Conflict is on the menu tonight at the café La Chope. This evening, as on every Thursday night, psychologist Maud Lehanne is leading two of France’s favorite pastimes, coffee drinking and the “talking cure”. Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings. It isn’t always easy. They customers—some thirty Parisians who pay just under $2 (plus drinks) per session-care quick to intellectualize (高谈阔论), slow to open up and connect. “You are forbidden to say ‘one feels,’ or ‘people think’,” Lehane told them. “Say ‘I think,’ ‘Think me’.”

A café society where no intellectualizing is allowed? It couldn’t seem more un-French. But Lehanne’s psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It’s trying to help the city’s troubled neighborhood cafes. Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation’s desire to spend more time at home. Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation. Cafes focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.

The city’s psychology cafes, which offer great comfort, are among the most popular places. Middle-aged homemakers, retirees, and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about lover, anger, and dreams with a psychologist. And they come to Lehance’s group just to learn to say what they feel. There’s a strong need in Paris for communication, says Maurice Frisch, a cafe La Chope regular who works as religious instructor in a nearby church. “People have few real friends. And they need to open up” Lehanne says she’d like to see psychology cafes all over France. “If people had normal lives, these cafes wouldn’t exist”, she says, “If life weren’t a battle, people wouln’t need a special place just to speak.” But then, it wouldn’t be France.

1.What are people encouraged to do at the cafe La Chope?

A.Learn a new subject

B.Keep in touch with friends.

C.Show off their knowledge.

D.Express their true feelings.

2.How are cafes affected by French lifestyle changes?

A.They are less frequently visited.

B.They stay open for longer hours.

C.They have bigger night crowds.

D.They start to serve fast food.

3.What are theme cafes expected to do?

A.Create more jobs.

B.Supply better drinks.

C.Save the cafe business.

D.Serve the neighborhood.

4.Why are psychology cafes becoming popular in Paris?

A.They bring people true friendship.

B.They give people spiritual support.

C.They help people realize their dreams.

D.They offer a platform for business links.

    Salvador Dali (1904—1989) was one of the most popular of modern artists. The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing its respect and admiration for the artist and his powerful personality with an exhibition bringing together over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and more. Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly The Persistence of Memory. There is also L’Enigme sans Fin from 1938, works on paper, objects, and projects for stage and screen and selected parts from television programmes reflecting the artist’s showman qualities.

The visitor will enter the World of Dali through an egg and is met with the beginning, the world of birth. The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.

The exhibition shows how Dali draws the viewer between two infinities (无限). ＂From the infinity small to the infinity large, contraction and expansion coming in and out of focus: amazing Flemish accuracy and the showy Baroque of old painting that he used in his museum-theatre in Figueras,＂ explains the Pompidou Centre.

The fine selection of the major works was done in close collaboration (合作) with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, and with contributions from other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.

1.Which of the following best describe Dali according to Paragraph 1?

A.Optimistic. B.Productive.

C.Generous. D.Traditional.

2.What is Dali’s The Persistence of Memory considered to be?

A.One of his masterworks. B.A successful screen adaptation.

C.An artistic creation for the stage. D.One of the beat TV programmes.

3.How are the exhibits arranged at the World of Dali?

A.By popularity. B.By importance.

C.By size and shape. D.By time and subject.

4.What does the word ＂contributions＂ in the last paragraph refer to?

A.Artworks. B.Projects.

C.Donations. D.Documents.

    I went to a group activity, ＂Sensitivity Sunday＂, which was to make us more _______the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to ＂_______a disability＂ for several hours one Sunday. Some members, _______, chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore sound-blocking earplugs(耳塞) or blindfolds(眼罩).

Just sitting in the wheelchair was a _______experience. I had never considered before how_______it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my _______made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not _______. Then I wondered where to put my _______. It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into _______. I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of ________for several hours. For disabled people, ＂adopting a wheelchair＂ is not a temporary________.

I tried to find a ________position and thought it might be restful, ________kind of nice, to be ________around for a while. Looking around, I ________I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I ________ the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the ________of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n) ________ task.

My wheelchair experiment was soon ________. It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of ＂disability＂ gave me only a taste of the ________, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.

1.A.curious about B.interested in C.aware of D.careful with

2.A.cure B.prevent C.adopt D.analyze

3.A.instead B.strangely C.as usual D.like me

4.A.learning B.working C.satisfying D.relaxing

5.A.convenient B.awkward C.boring D.exciting

6.A.height B.force C.skill D.weight

7.A.locked B.repaired C.powered D.grasped

8.A.hands B.feet C.keys D.handles

9.A.place B.action C.play D.effect

10.A.operation B.communication C.transportation D.production

11.A.exploration B.education C.experiment D.entertainment

12.A.flexible B.safe C.starting D.comfortable

13.A.yet B.just C.still D.even

14.A.shown B.pushed C.driven D.guided

15.A.realized B.suggested C.agreed D.admitted

16.A.lifted B.turned C.pressed D.seized

17.A.path B.position C.direction D.way

18.A.easy B.heavy C.major D.extra

19.A.forgotten B.repeated C.conducted D.finished

20.A.weaknesses B.challenges C.anxieties D.illnesses

—What makes you so unhappy?

—　　　　.

A.Because I’ve put on weight

B.Putting on weight

C.For I’ve lost some weight

D.Because of my putting on weight

Luckily, the loss _______ great; otherwise, our company would have closed down.

A.isn’t B.hadn’t been C.hasn’t been D.wasn’t

—Tom, you’ve got an A in the final English exam .Congratulations!

—Thanks.But I never thought the result came out so fast.The papers________when I left the teacher’s office just now.

A.had been marked

B.were still being marked

C.are still marking

D.had been marking

In my opinion, your composition is not as interesting as his but yours is_______in writing.

A.the best organized B.better organized

C.so organized as D.as organized as

Though it is 30 years_______we last met, I still remember the scene_______we got separated on a rainy day.

A.before; where B.before; which C.since; when D.since; where

----- Why hasn’t Jack come back yet ? _______ anything have happened to him ?

----- I’m not sure, but I guess something _______ .

A.May, must have B.Can, may have

C.Must, may D.Should, might have

Our bodies are strengthened by taking exercise.  ________，our minds are developed by learning.

A.Probably B.Likely C.Similarly D.Generally