鲁东大学
- Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives? If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks. Both products have been known to kill people. The hazards of drinking too much alcohol are as bad as or worse than the hazards of smoking too many cigarettes. All right then, let’s pass a law closing the liquor stores and the bars in this country. Let’s put an end once and for all to the ruinous disease from which as many as 10 million Americans currently suffer—alcoholism.But wait. We’ve already tried that. For 18 years, between 1920 and 1933, there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down—abolished by an amendment to the Constitution (to 18th) and by a law of Congress (the Volstead Act). After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of “intoxicating liquors”. Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk? There would be no more dangers to the public welfare from drunkenness and alcoholism. It was all very logical. And yet prohibition of liquor, beer, and wine did not work. Why?Because, law or no law, millions of people still liked to drink alcohol. And they were willing to take risks to get it. They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law. And gangs of liquor smugglers made it easy to buy an illegal drink—or two or three. They smuggled millions of gallons of the outlawed beverages across the Canadian and Mexican borders. Drinkers were lucky to know of an illegal bar that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. Crime and drunkenness were both supposed to decline as a result of prohibition. Instead, people drank more alcohol than ever— often poisoned alcohol.On December 5, 1933, they repealed Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.
- Today, three years after the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 people aboard, they remain convinced that some evidence somewhere will prove to the world that the airliner was sent over their skies by the Reagan Administration. In May of 1984, shortly after beginning research on Flight 007, I was granted permission to visit the Soviet Union and conduct interviews about it. My visit to Moscow culminated in a long meeting with M.N.V. Ogarkov, the head of the Soviet General Staff, and Deputy Foreign Minister G.M.Kornienko, in an ornate conference room. I raised what seemed to be obvious questions. Why not simply tell the world, “we made a mistake and shot down the airliner in the belief that it was an American reconnaisance plan”? Why say that it had to be a spy plane when there obviously was no proof?Kornienko answered by telling me why I had been invited to Moscow; he and Ogarkov had agreed to my visa in the hope that they could persuade me, as a journalist, to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) role in the shootdown. Taken aback, but realizing that the two senior Soviet officials were serious, I asked Kornienko with a laugh whether he was trying to be my editor. His response came in English: “Your assignment is to find that it was an intruder.” The Deputy Foreign Minister added that the American public would never accept the shootdown as a rational act on the Soviet’s part unless it could be proved that the overflight of sensitive military installations was deliberate.I spent the next 2 years investigating the very questions posed by kornienko and Ogarkov, and found that Flight 007 was not on an intelligence-gathering mission for the CIA or any other agency of the U.S. or S. Korea. But just why the plane ended up hundreds of miles off course may never be fully understood. How had the sophisticated navigational equipment on the Boeing 747, widely considered one of the safest planes in the world, failed to alert the crew? What basis did President Reagan and his top advisers have for publicly insisting that the Soviet Union had identified the plane as a commercial airliner before shooting it down?I learned many new facts in my researches, and they made clear that the destructions of Flight 007 had its beginnings not in international intrigue but in the ordinary human feelings of the Korean Air Lines crew members who were responsible for the lives of hundreds of innocent airline passengers.
- Manhattan is the banking and the communications headquarters.
- "All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days." is the same as "None of this will be finished in the first one hundred days."
- When the youth was challenged to bring their mores up to date, it was tempted, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication and a pose of Bohemian immorality.
- Being unique, the biggest and the best, New York often asserted how special it was.
- WWI acted as a catalytic agent in the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
- The "lost generation" attitude acted as a common denominator of the writing of the times.
- New Yorkers love their city for its being a cosmopolitan city, a fabulous city and many other striking features.
- The Elizabethans spread thei language to all corners of the earth, and the King's English was no longer a term of racial discrimination.
- A good conversationalist punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing.
- Animals can communicate with each other in a complicated way so they can actually enjoy the same conversation as humans do.
- Prohibition gave them a pattern and a philosophic defense for their escapism.
- The author holds that people are not interested in teaching chimpanzees to talk is probably that they will ruin human’s conversation by talking improperly with men.
- “The alchemy of conversation” means a miraculous change in a conversation.
- The "Lost Generation" was shocked, uprooted for a time, bitter, critical, rebellious, iconoclastic, experimental, often absurd, more often misdirected- but never "lost."
- The charm of conversation is that there is no idea and real meaning in it.
- Bar friends are intimates, rather than companions.
- What seemed so wild, irresponsible, and immoral in social behavior in the US in the 1920s is but something considerably less sensational than the degeneration of the jazzmad youth in the 1970s.
- The author agrees that all a writer needs is a pen, plenty of paper and "the best dictionaries he can afford".
- Central Park, which Frederick Law Olmsted designed as lungs for the city’s poor, is in places grassless and filled with trash, no longer pristine yet lively with the noise and vivacity of people,…
- And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out.
- If an object is suspended from any point on the vertical line passing through its center of gravity, the object will be stationary.
- They are companions, not intimates.
- …--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change.
- In no sense a movement in itself, the "lost generation" attitude nevertheless acted as a common denominator of the writing of the times.
- In north central Nebraska, huge herds of bee cattle graze on the grass meadows of enormous ranches.
- "I'll never do that again," she promised contritely."Are you mad at me?"
- “Polly,” I croaked, “you mustn’t take all these things so literally.”
- The faddishness, the wild spending of money on transitory pleasures and momentary novelties , the hectic air of gaiety…
- An important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States,…\
- I do not shrink from this responsibility; I welcome it.
- Love is a fallacy.
- Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation was on wings.
- So rabbit is still rabbit on our tables, and not changed into some rendering of lapin.
- "Listen," he said, clutching my arm eagerly,…
- Wet clays can be easily shaped into a form that they retain.
- Will Rogers, an American humorist and social critic, became famous for his homespun humor and shrewd remarks about current events.
- "undo the heavy burdens . . . (and) let the oppressed go free."
- …with typical American adventurousness enhanced somewhat by the strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roosevelt…
- Suddenly, a glimmer of intelligence—the first I had seen—came into her eyes. “It’s not fair,” she said with indignation.
- "Bohemian" living became a fad.
- There is no worse conversationalist than the one who punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing,…
- The peasants were allowed to eat the rabbits that scampered over their fields and, since that meat was cheap, the Norman lords of course turned up their noses at it.
- Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute---I was all of these.
- Before social inequality can be alleviated its principal causes must be diagnosed.
- I hid my exasperation. "Polly, it's a fallacy….”
- We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home..
- Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary,…
- When the glaciers thawed after the last ice age, the five great Lakes of North America were formed.
- The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it.
- "It will be better if you stop tugging at my sleeve," I told her, and when she desisted, I continued…
- It was on such an occasion the other evening, as the conversation moved desultorily here and there, from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter…
- ...the experimentation in sensation -- sex, drugs, alcohol, perversions -- were all part of the pattern of escape.
- advertising (which obliquely encouraged it by 'selling everything from cigarettes to automobiles…
- The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks … is simply not a concern.
- If painters disdain Madison Avenue’s plush art galleries, Madison Avenue dealers set up shop in the grubby precincts of Soho.
- To their lasting glory, they fought with distinction, but it was a much altered group of soldiers who returned from the battlefields in 1919.
- Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request:…
- No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and sensationally romanticized than the so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation.
- ….to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak--and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
- The heads of two governments met to ratify the peace treaty.
- “…That Walter Pidgeon is so dreamy. I mean he fractures me."
- The lyrics of the song are embarrassingly banal.
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,…
答案:the Congress was wise to repeal Prohibition
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A:invulnerable B:spotless C:lucid D:perceptive
A:novelties B:manifestoes C:immorality D:orgies
A:immobile B:secure C:flexible D:hung
A:enemy B:close friends C: classmate D:Foe
A:implicit as B:invisible as C:emblematic as D:converted to
A:common feeling B:common feature C:common sense D:common name
A:feed on B:dominate C:sleep on D:damage
A:feel angry B:feel sad C:feel helpless D:feel regretful
A:shrugged B:jeered C:grunted D:inspired
A:busy B:alert C:affluent D:naughty
A:grotesquely B:overly large C:amazingly D:superficially
A:shield B:formulate C:withdraw D:break
A:false belief B:religious belief C:Fraud D:commitment
A:spirited and exciting B:rejoicing C:flying D:celebrating
A:translation B:insomnia C:gravitation D:misconception
A:hang loosely B:grasp tightly C:hold lightly D:touch softly
A:molded B:combined C:compressed D:placed
A:beliefs B:discussions C:comments D:stories
A:loosen and remove B:Invoke C:provoke D:awake
A:ruthless B:overbearing C:zealous D:pious
A:inadequacy B:manifestation C:fury D:insinuation
A:craze B:peddler C:liar D:vendor
A:break out B:break off C:break down D:break up
A:run quickly B:move smoothly C:jump angrily D:walk leisurely
A:pedantic B:limp C:flaccid D:clear-sighted
A:relieved B:controlled C:analyzed D:denounced
A:Indifference B:anger C:hunger D:sympathy
A:pitiful B:annoying C:possible D:passionate
A:contiguous side B:positive side C:disadvantageous point D:infectious elements
A:melted B:evaporated C:advanced D:explored
A:exertion B:omission C:medication D:inaction
A:ceased B:Integrated C:insisted D:castrated
A:widely B:unthoughtfully C:aimlessly D:interestingly
A:corruption B:animation C:confusion D:motivation
A:reluctantly B:pervasively C:aslant D:universally
A:under way B:brought to light C:out of phase D:in trouble
A:tawdriness B:neighborhood C:adjunct D:inhabitation
A:excellence B:determination C:difference D:confidence
A:breach B:promise C:renunciation D:prestige
A:peculiarly B:gigantically C:dramatically D:pleasantly
A:embody B:protection C:defeat D:Endanger
A:opposes B:criticizes C:produces D:approves
A:repeat B:disagree C:break D:combine
A:boring B:excellent C:extraordinary D:ordinary
A:acquaintance B:opponent C:Bailer D:guardian
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