Wise compromise is one of the basic principles and virtues of the British.If a continental - 试题答案网问答

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Wise compromise is one of the basic principles and virtues of the British. If a continenta

l greengrocer asks 14 shillings (or crowns, or francs) for a bunch of radishes, and his customer offers 2, and finally they strike a bargain agreeing on 6 shillings, this is just the low continental habit of bargaining; on the other hand if the British dock-workers or any other workers claim a rise of 4 shillings per day, and the employers first flatly refuse even a penny, but after a six weeks' strike they agree to a rise of 2 shillings a day -- that is yet another proof of the British genius for compromise.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues -- the difference between the two being that the first is practiced on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. The genius for compromise has another aspect, too. It has a tendency to unite together everything which is bad. English club life, for instance, unites the liabilities of social life with the boredom of solitude. An average English house combines all the curses of civilization with the ups and downs of life in the open. It's all right to have windows, but you must not have double windows because double would indeed stop the wind from blowing right into the room, and after all, you must be fair and give the wind a chance. It is a right to have central heating in an English home, except in the bathroom, because that is the only place where you are naked and wet at the same time, and you must give British germs a fair chance. The open fire is an accepted, indeed a traditional institution. You sit in front of it and your face is hot whilst your back is cold. It is a fair compromise between two extremes and settles the problems of how to burn and catch cold at the same time.

English spelling is a compromise between documentary expressions and an elaborate code-system; spending 3 hours in a queue in front of a cinema is a compromise between entertainment and asceticism; the English weather is a fair compromise between rain and fog; to employ an English charwoman is a compromise between having a dirty house Or cleaning it yourself; Yorkshire pudding is a compromise between a pudding and the country of Yorkshire.

The tone of the author in writing this passage is ______.

A．satirical

B．earnest

C．sincere

D．delightful

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Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following pa...

Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once. （答案请填写完整单词） A) effect B) affect C) commit D) decrease E) decline F) influence G) compromise H) concede I) available J) applicable K) reluctant L) furthermore M) necessity N) authority O) potential A variety of conditions can affect the success or failure of negotiations (谈判). The following conditions make success in negotiations more likely. First, both parties must be willing to participate. If one party is unwilling for the negotiation, the 1) ______ for reaching any agreement will certainly 2) ________. Second, people must get ready to discuss. When there is not enough information 3) _________, or a negotiation strategy unprepared, people may be 4) _________ to begin the discussion. Third, both parties must have enough interests in common to 5) _________ themselves to a shared decision-making discussion. For people to settle disagreement, they must have some means to 6) _______ the attitudes and behavior. from the other party. To 7) __________ a change, they may provide needed information and seek the advice of experts for help. Finally, participants must have the 8) ________ to make a decision. If not, negotiations will be limited to an information exchange between the parties. 9) ___________, both parties must have a willingness to 10) __________. In other words, sometimes, to reach a satisfactory conclusion, it is necessary for the parties prepared to have less than 100 percent of needs or interests satisfied.

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填空：The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children

, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile.Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged-a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style. family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.

A)transplant

B)solution

C)gadually

D)transport

E)elemental

F)conflict

G)continually

H)mobile

I)couples

J)agricultural

k)including

L)compromise

M)requires

N)primary

O)consisting

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What is the best title for this passage？A．Bargaining and CompromiseB．Wise Compromise in Br

What is the best title for this passage？

A．Bargaining and Compromise

B．Wise Compromise in Britain

C．Britain and Europe

D．Setbacks of Compromise

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A．competitionB．comparisonC．companionD．compromise

A.competition

B.comparison

C.companion

D.compromise

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A．Reaching a compromise is the solution to quarreling.B．Reaching a compromise is diffi

A．Reaching a compromise is the solution to quarreling.

B．Reaching a compromise is difficult even between good friends.

C．Three steps to reach a compromise.

D．The outcome that a compromise might bring about.

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compromise（）

A.妥协、折中

B.组成、构成

C.承诺、许诺

D.压缩、挤压

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The outcry against the government's policies will subside only if a compromise is reached

in the assembly.

A．die down

B．succeed

C．proceed

D．dislodg

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The spokesman made it evident______no compromise was yet in sight.A．whichB．thatC．whereD．/

The spokesman made it evident______no compromise was yet in sight.

A．which

B．that

C．where

D．/

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From the conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson the two party political system was b

A.contest

B.combat

C.compromise

D.discord

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