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Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once．Note that there is one word more than you need．
A year ago, at the annual pre-Grammy party, Whitney Houston, the great diva(女歌手), walked on stage and closed the evening with a brilliant performance．
Last Saturday, Houston was once again the 1 of the showcase before the Grammys, but her presence was a posthumous(死后的)one．
Earlier that day, pop music's former queen was found dead in her hotel room．She was 48．
This, no doubt, is sad news to the whole music industry and her fans all over the world, 2 what a legendary life and remarkable career that she once had．
At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music world．From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's 3 artists．She strongly impressed the audiences with effortless, powerful and peerless vocals．
Besides multi-million record sales, Houston made countless hits such as The Greatest Love of All, I Have Nothing, and the mostly famous I Will Always Love You．
She also 4 a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey．
But by the end of her career, it was a 5 fall for this superstar．Houston has been addicted to drugs．Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming．Her once calm and peaceful image was shattered by a wild manner and unusual public appearances, and her once natural voice became rough and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she 6 ．
“The biggest devil is me．I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy,” Houston told the ABC in an interview in 2002．
In 2009, Houston staged what seemed to be a successful 7 with the album I Look To You, which debuted on top of the charts．
But hoarse voice, 8 concerts, and continuous illness–Houston's comeback trail wasn't smooth at all．In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, Houston confessed：“It(show business)is too much．So much to try to live up to, to try to be, and I wanted out．”
Now that Houston has finally taken a break from all the chaos, may she rest 9 ．
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阅读理解
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
Among various programmes, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. And an one who watches them regularly knows that each one is different in style (风格). But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “rubbish talk”. The contents on his show are as surprising as can be. For example, the show takes the ever - common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people's lives.
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its top, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality (质量) of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main viewers are middleclass Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and ability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18 - to - 21 - year - olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the show's exploitation.
1．Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are ________.
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2．Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows ________.
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A．remain interested in them
B．are ready to face up to them
C．remain cold to them
D．are willing to get away from them
3．Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?
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4．We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ________.
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A．have become the only ones of its kind
B．exploit the weaknesses in human nature
C．appear at different times of the day
D．attract different people
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