The writer can’t see Aunt Lucy (). He’s having breakfast.
A.now
B.still
C.often
D.always
A.now
B.still
C.often
D.always
From the passage we can see that the writer's attitude toward "village life" is
A.positive
B.negative
C.neutral
D.unclear
It's Christmas again. We live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren't much good. You can't see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth (污秽) and dirt. My children must get out of this. But how? The money that we've saved isn't nearly enough.
The McGaritys have money, but they are show-offs with it. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of cookies while a group of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts, and when she couldn't eat any more, she threw the rest down the sewer (阴沟).
Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House (教育中心) isn’t rich, but she knows things, she understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. Everyboby else here looks away because they'rs ashamed of their lives. I'd like to see the children be like Miss Jackson when they grow up.
The writer suggests that her family______.
A.is extremely rich
B.is an unhappy one
C.live with nice and kind people
D.long for a change in their life
The writer thinks that we can't judge ______.
A. buildings by the ancient standards
B. all the buildings by the ancient standards
C. all the modern buildings by the ancient standards
D. modern buildings
Essays, however, hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: this is what I think, and this is what I am. Autobiographies which aren't novels are generally extended essays, indeed. A personal essay is like the human voice talking, its order being the mind's natural flow, instead of a systematized outline of ideas. Though more changeable or informal than an article or treatise, somewhere it contains a point which is its real center, even if the point couldn't be uttered in fewer words than the essayist has used. Essays don't usually boil down to a summary, as articles do, and the style. of the writer has a "nap" to it, a combination of personality and originality and energetic loose ends that stand up like the nap (绒毛) on a piece of wool and can't be brushed flat. Essays belong to the animal kingdom, with a surface that generates sparks, like a coat of fur, compared with the flat, conventional cotton of the magazine article writer, who works in the vegetable kingdom, instead. But, essays, on the other hand, may have fewer "levels" than fiction, because we are not supposed to argue much about their meaning. In the old distinction between teaching and storytelling, the essayist, however cleverly he tries to conceal his intentions, is a bit of a teacher or reformer, and an essay is intended to convey the same point to each of us.
An essayist doesn't have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he can shape or shave his memories, as long as the purpose is served of explaining a truthful point. A personal essay frequently is not autobiographical at all, but what it does keep in common with autobiography is that, through its tone and tumbling progression, it conveys the quality of the author's mind. Nothing gets in the way. Because essays are directly concerned with the mind and the mind's peculiarity, the very freedom the mind possesses is conferred on this branch of literature that does honor to it, and the fascination of the mind is the fascination of the essay.
According to the passage the changes in readers' taste ______.
A.contribute to the incompatibility of essays with stories
B.often result in unfavorable effect, to say the least
C.sometimes come to something undesirable, of course
D.usually bring about beneficial outcome, so to say
The writer thinks that _________. A. we can’t judge buildings by the ancient standards B. we can’t judge all the buildings by the ancient standards C. we can’t judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards D. we can’t judge modern buildings
The writer can' t fully trust e-shopping because____
A.a few e-shoppers sell low-quality goods and cheat customers of money
B.the goods In e-shops are too expensive for customers to buy
C.there are few choices of necessities for people to make
D.some people have turned to a new platform. for e-shopping
Darkness doesn't trouble cats, for they can see ______.
A.in dark
B.in the dark
C.in a darkness
D.in darkness
You can't see the president______you've made an appointment with him.
A.when
B.if
C.unless
D.except