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IV.阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

  阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  With her beautiful looks, cheerful character and strong spirit, Karena Lam(林嘉欣)is making waves among Chinese movie fans and professionals (专业人士).

  The Canada - born actress won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer awards (金马奖最佳女配角和最佳新人奖)for her role in “July Rhapsody” (《男人四十》)in Taiwan on November 16.She won the same titles at the HongKong Film Awards in April, 2002.

  Lam played a wifful (任性的)high school girl in the film and her idol (偶像)Jacky Cheung (张学友)played the girl 's middle - aged teacher.

  Her awards have made her the person to watch in Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema. But the 24-year-old girl thinks the awards have put more pressure on her and given her new challenges (挑战).

  Besides Jacky Cheung, Lam has appeared alongside other top Hong Kong stars. Last year she starred with Leslie Cheung (张国荣)in“ Inner Senses ” (《异度空间》)and this year she acted with Nicholas Tse (谢霆锋)in“ Tiramisu” (《恋爱行星》). Is there anything that can stop Lam's success?

  “I have learnt that ff someone is trying to hurt you, the best revenge (报复)is to keep living happily and having a good life.That’s what I did, ” she said.

  She is an optimist (乐天派)and determined to be successful. “I always have a way of finding my own happiness. I know what's going to make me smile, and I go for it, ”she said.

  Two films—a comedy and a love - story are waiting for her and she plans to release (首次上演)her first Cantonese (粤语)album next summer.

41.According to the passage, which of the following shows the right order of what Lam did or will do?

  a.To star with Leslie Cheung in“Inner Senses.”

  b.To win the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer awards for her role in“ July Rhapsody.”

  c.To release her first cantones album.

  d.To act with Nicholas Tse in“ Tiramisu. ”

  e.To win the Hong Kong Film Awards.

  A. b, e, a, d, c   B. c, a, d, e, b     C. e, b, d, c, a   D. a, d, e, b, c

 42.In“Inner Senses” Lam was one of the________performers.

  A. supporting  B. chief      C. ordinary   D. learned

 43.The underlined phrase“make waves” probably means________.

  A. gain much attention   B. make trouble

  C. sing and dance    D. fan the flames of disorder

 

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May: Happenings from the past

May 5, 1884

Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.

May 9, 1754

Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon(漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces, with the words “ Join or Die" printed under the picture.

May 11, 1934

The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought(干旱),blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May 19,1994

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.

May 24,1844

Samuel F. B. Morse taps out the first message, “What hath God wrought, "over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D.C. , to Baltimore, Md.

1. We know from the text that Buchanan is ______

A. Isaac's father         B. a winning horse

C. a slave taking care of horses   D. the first racing horse in Kentucky

2. What is the title of the first American political cartoon? 

A. Join or Die                   B. Pennsylvania Gazette

C. What Hath God Wrought            D. Kentucky Derby          

3. In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die? 

 A.1934.    B.1960.    C.1964.    D.1994.

4. Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?

A. Washington, D. C.             B. New York City.        

C. Kentucky                          D. Pennsylvania

 

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 A film was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This is in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to shoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crews saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for  50. “Hell, ” said Winfield, “for 50 bucks, I'll jump that damn horse over the moon!”

  To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man who’s been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, he’s a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in Wyoming.

  One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasn’t changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, “I’ve met you. know you from somewhere. ”Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.

  60.Which of the following statements is true?

  A. Cigarette ads were prohibited in America.

  B. Cigarette ads are prohibited on television in America.

  C. Marlboro commercial was prohibited on television.

  D. Marlboro commercial was produced on television.

  61.What does the word“prohibited”in the first paragraph mean?

  A. broadcast           B. forbidden

  C. produced           D. provided

  62.When they filmed the ad, ________.

  A. Winfield was too drunk.

  B. The actor in the ad was too drunk.

  C. Winfield was setting up the equipmet.

  D. Winfield was riding a horse.

  63.From the passage, we know that Winfield was ________.

  A. an ordinary man

  B. a superstar

  C. an actor

  D. a rich man

  64.When people recognized Winfield, he felt________.

   A. excited            B. happy

  C. interested           D. uncomfortable

  65.A train car moves along a long straight track. The graph (曲线) shows the position as a function of time for this train. The graph shows that ________.

  A. slows down all the time

  B. speeds up all the time

  C. speeds up part of the time and slows down part of the time

  D. moves at a constant speed

  66.As the diagram shows, there is a fixed superconductor ring, on the right of which lies a bar magnet. There is no electric current. When the magnet is moved to the right, because of electro-magnetic, induction, a certain electric current is produced. Thus the direction of the electric current is________ .

   A. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.

  B. as indicated by the arrowhead in the diagram. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.

  C. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will soon disappear.

D. in the opposite direction. When the magnet is moved away, the electric current will still remain.

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