21.　 [答案]C

[试题解析]计算题。根据文章第三段Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California on 23 April 1928.可知她是1928年出生的。在根据第一行Shirley Temple, who died on February 10, 2014她是在2014年去世的，也就是在86岁的时候去世的。故C正确。

32. We can infer that _____.

　 A. the films in which Shirley Temple starred in adulthood were not popular

　 B. Jean Harlow and Mary Pickford appeared in the same film with Temple

　 C. Shirley Temple succeeded in being elected as Congresswoman in 1967

　 D. Shirley Temple was the youngest person to receive an Academy Award

[考点]考察人物传记类短文

[文章大意]本文叙述了好莱坞著名童星Shirley Temple的一生，从她扮演儿童电影到最后参与政治生活。

31. Which of the following represents the peak of Shirley Temple’s film career?

　 A. Stand Up and Cheer.　　　　　　　 B. Little Miss Marker.

C. The Little Colonel. 　　　　　　　　D. The Little Princess.

30. What happened to Shirley Temple when she was 7 years old?

　 A. She won a special Oscar.　　　　　 B. She began to learn to dance.

　 C. She appeared in her first film.　　　 D. She retired from Hollywood.

一．

C

Shirley Temple, who died on February 10, 2014, was that rare example of a Hollywood child star who, when the cameras stopped rolling, carved out a new career.

For four years, she was Hollywood’s biggest box-office star representing the kind of sweet, innocent girl that everyone wanted as their daughter. However, years later, she reappeared as a successful politician.

Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California on 23 April 1928. Encouraged by her mother, she learned to dance while she was just three.

In 1934, Stand Up and Cheer became her first film and the film was a great success. At the age of six she was earning $1,250 a week — more than $21,000 at today’s values.

Across the world, audiences flocked to see her in films such as Little Miss Marker, The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel.

In 1935 she was awarded a special Oscar (Academy Award) and her foot and hand prints were added to those of stars such as Jean Harlow and Mary Pickford outside Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood. The peak of her film career came in 1939 when The Little Princess became a box-office success.

Temple starred in a total of 43 feature films. But she found it difficult to maintain her film career in adulthood and retired from Hollywood in 1950.

She disappeared from the spotlight for nearly 20 years. She returned to the public eye in 1967, as a Republican candidate for Congress. When Nixon became president, he rewarded her with an appointment to the American delegation to the United Nations. Then, in 1974, President Ford appointed her the United States Ambassador(大使) to Ghana. George Bush Snr, appointed her Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

Shirley Temple drew a line between her childhood stardom and her later political career. “Some people are stuck on this image of the little girl,” she once said. “She is not me. We shouldn’t live in the past; my life is now.” Nevertheless, for many across the world, the name Shirley Temple always called to mind a superstar child.

29. Shirley Temple died at the age of _____.

　 A. 75　　　　　　 B. 80　　　　　　 C. 86　　　　　 D. 90

60. [答案]B

[试题解析]推理题。The researchers did not see any improvement to memory from smaller doses of caffeine or when it was given an hour before viewing the images．可知剂量较小的咖啡因对人的记忆没有太多的改善，这样的研究在实验里没有体现出来。故B正确。

[长难句解析]

Many people cannot start their day without first having a cup of coffee or tea。

[翻译]如果没有一杯咖啡或者一杯茶，很多人都无法开始一天的工作。

[分析]本句中的介词without如果没有…；表示上下文的条件，相当于一个条件状语从句：if　 they don’t have a cup of coffee or tea.

59. [答案]D

[试题解析]推理题。根据倒数第二段Professor Yassa says their answers helped to show the effects of caffeine on memory. And　 we find that if they are on caffeine they are much more likely to make the right decision．可知他认为这个研究的结果能够反应咖啡因对人的记忆的影响，说明这个实验是有作用的。也就是说D项说法是错误的。

58. [答案]C

[试题解析]推理题。本文主要讲述的是咖啡因不仅可以让我们的精神兴奋起来，而且对我们的长期记忆也是有很大的好处的，所以本文是关于健康类短文短文，也就是说C项正确。

57. [答案]A

[试题解析]推理题。根据本段2,3行Then some of the subjects were given a caffeine pill．The others were given a placebo—a pill containing nothing. 24 hours later，the subjects were shown the exact same images from the day before．可知本段是在叙述这个实验的具体流程和做法，所以本段是关于实验如何被操作的。故A正确。

56. [答案]C

[试题解析]主旨大意题。根据文章第一段最后一句This is because of caffeine，which helps to give a jump start to the nervous system．Now，a report says it may also boost long-term memory．可知本文主要讲述的是咖啡因能够有助于人们的长期记忆，叙述与此有关的实验的情况。故C正确。