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In the coming months,
we are bringing together artists form all over the
globe, to
enjoy speaking
shakespeare’s plays in their own
language, in our globe, within the
architecture shakespeare wrote come
and join us.
National Theatre Of China
Beijing|Chinese
This great
occasion(
盛会
) will be the
national theatre of china’s first visit to the
u
k.
The company’s
productions show the new face of 21st century
chinese theatre. This
production of
Shakespeare’s Richard III will be
directed by the National’s Associate Director,Wang
Xiaoying.
Date&Time:Saturday
28 April,2.30pm&Sunday 29 April,1.30pm&6.30pm
Marjanishvili Theatre
Tbilisi l Georgia
One of the
most famous theatres in Georgia,the
Marjanishvili,founded in
1928,appears
regularly at theatre festivals all over the world.
This new production of
As You Like It
is helmed
（指导）
by the
company’s Artisti
c Director Levan
Tsuladze.
Date & Time :Friday
18May,2.30pm&Sunday 19May,7.30pm
Deafinitely Theater
London
l British Sign
Language
（
BSL
）
By translating the rich and humourous
taxt of Love’s Labour’s Lost into the physical
language of BSL,Deafinitely
Ther
tre creates a new interpretation of
Shakespeare’s
comedy and aims to build
a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds by
performing to
both groups as one
audience.
Date&Time:Tueaday 22
May,2.30pm&Wednesday 23 May,7.30pm
Habima National Theatre Tel Aviv l
Hebrew
The Habima is the centre of
Hebrew-languege theatre worldwide,Founded in
Moscow
after the 1905 revolution,the
company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late
1920s,Since 1958,they have been
recognized as the national theatre of
productio
n of Shakespeare’s
The Merchant of Venice marks their first visit to
the UK.
Date
Date&Time:Monday 28May,7.30&Tuesday 29 May,7.30pm
play will be performed by the National
Theatre of China?
d
Ⅲ
.
’s Labour’s Lost
You Like It
merchant of
Venice
is special about Deafinnitely
Theatre?
has two groups of actors
is the leading theatre in Londo
performs plays in BSL
is good at prducting comedie
can you
see a play in Hebrew?
rday 28Apil.
Sunday 29 April
Tuesday 22
May.
D. On Tuesday 29 May
21--23
AAD
I
first met Paul Newman in 1968, when George Roy
Hill, the director of Butch
Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York City.
When the studio
didn’t want me for the
film—
it wanted somebody as well known
as Paul
—
he stood
up for me. I don’t know how many people
would have done that; they would have
listened to their agents or the studio
powers.
The friendship that grew out of
the experience of making that film and The Sting
four
years later had its root in the
fact that although there was an age difference, we
both
came from a tradition of theater
and live TV. We were respectful of
craft
（技艺）
and
focused on digging into the characters
we were going to play. Both of us had the
qualities and virtues that are typical
of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and
making fun of each
other
—
but always with an
underlying affection. Those were also
at the core
（核心）
of our relationship off
the screen.
We shared the brief that if
you’re fortunate enough to have success, you
should put
something
back
—
he with his
Newman’s Own food and his Hole in the Wall camps
for kids who are seriously ill, and me
with Sundance and the institute and the festival.
Paul and I didn’t see each other all
that regularly, zxx.k but sharing that brought us
together. We supported each other
financially and by showing up at events.
I last saw him a few months ago. He’d
been in
and out of the and
I both
knew what the deal was,and we
didn’t talk about was a relationship that didn’t
need a lot of words.
was
the studio unwilling to give the role to author at
first?
Newman wanted it.
studio powers didn’t like his agent.
w
asn’t famous
enough.
director
recommended someone else.
did Paul and
the author have a lasting friendship?
were of the same dge.
worked in the
same theater.
were both good actors.
han similar charactertics.
does the underlined word ―that‖ in
paragraph 3 refer to?
belief.
care for chileden.
success.
support for each other.
is the author’s purpose in writing the
test?
show his love of
films.
remember a friend.
introduce a new movie.
share his
acting experience.
24--27
CDAB
21.
细节理解题。根据
―When
the studio didn’t want me for the film—
it wanted
somebody as well known as Pau
l‖
制片人不想要我，他想要当时比较出名的演员
Paul,<
/p>
因此，可知作者当时还不是很有名。故选
C
。
Terrafugia Inc .said
Monday that its new flying car has completed its
first
flight,bringing the company
closer to its goal of selling the flying car
within the next
wehicle-named the
Transition
–
has two seats
wheels and wings that fold up
so it can
be driven like a Transition,which flew at 1,400
feet for eight minutes
last month, can
reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115
in the flies using a
23-gallon tank of
gas and bums 5 gallons per hour in the air. On the
ground, it gets 35
miles per gallon.
Around 100 people have already put down
a $$10,000 deposit to get a Transition when
they go on sale, and those numbers will
likely rise after Terrafugia introduces the
Transition to the public later this
week at the New York Auto Show. But
don’t
expect it
to show up in to
o many driveways. It’s
expected to cost
$$279, it
won’t
help if you’re stuck
in traffic. The car needs a runway.
Inventors have been trying to make
flying cars since the 1930s, according to Robert
Mann, an airline industry expert. But
Mann thinks Terrafugia has come closer than
anyone to making the flying car a
reality. The govemment has already permitted
z&xxkthe company to use special
materials to make it easier for the vehicle to
fly.
The Transition
is now
going through crash tests to make sure it meets
federal safety
siandards.
Mann said Terrafugia was helped by the
Federal Aviation Administration’s decision
five years ago to create a separate set
of standards for light sport aircraft, which are
lower than those for pilots of larger
planes. Terrafugia says an owner would need to
pass a test and complete 20 hours of
flying time to be able to fly the Transition,a
requirement pilots would find
relatively easy to meet.
28. What is
the first paragraph mainly about?
A.
The basic data of the Transition.
B. The advantages of flying cars.
C. The potential market for flying
cars.
C. The designers of the
Transition.
29. Why is the Transition
unlikely to show up in too many driveways?
A. It causers traffic jams.
B. It is difficult to operate.
C. It is very expensive.
D. It bums too much fuel.
30. What is the govemment’s attitude to
the development of the flying car?
A. Cautious
B. Favorable.
C. Ambiguous.
D. Disapproving.
31. What is
the best title for the text?
A. Flying
Car at Auto Show
B. The
Transition’s Fist Flight
’Dream Coming True
D. Flying Car Closer to Reality
When a leafy plant is under attack
，
it doesn’t
sit quietly. Back in 1983,two
scientists,Jack Schultz and Ian
Baldwin,reported that young maple trees getting
bitten
by insects send out a particular
smell that neighboring plants can get. These
chemicals
come from the injured parts
of the plant
and seem to be an the
plants
pump through the air is a
mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic
compounds,VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of
plants give out VOCs when being attacked .It’s
a plant’s way of crying is anyone
listening?e we can watch
the neighbours
react.
Some plants pump out smelly
chemicals to keep insects others do double
duty .They pump out perfumes designed
to attract different insects who are natural
enemies to the they arrive,the tables
are turned .The attacker who are
natural enemies to the attackers .
zxx|k Once they arrive,the tables are
attacker who was lunching now becomes
lunch.
In study after study,it appears
that these chemical conversations help the
neighbors .The damage is usually more
serious on the first plant,but the
neighbors ,relatively speaking ,stay
safer because they heard the alarm and knew what
to do.
Does this mean that
plants talk to each other? Scientists don’t know.
Maybe the first
plant just made a cry
of pain or was sending a message to its own
branches, and so, in
effect, was
talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just
happened to ―overhear‖ the cry.
So
information was exchanged, but it wasn’t a true,
intentional back and forth.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago,
imagined a world far busier, noisier and more
intimate(
亲密的
)
than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are
weak. There’s a
whole lot going on.
32. What does a plant do when it is
under attack?
A. It makes noises.
B. It gets help from other plants.
C. It stands quietly
D.
It sends out certain chemicals.
33.
What does the author mean by ―the tables are
turned‖ in paragraph 3?
A.
The attackers get attacked.
B. The
insects gather under the table.
C. The
plants get ready to fight back.
D. The
perfumes attract natural enemies.
ists
find from their studies that plants can
.
t natural disasters
t themselves against insect
to one another intentionally their neighbors when
necessary
can we infer from the last
paragraph?
word is changing faster
than ever.
have stronger senses than
before
world is more complex than it
seem
in Darwin’s time were
imaginative.
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Interrupti
ons are one of
the worst things to deal with while you’re trying
to get work
done.
36
,there are several ways to handle ’s
take a look at them now.
37
.Tell the person you’re sorry and
explain that you have a million things to do
and then ask if the of you can talk at
a different time.