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Talent(才能)is not 2 Without a good manager, a performer can never hope to succeed.
Fashion is _3 important in this business. The best tailor in the world will never be successful if he
always makes 4 clothes. In exactly the same way, a performer must change his "act" in order to
5 the taste of the moment. This is 6 for actors and dancers, but perhaps most of all for singers.
"Pop" 7 for "popular", and a pop singer has to work hard to become popular. He must either give
the pubic what they want, or he must find a (n) 8 way of singing that will attract their attention. Even
when he has succeeded, and his records are sold 9 , he cannot relax. He must work harder than ever
to remain popular, 10 there are always younger singers trying to become famous.
The life of a successful pop singer is not at all 11 . He can only relax when he is alone, because
everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper written for the "fans". The fans
are the most important people in the world for 12 . But they can be very troublesome, too.
They sometimes 13 handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and they even cut off pieces of the
unfortunate singer"s hair. Many singers have been forced to 14 . A pop singer has to spend a lot
of money on 15 because he must always look smart. He must have a nice car. And above all, he
must always keep smiling for the good of himself.
| ( )1. A. Unfortunately ( )2. A. enough ( )3. A. still ( )4. A. beautiful ( )5. A. follow ( )6. A. easy ( )7. A. calls ( )8. A. new ( )9. A. somewhere ( )10. A. so ( )11. A. valuable ( )12. A. the public ( )13. A. buy ( )14. A. cry ( )15. A. travelling | B. Therefore B. plenty B. yet B. old-fashioned B. get B. real B. stands B. easy B. nowhere B. while B. interesting B. the show business B. steal B. give in B. clothes | C. Naturally C. necessary C. even C. expensive C. change C. true C. looks C. popular C. anywhere C. because C. exciting C. the film star C. sell C. hide C. food | D. Luckily D. important D. also D. strange D. keep D. good D. prepares D. difficult D. everywhere D. though D. easy D. the singer D. clean D. die D. housing | |||||
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| The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society －a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun. "My grandmothers didn"t do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society. While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and the same people who refused their parents" way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old. If you take into consideration feminism(女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable(必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing. "The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn"t go," said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention. "The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else," Cooper said. "Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves." This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. "We"re a ladies" play group. It couldn"t be more simple," added Cooper"s assistant Joe Heywood. 1. The underlined word "chapter" in paragraph 2 means __________. A. one branch of an organization B. a written agreement of a club C. one part of a collection of poems D. a period in a society"s history of the baby boomers 2. The "baby boomers" are a group of people who A. have gradually become more noticeable B. tried living a different life from their parents when they were young C. are worried about getting old too quickly D. are enjoying a good life with plenty of money to spend 3. We can infer from the text that . A. members of the Red Hat Society are interested in raising money for social work B. members of the Red Hat Society are programmers who can plan well for their future C. members of the Red Hat Society believers in equality between men and women D. members of the Red Hat Society are good at cooking big meals and taking care of others 4. Who set up the Red Hat Society ? A. Emily Cornette . B. Jenny Joseph . C. Joe Heywood . D. Ellen Cooper . 5. Women join the Red Hat Society because . A. they want to earn much money. B. they would like to appear more attractive C. they would like to have fun and live for themselves D. they want to be more like their parents | ||||||||
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| Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes. Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down. Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan"s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes. Excessive (too great) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards (danger) are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges. Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars. Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents. 1. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that ________. A. they should avoid driving fast. B. they are driving in the wrong lane C. they should slow down their speed D. they are coming near to the speed limit 2. The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former ________. A. can keep drivers awake B. can cut road accidents in half C. will look more attractive D. will have a longer effect on drivers 3. What does the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety do? A. change the road signs across the country B. try out the Japanese method in certain areas C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons D. repeat the Japanese road patterns 4. What of the following is true about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads? A. They are suitable only on broad roads. B. They are falling out of use in the United States. C. They cannot be used successfully to traffic circles. D. They are ignored in a long period of time. 5. What"s the best title of the passage? A. a new pattern for painting highways B. a new way of highway speed control C. a new way of training drivers D. a new type of optical illusion | ||||||||
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| Dear Classmates, As young people, we don"t always want to think about the past. 1 we often hear our grandfathers and grandmothers talk about cultural relics. They say we 2 protect some of these relics because they are important to our culture. 3 also say that these relics are important to us because they help us remember the 4 of our ancestors and respect what they have done. I"m sure you will 5 . After all, someday we will be 6 ourselves and will want our own children to protect them. So I have a plan for 7 the painting in the old temple, which is a fine cultural relic 8 in our hometown. It should be protected because it was painted by a 9 artist of the early Qing Dynasty. My plan is to get students to take a 10 to see it on a Saturday next month and then 11 some important people to join us. 12 , we can also write 13 about it for the town newspaper. Later, when others begin to 14 their help, perhaps we can 15 enough money to help the museum buy it. If you like my plan, please give me a note to your teacher. Thank you. | ||||||||
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