L'HAY-LES-ROSES, France：Three teenage girls admitted starting a fire in a suburban Paris housing project over the weekend that killed 17 people, including three children, police said yesterday．A fourth girl was held yesterday morning．
The fire in a 19-storey building south of Paris was the third fatal blaze in the Paris area in nine days．The death toll rose to 16 after a man died late Sunday in a hospital, where seven others were being treated for serious injuries, police said．
Three teenagers taken in for questioning on Sunday admitted having started the fire for fun, police said．Two of the suspects were 18-year-old, the other was 16, police said．Further details were not available．
Witnesses claimed to have seen a group of youths who lived in the building start the fire, said Patrick Seve, mayor of the town of L'HAY-LES-ROSES, near Orly airport, where the building was located．
The fire is believed to have broken out in the lobby(门厅)of the building before raging up a stairwell at least three floors．Some residents jumped from windows as the fire spread through the building's entrance．
Authorities were investigating possible criminals in an August 26 fire that killed 14 African children and three adults in a Paris apartment building．Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building．
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy suggested on French television on Sunday night that copycats(盲目模仿者)were at work．“Each time there is a new story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals,”Sarkozy said, promising severe punishment for anyone found guilty of arson(纵火)．
(1)
What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
[ ]
A．
Three girls were caught setting fire to a building．
B．
The fourth girl wasn't present when the fire broke out．
C．
All the people lost their lives before police came．
D．
Paris was troubled by fire during that period．
(2)
Why did the teenagers start the fire?
[ ]
A．
They were interested in playing with fire．
B．
They wanted to make fun of their parents．
C．
They were not satisfied with the surroundings．
D．
They wanted to warm themselves．
(3)
From the fourth and fifth paragraphs we know that ________．
[ ]
A．
the witnesses must have put out the fire
B．
the lobby of the building was covered with wood．
C．
the witnesses were familiar with the teenagers
D．
the residents shouldn't have jumped from windows
(4)
What the Minister said in the last paragraph means that ________．
WHAT is the top hit single of 20067 It’s “Don’t Wanna Grow Up”!
Taiwan girl band S.H.E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards(金曲榜)last week, with “Don’t Wanna Grow Up” from their eighth album “Once Upon A Time”．
It’s the first time S.H.E has won the award．The three members, Selina．Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it．They not only performed the song at the award ceremony．but also offered exaggerated(夸张的)hugs when giving awards to other artists．
“Don’t Wanna Grow Up” is a song with light tunes(旋律)and easy lyrics．Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart’s Symphony N0 40 as the refrain(副歌)．That gives the song a very classical feeling．The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn’t grow up．“I don’t wanna grow up．When I grow up there won’t be fairy tales in the world．I don’t wanna grow up．I’d rather be ignorant and foolish．”In the song, S.H.E expresses young people’s common fear of the adult world and the desire to stay young forever．
The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out．Xiao Xue, a Senior l student from Shanghai, said that she often hums(哼歌)the refrain part herself．
“I like the lyrics too, ”she said．“I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn’t have to worry about all the exams．”
S.H.E said that the song also expresses their true feelings．Their rocking Success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads(工作量) and forced them to grow up very quickly．“When we first started singing．we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams, ”said S.H.E．“‘Don’t Wanna Grow Up’ reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams．”
(1)
The girl band S.H.E was awarded because ________．
[ ]
A．
they sang a song with light tunes and easy words
B．
their song has become the favorite of young people
C．
their music writer gives the song a classical feeling
D．
their song has made their dream come true
(2)
Which of the following is NOT true?
[ ]
A．
S.H.E won the Top Chart Awards for the first time．
B．
S.H.E were given exaggerated hugs at the award ceremony．
C．
Hard work led to S.H.E’s success in music．
D．
S.H.E wish to remain young like most young people．
(3)
This passage is perhaps taken from ________．
[ ]
A．
an article for the 2006 Hong Kong TVB 8 Top Chart Awards
B．
the introduction of S.H.E’s eighth album
C．
the entertainment section of a newspaper
D．
a magazine for language learning
(4)
The best title for this passage is ________．
[ ]
A．
“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”
B．
“Once Upon A Time”
C．
S.H.E Won Their First Award
D．
A Girl Band－S.H.E
阅读理解
The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure stories since the nineteenth century．While the American West was being settled，newspapers and “dime novels” could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell．The public back East was eager to read about the West，even if the stories were more fiction than fact．
In 1902, Owen Wister published his novel The Virginian, which was one of the first novels to treat the Western as a serious literary form; the novel still sold well and had inspired several movies and a television series．In 1905, Bertha H．Bower and Zane Grey published their first novels, and the popular Western novels had continued to flourish from that day on, with current novels by Luke Short, Max Brand, and Louis L’ Amour carrying on the tradition．
The first Western movie appeared even earlier than these serious Western novels．Before the turn of the century, an associate of Edison’s had filmed Cripple Creek Barroom Scene, a few seconds of film showing the inside of a saloon, to help publicize the invention of the movie camera．In 1903 the Edison’ company filmed the first “full length” Western－The Great Train Robbery．The film lasts less than fifteen minutes, but a story is told its entirety．In the movie, bandits(强盗)rob a train and its passengers, killing the engineer, and find themselves tracked down by a posse．Audiences loved the movie．Some theaters were actually opened for the single purpose of showing The Great Train Robbery? and only later realized that they could do equally well showing other movies．The film was so successful that other companies, and finally even the Edison company itself, began producing copies and other versions of The Great Train Robbery．Ironically, in an era when the West was still very real－Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were all territories rather than states in 1903－The Great Train Robbery was filmed in New Jersey．
(1)
The purpose of this passage is to ________．
[ ]
A．
discuss the making of the movie ?The Great Train Robbery?
B．
discuss the early Western novels
C．
discuss the art of movie making
D．
trace the development of the Western as an American adventure story tradition
(2)
We can conclude from this passage that ________．
[ ]
A．
people lost interest in the West after 1903
B．
Owen Wister was an ex cowboy
C．
New Jersey was still “untamed wilderness” in 1903
D．
films were fairly uncommon at the time The Great Train Robbery was made
(3)
The passage suggests that ________．
[ ]
A．
Edison’s invention of the movie camera happened by accident
B．
movie houses didn’t make much money in the early days
C．
Easterners were fascinated by the “Wild West”
D．
The Great Train Robbery was poorly received by the public because it lacked a plot
(4)
As used in this passage, the word “literary” means ________．
[ ]
A．
humorous
B．
financial
C．
appropriate to literature
D．
amateur
阅读理解
WHAT is the top hit single of 20067 It’s“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”!
Taiwan girl band S．H．E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards(金曲榜)last week, with“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”from their eighth album“Once Upon A Time”．
It’s the first time S．H．E has won the award．The three members, Selina．Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it．They not only performed the song at the award ceremony．but also offered exaggerated(夸张的)hugs when giving awards to other artists．
“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”is a song with light tunes(旋律)and easy lyrics．Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart’s Symphony N040 as the refrain(副歌)．That gives the song a very classical feeling．The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn’t grow up．“l don’t wanna grow up．When I grow up there won’t be fairy tales in the world．I don’t wanna grow up．I’d rather beig-norant and foolish．”In the song, S．H．E expresses young people’s common fear of the adult world and thedesire to stay young foFever．
The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out．Xiao Xue, a Senior l student from Shanghai, said that she often hums(哼歌)the refrain part herself．
“I like the lyrics t00,”she said．“I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn’t have to worry about all the exams。”
S．H．E said that the song also expresses their true feelings．Their rocking Success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads(工作量)and forced them to grow up very quickly．“When we first started singing．we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams,”said S．H．E．“‘Don’t Wanna Grow Up’reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams．”
(1)
The girl band S．H．E was awarded because ________．
[ ]
A．
they sang a song with light tunes and easy words
B．
their song has become the favorite of young people
C．
their music writer gives the song a classical feeling
D．
their song has made their dream come true
(2)
Which of the following is NOT true?
[ ]
A．
S．H．E won the Top Chart Awards for the first time．
B．
S．H．E were given exaggerated hugs at the award ceremony．
C．
Hard work led to S．H．E’s success in music．
D．
S．H．E wish to remain young like most young people．
(3)
This passage is perhaps taken from ________．
[ ]
A．
an article for the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards
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