WHAT is the top hit single of 20067 It’s “Don’t Wanna Grow Up”!
Taiwan girl band S.H.E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards(金曲榜)last week, with “Don’t Wanna Grow Up” from their eighth album “Once Upon A Time”．
It’s the first time S.H.E has won the award．The three members, Selina．Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it．They not only performed the song at the award ceremony．but also offered exaggerated(夸张的)hugs when giving awards to other artists．
“Don’t Wanna Grow Up” is a song with light tunes(旋律)and easy lyrics．Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart’s Symphony N0 40 as the refrain(副歌)．That gives the song a very classical feeling．The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn’t grow up．“I don’t wanna grow up．When I grow up there won’t be fairy tales in the world．I don’t wanna grow up．I’d rather be ignorant and foolish．”In the song, S.H.E expresses young people’s common fear of the adult world and the desire to stay young forever．
The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out．Xiao Xue, a Senior l student from Shanghai, said that she often hums(哼歌)the refrain part herself．
“I like the lyrics too, ”she said．“I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn’t have to worry about all the exams．”
S.H.E said that the song also expresses their true feelings．Their rocking Success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads(工作量) and forced them to grow up very quickly．“When we first started singing．we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams, ”said S.H.E．“‘Don’t Wanna Grow Up’ reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams．”
(1)
The girl band S.H.E was awarded because ________．
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they sang a song with light tunes and easy words
B．
their song has become the favorite of young people
C．
their music writer gives the song a classical feeling
D．
their song has made their dream come true
(2)
Which of the following is NOT true?
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A．
S.H.E won the Top Chart Awards for the first time．
B．
S.H.E were given exaggerated hugs at the award ceremony．
C．
Hard work led to S.H.E’s success in music．
D．
S.H.E wish to remain young like most young people．
(3)
This passage is perhaps taken from ________．
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A．
an article for the 2006 Hong Kong TVB 8 Top Chart Awards
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．
But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．
(1)
The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．
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it made Christive evil
B．
it was the apple of Eden
C．
it came from a forbidden land
D．
it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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A．
The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B．
There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C．
The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D．
Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
(3)
What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?
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To manke imself a hero
B．
To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
C．
To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D．
To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
(4)
What is the main purpose of the passage?
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To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
B．
To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
C．
To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
D．
To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
