20th century. Miller"s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many
others by the "Great American Dream." However, he experienced severe financial hardship when
his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Miller"s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system,
with its aggressive (有进取心的) way of doing business and its insistence on money and social
status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into
trouble with his worth. Willy is "burnt out" and in the cruel world of business there is no room for
sentiment (多愁善感): if he can"t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner
Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his
lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won
the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics` Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February
10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
B. He was attracted by the "Great American Dream".
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system.
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced
D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
actress who began her career as a mature(成熟的) child actress.
Jodie began her performing career as a very young child in television, appearing first in commercials
(商业广告). She starred in her own short-lived series, Paper Moon (1974), based on the 1973 film of
the same name. She appeared in a number of Disney films, beginning with Napoleon and Samantha (1972).
Director Martin Scorsese cast Jodie in a bit part in Alice Doesn"t live Here Anymore (1974) before
giving her the role of Iris in Taxi Driver (1976). Her mature performance in Taxi Driver earned her an
Academy Award nomination(提名) as best supporting actress. Her later films as child actress were less
impressive, but her performances were always admired. Jodie graduated from Yale University in 1985.
Perhaps because of her screen image of early maturity, Foster was abler to make a relatively smooth
transition to adult roles. In The Accused (1988), she gave a perfect performance as Sarah Tobias. In
The Silence of the Lames (1991), she tracks a killer as FBI agent Clarice Starling. Both performances
won her Academy Awards as best actress.
In 1990s, Jodie went into other areas of filmmaking. She directed her best film, Little Man Tate, in
1991,in which she also co-starred. In 1994, she co-produced Nell, for which she also received an Oscar
nomination for best actress. In 1997, Foster starred in Contact. Her later films included Panic Room (2002), Inside Man (2006), and The Brave One (2007).
a. Taxi Driver b. The Accused c. Nelld. The Silence of the Lambs
B. ac
C. bd
D. abcd
B. some of Jodie"s performances as a child actress were thought to be very bad.
C. Jodie became famous at a young age because of her mature performance.
D. Jodie played a very important role in Alice Doesn"t Live Here Anymore.
B. Business
C. Fashion
D. Career
F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student
of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while.
In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda
Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary:" My own happiness in
the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to
walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary."
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success,
Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the
Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922),
and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby,
published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give
him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories
All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald"s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the
1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and
went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934
and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States,
he got totally addicted to(沉迷于) alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight
his alcoholism.
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St.Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
B. b-e-a-f-c-d
C. f-d-e-c-b-a
D. b-f-c-d-e-a
B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army
C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn"t broken down
D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital
B. Zelda"s illness and treatment
C. Fitzgerald"s friendship with Graham
D. Fitzgerald"s contributions to the literary world
yping course so when this show business thing doesn"t work out,you"ll have something to rely on."
Mary responded in typical teenage fashion.From that moment on,"the very last thing I ever
thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.
The show business thing worked out,of course.In her career,Mary won many awards.Only
recently,when she began to write Growing Up Again,did she regret ignoring her mom," I don"t
know how to use a computer," she admits.
Unlike her 1995 autobiography,After All, her second book is less about life as an award
winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病).All the money from the book is
intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF),an organization she serves as
international chairman."I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says." I didn"t want to
lecture,but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we"re self?controlled
and do our part in managing the disease."
But she hasn"t always practiced what she teaches.In her book,she describes that awful day,
almost 40 years ago,when she received two pieces of life changing news.First,she had lost the
baby she was carrying,and second,tests showed that she had diabetes.In a childlike act,she left
the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈).Years would pass before she
realized she had to grow up again-and take control of her diabetes,not let it control her.Only
then did she kick her three pack a day cigarette habit,overcome her addiction to alcohol,and
begin to follow a balanced diet.
Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance
floor,she refuses to fall into self pity."Everybody on earth can ask,"why me" about something
or other," she insists."It doesn"t do any good.No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache,pain,
and disappointments.Sometimes we can make things better by helping others.I"ve come to
realize the importance of that as I"ve grown up this second time.I want to speak out and be as
helpful as I can be."
A.She didn"t achieve her ambition.
B.She didn"t take care of her mother.
C.She didn"t complete her high school.
D.She didn"t follow her mother"s advice.
B.received many career awards
C.knew how to use a computer
D.supported the JDRF by writing
B.successful show business
C.service for an organization
D.remembrance of her mother
B.began a balanced diet
C.tried to get a treatment
D.behaved in an adult way
B.Mary has recovered from her disease.
C.Mary wants to help others as much as possible.
D.Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.
their family in Venice after a long journey. They 2 about strange and beautiful lands in the East.
They brought back gold and jewels.
Shortly 3 . the Polo brothers asked him to 4 a trip with them to the East. So it was 5
Marco Polo’s journey (旅行) began. During three years of travelling to 6 China, he saw 7
that were almost unbelievable to a boy from Italy. He met people who had 8 ways of living.
Some people 9 languages that he did not understand. At 10 they reached the continent of
Asia. This was 11 the year 1257. The emperor made a great feast (盛宴) in honour of the
Polos and asked Marco to live in his court. Marco Polo 12 to read, write and speak new
languages. 13 the emperor sent him to 14 western and southern part of his empire. Marco
Polo was given many soldiers and servants for his journey. Marco saw paper made by the
Chinese. People in China had 15 discovered how to print 16 paper; they had many books
and even used paper money! They burned little black rocks for 17 -later called coal. After
three years, he wrote a book about his travels, 18 most people in Europe did not 19 .
20 many years later did the world know that this man had discovered a great eastern country.
( )1.A. in
( )2.A. talked
( )3.A. later
( )4.A. go
( )5.A. how
( )6.A. reach
( )7.A. what
( )8.A. strange
( )9.A. spoke
( )10.A. least
( )11.A. about
( )12.A. studied
( )13.A. When
( )14.A. watch
( )15.A. first
( )16.A. in
( )17.A. heating
( )18.A. that
( )19.A. imagine
( )20A. Only
B. thought
B. before
B. take
B. when
B. get to
B. sights
B. difficult
B. said
B. most
B. of
B. researched
B. Since
B. see
B.Ssoon
B. on
B. heat
B. what
B. believe
B. After
C. from
C. told
C. after
C. get
C. where
C. arrive
C. which
C. curious
C. talked
C. last
C. not
C. learned
C. Once
C. look
C. slowly
C. about
C. irrigating
C. which
C. record
C. Since
D. to
D. said
D. ago
D. delay
D. why
D. distant
D. thing
D. constant
D. listened
D. once
D. in
D. agreed
D. During
D. inspect
D. even
D. with
D. building
D. all
D. disclose
D. When
and died on July 18,1817. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices(偏见)of her times
forced her to have her books published anonymously.(匿名).
But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath"s many famous local people and
visitors. She paid two long visits during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to
1806, Bath was her home. Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger
Addey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it,
keeping its streets and public buildings the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels.
Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen"s Bath can be enhanced (增强)by visiting the Jane Austen
Center in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more
about Bath in Jane Austen"s time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.
The Center has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society. After
your visit to the Center, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane
Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts. Jane Austen quizzes are offered to keep
the children busy.
You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen"s Bath, which is a great way to find out more about
Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath. The tour lasts about one and a half hours.
The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and shopped.
B. in her early teens
C. in her late twenties
D. in her late teens
B. The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.
C. Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen"s time.
D. No changes have taken place in Bath since Austen"s time.
B. ask readers to buy Austen"s books
C. tell readers about Jane Austen"s experience
D. give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society
B. cards and gifts that have something to do with Austen
C. the quizzes written by Austen to keep the children busy
D. the books written by the other writers about Austen
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- 3股份制是公有制经济主要实现方式,如果一国有企业改制为股份有限公司后,它的最高权力机构是A.厂长或经理B.董事长C.职工代
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