题目内容
The booking notes of the play “the Age of Innocence”:
Price: $10
BOOKING
There are four easy ways to book seats for performance:
— in person
The Box Office is open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.--8 p.m.
— by telephone
Ring 01324976 to reserve your tickets or to pay by credit card（Visa, MasterCard and Amex accepted）.
— by post
Simply complete the booking form and return it to Global Theatre Box Office.
— on line
Complete the on-line booking form at www.satanfiedtheatre.com.
DISCOUNTS:
Saver: $2 off any seat booked any time in advance for performances from Monday to Thursday. Savers are available for children up to 16 years old, over 60s and full-time students.
Supersaver: half-price seats are available for people with disabilities and one companion. It is advisable to book in advance. There is a maximum of eight wheelchair spaces available and one wheelchair space will be held until an hour before the show.
Standby: best available seats are on sale for $6 from one hour before the performance for people eligible（suitable）for Saver and Supersaver discounts and thirty minutes before for all other customers.
Group Bookings: there is a ten per cent discount for parties of twelve or more.
School: school parties of ten or more can book $6 standby tickets in advance and will get every tenth ticket free.
PLEASE NOTE: we are unable to exchange tickets or refund money unless a performance is cancelled due to unpredicted circumstances.
1.If you want to book a ticket, you CAN NOT _____
A. go to the Box Office on Sundays.
B. ring the booking number and pay for the tickets by credit card.
C. use the Internet.
D. complete a booking form and post it to the Box Office.
2.If you make a group booking for a group of 14 adults, how much should you pay?
A.$120 B.$126 C.$140 D.$150
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. There are only 8 wheelchair spaces in the theatre.
B. A school party of 15 students should pay 90 for the standby tickets.
C. A group of 12 persons can get 10 per cent discount.
D. The audience can’t refund money if the performance is on show.
4.What kind of tickets are the cheapest?
A. The standby tickets for school parties of ten or more.
B. The standby tickets.
C. The tickets for Saver discount.
D. The tickets for group booking.
1.A
2.B
3.B
4.A
【解析】
试题分析：本文主要讲述了话剧《纯真年代》在演出时，可以通过到售票处预订座位、打电话、邮寄预定表以及网上申请座位等方式，同时说明了几种票价打折情况。
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The family sphere(范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. There was the public male realm（领域）of "rational accomplishment" and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition（直觉）and emotion. The private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. For both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. The membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable(可渗透的). TV takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.
Parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. They could decide what to tell their children and when to tell it to them. Since children learn to read in stages, books provide a kind of natural screening process, where adults can decide what to tell and not tell children of different reading abilities. Television destroyed the system that separated adult from child knowledge and separated information into year-by-year slices for children of different ages. Instead, it presents the same information directly to children of all ages, without going through adult filters.
So television presents a real challenge to adults. While a parent can read a newspaper without sharing it with children in the same room, television is accessible to everyone in that space. And unlike books, television doesn't allow us to flip（翻转）through it and see what's coming up. We may think we're giving our children a lesson in science by having them watch the Challenger take off, and then suddenly they learn about death, disaster and adult mistakes.
Books allow adults to discuss privately what to tell or not tell children. This also allows parents to keep adult material secret from children and keep their secret keeping secret. Take that same material and put it on The Today Show and you have 800,000 children hearing the very things the adults are trying to keep from them. "Television takes our kids across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."
More importantly, children gradually learn that adults are worried and anxious about being parents. Actually, television has also places families under a lot of stress.
How Television Changes Childhood?
Main comparisons | Contexts | |
Distance between __1._and the outside. | Homes used to be isolated from the ____2.__realm. | |
Homes nowadays are __3._to the outside world. | ||
Media through which children can obtain information | In the past, children might learn __4.__about the outside world with the help of parents and ___5.___. | |
More information is got directly through TV and other electronic media, which breaks down the __6.___ between adult world and the child world. | ||
___7.___ of the information children get | Traditionally, kids could only knew what they should learn at their age, carefully___8.__by their parents. | |
Everything can possibly be known by children, including many aspects of __9.__ life. | ||
Effects on family education | ||
Parental instruction | Families are now under greater stress than before. Adults are anxious about being parents and faced with new __10._____. | |