Hi, everybody!

Welcome to our newly opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!

Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.

Are you Chinese film fans? OK,here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.

Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and so on.

Maybe you are Indian film fans and star chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia(百科全书)of Indian Cinema. The book is a complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.

If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.

In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.

Well, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!

60.The speaker of the passage is most probably            .

       A.the author of 25 New Takes

       B.a tourist in the cinema bookstore

       C.the manager of the cinema bookstore

       D.a reader of Encvclopedia of Indian Cinema

61.How many Asian countries does the speaker refer to when he talks about the film books?

       A.Two.                  B.Three.                 C.Four.                  D.Nine.

62.Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?

       A.Indian cinema is second only to Hollywood.

       B.The British Cinema Book includes a complete list of names of stars.

       C.Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon is well received in the States.

       D.The French Cinema Book covers over a century’s French films.

63.The purpose of the speaker is           .

       A.to satisfy the customers’ various tastes

       B.to keep the authors in the cinema bookstore

       C.to offer the tourists chances to meet the film stars

       D.to take the readers into film producers

Getting close to active or erupting volcanoes can be dangerous. But for Michael Rampino, it’s all in a day’s work. Rampino is a volcanologist, a scientist who studies volcanoes and how they affect our planet. Rampino has been close to red-hot lava flows (熔岩流) in Hawaii and explosive volcanoes in Indonesia. He knows when to get close to an active volcano and when to back away.

Rampino wasn’t always a volcanologist. He worked for NASA for seven years. He studied rocks until he began to research climate change and the effects that volcanoes have on climate. He became interested in the subject. “Once I started working with volcanoes,” Rampino said, “I was hooked.”

Rampino is a professor at New York University. As part of his job, he travels to areas where volcanoes have been active. “Active” means they have erupted within the past few centuries and probably will erupt again. Rampino studies the deposits (沉积物) of ash and other materials from the eruptions. The ash may hold clues to what happened to the Earth in the distant past. It may also help scientists predict what could happen to Earth’s climate in the future.

Rampino doesn’t work alone. He works with a team of scientists who use computers to stimulate (模拟) the effects volcanoes have on Earth’s atmosphere.

Being a volcanologist may be hard work, but it’s also fun. “It’s cool traveling the world studying volcanoes,” Rampino says. When he talks to students about his work, he tells them that his goal is “to understand the events that have shaped Earth’s history.”

1.To Rampino, being close to active volcanoes is _____.

A. adventurous but meaningful

B. scary but necessary

C. impossible and unnecessary

D. dangerous but urgent

2.The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_____”.

A. trapped    B. touched C. frightened   D. attracted

3.Rampino’s study on volcanoes might help _____.

A. warn people to protect the environment

B. support the study of Earth’s future climate

C. tell the future eruption time of the volcanoes

D. reduce the possibility of the volcanoes’ eruptions

4.In which part of a newspaper could we find this text?

A. Climate.   B. History.     C. People. D. Business.

 

Good afternoon, principal, teachers and all students. It is my 1      (honorable) to be here to give a talk to all of you. I have studied in this school for five years. In these five years, I learned one precious thing important not only to me  2        to all of you here, and it is “reading”. I can always gain knowledge from reading. Reading doesn’t   3            up a lot of time but I gain a lot. Now I would like to share my reading experiences with you.

I once read a book Rare Air: Michael on Michael   4         (write) by the greatest basketball player in the history, Michael Jordan. While we envy his great achievement in the basketball and business aspects, few of us focus on his spirit of persistence. In the book, he talks about his experience of     5           he walks on the path to success. In order to join the NBA, he put in every effort to strengthen his muscle, to improve his skills 6             training hard. Because of his efforts, he successfully entered the NBA.

However, he did not stop his training. 7             , the training was even stricter,      8             prepared him to deny(否认) the statement released by the public, “Michael is a weak guy!” While the criticism against him diminished(减少;减小;缩减), he worked even harder to achieve his next goal — the championship of the NBA. Finally, he succeeded.

People honor Michael as “God of basketball” not only for his great basketball skills, but also mainly for his spirit of persistence. While we admire his spirit, we can follow(追求;追逐) his spirit as well. Michael should be our example; we ought to learn from him. As/So long as(只要) we work hard, nothing is impossible. Bear in mind that all of you have the same quality. Nobody is born wise. Putting in effort is the only but   9            (effect) way to advancement. My fellow schoolmates, before I go, I would like to encourage all of you that we should work as hard as we 10               . When you grow up, you may be the one who is admired by the community. My fellow schoolmates, let’s work hard together! Work for our future! Thank you.

      

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