An oral history is a piece of writing based on an interview with a person who has lived through a significant period in history or experienced a historical event. His or her memories provide a personal view of the past.
The first goal of all oral histories is to record stories about a specific subject. That subject may be a historical event like the D-Day invasion. It may be a period of history like the Depression, or a social or cultural trend, such as child labor. The first step in an oral history project, therefore, is to select a subject that interests you and is of historical significance.
Before attempting to identify people to interview for your project, you must first gather background information about the subject. The Library of Congress, which houses thousands of oral histories, provides these tips for researching your subject.
Before entering the library or logging onto the internet, decide on key words to use in your search. Use detailed search words. For example, search for rock and roll of the ’60s instead of the more general term music.
Look through newspaper and magazine articles and Internet Web sites to identify documents that are related to your subject. Make copies of those that will help you plan your interview questions and discard all others.
Discuss what you’ve read about your subject surprised you? What aspect of your subject would you like to know more about? Asking questions like these will help you to focus your subject and to identify the voice or voices you need to interview.
Oral histories are as much about self as they are about subject. One goal of an oral history interview is to find out what happened. A second and equally important goal is to discover how people reacted to or were affected by what happened. The person you select to interview, therefore, should have had some experience with the subject – either as a participant or a witness.
Once you have identified one or more people to interview, begin preparing your questions. The best questions are open-ended, encouraging the speaker to respond with more than a mere “Yes” or “No.” For example, an interviewer might have asked Clarence Hughart this question about his D-Day experience: Were you scared? That question, however, would probably not have elicited the sort of dramatic storytelling that Hughart provided.
Make a list of ten possible interview questions. The first two or three should be fairly general, asking the interviewee to talk about his or her childhood, perhaps. These kinds of questions put people at ease. Save more sensitive questions until the interview has been underway for five, 10, or 15 minutes or more.
After the interview come the final steps: writing a summary of the interview and then shaping it into a finished piece of writing.
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高三英语任务型阅读简单题
An oral history is a piece of writing based on an interview with a person who has lived through a significant period in history or experienced a historical event. His or her memories provide a personal view of the past.
The first goal of all oral histories is to record stories about a specific subject. That subject may be a historical event like the D-Day invasion. It may be a period of history like the Depression, or a social or cultural trend, such as child labor. The first step in an oral history project, therefore, is to select a subject that interests you and is of historical significance.
Before attempting to identify people to interview for your project, you must first gather background information about the subject. The Library of Congress, which houses thousands of oral histories, provides these tips for researching your subject.
Before entering the library or logging onto the internet, decide on key words to use in your search. Use detailed search words. For example, search for rock and roll of the ’60s instead of the more general term music.
Look through newspaper and magazine articles and Internet Web sites to identify documents that are related to your subject. Make copies of those that will help you plan your interview questions and discard all others.
Discuss what you’ve read about your subject surprised you? What aspect of your subject would you like to know more about? Asking questions like these will help you to focus your subject and to identify the voice or voices you need to interview.
Oral histories are as much about self as they are about subject. One goal of an oral history interview is to find out what happened. A second and equally important goal is to discover how people reacted to or were affected by what happened. The person you select to interview, therefore, should have had some experience with the subject – either as a participant or a witness.
Once you have identified one or more people to interview, begin preparing your questions. The best questions are open-ended, encouraging the speaker to respond with more than a mere “Yes” or “No.” For example, an interviewer might have asked Clarence Hughart this question about his D-Day experience: Were you scared? That question, however, would probably not have elicited the sort of dramatic storytelling that Hughart provided.
Make a list of ten possible interview questions. The first two or three should be fairly general, asking the interviewee to talk about his or her childhood, perhaps. These kinds of questions put people at ease. Save more sensitive questions until the interview has been underway for five, 10, or 15 minutes or more.
After the interview come the final steps: writing a summary of the interview and then shaping it into a finished piece of writing.
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高三英语任务型阅读简单题查看答案及解析
(2013·湖南高考)You cannot accept an opinion ______ to you unless it is based on facts.
A.offering B.to offer
C.having offered D.offered
高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words. The composition must be based on the information given below.
人工智能的发展在带来诸多可预见的益处的同时,也会产生相应的潜在威胁。很多人担忧未来如果计算机能够像人一样思考,那么人类是否还能控制计算机,或甚至人类是否会被替代?但已故物理学家霍金却说:“真正的危险不在于计算机将开始像人类一样思考,而是人类将开始像计算机一样思考”。
请结合霍金的评论写一篇短文,短文内容需包括;
1. 你对霍金评论的个人看法或理解
2. 人工智能对人类可能产生的危害及相应措施。
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高三英语开放性作文困难题查看答案及解析
The Boy Who Harnessed (利用) the Wind is an inspirational true-story film based on a memoir—an account of the author’s personal experiences—by the Malawian engineer William Kamkwamba. As a teenager, Kamkwamba built a wind turbine for his famine-stricken town in Malawi, helping to power small appliances and eventually irrigate crops. But though the film points toward that technological breakthrough, it spends much of its running time depicting (描绘) its hero’s community and avoids many of the damaging language that tend to accompany pop-cultural description of poverty or conflicts in African countries.
This approach is what makes the movie, much more attractive than other such docu-dramas. Chiwetel Ejiofor, an English actor, is making his feature appearance as a writer and director to draw attention to Kamkwamba’s story—but he’s just as focused on depicting the boy’s family life and the dangers of farming in early-2000s Malawi. Famine isn’t just a thing that happens to the Kamkwambas. It’s the result of a series of unpredictable catastrophes that trickle down to this small village and leave its people struggling to grow and sell food. By examining the many structural reasons for the town’s crisis, Ejiofor makes Kamkwamba’s achievement feel better-earned from a narrative (叙述的) perspective.
The Kamkwambas are not lacking in food, at first, though they do live harvest to harvest. Soon, a series of dramatic floods, combined with government unrest (动荡), begins to take a toll on (have a bad effect on) their life. Through it all, William shows his gift for invention, taking apart whatever machines he can get his hands on and figuring out how they work. In one crucial (and cleverly written) scene, some local teenagers beg William to fix their radio so that they can listen to a soccer game, and he does, making use of a battery from several drained power cells. As the radio jolts to life, it delivers a news report of planes hitting buildings in the U.S., which serves as the first real acknowledgment of the film’s exact time period. The uninterested teens immediately switch over to the game, but Ejiofor included that detail for a reason. Though Malawi is on the other side of the world from the U.S., and the Kamkwambas’ village is far from the country’s biggest city, the negative effects of 9/11 are felt even there—unsettling the government and setting off a chain reaction that quickly turns things terrible. Moments like these affirm Ejiofor’s particular skill for storytelling. To William and his young friends, the event barely registers, but it still has huge consequences for their lives.
The latter half of the film is tougher going than the light, community-oriented opening, but it’s anchored by strong performances. Trywell, William’s father, isn’t a bad dad, but as his family gets hungrier, his anger toward his government, which was supposed to help him thrive, rises to the surface. As William’s mother, Maïga is a calmer, steadier figure, but her pride is damaged, too. She speaks of never wanting to be the stereotypical (老套的) family “praying for rain,” as her ancestors did, and despairs as Trywell’s strategy to save the farm becomes almost exactly that.
At a certain point, I started mentally checking my watch—Isn’t it time for the boy to start harnessing the wind? But Ejiofor doesn’t want William’s massive achievement to look easy. Not only does William need to gather the practical materials needed for a windmill in a nearly abandoned town, but he also has to challenge his father’s skepticism and persuade him to give up the few possessions he still has, including a bicycle, to create something that appears impossible. It’s striking, and deeply sad, to consider that superficially (表面上) the only thing keeping William’s town from starvation was basically wind power. In Ejiofor’s hands, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind builds realism and context into both sides of that story and manages to be a winning adaptation as a result.
1.In the film The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a considerable part is about _______.
A. the miserable life in Malawi B. the irrigation of the crops
C. the building of the turbine D. the technology breakthrough
2.How does Ejiofor make Kamkwamba’s achievement more noticeable?
A. By shooting the film in the form of story-telling.
B. By analyzing the reasons for the village’s poverty.
C. By listing unpredictable catastrophes attacking the village.
D. By strengthening the difficulty in growing and selling the food.
3.What is the purpose of the scene about the radio in Paragraph 3?
A. To report the terror event in the US B. To reveal the setting of the film.
C. To stress the teens’ interest in games. D. To show the hero’s willingness of help.
4.The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 4 refers to _______.
A. Maïga’s pride B. Trywell’s anger
C. the family praying for rain D. the despair of saving the farm
5.The scene of William harnessing the wind appears quite late in the film so as to _______.
A. build realism and context into both sides of the story
B. underline the local people’s suffering from starvation
C. show his father’s skepticism and reluctance to help him
D. impress on viewers the difficulty of making the machine
6.What would be the best title for this passage?
A. A Wind Turbine Invented by a Malawian Engineer
B. An Inspirational True-story Adapted into a Film
C. The Kamkwamba Family and Their Life in Malawi
D. A True Winner—The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Questions are based on the following passage.
1.
A.A promotion of outdoor clothes. B.An introduction of West Virginia.
C.A weekend vacation to a famous resort. D.A free trip to an unknown destination.
2.A.Regretful. B.Frustrating. C.Worthwhile. D.Comfortable.
3.A.Mystery trips. B.Outdoor adventures. C.Social media. D.Travel destinations.
高三英语短文困难题查看答案及解析
Is pricing a plane ticket based on the passenger's weight fair? If you're taking an international flight on Samoa Air today, your fare will be based on your weight, along with that of your luggage. The cost is 93 cents to $1.06 for each kilogram.
The average American woman weighs 75.5 kilograms, far from the ideal weight for her average height. Her ticket on Samoa Air, at the $1 a kilogram rate, would cost $75.50. But let's be honest here. Since the average American woman is overweight, the ticket will cost her more.
Samoa Air Chief Executive Chris Langton said, “Planes are run by weight and not by seat. The plane can only carry a certain amount of weight and that weight needs to be paid.”He believes other airlines should adopt the policy.
It’ s not a new idea. I remember a newspaper columnist years ago who put forth the idea that the heavier among us should pay more for their seats on planes, trains and buses. Who hasn’ t been squeezed into a middle seat between two plus-sized folks on a flight? It’ s happened to me; one time my married seatmates had purposefully chosen their seats to have more space until a sold-out flight put me between them. Not one of my better flying experiences.
What if such a policy is adopted by some airlines in the United States? Could such pricing provide a much-needed motivation for Americans to reduce body weight? I hope so. But, as we know, more than one-third of us are obese and another third are overweight. The high probability is that the heavy customers will not suddenly lose weight or stop flying, but will instead choose a different airline, simply moving the supposed problem elsewhere.
There's no doubt that the heavier will suffer more discrimination (歧视). Discrimination against the overweight in the United States has increased by 66 percent over the last decade —“and is comparable to rates of racial discrimination, especially among women,”wrote Yale University researcher Rebecca M. Puhl. Your weight can affect your salary, your chances for employment, how others view you and even, now, your air fares.
“If the policy succeeds it may encourage the spread of body discrimination across different industries and the wider culture,” said one British editorial writer. He holds that it is companies' duty to provide equipment that meet the needs of their customers.
And we'll see how effective it is as a business model.
1. In Paragraph 3, Chris Langton _____.
A. explained the reasons for the ticket policy
B. showed the difficulties of the ticket policy
C. expressed his doubt about the ticket policy
D. discussed the advantages of the ticket policy
2.If some American airlines adopt the ticket policy_____.
A. they will possibly lose a lot of customers
B. there will be less overweight people
C. people will use other forms of transportation
D. the problem of overweight planes will be partly solved
3. The author mentions Puhl's study to show_____.
A. women are less likely to suffer discrimination
B. racial discrimination is getting worse nowadays
C. the ticket policy will have little influence on the obese
D. the ticket policy will make body discrimination more serious
4.Which best describes the British editorial writer's attitude to Samoa Air's policy?
A. Optimistic. B. Defensive.
C. Disapproving. D. Casual.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
If a woman has an extra piece of cake, don’t blame it on greed, blame it on her brain.
Scientists have found that women’s brains react to food very differently — and much more strongly — than men’s. Academics found that decades of dieting pressure on women and advertising have programmed certain parts of the female brain to react strongly when faced with any kind of food. Men, on the other hand, are not usually as obsessive about what they eat.
Dr. Rudolf Uher and his colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry in King’s College London used brain scanning technology, known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), to look at the brains of eighteen men and women. The volunteers were given images of food to look at, as well as food to taste. Their brain reactions were observed by the scientists. They found that the female brains reacted much more strongly than those of males. The same reaction did not happen when they were shown non-food images. The team believe this means women think more about food than men tend to.
Dr. Uher said, “This could be related to biological differences between men and women. But the more likely explanation is that women have a more complicated reaction to food because of social pressure.”
Professor Carey Cooper, psychology and health professor at Lancaster University, said, “for centuries women have had a providing role — preparing and cooking food for their families. And it's part of that role to make sure the food is safe. They will therefore be much more sensitive to food than men are, and I would not be surprised if that was now built into their DNA. If the female brain reacts to food because it historically has developed neural(神经的) pathways to do this, then food will be the way they express their stress. Food actually, is a comfort for women.”
But other experts have said that more research must be done before the results can be proved. American scientist Angelo del Parigi of the John B. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut, said “Looking at an FMRI alone cannot make sure whether the stronger reaction in women is due to innate (天生的)differences or a learned process.”
1.Dr.Uher and his colleagues carried out the research by comparing ________.
A. Volunteers’ reactions to food before and after meals
B. FMRI’s scanning result of scientists
C. women’s and men’s brain reactions to pictures of food
D. volunteers’ imagination on the taste of food
2.In Dr. Uher’s opinion, women react more strongly to food than men most probably because they are ________.
A. born to do so due to biological reasons
B. influenced by advertisements
C. told to do so for a long time
D. forced by powerful social influences
3.According to Professor Carey Cooper, women ________.
A. are satisfied with preparing food for their families
B. turn to food when they feel sad
C. accept their social role from the heart
D. are stressed because of food safety
4.What was Angelo del Parigi’s attitude towards the research results?
A. Curious. B. Surprised. C. Uninterested. D. Doubtful.
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
You cannot accept an opinion ________ to you unless it is based on facts.
A. offering B. to offer C. having offered D. offered
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
You cannot accept an opinion ________ to you unless it is based on facts.
A. offering B. to offer
C. having offered D. offered
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
You cannot accept an opinion ________to you unless it is based on facts.
A.offering B.to offer
C.having offered D. offered
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析