There is severe classic tragedy within major-league baseball, tragedy which catches and ma
Major-league baseball is an insecure society; it pays a lavish salary to an athlete and then, when he reaches thirty-five or so, it abruptly stops paying him anything. But the tragedy goes considerably deeper than that. Briefly, it is the tragedy of fulfillment.
Each major leaguer, like his childhood friends, always wanted desperately to become a major leaguer. Whenever there was trouble at home, in school, or with a girl, there was the sure escape of baseball; not the stumbling, ungainly escape of an ordinary ballplayer, but a sudden, wondrous metamorphosis into the role of a hero. For each major leaguer was first a star in his neighborhood or in his town, and each rived with the unending solace that there was one thing he could always do with grace and skill and poise. Somehow, he once believed with the most profound faith he possessed, that if he ever did make the major leagues, everything would then become ideal.
A major-league baseball team is comprised of twenty-five youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that, in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal. In retrospect, they were better off during the years when their adolescent dream was happily simple and vague. Among the twenty-five youngish men of a ball club, who individually held the common dream which came to be fulfilled, cynicism and disillusion are common as grass. So Willie Mays angrily announces that he will henceforth charge six hundred dollars to be interviewed, and Duke Snider shifts his dream-site from a ball park to an avocado farm overlooking the Pacific, and Peewee Reese tries to fight off a momentary depression by saying, "Sure I dreamt about baseball when I was a kid, but not the night games. No, sir. I did not dream about the fights. "
For most men, the business of shifting and reworking dreams comes late in life, when there are older children upon whose unwilling shoulders the tired dreams may be deposited. It is a harsh, jarring thing to have to shift dreams at thirty, and if there is ever to be a major novel written about baseball, it will have to come to grips with this theme.
The first paragraph indicates that______.
A．winning and losing ball games are both heartbreaking experiences
B．no baseball player can escape the tragedy inherent in major-league baseball
C．tragedy catapults baseball players into creatures of imposing stature
D．Hardy, the novelist, wrote ennobling stories about athletes
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A．Dark blue brings tragedy.
B．Dark blue means tradition.
C．Dark blue represents night.
D．Dark blue indicates quietness.
第2題
A．Dark blue brings tragedy.
B．Dark blue means tradition.
C．Dark blue represents night.
D．Dark blue indicates quietness.
第3題
A．No Text Message. No Tragedy.
B．Text Message, a New Killer.
C．Have You Text Messaged?
D．Do You Like Text Messaging?
第4題
A.Brand X
B.Brand Y
C.Brands X and Y
D.Brands Y and Z
第5題
A．Dark blue brings tragedy.
B．Dark blue means tradition.
C．Dark blue represents night.
D．Dark blue indicates quietness.
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The Elizabethan Age was an excellent time for playwrights. Theater was one of the least expensive forms of entertainment, and all types of people went to see plays. This mixed audience was interested in a wide variety of subjects. Plays were performed in any suitable location: innards, the halls of great manor houses, university towns, as well as in public and private theaters. The most popular form. was poetic tragedy.
Marlowe The poetic drama in England was first successfully launched by a group of brilliant and well-educated young men collectively known as the University Wits. The group included Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, and Christopher Marlowe. They helped shape the course of Elizabethan drama and profoundly influenced Shakespeare.
A man of wide learning, Marlowe was the most distinguished of the University Wits, second in greatness only to Shakespeare. He brought to the English stage a new concept of tragedy, one in which the drama centers around the struggle of a man overwhelmed by his passions and ambitions. His most famous tragedies are Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, and The Jew of Malta.
In his plays, Marlowe used blank verse, which was one of the most important contributions to the art of English literature. In his mastery of blank verse, in his successful development of the tragedy and the history play, and in his ability to handle diverse themes, Marlowe sketched the way other English dramatists would follow. He had a strong influence on Shakespeare and other poets and dramatists.
Ben Jonson The Elizabethan period was also a great age for comic plays. A master of witty, satirical comedy was Ben Jonson, whose most famous works include Volpone, or The Fox and The Alchemist. These plays ridicule the follies of society, revealing both the viciousness of rascals and swindlers and the naivety of their victims.
Ben Jonson is considered, after Shakespeare, the most influential dramatist of the Elizabethan stage. He pioneered in a form. of comedy know later as the "comedy of humors". His dialogue is brilliantly witty, and his plots are complex and well constructed. His comedies helped shape the plays of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare William Shakespeare is generally considered to be the greatest poet and dramatist in English literature. Traditionally, Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon in mid-England. There is little actual record of his early life. He was in London in 1592, an actor and a playwright. He wrote not for publication, but for performance. His plays, then as now, appealed to a wide audience. Mastering comedy, chronicle play, tragedy and tragic-comedy successively, he created some of the masterpieces of world drama.
Shakespeare's plays are still performed not only in English-speaking countries, but also in foreign lands on stages that he had never dreamed of. Indeed, throughout the world, his plays are performed more frequently than those of any other playwright. Several factors combined to make him immortal.
In the first place, Shakespeare was a true humanist. He captured the spirit of his age and instilled it into his works. His great poetry is combined with a profound understanding of human nature. He revolutionized the drama by enlarging the audience's vision of human life. It is his insight into human character that captures attention.
Secondly, Shakespeare was a master story-teller. Most of his stories have universal appeal. He told his stories in such a way that they never fail to arrest the attention of the audience.
Thirdly, Shakespeare was an outstanding poet. His marvelous power of expression is a source of continuous astonishment to the audience. Because of the richness and originality of their poetic imagery, his plays are a joy to read. His
A．Marlowe.
B．Ben Jonson.
C．W. Shakespeare.
D．Goethe.
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I. The median of the five numbers cannot be 5.
II. At least one of x, y, and z is greater than 9.
III. The range of the five numbers is 2 or more
A．I only
B．II only
C．III only
D．I and III
E．II and III
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Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
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A．The artist's works are beyond understanding.
B．The artist's unexpected tragedy is a great pity.
C．The artist's paintings are actually worthless.
D．People should've recognized the artist's value earlier.
