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摘要： A computer is one of the greatest i in the 20th century.

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　　Arthur Miller(1915-2005)is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20^th century．Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary．Drawn like so many other by the “Great American Dream” However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the earlv l930s．

　　Milles's most famous play, Death of a SaIesman, is a powerful attack on the American system．with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth．In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into double with his worth．Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment：if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go．Willy is painfully aware of this, and at loss as to what to do with his lack of sucess．He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end．

　　When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic revews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics` Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama．It was the first play to win all three of these major awards．

　　Millerl died of hear failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway．

　　The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters．Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see．“We didn’t want to give the children rubbish, ” says Linda．The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series．

　　Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work．Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12, 200 books to preschoolers in their in their area．Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative：“This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of．”

　　The Richters spend about ＄400 a month sending books to 200 children．“Some people sit there and wait to die,” says Tim．“Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left．”

(1)

What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?
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A．	His health problem．
B．	His love for teaching
C．	The influence of his wife
D．	The news from the Web

(2)

What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?
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A．	Give out brochures．
B．	Do something similar．
C．	Write books for children
D．	Retire from being a teacher．

(3)

According to the text, Dollly Parton is ________．
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A．	a well-known surgeon
B．	a mother of a four-year-old
C．	a singer born in Tennessee
D．	a computer programmer

(4)

Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?
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A．	To avoid signing up online．
B．	To meet Dollywood board members．
C．	To make sure the books were the newest．
D．	To see if the books were of good quality．

(5)

What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?
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A．	He needs more money to help the children．
B．	He wonders why some people are so busy．
C．	He tries to save those waiting to die．
D．	Hconsiders his efforts worthwhile．

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　　Stephen Hawking, the disabled author of A Brief History of Time is launching his second journey to China in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province. His first visit was over 10 years ago.

　　The great theoretical scientist has been invited to attend a state-of-the-art mathematics research institute at Zhejing University, Hangzhou-based Dushi Kuaibao reported.

　　On Sunday evening, he made his début at a press conference held at Shangri-La hotel, Hangzhou. Hawking appeared at about 5:00 p.m. with his wife.

　　The 50-year-old man answered a total of nine questions with the help of his computer.

　　“Experts in theoretical science are dispersed around the world, but we need communication. I am very glad that the world’s first-class conference is being held in China this time,”he said.

　　“I find the real universe much more interesting than the one in the film Star Wars ,” Hawking joked.“I encourage young people to study theoretical physics first if they are interested in it.”

　　Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity implied (隐含) space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great scientific development of the first half of the 20th century.

　　One consequence(结果) of such a unification theory would be that black holes would not be completely black, but emit (放射) radiation and eventually evaporate (蒸发) and disappear. Another conjecture (推测) is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.

　　But the talented man who has produced such rich work suffers serious Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (肌萎缩性脊髓索硬化). He is one of the 350,000 sufferers in the world. The disease kills over 100,000 people every year.

　　“I like life and I love life, my family and music give me the greatest happiness,”smiled Hawking, who can only move three fingers.

　　In the coming year, Hawking said he is scheduled to write a new edition of A Brief History of Time for young children.

　　“A Brief History of Time is my first book for common people. But I later found that I could write it in a more simple way,”he answered,“So I decided to rewrite it so that all people can read it easily.”

1．It is obvious that Hawking ________.

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A．comes to China for the first time

B．has never been to China before

C．has been to China twice

D．hopes to come to visit China one day

2．What do the underlined words“are dispersed”in the fifth paragraph mean?

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A．Live together.

B．Live far away from.

C．Know each other better.

D．Have connection with each other.

3．From the passage we know the nature of Hawking’s being ________.

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A．determined and humorous

B．learned and humorous

C．learned and shy

D．disabled

4．It can be inferred that Hawking ________.

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A．greatly improved Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

B．knows a lot about Einstein’s theory

C．has A Brief History of Time published recently

D．loves nothing but his study on universe

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