“My name’s Jim Shelley and I’m an addict(有瘾的人)…”

With these words I began to  36  the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people  37 , from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I  38  to be phoned, I wanted to phone. Just one more call.

It started socially ― a few calls each day. It seemed  39 , just a quick chat. Gradually though, the  40  got worse. Soon it was  41  use, until, finally, addiction.

And it began to affect(影响) my  42 . During the day I would disappear for  43  call. If I couldn’t make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more  44 , in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else,  45  myself just one more call.

I was phoning people and  46  messages to make sure  47  calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends’ homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the  48  “Is it OK if I just use the phone…?” At work, I became  49  when my fellow workers tried to  50  me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally, the police caught me  51  a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was  52  to see a psychiatrist(心理医生).

I haven’t  53  a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it’s several days  54  I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are  55  people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.

36.A. face

B. find

C. accept

D. notice

37.A. now and then

B. all the time

C. at home

D. at work

38.A. tried

B. asked

C. waited

D. invited

39.A. polite

B. important

C. fine

D. special

40.A. condition

B. situation

C. result

D. effect

41.A. frequent

B. regular

C. unusual

D. particular

42.A. friends

B. study

C. family

D. work

43.A. a quick

B. a secret

C. an expected

D. an extra

44.A. hopeful

B. delighted

C. frightened

D. anxious

45.A. forcing

B. telling

C. giving

D. limiting

46.A. leaving

B. taking

C. passing

D. recording

47.A. long

B. immediate

C. enough

D. surprising

48.A. saying

B. demands

C. wish

D. words

49.A. careful

B. mad

C. determined

D. helpless

50.A. save

B. reduce

C. protect

D. stop

51.A. destroying

B. using

C. stealing

D. emptying

52.A. offered

B. guided

C. ordered

D. reminded

53.A. missed

B. had

C. received

D. fixed

54.A. as

B. when

C. if

D. since

55.A. always

B. just

C. more

D. different

In a living statue, just as the name implies, somebody transforms himself or herself into a statue. Last year, I came across an article in a magazine describing living statues in the streets of some Australian cities. The article was vividly written, except that there was not even a single picture; one could only imagine what a scene it would have been! All the harder, then, to believe that I ran into the “wonder” in Barcelona this year. The performers the living statues were street artists at Las Ramblas.

Las Ramblas is the most famous street in Barcelona. Especially in summer, thousands of tourists go to the seaside by passing through this street, making it a center of shops and bazaars. Not only can you find tourists there, but also thieves, cheats, cops…among whom the living statue artists are the most special group.

They were covered with greasepaint(化妆油)in different colors, wearing season disproportional (不和季节的)clothes, standing on a pedestal(底座)for several hours without making even a single move. Are they real or fake, the guests were wondering…and then suddenly the statues came to life, just for a few seconds to shift positions. But the movement of the statues seemed like someone just had breathed life into them. They really do look like statues, and that’s how they got their name.

Usually there is a jar or a hat in front of them. They would change to another pose whenever some tourist puts a coin in the hat. You may take photos after giving a Euro, or even less, but be careful not to touch the statues, unless you want yourself to be covered in paint. It’s a really special experience, don’t you think?

 

60.The best title for this passage would be             .

   A.The Living Statues of Barcelona                B.Street Artists at Las Ramblas

   C.A Shopping Center in Barcelona                 D.Special Performances at Las Ramblas

61.We can infer from this passage that Las Ramblas is            .

   A.very famous in Barcelona                         B.near the seaside

   C.a shopping center                                    D.the writer’s “wonder”

62.The underlined word “fake” in paragraph 4 means “            ”.

   A.true                        B.living                   C.unreal                 D.wrong

63.From the passage, we can see that the living statues perform in the street in order to         .

  A.show off B.beautify the city C.make tourists happy D.make a living

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