When Jane fell of the bike, the other children（ ）.
A.were not able to help laughter B.could not help laughing C.could not help but laughing D.could not help but to laugh
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When Jane fell of the bike, the other children（ ）.
American no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing. The Degradation of language and Music and why we should like, care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another criticism against the decline in education. Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”，for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-ending of Old English.But the cult of the authentic and the personal, “doing our own thing”，has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page. Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, personal genre is the only form that could claim real liveliness. In both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft.Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable. But it is less clear, to take the question of his subtitle, why we should, like care. As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive-there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas. He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight because we do not talk proper.Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers. Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms-he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful. We now take our English “on paper plates instead of china”. A shame, perhaps, but probably an inevitable one.1.According to McWhorter, the decline of formal English （ ）.2.The word “talking”(Line 5, Para 3) denotes （ ）.3.To which of the following statements would McWhorter most likely agree?4.The description of Russians' love of memorizing poetry shows the author's（ ）.5. According to the last paragraph, “paper plates” to “china” is as （ ）.
The plots of William Gaddis’s novels allow（ ）opportunity for philosophical, theological, and social digression.
The first of the large modem dance companies in the United States was the Denishawn Company, which was founded by St. Denis and Edwin Meyers Shawn, both of whom were pioneers of modem dance. Ironically, although companies were performing modem dance in the United States in 1915, companies dedicated to the older, more respected form of ballet were not established until the 1930's.Modem dance, as it was practiced by Denishawn Company and its pupils who modified it considerably, differed from ballet in the basic techniques of movement. The balletic movement is conceived with the largeness of an opera house audience in mind. It is movement that strives for and attains lightness by stressing the dancer's ability to rise from the floor in defiance of gravity. It is movement that has been modified through three hundred years of work by teachers and dancers contributing to its development. The attitude of the ballet dancer's body is one of technical formality, which owes much to the aristocratic court dance of Western Europe from which it evolved. Ballet dancing is the most dramatic and technically accomplished offshoot of court dancing that is extent.Modem dance does not look to Europe ballet models for the primary sources of its movement techniques. Modern dance looks within the individual, whose expressive needs then determine the types of gesture that will emerge when the dancer starts to perform. Whereas ballet is a formal, classical style of dance, modern dance is expressionistic; and whereas ballet movement begins and ends in one of the five positions of the feet which have become the basis of ballet dancing, modem dance does not recognize the conventions of only five positions. It asserts that there are as many positions as are needed by the dancer to create artistic effects. In this sense modem dance is revolutionary by definition. Modem dance is more receptive to the possibilities of unorthodox movemen
People feel uncomfortable when the humidity rises over 60 percent because perspiration cannot evaporate quickly enough for the body to rid （ ）of excess heat.
Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. They are officially classified as harmful and fanners try to keep their numbers down by shooting or poisoning them.Farmers can also call on the services of their local hunt to control the fox population. Hunting consists of pursuing a fox across the countryside, with a group of specially trained dogs, followed by men and women riding horses. When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.People who take part in hunting think of as a sport; they wear a special uniform of red coats and white trousers, and follow strict codes of behavior. But owning a horse and hunting regularly is expensive, so most hunters are wealthy.It is estimated that up to 100,000 people watch or take part in fox hunting. But over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal, has risen sharply. Nowadays it is rare for a hunt to pass off without some kind of confrontation between hunters and hunt saboteurs. Sometimes these incidents lead to violence, but mostly saboteurs interfere with the hunt by misleading riders and disturbing the trail of the fox’s smell, which the dogs follow.Noisy confrontations between hunters and saboteurs have become so common that they are almost as much a part of hunting as the pursuit of foxes itself. But this year supporters of fox hunting face a much bigger threat to their sport. A Labour Party Member of the Parliament, Mike Foster, is trying to get Parliament to approve a new law which will make the hunting of wild animals with dogs illegal. If the law is passed, wild animals like foxes will be protected under the ban in Britain.1.Rich people in Britain have been hunting foxes（ ）.2.What is special about fox hunting in Britain?3.Fox hunting opponents often interfere in the game （ ）.4.A new law may be passed by the British Parliament to （ ）.5.It can be inferred from the passage that （ ）.
