifetime, but you may create better art.1 .b. One summer day my father sent me to buy some wire and fencing to put around our barn to pen up the bull.At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our truck and driving into town on the old mill road.

29、Water from the mills wheel sprayed in the sunshine making a rainbow over the canal and I often stopped there on my way to bathe and cool off for a spell-natural air conditioning.The sun was so hot, I did not need a towel as I was dry by the time I climbed the clay banks and crossed the road ditch to

30、 the truck.Just before town, the road shot along the sea where I would collect seashells or gather seaweed beneath the giant crane unloading the ships.This trip was different, though.My father had told me Id have to ask for credit at the store.It was 1976, and the ugly shadow of racism was still a f

31、act of life.Id seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while a storeowner enquired into whether they were good for it.Many store clerks watched black youths with the assumption that they were thieves every time they even went into a grocery.My family was honest.We paid our debts.Bu

32、t just before harvest, all the money flowed out.There were no new deposits at the bank.Cash was short.At Davis Brothers General Store, Buck Davis stood behind the register, talking to a middle-aged farmer.Buck was a tall, weathered man in a red hunting shirt and I nodded as I passed him on my way to

33、 the hardware section to get a container of nails, a coil of binding wire and fencing.I pulled my purchases up to the counter and placed the nails in the tray of the scale, saying carefully, I need to put this on credit.My brow was moist with nervous sweat and I wiped it away with the back of my arm

34、.The farmer gave me an amused, cynical look, but Bucks face didnt change.Sure, he said easily, reaching for his booklet where he kept records for credit.I gave a sigh of relief.Your daddy is always good for it.He turned to the farmer.This here is one of James Williams sons.They broke the mold when t

35、hey made that man.The farmer nodded in a neighborly way.I was filled with pride.James Williams son.Those three words had opened a door to an adults respect and trust.As I heaved the heavy freight into the bed of the truck, I did so with ease, feeling like a stronger man than the one that left the fa

36、rm that morning.I had discovered that a good name could furnish a capital of good will of great value.Everyone knew what to expect from a Williams: a decent person who kept his word and respected himself too much to do wrong.My great grandfather may have been sold as a slave at auction, but this was

37、 not an excuse to do wrong to others.Instead my father believed the only way to honor him was through hard work and respect for all men.We childreneight brothers and two sisterscould enjoy our good name, unearned, unless and until we did something to lose it.We had an interest in how one another beh

38、aved and our own actions as well, lest we destroy the name my father had created.Our good name was and still is the glue that holds our family tight together.The desire to honor my fathers good name spurred me to become the first in our family to go to university.I worked my way through college as a

39、 porter at a four-star hotel. Eventually, that good name provided the initiative to start my own successful public relations firm in Washington, D.C.America needs to restore a sense of shame in its neighborhoods.Doing drugs, spending all your money at the liquor store, stealing, or getting a young w

40、oman pregnant with no intent to marry her should induce a deep sense of embarrassment.But it doesnt.Nearly one out of three births in America is to a single mother. Many of these children will grow up without the security and guidance they need to become honorable members of society.Once the social

41、ties and mutual obligations of the family melt away, communities fall apart.While the population has increased only 40 percent since 1960, violent crime in America has increased a staggering 550 percent-and weve become exceedingly used to it. Teen drug use has also risen.In one North Carolina County

42、, police arrested 73 students from 12 secondary schools for dealing drugs, some of them right in the classroom.Meanwhile, the small signs of civility and respect that hold up civilization are vanishing from schools, stores and streets.Phrases like yes, maam, no, sir, thank you and please get a yawn

43、from kids today who are encouraged instead by cursing on television and in music. They simply shrug off the rewards of a good name.The good name passed on by my father and maintained to this day by my brothers and sisters and me is worth as much now as ever.Even today, when I stop into Buck Davis sh

44、op or my hometown barbershop for a haircut, I am still greeted as James Williams son.My familys good name did pave the way for me.2 .a.He was born in a poor area of South London.He wore his mothers old red stockings cut down for ankle socks.His mother was temporarily declared mad.Dickens might have

45、created Charlie Chaplins childhood.But only Charlie Chaplin could have created the great comic character of the Tramp, the little man in rags who gave his creator permanent fame.Other countries-France, Italy, Spain, even Japanhave provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913 when he journeyed to America with a group of performers to do his comedy act on the stage, where talent scouts recruited him to work for Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.