48.
What can we learn from the story?
A.
Otzi might be named after the valley where he was found.
B.
Otzi’s arrows and knife were made in China.
C.
Otzi must have once visited ancient China.
D. No
one dares to see Otzi’s dead body again.
C
Like
fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from
the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly
appear full-blown(成熟的). Quite the opposite ,just as
the cook as to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his
trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a
style in his writing, whatever its purpose is - schoolwork, matters of business,
or purely social communication. You may be sure that the more painstaking the
effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.
There
are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe(抄写员)to do your business or
social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky
enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of
all sorts of letters writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But
for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We
have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly
called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of
such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand,
but the daily figures must be extremely large. What is more, everyone who
writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writes will be read from first
word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into the
wastepaper basket. This is the reason we make efforts toward learning and
practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.
