Rebecca Stevens was the first British woman to climb Mount Chomulongma. Before she went up the
highest mountain in the world, she was a journalist and lived in a small flat in South London.
In 1993, Rebecca left her job and fer family and traveled to Asia with some other climbers. She found
that life on Chumolongma is hard. "You must carry everything on your back," she said, "so you can only
take things that you will need. You can"t wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn"t even take a
toothbrush. I am usually a clean person but there is no water, only snow. Water is very heavy so you only
take enough to drink!"
When Rebecca reached the top of the Mount Chumolongma on May 17,1993, it was the best moment
of her life. Suddenly she became famous.
Now she has written a book about the trip and people often ask her to talk about it. She has a new job
too, on science program on television.
Rebecca is well known today and she has more money, but she still lives in the little flat in South
London among her pictures and books about mountains.
1. Rebecca was a _____ before she climbed Chumolongma.
A. climber
B. scientist
C. journalist
D. writer
2. Rebecca came to Asia to _____ .
A. leave her family
B. to leave her job
C. find a new job
D. climb the mountain
3. According to the passage, life hard on Chumolongma because _____ .
A. the mountain is too high
B. all the living things hard to carry
C. she is usually a clean person
D. water there is too little to wash
4. After her trip to Asia, Rebecca _____ .
A. lived in the same flat
B. did the same job
C. learned to take pictures
D. began to write books
5. Rebecca became famous because _____ .
A. her hard woman
B. her pictures and books
C. having so much money
D. reaching the top of the world
Jiang Wen is at the top of the world the world of Chinese cinema. His Let the Bullets Fly has just broken
the box-office record for a Chinese film with some 700 million yuan ($107 million). It is s 1 a big success that
wherever you go, you can hear s 2 talking about Bullets.
This time, he is not o 3 the leading actor in the film, but also the director himself. Young people believe he
was playing himself, because he h 4 is a true man to them. And experts(专家) also think highly of his way of
t 5 stories. It seems that he does not need others to tell him h 6 great he is!
That does not mean he is not p 7 of Bullets. It"s just that Bullets, for him, is fun. He has heard of all the
political interpretations(政治隐喻的解读)of his story that have appeared across the Internet.
The m 8 wonderful scenes in his movies all seem to have something to do with reality (现实), for example,
in Bullets it opens with a train pulled by white horses.
"I did not i 9 this set-up. For 30 years in the early 20th century, there was a part of rail line in Northeast
China that was powered by h 10 ," he explains, "You may come up with the most unlikely scenes, and you"ll
find that fact is stranger than fiction."
6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10. _____
to visit the most famous Hungarian pianist Liszt. Liszt liked him very much.
One night, at a concert, Liszt went to the piano and all the people shouted. As all the lights in the hall
went off, a wonderful piano concert started. The music was so good that all the listeners almost forgot
everything except the music. The audience thought that Liszt reached a new level in playing the piano.
Suddenly, all the lights were turned on when the music came to an end. And there stood a young man
near the piano instead of the famous pianist Liszt.
Liszt planned this. As the lights went off, Liszt left his chair and let Chopin take his place and play the
piano. So with the help of Liszt, Chopin soon became famous.
( )2. The piano concert, started after all the lights went off.
( )3. When the music came to an end, Chopin stood at the piano.
( )4. The audience knew someone else was playing the piano instead of Liszt before the lights were
turned on.
( )5. Chopin became famous because of his own talent and the help of Liszt.
Her favorite fruit is the watermelon. Her favorite singer is Wang Fei. Her favorite sports are tennis and golf. Her favorite city is Paris. Her favorite movie is Gone with the Wind 《乱世佳人》).
When Liu Yifei was ten years old, she went to the USA with her mother and came back to China in
2002. Then she got into a university for acting in Beijing, and became an actress. In the same year, she
played in the TV play The Story of a Nobel Family 《金粉世家》). Later, Liu Yifei played Wang Yuyan in Demi - Cods and ,Semidevils(《天龙八部》) and she played very well. Many young boys and girls
began to like her. As we all know, her big Hollywood film The Forbidden. Kingdom 《功夫之王》)
was on show around China. In this film, she worked with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Let"s wait for more good films from Liu Yifei.
B. In Beijing.
C. In the USA.
D. In Hollywood.
B. Bananas.
C. Pears.
D. Watermelons.
B. 12.
C. 15.
D. 18.
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.
B.Liu Yifei played Wang Yuyan in Gone with the Wind.
C.LiuYifei went to the USA with his mother in 2002.
D. The Forbidden Kingdom is a Hollywood film.
When you are learning English, you must know a great man, William Shakespeare, the great English
writer of drama(戏剧).He was" born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. We do not know everytliing about
Shakespeare"s early life. But we know that he was useful at the Grammar School in Stratford, and
that he became interested in the theatre when he was still a boy. In 1586, Shakespeare went to London,
where he worked in a theatre for some years before he began to write his own plays. Shakespeare soon
became well known in London. Every play he wrote was very glad and new to the people of the capital.
Queen F:lizabeth liked Shakespeare"s plays. By the end of the 16th century, Shakespeare and his friends
had enough money to build their own theatre. But we must think that Shakespeare couldn"t have no
difficulties in his life. Some writers were against him because their plays were worse than his.
B. an inventor
C. a play writer
D. a story writer
B. we know Shakespeare"s childhood a little
C. we know Shakespeare"s boyhood a lot
D. we should know Shakespeare about his early life well
B. after he left the Grammar School
C. when he was twenty-two years old
D. after he liked the theatre very much
B.their plays were less farnous than his
C. they wrote fewer plays than him
D. their money was less than his
B. Shakespeare and his friends built a theatre with their money at the age of thirty.
C. Shakespeare had a happy time and no difficulties in his life.
D. Shakespeare was very popular with the people in London.