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Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose黑奴的历史对我没有什么损失
篇一:foot,slave
Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose
I remember the very day that I became black. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a black town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando, Florida. The native whites rode dusty horses, and the northern tourists traveled down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped chewing sugar cane when they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The bold would come outside to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village.
The front deck might seem a frightening place for the rest of the town, but it was a front row seat for me. My favorite place was on top of the gatepost. Not only did I enjoy the show, but I didn't mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in passing. I'd wave at them and when they returned my wave, I would say a few words of greeting. Usually the automobile or the horse paused at this, and after a strange exchange of greetings, I would probably "go a piece of the way" with them, as we say in farthest Florida, and follow them down the road a bit. If one of my family happened to come to the front of the house in time to see me, of course the conversation would be rudely broken off.
During this period, white people differed from black to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me "speak pieces" and sing and wanted to see me dance, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop. Only they didn't know it. The colored people gave no coins. They disapproved of any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the country — everybody's Zora.
But changes came to the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville as Zora. When I got off the riverboat at Jacksonville, she was no more. It seemed that I had suffered a huge change. I was not Zora of Eatonville any more; I was now a little black girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a permanent brown — like the best shoe polish, guaranteed not to rub nor run.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is something sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible war that made me an American instead of a slave said "On the line!" The period following the Civil War said "Get set!"; and the generation before me said "Go!" Like a foot race, I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the middle to look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world to be won and
nothing to be lost. It is thrilling to think, to know, that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the audience not knowing whether to laugh or to weep.
I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of that small village, Eatonville. For instance, I can sit in a restaurant with a white person. We enter chatting about any little things that we have in common and the white man would sit calmly in his seat, listening to me with interest.
At certain times I have no race, I am me. But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a pile of small things both valuable and worthless. Bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since decayed away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still with a little smell. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the pile it held — so much like the piles in the other bags, could they be emptied, that all might be combined and mixed in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?
黑奴的历史对我没有什么损失
我清楚地记得我成为黑人的那一天。 13岁之前我一直住在佛罗里达州的一个黑人小镇伊顿维尔。 小镇的居民全是黑人。 我所接触过的仅有的白人都是来自佛罗里达的奥兰多或是去往奥兰多的过客。 本地的白人骑着风尘仆仆的马匹，而北方来的旅游者则驾着汽车沿着乡下的沙土路一路驶来。 小镇的人见惯了南方人，因此他们经过时小镇的人照旧大嚼甘蔗。 但是看到北方人则又是另一回事了。 小镇的人胆小的就躲在窗帘后小心翼翼地偷看他们， 胆大的则会走出屋外看着他们经过，感到很开心，就像这些旅游者看到这村庄也感到很有乐趣一样。
上门前平台去可能会吓坏镇上其他人，但对我来说，那儿就像前排座位一样。 我最爱坐在门柱上。 我不仅喜欢在那儿看人们来来往往，也不在乎让那些人知道我喜欢看， 顺便还与他们搭几句话。我向他们挥手，如果他们也向我挥手，我还与他们打招呼。 对此，骑马或驾车的人通常会停下来，我们不可思议地互打招呼之后，我可能会随着他们"颠儿几步"，这是我们佛罗里达最南边的说法，意思是跟着他们走上一小段路。 如果正赶上家里人碰巧来到房前见到我，他们当然就会毫不客气地打断我们的交谈。
那段日子里，在我看来，白人和黑人的不同只不过是他们路过镇上，但从不住在镇上。 他们喜欢听我"说几句"，听我唱歌，想看我跳舞，并为此大方地给我小银币。这倒使我感到奇怪，因为我太愿意跟他们"说上几句"，为他们唱歌跳舞了，得给我钱才能使我停下来。 只是他们不知道这一点。 黑人不会给我钱，对我表现出的任何一点欢乐的苗头，他们都不赞同。 但我仍然是他们的佐拉，我是属于他们，属于周围的旅馆，属于那个地方，属于每一个人的佐拉。
但我13岁时，家里发生了变故，我被送到杰克逊维尔的学校去了。 离开伊顿维尔时我
还是我，佐拉。 可在杰克逊维尔下了船后，原来的佐拉不复存在了。 我似乎已发生了巨大的变化， 我再也不是伊顿维尔的佐拉了，我现在成了个小黑妞。 在好几方面我都发现了自己的这种变化。 不仅在镜中，也在内心深处，我变成了永远不黑不白的棕色人-- 就像那最好的鞋油，不会被抹掉，也永不褪色。
身边总有人不断提醒我自己是个奴隶的后代，但这并没有使我沮丧。 奴隶制是60年前的事了。 解放黑奴这场手术很成功，病人的情况也不错，谢谢。 这场使我从黑奴变为美国公民的可怕战争对我叫道"各就各位！" 内战后的那段时期说"预备！ "我的上一代人喊道"跑！" 就像一场赛跑一样，我飞速起跑，决不可中途停步，回望伤心。 黑奴的历史是我为文明生活所付的代价，而作出这一选择的并不是我。 世界上再没有什么人有过比此更大的争取荣耀的机会了。 想想将要获得的新生活，而且我们没有任何损失。 不管我做什么，都可能得到双倍的嘉奖，或是双份的责难。 想想这一点，知道这一点都令人激动不已。占据国内舞台的中心可真刺激，而台下的观众则不知是喜是忧。
我没有老是感到自己是有色人种。 甚至现在我感觉自己还是在伊顿维尔小镇上的懵然无知的佐拉。 比如, 我可以在餐馆和一位白人坐在一起。 我们闲谈一些平常的琐事, 白人会安静地坐着，兴味盎然地听着。
有时候我不属于任何人种，我就是我自己。 但我大体上还是感觉自己像一只靠墙立着装满各种杂物的棕色皮袋子。 靠墙立着的还有其他颜色的袋子，白色的，红色的，黄色的。 倒出袋中物，可以发现一堆或有用或无用的小杂物： 碎玻璃块；小线头儿；一扇早已朽败的门上的钥匙；一把锈蚀的刀；一双为某条从来没有、将来也不会有的路而准备的旧鞋；一颗弯折的钉，它所承受过的重量足以弄折任何钉子；一两支干花，仍散发出几许花香。 你手中拿的是棕色的袋子， 面前的地上则是袋中所装的那堆东西的--它与其他袋子中所倒出的一堆堆东西几乎一模一样，如果把它们混成一大堆，再重新装回各自的袋中，也不会有多大的不同。 多少有点有色玻璃片也没有什么关系。 也许当初上帝这个装袋者往我们各自的皮袋子中填塞时正是这么做的，谁知道呢？
兵种数据修改方法(简单上手)
篇二:foot,slave
兵种数据修改方法：
近日大家都想修改人数，本想替大家修改，可是一个人太尼玛累了，就分享一下修改方法，希望大家分工一下，一起出力。本方经本人测试基本成功，只是人数有时需要微调（以下会说明），在此方法我只讲述与数据有关的，其余太复杂容易出错，修改要打开mod下data文件夹里的export_descr_unit文件，就会出现兵种数据。当然，本方法只说最基本的，关于彻底修改兵种的比如破解、地形、冲锋距离、声音就不多说了。那么在此就先以几个兵种（汉魂内）为例：(红色字体为修改处注解)
1.近战部队，例：
;绿营步兵
type lvying
dictionary lvying
category infantry
class light
voice_type Light
banner faction main_infantry
banner holy crusade
soldier lvying, 100, 0, 0.25, 0.3189, 1.5712
（注：那个100就是指人数，公式为N/2*5,100就是说100除以2乘以5就等于250，但是本人修改时，想改成120人，应该改为60，但进入游戏发现人数为122，所以微调成59就ok，这个个问题在下不懂，还请高手指出）
officer daqingqishou
officer daqingqishou
officer daqingqishou
mount_effect horse -5
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, very_hardy, can_withdraw
move_speed_mod 1.05
formation 1.2, 0, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health 1, 1
(生命点数)
stat_pri 6, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, sword, -25, 0.1
（在此处，stat_pri后的两个数字就是指攻击力和冲锋，即攻击力6，冲锋3，后边的修改容易出错，在下就不多说了，需要调整的改数字就好，但不要把数字前的空格删了） stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 4, 8, 0, leather ;
（在此处stat_pri_armour是指防御，三个数字分别是盔甲、技能、盾牌防御，三个相加就是总防御值，4+8+0=12，后边的英文指的是防御类型，轻型、重甲之类的，也不要修改） stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 5
stat_ground 2, -2, 2, -2
stat_mental 15, normal, trained
（此处两个英文指的是士气高低、是否受训，normal普通, low低, disciplined 纪律好or imperuous鲁莽,未受训、受训trained训练度高highly_trained） ）
stat_charge_dist 10
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 300, 100, 100, 100, 555, 1, 100
(stat_cost 招募费用 数值从左到右依次是： 造兵回合； 购买价格； 维护费； 升级武器费； 升级盔甲费； 自定义战役费用； 多于几队开始罚钱； 罚钱的多少) armour_ug_levels 1, 2
armour_ug_models lvying, lvying, lvyin2
ownership byzantium, hre, milan, slave
era 0 byzantium, hre, milan, slave
era 1 byzantium, hre, milan, slave
recruit_priority_offset 20
2.弓箭类部队，例：
;绿营弓兵
type lvgong
dictionary lvgong
category infantry
class missile
voice_type Light
banner faction main_missile
banner holy crusade
soldier lvgong, 80, 0, 0.25, 0.3189, 1.5712
（注：那个100就是指人数，公式为N/2*5,100就是说100除以2乘以5就等于250，但是本人修改时，想改成120人，应该改为60，但进入游戏发现人数为122，所以微调成59就ok，这个个问题在下不懂，还请高手指出）
officer daqingqishou
officer daqingqishou
officer daqingqishou
mount_effect horse -2
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, foot_archers, start_skirmishing, free_upkeep_unit
move_speed_mod 0.95
formation 1.4, 1.4, 1.8, 1.8, 3, square
stat_health 1, 1
stat_pri 8, 1, composite_arrow, 140, 15, missile, missile_mechanical, piercing, none, -450, 0.35
（在弓箭类部队里，stat_pri 就是远程攻击力的数值了，所谓stat_pri 是指第一武器的攻击力，在这里8就是远程的攻击力，但切记！！！！！这个1就不代表冲锋了，不要修改，后面的数字和英文代表类型声音和弓箭数量和射程，这个一般不要修改，易出bug）
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 4, 1, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, knife, -25, 0.1
（stat_sec 代表副武器，4是近战攻击，这里的1才是指冲锋威力，冲锋必须拿近战武器冲嘛）
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 4, 3, 0, leather ;
（在此处stat_pri_armour是指防御，三个数字分别是盔甲、技能、盾牌防御，三个相加就是总防御值，4+8+0=12，后边的英文指的是防御类型，轻型、重甲之类的，也不要修改） stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 4
stat_ground 0, 1, 2, 0
stat_mental 10, normal, trained
（此处两个英文指的是士气高低、是否受训，normal普通, low低, disciplined 纪律好or imperuous鲁莽,未受训、受训trained训练度高highly_trained） ）
stat_charge_dist 10
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 300, 150, 100, 100, 555, 1, 100
(stat_cost 招募费用 数值从左到右依次是： 造兵回合； 购买价格； 维护费； 升级武器费； 升级盔甲费； 自定义战役费用； 多于几队开始罚钱； 罚钱的多少) armour_ug_levels 1, 2
armour_ug_models lvgong, lvgong, lvgon2
ownership byzantium, hre, milan, slave
era 0 byzantium, hre, milan, slave
era 1 byzantium, hre, milan, slave
recruit_priority_offset 20
我也只能帮大家到此了，一个人修改太尼玛累了，希望更多的玩家加入，为了低配完美运行，一起努力吧~希望大家多多支持中2mod游戏，不论是哪个工作组，希望都能为了广大玩家和游戏事业出一份力。----by 照山河
Paraphrase答案
篇三:foot,slave
Paraphrase
Unit 6
1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn?s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer?s endless summer of freedom and adventure. Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age/season for all readers.
2. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and
varied--a cosmos.
His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It
is a world of all types of characters.
3. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he
soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.foot,slave。
All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed
to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.
4. Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering
humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.
Steamboat decks were filled with people who explored and prepared the way for
others and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.
5. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver in Nevada?s Washoe region.
He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the gold rush.
6. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter
and humorist.
Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become
well known locally.
7. “It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths
stayed at home…”
Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless
people, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people.
8. “Well, that is California all over”foot,slave。
That’s typical of California.
9. “What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.”
10. The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.
Unit 7
1. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her.
She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants.
2. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.
Because I am fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather.
3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. Johnny Carson has a witty and glib tongue. But I outdo him and so he has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.
4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.
I’m ready to leave as quickly as possible because of discomfort, nervousness, timidity, etc., and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible for the same reason.
5. She would always look anyone in the eye.
She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.
6. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn?t necessarily need to know.
She imposed on us lots of falsity and so-called knowledge that was totally useless and irrelevant to us.
7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.
She was homely and poor. Besides she was not smart.
8. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie?s hand.
Meanwhile Dee’s boyfriend is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way.
9. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.
In fact I could have traced it back before the Civil War throughout the family branches.
10. He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car.
He just stood there with a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting something old and out-of-date.
11. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over ma head.
12. “I can ?member Grandma Dee without the quilts.”
I don’t need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee. She lives in my memory.
Unit 9
1. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished.
After heated debate and compromises, the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document. But the “three-fifths” clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution.
2. But it also comes from my own story.
My personal background and my success story, rising from rags to riches, also teaches me the importance of unity.
3. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts ---that out of many, we are truly one.
I am deeply ingrained, through my experience in the United States, with the idea that America is not a total of adding everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.
4. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all prediction to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.
In spite of all announcements that America was not ready for a black president, that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people demanded unity and change.
5. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.
People were encouraged to judge me from the perspective of a black candidate, raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories even in some of the more conservative states, with stronger racial bias.
6. We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.
The week before the Democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina, attacks on me, on blacks became more frequent, more intense.
7. On one end of the spectrum, we?re heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it?s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation the cheap.
At one end of the entire range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run because I wanted to show black and white should have equal opportunity and I wanted to play on the desires of na?ve liberals to achieve racial harmony without making great effort.
8. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community
It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community.
Unit 10
1. Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point.
In order to understand the complexities of race we need to know the history and development of racial
relations, the sufferings and injustices the blacks were subjected to.
2. As William Faulkner once wrote, “The past isn?t dead and buried. In fact, it isn?t even past.”
The influence of what happened in previous times has not disappeared. Such influence can still be seen.
3. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn?t make it---those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination.
Out of those who worked or struggled very hard to climb the social ladder, many did not succeed. They were defeated in life’s struggle, as a result of racial discrimination.
4. But it does find voice in the barbershop or the beauty shop or around the kitchen table. Views colored by race may come up at informal conversations at the barbershop (or barbershops) where men meet, or over dinner among family members.
5. And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit
and in the pews.
6. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; and in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.
As a result white Americans are very much worried about their future, feeling that their American dream is coming to an end, feeling hopeless and helpless. So they have a hostile attitude toward those whom they consider their competitors.
7. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators became famous through exposing so-called incidents of racism and labeled reasonable discussion of unfair treatment of minorities as catering to excessive sensibility to minority causes or as racism against the whites.
8. It?s a racial stalemate we?ve been stuck in for years.
The anger of the blacks and the resentment of the whites are not groundless. Both groups have legitimate concerns. Yet their anger is directed toward the wrong targets, thus hampering the solution of the issues which cause the anger, neither side has come to see the problem. So a racial deadlock exists.
9. For the African–American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.
The black community should face and handle bravely the legacy of racial injustice of the past while at the same time should not feel they are being wronged all the time.
10.In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past, and these things are real and must be addressed.
For the whites, they should see clearly that the wrong done to the blacks in the past is a fact and subtle discrimination still exists today and should be solved properly.
11. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she?s playing the
race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.
We can jump on some remarks made by some Hillary supporters against me and use this to show that Hillary also appeals to whites to defeat me in the Democratic campaign or predict that white people would support John McCain, not because of his policy but because of his skin color.foot,slave。
12. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say “Not this time.”
Or, now and here, the American people, black and white, Asian and Hispanic and Native American, can unite and reject the politics that produce division and conflict.
Unit 14
1. I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.
I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in very large numbers.
2. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.
Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he would win in Britain and the U.S. the support of those who were enemies of Communism.
3. Winant said the same would be true of the U.S.A.
Winant said the United States would follow the same policy.
4. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
I would say a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler, no matter how bad, how wicked or evil he had been in the past.
5. The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
The Nazi state does not have any ideal or guiding principle at all. All it has is a strong desire for conquest and rule by the Aryan race, the allegedly most superior race in the world.
6. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping ,delighted to find what they believed is an easier and a safer prey.
I see German bombers and fighters in the sky, which have suffered severe losses in the aerial Battle of England and now feel happy because they think they can easily beat the Russian air force without heavy loss.
7. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.
We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.
8. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.
Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.
初三英语自招班阅读理解练习3
篇四:foot,slave
暑期拓展阅读练习 三
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(A) 1.______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
(B) 6.______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______ 11. ______ (C) 12. ____________ 13 ______________ 14. ______________ 15. _______________ 16 _______________ 17_______________ 18. _______________
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You are walking along a lane and never know what you will find. It might be a shop selling oil paintings, or a place where you can buy Dutch cheese. One thing is for sure, you will end up by a canal.
Welcome to Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
The year 2014 will be a good time to explore Amsterdam as the city has a lot to celebrate: the famous canal ring will turn 400 years old. Amsterdam will also celebrate the 160th birthday of Dutch painter of the Van Gogh museum, home to the biggest collection of the artist?s colorful works.
The famous canal ring is a trademark of the city. With more than 100 kilometers of canals, it is no wonder that Amsterdam is called the ?Venice of the north?. But unlike the Italian town, where boats were originally used for transport, the canals in Amsterdam were mainly used for defense in the 17th century. Today ferries on canals offer a different way to explore the city.
But to truly experience Amsterdam, you can?t miss the city?s historic museums and monuments, among which Van Gogh museum is the most famous one. It holds 200 paintings, 700 letters and 500 drawings by the artist. Another famous museum is Anne Frank?s house. Anne Frank became famous around the world because of a diary she left explaining her and her family?s experience as a Jewish girl during World War II, hiding out in a house hoping that she would not be captured by German Nazis.
Amsterdam is small enough to walk or cycle almost anywhere, but it is rarely dull. Best of all it combines its glittering past with a rebellious edginess.
1. Why will the year 2014 be a good time for the tourists to explore Amsterdam?
A. Because it?s the capital of the Netherlands.
B. Because the city has a long history of 400 years.
C. Because the city will have a lot of celebrations in the year.
D. The famous Dutch painter Van Gohg will hold an exhibition of his art works. 2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Anne Frank?
A. She was well-known to the whole world because of a diary people wrote to remember her. B. A famous museum of hers was set up in Amsterdam .
C. She wrote the experience of her and her family during the World War II.
D. She was a Jewish , hiding out in a house hoping not to be captured by the