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Boyle suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death. Boyle put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan"s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain"s Got Talent. We used to watch it together.” Susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.”
In 1999, Boyle used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo (样本唱片) tape. which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Boyle began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O"Neil.
In 2007, Boyle"s mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn"t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone.” She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O"Neil urged her to try out for Britain"s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream in the first round of the show, which was aired on 11 April 2009.
The 47-year-old Scottish woman"s plain looks provided a sharp contrast (对比) to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain"s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.
小题1:Bridget Boyle"s attitude towards her daughter"s musical talent can be described as .
| A．critical | B．doubtful | C．indifferent | D．optimistic |
| A．was slightly discouraged by her voice coach |
| B．entered Britain"s Got Talent to prove her ability |
| C．decided to give up her singing career |
| D．was deeply affected by her mother"s death |
| A．Her international fame grew rapidly in 2008. |
| B．Her audition for My Kind of People failed. |
| C．She has never stopped singing since 1995. |
| D．She was the winner of Britain"s Got Talent. |
| A．tell us how Boyle"s dream came true |
| B．let us know more about Boyle"s personal life |
| C．show how Boyle was influenced by her family |
| D．explain how to enter and win a talent show |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析
核心考点
试题【In 1995, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition (试演) for My Kind of people, a t】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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二、完形填空（30分）
Everybody knows Charlie Chaplin，a world-famous funny actor.People 21have laughed at Charlie Chaplin’s films 22 tears run down their faces.From his very first 23 they know what will happen. The little man is always with black moustache，wide-open eyes，round black hat and ___24 too large for his feet.He’ll25 through snow，and fall from windows.He’ll fight men who are twice his 26 ,fall in love with women，who 27 notice him and try to hug（拥抱)them.
The poor man that Charlie Chaplin 28 in dozens of films makes all kinds of stupid mistakes.He is always in 29 ,but he never 30 .He dreams of becoming a great man.Even people who 31 understand English can 32 Chaplin’s films，because they are mostly 33___.It isn’t what he 34 that makes people laugh.His comedy（喜剧)doesn’t depend on words.It depends on little 35 which mean the 36 thing to people all over the world.
Chaplin raises his thick eyebrows or rolls his eyes.He hides behind a fat lady or under a table to escape from his 37 .He dresses well and pretends to be a 38 and important man. It is all so hopeless and 39 that he makes us laugh.This is the 40 of Chaplin’s huge success.
21.A.here B.everywhere C.abroad D.who
22.A.if B.once C.because D.until
23.A.disappearance B.appearance C.words D.emotions
24.A.trousers B.stocks C.shoes D.hands
25.A.sleep B.sit C.play D.struggle
26.A.length B.size C.greatness D.width
27.A.hardly B.deeply C.widely D.luckily
28.A.played B.recognized C.loved D.fooled
29.A.joy B.excitement C.sorrow D.trouble
30.A.comes down B.gets away C.goes back D.gives up
31.A.don’t B.can C.do D.may
32.A.understand B.watch C.enjoy D.see
33.A.frightening B.silent C.pleasant D.moving
34.A.plays B.acts C.expects D.says
35.A.actions B.expressions C.stories D.words
36.A.some B.different C.same D.bitter
37.A.enimies B.own C.characters D.films
38.A.poor B.sad C.rich D.beautiful
39.A.possible B.impossible C.instructive D.tired
40.A.way B.beginning C.theory D.secret
Last April, on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis, I carried with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office. It
included a variety of “fun facts” about the mall, for example, 140,000 hot dogs are sold each week, there are 10,000 full-time jobs, 44 sets of moving stairs and 17 lifts, 12,750 parking places, 13,000 tons of steel and $ 1 million is drawn weekly from 8 ATMs. Opened in the summer of 2005, the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium had been. It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. With 4.2 million square feet of floor space ----- twenty-two times the size of the average American shopping center –the Mall of America was the largest shopping and family recreation center under one roof in the United States.
I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers, not only as a marketplace, but as a national tourist attaction. Eleven thousand articles, the small book informed me, had been written about the mall. Four hundred trees had been planted in its gardens, $ 625 million had been spent to build it, and 350 stores were already in business. Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half-million Canadian visitors and 200,000 Japanese tourists. Sales are expected to be at $ 650 million for 2008 and at $ I billion for 2009. Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Amold Schwarzenegger visited the mall. It was five times larger than Red Square and it included 2.3 miles of hallways and used almost twice as Knott’s Camp Snoopy.
60. We know from the text that the Mall of America is _________.
A.near an old stadium B.close to an airport
C.higher than the Eiffel Tower D.bigger than most American parks
61. Why are the pieces of information provided by the Mall of America referred to as “fun facts”?
A.They are largely imagined. B.They are surprising figures（数字）
C.They give exact descriptions. D.They make people feel uneasy.
62. Why does the author mention popular stars who have been to the mall?
A.To show its power of attraction.
B.To show that few rich people like to shop there.
C.To tell the public about a new movie being made about it.
D.To tell people that they have chances of meeting famous stars there.
63. We can infer from the text that _______.
A.Japanese visitors are most welcome to the mall
B.Canadian visitors would spend $ I billion at the mall
C.Knott’s Camp Snoopy was next to the Mall of America
D.the Mall of America was designed to serve more than one purpose（目的）
He and six other migrant workers from Fujian Province spent 36 hours in Iraq as international hostages（人质）. But luckily，they were set free last Tuesday morning，unharmed by the people who had taken them hostage.
After hard work by Chinese diplomats（外交官）in the region the Iraqi kidnappers（绑架者）agreed to hand them over to a local religious group.“The friendly relations between the Chinese and Iraqi peoples have played a key role in the release of the hostages,”said Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan. China refused to join the US-led coalition（联军）in the Iraq war.
Since April 4，over 60 hostages from 12 countries，including America，Italy and Japan，have been taken in Iraq. Some have been released, others were killed.
The Iraqi resistance groups have started taking foreigners hostage in an attempt to force the US-led troops out of their country. As a result，many foreigners have left，fearing the situation will get worse. Some nations are also considering removing their troops from Iraq. Thailand has ordered its forces not to leave their camp and may bring them home before September as originally planned. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark is considering similar action.
But Dan Senor，spokesman for the US-led coalition in Baghdad，said that it would not negotiate（谈判）with “terrorists or kidnappers” to get hostages released.
小题1:The seven workers from Fujian were set free mainly because ______.
| A．they were too poor to pay anything |
| B．kidnappers didn’t know they were Chinese |
| C．China didn’t take sides with the US-led coalition |
| D．kidnappers were friendly to the Chinese |
| A．To show their anger towards the occupation of foreign troops. |
| B．To tell the world they would fear nothing. |
| C．To make foreign armies leave their country. |
| D．To resist the American troops. |
| A．wouldn’t give in to Iraqi terrorists or kidnappers |
| B．had enough power to station in Iraq |
| C．wouldn’t give up unless it could get something |
| D．had no plan to bring its troops home |
| A．the hostage crises in Iraq |
| B．foreigners were not welcome in Iraq |
| C．the Chinese hostages were set free |
| D．keeping away from Iraq is a wise choice |
III.阅读理解(20×2)
When Sir Winston Churchill , the great British prime minister, reached his eightieth birthday in November 1954, he was presented with his portrait by a well-known modern artist, Granham Sutherland. The painting had been ordered and paid by the members of Parliament(国会)， who wanted to honor the Grand Man of World war II.
Sir Winston and Lady Churchill were deeply moved by this mark of respect and affection. Neither of them, of course, allowed the donors（捐赠者） to see how much they both disliked the portrait. “It makes me look stupid—which I am not !” Churchill protested in pr
ivate. Publicly, he only said that it was “a fine example of modern art”. His friends smiled: it was well-known that Sir Winston didn’t care for modern art. Churchill was so unhappy about the portrait that finally his wife had it destroyed. Churchill died at ninety in January 1965. lady Churchill followed him in 1977. Shortly after her death, the public learned what had happened to Sutherland’s paint
ing, and a heated argument broke out. The painter was understandably sad. The artistic community, shocked and angry, claimed that the destruction of the picture had been a crime. Historians said that they regretted the disappearance of a historical document. All agreed that Churchills didn’t have the right to do what they had done.Well—did they ? A good part of the public felt that the owner of a portrait had the right to get rid of it if it made him so unhappy. The question, however, has been raised many times before: who has the right to a work of art—the sitter, the owner, the donor or the artist who created it? And when the painting is the portrait of a historical figure, should the right of posterity (后代) be considered, as the historians claimed?
1. To have Churchill’s portrait painted was the idea of ______.
A.a we
ll-known modern artist B.ParliamentC.a friend of Churchill D.the public
2. Which of the following is true ?
A. Churchill liked the portrait but his wife not
B. Churchill didn’t like the portrait because he didn’t like the painter
C. Churchill liked the portrait because it was a fine modern art.
D . Churchill didn’t like the portrait and nor did his wife
3. When Churchill said it was “a fine example of modern art”, he was ______.
A. dishonest B. joking C. praising the portrait D. not been straight
4.When was the destruction of the portrait known to the public?
A . As soon as it happened B.After Churchill died in 1965
C. Soon after Lady Churchill’s death D. Not until recently
5. How did people reacted to the news?
A. People of the artistic community were all very sad.
B. The historians felt more strongly against it than the artistic community.
C.All people agreed that Chutchills had no right to destroy the picture.
D. while some were upset, quite a few people believed the Churchills had the right to destroy it.
Carlos Gardel was born on Dec. 11, 1890, just at the right time. The recording and film industries were jus starting to impact the world. Carlos had good looks and a pleasant voice. His death occurred at the peak of his career and popularity in a tragic accident.
Carlos Gardel was the first great singer of tango and to this day remains an icon (崇拜对象) in Argentina, Uruguay and much of the world. As a result of his important role in tango, there are three countries that claim him as their own: France, Uruguay and Argentina.
Carlos’s mother, Berthe, was an unmarried mother and his father did not recognize him. His mother took Carlos to Buenos Aires in 1893. They lived in a poor part of town and Carlos spent his time in the streets; he dropped out of school in 1906 at the age of 15 and started singing in bars.
For the next few years, Carlos toured the clubs and theaters of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. His most constant singing partner was Jose Razzano, a folk singer Carlos had met earlier during a singing match. In 1915, after playing in a club in Brazil, Carlos wa
s shot in the left lung, where the bullet stayed for the rest of his life. “Mi Noche Triste” was the hit song that sent Carlos skyrocketing in popularity. It became the first recorded vocal tango and the public was grabbed by the recording of the song. Carlos and Rozzano spent the next years touring through Latin America. In 1923, they left the continent and struck out for Europe. In 1935, Carlos decided to go on tour through the Caribbean and northern South America. On June 24, a plane he was a passenger in was hit by another plane on the runway. Everyone on board was killed.Carlos may be gone, but he is far from forgotten.
6. The passage was mainly written to ______.
A. show us the history of tango B. introduce the first singer of tango
C. teach us how tango developed D. advertise a tango class
7. We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. Carlos lived a poor life with his mother in Buenos Aires
B. Carlos had only been to France, Uruguay and Argentina
C. Carlos died at the age of 54.
D. Carlos was born when the film industry began to fail
8. What’s the RIGHT time order of the following events?
a. Carlos toured through Latin America.
b. Carlos was shot after playing in a club in Brazil.
c. Carlos toured the clubs and theaters of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
d. Carlos moved to Buenos Aires.
A. cbad B. dcba C. cabd D. dcab
9. The underlined word “grabbed” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by _____.
A. lied B. frightened C. cheated D. attracted
10. Which of the following statements about Carlos in NOT true?
A. His singing partner Jose was his brother.
B. He is an important figure in the world of tango.
C. His father did not recognize him
D. He died in a plane accident.
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