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4. Your debt situation is only temporary,and it is within your      to resolve it.

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  For a 400-year-old art form,opera had a bad fame：overweight actresses singing the words which were hard to understand in one of those romance languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $ 145 a perform?ance,opera-goers also had a certain appearance in people's mind：rich,well-dressed and old.  But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their ^hoes in an attempt to keep opera alive and take it to a younger and not so wealthy audience.

  Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd,they need to associate opera with common peo?ple. That means no formal suits,old-style theatre or bank-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don't or won't come to the opera,companies are bring?ing the opera to them,giving performances in such usual places as parks,libraries and public schools.

  The Houston Grand Opera's choice is the public library,where it performs "mobile operas", shortened version of child-friendly operas. This summer's production is Hansel CreteL By performing smaller ver?sions of large productions,producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera,which will be celebra?ting its 75th anniversary this year,is staging Cinderel?la free of charge,keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists' Training Programme.

1. Which of the following is the main idea of this pas?sage?

   A. Opera is famous for its history.

   B. Opera is only for rich people.

   C. Opera companies are trying to keep operas alive.

   D. Young people are not interested in operas.

2. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 most probably means "      ”，

   A. breaking up the old rules

   B. changing the dresses

   C. making the audience at ease

   D. advertising themselves

3. The San Francisco Opera employs young students in order to        .

   A. attract young people

   B. reduce the cost

   C. celebrate its 75th anniversary

   D. make Cinderella popular

4. What can you infer from the passage?

   A. The tickets for opera are very expensive at present.

   B. Opera is performed in a language difficult to understand.

   C. Opera is not so popular an art form today.

   D. Students enjoy performing operas very much.

3. There is no        that the Internet now has replaced the radio as the most important means of getting information.

4. It's a humorous      (趣闻) now;but the truth it reveals is less than funny.

2. In the 19th century the government      (distribute) land to settlers who were willing to take care of it.

9. She married a doctor. They didn't get      (marry) until they bought a new house.

4. You cannot expect your friends to t     you if you don't keep faith with them.

1. I got to the office earlier that day,     (catch) the 7:30 train from Paddington.

4. I'm very busy with my work today,so I can't help doing housework.

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