With the end of his career in ___ , Armstrong...

With the end of his career in ___ , Armstrong was already looking forward to spending some days at the beach with his family.

A.view        B.range        C.reach           D. sight

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_____ in thought, he sat at the edge of the bed, with his eyes _____ on the letter in his hand.

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Dior was born in Normandy in 1905, and his family’s original plans for him included a career in the diplomatic service, but by the time he was twenty-three, with his parents’ money, he opened a small art gallery in Paris. By 1931, the money had been used up. Dior’s friends in the art gallery asked him to draw and he took his first step at designing and drawing. His first job was with Lucien Lelong from whom Dior learned his craft（手艺）.

In February, 1947, Dior started the New Look in his first major Paris collection. He was backed by a famous textile producer, Boussac, who looked after the dollars, while Dior looked after the fashions. Dior knew nothing about cutting and sewing, but he was good at fashion design.

The New Look started an entirely different look to costume, with a tiny waist, a rounded shoulder and a shapely bust（胸围）, usually with a low-cut neckline and a long full skirt. To women who had lived through the war years, the femaleness of the New Look was a great success, for people were tired of the extremely plain, wartime restrictive fashions.

It is said that dresses by Dior were “constructed like buildings”, but young people were attracted to his design, and all over the western world, manufacturers plunged into（投入）the production of his new style. Dior’s revolutionary designs lighted up a whole cycle of fashion - rounded, gentle, feminine - a delight in elegance. A New kook House of Dior opened in 1948, followed by one in London. Considered as King of Couture （Women’s clothing） for years, the Dior Empire grew until it covered every country in the western world, and included furs, jewelry, perfumes, men’s wear and so on. Over 1,000 people worked at the Paris headquarters then.

His sudden death in 1957 when he was 52 years old did not stop the growth of the House of Dior. Even now, so many years after his death, his name is closely connected with fashion throughout the world, and indeed is one of the most recognized names in the world. His first great New Look, with its long skirts, was an expression of freedom in the late 1940s.

1.Which of the following designs is close to Dior’s?

2.According to the passage, in Dior’s life, he did not _________.

A. make creative fashion designs

B. work in a diplomatic service

C. learn craft as his first job

D. open a New Look House

3.We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. Dior and his supporter had different interests in business

B. Dior’s New Look had little influence on people then

C. Dior is only a brand of women’s fashion

D. Dior’s fashion was not accepted at first

4.What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. The History of the New Look

B. The Growth of the Dior Empire

C. An Expression of Freedom - Dior

D. The Founder of the New Look – Dior

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Born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, Robert Wyland began his career in painting at the age of three. With a few cans of house paint found under the kitchen sink, he painted his first mural（壁画），dinosaurs, on the headboard of his parents’ bed.

Today you never know where you might find Wyland, but chances are that you will have to look up. This painter, sculptor, and muralist now paints giant-sized murals of sea animals on much larger canvases（画布）: walls and ceilings of hotels and other buildings, and even the outside of a stadium.

His project, the Whaling Walls, began in 1981 when Wyland painted a life-sized mural of a gray whale（鲸） and her baby on the side of a hotel in Laguna Beach, California. His goal was to paint one hundred whaling walls, which has been achieved. Painting so many murals would be a huge project for any artist, but the size of these murals is what has really made this a giant task.

How does Wyland go about creating such huge lifelike murals? Wyland says he relies on what he calls his “mind’s eye”. He explains that through his mind’s eye he can look at a blank canvas and form a picture of the finished mural in his mind.

To cover such large areas, Wyland, who is afraid of heights, depends on scaffolding（脚手架） to help him move around and produce his murals. But unlike most artists who can step back to survey their work, Wyland has to rely mostly on his memory.

For accuracy in his artwork, Wyland spends as much time underwater as he does painting. He dives to study his subjects and learn more about them in their natural environment. Through his artwork, Wyland hopes to inspire people to care more about our oceans and to respect and protect the life within them. The whales he works so hard to protect may not know　　 it　 , but Wyland might just be the best friend a whale could have.

1.Where did Wyland paint his first mural?

A.In a hotel. B.In the open air.

C.In his parents’ bedroom. D.In the kitchen of his home.

2.What is Wyland’s “mind’s eye”?

A.His eyesight. B.His memory.

C.His enthusiasm. D.His imagination.

3.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A.Wyland may be whale’s best friend. B.Wyland is good at painting whales.

C.Wyland may know whales very well. D.Wyland tries his best to protect the ocean.

4.What is the best title for the text?

A.100 Whaling Walls B.The Prince of Whale

C.Look up, Enjoy the Murals D.Never Stop, Follow Your Dream

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B

YOU CAN HELP!

Everyone was born with his own built-in burglar(窃贼) alarm. It’s called the sense of sight and sound．Unfortunately, many of us go around with the alarm switched off.

We don’t see the stranger wandering outside the house next door.

We don’t notice the sounds from the flat upstairs.

(Weren’t they supposed to be on holiday?)

The police can only do so much to prevent crime. There never can be enough of them to guard every home in every town. So they need your help in fighting with the burglars，the vandals（恣意破坏者）, and the car thieves.

Not, of course, by setting out to have a go every time you see something suspicious. It’ll always be the job of the police to arrest criminals.

But by acting as a line of communication between them and your community, for instance, you probably know far more about your immediate neighborhoods than the police ever could.

A stranger in someone’s garden would probably be far more obvious to you than it would to even the local police, if, of course, you were on the look-out.

That’s the whole idea behind the Neighborhood Watch schemes, springing up around the country to create a spirit of watchfulness within a community, anything suspicious being reported to the police.

It’s early days yet, but results so far are very encouraging. The crime figures are already dropping in many of the areas running the scheme. And all due to people like you.

61. The underlined word “them” refers to “______”.

A. criminals          B. the police   C. neighbors   D. strangers

62. The advertisement points out that many people______.

A. are not ready to help the police

B. are not as watchful as they could be

C. don’t look after their gardens well

D. don’t tell their neighbors about their holidays

63. One of the ways we could help prevent crime is to______.

A. turn on the alarm system in our home

B. try to stop criminals from escaping

C. look out for people behaving suspiciously

D. inform the police if we hear noises upstairs

64. The purpose of the advertisement is to __________in their neighborhood.

A. ask people to join the police force

B. advise people how to protect their homes

C. warn people about the increasing risk of crime

D. encourage people to be on watch for possible crime

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Once there was an 11-year-old boy who went fishing with his father in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day before bass(巴斯鱼) season opened, they were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms. Then the boy tied a small silver lure(鱼饵) and put it into the lake. Suddenly he felt that something very big pulling on the lure. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully brought the fish beside the bank. Finally he lifted the tired fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.

The boy and his father looked at the big fish. The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 p.m.—two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.

“Dad!” cried the boy. “There will be other fish,” said his father. “Not as big as this one,” cried the boy. He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were in sight in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.

Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he had caught the fish, the boy could tell from his father’s voice that the decision couldn’t be changed. He threw the huge bass into the black water. The big fish disappeared. The boy thought that he would never again see such a big fish.

That was 34 years ago. Today the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He often takes his own son and daughters to fish at the same place.

And he was right. He has never again caught such a large fish as the one he got that night long ago. But he does see that same fish ... again and again ... every time he has an ethical (道德的) decision to make. For, as his father had taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.

1.What happened when the big fish turned out to be a bass?

2.From the text we know that the father _________.

3.The successful architect went fishing with his children at the same    place because _______.

4.What does the story imply (suggest）?

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Once there was an 11-year-old boy who went fishing with his father in the middle of a New Hampshire lake．On the day before bass （巴斯鱼） season opened, they were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms．Then the boy tied on a small silver lure （鱼饵） and put it into the lake．Suddenly he felt that something very big pulling on the lure．His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully brought the fish beside the bank．Finally he lifted the tired fish from the water．It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass．

The boy and his father looked at the big fish．The father lit a match and looked at his watch．It was 10 pm – two hours before the season opened．He looked at the fish, then at the boy．“You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said．

“Dad!” cried the boy, “There will be other fish,” said his father．“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy．He looked around the lake．No other fishermen or boats were in sight in the moonlight．He looked again at his father．

Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he had caught the fish, the boy could tell from his father’s voice that the decision couldn’t be changed．He threw the huge bass into the black water．The big fish disappeared．The boy thought that he would never again see such a big fish．

That was 34 years ago．Today the boy is successful architect in New York City．He often takes his own son and daughters to fish at the same place．

And he was right．He has never again caught such a large fish as the one he got that night long ago．But he does see that same fish … again and again … every time he has an ethical （伦理的，道德的） decision to make．For, as his father had taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong．It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult．

1.What happened when the big fish turned out to be a bass?

A．The boy and his father discussed what to do with the big fish．

B．The boy threw the bass back into the water willingly．

C．The father lit a match in order to check the time．

D．They worried other fishermen may discover what they had done．

2.From the text we know that the father _________．

A．didn’t love his son                               B．always disagreed with his son

C．disliked the huge fish                            D．was firm and stubborn

3.The successful architect went fishing with his children at the same place because _________．

A．they might catch a big fish there            B．he was taught a moral lesson there

C．it was a most popular fishing spot         D．their children enjoyed fishing there

4.What does the story imply?

A．It is easy to say something, but difficult to do．

B．An ethical decision is always easy to make．

C．It’s hard to tell right from wrong sometimes

D．Fishing can help one to make right decisions．

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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and observing nature.

However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles when drawing people.

Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body by taking apart and examining dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on relatively new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective(透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painterly effect.

Leonardo’s first known portrait now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’ Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.

He soon received attention for his extraordinary artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again.

1.Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?

A. Stubborn.　　 B. Creative.

C. Pessimistic.　　 D. Determined.

2.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Verrocchio felt shame at his own work.

B. Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work terrible.

C. Verrocchio thought highly of Leonardo’s work.

D. Verrocchio didn’t believe Leonardo could paint well.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Leonardo was prevented from some studies because of his parents.

B. Leonardo thought his teacher’s advice was unreasonable.

C. “Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade.

D. “Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.

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With no penny ______ in his pocket, he was driven out of the rented house, ______ where to go.

A. left; knowing not　　　 B. left; not knowing

C. leaving; not knew　　　 D. to leave; not knowing

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Mr. Eckerd at the end of the street was a different fellow with a different kind of house. He let kids from the neighborhood come to see his house, but only if they had written permission from their parents, and if he’d already spoken to the parents before.

What made it so different? He shared his home with rescued animals that the county couldn’t keep. He had the permission to have things like monkeys, large cats, and other strange creatures. His house had the ivy(常春藤)-covered brick wall and the iron gate across the driveway. Once you went inside, the hedges(树藤)lining the driveway were carved into the shapes of animals. There were other pretty plants on the grounds, too.

The old brick house held a lot of surprises. The double doors with the lion’s head door knockers opened into a large flat entryway. In the wooden board walls all around, there were fish tanks with colorful fishes. The ceilings were painted with scenes of plants and rare animals. Room opened off from there. Continuing down the hall, you came to a large courtyard, which had been caged in, partly open to the sky .A large group of tiny monkeys shook up and down trees. You had to walk through a caged tunnel into other parts of the house. They called out to whoever walked in, hoping for treats of fruits, nuts, and seeds. Behind that, the hall continued to a room full of snakes and lizards. It felt like a desert in that room, so dry and hot. It was not everyone’s favorite room, but it certainly was interesting. The final room was actually out back, and definitely not something to miss. It was much like a large glass bird cage or a greenhouse. It was there that you would usually find Mr Eckerd on a bench next to some carvings of jungle animals. He was watching the Bengal tiger that wandered back and forth inside the cage.

Mr. Eckerd’s house was the strangest and most unique place in town, a place very well worth seeing.

1.What was different about Mr. Eckerd’s house?

A. It was big and frightening.

B. It was full of flowers and gardens.

C. It had wild animals inside and outside.

D. It was an amusement park.

2.What kind of live animals was NOT at Mr. Eckerd’s house?

A. Fish　　　　 B. Snakes and lizards.

C. Monkeys.　　 D. Elephants.

3. What exhibit or animal room seemed to be the least popular for most people?

A. The tiger. 　 B. The monkeys.

C. The birds.　　 D. The snakes and lizards.

4.According to the story, ______seemed to be Mr. Eckerd’s favorite animal at his house.

A. The tiger.　　 　 B. The monkeys.

C. The birds.　　　 D. The fish and reptiles

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