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  In the spring of 1963 King was in Birmingham, Alabama, leading a struggle for jobs for  1 and for African - Americans to be  2 at“  3 Only”restaurants. When the police turned vicious (['viM+s]adj. 凶猛的) dogs and fire hoses (水龙带) on the  4 , they were  5 on TV screens all over the country.  6 was outrage ['autreid{]n. (愤怒). It 7 when the police arrested king  8 many children shown being beaten as they were dragged off to prison.

  In the  9 , King wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail. He  10 out that there was a  11 to obey just laws,  12 there was also a duty not to obey unjust laws. He quoted ([kw+ut]vt. 引用) the Roman Catholic Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law  13 ”He added that peaceful protest ([pr+'test]n. 抗议) was needed because “we know through painful  14 that freedom is never voluntarily given…it must be  15 …”

  The letter from Birmingham Jail drew wide  16 .Civil rights leaders agreed that there should be a protest  17 on Washington, D. C. to demand a federal law that would  18 the role of blacks as second class  19 .They named Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. the main speaker  20 the rally (['r$li]n. 集会) to follow. And so it was that 250, 000 people  21 under the hot August sun in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,  22 to hear him.

  “I have a  23 ,”the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had said on the greatest of days in  24 in 1963. Dr King was dead, but his dream will  25 be.

1.

[  ]

A.whites
B.blacks
C.people
D.himself

2.

[  ]

A.served
B.asked
C.destroyed
D.refused

3.

[  ]

A.Blacks
B.Yellow
C.Americans
D.Whites

4.

[  ]

A.streets
B.whites
C.speakers
D.protesters

5.

[  ]

A.beaten
B.separated
C.seen
D.killed

6.

[  ]

A.There
B.It
C.That
D.Which

7.

[  ]

A.disappeared
B.planted
C.grew
D.agreed

8.

[  ]

A.along with
B.for
C.but
D.like

9.

[  ]

A.room
B.prison
C.meeting
D.letter

10.

[  ]

A.took
B.carried
C.thought
D.pointed

11.

[  ]

A.rule
B.duty
C.saying
D.dream

12.

[  ]

A.but
B.so
C.then
D.because

13.

[  ]

A.in all
B.by all
C.at all
D.for all

14.

[  ]

A.speech
B.books
C.death
D.experience

15.

[  ]

A.demanded
B.caught
C.a war
D.peaceful

16.

[  ]

A.conclusion
B.reading
C.permission
D.attention

17.

[  ]

A.fight
B.march
C.speech
D.freedom

18.

[  ]

A.build
B.make
C.end
D.set

19.

[  ]

A.citizens
B.workers
C.speakers
D.whites

20.

[  ]

A.in
B.at
C.with
D.like

21.

[  ]

A.came
B.walked
C.went
D.gathered

22.

[  ]

A.1964
B.1963
C.1948
D.future

23.

[  ]

A.son
B.house
C.dream
D.future

24.

[  ]

A.Washington
B.Birmingham
C.Atlanta
D.New York

25.

[  ]

A.soon
B.seldom
C.certainly
D.never
  SHANG HAI :Slim 21-year-old Huang Wenxian is a woman of many talents. She is not merely beautiful and clever ,she also knows the correct way to eat a banana.First you take the fruit, cut it open with a knife and then slice it into small pieces which you eat with a fork.“You would do this on a formal occasion or in front of somebody that you respect,” she says. Huang is one of an elite group of girls at the Shanghai Normal University Women's College ,who have been admitted to study Chinese Literature or Public Relations at China's first State funded finishing school.

The curriculum includes ordinary coursework as well as Japanese, English, embroidery(刺绣),the tea ceremony and Chinese and Western table manners.?

Many of the finer points of femininity(妇女气质) lapsed when women were urged to strive for equal rights and forget their feudal traditions, said course director Professor Sun Xun.

“After 1949,government policies emphasized women's rights so there were no women's colleges; they went to ordinary colleges,”he said.?

  In the 1990s,the idea of all female colleges resurfaced. However, the new breed of women's colleges are not aiming to be centers of academic excellence modelled on Girton at Cambridge or Radcliffe on the U.S. east coast.?

  Rather, these ,new finishing schools are modeled on the Swiss ideal of turning out young ladies who know how best to get out of a car, or arrange a bunch of flowers.? “We started the women's college because although there is emphasis on women's equality in society ,women's special talents are different,” said Sun.?

  With China entering the World Trade Organization and the country's big cities becoming more cosmopolitan(世界性的),young people need to grasp international manners to succeed in business.?

  Suggestions that these schools will merely turn out “Flower vases”—Chinese slang for trophy women who are empty but beautiful—are denied by the administration and students.“I can answer that accusation with facts, we are very capable. There is one girl in my course who already has written her first novel. Perhaps other people are just jealous,” said Huang.?

  One woman who is sure that finishing schools will gain ground in China is June Yamada ,a Japanese entrepreneur who aims to set up a “Style Academy” in partnership with the Jinmao Group that co-owns Shanghai's Grand Hyatt hotel.?

  Yamada hopes to sell training courses to corporations or aspiring career girls who want to work for international firm but still spit their chicken bones onto the table.?

“People need elegance .They need manners, and that is not the kind of thing that you find in university,” she explains.?

  Shanghai Normal University, accepts only girls over 1.62 meters for Women's College courses because many companies place an emphasis on women being tall and pretty before considering them for jobs.?

  But while many Chinese films do set height standards, the idea is unknown at multinationals.“I've seldom seen that kind of thing. As I recall, my secretary was quite short,” says Shah Olynik ,a public relations consultant who formerly worked for a major U.S.PR firm.?

1.When you want to eat banana at home, you'd better _______.?

A.cut it open?       B.eat after peeling off the skin?

C.slice into pieces?   D.eat with a fork

2.We started women's college because_______.?

A.it is necessary to know women's the correct way to eat a banana?

B.woman should know how to get out of a car or arrange a bunch of flowers?

C.we wanted to emphasize women's rights?

D.it is necessary to own woman's special talents

3.According to the text, we can know _______.?

A.the women at the Shanghai Normal University must be over one point and six two metersB.the students in the Normal University must be good at embroidery?

C.it's wrong to think girls in women's colleges are empty but beautiful.?

D.many international companies attend to pay more attention to the women's appearance

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true??

A.In 1976,most woman would be possibly accepted by ordinary colleges.?

B.In 1993,maybe female colleges aimed to be centers of academic centers excellence centers.?

C.As a member of the World Trade Organization, oung people should grasp international manners.?

D.Some companies don't set height standards.

5.The best title would be _______.?

A.Female Grace Returns?

B.Shanghai Normal University?

C.Women's Equality in Society?

D.Women Need Elegance

Can people change their skin colour without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin colour.

The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 per cent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 per cent of Africans, researchers at Pennsylvania State University report in the latest issue of Science.

Scientists have changed the colour of a dark-striped zebrafish to uniform gold by inserting a version of  the pigment(色素) gene into a young fish. As with humans, zebrafish skin colour is determined by pigment cells, which contain melanosomes(黑色素). The number, size and darkness of melanosomes per pigment cell determines skin colour.

It appears that, like the golden zebrafish, light-skinned Europeans also have a mutation(变异) in the gene for melanosome production. This results in less pigmented skin.

However, Keith Cheng, leader of the research team, points out that the mutation is dif ferent in human and zebrafish genes.

Humans acquired dark skin in Africa about 1.5 million years ago to protect bodies from ultra-violet rays of the sun(太阳光紫外线), which can cause skin cancer.

But when modern humans leave Africa to live in northern latitudes, they need more sunlight on their skin to produce vit amin D. So the related gene changes, according to Cheng.

Asians have the same version of the gene as Africans, so they pr obably acquired their light skin through the action of some other gene that affects skin colour, said Cheng.

The new discovery could lead to medical treatments for skin cancer. It also could lead to research into ways to change skin colour without damaging it like chemical treatment did on Michael Jackson.

 

1.. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

  A. people can not change their skin colour without any pain

  B. the new discovery could lead to search into ways to change skin colour safely

  C. pop king Michael Jackson often changed his skin colour as he liked

  D. scientists have found out that people’s skin colour is determined by the gene

2.. Scientists have done an experiment on  a dark-striped zebra fish in order to ________.

  A. find the  different genes of humans’

  B. prove the humans’ skin colour is determined by the pigment gene

  C. find out the reason why the Africans’ skin colour is dark

  D. find out the ways of changing peopl’s skin colour

3.. The reason why Europeans are light-skinned is probably that ________.

  A. they are born light-skinned people

  B. light-skinned Europeans have mutation in the gene for melanosome production

  C. they have fewer activities outside

  D. they pay much attention to protecting their skin

 

For a girl who's interested in fashion, what would be the dream job? Being a model? Probably no — that's for a pencil thin who doesn't eat. One answer is, fashion stylist.

As more brands open stores in China to expand their reach, the increase in outdoor advertising might light a stylist spark in a girl's heart. Fashion magazine offices are crowded with interns (实习生), and fashionable brand HR managers get thousands of resumes of people looking for a stylist position.

"It looked too high before, but now I find it more approachable," said Xue Rui, 22, a Fudan University Chinese literature graduate who works as an assistant stylist at Hermès in Shanghai. "There is no certain principle in dressing up models, and you can try every way with your own distinct taste to make them pretty and attractive."

The attractiveness of this line of work is not only in the fabulous clothes. And it's not like it used to be: an insider's job with little recognition and even less money. Now it's a career with a profile, prospects and pay packet.

Girls can find it hard to ignore this tempt and the field is opening up to normal girls, not only style or fashion design majors. "A fashion designer knows how to make a dress pretty, but a stylist knows how to make a person beautiful, from head to toe," explained He Qing, 21, a junior in fashion design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.

"You have to be 'all-round': from hair and make up to clothes, shoes, and accessories(配饰) to the event," said He. "You have to know everything, and handle several things at the same time. It's challenging. That's why I love it."

It's not, however, without its downside, no matter how great you may think it is, "It's incredibly hard work," said Chen Qianzhu, a stylist at the Chinese version of Elle magazine. "You need to build good relations with various people — stars, photographers, PR managers, other media, even airlines."

You need to take care of clothes in the workplace and pay for even a tiny spot you get on them, Chen said. "The worst thing is that you might work extremely hard for a week on some serious photos, but if the chief's not satisfied, you do them all over again."

1. A fashion stylist has to do the following EXCEPT _______.

A. make every effort to dress up models

B. make a model attractive, from hair to feet

C. pay for a tiny stain happening to the clothes

D. not to eat and keep a thin figure like a pencil

2. Xue Rui, He Qing and Chen Qianzhu are mentioned in the passage in order to ______.

A. show the strengths and weaknesses of the new type of career

B. compare the different changes about the occupation

C. make the article interesting and convincing

D. support an idea by giving enough evidence

3. The underlined world 'all-round' in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by ______.

A. all-star     B. all-out        C. all-powerful      D. all-purpose

4. Where can the passage be found?

A. In a newspaper.              B. In a magazine.

C. In an advertisement.           D. In an essay written by a graduate.

Every year some 15,000 animals - mostly mice - are

shipped into the UK for research.Some leading scientists are

warning that pressure from animal rights activists is reducing the

number of animals being brought into Britain for research.All

ferry companies and all but two airlines have stopped importing

animals intended for research laboratories.

Lord Drayson, who was a minister under the last Labour government, said animal research was "regrettably" necessary and that people would "suffer and die" without it."If we do want to have access to medicines, and I believe that we do - in a survey carried out in the past 10 years more than 87% of the general public have said that they support animal research for medical uses.And so unfortunately we do have to do this."

However, Alistair Currie from People, for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said researchers should work harder to come up with alternatives to animal testing."More man 90% of drugs that pass trials in animals fail when they're given to people," he said.They either prove to be unsafe or simply ineffective."

The BBC's Tom Fielden says animal rights campaigners have been imprisoned for taking direct action against laboratories in the past and more recently have focused on creating bad PR (public relations).He says this has included letter-writhing and web-based campaigns against transport companies, which appear to have had an effect.

But the scientists who depend on the animals for their work have now decided to speak out to try to persuade the government and the transpon companies to stand up to the campaigners.Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a geneticist at me National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), told the BBC it was important that scientists were able to import animals, so they could work together with colleagues abroad. Dominic Wells of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) said, "The problem is that they can't be put in a suitable transport."

63.Now animal rights campaigners are trying to affect importing animals by _______.

       A.finding alternatives to animal testing         B.creating bad public relations

       C.taking direct action against labs           D.stopping transport animals to UK

64.According to Lord Drayson, importing animals is ________.

       A.optional                                         B.necessary

       C.unreasonable                                   D.unconditional

65.Who is against importing animals for research?

       A.Alistair Currie form PETA.                B.Tom Fielden from the BBC.

       C.Robin Lovell-Badge from the NIMR.       D.Dominic Wells from the RVC.

66.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

       A.Activists stopping direct action against imports

       B.Importing animals contributing to medicine

       C.Activists' pressure slowing animal imports

       D.No animal imports, no medical research

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