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1、Part TwoBackground InformationENTER Author Button, Button & The Box Science fiction Lenox Hill Hospital Life insurance policy Chart of a life insurance Background InformationContentsRichard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredib

2、le Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It, and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. In addition, Mathe

3、son wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelors degree in journalism

4、 from the University of Missouri. He died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven./buttonbutton/RichardMathesonI. Author To be continued on the next page.Books from the authorI. Author The end of Author. Button, Button is the second segment of the twentieth episode from the first season (198586) o

5、f the television series The Twilight Zone. The episode is based on the short story of the same name by Richard Matheson; the same short story forms the basis of the 2009 film The Box. The original idea is taken from passage 1.6.2 of Genius of Christianity (1802) by Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand, in w

6、hich the authors asks the reader what he would do if he could get rich by killing a mandarin in China solely by force of will. II. Button, Button & The Box The end of Colorado. Science Fiction is literature about the future, telling stories of the marvels we hope to see or for our descendants to see

7、 tomorrow, in the next century, or in the limitless duration of time. Terry CarrScience fiction (Sci-Fi or SF) tends to be the most socially-reflective version of genre fiction, with imaginative, logically-consistent speculation on future technology and society. It has its origins in the idea of ext

8、rapolating society in the future usually in a negative. The best science fiction is not the technologies or inventions. It explores the human condition. It can look at it from unexpected angles. Science fiction imagines strange challenges and opportunities for us in order to delve deep into human na

9、ture. III. Science Fiction To be continued on the next page.III. Classic Sci-Fi To be continued on the next page.The end of California. IV. Lenox Hill Hospital Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattans Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, tertiary-care hospital and a teaching hospital of New Yor

10、k Medical College, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Long Island University and Pace University. It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. V. life-insurance policyLife insurance policies are legal contracts and t

11、he terms of the contract describe the limitations of the insured events. Specific exclusions are often written into the contract to limit the liability of the insurer; common examples are claims relating to suicide, fraud, war, riot, and civil commotion.Life insurance (or commonly life assurance, es

12、p. in the Commonwealth) is a contract between an insured (insurance policy holder) and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money (called indemnity) in exchange for a premium, upon the death of the insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness may also trigger payment. The policy holder typically pays a premium, either regularly or as a lump sum. Other expenses (such as funeral expenses) are also som