The artist has made a ( ) of combining the first-rate photography and design with advanced technology in every piece of work he produces.
A.discipline B.principle C.proposal D.principal
The artist has made a ( ) of combining the first-rate photography and design with advanced technology in every piece of work he produces.
After a careful investigation and evaluation, the city hall decided to ( ) the old house.
In the face of unexpected difficulties, he demonstrated a talent for quick, _____ action.
Translate the following passage into Chinese.Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’s thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; one’s own past is a gradual increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that one’s emotions used to be more vivid than they are, and one’s mind keener. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true.The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually callous. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one’s interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic, but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of infancy, find this difficult.
A well-constructed building must be properly ( ) .
Whether the eyes are “the window of the soul” is (1 ) ; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. (2 ) the first two months of a baby’s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a (3 ) with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in (4 ) . This attraction to eyes (5 ) opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby (6 ) . In one study, when American four-year-old were asked to draw people, 75% of them drew people with mouths, but 99% of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are (7 ) their mother’s back, infants do not acquire as much (8 ) to eyes as they do in other cultures. (9 ) , Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals that the “proper place to (10 ) one’s gaze during a conversation in Japan is (11 ) the neck of one’s conversation partner”.The role of eye (12 ) in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined: speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for (13 ) one second, then glance (14 ) as they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener or (15 ) themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away (16 ) . Listeners, (17 ) , keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they (18 ) at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker re-establishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are (19 ) and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will end the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational (20 ) becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses: there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.