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Charlie Chaplin is irresistible (无法抵御) because he is one of the first and most enduring (持久的) movie
stars, because he quickly gained creative and financial control (创作权和财政权) of his movies, because he
invented such a fascinating (引人入胜的) series of comic (喜剧的) films, because he experienced such a
stormy personal life, and because his 40-year filmmaking career in the United States was such a rollercoaster
ride of boom and bust.
Every few weeks outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s,stood the life-
size card board figure of small tramp-outfitted in tattered (破旧的), baggy (肥大的) pants, a cutaway coat
and vest(背心), impossibly large, worn-out shoes, and a battered derby (扁顶) hat-bearing the inscription (印
象) "I am here today." An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious,
almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot.
In a 1995 worldwide survey (调查) of film critics, Chaplin was voted the greatest actor in movie history.
He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmmaking process-founding his
own studio, United Artists, with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, and producing, casting
(演员挑选人), directing, writing, and editing the movies he starred in.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, when weekly movie going was a national habit, Chaplin more
or less invented global recognizability (世人的赞扬) and helped turn an industry into an art. In 1916, his third
year in films, his salary of $10 000 a week made him the highest paid actor-possibly the highest paid person-in
the world.
By 1920, "Chaplinitis" accompanied (伴随) by a flood of Chaplin dances, songs, dolls, comic books and
cocktails, was rampant. Filmmakers Mack Sennett thought him "just the greatest artist who ever lived". Other
early admirers included George Bernard Shaw, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud. In 1923 Hart Crane, who
wrote a poem about Chaplin, said his pantomime"represents the futile gesture (无用的) of the poet today".
Later in the 1950s, Chaplin was one of the icons of the Beat Generation. From 1981 to 1987, IBM used the
Tramp as the logo to advertise its venture (冒险精神) into personal computers.
He has been called the single most influential artist in the history of motion pictures; certainly no other
movie star enjoyed the international, iconographic (象征性的) status (地位) he attained early in the silent era
and maintained (保持) well past the coming of sound. And certainly no other creative talent did as much as he
to elevate (提高) screen comedy to a high art.
of motion pictures?
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climber and a big star in France and Italy. She is the most famous woman climber in the world because she
climbs without ropes. She climbs in many countries but most often in the French Alps near Chamonix, where
she lives. She started climbing near her home in Paris when she was five. Then, at fourteen, she joined the
French Alpine Club to learn more, but immediately she climbed better and more quickly than the older members
of the club. She won her first competition in Italy in 1995.
Three years ago she found a new route up the Dru Mountain near Chamonix The climb took eleven days
and for four days the snow was so heavy that she could not move. Last year other climbers tried to follow the
new Destivelle Route, but they failed. They are going to try again this year.
People always ask her about her climbing. She says, "I climb because I"m in love with mountains. I like
touching the rock and reading the face of the rock. I like it a lot. I felt at home on the side of a mountain. I
prepare well before I go, so I"m never worried."
Catherine chooses new mountains from books-like buying from a shopping catalogue (目录)! "I see a nice
mountain and I go to climb it!" Her next mountain is in Pakistan. She is going there next month:"It"s much
bigger than the Dru, so it"s going to take longer to climb. An American climber, Jeff Lowe, is coming with me
to help."
B. she has a talent for rock music
C. she is a famous woman climber
D. she found a new route up to the Dru Mountain
B. the climb took 11 days
C. she needed help from an American climber
D. there was a heavy snow
B. easy and happy
C. like going home
D. well
B. Are you in love with an American climber?
C. Do you enjoy reading books on mountains?
D. What do you do before you go climbing?
| anti-black, legal, found, law, equally, selfless, president, blow, sentence, release |
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| In Mount Berry, Georgia, people find a group of schools built specially for mountain children. The schools, as well as the mountain itself, are named after Martha Berry herself, a daughter of a Georgian mountaineer. Martha Berry was born in 1866. Luckier than most Georgian mountain children, she received an education But she never forgot other children of the mountains whose parents couldn"t afford to send them to school. In 1902 Martha Berry started a school for these children It was housed in a single small log cabin and was attended by only five pupils. Now, eighty years later, there are a score of Berry schools in the area, with a total of over one thousand students and waiting list of about five thousand. Martha Berry in her later years received many medals and honors for what she had done for the poor mountain children of Georgia, and in 1931 she was named one of the twelve most important women in the United States. She never stopped working for the mountain children till her death in 1942. |
| 1. The first Berry School was founded ____. |
| A. to honor Martha Berry B. in memory of Martha Berry C. by the efforts of Martha Berry D. in Martha Berry"s own house |
| 2. In Mount Berry there are now ____. |
| A. enough schools for all the local children B. still not enough schools for all the local children C. more than enough schools for all the local children D. schools for local children as well as those from other parts |
| 3. Martha Berry was named one of the twelve most important women in the US because ____. |
| A. she had helped develop one of the most backward areas B. she had never stopped working till her death C. she had received many medals and honors D. she had helped set up some of the most advanced schools |
| 4. The passage mainly tells us ____. |
| A. the history of the Berry School B. about a poor area in the United States C. Mount Berry"s development in education D. Martha Berry"s work and achievement |
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| Of all the folk artists in the United States the best known of the twentieth century is certainly Grandma Moses--Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961). She was also the most successful within her lifetime and her work was reproduced on greeting cards and in prints. As with many folk artists, her career as a painter started late in life, at the age of 67, but she continued painting until her death at the age of 10l, so her active painting life still lasted over 34 years. Her subjects are based on the New England countryside. Many of her early paintings are copies of, or use sections from, prints by Currier and Ives that she then recreated in her own way. In her paintings the figures became more stylized and the landscapes less naturalistic. Her painting was preceded (优先) by the production of landscapes in needlework. The images, however, continued the same, and she remade some of her needlework landscapes in paint at a later date. From these early sources she began to compose original paintings such as Housick Falls, New York in Winter (1944) that relied on her surroundings and her memories of country life and activities; these paintings show her increasing technical ability. By the 1940"s her work had become a marketable commodity and collectors created a demand for her paintings. Like many painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Grandma Moses made use of photographs for information, for figures, for landscapes, and for buildings, but her work, especially that of her later years, was not a simple copying of these but compositions using them as source material. Her output was amazing, and consequently her work is of varying quality. Her paintings place her among the top folk painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| 1. What is the main topic of the passage? |
| A. The painting materials used by Grandma Moses. B. The major artistic influences on Grandma Moses. C. The folk art of Grandma Moses. D. The life of Grandma Moses. |
| 2. According to the passage, Grandma Moses started her painting career ____. |
| A. without much success B. in her sixties C. after much study D. by producing greeting cards |
| 3. Why does the author mention Currier and Ives in the second paragraph? |
| A. They are folk artists. B. They collected many of Grandma Moses" paintings. C. They made calendars from Grandma Moses" landscapes. D. Grandma Moses based some paintings on their work. |
| 4. According to the passage, Grandma Moses switched (转变) from needlework to painting because of ____. |
| A. her desire to create landscapes B. the public"s interest in painting C. her need to make money D. a physical condition that affected her |
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| Mary Somerville was born in 1780 in Burntisland, Scotland. Her contribution to mathematics was in both algebra (代数) and differential and integral calculus (微积分学). Mary was one of the world"s first famous female mathematicians. She became interested in mathematics and decided to study it at the time when it was considered unacceptable for a woman to do so. She bought books on algebra and geometry and read them at night. In spite of disapproval from people around her, she firmly went on with her struggle to learn. She won a prize for her solution to an algebra problem. She went on to write several books on mathematics. Later in her life, she thought deeply about the years in which she had persevered (坚持) almost without hope and said, "It taught me never to lose heart." Mary"s way of learning remains useful today. If she worked for a while on a problem without coming up with an idea, she stopped working and turned her attention to the piano, her needlework, or a walk outdoors. She then returned to the problem with a fresh mind and a solution turned up. If she could not understand a passage while reading, she would forget about it and read on; several pages later, the meaning of the puzzling passage would become clear to her. |
| 1. Why did Mary decide to study math? |
| A. Because she found math interesting and wanted to study it. B. Because she was one of the world"s first famous female mathematicians. C. Because it was not considered acceptable for a woman to study math. D. Because she was bored and had nothing to do. |
| 2. What does the underlined word "disapproval" in Paragraph 2 mean in this text? |
| A. Disagreement. B. Agreement. C. Support. D. Discovery. |
| 3. What is the main idea of the third paragraph? |
| A. Mary could solve any difficult math problem easily. B. Mary was, without doubt, a famous female mathematician. C. Mary had some useful ways to deal with difficulties in her work. D. Mary"s ways to overcome difficulties were not effective. |
| 4. According to the passage, if you have been puzzled by a math problem, you"d better ____. |
| A. keep working on it until it is solved B. just forget about the problem C. turn to your math teacher for help D. listen to light music for a while and then continue working on it |