题目内容
183 Theatre Road,Sydney, Australia
Sept.27th, 2004
Dear Xiao Ming,
Do you know how to write an English letter? When we write a letter in Chinese, we always
put the date at the end of the letter. But it is different in English. We have to put it on the top of the right corner. And above the date, we also write the number of our house and the names of our street, city and country. To begin the letter, we always use words like “Dear sir” “Dear Mr./Miss/ Mrs.…”At the end of the letter, we usually use words like “Yours” “Yours ever” or “Truly yours”.
Yours,
Wang Lu
根据短文内容,回答下列问题
1. “We have to put it on the top of the right corner.” The word “it” here means______.
A. the date B. the letter C. the envelope D. the passage
2. Here is the letter from_______?
A. P.R.C. B. China C. Australia D. Sydney
3. Who writes this letter?
A. I B. You C. Wang Lu D. Miss Shute
4. From the passage, we know when we write an English letter, we should put down our address
.
A. at the end of the letter on the left
B. at the end of the letter on the right
C. at the top of the letter on the left
D. at the top of the letter on the right
5. How do you begin your letter if you write to Peter White?
A. Peter. B. Mr. Peter. C. Dear Sir Peter. D. Dear Mr. White.
解析：
Where in the world can you take an hour’s train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There’s only one place, and that’s Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets（布景） in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies(公司) in the USA.
A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn’t quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.
The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.
Though it is soap operas that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don’t need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost.
But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.
【小题1】From the passage, we know Universal Studios is ______.
| A．a very large park | B．a busy London street |
| C．a famous movie company | D．an old Hollywood movie |
| A．young people don’t go to movie theatres any more |
| B．there is strong competition from other states |
| C．its movie companies are in neeed of young stars |
| D．the state hasn’t put a development plan into action |
| A．The use of modern cameras and other equipment |
| B．The interest of middle-aged film stars |
| C．The making of TV series like Dynasty |
| D．The expensively made copies of scenes |
| Medusa Disco The best dance music in town! Every night 9:00pm-4:00am $10.00 | Hudson Theatre A play: Shakespeare’s Macbeth Thursday-Friday8:00pm Saturday5:00pm and 9:00pm Students$3.00, and adults $7.50 |
| “The Band” in Concert Mason Park Stadium Thursday-Saturday 8:30pm Tickets:$25.00-$50.00 | City Football Saturday and Sunday Games start at 1:00pm Tickets:adults$2.00 |
| A．Hudson Theatre. | B．City Football |
| C．Mason Park Stadium | D．Medusa Disco |
| A．On Tuesday and Sunday | B．On Thursday and Friday |
| C．On Friday and Saturday | D．On Saturday and Sunday |
| A．The concert | B．The disco | C．The football | D．The play |
My name is Toby. I’m eighty-three years old now. I once knew the greatest man in England. William Shakespeare was his name. I first met William near a big field of apple trees in the town named Stratford in October, 1579. He told me he was 15 years old. He was two years older than me. He had a sister, Joan, and two younger brothers, Gilbert and Richard. And the next year he had another brother, Edmund. After William’s parents died, he and his sister lived with his mother’s brother. I became his friend from that day until he died. We met nearly every day. We were friends for thirty years.
I once worked with him in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. William was good at acting. He could make all kinds of people pleased. By 1592, he became very famous. He was always busy day and night. I don’t know when he slept. He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays. In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all. He was the best playwright in England.
He wrote a play about love in 1595. It was Romeo and Juliet. He once used my name, Toby, in his play—Twelfth Night. In this play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking too much and having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched this play on the 6th of January, 1601. She liked it.
William Shakespeare is dead now, of course. He has been dead for more than thirty years. There’s no singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn’t like that in my young days. But I can still think—and remember when William and I were young, we had a good time in London, William and I…
【小题1】Toby and William first met in ______.
| A．1601 | B．1595 | C．1592 | D．1579 |
| A．Gilbert | B．Edmund | C．Richard | D．Joan |
| A．writes plays | B．performs in plays |
| C．watches plays | D．works in a theatre |
| A．war | B．peace | C．love | D．friendship |