There is severe classic tragedy within major-league baseball, tragedy which catches and manipulates the fife of every athlete as surely as forces beyond the heaths manipulated Hardy’s simple Wes-sex folks into creatures of imposing stature.
Major-league baseball is an insecure society; it pays a lavish salary to an athlete and then, when he reaches thirty-five or so, it abruptly stops paying him anything. But the tragedy goes considerably deeper than that. Briefly, it is the tragedy of fulfillment.
Each major leaguer, like his childhood friends, always wanted desperately to become a major leaguer. Whenever there was trouble at home, in school, or with a girl, there was the sure escape of baseball; not the stumbling, ungainly escape of an ordinary ballplayer, but a sudden, wondrous metamorphosis into the role of a hero. For each major leaguer was first a star in his neighborhood or in his town, and each rived with the unending solace that there was one thing he could always do with grace and skill and poise. Somehow, he once believed with the most profound faith he possessed, that if he ever did make the major leagues, everything would then become ideal.
A major-league baseball team is comprised of twenty-five youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that, in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal. In retrospect, they were better off during the years when their adolescent dream was happily simple and vague. Among the twenty-five youngish men of a ball club, who individually held the common dream which came to be fulfilled, cynicism and disillusion are common as grass. So Willie Mays angrily announces that he will henceforth charge six hundred dollars to be interviewed, and Duke Snider shifts his dream-site from a ball park to an avocado farm overlooking the Pacific, and Peewee Reese tries to fight off a momentary depression by saying, "Sure I dreamt about baseball when I was a kid, but not the night games. No, sir. I did not dream about the fights. "
For most men, the business of shifting and reworking dreams comes late in life, when there are older children upon whose unwilling shoulders the tired dreams may be deposited. It is a harsh, jarring thing to have to shift dreams at thirty, and if there is ever to be a major novel written about baseball, it will have to come to grips with this theme.
The first paragraph indicates that______.
A.winning and losing ball games are both heartbreaking experiences
B.no baseball player can escape the tragedy inherent in major-league baseball
C.tragedy catapults baseball players into creatures of imposing stature
D.Hardy, the novelist, wrote ennobling stories about athletes
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Which of these statements about PIM join messages in classic PIM-SM is correct?()
A . PIM join messages are sent every 60 seconds to refresh the upstream router’s mroute state for the multicast tree.
B . Routers send a PIM join acknowledgement in response to each PIM join message received from a downstream router.
C . PIM join messages are only sent when the multicast distribution tree is first being established.
D . PIM join messages are sent every three minutes to refresh the upstream router’s mroute state for the multicast tree.
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There were several wet()on the wall.
A . parts
B . decreases
C . patches
D . deck
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Which of the following commands should be used to show how much data is read from or written to a particular logical volume, given there are several other logical volumes on the same disk?()
A . sar
B . lslv
C . iostat
D . filemo
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Popular music is different from classical music and folk music in that()
A . it is very noisy
B . it is anonymous
C . it is written as a commercial product for mass distribution
D . it is an individual artistic creatio
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The Forbbiden City is the biggest classical imperial botanical garden.
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There are several silk roads or routes.In the West, there was the northwest silk road. This route was opened officially by Zhang Qian in Dynasty.
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There are several silk roads or routes.In the West, there was the northwest silk road. This route was opened officially by Zhang Qian in Dynasty.
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We’d better use the Subject-by-Subject Pattern if there are several distinct aspects between the two subjects.
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3. There are several important issues that we need to deal with soon.
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The philosophic basis of Chinese classical gardens is ____________.
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Which of the following classical gardens in Suzhou is the largest ?( )
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______ is not one of the Five Classics of China.
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There are some areas which are still densely populated ____ their severe weather conditions.
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I know a little bit about France as my wife and I ______there several years ago.
A、are going to
B、went
C、go
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听力原文:M: There are several reasons why careful analysis of financial statements is necessary. What are they?
W: First, financial statements are general-purpose statements. Secondly, the relationships between amounts on successive financial statements are not obvious without analysis. And thirdly, users of financial statements may be interested in seeing how well a company is performing.
Q: What are they talking about?
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A.The methods of financial statements.
B.The necessity of careful analysis of financial statements
C.The relationship among financial statements.
D.The purpose of financial statements.
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There are several acceptable styles for business letter writing. The most popular forms are ,
A:full-block, ;
B:indented;
C:modified block ;
D:semiblock style with indented paragraphs.
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◑There were no tickets ______ for Sunday's classical music concert.◑preferable◑considerable◑possible◑available
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At the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, there was a very large release of radioactivity in a few minutes, followed by a slowly declining release rate over several months. The total release is estimated to have been about 5×10<sup>7</sup>curies The winds carried the released materials all the way to Sweden, from which the first reports came that there had been a nuclear accident in the USSR.
For the purposes of this problem assume that there was an instantaneous release of 10<sup>7</sup>curies of radioactive gases (and fine particles, which are assumed to remain in the atmosphere and not settle out). Then estimate the maximum ground level concentration of radioactive gases (curies/m<sup>3</sup>) when the radioactive cloud from the accident got to Sweden. Make the following assumptions:
(1) Ignore decay of the radioactive gases (i.e., assume their half-lives were infinite).
(2) Assume the distance between Chernobyl and Sweden is 1000 km.
(3) Assume that the wind speed was 3 m/s and the stability class C.
(4) Assume that the mixing height was 2000 m.
(5) Assume that mlXmg in the x direction(up and down the direction of the wind) has the same intensity as miXing in the y(crosswind)direction.
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There are several steps that can be taken, of which the chief one is to demand of all
There are several steps that can be taken, of which the chief one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding the interests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards people.
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Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to
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There are several differences between eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells, but not including which of the following()
A.Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus, whereas prokaryotic cells do not
B.Eukaryotic cells have membrane organelles, whereas prokaryotic cells do not
C.Eukaryotic cells have cytoskeleton, prokaryotic cells do not
D.The proportion of water in eukaryotic cells is higher than that in prokaryotic cells
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At first glance, there is little in Horton to attract people. The other nearby towns have much more to offer: Bradfield has its river and historic buildings, while Newtown has shops and entertainment. The buildings of Horton look dirty and unloved. For shops, there is a small supermarket, a few bargain shops, a bakery which, strangely, does not sell bread and a florist which has one stand of sadlooking flowers. Even so, Horton has several advantages over its neighboring towns.
Firstly, it has a country park. Four thousand years ago, this was an important fort. There are no historic remains here now, but there are wonderful views over the countryside. On sunny weekends you can often see kids out with their parents, kicking balls or flying kites.
There aren’t many job opportunities in Horton, and the roads to nearby cities aren’t really fast, but there are excellent rail links. You can be in London in an hour and a half, and other cities are less than an hour away. That means that parents can earn a good salary and still get home in time to spend the evenings with their families. Houses in Horton aren’t pretty, but they’re functional and cheap. The streets are quiet and safe, and there are plenty of parks and playgrounds. It has a library, three primary schools and a secondary school, St.Mark’s. It is friendly and offers a wide range of subjects and activities to children of all abilities and backgrounds. The town also has a swimming and a sports centre, and the community halls hold regular clubs and events for people of all ages.
C-21. What is the writer’s main purpose?
A、To explain what tourists can do in Horton.
B、To explain why Horton is a good place to live in.
C、To explain why Horton is not as pleasant as other towns.
D、To describe the history of Horton.
C-22.Which part of Horton does the writer find disappointing?
A、The shops.
B、Country park.
C、 Transport links.
D、The schools.
C-23. Which of the following is NOT the advantage of Horton?
A、Plenty of parks and playgrounds.
B、Historical buildings.
C、The quiet and safe streets.
D、Functional and cheap houses.
C-24. What advantages does Horton bring to workers?
A、There are plenty of jobs available in the town.
B、You can drive to nearby cities in a short time.
C、You can get to several cities quickly by train.
D、Working conditions are better here than in other towns.
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Classical Hollywood explicitly extols success and wealth but is at the same time asham
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I have several years________experience_______southen China and I'm familiar_______the market there.