题目内容
Born in America, I spoke English, not Chinese, the language of my ancestors. When I was three, my parents flashed cards with Chinese 1 at my face, but I pushed them 2 . My mom believed I would learn 3 I was ready .But the 4 never came.
On a Chinese New Year’s Eve, my uncle spoke to me in Chinese, but all I could do was 5 at him, confused, scratching my head. “Still can’t speak Chinese?” He 6 me, “You can’t even buy a fish in Chinatown .”
“Hey, this is America, not China. I’ll get some 7 with or without Chinese.” I replied and turned to my mom for 8 .
“Remember to ask for fresh fish, Xin Xian Yu ,” she said, handing over a $20 bill. I 9 the words, running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.
I found the fish 10 surrounded in a sea of customers. “I’d like to buy some fresh fish,” I shouted to the fishman. But he 11 my English words and turned to serve the next customer. The laugh of the people behind increased 12 their impatience. With every 13 , the breath of the dragons （龙）on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling— 14 me to cry out . “Xian Sheng Yu, please ” “Very Xian Sheng ,” I repeated. The crowd erupted into laughter. My face turned 15 and I ran back home 16 , except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket .
Should I laugh or cry. They‘re Chinese. I’m Chinese. I should feel right at 17 . Instead, I was the joke , a disgrace（丢脸）to the language.
Sometimes, I laugh at my fish 18 , but, in the end, the joke is on 19 . Every laugh is a culture 20 ; every laugh is my heritage （传统）fading away.
1. A．custom B．games C．characters . D．language
2. A．ahead B．around C．along D．aside
3. A．when B．before C．unless D．until
4. A．success B．study C．time D．attempt
5. A．aim B．joke C．nod D．stare
6. A．cared about B．laughed at C．argued with D．asked after
7. A．right now B．from now C．at times D．in time
8. A．decision B．permission C．information D．preparation
9. A．repeated B．reviewed C．spelled D．kept
10. A．farm B．stand C．pond D．market
11. A．guessed B．forget C．doubted D．ignored
12. A．by B．as C．with D．from
13. A．second B．effort C．desire D．movement
14. A．forcing B．allowing C．persuading D．leading
15. A．bright B．blank C．pale D．red
16. A．open-mouthed B．tongue-tied C．empty-handed D．broken-hearted
17. A．service B．home C．risk D．root
18. A．trade B．deed C．challenge D．incident
19. A．it B．us C．me D．them
20. A．thrown B．lost C．divided D．reflected
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Kalle Lasn was in a supermarket parking lot one afternoon when he had an experience that changed his life．In order to shop at the store, he needed to put money into the shopping cart to use it．Annoyed that he had to "pay to shop," Lasn jammed the coin into the cart so that it wouldn't work．It was an act of rebellion—the first of many—for Lasn．
Born in Estonia, Kalle Lasn moved to Australia as a young man and then later to Japan, where he founded a marketing research firm in Tokyo．Eventually, Lasn moved to Canada and for several years produced documentaries （纪录片） for public television．In the late 1980s, Lasn made an advertisement that spoke out against the logging industry and the deforestation going on in the Pacific Northwest．When he tried to show his ad on TV, though, no station in this area would give him airtime．In response, Lasn and a colleague founded Adbusters Media Foundation, a company for the "Human right to communicate．
Adbusters produces magazine, newspaper, and TV ads with a social message．Many use humor and irony to make their points: In one, for example, a man chain smokes a brand of cigarettes called "Hope"．In another, a child is dressed in an outfit used in fast-food ads．Next to the child is a note from its mother telling the restaurant to leave her child alone．
Adbusters also has a magazine and a web site, the Culture Jammers Network, whose members include students, artists, and activists as well as educators and businesspeople interested in social change．Many of these "culture jammers" are working to raise awareness about different social issues by hosting events like "Buy Nothing Day" , " No Car Day" and "TV Turnoff Week" ．Lasn and his partners hope these events will encourage people to think about questions such as;
·What kinds of things are we being encouraged to buy by the media?
·Should cars be our primary means of transportation?
·How are television and radio being used now? How could we be using them?
Some culture jammers are using other methods to challenge how people think．Some pretend to be shoppers．They move items in stores from one shelf to another making it difficult for people to find things easily．Other culture jammers break into large company well sites and jam them so that they become unusable．The goal in both cases ia to prevent "Business as usual" and to gel people to ask themselves questions such as "Why am I shopping here?" or "Why should I buy this product?"
Lasn and members of the Culture Jammers Network want to make people aware of social issues, but they also believe it's important to think of solutions, too．"A lot of people tell you everything that's wrong but they never say much about how to fix these problems," says Lasn．"But there is plenty we can do．If you start despairing, you have lost everything．"
Though many TV stations still won't show Adbusters' " uncommercials" , some cable TV stations have started to．People all over the world have joined the Culture Jammers Network and are doing their part to promote social change．
1.What does the underlined word "rebellion" in Paragraph 1 most probably mean?
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A．argument |
B．violence |
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C．opposition |
D．protection |
2.What's the main point of the ad for "Hope" cigarettes?
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A．Smoking can help to remove your worries and make you hopeful． |
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B．Hopefully, the bad taste of the cigarette can help you to quit smoking． |
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C．You are hopeless at abandoning the habit of smoking． |
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D．Smoking can ruin you if you are hopelessly addicted to it． |
3.Some culture jammers break into websites in order to ________．
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A．ask people to be thoughtful consumers． |
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B．help make the companies better known． |
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C．encourage people to think less and buy less |
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D．challenge how people react to sudden changes |
4.It can be inferred from the passage ________．
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A．Adbusters Media Foundation was founded to fight against deforestation |
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B．More and more people will know about and even become culture jammers |
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C．The Culture Jammers Network is made up of annoying trouble makers |
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D．People can see some of Adbusters ads on TV stations |
5.Which of the following best describes what Lasn has done?
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A．One step at a time． |
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B．We can and must change the world． |
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C．Accept what you can't change． |
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D．Everyone deserves a second chance． |
Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called “the youngest writer in the world”. He has written three books till now. Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi’an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three, he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They only ate their food but also hurt his mother’s hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tales Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel called Eyes of Children. He says, “I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.
1.How many books has Dou Kou written?
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A．Three. |
B．Four. |
C．Five |
D．Six |
2.Thanks to his _____, Dou Kou could write his books.
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A．mother |
B．father |
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C．school life |
D．life in different cities |
3.Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____.
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A．when he wrote fairy tales |
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B．before his father taught him how to learn something |
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C．after he went to school |
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D．after his mother taught him how to learn something |
4.The underlined(划线的) sentences show us that Dou Kou _____.
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A．is different from other children |
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B．doesn’t tell the truth. |
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C．is the same as other children |
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D．likes his books |
5.Which is the best title?
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A．Three Books by a child |
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B．How to Write a Fairy Tales |
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C．How Clever the Boy is |
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D．Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer |