William Shakespeare occupies a(n) ______ place in drama.

A. creative　　　 B. powerful　 　　 C. extreme　　　 D. unique

Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D

　 THE Black Eyed Peas’ fifth album, The E.N.D, is its third since singer Stacy Ferguson, or “Fergie”, joined and took the band from hip-hop underground to the pop mainstream (主流). This is more accomplished than any of their previous efforts. The E.N.D is quite charming. As always, Fergie’s performances stir most interest throughout.

Pleasant Goat VS Big Big Wolf

WILL Pleasant Goat become China’s Donald Duck? The Chinese animation (动画) Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf will be broadcast in 13 countries and regions across Asia on Nickelodeon, starting on July 5. Nickelodeon will launch ChinaToon, a 1-hour period for original Chinese animation. In the animated comedy, goats live happily on a green grassland in the year 3131. Pleasant Goat is the smartest goat in the village and always makes fun of his rivals (对手), Grey Wolf and his wife, Red Wolf. It has crazy fans of all age groups.

Scriptwriters Grab Your Pens

YOUNG ambitious game designers will get a chance to work with a project team on the further development of an originally Korean online game ---Aion: The Tower of Eternity (《永恒之塔》). Players have a key role in a war between gods that will determine the life of the world. China’s scriptwriters are encouraged to send their creative ideas to icoke.cn to possibly have their storyline added to the game. It’s sponsored by Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. and Coca-Cola Zero. The winner will be given a trip to a video game exhibition in South Korea and an internship (实习) at Shanghai-based Shanda.

67.　 What column in a newspaper is the passage most likely from?

A. TV Drama B. What’s On C. Looking Abroad　　　 D. Sports News

68. Which of the following about Fergie is NOT TRUE?

A. The success of The Black Eyed Peas is all because of Fergie’s performances.

B. Fergie is not an original member of The Black Eyed Peas.

C. Fergie is an energetic hip-hop singer.

D. Fergie has made great contribution to leading the band to be popular.

69. What can Nickelodeon be?

A. A TV Channel B. A Zoo C. A Newspaper D. A Book Store

70. ________ will be given a trip to South Korea and an internship at Shanda.

A. A young man who wins the war in Aion

B. Any young man who sponsors Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd and Coca-Cola Zero

C. A game designer whose storyline can be added to Aion

D. An ambitious designer who once worked with an originally Korean online game

Unconventional in every way, Edward Estlin Cummings made striking use of grammar. His arts were poetry, painting, and drama, and in all of them he was an experimenter and innovator. The poetry—for which he is best remembered—was marked by strange combinations of words and expressions and produced in very strange printing. The unusual techniques that Cummings used served to present his ideas more forcefully and effectively than would have been the case with more ordinary styles.

Cummings was born in Cambridge, Mass, on Oct. 14, 1894. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and received a master's degree in 1916. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France. He spent six months in a detention camp because of his friendship with another American who had supposedly criticized the Allied war effort. This experience increased his distrust for all officialdom（官场）, a distrust that showed itself in many of his later poems as well as in his first book, ‘The Enormous Room', published in 1922.

Between the two world wars Cummings divided his time between Paris and New York City. His first book of verse was ‘Tulips and Chimneys' (1923). In all he wrote 12 volumes of verse, which were collected in ‘Complete Poems' (1968). The strangeness of his style was criticized by some, but others found it meaningful.

Among Cummings' plays were ‘Him', first performed in 1927, and ‘Tom' (1935), a work based on ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin'. An experimental prose（散文） book, ‘Eimi' (1933), recorded a 36-day visit to the Soviet Union.

Cummings died at his home in North Conway, N.H., on Sept. 3, 1962. He was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.

61. The text is mainly about Edward Estlin Cummings’ ________.

A. life and works             B. greet artistic abilities

C. creative ideas              D. influence on American literature

62. Cummings was chiefly famous as _________.

A. a novelist       B. an artist       C. a poet      D. a playwright

63. What does the underlined part “This experience” refer to?

A. Cummings served as a driver in France.

B. Cummings spent half a year in prison.

C. Cummings made friends with an enemy.

D. Cummings criticized the countries fighting against Germany.

64. What do we know about Cummings from the text?

A. His writing style was unique.

B. He wrote three plays during his life.

C. He published his first book of poetry in 1922.

D. His poems were seldom read in the United States.

65. The passage is mainly developed by _______.

A. giving questions              B. examining difference  

C. following the time order        D. making comparisons