43.　 Activities concerning children’s books are to be held　　　

A. on June 24,2007　　 　　　　　　　　　 B. on July15,2007

C. on July 24,2007　　 　　　　　　　　　　 D. on August 5,2007

C

A month after Hurricace Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house,

reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty.

Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up

the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked. I said I was,

“No charge.” She said, and firmly shock her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I

went for a haircut, and the same thing happened.

As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage(抵押贷款)on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We’d began to accept that we’d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He’d read some pieces I’d written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (“no conditions attached”) a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet’s offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months. Throughout this painful experience , the kindness of strangers back my faith in humanity .It’s almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel.

42. To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to ________.

　 　　 A. Exhibition Space .Level 3　　　　　　　 B. Gas Works Arts Park

　 　　 C. Theatre ,NGV Australia　　　　　　　　　 D. Foyer, Level 3

41.　 Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?

　 　　 A. Illustrator Workshop and Wonderful World

　 　　 B. Illustrator Workshop and Drawing Workshop.

　 　　 C. Wonerful World and Topsy –Turvy.

　 　　 D.Topsy-Turvy and Drawing Workshop.

40. Charles Blackman’s paintings come from ________.

A. his admiration for Lewis Carrioll

B. his dream of becoming a famous artist

C. his wish to express his own feelings

D. his eagerness to cure his wife’s illness

39.　 People may break the law in Turin if they ________.

A. keep their dogs or cats in cars

B. feed homeless animals in car parks

C. raise their cats near ancient ruins

D. shut their dogs home all day long

B

Charles Blackman：Alice in Wonderland

An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV),Australia

10　　　　 June -12 August 2007

Venue (地点)　　 The Ian Potter Centre

Admission 　　　　 Free entry

Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland –the story of a Victorian　 girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things .At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events ,was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.

Illustrator Workshop

Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.

Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am-1pm

Venue Gas Works Arts Park

Wonderful World

Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit

Date Sunday 24 June ,11am-4pm

Venue Exhibition Space .Level 3

Topsy-Turvy

Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened.

Dates 　 Sunday 8,15,22,29 July, and Tuesday 24-Friday 27 July, 12noon-3pm

Venue 　 Theatre, NGV Australia

Drawing Workshop

Distortions of scale ( 比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting .Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world .then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.

Date Friday 27 July,10:30am-3pm

Venue　 Foryer, Level 3

38.　 The underlined word “compassion” in Paragraph 6 is the closest in meaning to ________.

A. pity　　　　　　　　　 B. praise　　　　　　　　 C. support　　　　　　 D. popularity

36. The new law passed in Rome will ________.

A. help improve fishing environment

B. guarantee better conditions for goldfish

C. stop people from catching goldfish

D. discourage keeping goldfish at home

19.　　 A. when　　　　　　　　　　　 B. why　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. how　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. what

18.　　 A. an error　　　　　　　　　 B. a problem　　　　　　　　 C. as accident　　　　　　　　 D. a headache