C People think being an artist must be a wonderful way to earn one's living. Of course, there are lots of great things about working for oneself, at home alone. What I really like is that nobody tells me what time to start in the morning, what to wear; or whether I can take the afternoon off and go to a football match. But then, I have no one to chat with when I'm bored, no one to discuss last night's match with during the lunch-hour. Sure, I can spend the afternoon doing something I enjoy like swimming, walking the dog, or even sleeping, if I choose. But the work will still be there when I do finally get back home, and it's still got to be finished in time. Unfortunately, working at home means that people can always find me, whether I’m bored or not and once I’ve answered the doorbell, it's too late——my thoughts have been interrupted. No one would dream of calling if I worked in an office, but in an office I find myself making cups of coffee and listening to friends' troubles. As they talk, my ideas disappear and I feel increasingly stressed thinking of my work waiting to be done.
What is the writer trying to do in the text？A. To encourage readers to work at home. B. To explain why he has changed his job. C. To describe his working life. D. To say how he would like to work.
What can the reader learn from the text？A. How to start working for oneself. B. What it's like to work at home. C. Why the writer decided to work for himself. D. How artists become successful？
What does the writer like about his life？A. He has plenty of opportunities for sport. B. He is his own boss. C. He can see people when he wants to. D. He has a comfortable place to work.
What does the writer imagine he might do with colleagues （同事 ) ？A. Have meals in restaurants. B. Go to the swimming pool. C. Spend time in the countryside. D. Talk about sport.
Which of these notices would be most useful for the writer to put on his door？
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B For a song to become popular, people need to bear it. In order for people to hear it, the program directors at radio stations have to play it on the air. A song’s popularity is directly related to how often it is played. That is a big responsibility for program directors. How do they decide what gets played and what doesn’t？ In the past, disc jockeys（音乐节目主持人) decided what music was played on the radio. These DJs had an ear for music and an understanding of what their audience wanted to hear. Today, that is all changing. Most major radio stations are owned by a few large national businesses. The decision of what gets played on the radio is made by executives（主管) who have little or no interest in music. They do, however, know how to run a business, and they know what sells. So, the music industry designs and creates pop entertainers, and executives in the radio industry make sure that their music is played on the radio. This explains why you do not often hear anything new and fresh on the radio. The executives do not want to give air time to music that has not been tested on the market. It is too risky. They prefer to go with music that they already know will sell. They know it will sell because it sold last week and last month and last year. They just have to change it a little. One of the most criticized（批评) practices in the music industry is the practice of “payola”. This is when record companies pay radio stations to play the music of a given artist. This practice makes many people lose trust in the music industry and is therefore against the law. A radio station can accept money in exchange for air time of a song, but they have to make it clear that the song is being played because its air time was paid for. They cannot present the song as if it were part of the normal play schedule（时刻表). Payola affects both artists and audiences. The artists who work with small record companies that cannot pay a lot of money to radio stations have a much harder time getting exposure. It creates an unfair playing field. Music lovers suffer because they are not able to hear all the music that is available.
According to the passage, most major radio stations belong to .A. national businesses B. program directors C. pop entertainers D. record companies
“Payola” is the practice of .A. artists paying radio stations to play their songs B. record companies buying air time for certain music C. radio station paying record company for new songs D. program directors deciding what music gets played
Who can make the largest profits from payola？A. Disc Jockeys. B. The given artists. C. Business executives. D. Program directors.
It can be concluded from the passage that the author .A. has a positive attitude towards the practice of “payola” B. is dissatisfied with the present situation in music industry C. is calling for a change in the normal play schedule D. thinks that the radio stations are doing the right thing
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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的
A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In a small open courtyard, outside a school building, there were flowers here and there. In the sunshine, a 36 was lying on the grass, reading a book with 37 concentration. Near her, another child was carefully watering the flowers, while a third was 38 with his back against a tree and had a 39 on his knees. He appeared to be drawing or writing something on it. He was _40 in his task, like the first child.
_41 the building, there were pleasant carpeted areas. Many children were busy with their tasks in a variety of 42 , while teachers wandered among them, talking to them, 43 them, and encouraging their efforts.
_44 I watched this scene on a morning in May years ago, it 45 to me that a visitor here would 46 have thought be had entered a formal school. He would have been even more 47 if he had been told that the children he was 48 came from different kinds of academic levels.
That 49 has been staying with me ever since. I have been 50 about some problems. Why in many schools are our children 51 asked to acquire skills in a way 52 from a real-life context（情境)？ Why does a 53 school child so often become a defeated school failure？
Developmental psychologist Margaret Donald once said,” 54 of the intellectual framework （知识框架) on which we 55 our teaching is misleading.” In my opinion, a child learns everything in human situation. And if every child could learn in the same way as the children in the school I visited, they would develop better.
A. gardener B. child C. teacher D. visitor
A. poor B. little C. complete D. slight
A. sitting B. standing C. sleeping D. listening
A. toy B. pencil C. flower D. notebook
A. laid B. set C. defeated D. lost
A. Over B. Above C. Inside D. Outside
A. ways B. ideas C. opinions D. views
A. referring to B. smiling at C. pointing to D. staring at
A. Unless B. As C. Until D. Before
A. happened B. went C. occurred D. got
A. already B. never C. rather D. ever
A. satisfied B. disappointed C. delighted D. surprised
A. helping B. teaching C. encouraging D. observing
A. scene B. sign C. look D. semen
A. dreaming B. regretting C. wondering D. joking
A. seldom B. hardly C. often D. badly
A. taken B. prevented C. learned D. separated
A. slow B. lively C. lucky D. friendly
A. Much B. Any C. Little D. None
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的
A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The date was like any other day in his life. After school Michael walked past the 21 on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row of shoes. And he felt 22 for himself. He really wanted to have them for his birthday.
He 23 walked away and thought of what to tell his mother. He knew she would give 24 he liked if she could. But he also knew very well she had little money. He decided not to go home immediately, as he looked worried，his mother would 25 it. So he went to the park where he sat on the grass. Then he saw a boy in a wheelchair. He noticed that the boy 26 the wheel with his hands. Michael looked at him carefully and was 27 to see that the boy had no feet. He 28 his own feet. “It is much better to be without 29 than without feet.” He thought. There was no reason for him to feel so sorry and sad. He went away and 30 , thinking he was much luckier in life.
A. shop B. factory C. park D. house
A. curious B. sorry C. eager D. glad
A. sadly B. rapidly C. happily D. proudly
A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything
A. notice B. find C. feel D. hate
A. drove B. moved C. pulled D. carried
A. frightened B. excited C. surprised D. delighted
A. looked out B. held out C. put down D. looked down
A. birthday B. shoes C. money D. wheelchair
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第三节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（
A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Laughter and tears are part of living. But do you find enough time for laughter？ I am not asking if you 21 lost of good times. 22 we should laugh during the happy times. But do you also laugh during the 23 times？
Eram Bombeck is known for her humorous books, but she wrote one that 24 a more serious topic: 25 in children. Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns 26 life lessons from them. She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know how to 27 .
She 28 the experience of 15-year-old Jessica from Burlinton. Jessica’s leg was cut off at the knee because of cancer. She was learning to 29 a prosthesis（假肢）. Jessica tells about playing 30 . She kicked the ball 31 and it flew off in one 32 while her artificial leg flew into another. She fell on the 33 and laughed.
Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer, but she laughed about handling the 34 of it. And her laughter helped her a deal.
There is the story of 17-year-old Betsy. She 35 her way to the radiation room for her regular radiation therapy（化疗）. As 36 , she dropped her hospital gown and, wearing only her birthday suit, 37 onto the table and waited. The extra people in the room were not the medical students she had thought, but 38 painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughed heartily about the incident. And like Jessica, her 39 to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult thing a young person can endure-cancer.
Do you find plenty of 40 for laughter？ You can…if you also find reasons to laugh during the especially difficult times.
Survivors know how to laugh. If you can laugh even when the going is rough, you’ll make it. And you’ll smile at the end.
21．
A．lose B．miss C．experience D．laugh
22．
A．Of course B．In addition C．At first D．First of all
23．
A．ordinary B．difficult C．pleasant D．usual
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A．connected B．reported C．referred D．covered
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A．cancer B．disability C．illness D．laughter
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A．serious B．important C．careful D．thoughtful
27．
A．cry B．shout C．laugh D．face
28．
A．describes B．learns C．keeps D．imagines
29．
A．put B．have C．wear D．make
30．
A．basketball B．badminton C．volleyball D．soccer
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A．gently B．hard C．slightly D．Straightly
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A．way B．method C．direction D．point
33．
A．floor B．table C．chair D．bed
34．
A．causes B．results C．process D．ends
35．
A．fought B．took C．made D．pushed
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A．common B．often C．before D．usual
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A．climbed B．lay C．jumped D．sat
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A．also B．rather C．already D．almost
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A．strengh B．willingness C．ability D．confidence
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A. spoke B. said C. stood D. told A. as B. because C. when D. althoughA. read B. sit C. talk D. hide A. ours B. your C. their D. itsA. call B. noise C. sound D. voiceA. conductor B. driver C. neighbor D. seatmateA. papers B. bags C. books D. clothesA. see B. meet C. face D. greetA. still B. nearly C. even D. hardlyA. turn B. talk C. order D. remarkA. loud B. neat C. slow D. weakA. first B. last C. best D. onlyA. passengers B. citizens C. patients D. school childrenA. shouting B. crying C. smiling D. wonderingA. formed B. heated C. broken D. frozenA. sad B. hard C. ordinary D. shyA. need B. want C. like D. beginA. different B. warm C. loud D. happyA. arrived B. reached C. left D. found A. jumped off B. left for C. got on D. waited for
The sun was shining when I got on No. 151 bus. We passengers sat jammed in heavy clothes. No one 36 . That’s one of the unwritten rules 37 we see the same faces every day, we prefer to 38 behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using them to keep 39 distance.
As the bus came near the Mile, a 40 suddenly rang out, “Attention! This is your 41 speaking.” We looked at the back of the driver’s head. “Put your 42 down, all of you.” The papers came down. “Now, turn and 43 the person next to you.”
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an old woman. I saw her 44 every day. We waited for the next 45 from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning, neighbor!”
But our voices were a little 46 . For many of us, this was the 47 word we had spoken that day. When we said them together, like 48 to people beside us, we couldn’t help 49 . There was the feeling of relief. Moreover, there was the sense of ice being 50 . To say the three words was not so 51 after all.
The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t 52 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a 53 sound I had never heard before in this bus.
When I 54 my stop, I said goodbye to my seatmate, and then 55 the bus. That day I was starting happily.