题目内容
10._____a tough job market, fresh graduates are dreaming of running their own business instead.
A.Facing with B.Faced with C.Faced up with D.Facing to
B
Coming from the Bronx, Jennifer Lopez knew from an early age it would be tough to achieve her dream. In an interview in 2002 she remembered, “I had such a will in me. I had such a passion in me. I could overcome my situation. But a lot of people will get beaten down and be held back by that.” Lopez was not beaten by her situation. She worked hard dancing, singing, and acting in theaters and her hard work paid off with small roles in television and films.
Lopez’s big breakthrough came in 1996 when she played the main role in the movie Selena. For this movie, Lopez got paid $1 million and became the highest paid Latin actress of all time. Since then, she has had starring roles in several successful movies, including Out of Slight(1998) with George Clooney.
Then, Lopez turned her attention toward music. In 1999, she released first album, On the 6. Two songs from the album, “If You Had My Love” and “Waiting for Tonight,” both reached number one on the Billboard music cha
rts. The album sold more than three million copies around the world.
After starring in The Cell (2000), Lopez released her
second album, J. Lo, in 2001. The album went straight to the top of the Billboard chart. At the same time that her album came out, Lopez’s new movie, The Wedding Planner, opened in theaters. It became the number one movie at the box office. This meant that Lopez was the first entertainer to ever have a number one album and a number one movie at the same time! Like her first album, J. Lo went tripe-platinum.
But her entertainment career was not the only thing Lopez focused on that year. 2001 was also the year Lopez started her own line of clothing, called J.Lo, and she married Cris Judd, a dancer who performed in her videos. The marriage did not last long, and Lopez and Judd divorced nine months later.
In 2002, Lopez starred in the films Enough and Maid in Manhattan. Maid in Manhattan became Lopez’s biggest movie yet, earning $19 million during its first weekend in theaters. Lopez also put her third album, This Is Me… Then, and the single “Jenny from the Block” hit number one for a week. To go with her line of clothing, Lopez introduced her own perfume.
In an interview, Lopez was asked if she planned to do more acting, singing, designing, or something new. She answered, “Yes, yes, yes, and yes! All of those things. I love making music, I love doing movies and all the other things. I think that everyone should do everything that they have a passion for.”
【小题1】What is the main idea of the passage?
| A.Lopez is better at singing than acting. |
| B.Lopez has done many things in her career. |
| C.Lopez grew up in a poor family. |
| D.Lopez has had many problems in her personal life. |
| A.acting in the movie Selena | B.getting married to a dancer |
| C.releasing a second album | D.starring with George |
| A.She has had several number one songs. |
| B.She was a famous singer before she started acting. |
| C.She wants to do other things besides acting and singing. |
| D.She wanted to be an entertainer when she was young. |
| A.It was made by an actor or actress. |
| B.It sold more than three million copies. |
| C.It had songs from a movie on it. |
| D.It sold most of its copies outside the United States. |
Section B
F. severe G. involving H. tolerant I. roughly J. particular |
Drunken driving——sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of41_——has become a national infectious disease.Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an42number of 250,000over the past decade.
A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or 43three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours.Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American strong man image and judges were not44in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially45young children, that public opinion is no longer so 46 of it.
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, altering a47in the 1960s to reduce it to 18.After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless48by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to49strong pressure to drink.
Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decrease in fatalities(死亡事故).Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks.