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But just what is it about these drinkers of human blood that continues to fascinate us? Speaking to Eric Lewis of the Times and Transcript website, academic Deborah Wells said that vampires are “culturally adaptive(适应的)”. “We create very different vampires to fit different times. Edward Cullen is not the same as Count Dracula,” she said. Different as they are, Wells believes vampires are “the perfect containers into which we can pour our current cultural anxieties”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is powerful, yet old and physically ugly. Stoker’s book dealt with fear of the fall of the British Empire, real fears in the day in which it was written. According to the website Bookrags, today’s vampires have all our cultural desires, money, power and sexual attraction. Represented by Cullen, they are noble, handsome young men whom women find irresistible(不可抵抗的). What’s more, vampires challenge traditional ideas about death, science and parental authority(权威). This may be why teenagers are drawn to vampire tales. “In many ways, the vampire story shows up teenage concerns,” said Wells. “The emotional intensity (强度) of the relationship with the vampire matches the intensity of how it feels to have your first real love affairs. Your first real love, it really feels like life and death.” 64.The best title for this passage should be_______. A.Vampires may continue to drink our blood B.Vampires have been around us for long C.Why Twilight is so popular nowadays D.We still like the story about vampires 65.What is the image of the vampire in Bram Stoker’s book? A.Anxious but perfect. B.Powerful, old and ugly. C.Terrifying but also attractive. D.Afraid of the fall of the British Empire. 66.According to the website Bookrages, today’s vampires_______. A.desire money, power and sexual attraction B.may not think highly of parental authority C.dare to give up traditional ideas D.are likely to be resisted by women D A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.” The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.” The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.” The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?” So the mouse returned to the house, headed down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat. So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk. 67. We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______. A. fairy tale(神话故事) B. fable (寓言) C. science fiction D. news report 68. We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______. A. kind and warm-hearted B. well-informed C. good at cheating others D. foolish and rude 69. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. The pig was comparatively less friendly than the others in the farmyard. B. The mouse trap that the mouse discovered was not a practical one. C. The farmer and his wife trapped an evil snake that night. D. The farmer’s family was in fact poor and they had no friends. 70. The underlined word “ingredient” (Paragraph 7) refers to ______. A. the mouse B. the pig C. the snake D. the chicken (责任编辑：admin) |