Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind is a famous quote from ______'s writings.

Questions are based on the following passage．

In the last 500 years, nothing about people--their clothes, ideas, or languages-has changed as much as what they eat．The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of cocoa tree by South American Indians．The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500&39;s． Although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable． In London,shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places． Some still exist today．

The potato is also from the New World．Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown．The potato was the main food at Irish table． Thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the"Potato Famine" (土豆饥荒) of 1845 ~ 1846, and thousands more were forced to move to America．

There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the old World． But some others went in the opposite direction． Brazil is now the world&39;s largest grower of coffee,

And coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries． But it is native to Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚)． It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400&39;s．

(77) According to an Arabic story, coffee was discovered when a man named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red fruits on a coffee bush． (78) He tried one and experienced the"wide-awake" feeling that one-third of the world&39;s population now starts the day with．

The passage is mainly about__________ 查看材料

A.earthquakes and their effects

B.the way of earthquakes taking place

C.the classification of earthquakes

D.the damaging results of earthquakes

请聆听下面对话,将适合的字词填入空格中: promised force connecting solve reimburse The Contract Says. . . *ISP - Internet Service Provider M: Oh no. . . not again! I’m having realtrouble 1 _________ to the Internet. W: Me, too. You know Tom, since we changedISPs last month, we’ve had one problem after another. It’s really frustrating! M: The new ISP 2 _________ high-speed connection and superior service, but we’vehad nothing but trouble. W: Let’s look over our contract with them.If I recall correctly, there is a three-month trial period. M: Here it is. The contract says that ifthe service is unsatisfactory and they receive a complaint, the ISP needs to 3 _________ the problem within 7 days. W: And, what happens if they don’t M: They are required to 4 _________ us for our losses. W: Well, that should 5 _________ them to dealwith our problems immediately. Let’s call them now.

A.No, he will recover soon.

B.It will last lon

C.There is nothing wrong with m

D.He has a serious headach

A.nothing

B.something

C.anything

A: I made a very close study of the draft contract last night.

B: Any questions？

A: Yes．There are a few points which I'd like to bring up．First, the packing．It's stipulated in the contract that all the machine parts should be packed in wooden cases．This can be done with the machine parts, but it's impossible to pack a truck base like that.

B: I see.

A: Second, about the terms of payment．Your draft contract says that payment is to be made by D/P．This is not our practice．We prefer to have the payment made by L/C through a negotiating bank in France.

B: And…

A: And the third point is about arbitration．It's stipulated that arbitration shall take place in China．In all our past contracts signed with you, it was stipulated that arbitration took place in a third country.

B: Yes, that's right.

A: But how is it that this time you wish to have it carried out in China？

B: Shall we take up the matter point by point？

A: That's a good idea.

B: Now, the first point is about packing．We agree to a different packing for the truck.

A: This can easily be done.

B: Second, about terms of payment by L/C.

A: Thank you.

B: As for arbitration, in our dealings with many countries, arbitration is to be carried out in China．The Arbitration Commission of CCPIT enjoys a high prestige among friendly companies．Personally I hope you'll accept this clause．Furthermore, the disputes that have arisen from our business transaction were all settled through friendly consultations．Very rarely was arbitration restored to.

A: I see．OK．The new arbitration clause is acceptable．Is there anything else？

B: As far as the contract stipulations are concerned, there is nothing more．Thank you very much.

A: When should we sign the contract？

B: We'I1 revise the contract this evening, and have it ready to be signed tomorrow morning at ten．How's that？

A: Perfect.

texture, cannot be separated except by pedantic analysis from the mind and sensibility of the artist who happens to be expressing himself through them".

But that is precisely the trouble; for as far as I can see, Mozart's can. Mozart makes me begin to see ghosts, or at the very least ouija-boards. If you read Beethoven's letters, you feel that you are at the heart of a tempest, a whirlwind, a furnace; and so you should, because you are. If you read Wagner's, you feel that you have been run over by a tank, and that, too, is an appropriate response.

But if you read Mozart's—and he was a hugely prolific letter-writer—you have no clue at all to the power that drove him and the music it squeezed out of him in such profusion that death alone could stop it; they reveal nothing—nothing that explains it. Of course it is absurd(though the mistake is frequently made)to seek external causes for particular works of music; but with Mozart it is also absurd, or at any rate useless, to seek for internal ones either. Mozart was an instrument. But who was playing it？

That is what I mean by the Mozart Problem and the anxiety it causes me. In all art, in anything, there is nothing like the perfection of Mozart, nothing to compare with the range of feeling he explores, nothing to equal the contrast between the simplicity of the materials and the complexity and effect of his use of them. The piano concertos themselves exhibit these truths at their most intense; he was a greater master of this form. than of the symphony itself, and to hear every one of them, in the astounding abundance of genius they provide, played as I have so recently heard them played, is to be brought face to face with a mystery which, if we could solve it, would solve the mystery of life itself.

We can see Mozart, from infant prodigy to unmarked grave. We know what he did, what he wrote, what he felt, whom he loved, where he went, what he died of. We pile up such knowledge as a child does bricks; and then we hear the little tripping rondo tune of the last concerto—and the bricks collapse; all our knowledge is useless to explain a single bar of it. It is almost enough to make me believe in — but I have run out of space, and don't have to say it. Put K. 595 on the gramophone and say it for me.

According to Paragraph 1, Cardus observed that ______ .

A．a composer can separate his language and harmonies from his own mind and sensibility

B．a composer can separate his language and harmonies from the mind and sensibility of an artist

C．some people can separate the language and harmonies of a composer from his mind and sensibility

D．the language, harmonies, rhythms, melodies, colors and texture of a composer cannot be separated from each other

A.locking

B.being locked

C.to lock

D.to have locked

A.for

B.as

C.during

D.in the course of