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15."It's So Good"in French,was one of Eartha Mae Kitt's first hit songs.But her childhood wasn't so good.She was born into a poor family in South Carolina in nineteen twenty-seven.When Eartha was eight,her mother remarried.Her stepfather did not like her so she was sent to New York City to live with an aunt,who helped pay for her piano and dance lessons.
Eartha Kitt worked in a factory as a young teenager.But she kept up her dance lessons.One day she tried out for a famous African-American dance company.Soon,Eartha was performing in shows around the world with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe.
In Paris,Eartha left the dance company to sing in a nightclub.Her voice was very attracting.She learned French quickly and gained French fans.Soon the film director Orson Welles discovered Eartha Kitt singing in Paris.Welles asked her to play a lead part in a play he was directing.The play made her find her acting talent for the first time.
After that Eartha Kitt returned to New York and appeared in the Broadway show with"Monotonous",a song about a bored woman,and it became famous.She soon signed with a record company.
Then Eartha Kitt acted her first role in a film in nineteen fifty-seven in"Mark of the Hawk".Kitt was very careful about choosing her roles in films.She refused parts that were not respectful to black people.In nineteen sixty-seven,Eartha Kitt got the part of Catwoman on the popular television series"Batman".Fans loved the special way she said her"r"s to create a sound like a cat,which made her an unforgettable Catwoman.
She was strongly against the Vietnam War and in nineteen sixty-eight she became blacklisted(列入黑名单) in America.For about ten years,she could only find work in other countries.But that brought her a greater international achievement.

56.What did Eartha Kitt do when she first performed around the world?B
A.Sing   B.Dance    C.Direct   D.Act
57.Who helped Eartha Kitt find her acting talent?D
A.Her mother   B.Her aunt   C.Her stepfather   D.Orson Welles.
58.What is the order of the things that happened to Eartha Kitt?A
a.playing in her first film   
b.winning some French fans
c.living with an aunt
d.playing a role in a play
e.singing"Monotonous"
f.receiving dance training
A.cfbdeaB.fcbdeaC.fcdeabD.cfbaed
59.What made Eartha Kitt an unforgettable Catwoman in"Batman"?C
A.Her walking steps.         B.The looks on her face.
C.Her way of speaking"r".  D.Her good singing skills.
60.What might be talked in the following paragraph?C
A.Eartha Kitt's biggest hit songs.
B.Eartha Kitt's families in America.
C.Eartha Kitt's international success.
D.Eartha Kitt's hard life after being blacklisted.

分析 本文是一篇人物简介.文章主要介绍了Eartha Kitt的生平简介及她所取得的成就.

解答 56-60 BDACC
56.B 细节理解题.根据文章第二段最后一句Soon,Eartha was performing in shows around the world with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe..可知最初Eartha全世界表演的是跳舞.选B
57.D 细节理解题.根据文章第三段The play made her find her acting talent for the first time.可知电影导演Orson Welles发现她的表演才能.选D
58.A 推理判断题.文章是关于Eartha Mae Kitt的生平简介和事件,按照时间顺序.根据文章第一段When Eartha was eight,her mother remarried.Her stepfather did not like her so she was sent to New York City to live with an aunt,可知八岁时和姑姑住在一起;然后But she kept up her dance lessons.学习跳舞;根据第二段She learned French quickly and gained French fans.去了法国后赢得了很多法国歌迷;然后Welles asked her to play a lead part in a play he was directing.出演角色;根据第三段After that Eartha Kitt returned to New York and appeared in the Broadway show with"Monotonous",a song about a bored woman可知,开始在百老汇演唱,最后根据倒数第二段Then Eartha Kitt acted her first role in a film in nineteen fifty-seven in"Mark of the Hawk".第一次演电影角色;所以只要A选项符合这个顺序,选A
59.C 细节理解题.根据倒数第二段句子Fans loved the special way she said her"r"s to create a sound like a cat,which made her an unforgettable Catwoman.可得知"r"的发音让Eartha Kitt难以忘记,选C
60.C 推理判断题.根据文章最后一段及最后一句But that brought her a greater international achievement.可以推测下一段可能会对Eartha Kitt取得国际成功进行论述.选C

点评 阅读理解题测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释.考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点.

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60.A.headB.heartC.stageD.view
5.When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago,dogs were by their sides,according to a study published in the journal Science.
Robert Wayne of the University of California,Los Angeles,and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute,used DNA material-some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska-to conclude that today's domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000to 15,000years ago.Wayne suggests that man's best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America."Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,"said Wayne."They can pull things,carry things,defend you from fierce animals,and they're useful to eat."
Researchers have agreed that today's dog is the result of the domestication(驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago.Before this recent study,a common thought about the precise origin of North America's domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves,the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska,Canada,and the Lower 48.
Dog remains  from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion.Leonard,an evolutionary biologist,collected DNA from 11bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s.The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,where they remained untouched for more than 70years.After borrowing the bones from the museum,Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs.They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450and 1675A.D.,before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741.The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of"pure native American dogs,"Leonard said.The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.
Along with the Fairbanks samples,the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37dog specimens(标本) from Mexico,Peru,and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus.In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America,the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia.This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.
Leonard and Wayne's study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas.Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along."Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,"Wayne said."They didn't feed on mice; they fed on meat,which was a very guarded resource."

27.The underlined word"remains"is closed in meaning toB.
A.leftover food     B.dead bodies     
C animal waste.     D.living environment
28.According to the study described in Paragraph 4,we can learn thatA.
A.the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans
B.the 11bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs
C.the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves
D.ancient dogs entered North America between 1450and 1675AD
29.What can we know from the passage?B
A.Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.
B.Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.
C.Latin America's dogs are different from North America's in genes.
D.Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.
30.The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them becauseD.
A.dogs fed on mice
B.dogs were easy to keep
C.dogs helped protect their resources
D.dogs could provide excellent service
31.The passage mainly talks aboutA.
A.the origin of the North American dogs
B.the DNA study of ancient dogs in America
C.the reasons why early people entered America
D.the difference between Asian and American dogs.

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