英語閱讀美國人為什麼而驕傲
Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!
In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince』s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.
Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called 「found photographs」—a loose term given to everything from discarded(丟棄的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger』s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes 「basically everything is worth looking at」, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.
Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍衛) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷) an angry note intended for some else: 「Why』s your car HERE at HER place?」 The note became the starting point for Rothbard』s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.
The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs proced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It』s anyone』s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we』ve gone?
那被你在你的沙發下後面找到的照片現在是大筆生意!
在2005年，美國藝術家Richard Prince的照片，無標題的(牛仔)，以 $ 1, 248, 000被賣了。
Prince的確不是當代唯一的藝術家。他與所謂的「found photographs」—— 一個在不固定的期限里從舊貨店發現的被丟棄的印刷品對舊廣告或從一個陌生的家庭冊頁的非職業照片。 德國藝術家Joachim Schmid，相信「基本上一切值得看」，會集了被丟棄的照片、明信片和報紙圖片自1982年以來。 在他持續的項目， Archiv，他根據題材編組家庭生活的照片： 有狗的人們; 隊; 新車; 家庭的晚餐; 等等。
就像Schmid，這位自已出版幾本藝術雜志編輯，也捍衛這些被找到的照片。 其中的一個，僅僅被叫作「Found」，是出生一多雪的夜在芝加哥，當Davy Rothbard回到他的汽車發現在他的雨刷之有一張的惱怒的字條： 「為什麼在這里，您的汽車在她的地方？」筆記成為了Rothbard』s致癮出版物的，起點特點發現照片讀者送，在我們的抽屜發現的這樣海報。
The整體發現照片現象提出了有些問題。 或許一最困難是： 這些圖象真的能被被認為是藝術嗎？ 如果可以，那是誰的藝術？ 被找到的照片由藝術家，這樣Richard Prince生產了，可以倉促地騎著他的馬遇見某人？ 或者王子怎麼創造了這張照片？ 這是大家的猜測。 另外，當我們想像這些找到的照片的藝術家們（比如Schmid）背後故事的時候，我們也轉動往我們自己的攝影冊頁。 為什麼是記憶很重要對我們？ 我們所有尋求為什麼結冰在計時我們的孩子、我們的父母，我們的戀人和我們自己？ 它們是否將意味是在我們離去後的任何人的任何一切？
Ⅱ 英語閱讀理解①
提供中文參考:
馬丁路德金出生於喬治亞州亞特蘭大市在1929年1月15日。他是一個黑人。他只住了三十九年，但他成為
世界著名在如此短的時間。他從小生長在東南部美國的一部分。他就讀於莫爾豪斯學院在那裡他會見了許多
優秀男人的想法，他發現重要的和令人激動的。
畢業後豪斯，他的研究在美國賓夕法尼亞大學，哈佛大學和波士頓大學。在波士頓
他會見了大學Corretta ，誰後來成了他的妻子。 1954年，他獲得了博士學位學位，他成為領導人的黑人，誰
貧窮和沒有電力供應。他領導的講話和遊行等活動。他的思想和行動統一，他前往監獄很短的時間。
許多年過去了，在華盛頓，他以一個球迷的250000人。在他發表了題為「我有一個夢想」 ，他表示
認為只有這樣的人可以贏得自己的權利是要保持和平，即使在面臨危險。他的講話仍然是著名的今天
美國。對於他的勇氣和取得的成就，他獲得了諾貝爾和平獎於1964年。
舉國哀悼的可怕事件，發生於68年4月4日時，他被熱死亡。該名男子誰曾鼓吹非暴力的所有
他的生命死於某種暴力受害者的 。
但是，他的夢想，可以永遠不死。許多美國人仍然在努力使這一夢想成真。
如果沒有馬丁路德金滿足許多男人的想法？
單選題
字母a. a.在哈佛大學。
灣灣在莫爾豪斯學院。
梁卓波士頓大學。
D. D.在賓夕法尼亞大學。
當他成為領導人的美國黑人人嗎？
單選題
字母a.答：當他是一個學生在莫爾豪斯學院。
曼德爾布後，他獲得了博士學位的程度。
梁卓後，他會見了Corretta 。
D. d.當他就讀於波士頓大學。
他為什麼被囚禁了一段時間？
單選題
機管局因為他發表了演說「我有一個夢想」 。
白僵菌因為他成為很受歡迎的黑人。
梁卓因為他鼓吹非暴力。
D. D.由於他組織遊行。
著名的想法是什麼，他表示在他發表了題為「我有一個夢想」 ？
單選題
機管局黑色人民應該團結一致，在面對危險。
曼德爾布黑人們應該努力爭取和平。
連鑄為了保持和平是唯一的途徑黑色人民能夠贏得他們的權利。
日為仍然希望即使在面臨危險。
什麼你不能推斷（推斷）由通過？
單選題
機管局的黑人在美國仍然爭取平等的權利。
白僵菌偉大的人的死亡，已經離開了黑人在美國沒有領袖。
連鑄非暴力不一定是唯一的出路。
D.馬丁路德金是受過良好教育。
Ⅲ 【求助】英語閱讀理解
8 A 9 A 10 A
第八題 題目A選項就是第二段最後一句的同義語句．
第九題 」Americans, valuing competition, have devised an economic system to go with it----free enterprise 」意思是，美國人重視競爭，規劃了與之相適應的經濟體制－－－自由企業．所以free enterprise是種經濟體制．
第十題 題目意思是，如果你怎樣，美國人很有可能會反對你．文章第一段介紹說，美國人只會給予通過自己努力取得成功的人好評（贊揚），對於出身富貴的不於怎麼好的評價．他們崇尚出身低微但通過自己努力取得成功．而美國的社會體制適宜人們白手起家．相對來說D選項有迷惑性，但根據文章，這一選項的內容並沒有比較明白提到，所以排除．A選項說，你抱怨出身貧寒，沒有機會發展．這於文章第一段提到的美國人的觀念是違背的．
Ⅳ 一篇高一英語閱讀理解(求大家幫幫忙，我真的看不懂~~)
所以，你要知道，這是什麼，但美國人完全由「使用一切煩惱」的交談。冷漠的流行期（漠不關心）發現「最討厭的對話」的47在馬里斯特學院的一項調查顯示美國人百分之。
「無論」輕松戰勝了「你知道」，這是惱火誰對這些接受調查的四分之一。其他惱人的表達「無論如何」（百分之七），「這是是什麼」（百分之十一）和「在一天結束」（百分之二）。
「無論」是一個具有持久力的表現。這是由矽谷的普及，在懵懵懂懂的女孩在20世紀90年代，它仍是常用，常府年輕人。它真的可以煩人。這項調查發現，「凡是」能始終由美國人不喜歡不管其種族，性別，年齡，收入或者他們住在那裡。
「這並不讓我感到吃驚的sepical類，因為'whatever'is，大概說：」邁克爾亞當斯，是在印第安納大學英語教授。 「它的使用並不總是消極的，」他說。
不過，這些負面內涵（否定意味）或許可以解釋為什麼「不管」的judeged更惱人塔日益流行的「你知道」。「你知道，」亞當斯說，「是一個發言的方式尋求assebt（贊成）由他人。「
波基普西民調機構在紐約大學調查，從2008年8月0.3電話，2008年8月0.6 938美元ales。五名的選擇，包括由人民選擇的調查討論什麼流行詞彙和短語可能被認為是annouying，女發言人瑪麗Azzoil。
1，什麼氏的這段擊敗標題？
答：美國人惱火「什麼」。
二「無論」最討厭的詞毛條調查。
長美國人討厭使用「一切」的對話。
d.為「什麼」輕松擊敗了「你knoe在交談」。
2.According的推移，美國人通常會說「什麼」的______。
A.tell他們討厭別人
B.make別人知道他們是鋤強
C.express的事情發表意見
D.show他們不關心什麼
3.What我們知道了「利用一切從第3段」？
答：只有年輕人喜歡。
二現在人們不經常使用它。
長人們開始廣泛採用了20世紀90年代。
在美國的一些州D.people不恨聽到這個詞..
4.We學習，在邁克爾亞當斯認為,________.
A.people應內山開始拍拖「凡是」
B.no人知道為什麼「不管」，讓惱人
C.people應立即停止使用「一切」的對話
d.為「什麼」並不總是意味著一種負數
Ⅳ 公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇1
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which procts and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the procts bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the"system" of prices. The price of any particular proct or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.
If one were to ask a group of randomly selected indivials to define "price", many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a proct or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a proct or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the proct or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the proct or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total "package" being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
價格決定資源的使用方式。價格也是有限的產品與服務在買方中的配給手段。美國的價格系統是復雜的網狀系統，包括經濟生活中一切產品買賣的價格，也包括名目繁多的各種服務，諸如勞動力、專職人員、交通運輸、公共事業等服務的價格。所有這些價格的內在聯系構成了價格系統。任何一種個別產品或服務的價格都與這個龐大而復雜的系統密切相關，而且或多或少地受到系統中其它成份的制約。
如果隨機挑選一群人，問問他們如何定義"價格"，許多人會回答價格就是根據賣方提供的產品或服務，買方向其付出的錢數。換句話說，價格就是市場交易中大家認同的產品或服務的貨幣量。該定義就其本身來說自有其道理。但要獲得對價格在任何一樁交易中的完整認識，就必須考慮到大量"非貨幣"因素的影響。買賣雙方不但要清楚交易中的錢數，而且要非常熟悉交易物的質量和數量，交易的時間、地點，採用哪種形式付款，有怎樣的'緩付和優惠，對交易物的質量保證、交貨條款、退賠權利等等。也就是說，為了能估算索價，買賣雙方必須通曉構成交易物價格的通盤細節。
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇2
Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel instry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the proct and in part from his policy of expanding ring periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were recing their investments.
Carnegie believed that indivials should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide ecational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves. "He who dies rich, dies disgraced, " he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.
Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity. His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.
被稱作鋼鐵大王的安德魯·卡內基在美國建立了鋼鐵工業。在這個過程中，他變成了美國最富有的人之一。 他的成功，部分來自於他銷售產品的能力，部分來自於經濟蕭條時期的擴充策略。在蕭條時期，他的多數對手都在縮減投資。
卡內基認為個人應該通過努力工作來獲得進展，但他也強烈地感到有錢人應該運用他們的財富來為社會謀 取福利。他反對施捨救濟，更願意提供教育機會，使別人自立。卡內基經常說："富有著死去的人死得可恥。"他對社會的較重要的貢獻都以他的名字命名。這些貢獻包括匹茲堡卡內基學校。這個學校有一個圖書館，一個美術館和一個國家歷史博物館;他還創立了一所技術學校，這所學校現在是卡內基梅隆大學的一部分;其他的慈善捐贈有為促進國家間了解的"卡內基國際和平基金"，為科學研究提供經費的華盛頓卡內基學院以及給各種藝術活動提供活動中心的卡內基音樂廳。
安德魯·卡內基的慷慨大度幾乎影響到每個美國人的生活。由於他超過五百萬美元的捐款，2500 個圖書館得以建立起來，遍布在美國各地的小村鎮，形成了我們今天還在享用的公共圖書館系統的核心。
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇3
Jogging has become the most popular indivial sport in America. Many theories, even some mystical ones, have been advanced to explain the popularity of jogging. The plain truth is that jogging is a cheap, quick and efficient way to maintain physical fitness.
The most useful sort of exercise is exercise that develops the heart, lungs, and circulatory systems. If these systems are fit, the body is ready for almost any sport and for almost any sudden demand made by work or emergencies. One can train more specifically, as by developing strength for weight lifting or the ability to run straight ahead for short distances with great power s in football, but running trains your heart and lungs to deliver oxygen more efficiently to all parts of your body. It is worth noting that this sort of exercise is the only kind that can rece heart disease, the number one cause of death in America.
Only one sort of equipment is needed a good pair of shoes. Physicians advise beginning joggers not to run in a tennis or gym shoe. Many design advances have been made in only the last several years that make an excellent running shoe in dispensable if a runner wishes to develop as quickly as possible, with as little chance of injury as possible. A good running shoe will have a soft pad for absorbing shock, as well as a slightly built-up heel and a full heelcup that will give the knee and ankle more stability. A wise investment in good shoes will prevent bilisters and the foot, ankle and knee injures and will also enable the wearer to run on paved or soft surfaces.
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇4
Upon reaching an appropriate age (usually between 18 and 21 years), children are encouraged, but not forced, to 「leave the nest」 and begin an independent life. After children leave home they often find social relationship and financial support outside the family. Parents do not arrange marriages for their children, nor do children usually ask permission of their parents to get married, Romantic love is most often the basis for marriage in the United States; young alts meet their future spouses through other friends, at jobs, and in organizations and religious institutions, Although children choose their own spouses, they still hope their parents will approve of their choices.
In many families, parents feel that children should make major life decisions by themselves. A parent may try to influence a child to follow a particular profession but the child is free to choose another career. Sometimes children do precisely the opposite of what their parents wish in order to assert their independence. A son may deliberately decide not to go into his father』s business because of a fear that he will lose his autonomy in his father』s workplace. This independence from parents is not an indication that parents and children do not love each other. Strong love between parents and children is universal and this is no exception in the American family Coexisting with such love in the American family are cultural values of self – reliance and independence.
子女一旦到適當年齡(通常是18至21歲)，要鼓勵而不是強迫他們「離開窩的，財政的巢」，開始獨立生活。小孩離開家後，往往在外能夠與人交往，並自謀出路。父母不為子女安排婚姻，子女結婚也通常無需獲得父母同意。在美國，浪漫的愛情往往是婚姻的基礎，通過朋友在學校、單位、組織以及宗教團體認識自己的，愛情的未來的伴侶。盡管子女自己擇偶，他們仍然希望父母能認同他們的選擇。
許多家庭的父母認為，應由子女自己來做他們生活中的重大決定。家長可能會設法影響子女去從事某一職業，但子女也有選擇其它職業的自由。有時為了證實自己的獨立性，子女從事的工作正好與父母希望的相反。兒子可能執意不去父親的企業工作，因為擔心在那裡就不能獨立自主。這種不依靠父母的獨立性並不意味著父母與子女之間缺乏愛心。父母和子女之間普遍都有摯愛，美國家庭也毫不例外。只不過在美國家庭之中，還融合了自主、獨立的文化價值觀念。
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇5
A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm-two entirely different movements.
Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner』s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.
This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conctors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.
Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇6
Every weekday morning I take the 8:30 bus to go to my job. I know by sight several people who also fide that bus. Some of the girls work as maids. They get off at each stop in ones, twos or threes.
But at one corner something wonderful happens. Before the bus stops, a little dog races out of the nearest house. He doesn't look at two of the maids who get off. But for the third he has a joyful "Hello!". From head to tail his little body wags his happiness. Everyone on the bus watches until the maid and the dog go into the house.
One day not long ago the maid wasn't on the bus. I wondered if the dog would be waiting for her. Sure enough, he was!
He stood at the back door of the bus for a minute. I could see his joyful welcome turning into fearful worry. Where was she?
The driver closed the back door. The dog raced to the front door. It, too, shut in his face.
Everyone on the bus felt sad. Poor little pup! He looked so unhappy, standing there!
The driver couldn't stand it. He opened the door and looked down at the dog. "She didn't come today," he said, in a loud, kind voice.
A man in a front seat leaned forward. "Maybe she will come tomorrow," he called.
The dog wagged his tail as if to say "thank you." He watched the bus as we pulled away. Then he turned to trot home ── alone.
The next day everyone on the bus was happy to see the maid back again. Yes, the dog was waiting for her.
The welcome he gave her was even warmer and more delighted than usual. We all smiled at one another. How bright and good the morning suddenly seemed to us!
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇7
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea bushes strewn around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally it's wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just quivered.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on it's wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.
The next thing I knew the house parent came walking back out of the back door by the garbage room and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left.
I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.
Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇8
For many people in the U.S., sports are not just for fun. Theyre almost a religion. Thousands of sports fans buy expensive tickets to watch their favorite teams and athletes play in person.
Other fans watch the games at home, glued to their TV sets. Americas devotion to athletics has created a new class of wealthy people: professional athletes. Sports stars often receive million-dollar salaries. Some even make big money appearing in advertisements for soft drinks, shoes and even toiletries.
對許多的美國人而言，運動不只是為了好玩。它幾乎成了一種宗教崇拜，數以千計的運動迷會為了能親眼目睹他們喜愛的球隊或運動員比賽而出高價購買門票。
其它的球迷則守在家裡寸步不離地收看電視轉播。美國人對於運動的投入形成了一個新的富有階級：職業運動員。運動明星通常會收到上百萬元的薪水。其中有些人甚至是因為替飲料、鞋，甚至個人化妝用品拍廣告而賺了一大筆錢。
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇9
Not all Americans worship sports, but athletics are an important part of their culture. Throughout their school life, Americans learn to play many sports. All students take physical ecation classes in school.
Many people also enjoy non-competitive activities like hiking, biking, horseback riding, camping or hunting. To communicate with American sports nuts, it helps if you can talk sports.
並非所有的美國人都崇拜運動，但運動的確是他們文化當中極為重要的一部份。在他們的學校生活當中，美國人學習許多運動。所有的學生都必須在學校修體育課。
許多人也喜歡從事一些非競爭性的活動像健行、騎單車、騎馬、露營或打獵。要和美國運動迷溝通，最好是能暢談運動。
公共英語二級閱讀理解擴展文章 篇10
Through the changes in the ways of making a living in a family over several generations, the cartoon aims at sounding a warning against mans wasteful use of natural resources and emphasizing the urgent need to preserve these resources.
Ever since man appeared on the earth, mans survival has been heavily relied on nature. Almost everything we use in our everyday life comes from nature, ranging from the food we eat, the water we drink, to the wood which is turned into furiture. With the development of technology and population growth, the amount and range of materials used has increased at an alarming rate. However, natural resources are not inexhaustible. Some reserves are already on the brink of exhaustion and there is no hope of replacing them. The widespread water shortage is an example in point. If man continued to squander natural resources with no thought for the future, the later generations would end up selling sand, as is the case in the cartoon, and the whole world would be in a mess.
Time is running out. It is up to us to take effective measures before the situation gets out of hand.
Ⅵ 英語閱讀理解考試題
1：C
2：B
3：A
4：B
5：D
90%對的！！放心選吧！！