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For those of you who were born in the year of the pig, good luck and much success! This is your year.
When talking to a Westerner, however, you’ve got to be a little careful when you talk about pigs. Chinese people view the pig as a smart and prosperous (rich, lucky) animal. Western ideas tend to be a little more negative(否定的).
A pig in the West is seen as a dirty, lazy, and fat animal. If anyone ever called you a pig, you wouldn’t be smiling. When a person doesn’t like someone, sometimes he will call that person a pig.
If you ever meet a Westerner who was born in the year of the pig, don’t say, “ Oh, you’re a pig!” Most Westerners will be understanding. They will be sure that you made some kind of mistake. However, don’t take any chances. You might just offend (触怒)someone who does not share your positive ideas about pigs.
小题1:
According to the passage we can see that Chinese people think of the pig as a ________ animal.
A.cleverB.richC.goodD.all the above
小题2:
A Westerner will call someone a pig if he ______ that man.
A.dislikesB.is afraid ofC.looks up toD.makes fun of
小题3:
When you call a Westerner a pig, who was born in the year of the pig, most of them _______.
A.will be angryB.will be very surprised
C.can forgiveD.may quarrel with you
小题4:
From the passage we can conclude that ________.
A.it’s impolite to talk about pigs
B.Westerners do not like pigs as much as the Chinese
C.in general, Westerners and the Chinese don’t like pigs
D.all of the Chinese like pigs better than Westerners

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小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:B
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If you"ve ever seen a James Bond movie,you"ll know that the hero gets around in a smart Aston Martin car. Even if you know full well that you could never afford such an expensive vehicle, you don"t forget the name, or the car.
  Why? You have been affected by product placement.
  Companies pay a film to place their products in the movie. Product placement took off in the West in the 1980s and is now catching on in China. Two Hunan Satellite TV dramas are recent examples:Ugly Wudi and Let"s Go Watch the Meteor Shower (《一起去看流星雨》).
  Shampoo, mobile phones, cars and fitness centers–anything can be product-placed. Advertisers value the mass appeal of the movies, knowing that a successful film can showcase their goods to hundreds of thousands of viewers. But when product placement takes over, artistic considerations can take a back seat.
  Cai Zhiyong has been product-placing for years. The Beijing-based advertiser admits there is a conflict between art and business. He explains the way one ad works. In If You are the One (《非诚勿扰》), the actress Shu Qi plays a flight attendant. The movie contains product placement for airline companies.
  Cash-strapped filmmakers often have to give less consideration to the quality of their work because they need money from advertisers. In the original story for Meteor Shower, the heroine"s mother owned an ice cream shop. But no ice cream company wanted to sponsor (赞助) the film. For this reason, the story was changed. In the film the man drinks 20 cups of milk tea instead of eating ice cream.
  So you may see the power of business over the movies, since the script (剧本) was perhaps written so that a product could be placed-whether it was ice cream or milk tea.
小题1:James Bond movies are mentioned in the first paragraph to show_________.
A.how popular James Bond is B.how great the Aston Martin car is
C.how to make a movie more artistic D.how effectively product placement works
小题2:Product placement can have a bad effect on the_________ of a movie.
A.atmosphere B.mass appeal C.box-office success D.artistic value
小题3:What does the underlined word "cash-strapped" in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A.Short of money. B.Wasting a lot of money.
C.having enough money. D.Trying to save money.
小题4:We can learn from the example of Meteor Shower that__________.
A.business has a big say in the movie
B.the original story was not suitable for a movie
C.filmmakers are only concerned about making money
D.milk tea is more popular than ice cream

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DJs (disc jockeys) are the people who play and present music on the radio, or in nightclub. A VJ (video jockey) is a person who introduces music videos on television.
VJs were first seen on television in the early 1980s when MTV went on the air. As MTV caught on, and the audience for music videos expanded, a variety of other music video channels started broadcasting. In addition to rock music, there were channels for people who were into alternative kinds of music, such as country music, light rock, and R & B, and all of these channels needed VJs. By the 1990s, international music video channels like Channel V in Asia and VIVA in Europe had started.
The VJs for the new international stations had to be chosen carefully. Although some VJs did shows focused on small audiences and showed mostly local content, other VJs presented shows for international viewers. These VJs, and the material they presented, needed to be popular in several different cultures.
One successful international VJ in Asia is Asha Gill. She is from Malaysia, but parents and grandparents are from India, France, and England. She speaks three languages and has fans across Asia, from Japan to the United Arab Emirates.
Another VJ who has made a big hit in Asia is Lili. She is actually a computer-animated VJ on MTV Asia. An actress wearing special computer equipment makes Lili move like a puppet. The actress also talks for Lili, and her shows can be seen in five languages.
When asked what makes a good video jockey, many successful VJs have given similar answers. To be a good VJ you need to know a lot about music, you need to be funny, and you can’t be shy.
小题1:What is the reading mainly about?
A.how to become a VJB.the most popular VJ today
C.the differences between DJs and VJsD.some general information about VJs
小题2:What kind of music did the first VJ probably introduce?
A.classicalB.rhythm and blues C.rock and popD.country
小题3:What do Channel V and VIVA have in common?
A.They are both owned by MTV.
B.They are music video channels in Asia.
C.They do not use VJs to introduce the music.
D.They have viewers in more than one country.
小题4:Which is NOT true about Asha Gill?
A.She speaks more than one language.B.Her family were all born in Malaysia.
C.She’s popular in quite a lot of Asian countries.D.She is a successful VJ.
小题5: Which of the following does the passage NOT mention as being important for someone who wants to be a VJ?
A.speak many different languagesB.listen to a lot of music
C.talk easily with different peopleD.being able to make people laugh

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Most people think that the capital of the movie world is Hollyhood, in the United States. However, the real movie capital is Mumbai, in India. Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and so the film industry there is called “Bollywood.” Bollywood makes twice as many movies each year as Hollyhood—more than 800 films a year.
The movies from Bollywood are very different from Hollywood movies. For one thing, Bollywood movies are much longer than most Hollywood movies. Most Bollywood movies are more than three hours long, and contain singing, dancing, action, adventure, mystery, and romance (but usually no kissing). Because Bollywood films contain so many different features, this style of film is sometimes called a “masala” film. (“Masala” is an Indian word for a mixture of spices.)
Another big difference between Bollywood and Hollywood movies is the way movies are made. It takes much longer to make a movie in Hollywood than in Bollywood. In fact, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before the script even finished. The director and writers can make up the story while the film is being made. Sometimes they will even write the script by hand instead of taking time to type it.
Bollywood actors are very popular and some are in such high demand that they may work on several movies at the same time. They may even shoot scenes for several films on the same day using the same costumes and scenery. Since most Bollywood movies follow the same kind of story, shooting scenes for several films at the same time is not a big problem for actors or directors. This also helps keep the cost of Bollywood movies lower than the cost of Hollywood movies. The average Bollywood film, with a budget of only two million U.S. dollars, seems very cheap compared to the average budget of sixty million U.S. dollars for a Hollywood film—thirty times as much!
小题1:What is the main topic of the reading?
A.famous stars in BollywoodB.how Hollywood movies are made
C.the differences between two movie industriesD.the history of movie-making in India
小题2:What is NOT true about Mumbai?
A.It is the movie capital of India.
B.The new name is Bombay.
C.More movies are made there than in Hollywood.
D.It is less expensive to make films there than in Hollywood.
小题3: Why are Bollywood films often called “masala” films?
A.They have spicy stories.B.They show Indian culture.
C.They are much longer than Hollywood films.D.They mix different styles of movies.
小题4: Bollywood movies are cheap to make because ____________________ .
A.they are shorter than Hollywood films.
B.the scripts are written by hand.
C.the movies do not use any special effects.
D.each movie reuses things from other movies.
小题5:Which of these statements would the writer probably agree with?
A.Most Bollywood movies are very similar.
B.It takes a lot of money to make a good movie.
C.Only Indian people can understand Bollywood movies.
D.Hollywood movies are too violent.

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Nine 1700­year­old brick tombs have been discovered in northwest China’s Xinjiang. Experts say that they can   1  valuable clues for the research of exchanges(交换;交流) between the central Chinese government at that time and    ___2  Western Regions.
It is the    3  time ancient tombs with typical characteristics of China"s main Han nationality have been found in the Uygur ethnic region(自治区).
    4   from Beijing,Shanxi and Xinjiang concluded that the tombs were  ___5___ between the middle and late third century and fourth century.
The tombs were unearthed during the   6  of a road earlier this year in Kuqa county,740 km from Xinjiang"s capital Urumqi and part of the   7  Qiuci State. Qiuci State,which   8  between the second century BC and 860 AD,was one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.
The tombs would help archaeologists with research into the political,economic and cultural   9   between the Central Plains government and states in the west,and on the cultural     10  of the Central Plains on the Western Regions.
Archaeologists from the Xinjiang institute have dug nine tombs since August 22,___11   bodies of more than 30 people,some ancient   12  and more than 60 pottery(陶器)jars. It is thought there are another three tombs to be    13  .
The people buried in the tombs were    14  either people from the western regions deeply influenced by the Han culture or the Han residents(居民)in the    ___15  .
小题1:
A.
tell
B.
provide
C.
show
D.
represent
小题2:
A.
nearby
B.
middle
C.
faraway
D.
few
小题3:
A.
second
B.
last
C.
first
D.
near
小题4:
A.
Scientists
B.
People
C.
Officials
D.
Archaeologists
小题5:
A.
built
B.
found
C.
buried
D.
studied
小题6:
A.
construction
B.
destruction
C.
digging
D.
repair
小题7:
A.
ancient
B.
big
C.
far
D.
near
小题8:
A.
appeared
B.
disappeared
C.
lies
D.
existed
小题9:
A.
exchanges
B.
businesses
C.
development
D.
studies
小题10:
A.
model
B.
atmosphere
C.
influence
D.
change
小题11:
A.
finding
B.
destroying
C.
studying
D.
protecting
小题12:
A.
paper
B.
silk
C.
pearls
D.
coins
小题13:
A.
moved
B.
dug
C.
studied
D.
picked
小题14:
A.
surely
B.
probably
C.
certainly
D.
nearly
小题15:
A.
west
B.
country
C.
region
D.
tomb

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Blair: Blair was the first to appear in movies in history. In 1905, Blair appeared in the movie Rescued by Rover (义犬救主). It is a British film that a baby is kidnapped by an old woman, but the faithful family dog Rover saves the baby at last.
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小题1:According to the passage how many dogs starred in movies?
A.2B.3C.4D.5
小题2:Two dogs created by artists are_.
A.Rin Tin Tin and SnoopyB.Blair and LassieC.Rin Tin Tin and Lassie
D.Snoopy and Lassie
小题3:Which dog is most worth respecting?
A.Laika.B.SnoopyC.Lassie.D.Rin Tin Tin.
小题4: Which of the following is the most reasonable?
A.Blair- the first dog movie star; Laika-the greatest dog; Snoopy-No.1 cartoon dog star.
B.Rin Tin Tin- the first dog movie star; Laika-the most disappointing dog; Snoopy-No.1 cartoon dog star.
C.Rin Tin Tin- a dog millionaire; Blair- the first dog movie star; Laika-the most well-known cartoon dog.
D.Laika-the greatest dog; Rin Tin Tin- the first dog movie star; Laika-the most well-known cartoon dog.