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  Of course,what is an ideal(理想)holiday for one person may be a very unpleasant one for another.The sportsman likes a kind of holiday which his lazy friend would find worse than his daily work;while the lazy man’s ideal holiday would leave the sportsman quite unsatisfied.

  If I were allowed to choose my own holiday,I would have no doubts;I would go on a voyage(远航)in a modern passenger ship with a swimming bath.Even if my sportsman friend and my lazy friend came with me,they would both be happy;one would have plenty of games,swimming and dancing;the other could sit in a comfortable chair all day,looking at the sea and drinking lemonade(柠檬水)or beer.In a ship,one can do as one likes.If one day I find an interesting book in the ship’s library,I can spend the whole day reading it,and nobody will stop me.Perhaps the next day I shall want some exercise.Well,then I can play games with other passengers until I am hot and sweating and ready for a bath.I can go and sleep in my cabin at any time of the day or night,I can get cheap drinks during most of the day,and I can eat as I like,choosing among a variety of foods.

  But what I like even more about a sea voyage is the chance to meet new and interesting people from many countries.What other kind of holiday gives us such a chance?Freed from(从……解脱)all the duties of life at home,we can talk,play games,swim,drink,sing and dance with our new friends.They can tell us about their own countries,their daily lives and amusements,their hopes and their fears.And in return we can tell them all about ourselves.

  But perhaps the greatest pleasure of a sea holiday is coming to new ports in strange lands,and going ashore for a few hours to see strange places,eat strange foods and hear a strange language talked around us.Whenever I think of my ideal holiday,it is the picture of a mysterious foreign city that comes to my mind.

(1)

The best title for the passage is ________.

[  ]

A.

Traveling by Ship

B.

The Pleasures of a Sea Holiday

C.

An Ideal Holiday

D.

Different People, Different Happiness

(2)

Which of the activities is NOT included in a modern passenger ship according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

Swimming.

B.

Dancing and singing.

C.

Reading and chatting.

D.

Fishing and cooking.

(3)

On a ship,we can talk with strangers pleasantly because ________.

[  ]

A.

we are all out of work

B.

we don’t have the pressure of work at the moment and are trying to enjoy the voyage

C.

we will say “goodbye” soon

D.

they are our special friends with whom we can share our secrets

(4)

To the writer,the greatest pleasure of a sea holiday is ________.

[  ]

A.

making both sportsman friends and lazy friends satisfied

B.

doing whatever he likes

C.

meeting interesting strangers from other countries

D.

arriving in strange places and having new and exciting experiences

Writing articles about films for The Front Page was my first proper job. Before then I had done bits of reviewing — novels for other newspapers, films for a magazine and anything I was asked to do for the radio. That was how I met Tom Seaton, the first arts editor of The Front Page, who had also written for television. He hired me, but Tom was not primarily a journalist, or he would certainly have been more careful in choosing his staff.

At first, his idea was that a team of critics should take care of the art forms that didn’t require specialized knowledge: books, TV, theatre, film and radio. There would be a weekly lunch at which we would make our choices from the artistic material that Tom had decided we should cover, though there would also be guests to make the atmosphere sociable.

It all felt like a bit of dream at that time: a new newspaper and I was one of the team. It seemed so unlikely that a paper could be introduced into a crowded market. It seemed just as likely that a millionaire wanted to help me personally, and was pretending to employ me. Such was my lack of self-confidence.

Tom’s original scheme for a team of critics for the arts never took off. It was a good idea, but we didn’t get together as planned and so everything was done by phone. It turned out, too, that the general public out there preferred to associate a reviewer with a single subject area, and so I chose film. Without Tom’s initial push, though, we would hardly have come up with the present arrangement, by which I write an extended weekly piece, usually on one film.

The space I am given allows me to broaden my argument — or forces me, in an uninteresting week, to make something out of nothing. But what is my role in the public arena (舞台)? I assume that people choose what films to go to on the basis of the stars, the publicity or the director. So if a film review isn’t really a consumer guide, what is it? I certainly don’t feel I have a responsibility to be ‘right’ about a movie. Nor do I think there should be a certain number of ‘great’ and ‘bad’ films each year. All I have to do is put forward an argument. I’m not a judge, and nor would I want to be.

43. What do we learn about Tom Seaton from the first paragraph?

     A. He encouraged the writer to become a writer.

     B. He met the writer when working for television.

     C. He had worked in various areas of the media.

     D. He prefers to employ people that he knows.

44. The weekly lunches were planned in order to ______.

     A. help the writers get to know each other     B. distribute the work that had to be done

     C. provide an informal information session    D. entertain important visitors from the arts

45. What does the author mean when he says that Tom’s plan never took off in Paragraph 4?

     A. Tom’s plan was unpopular.                      B. Tom’s plan wasted too much time.

     C. Tom’s plan wasn’t planned properly.         D. Tom’s plan wasn’t put into practice.

46. Which of the following best describes what the writer says about his work?

     A. He can freely express his opinion.             B. He prefers to write about films he likes.

     C. His success varies from year to year.        D. He writes according to accepted rules.

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