61. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____.

A. popular all their lives 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　B. famous actresses

C. suecessful when very young　　　　　　　　　　 　 D. rich and kind-hearted

60. The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she ____.

A. was small in size 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　B. was too young

C. did not play well enough 　　　　　　　　 　　D. did not show much interest

75.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________-.

　 A.　 a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

　 B.　 her lifelong watchword ：seriousness

　 C.　 publishing books on morals

D.　 enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

答案　 71.D　 72.D　 73.A　 74.B　 75.A

Passage 24

(06·安徽B篇)

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet-the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race, At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained-and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World war II started, the Taylor moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult(成人)roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1966)

Taylor’s fame(名声)and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra-the highest pay received by any star up to that time.

Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (传奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been lucky, she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acts in movies any more. Instead, she puts her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others-several years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.

74.As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit , she __________.

A.　　 misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B.　　　 re-examined old positions

C.　　　 argued for an openess to pop culture

D.　　 preferred morals to beauty

73.According to the passage,Susan Sontag__________.

A.　　 was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B.　　　 looked down upon the pop culture

C.　　　 thought content was more important than form

D.　　 blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

72.She first won her name through ___________.

A.　　 her story of a Polish actress

B.　　　 her book illness as Metaphor

C.　　　 publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review

D.　　 her explanation of a set of difficult understankings

71.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.

A.　　 was a symbol of American cultural life

B.　　　 developed world literature,film and art

C.　　　 published many essays about world culture

D.　　 kept pace with the newst development of world culture

44．What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders ?

　　　 A．He is a success in sports　　　　　　　　　　　 B．He is the best British skier.

　　　 C．He is Ridrway’s favorite student.　　　　　 D．He is a good instructor at school.

答案　 41.B　 42.C　 43.D　 44.A

Passage 23

(06·湖南E篇)

Susan Sontag (1933----2004)was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature.For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything---to read every book worth reading ,to see every movie worth seeing .When she was still in her early 30s,publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life ,trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art .With great effort and serious judgement. Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontage’s lifelong watchwords(格言).but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious,she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture.In “Notes Camp”,the 1964 essay that first made her name ,she explainedwhat was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”,she wrote,represents“a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.

By conviction(信念)she was a sensualist(感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者),and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward. In illness as Metaphor -published in 1978, after she suffered cancer-she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被压抑的性格), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact , re-examining old positions was her lifelong lifelong habit.

In America,her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000.But it was as a tirelessm all-purposer cultural view that she made her lasting fame.“Sometimes,”she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.”And in the end ,she made us take it seriously too.

43．Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Saunders ?

　　　 a．He ran his first marathon.　　　　　　　　　　　 b．He skied alone in the North Pole.

　　　 c．he rode his bike in a forest.　　　　　　　　　 d．He planned an adventure to the South Pole.

　　　 A．acdb　　　　　　　　　 B．cdab　　　　　　　　　 C．acbd　　　　　　　　　 D．cabd

42．The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to 　　　　.l

　　　 A．journeys　　　　　　　 B．researches 　　　　　 C．adventures　　　　　 D．operations