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1997. Half the population of the country watched the final event and a new kind of TV program was born.
Two years later in Holland, the first series of Big Brother was filmed. Again, it was a great success and the
final program was watched by 15 million people. Now more than 20 countries around the world have Big
Brother or Expedition Robinson on their TV screens. The ordinary people who take part in the programs
are known by millions of people in their own countries and reality TV has become big, big business.
For the TV producers, reality TV is a dream which come true because many of the programs cost nothing
to make. At some point, the television viewers (观众) are asked to telephone the program to vote or to apply
to take part in the show. It is the cost of these telephone calls that pays for the shows. One of the most
popular shows is Pop Idol. In the show, a group of attractive young people are made into pop stars. TV
viewers vote for their favorite person on the show. The winner makes a record and millions of copies of the
record are sold. His or her pictures are published on the covers of magazines or on the front pages of
newspapers, and then, they are quickly forgotten.
But not everyone is happy about reality TV. In Portugal, two TV channels got into trouble because they
showed too much of the personal lives of the people in the shows. In France, reality TV is called "rubbish
TV" and the TV studios of Big Brother were attacked three times in one week. In Greece, Big Brother was
described as "against human rights and civilization".
B. pop TV Stars
C. attractive people
D. famous film stars
B. TV actors who take part in reality TV shows.
C. TV viewers who telephone reality TV shows.
D. TV companies which broadcast reality TV shows.
B. Big Brother was one of the first reality TV shows in the world.
C. Rubbish TV is one of the personal reality TV shows in the world.
D. Expedition Robinson was the first reality TV show in the world.
B. reality TV will do well in many countries
C. all the people in Europe are in favor of reality TV
D. reality TV will not be broadcast in any countries
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试题【阅读理解。 The first reality TV show in the world was called Expedition Robinson 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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be able to make a living out of a bookshop. It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores
can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop. But the hours
of work are very long-I was only doing a part-time job, but my boss put in a seventy-hour week,besides
regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books.
The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was
in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books, and that gives him
a dislike for them. There was a time when I really did love books-loved the sight and smell and feel of
them-if they were fifty or more years old, that is. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot
of them on sale for several pounds. There is a peculiar flavour (独特的味道) about the unexpected books
you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography
books. For occasional (偶尔的) reading-in your bath, for example, or late at night when you are too tired
to go to bed-there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.
But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in a mass. five or ten
thousand at a time, books were dull and even a little tiresome. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but
only if it is a book that I want to read and can"t borrow, and I never buy rubbish.
B. a good position at a street corner
C. a regular journey out of the shop
D. the force of large chain-stores
B. selling books was only a part-time job
C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike
D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold
B. valuable ones bought on sale
C. peculiar ones with great expectation
D. geography ones from the eighteenth century
B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller
C. which are interesting but hard to borrow
D. when he throws away old ones
Bill.
Liz and Bill, two college graduates in their early 20s, have spent a whole year trying to have thousandsd
people talk to them in subway stations and on busy street comers. Just talk.
Using a 2-foot-tall sign that says, "Talk to Me," they attract conversationalists, who one evening included
a mental patient, and men in business suits.
They don"t collect money. They don"t push religion (宗教). So what"s the point?
"To see what happens," said Liz. "We simply enjoy life with open communication (交流)."
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, they decided to walk from New York City to Washington,
a 270-mile trip. They found they loved talking to people along the way and wanted to continue talking with
strangers after their return.
"It started as a crazy idea," Liz said. "We were so curious about all the strangers walking by with their life
stories. People will talk to us about anything: their jobs, their clothes, their childhood experiences, anything?"
Denise wanted to talk about an exam she was about to take. She had stopped by for the second time in
two days, to let the two listeners know how it went.
Marcia had left her husband to a serious disease. "That was very heavy on my mind," Marcia said. "To
be able to talk about it to total strangers was very good," she explained.
To celebrate a year of talking, the two held a get-together in a city park for all the people they had met
over the past year. A few hundred people showed up, as well as some television cameramen and reporters.
They may plan more parties or try to attract mare people to join their informal talks. Some publishers have
expressed interest in a book, something they say they"ll consider.
B. Setting up street signs.
C. Telling stories to strangers.
D. Organizing a speaker"s comer.
B. normal
C. crazy
D. successful
A. They knew Liz and Bill very well.
B. They happened to meet the writer of the text.
C. They organized the get-together in the city park.
D. They are examples of those who talked to Liz and Bill.
B. Do more television programs.
C. Continue what they am doing.
D. Spend more time reading books.
B. They will think about it carefully.
C. They agreed immediately.
D. They find it hard to do that.
With a checklist of criteria in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools.
They sought a university that offered the teenager"s intended major, one located neat a large city, and a
campus where their daughter would be safe. "The safety issue is a big one," says Joe Mahoney, who quickly
discovered he wasn"t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the
same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same
answer- "That"s not a problem here," --Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
"No crime whatsoever?" comments Mahoney today." I just don"t buy it." Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S.
Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses."Parents
need to understand that times have changed since they went to college," says David Nichols, author of Creating
a Safe Campus. "Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation."
But getting accurate information isn"t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics (统计数字) by law, but
some hold back for fear of bad publicity, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. "The truth may not
always be serious," warms S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation"s leading campus
safety watchdog group.
To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find
out major crime issues and effective solutions.
B. to choose a right one four their daughter
C. to check the cost of college education
D. to find a tight one near a large city
B. mirror the rest of the nation
C. hide the truth of campus crime
D. have too many watchdog groups
B. admit
C. believe
D. expect
B. that report campus crimes by law
C. that are free from campus crime
D. that enjoy very good publicity
B. Crimes on or around campuses
C. Effective solutions to campus crime
D. Concerns about kids" campus safety
of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months. The system, called driver Alert, aims to
reduce deadly road accidents by 20%-40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to
reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.
Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband. The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a
sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing
the steering wheel (方向盘). A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time
between the sound and the driver"s response.
Tiredness is directly related to a driver"s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would take about 400
milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting
sleepy.
In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a
window or stop for a rest. If the driver"s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent
until a nonstop alarm warms that the driver must stop as soon as possible.
The device has been delivered to the department"s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six
months" time, are successful, the markers will bring the product to market within about a year.
B. has gone through testing at laboratories
C. aims to prevent drivers from sleeping
D. has been on sale for 12 months
B. By touching the wristband
C. By checking the driving time
D. By pressing the steering wheel
B. below 500 milliseconds
C. over 500 milliseconds
D. about 400 minutes
B. stops working properly
C. opens the window for the driver
D. sounds more frequently and loudly
Most likely, you aren"t the family breadwinner. But doing a small job or getting a weekly allowance (零花钱)
would put some money in your pocket. For kids and grown-ups alike, money is easy to spend. If you aren"t
careful, it can be gone in no time. Being responsible with your money is an important skill to learn－and the
sooner you start the better. Whether you are tracking your spending or saving for something special, creating
a budget can help you deal with your expenses and plan for the future. All you need are paper and a pencil－and
some self-control. First, take a look at our sample monthly budget. Then, use a separate sheet of paper to plan
your own. In the first two columns (栏), list your sources (来源) of income and how much you expect to earn
form them. In the third and fourth columns, list what you expect to spend your money on and the amount.