( ) is not a novel of Fitzgerald. A: Tender is the Night B: Anna Christie C: The Beautiful and the Dammed D: The Great Gatsby

This trip interests people who have always wanted to play a role in an Agatha Christie play or a Sherlock Holmes ____(侦探的) novel.

_________is famous for his detective stories whose hero is Sherlock Holmes. A: Conan Doyle B: Agatha Christie C: Dorothy Sayers D: G. Chesterton

The one who first suggested the correct cause of the baby's illness was ______. A: a doctor in Deleville B: a famous doctor C: Agatha Christie D: an ordinary nurse

Why aren't you curious about what happened?A) “You suspended Ray Rice after our video,” a reporter from TMZchallenged National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day. “Why didn’t you have the curiosity to go to the casino(赌场)yourself?”The implication of the question is that a more curious.commissioner would have found a way to get the tape.B) The accusation of incuriosity is one that we hear often,carrying the suggestion that there is something wrong with not wanting to search out the truth. “Ihave been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,” said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who chose not to ask hard questions about the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal. “Isn’tthe mainstream media the least bit curious about what happened?” wrote conservative writer Jennifer Rubin earlier this year,referringto the attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.C) The implication, in each case,is that curiosity is a good thing, and a lack of curiosity is a problem.Are such accusations simply efforts to score political points for one's party? Or is there something of particular value about curiosity in and of itself?D) The journalist Ian Leslie,in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and WhyYour Fatter Depends on It, insists that the answer to that last question is‘Yes.’Leslie argues that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, andthat we are losing it.E)We are suffering,he writes,from a “serendipity deficit.” The word“serendipity”was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter,from a tale of three princes who“were always makingdiscoveries,by accident, of things they were not in search of,” Leslieworries that the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has reduced our appetite for aimless adventures.No longer have we the inclination to let ourselves wander through fields of knowledges, ready to be surprised. Instead, we seek only the information we want.F) Why is this a problem? Because without curiosity we will lose the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. We will see unimaginative governments and dying corporations make disastrous decisions.We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.G) Leslie presents considerable evidence for the proposition that the society as a whole is growing less curious. In the U.S.and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader’s borders. But not everything is to be blamed on technology.The decline in interest in literary fiction is also one of the causes identified by Leslie.Reading literary fiction,he says, make us more curious.H)Moreover,in order to be curious, “you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.” Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don’t know,he’s surely right to point out that the problem is growing: “Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers.”I）Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping body(替罪羊). He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the“perfect search engine” will“understand exactly what Imean and give me back exactly what Iwant.”Elsewhere in the book, Leslie writes:“Google aims to save you from the thirst of curiosity altogether.”J) Somewhat nostalgically(怀旧地),he quotes John Maynard Keynes’s justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: “One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye.To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoons entertainment.” If only!K) Citing the work of psychologists and cognitive( 认知的)scientists, Leslie criticizes the received wisdom that academic success is the result of a combination of intellectual talent and hard work. Curiosity, he argues, is the third key factor--and a difficult one to preserve.If not cultivated, it will not survive: “Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between childand adult.The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone.”L) School education, he warns, is often conducted in a way that makes children incurious.Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages,than children of working class and lower class families.That lack of curiosity produces arelative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.M）Although Leslie’s book isn’t about politics, he doesn’t entirelyshy away from the problem. Political leaders,like leader of other organizations, should be curious. Theyshould ask questions at crucial moments. There serious consequences, he warns, in not wanting to know.N) He presents as an example the failure of the George W.Bush administration to prepare properly for the after-effects of the invasion of Iraq. According to Leslie, those who ridiculed former.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his 2002 remark that we have to be wary of the “unknown unknowns”were mistaken. Rumsfeld’s idea,Leslie writes, “wasn’t absurd- it was smart.” He adds, “The tragedy is that he didn’t follow his own advice.”O) All of which brings us back to Goodell and the Christie case and Benghazi. Each critic in those examples is charging, in a differentway, that someone in authority is intentionally being incurious. Ileave it to the reader's political preference to decide which, if any,charges should stick. But let’s be careful about demanding curiosity about the other side’s weaknesses and remaining determinedly incurious about our own. We should be delighted to pursue knowledge for its own sake--even when what we find out is something we didn’t particularly want toknow.1. To be curious, we need to realize first of all that there are many things we don’t know.2. According to Leslie, curiosity is essential to one’s success.3. We should feel happy when we pursue knowledge for knowledge’s sake.4. Political leaders’ lack of curiosity will result in bad consequences.5. There are often accusations about politicians' and the media’s lack of curiosity to find out the truth.6.The less curious a child is, the less knowledge the child may turn out to have.7. It is widely accepted that academic accomplishment lies in both intelligence and diligence.8. Visiting a bookshop as curiosity leads us can be a good way to entertain ourselves.9. Both the rise of the Internet and reduced appetite for literary fiction contribute to people’s declining curiosity.10. Mankind wouldn’t be so innovative without curiosity.

Read the following passages and complete the exercises below: A Van Gogh’s Trip from the Attic to the Museum Amsterdam—For roughly a century, the painting Sunset at Montmajour was considered a fake. It was stored in an attic and then held in a private collection, unknown to the public and dismissed by art historians. But on Monday, the Van Gogh Museum declared the work a genuine product of the master, calling it a major discovery. Sunset at Montmajour, painted in Arles in 1888, “is a work from the most important period of his life, when he created his substantial masterpieces, like sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom”, said the museum’s director, Axel Ruger, in an interview. The painting depicts dusk in the hilly, forested landscape of Montmajour, in Provence, with wheat fields and the ruins of a Benedictine abbey in the distance. The area around Montmajour was a subject that van Gogh revisited often during his time in Arles. “Once or two early van Goghs do sometimes come out of the woodwork now and again, but from the mature period, it’s very rare.” Said James Roundell, and art dealer and the director of modern pictures for the Dickinson galleries in London and New York, which deals in Impressionist and modern art. Mr. Roundell said it would be hard to predict precisely how much Sunset at Montmajour would fetch on the market, but expected it would be “ in the tends of millions and quite a few of them”. He added. “It’s not the iconic status of something like the Sunflower , or the Portrait of Dr. Gachet. ”which sold at an auction for $ 82.5 million in 1990. Fred Leeman, a former chief curator of the museum and now an independent art historian and van Gogh scholar based here. Said the work, which he called “100 percent genuine”, contributes to an alternative understanding of the artist.” We have the impression of van Gogh as a very modern painter, but he’s working in the tradition of 19 th -century landscape painting.” He said. The painting has been in the collection of family for several years, and Mr. Ruger said that because of privacy concerns, he couldn’t release any more information about the owners. Until 1901, the painting was in the collection once owned by van Gogh’s brother. Theo, said Marije Vellekoop, the head of collections, research and presentation for the museum. His widow, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, sold it to a Paris art dealer. In 1908, the art dealer sold it to a Norwegian collector, Ms. Vellekoop said. Shortly after that, she added, “it was declared a fake, or not an original”, and the Norwegian collector banished it to his attic, where it stayed until he died in 1970. The current owners purchased it thereafter. They took it to the Van Gogh Museum in 1991, Mr. Ruger said, but at the time, experts there said they did not think it was authentic. Two years ago, the owners took it back to the museum, and researchers from the museum have been examining it ever since, Mr. Ruger said. Louis van Tilborgh, the museum’s senior researcher, said that since 1991, the museum has developed several new techniques for identifying and authenticating works of art. He said that all those methods were put to use when researchers had the chance to look at this painting again. According to Mr. van Tiborgh, it was painted on the same type of canvas with the same type of underpainting van Gogh used for at least one other painting of the same area, The Rocks. The work was also listed as part of Theo van Gogh’s collection in 1890. It has “180” painted on the back, which corresponds to the number in the collection inventory. “That was the clincher,” he said. Mr. Ruger added: “This time, we have topographical information, plus a number of other factors that have helped us to establish authenticity. Research is so much more advanced now, so we could come to a very different conclusion.” The last major van Gogh brought to light, the museum said, was the 1888 painting Tarascon Stagecoach, in the 1930s. The date of Sunset at Montmajour has been identified as July 4, 1888. In a letter van Gogh wrote to his brother the next day, he seemed to have described the scene: Yesterday, at sunset, I was on a stony heath, where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill and wheat fields in the valley. It was romantic, it couldn’t be more so, a la Monticelli, the sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold. And all the lines were beautiful; the whole scene had charming nobility.” (He was referring to the works of Adolphe Monticelli, one of the first painters van Gogh admired when he moved to Pairs in 1886, and who played a role in van Gogh’s to move to Provence.) Sunset at Montmajou is comparable in size to Sunflowers, which was painted the same year and sold for $ 39.9 million in 1987 at an auction at Christie’s in London. Van Gogh moved to Arles in February 1888 and spent time exploring the landscapes in Provence, and doing work “en plein air”, or in nature. He was particularly fascinated by the flat landscape around the hill of Montmajour, with its rocky outcropping and hay-colored fields. In a letter dated July 1888, he said that he had been to Montmajour, at least 30 times “to see the view over the plain”. Mr. Leeman, the historian, said that “in hindsight, many pointers in his letters and entries in catalogs of the 1900s have been linked to other paintings or misidentified.” Adding, “Here, we see a painting that fits those descriptions exactly.” The painting will be on view at the museum for one year, starting on Sept. 24, as part of the current exhibition, “ Van Gogh at work”, which focuses on other new discoveries about the painter’s artistic development. Mr Ruger said the current owners have not indicated what they intend to do with it after that. Fill in each blank with one word from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Sunset at Montmajou, a 1) _____________ of trees and sky in the south of France in van Gogh’s familiar thick brush strokes, was painted in 1888 but had been lying in the 2) ______________of a 3)___________collector who brought the painting in 1908 because it was 4)_______________as a 5)___________. The painting was unveiled at the Van Gogh Museum in 6) ____________ on Monday, with Axel Ruger, the 7) __________, describing it as a “Once in a life time experience”. The painting was 8) ____________based on comparisons with van Gogh’s 9) ____________ and a letter he wrote in which he described the painting. It could be 10) ____________to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother. Then, and said he painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888. A) dismissed F) landscape K ） director B) dated G) genuine L ） banished C) authenticated H) techniques M) curator D) fake I) portrait N) Amsterdam E) Norwegian J) attic O) Paris