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He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised， at that moment,in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes,first published in a book called "The Hawk in the Rain" when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes 's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs.These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices-symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. lt was not only England that thought so either.Hughes's book was also published in America,where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963,Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide.Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died,Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called "Birthday Letters".In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters,Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death,which he calls his "big and unmanagcable event". He felt his talent muffled by the perpefual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware.For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle.Poets' letters are seldom like that, and Hughes 's are noexception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes's own or other people's. The trajectory of Hughes's literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private,part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing,and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy. Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry,even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for "its fantasticalia，its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications". He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children."What kids need", he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, " is a headfull [sic] of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language." When that happens,children have "the guardian angel installed behind the tongue".Lucky readers, big or small. The word "vilified"”most probably means_______

 A.tortured B.scolded C.harassed D.tormented参考答案：……

题库 2024-12-16

He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised， at that moment,in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes,first published in a book called "The Hawk in the Rain" when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes 's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs.These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices-symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. lt was not only England that thought so either.Hughes's book was also published in America,where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963,Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide.Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died,Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called "Birthday Letters".In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters,Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death,which he calls his "big and unmanagcable event". He felt his talent muffled by the perpefual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware.For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle.Poets' letters are seldom like that, and Hughes 's are noexception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes's own or other people's. The trajectory of Hughes's literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private,part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing,and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy. Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry,even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for "its fantasticalia，its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications". He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children."What kids need", he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, " is a headfull [sic] of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language." When that happens,children have "the guardian angel installed behind the tongue".Lucky readers, big or small. By “lucky readers”in the last sentence, the auther means______

 A.children who read poetry B.children who have a headfull of ···

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He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised， at that moment,in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes,first published in a book called "The Hawk in the Rain" when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes 's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs.These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices-symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. lt was not only England that thought so either.Hughes's book was also published in America,where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963,Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide.Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died,Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called "Birthday Letters".In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters,Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death,which he calls his "big and unmanagcable event". He felt his talent muffled by the perpefual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware.For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle.Poets' letters are seldom like that, and Hughes 's are noexception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes's own or other people's. The trajectory of Hughes's literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private,part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing,and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy. Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry,even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for "its fantasticalia，its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications". He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children."What kids need", he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, " is a headfull [sic] of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language." When that happens,children have "the guardian angel installed behind the tongue".Lucky readers, big or small. From the letters,we may find the cause of Hughes's internal struggle is_______.

 A.his devotion to the literacy world B.that he is a part-priv···

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Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry，In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry，and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him"Coeur de Lion”(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame.He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory.By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander,love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body. Although a man of blood and violence，Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel.He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skillful in execution; in political a child,lacking in subtlety and experience.His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes;his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East,Messina in sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished,faithless ally,Philip Augustus,fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won.His life was one magnificent parade, which ended, left only an empty plain. In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed.The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small，weak castle.On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall.Confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck.The wound，already deep，was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head.Gangrene set in, and Cocur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs; he divided to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him,and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table,which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide. The archer was flayed alive. To say that his life was a “magnificent parade”(Paragraph Two) implies that to some extent it was_________.

 A.an empty show B.lived too pompously C.impressive and a···

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Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry，In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry，and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him"Coeur de Lion”(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame.He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory.By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander,love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body. Although a man of blood and violence，Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel.He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skillful in execution; in political a child,lacking in subtlety and experience.His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes;his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East,Messina in sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished,faithless ally,Philip Augustus,fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won.His life was one magnificent parade, which ended, left only an empty plain. In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed.The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small，weak castle.On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall.Confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck.The wound，already deep，was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head.Gangrene set in, and Cocur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs; he divided to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him,and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table,which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide. The archer was flayed alive. "little did the English people own him for his service”(Paragraph One) means that theEnglish________.

 A.received little protection from him B.paid few taxes to him···

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Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry，In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry，and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him"Coeur de Lion”(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame.He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory.By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander,love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body. Although a man of blood and violence，Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel.He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skillful in execution; in political a child,lacking in subtlety and experience.His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes;his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East,Messina in sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished,faithless ally,Philip Augustus,fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won.His life was one magnificent parade, which ended, left only an empty plain. In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed.The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small，weak castle.On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall.Confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck.The wound，already deep，was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head.Gangrene set in, and Cocur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs; he divided to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him,and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table,which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide. The archer was flayed alive. The point of the last short paragraph is that Richard was________.

 A.cheated by his own successors B.determined to take revenge ···

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Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry，In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry，and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him"Coeur de Lion”(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame.He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory.By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander,love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body. Although a man of blood and violence，Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel.He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skillful in execution; in political a child,lacking in subtlety and experience.His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes;his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East,Messina in sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished,faithless ally,Philip Augustus,fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won.His life was one magnificent parade, which ended, left only an empty plain. In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed.The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small，weak castle.On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall.Confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck.The wound，already deep，was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head.Gangrene set in, and Cocur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs; he divided to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him,and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table,which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide. The archer was flayed alive. Richard's behavior as death approached showed________.

 A.bravery and self control B.wisdom and correctness C.De···

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Examinations Exert a Pemicious Influence on Education We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a slepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of 'drop-outs': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge,but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are ofien judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise.The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective asssment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this iliterate message recently scrawled on a wall: 'I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire'. The main idea of this passage is_______.

 A.examinations exert a pernicious influence on education B.ex···

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Richard, King of England from 1189 to 1199, with all his characteristic virtues and faults cast in a heroic mould, is one of the most fascinating medieval figures. He has been described as the creature and embodiment of the age of chivalry，In those days the lion was much admired in heraldry，and more than one king sought to link himself with its repute. When Richard's contemporaries called him"Coeur de Lion”(The Lion heart), they paid a lasting compliment to the king of beasts. Little did the English people owe him for his services, and heavily did they pay for his adventures. He was in England only twice for a few short months in his ten years' reign; yet his memory has always English hearts, and seems to present throughout the centuries the pattern of fighting man. In all deeds of prowess as well as in large schemes of war Richard shone. He was tall and delicately shaped strong in nerve and sinew, and most dexterous in arms. He rejoiced in personal combat, and regarded his opponents without malice as necessary agents in his fame.He loved war, not so much for the sake of glory or political ends, but as other men love science or poetry, for the excitement of the struggle and the glow of victory.By this his whole temperament was toned; and united with the highest qualities of the military commander,love of war called forth all the powers of his mind and body. Although a man of blood and violence，Richard was too impetuous to be either treacherous on habitually cruel.He was as ready to forgive as he was hasty to offend; he was open-handed and munificent to profusion; in war circumspect in design and skillful in execution; in political a child,lacking in subtlety and experience.His political alliances were formed upon his likes and dislikes;his political schemes had neither unity nor clearness of purpose. The advantages gained for him by military geoids were flung away through diplomatic ineptitude. When, on the journey to the East,Messina in sicily was won by his arms he was easily persuaded to share with his polished,faithless ally,Philip Augustus,fruits of a victory which more wisely used might have foiled the French King's artful schemes. The rich and tenable acquisition of Cyprus was cast away even more easily than it was won.His life was one magnificent parade, which ended, left only an empty plain. In 1199, when the difficulties of raising revenue for the endless war were at their height, good news was brought to King Richard. It was said there had been dug up near the castle of Chaluz, on the lands of one of his French vassals, a treasure of wonderful quality; a group of golden images of an emperor, his wife, sons and daughters, seated round a table, also of gold, had been unearthed.The King claimed this treasure as lord paramount. The lord of Chaluz resisted the demand, and the King laid siege to his small，weak castle.On the third day, as he rode daringly, near the wall.Confident in his hard-tried luck, a bolt from a crossbow struck him in the left shoulder by the neck.The wound，already deep，was aggravated by the necessary cutting out of the arrow-head.Gangrene set in, and Cocur de Lion knew that he must pay a soldier's debt. He prepared for death with fortitude and calm, and in accordance with the principles he had followed. He arranged his affairs; he divided to be his heir, and made all present swear fealty to him. He ordered the archer who had shot the fatal bolt, and who was now a prisoner, to be brought before him. He pardoned him,and made him a gift of money. For seven years he had not confessed for fear of being compelled to be reconciled to Philip, but now he received the offices of the Church with sincere and exemplary piety, and died in the forty-second year of his age on April 6, 1199, worthy, by the consent of all men, to sit with King Arthur and Roland and other heroes of martial romance at some Eternal round Table,which we trust the Creator of the Universe in His comprehension will not have forgotten to provide. The archer was flayed alive. Which of the following phrase best describes Richard as seen by the author?

 A.an aggressive king, too fond of war B.a brave king with min···

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Examinations Exert a Pemicious Influence on Education We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a slepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of 'drop-outs': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge,but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are ofien judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise.The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective asssment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this iliterate message recently scrawled on a wall: 'I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire'. The fate of students is decided by________.

 A.education B.institutions C.examinations D.student···

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Examinations Exert a Pemicious Influence on Education We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a slepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of 'drop-outs': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge,but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are ofien judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise.The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective asssment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this iliterate message recently scrawled on a wall: 'I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire'. The author's atitude toward examinations is________.

 A.detest B.approval C.critical D.indifferent参考答案：……

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Examinations Exert a Pemicious Influence on Education We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a slepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of 'drop-outs': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge,but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are ofien judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise.The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective asssment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this iliterate message recently scrawled on a wall: 'I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire'. According to the author, the most important of a good education is _________.

 A.to encourage students to read widely B.to train students to···

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