70. What’s the best title for this passage?
A. Advice on how to choose which media to get news.
B. Many people get their daily news on the Internet.
C. TV remains top source of news even as online grows.
D. Differences between the Internet and traditional media.
Part 1V Writing (45 marks)
Section A (10 marks)
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
A long story about people is usually called a novel. It can be about any kind of man, woman, or child. It can be about kings, or Chicago newsboys, or housewives. The French writer, Victor Hugo, wrote his novel Les Miserables about a poor man who stole a loaf of bread. The American writer, Ernest Hemingway, wrote A Farewell to Arms about a young American with the Italian Army in World War One.
A novel can tell the story of any kind of action, over any period of time. The modern Irish writer, James, Joyce, covers less than twenty- four hours in Ulysses. Yet, Joyce takes a thousand pages to tell all that happens from the time one man gets up in the morning until he goes to bed early the next morning. A German writer, Herman Hesse, uses only one hundred and fifty pages in his novel Demian to cover a boy’s life from the age of ten until he becomes a young man.
A novel does not just tell the things that people do. It also tells why they do them. The Badge of Courage, by the American novelist, Stephen Crane, tells about a young soldier in the War between the states who runs away the first time he is in battle. The book shows why he acted as he did. It describes his mental suffering until he overcomes his fears.
People buy novels because they enjoy reading about other people. The novel satisfies the human desire to know and understand our fellow creatures.
The Content of the 71. _________
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Les Miserables is about a poor man who
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A farewell to Arms is about a young American
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The Badge of Courage describes a young soldier’s
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Satisfy 80. _____ _ to know others.
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Section B (10 marks)
Directions: Read the following passage; Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.
Lights went out at tourism landmarks(地标)and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event aimed to highlight the threat from climate change.
From the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Houses of Parliament, lights were turned off as part of a campaign to encourage people to cut energy use and control greenhouse gas emissions from fuels.
Organizers said the action showed millions of people wanted governments to work out a strong new U. N. deal to fight global warming by the end of 2009, even though the global economic crisis has raised worries about the costs.
“We have been dreaming of a new climate deal for a long time,” Kim Carstensen, head of a global climate organization at the conservation group WWF, said in a bar in the German city of Bonn, which hosts U. N. climate talks between March 29 and April 8.
“Now we’re no longer so alone with our dream. We’re sharing it with all these people switching off their lights,” he said.
The UN Climate Panel says greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and will lead to more floods, droughts, rising sea levels and animal and plant extinctions.
World emissions have risen by about 70 percent since the 1970s.
Australia first held Earth Hour in 2007 and it went global in 2008, attracting 50 million people, organizers say. WWF, which started the event, is hoping one billion people from nearly 90 countries will take part.