What on Earth about Chinese Football?

      Do you like playing football? Do you know what on earth about Chinese football? Are you in  

__1__ of watching Chinese football? If you are,you will know that China's football world is a mess (混乱) recently. It looks as if only an earthquake  2   the system and a reform has to   3  . Last week, the fa'st steps towards change might have been  4   when the Chinese Football Association(CFA) agreed  5   out the reform of the Chinese Premier League (中超联赛). For example, no team will leave the league for its bad performance this year. The move came following pressure from both clubs and the fans.

    The story starts when the Beijing Hyundai Football Club quit a match (罢赛) on October 2,2004 in protest against a penalty kick (违规点球). The club disagreed   6   their punishment made by the CFA,  7   included a fine and a points cut. It warned it might leave the league. Many fans and clubs supported Beijing Hyundai's position. They said that the fault did not lie   8   the club but the troubled Chinese football world. Scold of match fixing and" black whistles" have been frequent since the late 1990s. In an important match  9  Yanbian Hyundai and Sichuan Quanxing in 1995, one side gave up defending to protest   10   unfair referees(判罚) and watched the other side score almost freely. Some teams lose   11   purpose because it  12  the same owner with its opposition. Most football fans are losing interest in such games because of their lack   13   professional spirit.

    Most football clubs are   14   and some cannot pay their players. Smaller and smaller crowds means ticket sales, their other main income,   15   falling. All the facts show that Chinese football has come to its most critical point for years. "There is no choice   16  . The CFA will help those clubs which are losing money to  17   confidence  l8   a profit ",said Yan Shiduo, the vice president of the CFA. Wang Wen,  19   of Beijing's Football Fans Association said," The fans are  20   by Chinese football and we hope for effective reform of the league."

1.A.habit B.a habit  C.the habit           D.habits           

2.A.will shake up     B.shake up C.would shake up    D.should shake up  

3.A.carry out   B. be carried out      C.make    D.be made      

4.A.made          B.carried C.taken    D.brought                 

5.A.to carry      B.carrying         C.with carrying       D.on carrying             

6.A.with   B.to C.on D./            

7.A.it        B.which    C.that       D.this                

8.A.in        B.on C.at D.with              

9.A.between    B.among  C.in  D.on                  

10.A.at     B.for         C.against D.in          

11. A.for  B. on         C. in D. with    

12.A. shares    B. spares      C. owns         D. wants          

13. A. for B. of C. with             D. to                  

14. A. on debts         B. in red        C. in the debt          D. in the red             

15. A. is    B. are       C. was              D. were            

16. A. but reform     B. but reforming      C. but to reform       D.other than to reform

17.A.build         B.build up         C. set up             D. put up         

18.A.to make   B. making              C. make         D.made            

19.A.head         B.thehead        C. a head            D.heads            

20.A.harmed   B.hurt       C.injured  D.destroyed             

Gu Changwei was the first Chinese cinematographer to be nominated (提名) for an Oscar, and he is regarded by Zhang Yimou as the best cinematographer in China. Gu was behind the camera for many of Zhang Yimou’s famous films including the one that rocketed Zhang to fame: "Red Sorghum (高粱)". And now this master of the visual has taken on his first directing role with the film "Peacock". So Gu Changwei has come out from behind the camera into the spotlight (聚光灯).

Gu Changwei is very serious about his directing "Peacock". To get the authentic atmosphere, Gu took his film crew to the city of Anyang in central China’s Henan province where the story took place, to shoot the film. He chose all new actors because he didn’t want "stars" appeal to weaken the power of the story, and he also had his actors trained in the local dialect. For this film Gu has been able to get out from behind the camera to manage every aspect of the film, and to realize his own ideals in movie-making.

"Peacock" is about the life of an average family in a small town in Henan province in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Gu chose this story for his first movie because he grew up during this same pe??riod and it struck a chord with him.

“Peacock” wrapped up production in June, 2004. It’s aimed at the foreign film market and will be entered in February’s Berlin Film Festival, and released in China at the same time. But at the end of last October, Gu took “Peacock” to his Alma Mater, the Beijing Film Academy, one of the most fa??mous film colleges in China, to hold a preview. The film was warmly received by both teachers and students.

The underlined word “cinematographer” refers to a person who ________.

A. has been nominated for an Oscar     B. uses a camera to shoot films

C. directs first-class films                    D. arranges for cinema shows

Gu didn’t employ “stars” in his film because ________.

A. tars usually stick to their own acting styles

B. the stars may not be able to speak the local dialect

C. the stars may share the audience’s attention with the story

D. it was not easy for him, a fresh hand, to invite stars to join him

Gu chose such a story for his first movie because ________.

A. he was born in the early 1970s              

       B. he grew up in Henan province

C. he was popular in Henan province  

D. the story had something to do with his own experience

From the passage we can learn that "Peacock"________.

A. is the film for which Gu is likely to win an Oscar prize

B. has already become popular both at home and abroad

C. has its production started last summer

D. will be publicly shown in spring, 2005

Please choose a proper title for this passage.

A. rom behind the camera into the spotlight

B. Chinese cinematographer to be nominated for Oscar

C. New faces to appear in “Peacock”

D. "Peacock" to enter foreign film market

Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson,South Dakota.Baseball was always her fa—
vorite sport.Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first
base in their games.More often,however,they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them,
because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.
One day in 1904,Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden,Iowa,to watch
Hank play for the home team against Hawarden.When they arrived at the ball field,
two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game.The umpire hadn’t ar—
rived,so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire.The players
finally agreed.
Amanda,then sixteen and standing five feet,ten inches tall,made perfect calls.
She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even
offered to pay her.Thus,at sixteen,Amanda Clement became the first paid female
baseball umpire on record.She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,
New York.
61.Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      
 A.they wanted to make her happy
 B.she called them brothers
  C.no one else wanted to do it for them
  D.she knew the rules well and was fair
62.Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      
A.serve as umpire
C.make money
B.watch her brother play
D.help the local teams
63.Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .
 A.in her P.E.classes at school    B.in an umpire training school
  C.by watching and playing the games D.from her mother,a baseball umpire
64.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
  A.Amanda Clement.First Female Umpire
  B.A Family of Baseball Fans
  C.Baseball Games in Hawarden,Iowa
  D.The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

 

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以下是关于中国传统节日的起源介绍:

A. One day, Emperor Mingdi had a dream about a gold man in his palace. When he was about to ask the mysterious figure who he was, the gold man suddenly rose to the sky and disappeared in the west. The next day, Emperor Mingdi sent a scholar to India to locate Buddhist scriptures and ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of Buddha and serve as a repository for the scriptures. So Emperor Mingdi ordered his subjects to display lighted lanterns during what was to become the Festival.

B. The earth once had ten suns circling it. However, one day all ten suns appeared together. The heat was so scorching and unbearable. A strong archer named Hou Yi came out and succeeded in shooting down nine suns. He was later made the emperor but after that he became a tyrant. In order to save the people from his tyranny, his wife Chang-E stole the elixir and consumed it herself and floated to the moon taking along her pet rabbit with her.

C. Qu Yuan was a minister in the kingdom of Chu.He was upright , loyal and highly esteemed for his wise counsel that had brought peace and prosperity to the kingdom. Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu Yuan clasped a large stone and leaped into the Mi Lo river on the fifth day of the fifth moon. The people of Chu, mourning the death of Qu Yuan, threw rice into the river to feed his hungry ghost on this day every year.

D. One of the most famous legends is Nian, an extremely cruel and ferocious beast that the ancients believed would devour people on New Year's Eve. To keep Nian away, red-paper couplets are pasted on doors, torches are lit, and firecrackers are set off throughout the night, because Nian is said to fear the color red, the light of fire, and loud noises. Early the next morning, as feelings of triumph and renewal fill the air at successfully keeping Nian away for another year, the most popular greeting heard is "gong xi fa cai", or "congratulations."

E. On this evening, two lovers will meet on a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way. Chinese grannies will remind children that they would not be able to see any magpies on that evening because all the magpies have left to form a bridge in the heavens with their wings.

F. The Festival itself was created by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong in 732. It is said that because the wealthy held too many expensive, elaborate ancestor-worshipping ceremonies, in a needed effort to lower this expense, Emperor Xuanzong declared that respects could be formally paid at ancestor's graves only on the day.

以下是中国传统节日的庆祝活动,请匹配庆祝活动和该传统节日的起源介绍:

56. The Qingming Festival: The most important activity on the Festival is tomb sweeping to remember and honour one's ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, (joss) paper accessories, and/or libation to the ancestors. The rites are very important to most Chinese and especially farmers.

57. The Lantern Festival: According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.

58. The Dragon-boat Day: The Festival was also noted for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces, where there are many rivers and lakes and a glutinous rice pudding called Zongzi was eaten

59. The Valentine’s Day: There is not so much emphasis on giving chocolates, flowers and kisses. Instead, Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and incense as offerings to the weaving maiden, praying to acquire high skills in needlecraft, as well as hoping to find satisfactory husbands. In the evening, people sit outdoors to observe the stars. Chinese grannies would say that, if you stand under a grapevine, you can probably overhear what the weaving maiden and her husband are talking about.

60. The New Year’s Day:  It is traditional to decorate the homes with new year paintings. The most popular paintings are Door Gods pasted on the front doors to keep ghosts and monsters away. Spring couplets are traditionally written with black ink on red paper. They are hung in storefronts and often stay up for two months. A reunion dinner is held where members of the family, near and far, get together for celebration.

 

Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson,South Dakota.Baseball was always her fa—

vorite sport.Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first

base in their games.More often,however,they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them,

because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.

One day in 1904,Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden,Iowa,to watch

Hank play for the home team against Hawarden.When they arrived at the ball field,

two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game.The umpire hadn’t ar—

rived,so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire.The players

finally agreed.

Amanda,then sixteen and standing five feet,ten inches tall,made perfect calls.

She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even

offered to pay her.Thus,at sixteen,Amanda Clement became the first paid female

baseball umpire on record.She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,

New York.

61.Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      

 A.they wanted to make her happy

 B.she called them brothers

  C.no one else wanted to do it for them

  D.she knew the rules well and was fair

62.Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      

A.serve as umpire

C.make money

B.watch her brother play

D.help the local teams

63.Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .

 A.in her P.E.classes at school    B.in an umpire training school

  C.by watching and playing the games D.from her mother,a baseball umpire

64.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

  A.Amanda Clement.First Female Umpire

  B.A Family of Baseball Fans

  C.Baseball Games in Hawarden,Iowa

  D.The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

 

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