Part Ⅰ Cloze

I have a friend who is a member of the medical community. It does not say that, of course, on the  1   that bears her home address. This membership comes from her hospital work.

    I have another friend who is a member of the computer community. This is a fairly new subdivision of our economy, and yet he finds his sense of place in it.

    Other friends and acquaintances of mine are members of the academic community, of the business community, or the journalistic community.

    Though you cannot find these on any map, we know where we  2  .

    None of us,  ……此处隐藏91479个字…… cient relics, which are created by the laboring people and spread orally from generation to generation. They are an illusory account of the history. 　 　 50、(1)然而，荷马究竟为何人，荷马是如何创作的，他吟唱的故事又如何得以保存下来——这些问题三千年来一直使从事学术考证的学者们大惑不解。

    (2)更为突出的是：在柏拉图之后2500年的漫长岁月里，荷马的史诗作为首屈一指的文学创作一直统治着西方的文艺界。荷马史诗的保存跟希腊人的其他作品的命运形成了鲜明的对比。

    (3)在亚历山大大帝去世后的希腊化时期，受过教育的希腊人仍然背诵荷马的作品，颇像后来西方人熟谙他们的《圣经》或者穆斯林背诵他们的《古兰经》。

    (4)即使在基督教兴起以后，《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》仍然是英雄史诗的范本，其光辉远远超过了任何基督教的经典作品。英国批评家对旁的东西一概争论不休，莫衷一是，他们却全都推崇荷马。

    (5)大约公元前1200年，曾发生过一件罕有的技术失传事件：文字从希腊本土陡然消失!又过了500年，这里才又一次产生了文字。正是在这一段古希腊语没有文字形式、口头语言独行其道的中间时期，诞生了《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》。