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He {{U}}was obsessed with{{/U}} American horror movies.
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[单项选择题]He {{U}}was obsessed with{{/U}} American horror movies.
关键词： horror American obsessed
A．kept thinking about
B．took advantage of
C．paid no attention to
D．cared nothing about
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Choosing a College Major The most important piece of advice in this article follows this sentence, so, are you ready for it The advice: Don’’t panic. I know it’’s easier said than done, but I can’’t tell you how many students I have advised since the time that I have been a professor that seem in a state of panic if they are uncertain of their major, let alone a career. Choosing a major, thinking about a career, getting an education — these are the things college is all about. Yes, there are some students who arrive on campus and know exactly their major and career ambitions, but the majority of students do not, thus there is no need to rush into a decision about your major as soon as you step on campus. And guess what A majority of students in all colleges and universities change their major at least once in their college careers; and many change their major several times over the course of their college career. This article is all about giving you some pointers and direction — some steps for you to take — in your journey toward discovering that ideal career path for you. But it is a journey, so make sure you spend some time thinking about it before making a decision. And don’’t be discouraged if you still don’’t have a major the first time you take this journey...your goal should be narrowing your focus from all possible majors to a few areas that you can then explore in greater depth. Way back when I was an undergraduate, I was a dual major in marketing and magazine journalism. Today I am a college professor, which brings me to another piece of general advice before you begin your journey: your major in college is important for your first job after graduation, but studies show that most people will change careers — yes, careers — about four or five times over the course of their lives — and no major exists that can prepare you for that! The first stop on your journey should be an examination or self-assessment of your interests. What types of things excite you What types of jobs or careers appeal to you The second stop on your journey is an examination of your abilities. What are your strengths What are your weaknesses What kind of skills do you have You can begin this self-examination by looking at the courses you took in high school. What were your best subjects Is there a pattern there What kinds of extracurricular activities did you participate in while in high school What kinds of things did you learn from part-time or summer jobs The third stop on your journey involves examining what you value in work. Examples of values include: helping society, working under pressure, stability, security, status, pacing, working alone or with groups, having a positive impact on others, and many others. The fourth stop on your journey is career exploration. There are many schools that offer "what can I do with a major in " fact sheets. You can also learn more about various occupations, including future trends, by searching the Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Outlook. The fifth stop on your journey is the reality check. You need to honestly evaluate your options. Do you really value physicians and have an interest in being a doctor, but have little skills in science Do you have a strong interest in the arts, but your family is convinced you will become a CPA like your father There are often ways to get around some of the obstacles during the reality check, but it is still important to face these obstacles and be realistic about whether you can get around them. The sixth and final stop on your journey is the task of narrowing your choices and focusing on choosing a major. Based on all your research and self-assessment of the first five stops on your journey, you should now have a better idea of the careers/majors you are not interested in pursuing as well as a handful of potential careers/majors that do interest you. What are some other resources for helping you get more information about a major and/or a career Take advantage of: Your professors, including your academic adviser — talk with your professors, whether you have taken a class with them or not. Any of them have worked in the field in which they teach and all are experts about careers and career opportunities. Your classmates, especially upperclassmen — these are the folk who are deep into their major, perhaps already having had an internship or gone through job interviews. Use them as a resource to gather more information. Your college’’s alumni — unless your college was just founded, your school probably has a deep and varied group of alums, many of whom like to talk with current students. They can also be a resource to gather more information about careers. Your college’’s career center — almost always under-appreciated, these folk have such a wealth of information at their fingertips that it is a shame more students don’’t take advantage of them and not just in your senior year
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. In fact, the British Isles contain a variety of peoples and only the people of England call themselves as English. The others refer themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, as the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed as being classified as English.The Highlands The drive from England to Scotland provides the traveler with many pleasant changes of scenery. As it is a fairly long journey, it is good to be able to travel with a friend who can take turns with you at the wheel. A patriotic Scotsman travelling with an English friend may tell him he is going to see, in the Highlands, the finest scenery in the world. This may sound exaggerated, but on arriving in the Highlands most people really agree that the scenery is indeed magnificent. The Highlands are, as the name implies, the hilly or mountainous region of the country; they form the greater part of the western half of Scotland north of Glasgow. On the first night in Scotland a tourist may choose to put up at a hotel in the little town of Callander, which is known as one of "the Gateways" to the Highlands. On the following day he can set out to see the various lakes in the neighborhood, and will be delighted with the wild and romantic aspect of the countryside. When he returns to his hotel he will be glad to eat a "high tea". This is a meal which, in Scotland and many parts of northern England, takes place of tea and dinner. It consists of one substantial course, such as one would have at dinner, followed by bread-and-butter, with jam or honey, and some kind of cake or cakes; tea is drunk with the meal, which is taken at about six o’clock in the evening. One has a light supper late in the evening. The next morning many tourists journey on to the west coast, passing on their way Loch Lomond, one of the largest and most famous of the Scottish lakes. The road twists and turns, dips and climbs, but is not dangerous. The greatest hazard is the black-faced sheep: these animals are as active as goats, and frequently wander recklessly into the road. The tourists may also see a herd of long-haired Highland cattle, which look savage but are no more so than ordinary cattle. Eventually the road runs parallel with the sea, along a coastline fringed with little islands and made ragged with rocky bays.Edinburgh Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is a fine old city built partly in the valley of the River Leitfi and partly on the rolling hills which surround it. The city is dominated by the castle, an ancient fortress (要塞) standing on the summit of a massive rock, which has been the scene of many battles throughout centuries of Scottish history. Today what remains of the original castle is preserved as a museum piece. The road from the castle to the royal palace of Holyroodhouse is known as "The Royal Mile". It is a very old road running through the oldest part of the city where there are many famous historic houses and narrow lanes called "closes". The newer part of the city lies north of the famous Princes Street, which is the widest and most impressive of the many wide streets and elegant square that are to be found in Edinburgh. The trains bringing visitors to Edinburgh run right into the heart of the city. Climbing up the steps from Waverley Station, the visitor is greeted by a blaze of color in Princes Street Gardens and a splendid view down the mile-long length of Princes Street itself. The grey stone buildings that line one side of Princes Street have been described as "a series of palaces"; they are, in fact, department stores and shops. In some shops you can see beautiful display of Scottish cloth, Edinburgh rock and, of course, Scotch whisky. About half way along Princes Street is the tallest tower in the city—a monumental memorial to Sir Walter Scott—and a little further on is the Floral Clock. This unique clock, made entirely of growing flowers, is always in full bloom during the Edinburgh Festival. For three weeks every summer, Edinburgh is alive with excited festival-goers and performers who come from all over the world, and the city is gay with flags and decorations. This international festival of the arts fills every theatre, concert hall, exhibition gallery and assembly room with performances of opera, dancing, music, plays, films and puppet shows. The festival is not limited to indoor activities: every weekday the noise of music as the Scottish pipers march along Princes Street. But the most spectacular event of the festival is undoubtedly the military tattoo (军乐团). This takes place under searchlights with the floodlit castle in the background. Nowhere could one find a natural setting more impressive and appropriate.Wales—Land of Song
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He insisted on doing ______ good to others.
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The Internet has spawned (大量输出) a sick new craze: violence porn. Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg had three awful things in common. Both were Jewish Americans who were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists. Both were beheaded (斩首). And both had their excruciating (剧烈的) deaths recorded and then replayed thousands, perhaps millions, of times over the Internet. One of the websites that featured the killing of Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter abducted in Pakistan in 2002, was also among the first to post the footage of Berg’’s execution two years later in Iraq. " Yes, we have the American beheading video," its home page proudly declared. Is this a website sponsored by militant Islamists Nope. It’’s a site based here in the United States with the sole mission of celebrating stomach-turning violence. Under the motto "Can You Handle Life " the site displays hundreds of images of dead, dying and mangled human beings. Some of its recent offerings were listed under titles such as "Shocking Murder Images," "Suicide by Grenade" and "People Who Drowned". The Internet is full of such fare. Another site boasts that it "collects images and information... to present the viewer with a truly unpleasant experience. " True enough, since among the site’’s recent photos was one of a man being hit by a car, and another of the grotesque remains of a person killed by a shotgun blast. Then there’’s a "celebrity morgue" site that posts photos of famous people dead at crime scenes and on autopsy tables. There’’s even a website that reviews violence-filled sites, praising one for " videos of people jumping from buildings, dying by fire and explosion and guns, and otherwise suffering," and another for showing "disease, executions, murder, deformity, vivisection, accidents, genocide." You can sense the reviewer’’s glee when he writes, "OK, gross-out fans, strap on your seat belts!" It’’s not news to anyone that the Internet is awash (泛滥的) with pornography. But videos like the Nick Berg murder are a reminder that there’’s something even more disturbing now spreading across the Web. Call it "violence porn" —the latest degradation of our popular culture, in which gruesome (毛骨悚然的) injuries and deaths are glorified and presented in wincing (抽搐的) detail. Such imagery leads to " an increasing desensitization (迟钝) to violence which carries over into the real world," says Dave Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family. More bluntly, it’’s like an invitation to mass psychosis. And make no mistake, viewing true-life violence is catching on. According to the operator of one of these sites, his traffic has multiplied over the last several years from a few thousand visitors a day to more than 150,000. With a simple click of the mouse, anyone can take a gander (一瞥) at someone else’’s nightmare. The site that posted the shotgun victim says that 250,000 individuals peruse their web pages each day. When one schoolteacher wrote the site to complain that students had bookmarked it on their computers, the posted reply said, "The Net is not a baby-sitter!" and blamed the problem on children "roaming the Net unsupervised. " Meanwhile, a recent University of Michigan study revealed that steady exposure as a child to violent screen images can make young adults more likely to turn to violence themselves. "I have no doubt that our culture today has a coarsening effect," says Joanne Cantor, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. " The more you live in a world where violence and hostility are the norm, the more you adopt a hostile mental framework. " Some even suggest that the pictures of American soldiers posed smiling alongside abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison are a reflection of the increased callousness in our society. One columnist wrote in New Hampshire’’s Union Leader newspaper; "We’’d be missing a few dots if we didn’’t admit that the culture that birthed our young soldiers has dumbed down the definition of human dignity." But the violence porn peddlers don’’t care. Many are turning a big profit, thanks to ads on their websites, as well as videos, T-shirts and other merchandise. They also dress up their voyeurism (偷窥癖) in free-speech clothing. "Privacy rights have to take a second place to First Amendment free-speech rights," says Lawrence Walters, a lawyer who has represented several violence and porn websites. "The deceased, quite frankly, don’’t have a continued privacy right." Good to know. But whatever happened to respecting the dead And what about relatives of people who turn up in gruesome pictures on the Internet One website heard from a family claiming a photo showed the mangled body of their nephew, who had killed himself by getting in the path of a train. The site posted this cruel response: "We ask that, in the future, this family conduct their suicides in a less public manner." Some Internet filters can help shield children from sites like this, but face it; It’’s ea
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The Institution of Marriage The Indians, as all other communities of human beings in every age, in every clime (地域), and in every possible condition in respect to civilization or barbarism, have done, lived in families. That is to say, the husband, the wife, and the children formed a natural group and dwelt together in common. The children were under the care of themselves and the husband and wife, once joined, remained united for life. Some persons have imagined that the institution of marriage is an artificial institution, adopted by society as an arrangement proved by experiment to be, on the whole, most advantageous to man. But the universality of this institution proves that it is of higher origin. It is a part of man’’s nature, considered as an animal, that he should have one female partner, and that the union which binds him to his partner, when once she is chosen, should endure for life. It is curious to observe that the provision of nature by which man is led everywhere, and under all circumstances, to the institution of marriage as the foundation of the social state, is in accordance with a general principle which pervades the whole animal creation. The principle is this:General Law of Pairing In all cases where the nurture of the young of any animal, for any reason, requires more than the mother herself alone can do for them, it seems to be a general law of nature in respect to such animals that they are provided with instincts which lead them to pair. A male and female unite, and they remain united until the young no longer need their joint assistance. Thus birds pair, because it is necessary that both should co-operate to build the nest, and also that the father should bring food while the mother sits upon the eggs to hatch them. And lions pair, for one must remain and take care of the young, while the other goes away on distant excursions to procure food. But sheep and other such animals do not pair, for their young do not require the joint attention of father and mother. In respect to the duration of the union thus formed, the principle is that it continues as long as the necessity for it continues; that is, as long as the brood of young ones require the united efforts of both father and mother to protect them. Then — at least so it is supposed in the case of birds — when the season is over and the young ones are grown up to maturity, the union is terminated, the pair separate, and each, at the commencement (开始) of a new season, chooses a mate again.Application to the Case of Man Now, in the case of man, the young require the aid of both parents for their nurture and protection; and inasmuch as each requires this attention for ten or twelve years at least, and as during the time while the first-born is attaining this age others succeed, the period during which the conjoined effort of the parents are required is protracted (拖延), without intermission, during the whole of their lives — that is, through all the portion of it during which their natural vigor continues unimpaired. It follows from this, and from the fact that the numbers of the sexes are equal, that according to the analogy of nature we should have expected that the human species would be provided with instincts leading them to unite in pairs, and to continue so united for life. We find, accordingly, that this is the fact everywhere. The marriage laws of all human societies are consequently made to guard and protect the marriage institution — not to establish it. The institution itself is founded in instincts and principles of our nature existing antecedent to all law. Indeed, the family institution, instead of waiting to be established by law, is often even more important and more prominent in low states of civilization than in high. It is most powerful where laws are weakest. Instead of being created by law and thus following it in the order or time, it is itself rather the origin and source of law. So far as we have any opportunity to trace back the forms of social organization to their source, we find them arising usually, in the first instance, from that primordial (原始的) and elementary bond, the union of husband with wife, which springs at once from the physical constitution and innate instincts of man, and is the germ from which all other systems of authority and subordination come. It was eminently so among the Indians. They lived in families throughout the length and breadth of the land — the families of the same connection being grouped together in tribes. They lived generally in peace, and were engaged in labors of patient industry for providing food and clothing for themselves and their children. The Indians were different from other communities of human beings in that they didn’’t live in families.
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