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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中,选出最佳选项。

Tony Morrison has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama. She studied at Harvard University in Washington D.C. and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye. It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. Her next book was called Sulla. It tells the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio. Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. In the story the writer argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(种族仇视).?

Miss Morrison won America’s highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved. It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so she will not grow up to be a slave, too. Her latest book Jazz was published last year. It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City. It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.

Tony Morrison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey. She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer. The prize is valued at more than 800,000 dollars. It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in Sweden.

1.From the passage, we can see _________.

A. Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize

B. The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girls

C. the Blacks lived a hard life

D. Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there

2.Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize perhaps because _________.

A. she is an important professor in literature

B. her books are widely read

C. what she has written attracted people’s attention to the Blacks’ life

D. she mostly writes about the black women

3.How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?

A. Five. B. Six.

C. Seven. D. Eight.

4.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Morrison’s father once lived in Alabama.

B. When jazz was popular in the United States.

C. When her ancestors first came to the U.S.

D. When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.

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The media provides us with the observations and experiences from which we build up our personal understanding of the world and how it works.Much of our view of reality is based on media messages.The media,to a great extent,gives us our sense of reality.

Freedom of the media carries with it certain responsibilities of honesty,fairness,accuracy and account-ability.The power of the media to create and destroy human values comes with great responsibility.

The media is powerful in the political system,having great influence on politics and on forming social change.The power is to decide who will communicate what to whom.Television can greatly influence the election of a national leader on the basis of his or her image.

Professional journalists do have a code of ethics(道德标准).Journalists make a judgment about what's safe and appropriate to report,which often involves difficult choices.German sociologist Max Weber distinguishes between“ethics of conviction”and“ethics of responsibility”.According to the latter(ethics of responsibility),journalists must take into account the foreseeable consequences of their reporting,and the impact it will have on society.The former,on the other hand,asks journalists to tell the truth,regardless of the consequences.According to Weber,both ideas of ethics should be considered.

Without doubt,information is power,and the big owners of the mass media are very powerful people.Television and radio stations,newspapers,magazines,and websites are,largely,owned and controlled by profit-making businesses.It is not strange that their ideas will get promoted at times.

It is my view that such power and responsibility should never be left in the hands of a few.I believe it is our responsibility as concerned citizens to make sure we are not merely passive viewers,readers or listeners.Together we can have a huge influence on the media by making our views known.

1.What's the first paragraph mainly about?

A.Responsibilities of the media.

B.Influence of the media.

C.History of the media.

D.Problems of the media.

2.We can learn from the third paragraph that ________.

A.the media is more interested in politics than other fields

B.forming social change is the main duty of the media

C.the great power of the media is controlled by political figures

D.the media can affect politics by forming political figures' images

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The mass media should be owned by the government.

B.The media industry has developed into a new age in recent years.

C.In most cases,journalists are more powerful than the owners of the media.

D.The media tends to promote the ideas of their owners sometimes.

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1--20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳的选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

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I met T. J. for the first time at an activity aimed at getting students more involved in community charity. When I _________ , the community leaders _________ me that T.J. had the longest arrest(拘留) record in the history of town. Actually, I wasn’t the first to hear about T.J.’s darker side as the first words of _________ .

At the start of the activity, T. J. was just _________ outside the circle of students, against the back wall, with a(n) _________ look on his face. He didn’t readily join the discussion groups, and didn’t seem to have much to say. But gradually, the interactive games _________ him in. T. J. shared his great thoughts on _________ . The other students_________ his ideas and were impressed with his passion for helping those in need. _________ , they elected T. J. co-chairman of the group.

After the activity, T. J. started showing up at school and being active in class, which none of his teachers expected. More _________ , two weeks later, T. J. led a group of 70 students in a drive to collect _________. They collected a school _________ : 2,854 cans of food in just two hours, (the shortest time in the history of town) enough to take care of _________ families in the area for 75 days.

T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs _________. Once it has _________, it can fly higher than the rest. Now T. J. is _________ quite nicely as a chairman of a nationwide charity organization.

1.A. failed B. troublesome C. annoyed D. worried

2.A. single B. faulty C. burden D. broken

3.A. think B. walk C. feel D. struggle

4.A. fought B. drove C. challenged D. laughed

5.A. looked up B. stood up C. finished up D. turned up

6.A. warned B. suggested C. reminded D. reached

7.A. explanation B. communication C. introduction D. instruction

8.A. standing B. laughing C. hiding D. wandering

9.A. worried B. interested C. indifferent D. puzzled

10.A. allowed B. showed C. drew D. put

11.A. games B. concerns C. school D. charity

12.A. ignored B. welcomed C. doubted D. misunderstood

13.A. However B. Besides C. Anyway D. Therefore

14.A. importantly B. surprisingly C. luckily D. popularly

15.A. money B. rubbish C. cans D. food

16.A. restaurant B. record C. yard D. term

17.A. needy B. lonely C. friendly D. likely

18.A. persuading B. mending C. observing D. teaching

19.A. healed B. noticed C. appeared D. changed

20.A. behaving B. growing C. flying D. achieving

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