The opera house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is one of the most beautiful in the United States. It is small and open, with one roof over the stage where singers perform and another roof over part of the audience. This opera house in the mountain is one of the best in the country, which may seem surprising because performances are only given during seven weeks in summer, and because Santa Fe is a very small city.
One reason why the Santa Fe Opera is so good is that it attracts many excellent young singers .They all hope to sing in famous opera houses like Metropolitan in New York someday. And they work hard to become well-known during the summer. The musicians and directors are experts who come from the best orchestras(管弦乐队) and operas in the country during their vacations. They enjoy working there because they like to live in Santa Fe, which is near both the mountains and the desert. It is very beautiful there in summer.
The state government of New Mexico advertises the Santa Fe Opera in newspapers all over the country， and a great many tourists come to New Mexico because of the opera ,Still ,most of the audience does come from Santa Fe and other nearby cities. And all the seats in the theater are sold for every show.
There is only one thing that some people do not like about the Santa Fe Opera, and that is the cold weather .Because the theater is open, performances cannot start before it gets dark at nine o’clock in the evening, and then the mountain air becomes very cool. Sometimes people complain about the cold air ,but because the opera is good , these people come back again wearing warm coats.
1.This passage mainly introduces__________
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A．a mountain city |
B．young musicians |
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C．an opera house |
D．the tourism in Santa Fe |
2.Young singers come to perform in Santa Fe Opera because_______.
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B．they enjoy the climate there |
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C．they want to be famous |
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D．they like the scenery there |
3.It seems surprising that Santa Fe becomes famous because______
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B．it is between the mountain and desert |
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C．all the seats are sold for every show |
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D．musicians there are form the best orchestras |
4.Audience complain because ___________.
A the opera is so good
B the temperature at night is very low
C there are so many people watching the performance.
D the text doesn’t tell us
5.From the passage ,we can learn that ________.
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A．the opera house is open without any roofs |
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B．musicians always work in Fe |
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C．the government advertises to attract more musicians |
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D．performances are held in Santa Fe only after it is dark |
As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her . Then she (1) out at the audience , hoping to see her mother. These two , Alvert and Doris, Flemint, had driven all the way from California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their (2) compete in this sports meet in Cleveland, Ohio.
The music (3) and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music carry her along into her turns, and she began skating with much (4) in herself . The cold fear she always had in the last seconds before skating onto the ice was (5) . She was feeling the movement of the (6) and letting it carry her. She skated easily , then did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was finished.
The crowd loved it and cheered as she skated off the ice. ”Nice job,” said one of the other (7) . It was the remark that always came after a free-skating performance. But what should the (8) say? Standing beside her father , Peggy young skaters , some waiting (9) alone, others with a parent .Shortly before 10 o’clock the results were (10). The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Passdena, California.
1.A looked B. watched C. found D. stepped
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用所给动词的适当形式填空
1.If you had posted the letter, Joan _____________ (receive)it last Monday.
2.What would you say or do if someone ____________ (call) you a fool?
3.If he _______________ (not be) ill , he would have done something to help us.
4.If you had studied hard, you _____________ (be)a college student now.
5.I am not tired. If I were tired, I ________________ (have ) a rest.
6.She has been away since last week. If she had been here yesterday, she __________ (go) to see the film with us.
课文填空：
Epidemics1________history2_________recent press reports 3________(draw) parallels between bird flu and a killer epidemic in the past, Jim smith looks through the history of epidemics for clues about what the future might hold.
4______bird flu first appeared in 1997, it has 5______(take) more than a hundred lives. Many people fear it could be the next global epidemic, especially as scientists who studied tissue from the bodies of the 1918 Spanish flu proved that bird flu is a modern 6______（adapt） of the same virus.
Bacteria and viruses have been 7_______since the beginning of life on earth and many of today’s diseases have existed as long as humans have. It is important to look 8______the spread of diseases throughout history to discover the causes and effects of 9._____(epidemic), and 10_____(hope), foresee and prevent them in the future.
用词组的恰当形式填空.
in vain wipe out come up at random go through, equip with
stop sth in its tracks at any rate at all costs straight away
1.The government succeeded in __________ the epidemic _____________.
2.What you said was ________ since he didn’t listen to you.
3.If you have any question, ask the assistants ___________.
4.John is so casual that he throws things ___________.
5.After typhoon, we can see houses _________ everywhere.
6.He will keep his promise ___________.
7.He always __________ late at the meeting.
8.It’s his habit to ___________ the newspaper before work.
9.The school will meet students’ requirement of study ___________________.
10. The school is ___________________ advanced machines.
单词拼写。
1.Bread _________(消化) easily.
2.I can’t ___________(忍受) your rudeness.
3.People in that country __________(反对) changing the law.
4.Children under 16 receive ____________(强制的) education in China.
5.The president’s speech on unemployment was ______________（站不住脚的）.
6.These __________(年度) conference attracted lots of journalists .
7.Diamond is a kind of precious _____________(矿物).
8.He ___________(滥用) his position as headmaster by giving jobs to his friends.
9.Checking the patients’ ___________(脉搏) is the doctors routine.
10.The football match has been ___________(推迟) because of the hurricane.
