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  Charles White is one of the top artists in America. He is now probably the country's best known Negro artist, who does most of his work about Negro life.

  White grew up in Chicago. For his seventh birthday his mother bought him a set of oil paints. One day he pulled down the window curtain and used them to paint on. His first prize for painting was a good scolding from his mother.

  In high school he was often truant until he won a school prize for his art work. Then he began to study art seriously.

  While he paints, he listens to music, often the gospel kind that is based on the Bible (圣经).“I have to have sounds”, he insists. “I can't paint in silence”.

  He never takes a vacation from art, for he is unhappy when he isn't working.

If a painting doesn't seem right, he will start over again completely, “No matter how long I've gone on it or how big it is”.

  Today a White drawing sells for $ 1500.His paintings sell for $ 18000 to $ 25000.

1.What could be the best title?

[  ]

A.A Prize, A Painting.

B.Charles White: A Well-known Negro.

C.Hard Work.

D.Thoughts From the Bible.

2.Charles' mother scolded him because ________.

[  ]

A.he had painted on the curtain

B.he wasted lots of money

C.he had not won the prize

D.he was using his set of oil paints

3.White was a truant ________.

[  ]

A.all through his high school education

B.after he won a prize for his art work

C.before he won a prize for his art work

D.because he liked to paint very much

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  Matt grows the nicest vegetables in the village. He grows fruits, too——big, sweet apples and oranges. And what else? Well, the biggest and the prettiest flowers.

  Things grow in Mitt’s garden all through the year. He cuts some flowers for his sitting-room table; and, of course, he eats some fruit and vegetables. But he sells everything else in the market. Matt is not a poor man—oh, no, he isn’t poor.

  I will tell you people do not understand him. And they do not understand has garden. “Why not?” you will ask, “It’s a good garden, isn’t it?”

  It is a wonderful garden. Matt grows things in spring, summer, autumn and winter. After that he does very little work. He sits in the garden with his small radio. And everything grows.

  People ask, “How does Matt grow these wonderful things? He waters the plants sometimes, but he doesn’t do anything else. He just sits under an orange tree with his radio. He listens to music nearly all day!” And that is all quite true. People cannot understand it, and so they don’t like it very much.

  Mutt likes music. But what about the garden? Who does the work? I will tell you another truth: the music does the work. All plants love music; and Matt knows that.

  Do you want big vegetables and the loveliest flowers? Well, just give your plants a lot of music.

1.Matt grows plants in his garden ________.

[  ]

A.when he is free

B.when he wants to make some money

C.only when it is warm

D.all the year round

2.Matt is not a poor man because ________.

[  ]

A.he sells most of what he grows in the market

B.he has no one to support

C.he grows a lot of fruit and he does not eat any

D.he has sold his sitting-room table in the market

3.Matt knows a few other gardeners ________.

[  ]

A.and they are his good friends

B.and they grow better lands than he does

C.who do not understand him

D.who buy all that he sells in the market

4.In fact, besides watering the plants sometimes ________ .

[  ]

A.Matt does nothing else at all

B.Matt gives them nothing but music

C.Matt does all he can to help them to grow faster

D.Matt tries to explain why his plants grow so well

5.Plants love music ________.

[  ]

A.and Matt knows that well

B.but Matt refuses to give his plants any

C.and everyone understands that

D.but the orange tree in Matt’s garden does not

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  Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large.The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs.There can be little hope of raising the money needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money for long-term projects.So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future interests.They do this by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange.By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of single persons and institutions, both at home and abroad.

  When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom originally placed it.Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.

  Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local organizations.Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not work.All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.

  These is hardly a man or woman in this country whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development.In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country.The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these saving can reach those who need finance.

(1)

The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is ________.

[  ]

A.

exchanged for part ownership in the Stock Exchange

B.

financed wholly by rates and taxes

C.

repaid to its original owners as soon as ?possible?

D.

invested in different companies on the Stock Exchange

(2)

All the basic services on which we depend are ________.

[  ]

A.

unable to provide for the needs

B.

financed wholly by rates and taxes

C.

in constant need of financial support

D.

run by the government or our local organizations

(3)

The Stock Exchange makes it possible for the government, local organizations and nationalized industries ________.

[  ]

A.

to make certain everybody saves money

B.

to borrow as much money as they wish

C.

to make certain everybody lends money to them

D.

to raise money to finance new development

(4)

The underlined word “invest” here probably means ________.

[  ]

A.

lose more money with

B.

provide less money with

C.

borrow less money with

D.

buy shares in order to make a profit

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  The man who brings my milk used to knock for his money for the week I was eating breakfast on Saturday morning.Just lately he has been arriving before I get up.Workforce shortages mean that four men are sharing five rounds, so he has to start earlier.

  Delivering milk to people’s homes is hardly good business, especially when the customer may have a choice of two or three firms serving a single road.In spite of my local difficulties, however, labor troubles are not as great as a few years ago.There are enough men prepared to make an early morning start for the sake of an open air job with a fair measure of freedom.If they did stop calling, women would find it hard work to collect all the milk they need from self service stores.Dairies(乳品业)know that stopping deliveries in the United States resulted in falling sales.

  Marketing ideas have included introducing extra lines, in addition to dairy products, which the milkmen can carry to increase business.One dairyman said, “It won’t be long before the milkmen deliver potatoes, and it seems as though variety will be limited only by the size of the trucks.

  So the milkman is likely to remain a familiar figure, and the dairy products he sells are unlikely to change very much in this decade.Flavored(有味道的)milk is popular on the Continent.In Britain those who like it buy plain milk and add their own flavoring.Even the returnable bottle continues to be used.As long as it has a reasonable life-30 to 40 trips are usual-the cost of collection and cleaning is worthwhile.

(1)

The milkmen now start earlier on their delivery rounds than before because ________.

[  ]

A.

there is an increasing demand for milk delivery

B.

they hope to reach the customers’ homes in time

C.

they have to collect the money for the week’s milk house to house

D.

dairies are short of delivery men and the companies worry about falling sales

(2)

Why are there enough men prepared to make an early morning start?

[  ]

A.

Because they can enjoy a certain amount of freedom in the fresh air.

B.

Because they like working outdoors and breathe the air freely.

C.

Because they can enjoy a great amount of freedom outdoors.

D.

Because they like walking freely in the fresh air.

(3)

According to the passage, in this decade ________.

[  ]

A.

milkmen will disappear very soon

B.

flavored milk will become popular in Britain

C.

people will buy milk from self service stores

D.

there will be little change in the dairy business

(4)

It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

[  ]

A.

the British people seldom buy plain milk

B.

the returnable bottles are no longer used

C.

collection and cleaning of the returnable bottles cost nothing

D.

the returnable bottles won’t be thrown away until they are used dozens of times

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping   36   he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in   37 . He knows what he wants, and his goal is to find it and 38 it. All men  39  walk into a shop and ask the shop assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock(库存), the deal can be done and    40   is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat to everyone’s   41   .

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop doesn’t have what he wants. In that  42   , the salesman tries to sell something else—he    43  the nearest to the article required. A good salesman brings out such a substitute(替代品)   44   , and he may say, “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It   45   to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have   46    with this treatment, and the usual response is “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I shouldn’t be   47   my time and yours by trying it on.”

For a woman, buying clothes is always done in the   48   way. Her shopping is not often   49   on need. She has never fully decided what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always  50  to persuasion, willing to try on any number of things. Deep in her mind is the thought of finding something that   51    thinks suits her. Most women have an excellent sense of value and are always on the look-out for the unexpected  52  . Faced with a roomful dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another      53  selecting the dress she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently a(n)   54    one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting    55   .

A. until

B. unless

C. because

D. while

A. detail

B. advance

C. hurry

D. mind

A. try

B. choose

C. buy

D. want

A. simply

B. immediately

C. soon

D. quickly

A. finally

B. constantly

C. normally

D. often

A. confidence 

B. satisfaction

C. amusement

D. surprise

A. time

B. event 

C. case 

D. condition

A. offers

B. gives      

C. sells   

D. delivers

A. carefully 

B. attentively

C. actively

D. skillfully

A. happens

B. occurs

C. comes   

D. gets

A. experience 

B. interest

C. expectation 

D. patience

A. losing

B. spending 

C. wasting   

D. giving away

A. same

B. opposite

C. clever 

D. similar

A. based         

B. relied  

C. done        

D. related

A. happy            

B. ready           

C. close     

D. open

A. nobody        

B. somebody     

C. anybody       

D. everybody

A. deal            

B. bargain        

C. surprise        

D. luck

A. before          

B. after 

C. as               

D. by

A. exhausting    

B. boring           

C. enjoyable       

D. graceful

A. customers    

B. assistants      

C. husbands      

D. wives

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