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In the 1960s and 70s, Lennon was one of the most iconic(偶像的)men on the planet. Some 30 years ago on from his death, he is still respected by many people in the West.
The Beatles, formed in 1960 in Liverpool, were one of the most commercial successful acts on the history of pop music, with, according to some estimates, global record sales over 1.1 billion.
The band conveyed the progressive ideals in which many young people of the time believed.
In the 1960s and 70s, widespread tension developed in both British and American society, regarding issues such as women’s rights and the Vietnam War.
Lennon in particular became known for his message of peace and for his opposition to the war in Vietnam. This led to an attempt by former US president Richard Nixon to drive him away from the US. Lennon’s second-wife Yoko Ono was also politically active.
Lennon was also hugely admired for his musical abilities. Along with fellow-Beatle Paul, Lennon and McCartney were the Beatle’s song-writing team.
After Lennon was shot by crazy fan Mark Chapman,one of his most iconic songs, Imagine, became a humanist anthem(颂歌).
Lennon’s legacy survived his death and continued till this day. In 2008, he was ranked the fifth greater singer of all time in US-based Rolling Stone magazine.
Former possessions of Lennon or furnishings from his homes continue to be sold for vast sums.
In an auction(拍卖) to be held next week in London, lines written by Lennon on the back of a demand for an outstanding bill are expected to sell for £350,000(3.7 million yuan).
In August, a bathroom from his last home in Britain, was auctioned for £9,500. And in 2009, a British film describing his early years before the Beatles began, was one of the most successful films of the years in the UK.
But do Lennon and his music continue to resonate(共鸣) with the young people of today?
小题1: The passage is written here to show that Lennon has _______.
A.lasting appeal | B.long history | C.exciting records | D.great success |
A.It was founded in the 1960s in London. |
B.It had 1.1 billion sales in Britain. |
C.It was commercially successful. |
D.Many of today’s young people believe its ideals. |
A.the tension between Britain and America | B.his wife’s political activity |
C.his struggle for women’s rights | D.his opposition to the war in Vietnam |
A.why Lennon and his music are still popular with today’s young people |
B.why Lennon and his music spoil today’s generations of young people |
C.that today’s generations of young people don’t like Lennon’s songs |
D.that today’s generations of young people like Lennon’s songs better |
答案
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:D
小题1:A
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In August of AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The entire top of the mountain exploded, and a huge black cloud rose into the air. Soon stones and hot ash began to fall on Pompeii. When the eruption ended two days later, Pompeii was buried under 20 feet of stones and ashes. Almost all of its people were dead.
For centuries, Pompeii lay buried under stone and ash. Then, in the year 1861, an Italian scientist named Ginseppe began to uncover Pompeii. Slowly, carefully, Ginseppe and his men dug. The city looked almost the same as it had looked in AD 79. There were streets and fountains(喷泉), houses and shops. There was a stadium with 20000 seats. Perhaps the most important of all, there were everyday objects, which tell us a great deal about the people who lived in Pompeii. Many glasses and jars had some dark blue colour in the bottom, so we know that the people of Pompeii liked wine. They liked bread, too; metal bread pans were in every bakery. In one bakery there were 81 round, flat loaves of bread ― a type of bread that is still sold in Italy today. Tiny boxes filled with a dark, shiny powder tell us that women liked to wear eye makeup.
Ginseppe has died, but his work continues. One-fourth has not been uncovered yet. Scientists are still digging, still making discoveries that draw the tourists to Pompeii.
小题1:Why do large numbers of people come to Pompeii each year?
A.To visit the volcano | B.To shop and eat there |
C.To watch sports and plays | D.To watch how Pompeiians lived |
A.The city nearby offered all kinds of fun. |
B.The area produced the finest wine in Italy. |
C.Few people expected the volcano to erupt again. |
D.The mountain was beautiful and covered with grass. |
A.Because Ginseppe and his men dug it slowly and carefully. |
B.Because the city was buried alive and remained untouched. |
C.Because scientists successfully rebuilt the city with everyday objects. |
D.Because nobody had lived in the city ever since the volcano erupted. |
A.They lived more or less the same as Italians now do. |
B.They liked women wearing all kinds of makeup. |
C.They enjoyed a good life with drinking and eating. |
D.They went back to Pompeii after the eruption in AD 79. |
C
This hotel in the trees is famous in the world. People, who know very little about Kenya, know of Treetops. When King George VI died, Princess Elizabeth was staying on the Treetops, and when she came down from there, “She succeeded him as the queen of the country”. This hotel in the middle of the forest shows the pleasure of Africa. When you visit it, you will be sent into the heart of the forest by hotel buses, and then a guide, with a gun to protect you against big game, will go with you to the Treetops. Before and after dinner, for the whole night if you wish, you can sit on the corridor (走廊), watching animals come to the water pool. The earliest hotel Treetops was built round a large tree on the opposite side of the water, but that was destroyed by fire and the new hotel Treetops, which is built round several trees, is much bigger.
The dining room at Treetops is small, and the waiters cannot walk round to serve guests, a clever “railway service” has been invented. Guests take their food as it passes slowly in front of them, along a line in the center of the table.
There are many animals around the Treetops. When you visit them, you can see:
— Animals and their babies are waiting to greet the guests.
— Animals, enjoying the Treetops pool in the daylight.
— A long bodied, long ring tailed very active cat-like animal is a special one coming out at night.
He hunts and eats anything he can overpower, and his teeth and claws can do you harm.
— Some other animals that have a thick coating of fur to keep them warm in the cold forest nights.
— Many buffaloes (水牛) coming near to the Treetops for water and salt during the day or night.
小题1: In Paragraph One, “succeeded” means ______.
A.did what she was trying to do | B.gained her purpose |
C.got a position on the death of the King | D.completed a difficult task |
A.It comes for food only at night. | B.It lives in the trees at Treetops. |
C.Its teeth and claws can do people harm. | D.It can catch any other animal in the forest. |
A.it can show the pleasure of Americans living in Africa |
B.Princess Elizabeth got to the crown when coming down from there |
C.they are built round several trees to provide adventures for visitors |
D.there are many animals that can be trained and become lovely pets |
A.should not play games on the Treetops | B.could enjoy their dinner as usual |
C.could not sit on the corridor at night | D.should keep off the cat-like animals |
After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible; there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
In 1830, the US congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?
The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4000 had died. It was in deed a march of death.
小题1: The Cherokee Nation used to live____________.
A.on the American continent | B.in the southeastern part of the US |
C.beyond the Mississippi River | D.in the western territory |
A.writing down the spoken language | B.making word pictures |
C.teaching his people reading | D.printing their own newspaper |
A.allow the Cherokees to stay where they were |
B.send the army to help the Cherokees |
C.force the Cherokees to move westward |
D.forbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper |
A.they went in carts | B.they went on horseback |
C.they marched on foot | D.all of the above |
A.they were not willing to go there |
B.the government did not provide transportation |
C.they did not have enough food and clothes |
D.the journey was long and boring |
In the past, only a few specialists in a company were needed to communicate with foreign businesses.However, in these days of multinational companies, where workers are required to communicate with other employees from several countries, a common language is essential and English has become the logical choice.
Nowadays, even blue-collar workers in many companies are required to speak English.For example, just over three years ago, a Dutch company.United Pan-European Communications (UPC), was contracted to build a TV studio in Amsterdam.The job involved many electricians—more than the company could find in the Netherlands.There were plenty of qualified electricians in nearby France and Belgium, but the American and Dutch executives of UPC wanted everyone on the job to speak and understand the same language.So, the UPC hired British electricians and flew them to Amsterdam every Monday, accommodating them in hotels all over the city, and flying them home on Friday evenings.
Increasingly, workers who can speak English earn salaries 25-35% higher than those who can" t.They are also eligible (有条件被选中的) for a wider range of high-level jobs.
The problem is that, while the ability to speak English is fast becoming essential for getting a good job, there is a shortage of people who can speak it.According to a recent European Commission report, only about 41% of continental Europeans can speak English, and only 29% speak it well enough to carry on a conversation.Many companies are solving this problem by setting up English language schools within the workplace.English language schools all over Europe are expanding at a huge rate, and governments are looking at ways to improve English tuition in schools.
One result of this modem urge to learn English is that a generation gap is appearing. According to a European Union study, 67% of Europeans between 15 and 24 say they can speak English while only 18% of those over 55 say they can.Increasingly, all over Europe, it is the children who are leading the parents.
小题1:In European companies, workers who speak English ________.
A.find it easy to carry on a conversation | B.have an advantage over other workers |
C.must be white-collar workers | D.travel to many different countries |
A.There were not enough electricians in nearby France and Belgium. |
B.British electricians were more qualified than those in the Netherlands. |
C.The UPC wanted all the employees to speak English. |
D.The UPC meant to show they were rich enough to accommodate and fly them. |
A.More young people can speak English well than older people. |
B.67% Europeans can speak English very well. |
C.18% of the people over 55 can"t speak English. |
D.Over half the people can speak English. |
It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg. Late that night, alone in his hotel room and tired out, he again worked briefly on the speech. The next day Everett spoke first. He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. His speech was a perfect example of the rich oratory of the day. Then Lincoln rose. The crowd of 15,000 people at first paid little attention to him. He spoke for only nine minutes. At the end there was little applause. Lincoln turned to a friend and said , "I have failed again." On the train back to Washington, he said sadly, "That speech was a flat failure, and the people are disappointed."
Some newspapers at first criticized(批评)the speech. But little by little as people read the speech they began to understand better. They began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaning. It was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made.
Today, every American school child learns Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address by heart. Now everyone thinks of it as one of the greatest speeches ever given in American history.
小题1:.
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was_________.
A.very critical |
B.unpopular |
C.very popular |
D.very courteous (礼貌) |
. Lincoln was invited to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery because he was_________.
A.a famous speaker |
B.a very handsome man |
C.President of the country |
D.a popular statesman |
It can be inferred from the text that_________.
A.Lincoln prepared his speech very carefully before he went to Gettysburg |
B.Lincoln was very busy at the time and didn"t have much time to prepare his speech |
C.Lincoln"s speech was full of rich words |
D.Lincoln"s speech was very long |
It was a fact that Lincoln"s speech was _________.
A.an immediate success |
B.warmly applauded |
C.a total failure |
D.not well-received at first |
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address has deep meaning. |
B.Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address is simple in style. |
C.Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address is memorized by every American school child. |
D.Lincoln"s Gettysburg Address is the greatest speech ever delivered in the United States. |
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