学校要举办英语晚会，现请你以学生会的名义发一份英语书面通知，欢迎全校师生参加。内容提要：
晚会时间：下周五晚7：30～10：00
晚会地点：学生食堂
晚会内容：英语故事、歌曲、诗歌和短剧等。届时还邀请在本校工作的加拿大教师布朗夫妇及子女参加晚会，他们将要表演精彩的节目。
希望大家按时到。
注意：1. 词数：100左右。
2. 要包括所有要点，但不要逐条翻译；注意使用连词等，以使上下文连贯；还要注意格式。
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I was used to complain about my English teacher
1.___________
for his bad English. I was also tired with his teaching methods,
2.___________
it were always slow and boring. However, my attitude towards
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him began to change after one afternoon. It was raining
4.___________
heavy and I didn’t attend school. Around 5:30 pm I received
5.__________
a phone call. “Are you all right?” asked my English teacher in quiet
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voice. On hearing her words, I was shocked and my mind was
7.___________
flooded with mixed feeling. He was showing his concern
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for me, though I have not been happy with him! Was he just
9.___________
acting and should I smooth away my past misunderstanding of him?
10.___________
Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent（潜流） of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will appear, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from Isaac Newton.
Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn't been born yet, or is a baby now. That's because the search for a unified theory that would explain all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created after the problem can be solved.
But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein appearing anytime soon. For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein's day, there were a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theorists who could argue with Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare. Education is different, too. One key aspect of Einstein's training that-is little noticed is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager --- Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently about space and time and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.
And Einstein was a clever musician. The interplay between music and math is well-known. Einstein would play his violin hard as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.
Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills. Those who stay in science don’t work alone and they sometimes do experiment together which takes years.
It's hard to imagine a renegade(背叛者) like Einstein standing it. “Maybe there is an Einstein out there today,” said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, “but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard.”
1.According to the second paragraph, the next Einstein will ___________.
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A．have to create new math |
B．create a unified theory |
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C．have to be born now |
D．push math to its limits |
2. The underlined words “knotty” in the fourth paragraph means ____________.
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A．easy |
B．interesting |
C．strange |
D．difficult |
3. Which of the following will be useful for the next Einstein to be born?
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A．There will be music around. |
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B．There will be no problems to solve. |
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C．There will be suitable philosophy to study. |
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D．There are only a few physicists. |
4.The bold words “unified theory” in Paragraph 2 refers to ___________.
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A．agreement |
B．mathematical rule |
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C．unique idea |
D．physical saying |
A husband-and-wife team from California reached the Pacific Ocean after a 4,900- mile-cross
-country walk, becoming the first to backpack the American Discovery Trail in one continuous
walk.
Marcia and Ken powers, of Pleasanton, started the travel across 13 states, through 14 national parks and 16 national forests on Feb. 27 from Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Nearly eight months later, the excited couple walked through water into the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes, a day ahead of time.
“We are a little sad that a great adventure is over. It was a fantastic adventure. And now we go home and just do housework. It's really sad.” Marcia, who said she's in her 50s, and her 60-year-old husband traversed cities, desert, mountains and farmland before reaching the Pacifics alone with arms around each other' s backpacks.
They overcame deep snow in the East, a quicksand in Utah, close lightning strikes in the Mid- west and strong desert sandstorms in the West while averaging 22 miles a day and taking only four days off. But they enjoyed the French history of St. Louis' the beauty of the Colorado Rockies and the kindness of strangers they met along the way. They particularly remember two brothers ---- a
doctor and dentist-------who put them up in their homes, after terrible days, and a motorcyclist who gave them water after they failed to find any on Utah's lonely Wah Wah Desert.
“Americans are truly warm-hearted and wonderful people.” Marcia Powers said. “We got to meet people that we would never meet in our daily living at home. We got to touch it with our feet and hands and smell all its scents and hear its wildlife. It' s an amazing country,” she added.
1.Which of the following about couple's walk is TRUE?
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A．The walk covered more than 13 states. |
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B．The walk lasted about half a year. |
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C．The walk didn't meet any desert. |
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D．The walk might end before October 27. |
2.The underlined word “traversed” in the third paragraph means “____________.”
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A．enjoy |
B．move across, through or over |
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C．overcome |
D．look at |
3. According to the text, we can infer that during the walk the couple __________.
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A．were treated warm-heartedly by the local people |
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B．never stopped to have a rest |
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C．were ever caught in a heavy rain and became ill |
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D．felt the quicksand in Utah was very interesting |
4.The couple went through many places except ____________.
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A．big rivers |
B．desert |
C．hills |
D．fields |
Academy Awards The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Academy Awards are nicknamed “Oscars” , which is also the nickname of the statuette. The name is said to have been born in 1931 when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said. “It looks just like my uncle Oscar!”
Berlin Film Festival One of the “A” festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the “Berlinale”, is held annually in February and started in 1951 after an initiative of the American, who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always placed special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc Countries (东方阵营) as well as from Western countries.The awards are called Golden and Silver Bears ( as the bear is the symbol of Berlin).
Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido in the historic Palazzo del Cinema, in Venice, Italy since 1932; its main award is the “Leond'Oro” (Golden Lion). Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film
Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival is. a famous international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions. Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
The most famous award given out at Carmes is the “Palme d'Or” (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year.
1.Which award can be shared by multiple films in one year?
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A．Golden Lion. |
B．Golden Palm. |
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C．Academy Awards. |
D．San Marco Award. |
2. Which of the following statements about “Oscars” is NOT true?
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A．It s the nickname of Academy Awards. |
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B．It's also the nickname of the statuette. |
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C．It got its name because Margaret said the statuette looked like her uncle. |
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D．It s an award in France. |
3. Which award has the shortest history?
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A．Golden Lion. |
B．Golden Palm. |
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C．Academy Awards. |
D．San Marco Award. |
4. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
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A．An introduction to famous film festivals and film awards. |
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B．An advertisement for films and TV programs. |
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C．An introduction to the nicknames of famous film awards. |
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D．A guide of bow to attend famous film festivals. |
IV. 阅读理解
Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city, and he used to go to the barber’s during working hours to have his hair cut, although this was against the rule: clerks (职员) had to have their hair cut in their own time.
While Bill was at the barber’s one day, the manager of the office came in by chance to have his own hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to hide his face, but the manager found him.
“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “ I see that you are having your hair cut in office time.”
“Yes, sir, I am,” admitted Bill calmly, “You see, sir, it grows in office time.”
“Not all of it,” said the manager at once, “some of it grows in your own time.”
“Yes, sir, but I’m not having it all cut off.”
52. Clerks in the office where Bill worked were ________.
A. not allowed to leave the office in office time
B. told to go to the barber’s in their free time
C. not allowed to go to the barber’s for a hair cut
D. told that only the manager could break the rules
53. Bill often went to have his hair cut during office hours because __________.
A. he didn’t have to wait long B. he had no idea of the office rule
C. he couldn’t be found by the manager
D. he just wanted to save his own time to do other things
54. When the manager saw Bill at the barber’s, he was _________.
A. unhappy B. excited C. sad D. anxious
55. The sentence “I’m not having it all cut off,” really means _________.
A. Bill wanted to have his hair cut, which grew in office time
B. Bill was just against the rule about hair cut
C. Bill would like to have his hair cut, which grew both in his office time and in his own time
D. Bill didn’t like to have his hair cut, which grew in his own time
