Her determination to ________ her goal of life motivated her to greater effort.
A.retain
B.attain
C.maintain
D.entertain
A.retain
B.attain
C.maintain
D.entertain
In their determination to read Dickinson's life in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed the unique pattern of her life -- her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived. Dickinson was not the innocent, lovelorn and emotionally fragile girl sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William Luce's 1976 play, the Belle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1850's transformed her house into a kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair, but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation through which she, in her quest for self sovereignty, carried on an argument with the puritan fathers, attacking with wit and irony their cheerless Calvinist doctrine, their stem patriarchal God, and their rigid notions of "true womanhood."
What's the author's main purpose in the passage?
A.To interpret Emily Dickinson's eccentric behavior
B.To promote the popular myth of Emily Dickinson
C.To discuss Emily Dickinson's failed love affair
D.To describe the religious climate in Emily Dickinson's time
A.features
B.appearances
C.virtues
D.characteristics
A、pride
B、glory
C、hope
D、satisfaction
According to the author, well-chosen words can give people______.
A.hope, courage, and ideas
B.confidence, determination, and strength
C.pleasure, knowledge, and encouragement
D.entertainment, information, and power
A.Vendor master
B.Source list
C.Info record
D.Quota arrangement
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan (清教) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God's love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement.
There was the determination of the immigrant to gain in the new world what had been denied to him in the old. And on the part of his children an urge to throw off the immigrant Onus (负担) by still more success and still more rise in a fluid, classless society. Brothers did not compete within the family for the favor of the parents as in Europe, but strove for success is the outer world, along paths of their own choosing.
In American society, one's success is measured by______.
A.materialistic rewards
B.his being recognized
C.the church he stats in
D.his contribution to the church
A.her to a chair
B.to her to a chair
C.her a chair
D.a chair to her
A.because of her kindness and she is gentle
B.because of both her kindness and her gentleness
C.both because of her kindness and her gentleness
D.both because of her kindness and she is gentle
Mrs. Edwards' husband tried to ______.
A.make her unhappy
B.cheer her up
C.stop her buying things
D.fill all her cupboards
______ you disagree with her, her idea is still worth considering.
A.Even if
B.If only
C.Instead of
D.Despite of