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从每题 所给的

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B

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和

D

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选出最佳选项

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并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Welcome to the Best Music Drama of the Last Ten Years

Are you fond of the music drama? As the winner of the Tony Awards

best music drama, the best score and the best book,

Avenue

Q is packed with heart.

Following

five

years

in

the

West

End,

with

sell-out

runs

worldwide

and

a

hit

tour

in

2014,

this hugely entertaining show is hitting the road again!

Created

by

Jeff

Marx

and

Robert

Lopez

(co-creator

of

Book

of

Modern

and

writer

of

the

songs

for Disney's Frozen)

Avenue

Q is a charming music drama which tells the story of the lovable

characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of life’s burning issues.

Dates & times 30th September-October 31st

Monday-Thursday 7: 45 pm

Friday 5:30 pm & 10:00 pm

Saturday 4: 00 pm & 7: 45 pm

Ticket Pieces & discounts

Tickets by phone:

￡

10.00 for the morning/

￡

20. 00 for the afternoon

Discounts online: 10% off

( Every ticket has an additional

￡

3.00 booking fee

）

Booking information

By phone:

Online:

cambridgeartstheatre. com

Access

Do you ever wish our shows to be louder and easier to see? Well, if there are any access

issues that you would like to discuss with a view to make your visit to the Cambridge Arts

Theater more enjoyable, contact the box office: Telephone: 01223 503333: Email: access @

cambridgeartstheatre. com

SO DON’T LET YOUR LIFE SUCK!

BOOK YOUR TICKET TODAY!

21

．

When does

Avenue

/Q start on Tuesday in October?

A

．

At 4: 00 am. B

．

At 7: 45 pm. C

．

At 5: 30 pm. D

．

At 10: 00 pm.

22

．

How much should you pay at least if you book a ticket for

Avenue

Q by phone?

A

．

￡

23.00 B

．

￡

18.00

C

．￡

12.00 D

．￡

13.00

23

．

What is the main purpose of the text?

A. To advertise a music drama. B. To introduce the box office.

C. To tell about the plot of a drama. D. To talk about the history of a theater.

B

Flower Power

When

her

grandmother’s

health

began

to

worsen

last

autumn,

Mary

would

make

the

drive

from

Washington, DC to Winchester, VA every few days.

She

hated

highway

driving,

finding

it

ugly

and

boring.

She

preferred

to

take

winding

country

3

roads

to

her

grandmother’s

hospital.

When

she

drove

through

the

rocky

town

of

Harpers

Ferry,

the beauty of the rough waters was always appealing to her.

Toward

the

end

of

her

journey,

Mary

had

to

get

on

highway

81.

It

was

here

that

she

discovered

a surprising bit of beauty during one of her trips. Along the shoulder of the highway, there

was a long stretch of wild flowers. They were thin and delicate and purple, and moved back

and forth in the wind as if whispering poems to each other.

The

first

time

she

saw

the

flowers,

Mary

was

seized

by

an

uncontrollable

urge

to

pull

over

on the highway and pull a bunch from the soil. She carried them into her grandmother’s room

when she arrived at the hospital and placed them in a vase by her bed.

For a moment her grandmother seemed more lucid

（清醒的）

than usual. She

thanked Mary for

the

flowers,

commented

on

their

beauty

and

asked

where

she

had

gotten

them.

Mary

was

overjoyed

by the ability of the flowers to wake something up inside her sick grandmother.

Afterwards,

Mary

began

carrying

scissors

in

the

car

during

her

trips

to

visit

her

grandmother. She would quickly glide onto

the shoulder, jump out of the

car, and clip

a bunch

of

flowers.

Each

time

Mary

placed

the

flowers

in

the

vase,

her

grandmother’s

eyes

w

ould

light

up and they would have a splendid conversation.

One morning in late October, Mary got a call that her grandmother had taken a turn for

the worse. Mary was in such a hurry to get to her grandmother that she sped past her flower

spot. She decided to turn around, head several miles back, and cut a bunch.

Mary

arrived

at

the

hospital

to

find

her

grandmother

very

weak

and

unresponsive.

She

placed

the flowers in the vase and sat down to hold her grandmother’s hand. She felt a squeeze on

her fingers. It was the last conversation they had.

24. Mary preferred to take country roads to the hospital because she could ________.

A. get on highway 81 more easily B. enjoy the natural view along the roads

C.

pick

wild

flowers for

her grandmother

D.

spend less time

driving

to

the

destination

25. When Mary placed the flowers by her grandmother’s bed, her grandmother _________.

A. came alive at the sight of the flowers

B. commented on Mary’s beauty

C.

was

overjoyed

by

the

flowers D.

was

curious

about

the

type

of

the

flowers

26. From the passage, we know that ________.

A. Mary discovered the wild flowers along the country roads

B. Mary’s grandmother had passed away before she arrived at the hospital

C. Mary’s last convers

ation with her grandmother was a silent one

D. Mary headed several miles back because she sped past the hospital

27. What does the passage convey to us?

A. Beauty in nature can be powerful. B. Love has no beginning or ending.

C.

Life

is

as

beautiful

as

summer

flowers. D.

Flowers

have

the

magic

to

cure

diseases.

C

4

Probably

no

other

musical

instrument

is

as

popular

as

the

guitar

around

the

world.

Musicians

use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same

without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without

a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the

guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

Music

experts

do

not

agree

about

where

the

guitar

was

first

played.

Most

agree

it

is

ancient.

Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000

years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from

Persia sometime in the 12

century. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s

it became similar to the instrument we know today.

Many

famous

musicians

played

the

instrument.

The

famous

Italian

violinist

Niccole

Paganism

played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to

write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make

the instrument extremely popular.

In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the

solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous

Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has

the same shape and the same six strings (

弦

)as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very

different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the

public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song

in the United States in 1952. It is called “Meet Mister Callaghan.”

28. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. The guitar was the most popular musical instrument in the past.

B. The choice of musical instrument is important for a band.

C. The guitar plays a very important role in music.

D. Every musician likes playing music instrument with the guitar.

29. According to most experts, the guitar developed into a modern form like today in _____.

A. Egypt B. Persia C. Italy D. Spain

30. In Paragraph 3, the author introduces ______.

A. the method of playing the guitar B. some musicians who played the guitar

C. the way that the guitar was made D. the exact time of the guitar’s origin

does the passage probably come from?

A. A broadcast B. A newspaper C. A magazine D. A history book

D

How many times do you check your Facebook page in a day to see whether your latest post

has got another “like” or “thumbs(拇指

) up

”?

Although you might be embarrassed to admit how many times you do this, don’t

worry

—psychological findings have shown it’s completely normal. In fact, the pleasure we

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derive from receiving a “like” is equal to that of eating chocolate or winning money, a

nd

we can’t help wanting more. According to the findings, which observed 32 teens aged between

13 and 18, the feedback circuit (

反馈回路) in the teens’ brains is particularly sensitive,

and

the

“social”

and

“visual”

parts

of

their

brains

were

active

when

they

received

“likes”

on the social network. The research also showed that though the thumbs up might come from

complete strangers, the good they derive from them worked all the same.

So,

does

it

mean

we

should

try

our

best

to

win

as

many

thumbs

up

as

possible?

Not

necessarily

so if we know the reasons behind our desire for attention. In “why do people long for

attention” by M. Farouk Radwan, he explained several cases in which people naturally longed

for attention. Radwan said people who were an only child, who were used to being the center

of attention in their house, may try to copy these conditions. Feeling “overlooked and

unappreciated” might also lead you to long for attention. Other times, the state of being

jealous, or wanting to cover your mistakes may also contribute to such longings.

In

fact,

too

much

desire

for

attention

can

create

anxiety,

and

in

turn

ruin

your

happiness

even

when

you

get

it.

So

what

can

we

do

about

it?

The

answer

is

quite

simple.

“If

people

could

adopt goals not focused on their own self-esteem

（自尊）

but on something larger than their

self, such as what they can create or contribute to others, they would be less sensitive to

some of the negative effects of pursuing self-

esteem,” wrote psychology professor Jennifer

Crocker.

So

perhaps

the

answer

to

our

addiction

to

“likes”

is

simply

to

focus

on

something

larger

than ourselves

—

a hard, but a worthy one.

32. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The thumbs up from complete strangers don’t work.

B. Desire for attention can definitely create anxiety.

C. Feeling ignored might lead you to be in need of attention.

D. The brain of teenagers is seldom sensitive.

33. What’s the reaction of receiving “likes” on the social network to the brain?

A. The social and visual parts become more nervous.

B. The social and visual parts of the brain are active.

C. The physical and sense parts of the brain become less sensitive.

D. The whole brain becomes cleverer.

34. Who wants to get more attention according to the passage?

A.

Teens

who

want

to

discover

their

mistakes. B.

The

old

who

lives

happily

with

children.

C. The young who feels anxious. D. The one who is the only child.

35. What’s Crocker’s suggestion about the negative effects of getting self

-esteem?

A. Doing an interesting matter. B. Working harder than ever before.

C. Having a bigger goal than their self. D. Not checking your Facebook page in a

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根据短文内容 ，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项

为多余选项。

How to Turn Your Goals into Habits

First

we

make

ou

r

habits,

then

our

habits

make

us.

It’s

such

a

simple

concept,

yet

it’s

something we don’t always do.

I believe that having ONE goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals.

By putting the belief into practice, I have achieved a lot of personal goals over time. 36

My answer takes a little explaining. I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so,

I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it for at

least

a

month.

The

more

you

can

focus,

the

more

it'll

be

on

autopilot. 37

You’ll

still

do it, but you only have to use minimal force to maintain it, and you can focus on your next

goal or habit.

Take my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting running and had the brilliant

idea

to

run

a

marathon

within

a

year.

So

that

was

my

goal. 38___

First,

I

had

to

make

running

a daily habit. Second, I had to report to people in order to have accountability (

负责

) so

that I could not quit easily. I focused on the daily running habit for about a month, and

didn’t have any other goals or habits. When the running habit stuck, I started reporting

to people I knew and blogging about my running every day.

____39____

I

could

focus

on

new

goals

without

having

to

worry

about

the

marathon.

I

still

had to

do the running, of course, but it didn’t require constant focus.

____40____ I was

able to achieve this because, all year long, I had daily running and accountability habits.

I put my marathon goal into autopilot, so instead of struggling with it daily for an entire

year,

I

focused

on

it

for

one

month

and

was

able

to

accomplish

it

while

focusing

on

new

habits

and goals.

A. And eventually, I ran the first marathon in my life.

B. At the beginning, it was very difficult for me to achieve this goal.

C. But in order to achieve it, I broke it down into two habits.

D. With this accountability, there’s no way I could stop running.

E. Once you put it on autopilot, you don't have to focus on it much.

F. My readers asked me how I was able to achieve them while working on different projects.

G. Once those two habits were established, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot.

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C

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During my lifetime, I’ve learnt something important: it’s good t

o learn new skills

outside

of

your

comfort

zone.

About

seven

years

ago,

I

started

learning

how

to

paint

as

a

__41__.

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