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_______ to train his daughter in English, he put an ad like this in the paper, “_______, an English teacher for a ten-year-old girl.”

   A. Determined; wanted                  B. Determined; wanting

   C. Determine; wanted                    D. Determining; wanting

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi “Father of the nation”-Mahatma Gandhi Born October 2,1869 Porbandar, Gujarat, India Died January 30,1948 New Delhi, India Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(October 2,1869-January 30,1948),(Devanagari), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the Charismatic(有魅力的;有吸引力的)leader who brought the cause of India’s independence from British colonial(殖民)rule to world attention.His philosophy(哲学)of non-violence, for which he has influenced(影响)both nationalist and international movements for peaceful change.

  By means of non-violent civil struggle(非暴力反抗), an idea he developed from the teachings of Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi helped bring about India’s independence from British rule.

  Early life Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India.They were descendants(后代)of traders(the word “Gandhi”means grocer).

  Gandhi was an ordinary student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot, and almost passed the exam for the University of Bombay in 1887, joining Samaldas College.

  At the age of 19, Gandhi went to University College, of the University of London, to train as a barrister.His time in London, was influenced by a vow(发誓)he had made to his mother on leaving India to observe the Hindu giving up meat and alcohol.Although Gandhi experimented with becoming “English”, taking dancing lessons for example, he couldn’t stomach his landlady’s mutton and cabbage.She pointed him towards one of London’s vegetarian restaurants.Rather than simply going along with his mother’s wishes, he read about, and became vegetarianism(素食主义).He joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its Executive Committee(执行委员会), and founded a local chapter(草案).He later treasured(珍惜)this with giving him valuable experience in organising and running institutions(协会).Some of the vegetarians he met were members of the Theosophical Society, which had been founded in 1875 by H.P.Blavatsky to further brotherhood.Although he hadn’t shown a particular interest in religion(宗教)before then, he began to read works of, and about, Hinduismand other religions.

[问题导入]How do you think of “father of the nation”?

A father’s view:“Father of the nation”must be given a person who has done lots of unusal things.

A leader’s view:The name is not for an ordinary person.

A journalist’s view:Sun Zhongshan is Chinese people’s “Father of the nation”.I admired him.

A teacher’s view:Sun Zhongshan can’t be considered as Gandhi who was an Indian person.

A worker’s view:I think their hard struggle and suffering is not worth the name “Father of the nation”.

My view:________

The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure story since the nineteenth centu??ry. While the American West was being settled, newspapers and "dime novels" could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell. The public back East was eager to read about the West, even if the stories were more fiction than fact.

In 1902, Owen Wister published his novel The Virginian, which was one of the first novels to treat the Western as a serious literary form; the novel still sold well and had inspired several movies and a television series. In 1905, Bertha H. Bower and Zane Grey published their first novels, and the popular Western novels had continued to flourish from that day on, with current novels by Luke Short, Max Brand, and Louis L’ Amour carrying on the tradition.

The first Western movie appeared even earlier than these serious Western novels. Before the turn of the century, an associate of Edison’s had filmed Cripple Creek Barroom Scene, a few seconds of film showing the inside of a saloon, to help publicize the invention of the movie camera. In 1903 the Edison’ company filmed the first "full-length" Western — The Great Train Robbery. The film lasts less than fifteen minutes, but a story is told its entirety. In the movie, bandits (强盗) rob a train and its passengers, killing the engineer, and find themselves tracked down by a posse. Audiences loved the movie. Some theaters were actually opened for the single purpose of showing The Great Train Rob??bery and only later realized that they could do equally well showing other movies. The film was so suc??cessful that other companies, and finally even the Edison company itself, began producing copies and other versions of The Great Train Robbery. Ironically, in" an era when the West was still very real —-Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were all territories rather than states in 1903 — The Great Train Robbery was filmed in New Jersey.  

9. The purpose of this passage is to________.

A. discuss the making of the movie The Great Train Robbery

B. discuss the early Western novels

C. discuss the art of movie making

D. trace the development of the Western as an American adventure story tradition

10. We can conclude from this passage that________.

A. people lost interest in the West after 1903

B. Owen Wister was an ex-cowboy

C. New Jersey was still "untamed wilderness" in 1903

D. films were fairly uncommon at the time The Great Train Robbery was made

11. The passage suggests that________.

A. Edison’s invention of the movie camera happened;by accident

B. movie houses didn’t make much-money in the early days

C. Easterners were fascinated by the " wild West"

D. The Great Train Robbery was poorly received by the public because it lacked a plot

12. As used in this passage, the word “literary” means________.

A. humorous                B. financial             C. appropriate to literature      D. amateur 

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