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
(It won't be long) (before) Mary (will get used to) (living) a new life on campus.
A.It won't be long
B.before
C.will get used to
D.living
Everyone is working harder, and living a happier life now, ______?
A.isn't one
B.aren't we
C.isn't it
D.aren't they
Once you ______ the country life, you won't want to live in the city.
A.have tested B.have tried C.have sampled D.have checked
She can't find money for life necessities, ______ such luxuries as jewelry and perfume.
A.leave alone
B.leave well alone
C.let well along
D.let alone
Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A.There is no clearly defined right and wrong in TV images.
B.Television doesn't express ideas although it is intended to convey truth.
C.Translating life into an image is more effective than expressing reactions to life in words in teaching life values.
D.TV presentation of images records what is going on objectively.
The Dutch got the ball rolling by celebrating the saint- called Sinter Klaas- in New York in the latc-18" century. Our old friend, Washington Irving, included the legend of Saint Nick in his seminal History of New York as well, but at the turn of the 181 century, Saint Nick was still a rather () figure in America.
On December 23, 1823, though, a man named Clement Clarke Moore published a poem he had written for his daughters called “An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," better known now as ‘T’ as the night before Christmas." Nobody knows how much of the poem Moore invented, but we do know that it was the spark that () lit the Santa fire. Many of the things we associated with Santa一a sleigh, reindeer, Christmas Eve visits一came from Moore's poem.
1.
A.hops
B.jumps
C.sneaks
D. skips
2.
A.known
B.observed
C. remarked
D.commented
3.
A.persistance
B.inheritance
C.insistence
D.instance
4.
Awell-known
B.popular
C.obscure
D.famous
5.
A. actually
B. generally
C. eventfully
D. eventually
The dark side of the digital products is that people may use them to______.
A.fully equip themselves
B.disturb others' physical exercises
C.threaten other people's life
D.reveal others' privacy
Wide-track tyres______.
A.won't noticeably affect your car's sliding quality
B.can increase tyre life
C.will increase rolling resistance
D.helps attain top gas mileage