题目
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Winfrey, 51, draw 30 million viewers weekly in the United States. Her talk show reaches 112 countries. She earned US ＄225 million over the past 12 months to rank second in celebrity riches. The annual Forbes list gives most weight to annual earnings. But it also looks at the celebrity’s presence on the Internet and in the media. “After 21 years, her exciting chat show still rules the airwaves,” the magazine said.
Winfrey is most popular with her popular talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. She can always attract the superstars and let them open up to her intimate interviewing style. Winfrey’s approach appears to be simple. She is in a pursuit （追求）of self-improvement and self-empowerment. This has proved to be just what people, especially women, want.
Winfrey often talks about her personal secrets on her show. That pulls in viewers. For example, she made it known that she had been sexually abused as a child, and has spoken freely of her struggle with her weight.
Her success has not just been on the screen. Her media group includes a women’s TV network and websites for women. Her work has extended to social change. In 1991, she did a lot of work for the National Child Protection Act. She testified before the US Senate to establish a national database （数据库）of dangerous child abusers. The then President Bill Clinton later signed the “Oprah Bill” into law.
小题1:The annual Forbes list selects its celebrities according to ____.
| A．their names | B．their annual earnings |
| C．their presence on the Internet and in the media | |
| D．their annual earnings and presence in the public |
| A．Oprah Winfrey was the first of the 100 celebrities according to Forbes magazine. |
| B．Oprah’s success has been only on the screen. |
| C．Oprah can attract superstars and get them to open up to her interview. |
| D．Oprah ranked second in celebrity riches that year. |
| A．attracts many readers’ attention | B．causes many people to take planes |
| C．has a large number of viewers | D．measures the airwaves |
| A．Oprah Winfrey Conquering the Americans. | B．Oprah Winfrey—the No 1 Celebrity. |
| C．Forbes Ranking First. | D．The Oprah Winfrey Show. |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
小题1:细节理解题，从文展第二自然段中直接找到答案。
小题2:细节理解题，依据文章最后一段第一句。
小题3:推测词义，通读第二自然段可猜测到rules the airwaves 的含义为“有很多观众”。
小题4: B、C、D只是文章的一个方面，不全面。63. A细节理解题。文章第一段说明，生化武器也许会给人类带来更大的威胁。
核心考点
试题【African-American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is the world’s most powerful cele】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves—anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.
Photographers’ disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography’s prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960’s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse—presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art.
Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art.
小题1:What is the author mainly concerned with? The author is concerned with
[A]. defining the Modernist attitude toward art.
[B]. explaining how photography emerged as a fine art.
[C]. explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context.
[D]. defining the various approaches that serious contemporary photographers take toward their art and assessing the value of each of those approaches.
小题2:Which of the following adjectives best describes “the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism” as the author represents it in lines 12—13?
[A]. Objective [B]. Mechanical. [C]. Superficial. [D]. Paradoxical.
小题3: Why does the author introduce Abstract Expressionist painter?
[A]. He wants to provide an example of artists who, like serious contemporary photographers, disavowed traditionally accepted aims of modern art.
[B]. He wants to set forth an analogy between the Abstract Expressionist painters and classical Modernist painters.
[C]. He wants to provide a contrast to Pop artist and others.
[D]. He wants to provide an explanation of why serious photography, like other contemporary visual forms, is not and should not pretend to be an art.
小题4: How did the nineteenth-century defenders of photography stress the photography?
[A]. They stressed photography was a means of making people happy.
[B]. It was art for recording the world.
[C]. It was a device for observing the world impartially.
[D]. It was an art comparable to painting.
The A380 will enter service in early 2006 with Singapore Airlines．
Airbus claims the A380 will burn less fuel, make less noise, create less pollution and cost 17 per cent less per seat than the 747．It will also reduce traffic problems in the skies．
The aircraft, which cost between ￡140 million(US$250m) and ￡157 million (US$280m) each compared with ￡84 million (US$150m) for Boeing’s new Dreamliner jet, is being built at 16 factories in Germany, France, Spain and the UK．
But activists have warned of more noise and pollution from the Superjumbo, while Boeing believes huge aircraft will not be in great demand over the next decade．
As a result, it is putting faith in the much smaller 7E7 Dreamliner．But Airbus is pinning its hopes on the “big is beautiful” theory, gambling on size being the key factor in the US-European battle for the skies．
Airbus said it was in talks with half a dozen global airlines about buying the A380. China Eastern Airlines, already an Airbus customer, is said to be targeted, while executives made it plain that they wanted to fight for the Japanese market, which had traditionally been controlled by Boeing．
Over the next 20 years, Airbus hopes to sell 750 of the new planes into a market worth ￡185billion (US$330bn)．The company already has129 firm orders for the A380, with 52 options．
小题1:According to Airbus, which of the following is not the advantage of A380 compared to Boeing 747?
| A．Making less noise, causing less traffic problems |
| B．Using less fuel, costing less money |
| C．Creating less pollution, having less weight |
| D．Having more floor space, creating less pollution |
| A．Airbus is not aiming at the Japanese market． |
| B．Boeing is not a rival of Airbus． |
| C．A380 hasn’t been used yet． |
| D．Boeing is better than Airbus． |
| A．duty-free shops | B．restaurants | C．banks | D．a sauna |
| A．not so good | B．cheerful | C．undesirable | D．gloomy |
High mountains with rich, fertile land between them cover northern Greece. The hilly southern part is a peninsula called the Peloponnesus. Hundreds of islands surround the mainland. The largest island is Crete.
No part of the nation is far from water. The Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea carved deep bays and gulfs into the long coastline. Greece has been a seafaring nation for centuries, and Greece is very well known for its shipping industry.
More than three thousand years ago, the Greek people developed a very sophisticated society. They have a great civilization, one of the greatest that the Western would have ever seen. Greek architecture, thinking and art influenced other languages, including English. For example, the English words alphabet, democracy, and arithmetic come from Greek.
Today Greece is one of the most popular nations with the tourists who visit Europe. Thousands of people are attracted to the country because of its beautiful scenery, magnificent ancient buildings, and its excellent summer weather.
小题1:A good title for this reading passage is _______
| A．The Earliest Civilizations | B．The Influence of the Sea on Greece. |
| C．The Small but Important Nation of Greece | D．The Ionian Sea |
| A．cut, made | B．said, told | C．lost, wasted | D．attracted |
| A．north | B．east | C．south | D．west |
| A．in the southern part | B．on the Peloponnesus |
| C．both A and B | D．in the Aegean Sea |
A. 5000B.C. B. 3000B.C. C.1000B.C. D.2000B.C.
When the saver(储蓄者) needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead he sells his shares through a stockbroker(证券经纪人) to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local organizations. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones and railways, this country could not work. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than it is raised through taxes alone. The government, local organizations and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance(给…提供资金) major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.
There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another his new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
小题1:The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is _______.
| A．exchanged for part ownership in the Stock Exchange |
| B．raised by the selling of shares in the companies |
| C．repaid to its original owners as soon as possible |
| D．invested in different companies in the Stock Exchange |
| A．unable to provide for the needs of the population |
| B．financed wholly by rates and taxes |
| C．in constant need of financial support |
| D．run by the government or local organizations |
| A．to make certain everybody saves money |
| B．to borrow as much money as they wish |
| C．to make certain everybody lends money to them |
| D．to raise money to finance new development |
| A．give more money with | B．provide less money with |
| C．borrow less money with | D．make more money with |
Of course, many senior citizens are happy with retirement. They have time to spend with their families or enjoy their hobbies. Some continue to work part time, others do volunteer(志愿) work. Some, like those in the Retired Business Executives Association, even help young, people to get started in new business. Many retired citizens also belong to “Golden Age” groups. These organizations plan trips and social events. There are many chances for retirees.
American society is only beginning to be concerned about the special physical and emotional needs of its senior citizens. The government is taking steps to ease the problem of limited income. They are building new housing, offering discounts(折扣) in stores and museums and on buses, and providing other services such as free courses, food service, and help with housework. Retired citizens are a rapidly growing percentage of the population. This part of the population is very important and we must meet their needs. After all, every citizen will be a senior citizen some day.
小题1:The author believes that work first became important to Americans because of _______.
| A．religion | B．economy | C．psychology | D．family |
| A．money and check | B．senior and junior |
| C．work and retirement | D．Protestants and Americans |
| A．get Social Security checks | B．feel productive |
| C．enjoy themselves | D．be religious |
| A．two | B．four | C．five | D．three |
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