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[阅读小分队] 【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障16系列】【16-09】文史哲

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发表于 2013-3-24 00:45:37 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
又到我啦哈哈哈~~~每次找文章都是一个大挑战啊  佷希望是能够跟上大潮流的~~~~伤脑筋啊 ~~~这次的文章有一篇是关于最近的一部很火的美剧的 不知道大家看过没~~去文章中找找看吧 啦啦啦啦  有空喜欢的话去看看啦~~~P.S:该篇文章是由阅读小分队里面的一位热心的 好心的 朋友提供的~~~谢谢你!嘻嘻嘻 希望你能看到~~
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[Time1]
Pop diva, feminist icon, overexposed celebrity or working mother — no matter what you think of Beyonce Knowles, one thing is for certain: we are now living in the age of Beyonce.
Last month, she sang the US national anthem at Obama’s inauguration ceremony, performed at the Super Bowl, had a self-directed bio documentary aired on HBO, and announced a world tour, The Mrs Carter Show, starting in April.
And these events weren’t even her official comeback since her last album 4 launched in 2011 and the birth of her daughter in January 2012. Her fifth album, set to be released in April, is the real deal — at least for fans like me who are into Beyonce for her musical genius rather than her superstar divaness and overwhelming media exposure
Besides owning all her solo albums, I have been a fan of Beyonce since she was in Destiny’s Child. When I first listened to The Writing’s on the Wall, the R&B group’s breakthrough 1999 album, like the rest of the world, I was conquered.
I soon noticed that most of the songs had Beyonce’s name in the writing credits. But for the past decade, during which Beyonce’s career has soared, there have been less of these idiosyncratic girl-power hits.
Singers like Prince or Michael Jackson were clearly invested in their musical reputation and made epic, historic music. But in Beyonce’s case much of her recent music has not been so unforgettable.
I personally wish Beyonce had spent more time being a genius. But for now her focus seems to be elsewhere. Perhaps she’s looking forward, not backward. Maybe making classic albums isn’t the part of her career she’s paying attention to. Or maybe she’s realized that while there are plenty of music geniuses, there’s only one Beyonce.
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[Time2]
SEOUL—South Korean police are investigating one of the country's biggest Internet shutdowns yet for evidence of a North Korean cyberattack, after simultaneous outages Wednesday paralyzed computer systems at major television networks and banks for several hours.
Servers at three TV stations, a number of commercial banks including Shinhan Bank and Nonghyup, and two insurance companies were either shut down or severely disrupted from around 2 p.m. local time, police and government officials said. Some systems were still down in the late evening.
Government and military sites weren't affected by the attack, but the military raised its information surveillance status.
Television broadcasts continued throughout the outages and bank branches remained open, although some retail- and business-banking services were inaccessible to staff. Banks said automated teller and Internet banking operations were affected.
Speculation immediately focused on North Korea. South Korea's communications watchdog said the attacks were caused by malicious code, but it didn't have any evidence linking the attack to North Korea. There were reports of skulls appearing on the screens of affected computers.
North Korean state media made no comment on the incident.
Investigations into hacking attacks can take weeks or months.
"We're looking into the cause of the shutdown, but we can't say North Korea is behind it," said a representative for South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye.
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[Time3]
SOME inventions are so simple, you have to wonder why no one has come up with them before. One such is the electronic cigarette. Smoking tobacco is the most dangerous voluntary activity in the world. More than 5m people die every year of the consequences. That is one death in ten. People smoke because they value the pleasure they get from nicotine in tobacco over the long-term certainty that their health will be damaged. So it seems rational to welcome a device that separates the dangerous part of smoking (the tar, carbon monoxide and smoke released by the process of combustion) from the nicotine. And that is what an e-cigarette does. It uses electricity from a small battery to vaporise a nicotine-containing solution, so that the user can breathe it in.
E-cigarettes do not just save the lives of smokers: they bring other benefits too. Unlike cigarettes, they do not damage the health of bystanders. They do not even smell that bad, so there is no public nuisance, let alone hazard, and thus no reason to ban their use in public places. Pubs and restaurants should welcome them with open arms.
No wonder the e-cigarette market is growing. Though still small compared with that for real smokes, it doubled in America last year and is likely to do so again in 2013 (see article).
Who could object? Quite a lot of people, it seems. Instead of embracing e-cigarettes, many health lobbyists are determined to stub them out. Some claim that e-cigarettes may act as “gateways” to the real thing. Others suggest that the flavourings sometimes added to the nicotine-bearing solution make e-cigarettes especially attractive to children—a sort of nicotine equivalent of “alcopop” drinks. But these objections seem to be driven by puritanism, not by reason. Some health lobbyists are so determined to prevent people doing anything that remotely resembles smoking—a process referred to as “denormalisation”—that they refuse to endorse a product that reproduces the pleasure of smoking without the harm.
In some places politicians and other busybodies are listening. Several countries (including Austria and New Zealand) restrict the sale of e-cigarettes, for example by classifying them as medical devices; others (Brazil and Singapore) ban them altogether. Some airlines, too, ban passengers from using e-cigarettes on their planes.
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[The Rest]
We don’t mind if you do
This is wrong. Those charged with improving public health should be promoting e-cigarettes, not discouraging their use. Of course, e-cigarettes should be regulated. Nicotine is an addictive drug, and should therefore be kept out of the hands of children. E-cigarettes should be sold only through licensed outlets, and to adults. It would also be a good idea to do some proper research on them. Nicotine is, after all, a poison (its real purpose is to stop insects eating tobacco plants), so there may be some residual risk to users. But nicotine poisoning is pretty low on the list of bad things that ordinary cigarettes are accused of. Some researchers reckon nicotine to be no more dangerous than caffeine, which coffee plants similarly employ as an insecticide.
The right approach is not to denormalise smoking, but to normalise e-smoking. Those who enjoy nicotine will be able to continue to use it, while everyone else will be spared both the public-health consequences of smoking and the nuisance of other people’s smoke. What’s not to like?
[Time4]
WITH only a single dissenter among nearly 3,000 delegates, on March 14th the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature, vested Xi Jinping with the formal title of state president. He had already been made head of the Communist Party and of the armed forces in November. Now Mr Xi is ready for a new role as global statesman—and the world is wondering how he will act.
One of the few clues may be found in his decision to go to Moscow on March 22nd (he will continue to Africa, see article). At a time when the Americans are talking of reordering their security priorities with a so-called “pivot” towards Asia, some Chinese commentators have interpreted Mr Xi’s decision to visit Russia first as a gesture aimed at America. China, after all, sees the pivot as menacing, despite American efforts to persuade it otherwise.
First trips matter: leaders meet friends before those with whom they have trickier relations. China and Russia, antagonists a few decades ago, are now on remarkably good terms. President Vladimir Putin has been assiduous in cultivating Mr Xi. Both countries resent American global dominance, as well as Western intervention in others’ affairs, notably in Syria. And as a new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace points out, with tensions between China and Japan rising alarmingly over island disputes, Mr Xi may want to reaffirm smooth relations on China’s long Russian flank.
Staying cordial with Russia is a priority for China. A Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s taught both countries how draining tensions can be along a border that today stretches more than 4,000km (2,500 miles). Yet for all their “strategic friendship”, relations are not as good as they could be. To Chinese chagrin, the Russians have supplied advanced weaponry to India and Vietnam, two countries that are not on stellar terms with China. From Russia’s perspective, whereas China was until recently a chief buyer of Russian arms, it has now become a chief competitor—often with copied Russian designs.
Energy also reveals the limits to Russian and Chinese cosiness. The two countries have bickered long and hard over China’s request for access to more of Russia’s oil and gas. Proposals to pipe natural gas from Russia to China have been stalled for years because of haggling over prices (see article). Hopes were raised last month when Gazprom, a Russian energy giant close to Mr Putin, said it would sign a gas deal with China by the end of the year. There have been false dawns before, though recent negotiations have been unusually intense.
[Time5]
Mr Xi is certainly fond of nationalist rhetoric. On March 17th, at the end of the 13-day annual session of the NPC, he repeated some favourite catchphrases. The country had to “strive to achieve the Chinese dream of the great renaissance of the Chinese nation”. The army issued a circular to troops promising to provide “robust support” for this endeavour. That will not reassure neighbours who worry about China’s growing assertiveness in disputed regional waters, and who turn to America for help.
However, Mr Xi is not intending to turn his back on America. President Barack Obama’s new treasury secretary, Jack Lew, visited Beijing this week. Mr Xi assured him that ties with America were of “great importance”. His trip marks a resumption of high-level contact between the two countries after a hiatus of several months, while America was absorbed by its presidential election and China by the handover to Mr Xi. The new secretary of state, John Kerry, is likely to visit Beijing in April.
These visits are a sign that both countries are anxious to resume normal business. They have urgent matters to discuss, from growing American concern about Chinese state-sponsored computer hacking to the perilous state of relations between China and Japan, which could draw in America if shots are ever fired.
A recent shuffle of China’s most senior diplomats suggests that Mr Xi is emphasising the management of prickly relations with America and Japan. At the NPC session, the foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, was promoted to state councillor, making him a senior adviser to Mr Xi on foreign affairs. Mr Yang has given the Americans tongue-lashings in the past. However, Michael Yahuda, a professor emeritus at the London School of Economics who taught Mr Yang in the 1970s, describes him as a “highly polished” diplomat who was well regarded in Washington during his service as China’s ambassador a decade ago. Mr Yang’s harsher tone in the past three years has matched that of higher-ups, and is in line with the “sharper and more nationalistic approach” of Mr Xi, says Mr Yahuda.
Mr Yang’s successor as foreign minister is Wang Yi, an Asia specialist who was China’s ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007. In Tokyo Mr Wang helped to heal relations after earlier bad blood. But today Sino-Japanese relations are much worse, with China challenging Japanese control of the Senkaku islands (Diaoyu in Chinese) in the East China Sea. To date, Mr Xi has shown no sign of wanting to wind down the confrontation.
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OBSTACLE

“House of Cards” is an original release from Netflix, a DVD-distribution and streaming company that has decided, after several years of selling tickets to the circus, to jump into the ring. Adapted from a British political thriller, and produced by David Fincher, the series stars Kevin Spacey as a mercenary Democratic House Majority Whip and Robin Wright as his wife. This prestigious résumé has turned “House of Cards” into big news—not least because Netflix has cleverly released all thirteen episodes at once. As a model of TV production, it’s an exciting experiment, with the potential to liberate showrunners from the agony of weekly ratings. It suggests fresh possibilities for the medium, feeding an audience that has already been trained to binge on quality TV in DVD form.
As a television show, however, “House of Cards” is not so revolutionary. This isn’t to say it’s bad, or not worth watching, or unmemorable. (Certain lines, such as “Twitter twat, WTF?,” might become catchphrases—for all its elegant contours, the show is marbled with camp.) Over a recent weekend, “House of Cards” acted something like a Scotch bender, with definite highs and lows. I found the first two episodes handsome but sleazy, like a C.E.O. in a hotel bar. Yet by Episode 5 I was hypnotized by the show’s ensemble of two-faced sociopaths. Episode 8 was a thoughtful side trip into sympathy for Spacey’s devilish main character, but by then I was exhausted, and only my compulsive streak kept me going until the finale—at which point I was critically destabilized and looking forward to Season 2.
Sensually, visually, “House of Cards” is a pleasure. Its acrid view of political ambition is nothing new (that perspective is all over TV these days, on shows like HBO’s “Veep” and Starz’s “Boss”), but the series has some sharp twists, with an emphasis on corporate graft and media grandstanding. There’s also one truly poignant plot about a working-class congressman hooked on drugs. Yet, in the days after I watched the show, its bewitching spell grew fainter—and if “House of Cards” had been delivered weekly I might have given up earlier. Much of the problem is Spacey himself, as Francis (Frank) Underwood, a wheeler-dealer who is denied the job of Secretary of State, and then conspires, with his steely wife, to go even higher. Spacey’s basilisk gaze seems ideal for the role, but he’s miscast by being too well cast—there’s no tension in seeing a shark play a shark. It’s a lot easier to buy his opposite number, the investigative blogger Zoe Barnes (the awesomely hoydenish Kate Mara), who strikes up an affair with Underwood in return for access. Her hair slicked down like a seal, her eyes dead, and her T-shirt sexily V-necked, Barnes is like some millennial demon from the digital unconscious, catnip for condescending older men. You could criticize the show’s portrayal of female reporters as venal sluts in black eyeliner, but it’s hard to object too much, since Mara’s performance, which has a freaky, repressive verve, is the liveliest thing in the show. Robin Wright is regal as Claire, Underwood’s charity-running wife, and Sakina Jaffrey makes a quiet impact as the President’s chief of staff, a restrained professional who in this lurid context feels downright exotic.
Fincher’s Washington is full of eerie imagery, such as a homeless man folding a twenty-dollar bill into an origami swan, and it’s magnificently lit (although I don’t understand why a sought-after journalist like Zoe lives in a flophouse full of spiders). But eventually the show’s theatrical panache, along with Spacey’s Shakespearean asides to the camera, starts to feel as gimmicky as a fashion-magazine shoot, with melancholic shots of Claire jogging in a graveyard. The show may be made of elegant material, but it’s not built to last—it’s a meditation on amorality that tells us mostly what we already know.
And, honestly, the more I watched, the more my mind kept wandering to Shonda Rhimes’s “Scandal”—an ABC series that’s soapy rather than noirish but much more fun, and that, in its lunatic way, may have more to say about Washington ambition. “Scandal,” which is inspired by a real-life political “fixer,” started slowly, as a legal procedural blended with a Rielle Hunter-flavored Presidential affair. It took a season to shed its early conception of Kerry Washington’s P.R. bigwig Olivia Pope as a “white hat.” But, once it did—whoa, Nelly. Popping with colorful villains, vote-rigging conspiracies, waterboarding, assassinations, montages set to R. & B. songs, and the best gay couple on television (the President’s chief of staff, Cyrus, and his husband, James, an investigative reporter), the series has become a giddy, paranoid fever dream, like “24” crossed with “The West Wing,” lit up in neon pink. Last week’s episode was such a #GameChanger—that’s the hashtag that the show’s creator used to advertise the episode—that Twitter exploded with exclamation points.
Because “Scandal” is so playful, and is unafraid to be ridiculous, it has access to emotional colors that rarely show up in Fincher’s universe, whose aesthetics insist that we take it seriously. Like Underwood, Jeff Perry’s Cyrus is a Machiavelli who cozies up to the President, but he’s got rage, wit, and a capacity for passion, not just oleaginous asides. During last week’s episode, he and his husband faced off, naked, in a fight about Cyrus’s crimes. (They’d stripped to demonstrate that they weren’t wearing wires.) The scene was absurd, but also genuinely intimate, with all the daring that “House of Cards” lacks. Rhimes’s show is made under the opposite circumstances from Fincher’s: nearly twice as many episodes, ratings pressure, constant threat of cancellation, a ravenous tweeting audience. These forces wreck other network dramas, and Rhimes’s previous shows have flown off the rails, but “Scandal” has only got stronger. It’s become more opera than soap opera, as the critic Ryan McGee observed online. Like much genre fiction, “Scandal” uses its freedom to indulge in crazy what-ifs: What if everyone but the President knew that the election was fixed? What if the President tried to divorce his pregnant wife? What if—well, I don’t want to spoil everything, but you might consider jumping in at the beginning of Season 2. It’s a different kind of binge watch.
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发表于 2013-3-24 01:19:38 | 显示全部楼层
沙发!!
歪一句这个月初刚刚看完house of cards!好喜欢这种亦正亦邪的感觉_(:3 J  L)_ 很多评论喜欢把类似的政治剧和the west wing比较,但其实各有千秋的诠释才更吸引人。
强推各位有空去看!
发表于 2013-3-24 06:39:26 | 显示全部楼层
thx for sharing!

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发表于 2013-3-24 10:31:57 | 显示全部楼层
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Description of Beyonce and my love to her. Her song is unforgettable, and I hope she can keep being a genius.
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South Korea suffered the biggest internet shutdown. But there is no evidence to blame North Korea. The investigation is still going on.
2:06
The invention of e-cigarette both saves lives of smokers and do benefit to the people around them.
The e-cigarette sells well, but some lobbyists and politicians do not prefer e-cigarette.
2:32
Mr Xi has become the new president in China. His first visit to Moscow has been interpreted as a gesture aimed at America.
China and Russia have many cooperation, and the negotiation is intense.
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Mr Xi likes nationalist rhetoric and does not want to turn his back on America. Both America and China want to resume
the economic cooperation. Also, Mr Xi does not wind down the confrontation to Japan in the issue of Diaoyu Island.
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文史哲好难啊。。都看不大懂。。
The introduction of"house of cards".
House of cards is a pleasure.
Fincher’s Washington is full of imagery, but it ends as what we already know.
In conclusion, It is different kind of binge watch.
发表于 2013-3-24 11:14:25 | 显示全部楼层
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发表于 2013-3-24 11:58:21 | 显示全部楼层
1 01.43.0
Beyonce is a overexpose superstar who singing in events like president ceremony, super bow and filming the documentary. but as I big fan of Beyonce I really want her back to her music career and produce more high quality album.

2 01.27.8
south korea just been through the biggest internet shutdown recently. And the authority of the country think the shut down might related to the north korea, even though they dont have any evident for this accuse.

3 02.06.7
the market of e-cigarette is a aggressive growing market. the sales figure of e-cigarette is doubling last two years and is seems go on for next year. But there are some lobbyist dont like it. They try to prevent any thing that related to the cigarette,even though the e-cigarette is non harm to human body.

4 02.35.2
Chinese new chairman Xi recently have some important international movement like visting the Russian. back to the history of USSR, the country had a good relationship with china, but the situation didn't last long. china and R had get in a antigun to each other. and now we become have some trouble about the nature resource distribution.

5 02.34.1
even though Mr Xi is visting the russia but not means that China is going to break up with US. however US new treasury president come to visit china recently. and the two counties planed the develop health relationship in future. Anyway the relationship between China and Japan is not being a health situation as well as the relationship between my Japanese classmate and other chinese classmates.~  

obstacle
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1 the back ground of the house of cards. bunch of famous actors and actress.
my favorite one is Kevin Spacey.
2 although it's a political show which should be exciting and full of political implication, it's not interesting like the author though. many problem affect the show's quality.
3 However if you keep watching you will like it.
4 the scandal is a big part of this show.
发表于 2013-3-24 14:41:39 | 显示全部楼层
1.31" the author's favorite singer Beyond is now everywhere but the author wish Beyond to focus on her singing career rather than other aspects.
1.30" South Korea is investigating an Internet attack and they suspect there's connection with North Korea.
2.19" E-cigarettes do no harm to the smoker and even the bystanders,however,some countries still ban them for various reasons.
3.12" Mr Xi is the focus since he has became president of China. People showed different views about his visit to Russsia.While the relationship between China and Japan is intense now, it's better to keep the relationship with Russia though the future is still uncertain.
2.36" Mr Xi emphasized the importance of relationship with America and with Japan. Jack Lew will pay a visit to China and discuss the urgent business.  Wang Yi is the successor of Mr Yang and Wang Yi was highly spoken of.
7.24" the popular soap opera House of cards is full of highs and lows and the author compared it to the ABC series Scandals. the author is looking forward to season 2.
谢谢lz!没看过House of cards,人名太多又重读了才比较懂~
发表于 2013-3-24 15:48:25 | 显示全部楼层
占座T T


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1-296-1'29        beyonce(i don know what it is..)

2-218..忘记计时了  Something happened between North Korea and South Korea.

3-380-1'40        People invent a device that can prevent people from smoking, and even benefit to people.(It's amazing~)

4-1'58        Xi Jinping ..USA..Rusia..Putin..

5-418-1'56        Xi.....

6-1043-4'19

(I haven't do xiaofendui for three days, just like a fish out of water, that made me feel a bit of confused. I feel so sorry about my absence. Hope not happen again.)
发表于 2013-3-24 16:01:56 | 显示全部楼层
计时一1:54
Beyonce is a favorite superstar and appears in many important events. In addition she is also mother and genious singer. The author is her loyal fan since she is a destiny'child and thinks she should focus on her singing career but not those cases. But the author admits that Beyonce may has her own opinion.
计时二1:26
Internet systems of TV station, banks and some insurance companies in South Korea were attacked by hackers. And the police has investigated much money to deal with it. Some people think the attack was from north korea but the north korea did not admit it and the police do not have any evidence.
计时三2:07
e-cigarette is very good invention which is not only good for smokers but also for bystanders. but some people object it. But they have no good reasons
计时四2:51
Mr.Xi has become the president of China and he will make his first trip to Moscow to show his attitude to the America. China and Russia has a lot of cooperations and also has some problems but they become closer and begin to negotiate.
计时五2:43
Mr.Xi dreams of renaissance of China and the army claims to give him support. China and America has urgent problems to handle but they are in a sensitive relationship now. The foreign minister, Yand, is also a important charactor in the process.
越障7:46
House of Cards is very good series. It is very clever to be sold together but not one episode a week. Scandal is a even better series because it is more interesting.
发表于 2013-3-24 16:07:15 | 显示全部楼层
1-297-1'35''
Introduce the author's most like idole B and some of B's events recently. Somethings about B's career in music.

2-218-1'20''
South Korean was attracted by hacking. Most of the teller and Internet banking operations were attracted but government and millitary were free. It was thought to be North Korean.

3-380-2'30''
Somking is one of tenth killer in the world. E-cigarettes can resolve the problem by1. satisfied the smokers motivation.2. do nothing harmful to loins3. do not harm to no smokers.4. no bad smell. Though it is becoming popular in USA, many countries and some planes ban it uses.

4-2'40''
Xi jingping, as the new gobal spokerman, meet Russia. And China's relationship with Russia are becoming better. Weapons: China bought from Russia before but now competites with Russia by copying. Energy: China requires more and more oil and nature gas from R.

5-418-2'40''
China will come to a achievement and not reassure neighbour to turn to USA for help. China and USA are looking forwards to a normal business. China's attitude to Japan.

6'10''
Introduction of "House of cards". The author's sttitude to it is not good. Introduction to the characters and the author's attitude changing.
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