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car. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the 2 . The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She
smiled 3 at the waiting photographers and went to a room on the first floor where she met her future husband
for the 4 first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the 5 of a radio station"s competition. The aim of the competition
was to find two strangers prepared to 6 without having met each other. Miss Germaine, 23, is a model. Mr.
Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a 7 "experiment"
organized by BMRB radio in Birmingham, England. Greg and Carle were 8 eight finalists who were interviewed
live on 9 . They 10 a lie detector test and the station also spoke to their friends and family about their 11 .
The competition judges 12 an astrologer (占星家) who declared that they were suited.
The 13 celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not
everyone 14 their joy. Miss Germaine"s mother looked 15 throughout the wedding and Mr. Cordell"s parents
are reported to be less than delighted. Organizations, including the marriage guidance service Relate, have 16
the marriage. As one person put it, "We have enough problems getting young people to take marriage 17
without this. Marriage should always be about love."
The couple are now on a Caribbean 18 followed by journalists. Their other 19 include a year"s free use a
wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham,and a car. But will it 20 ?
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| The blockbuster film Titanic has brought millions of dollars and thousands of people to the theaters and continues to touch people today in their homes. Why is this film so successful? It is a combination of many different things. Among these are many different elements. Looking at some of these elements will show how the director and others involved were able to create an emotionally charged movie that appealed to millions. The film uses one thematic (主题的) element called The Truth of Human Nature. The two main characters seem to represent noble people. Most of the other characters in the film are shown as non-tolerant, rude and cold-hearted people. The element of focusing on the two main characters" love and emotion seems symbolic of an ideal state. There are also social problems addressed. This is done in a few different ways. The most noticeable way is that the lower class people remain locked in the basement as the ship goes down. Throughout Titanic, the lighting is very important. The poor, lower class people are always shown in very warm-colored light that gives them a sense of life and happiness. On the other hand, the rich, upper class are always shown in a flat light portraying the feeling of hardness and coldness. By using these techniques, they show the issue of class segregation (种族隔离), and they create stereotypes. The main characters are able to break free of these stereotypes and be together. This is the solution to the segregation problem. As you can see, Titanic took a lot of thinking and preparation to film in a manner that would create emotion and bring to the surface the issues and story of the great ship. | |||
| 1. The underlined word "blockbuster" in the first paragraph probably means "_____". | |||
| A. something very successful B. a highly explosive bomb C. something worth a lot of money D. a touching story | |||
| 2. In Titanic, the scene of the lower class people remaining locked in the basement as the ship goes down is used to _____. | |||
| A. criticize non-tolerant and cold-hearted rich people B. enlarge the spectacle of the film C. criticize the reality of the society D. emphasize the condition of the poor at that time | |||
| 3. Why were different colours of light used in the film Titanic? | |||
| A. They were used to show the difference between the rich and the poor. B. The director was determined to achieve good visual effect. C. The social status was represented by the colour of light in the past. D. The use of light was the main technique the director made use of. | |||
| 4. What can we infer from the passage? | |||
| A. The segregation problem in the society can be solved by using the light. B. Though love is the main theme of Titanic, it also reflects some social problems. C. Because of the director"s talents, the film Titanic achieved great success. D. In the film Titanic there are two characters altogether. | |||
| 5. The writer mainly talks about _____ in this passage. | |||
| A. the process of shooting Titanic B. the leading actor and actress in Titanic C. the main techniques used in Titanic D. the outline of Titanic | |||
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| There are a number of special days of the year that are celebrated in different countries. The origins of most of the days are unknown. They were certainly not created by individual people. Other days, however, especially those celebrated in western countries, often owe their origins to a particular person. One of the most popular of these, even though it is fairly recent, is Mother"s Day. Mothers have always been highly regarded in all cultures. The ancient Romans had a festival known as Hilaria, during which children took presents to the temple of the "Mother of the Gods". The Christian Church adopted this idea and called it Mothering Sunday. However, over the years this custom was gradually forgotten and almost disappeared by the end of the 19th century. Born in 1864 in Virginia, USA, Anna Jarvis was a school teacher and believed children should show gratitude to their mothers for all their love and care. Encouraged by a friend, she wrote to thousands of important people- politicians, churchmen, doctors, city officials-and asked them to support her idea: a special day of the year for thanking mothers. In 1910 the Governor of West Virginia introduced Mother"s Day into the state. The date chosen was May 10-the second Sunday in May, which is still observed in America today. This date was chosen because May 10 was the date on which in 1908 Anna Jarvis"s mother had died. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made May 10 the official date for Mother"s Day throughout the United States. Soon there was a Mother"s Day International Association and the custom began to be adopted in many countries of the world. Anna Jarvis, a sad and disillusioned woman, died in 1948. The custom she had worked so hard to establish and which had become almost universal had lost its original purpose. It had been taken over by business. As with Christmas, the giving of presents and the sending of cards had become a multi-million-dollar industry. | |||
| 1. The story is about _____. | |||
| A. Mothering Sunday for Christmas B. the origin of a special day for mothers C. President Wilson and Anna Jarvis D. how people celebrate Mother"s Day | |||
| 2. Hilaria was a festival in _____. | |||
| A. ancient Rome B. America C. China D. the Christian Church | |||
| 3. Anna Jarvis wanted to _____. | |||
| A. thank her mother for her care B. introduce a celebration for mothers C. meet thousands of important people D. make her pupils celebrate her on Mother"s Day | |||
| 4. May 10 became the date for Mother"s Day because _____. | |||
| A. May is in the American spring B. it was the second Sunday in May in 1910 C. President Wilson liked the date D. this was the date that Anna Jarvis"s mother died | |||
| 5. Unfortunately, Anna Jarvis was not happy with Mother"s Day when she died because _____. | |||
| A. her mother was not there to see it B. she had never been a mother herself C. people were too interested in making it a business D. no one gave any presents or cards to their mothers | |||
| 任务型阅读。 根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段的主题最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。 | |||
| 1.______ Culture consists of all shaped products of human society. This means not only such materials things as cities, organizations and schools, but also non-material things such as ideas, customs, family patterns, and languages. Putting it simply, culture refers to the entire way of life of a society, "the ways of people". 2.______ Language is a part of culture and plays a very important role in it. Some social scientists consider it the keystone of culture. Without language, the maintaining of culture would not be possible. On the other hand, language is shaped and influenced by culture. In broadest scene, language is the symbolic representation of a people and it comprises their historical and cultural backgrounds as well as their approach to life and their ways of living and thinking. 3.______ We should not go further into the relationship between language and culture. What we need to be stressed is that the two interact, and that understanding of one requires understanding of the other. Language carries culture and culture gives language characteristics. There is no language living without culture or culture without language. 4.______ Social scientists tell us that cultures differ from one another, that is to say, each culture is unique. As cultures are diverse, languages are diverse. It is only natural that with differences in cultures and differences in languages, difficulties often arise in communicating between cultures and across cultures. Thus understanding is not always easy. 5.______ Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciation, grammar, words and idioms. It also means learning to see the world as speakers of that language see it. Learning the ways in which their language reflects the ideas, customs and behaviors of their society, learning to understand "their language of the mind." Learning a language, in fact, is inseparatable from learning its culture. | |||
| A. Understanding is not always easy due to diversity of both culture and language. B. Learn its culture when learning the language. C. The close relationship between language and culture. D. What is culture? E. Culture and language are interactive and unseparated. F. The important role that language plays in culture. | |||
| 阅读理解。 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每 空格1个单词。 | |||
| When people talk about the civilization of ancient Babylon, the Hanging Gardens must be brought into their discussion. It was not until the reign (统治时期) of Naboplashar (625-605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty that the Babylonian civilization reached its top honor. The ancient city of Babylon must have been a wonder to travelers. Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC), son of Naboplashar, then came to power and ruled for 43 years. It is he who is believed to have built the legendary Hanging Gardens. The Gardens were built to please his homesick wife. She found the dry, flat ground of Mesopotamia boring. In the place where she grew up, there was green grass and mountainous plains. The King wanted to recreate her homeland. A lot of people still believe in the existence of the Hanging Gardens, despite the fact that most descriptions of the Gardens come from Greek historians while Babylonian records remain silent on the Hanging Gardens. Even the historians who gave detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them. Modern historians argue that it was Alexander"s soldiers that made up the story. When they reached the rich land and saw Babylon, they were impressed with the beautiful scenery. When they later returned to their poor homeland, they told about the amazing gardens in Babylon. And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that mixed up all these elements to produce one of the world"s wonders. Some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were not solved until the twentieth century. Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their water supplying system, and their true appearance. Some recent researchers even suggest that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib who ruled 100 years earlier than Nebuchadnezzar II did. | |||
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| 阅读理解。 认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格 1个单词。 | |||
| A long story about people is usually called a novel. It can be about any kind of man, woman, or child. It can be about kings, or Chicago newsboys, or housewives. The French writer, Victor Hugo, wrote his novel Les Miserables about a poor man who stole a loaf of bread. The American writer, Ernest Hemingway, wrote A Farewell to Arms about a young American with the Italian Army in World War One. A novel can tell the story of any kind of action, over any period of time. The modern Irish writer, James, Joyce, covers less than twenty- four hours in Ulysses. Yet, Joyce takes a thousand pages to tell all that happens from the time one man gets up in the morning until he goes to bed early the next morning. A German writer, Herman Hesse, uses only one hundred and fifty pages in his novel Demian to cover a boy"s life from the age of ten until he becomes a young man. A novel does not just tell the things that people do. It also tells why they do them. The Badge of Courage, by the American novelist, Stephen Crane, tells about a young soldier in the War between the states who runs away the first time he is in battle. The book shows why he acted as he did. It describes his mental suffering until he overcomes his fears. People buy novels because they enjoy reading about other people. The novel satisfies the human desire to know and understand our fellow creatures. | |||
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