Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon

Univers ity one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled

with young people chatting and enjoying the fine weather．Several

 had identical blue T-Shirts with 'Trilogy @CMU" written across them —Trilogy being an Austin,

Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting （招聘） our top students．I walked over to the table．"Are you guys here to recruit?" I asked．"No, absolutely not," they replied firmly．"We're not recruiters．We're just hanging out, playing a little Frisbee （飞盘） with our friends．" How interesting, I thought．They've come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends．

As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their department．

I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Texas．"The company is excellent", he told me．"There are also terrific people and the work is challenging"．Though he had several good job offers from Pittsburgh's high-tech firms and knew the city well, he said he felt the city lacked the lifestyle options, cultural diversity, and tolerant attitude that would make it attractive to him．As he summed it up: "How would I fit in here?"

What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company．Today, apparently, it's the company trying to fit in with the students．

These young men and their lifestyle represent a lively new force in the economy and life of America．They are members of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid part of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend．They do not consciously think of themselves as a class．Yet they share a common belief that values creativity, individuality, difference, and advantage．

59．What would be the best title for the passage?

       A．The rise of the creative class         B．New ideas about recruitment

       C．Changed working cultures                 D．A tale of two cities

60．Why were the young people on the university campus?

       A．To get recruited in Pittsburgh．

       B．To celebrate their successful recruitment．

       C．To relax themselves away from work．

       D．To meet their old schoolmates．

61．The underlined word "inked" in paragraph 2 probably means "____"．

       A．fulfilled             B．obtained              C．settled            D．signed

62．Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards the young people?

       A．Criticizing                                    B．Approving              

       C．Disappointing                                 D．Disgusting

63．From the passage we can infer that ____．

       A．the young people prefer to work in a small quiet city

       B．the high pay is the main attraction to the young people

       C．Pittsburgh has many advantages over Austin

       D．Pittsburgh doesn't have enough attractions to the young people

You know her name，Maureen McGovern of course，but it is understandable if what you can think of when you reflect on her voice is that mournful song The Morning After from the movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972) or the equally We May Never Love Like This Again from the equally disaster-filled Towering Inferno (1974). Ms McGovern’s career took off with these recordings when she was in her early 20s，and both won Oscars for best song. Then she sort of disappeared.

At 62-although she says she prefers to give her age “in Celsius17”-Ms McGovern is sharing both her career rise-and-fall-and-rise story and a good bit about her personal life in this almost-solo（独唱）show，Two River Theater Company’s latest main stage production Carry It On. It’s an uneven but eventually satisfying mix of songs and anecdotes（轶事）.

Ms. McGovern’s narration (叙述) seems forced and artificial at first，too，going on about “The Wizard of Oz，”Emily Dickson，her childhood home in Ohio and her idols，(偶像) including Judy Collins and Mary Travers. It would have been nice if Philip Himberg，the director and the star’s co-author，could have forced a little more liveliness into these anecdotes. But Ms McGovern either eases into them or becomes carried away with memories of social activism. “ The 1960s sort of got stuck to me，”she says，and goes into Joni Mitchell’s classic Circle Game.

However，by the time she does the title number by Joan Baez，with a background of violent scenes from the civil rights movement，the audience is hers. In the best numbers，her voice is big，powerful and capable of crystal-clear notes with deep emotion.

Maya Ciarrocchi’s projection design is a remarkable part of the show. It’s not wildly creative，but the images are well chosen and artistically edited. Ms McGovvern sings The White Cliffs of Dover to a picture of her father in his World War II uniform. She sings When I’m 64 and Let It Be in front of a changing collage（拼贴画）of the Beatles in their youth.

72. Towering Inferno is the name of ______.

A. a singer               B. a director                  C. a song               D. a movie

73. We can learn from the first paragraph that Maureen McGovern ______.

A. has been successful in her whole life

B. only sang mournful songs from movies

C. came out successful when still very young

D. dropped from singing for winning Oscars for best singer

74. According to the passage，Maureen McGovern’s acting in “Carry It On ” is ______.

A. unnatural             B. attractive                  C. rough                D. boring

75. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. Maureen McGovern and her songs.

B. Maureen McGovern and her followers.

C. Maureen McGovern and her achievements.

D. Maureen McGovern and the Musical “Carry It On”.

Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled with young people chatting and enjoying the fine weather. Several had identical blue T-Shirts with “Trilogy@ CMU” written across them——Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting(招聘) our top students. I walked over to the table. “Are you guys here to recruit?” I asked. “No, absolutely not,” they replied firmly. “We’re not recruiters. We’re just hanging out, playing a little Frisbee(飞盘) with our friends.” How interesting, I thought. They’ve come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends.

As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their department.

I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Texas. The company is excellent, he told me. There are also terrific people and the work is challenging. Though he had several good job offers from Pittsburgh’s high-tech firms and knew the city well, he said he felt the city lacked the lifestyle options, cultural diversity, and tolerant attitude that would make it attractive to him. As he summed it up: “How would I fit in here?”

What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company. Today, apparently, it’s the company trying to fit in with the students.

These young men and their lifestyle represent a lively new force in the economy and life of America. They are members of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid part of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend. They do not consciously think of themselves as a class. Yet they share a common belief that values creativity, individuality, difference, and advantage.

1．What would be the best title for the passage?

A．The rise of the creative class                        B．New ideas about recruitment

C．Changed working cultures                           D．A tale of two cities

2．Why were the young people on the university campus?

A．To get recruited in Pittsburgh.

B．To celebrate their successful recruitment.

C．To relax themselves away from work.

D．To meet their old schoolmates.

3．The underlined word “inked” in paragraph 2 probably means “________”.

A．fulfilled                      B．obtained              C．settled                 D．signed

4．Which of the following best describes the author’s attitude towards the young people?

A．Criticizing                   B．Disappointing       C．Approving           D．Disgusting

5．From the passage we can infer that _________.

A．the young people prefer to work in a small quiet city

B．the high pay is the main attraction to the young people

C．Pittsburgh has many advantages over Austin

D．Pittsburgh doesn’t have enough attractions to the young people