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A
What’s
On?
Electric Underground
7.30pm
－
1.00am
Free at the Cyclops Theatre
Do you know
who’s playing in your area? We’re bringing you an
evening of live rock
and pop music from
the best local bands. Are you interested in
becoming a musician and
getting a
recording contract(
合同
)? If
so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules
Skye, a
successful record producer.
He’s going to talk about how you can find the
right p
erson to
produce your
music.
Gee Whizz
8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
Come and see Gee Whizz perform. He’s
the funniest stand
-up comedian on the
comedy scene. This joyful show will
please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
Gee Whizz really knows how to make you
laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks
and snacks(
快餐
).
Simon’s Workshop
5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria
Stage
This is a good chance for anyone
who wants to learn how to do comedy. The
workshop looks at every kind of comedy,
and practices many different ways of making
people laugh. Simon is a comedian and
actor who has 10 years’ experience of teaching
comedy. His workshops are exciting and
fun. An evening with Simon will give you the
confidence to be funny.
Charlotte Stone
8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World
Fine food with beautiful jazz music;
this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will
perform songs from her new best-selling
CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The
menu is Italian, with excellent meat
and fresh fish, pizzas and
pasta(
面食
). Book early to
get a table. Our bar is open all day,
and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white
wine.
21. Who can help you if you want
to have your music produced?
A. Jules
Skye.
B. Gee Whizz.
C. Charlotte Stone.
D. James Pickering.
22. At which place
can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?
A. The Cyclops Theatre
B. Kaleidoscope
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C. Victoria Stage
D. Pizza World
23. What do we know
about Simon’s Workshop?
A.
It requires membership status.
B. It lasts three hours each
time.
C. It is run by a comedy club.
D. It is held every
Wednesday.
24. When will Charlotte Stone perform
her songs?
A. 5.00pm-7.30pm.
B. 7.30pm
－
1.00am.
C. 8.00pm-11.00pm.
D. 8.30pm-10.30pm.
B
Five years ago, when I taught art
at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a
test
at the beginning of a term to find
out something about my students. I put a small set
of
Tinkertoys in front of each student,
and said:”Make something out of the Tinkertoys.
You
have 45 minutes today -
and 45minutes each day for the rest of
the week.”
A few students
hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of
the class would do.
Several others
checked the instructions and made something
according to one of the
model plans
provided. Another group built something out of
their own imaginations.
Once I had a
boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in
his free time. His
constructions filled
a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of
his bedroom at home. I
was delighted at
the presence of such a student. Here was an
exceptionally creative mind
at work.
His presence meant that I had an unexpected
teaching assistant in class whose
creativity would
infect(
感染
) other students.
Encouraging this kind of thinking
has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those
students who had a different style of
thinking. Without fail one would declare, ” But
I’m just
not creative.”
“Do
you dream at night when you’re
asleep?”
“Oh,
sure.”
“So tell
me one of your most interesting dreams.” The
student would tell something
wildly
imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time
machine or growing three heads. “That’s
pretty creative. Who does
that for you?”
“Nobody. I do it.”
“Really
-
at night,
when you’re asleep?”
“Sure.”
“Try doing it in the daytime, in class,
okay?”
25. The teacher used
Tinkertoys in class in order to ________?
A. know more about the students
B. make the lessons more
exciting
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C. raise the
students’ interest in art
D. teach the students about
toy design
26. What do we know about the boy
mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. He liked
to help his teacher.
B. He preferred to study
alone.
C. He was active in class.
D. He was imaginative.
27. What does
the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4
probably mean?
A. Mistake.
B. Drawback.
C. Difficulty.
D. Burden.
28. Why did the teacher ask
the students to talk about their dreams?
A. To help them to see their
creativity. B. To
find out about their
sleeping habits.
C. To help them to improve their
memory. D. To find out
about their
ways of thinking.
C
Reading can be
a social activity. Think of the people who belong
to book groups.
They choose books to
read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the
website
turns the page on the
traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the
books they own and would like to share.
BookCrossing provides an identification
number to stick inside the book. Then the person
leaves it in a public place, hoping
that the book will have an adventure, traveling
far and
wide with each new reader who
finds it.
Bruce Pederson, the
managi
ng director of BookCrossing,
says, “The two things
that change your
life are the people you meet and books you read.
BookCrossing
combines both.”
Members leave books on park benches
and buses, in train stations and coffee
shops. Whoever finds their book will go
to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can also
leave a journal entry describing what they thought
of it. E-mails are then sent to the
BookCrossing to keep them updated about where
their
books have been found. Bruce
peterson says the idea is for people not to be
selfish by
keeping a book to gather
dust on a shelf at home.
BookCrossing is part of a trend among
people who want to get back to the “real”
and not the
virtual(
虚拟
). The site now
has more than one million members in more than
one hundred thirty-five countries.
29. Why does the author mention book
groups in the first paragraph?
A. To
explain what they are.
B. To introduce
BookCrossing.
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C. To stress the importance of reading.
D. To encourage readers to share their
ideas.
30. What does the underlined
word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to?
A. The book.
B. An adventure.
C.A public place.
D. The identification number.
31. What
will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading
it?
A. Meet other readers to discuss
it. B. Keep it
safe in his
bookcase.
C.
Pass it on to another reader.
D. Mail it back to its owner.
32. What
is the best title for the text?
A.
Online Reading: A Virtual Tour
B. Electronic Books: A new
Trend
C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back
D. A Website Links People
through Books
D
A new
collection of photos brings an unsuccessful
Antarctic voyage back to life
Frank
Hurley’s pictures would be
outstanding
----undoubtedly first-rate
photo-journalism---if they had been
made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914
through 1916, most of them after a
disastrous shipwreck(
海滩
), by
a cameraman who had
no reasonable
expectation of survival. Many of the images were
stored in an ice chest,
under freezing
water, in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight,
Norwegian-built three-master that was
intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton
and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men
in all, to the southernmost shore of
Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. From that point
Shackleton
wanted to force a passage by
dog sled(
雪橇
) across the
continent. The journey was
intended to
achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott
had done. Captain Scott
had reached the
South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his
four companions on the
march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes
clear in her forceful and well-researched story
The Endurance, adventuring was even
then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott’s last
journey, completed as he lay in a tent
dying of cold and hunger, caught the world’s
imagination, and a film made in his
honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British
merchant-navy officer who had got to
within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908,
started a
business before his 1914
voyage to make money from movie and still
photography. Frank
Hurley, a confident
and gifted Australian photographer who knew the
Antarctic, was hired
to make the
images, most of which have never before been
published.
33. What do we know about
the photos taken by Hurley?
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A. They
were made last week
B. They showed
undersea sceneries
C. They were found
by a cameraman
D. They recorded a
disastrous adventure
34. Who reached
the South Pole first according to the text?
A. Frank Hurley
B. Ernest Shackleton
C. Robert Falcon
Scott
D. Caroline Alexander
35. What does
Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914
voyage?
A. Artistic creation
B. Scientific research
C. Money making
D. Treasure hunting
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A garden
that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that
seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere
of the garden appeared to total more
than the sum(
总和
) of its
parts? 36
. But it doesn’t
happen by accident. It starts with
looking inside yourself and understanding who you
are
with respect to the natural world
and how you approach the gardening process.
●
37
Some
people may think that a garden is no more than
plants, flowers, patterns and
masses of
color. Others are concerned about using gardening
methods that require less
water and
fewer fertilizers(
肥料
). 38
. However, there are a number of other reasons
that might explain why you want to
garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(
回忆
) your
childhood memories
Our
model of what a garden should be often goes back
to childhood. Grandma’s
rose garden and
Da
d’s vegetable garden might be good or
bad, but that’s not what’s
important.
39 --
how being in those gardens made
us feel. If you’d like to build a
powerful bond with your garden, start
by taking some time to recall the gardens of your
youth. 40 then go outside and
work out a plan to translate your childhood
memories
into your grown-up garden.
Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own
garden
C. It’s our experience of the
garden that matters
D. It’s
delightful to see so man
y beautiful
flowers
E. Still others may simply
enjoy being outdoors and close to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical
quality in your own garden, too
G. For
each of those gardens, writer down the strongest
memory you have
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