Princess Diaries star Anne Hathaway has announced she is engaged(订婚).The actress
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Princess Diaries star Anne Hathaway has announced she is engaged(订婚).The actress, 29，confirmed the news after she was photographed wearing a ring while with her boyfriend Adam Shulman in Brooklyn yesterday. Shulman, an actor and jewellery designer, worked with Kwiat Heritage Jewels to create the ring. The pair quietly began dating in November 2008，but weren"t pictured together until the following year.
“We hit it off immediately the first time we met each other but it took us a pretty long time to get together," she has said of Shulman. “He thought that I had a boyfriend and I thought that he had a girlfriend, so I thought that I"d better keep my distance because I didn"t want to be that girl. She described their union as more mature than her previous experiences, adding, “Being mature doesn"t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”
Speaking about the relationship in the September issue(期刊)of U.K.s Marie Claire, she said, “Adam totally ruined my plan. I was really actually looking forward to a little time alone tod then I fell in love like a fool. Her romance with Shulman followed a disastrous relationship with an Italian real estate(地产)developer Raffaello Follieri. She split up with him in 2008 when he was arrested on fraud(欺诈)charges and he was later sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
The actress, whose film credits also include Brokeback Mountain and One Day, will next star in the new The Dark Knight Rises. She plays Selina Kyle, also known as Catwoman.
小题1:How many films Anne Hathaway acted in are mentioned in the passage?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
小题2:Which of the following is the correct order to describe Anne"s life according to the passage?
a. She confirmed the news that she was engaged.
b. She split up with Raffaello Follieri.
c. She was photographed wearing a ring.
d. She and Adam Shulman were pictured together.| A．b-d-c-a | B．d-b-a-c | C．b-a-d-c | D．d-c-b-a |
小题3:The underlined part “hit it off” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_______”.| A．gave up | B．took down | C．got on well | D．turned away |
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that _______.| A．Marie Claire is a travel guide | | B．Anne split up with Raffaello because of Shulman | | C．Follieri totally ruined Anne"s life | | D．the relationship with Raffaello hurt Anne |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:D |
解析
小题1:细节题。结合最后一段The actress, whose film credits also include Brokeback Mountain and One Day,可知答案。“海瑟薇还曾出演《断背山》和《一天》，她将在下部影片《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士崛起》中出演猫女塞琳娜·凯尔。克里斯蒂安·贝尔也将出演该片。”
小题2:细节题。结合第一段The actress, 29，confirmed the news after she was photographed wearing a ring while with her boyfriend Adam Shulman in Brooklyn yesterday. 可知答案。“29岁的海瑟薇昨日在布鲁克林被拍到和男友亚当·舒尔曼在一起时手戴戒指，随后确认了订婚消息。
小题3:推断词义题。结合上下文句意：“我们当时很快就看上了对方，但用了很久才走到一起。”
小题4:推断题。结合？Her romance with Shulman followed a disastrous relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri.与舒尔曼交往前，海瑟薇与意大利地产商拉斐罗·佛赖瑞有过一段不愉快的恋爱”可知答案。 |
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“Whatever”，totally tops most annoying word in the poll(民意测验).So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of “whatever，，in conversations. The popular term of indifference(不感兴趣)was found most annoying in conversations by 47 percent of the Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll on Wednesday.
"Whatever" easily beat out “you know," which especially annoyed a quarter of interviewers. The other annoying expressions were "anyway"(at 7 percent), “it is what it is’，(11percent) and “at the end of the day”(2 percent).
"Whatever" is an expression with staying power. It left everyone a deep impression in the song by Nirvana (“oh well, whatever, never mind”）in 1991 and was popularized by the Valley Girls in the film “Clueless”，later that decade. It is still commonly used, often by younger people.
It can be a common argument-ender or a signal of indifference. And it can really be annoying. The poll found ""whatever" to be consistently(始终地)disliked by Americans regardless of their race, sex, age, income or where they live.
“It doesn"t surprise me because ‘whatever，is in a special class, probably，，，said Michael Adams, author of “Slang(俚语)~The People"s Poetry" and an associate professor of English at Indiana University. "It"s a word that 一 and it depends on how a speaker uses it 一 can suggest being not worthy of attention or respect.’，Adams, who didn"t take part in the poll and is not annoyed by "whatever," points out that its use is not always negative. “It can also be used in place of other neutral(中性的）phrases that have fallen out of favor, like ‘six of one, half dozen of the other，.” he said. However, he also noted that the negative meaning of the word might explain why “whatever，was judged more annoying than the ever-popular "you know”.
小题1:Which tops second among the annoying expression according to the passage?"| A．Whatever. | B．You know. | C．Anyway. | D．It is what it is. |
小题2: What can we know about the word "whatever"?| A．It became popular because of Nirvana. | | B．It can be commonly used at the beginning of an agreement. | | C．Old people like it while young people don"t. | | D．Almost half of the Americans surveyed disliked it. |
小题3:In Adams" opinion, the reason why “whatever”，was judged more annoying may be that . _______| A．most of the people don"t like it | | B．it can be used in place of other neutral phrases | | C．it carries certain negative meaning sometimes | | D．the poor don"t like it |
小题4:Which of the following statements is true?| A．Adams is not only a writer but also a professor. | | B．“Whatever” is a signal of concern. | | C．Adams is angry at the word “whatever” | | D．"Whatever" will be replaced by "You know”. |
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After their 15-year-old dog Bailey died in 2007, Ron and his wife, Ann, looked for months to find the right new pet. “I love dogs,” says Ron, a worker at a health club in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “I can’t imagine not having one.”
Finally, the couple spotted a young dog at the Humane Society in Milwaukee. His name was Oscar. “He was very attractive,” says Ron, 65. Oscar quickly made himself at home, sleeping on his new owners’ bed at night.
A diabetic(糖尿病人) for 25 years, Ron faithfully took his medicine four times a day and generally had no problems. But on March 17, at about 3 a.m., he got out of bed to use the bathroom. Suddenly, he fell down to the floor. “I must have taken the wrong amount of medicine before I went to sleep, because my blood sugar was dangerously low,” he says.
“Normally, Oscar is very quiet and well-behaved,” says Ron. “But when I hit the floor, he let out sounds like a wild animal.”
“Honestly, it sounded like the dog from hell,” says Ann, who was awakened by the sound.” I didn’t know what the sound was. Then I saw my husband lying on the bathroom floor. He was cold.” She ran for the phone and called an ambulance.
Ron spent several hours in the hospital. By 6:30a.m., he was well enough to go home. “You would never suspect Oscar of any heroism.” says his grateful owner. “He’s a wonderful little guy. We are lucky enough to own him.”
Even before Oscar’s heroic action, the couple had given their pet a new nickname(昵称). “We felt the name Oscar wasn’t good enough,” says Ron, “so sometimes we call him Eduardo”—more suitable, they think, for their dog.
小题1:What was Ann doing when Ron went to the bathroom?| A．She was sleeping. | | B．She was watching TV. | | C．She was taking care of Oscar. | | D．She was talking with someone on the phone. |
小题2:Why did Ron fell onto the floor in the bathroom?
- He forgot to take his medicine.
- The floor in the bathroom was too wet.
- He took the wrong amount of medicine.
- He is a diabetic and accidentally ate somesugar.
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE?
- Oscar was 15 years old when he wasfound.
- The sound of Oscar was usually like awild animal.
- Ron got diabetes when he was 40 yearsold.
- Ron had to take his medicine three timesa day.
小题4:From the passage we can learn that Oscar_______________.
- is a little noisy at home
- sleeps with his owners at night
- got his new nickname after the story
- was found at a health club in Waukesha
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In seventh grade, Brittany Blythe dreamed of being a cheerleader. Her school’s coaches were less than enthusiastic. “They said, ‘I don’t know how you’ll be able to do it,’ she recalls. “‘You won’t be able to do it. ’”
But Brittany, now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia, persisted(坚持). And when the junior team cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there, dancing and cheering with the rest of the team.
Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.
Brittany, 18, was born without shinbones(胫骨)--“just blood and muscle tissue”, as she puts it. When she tried to walk, her legs twisted.
After the operation, she adapted quickly. “From day one, I basically jumped up and wanted to do everything,” she says. Prosthetic legs(假腿) allowed her to move around upright, but too slowly to keep up with her friends. Brittany’s solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees---sometimes she still does when safety and comfort permit.
She’s rarely daunted. Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school, but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she’s trying to convince her coaches to let her remove the prostheses and be a flyer, the cheerleader who’s thrown in the air and caught by her teammates.
Brittany doesn’t think her problems are more difficult than the next person’s. “My disability was the first thing I had to get through, and that’s going to prepare me for the future,” she says. “It’s all just a test: If someone throws you a curve ball(给你出难题), what are you going to do?”
小题1:What was the school’s coaches’ attitude towards Brittany’s idea of being a cheerleader?| A．Supportive | B．Doubtful | C．Opposed | D．Curious |
小题2:What did Brittany do to keep up with her friends?| A．She used a pair of walking sticks. | | B．She practiced hard every day. | | C．She walked on her knees. | | D．She asked her friends for help |
小题3:The underlined word “daunted” in Paragraph 6 probably means _____________.| A．discouraged | B．angry | C．confident | D．fortunate |
小题4:We can learn from the last paragraph that Brittany __________.| A．is not well prepared for the future | | B．takes a positive attitude towards life | | C．likes the challenge of learning new things | | D．thinks that her problems are more difficult than other’s. |
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All the Lortons’ farm animals – the cows and the goats, the ducks and the chickens, got along well with Roger—a llama(美洲驼). But since llamas are used to thinking of animals like coyotes(土狼) and dogs as threats, it took Roger a few weeks to accept the family dog.
Roger protects the sheep and lambs in two ways. First, he keeps the sheep together. A hungry coyote will try to scatter(分散) the flock and then pick off a weak or small animal that has become separated from the rest. But when a coyote threatens the Lorton’s sheep, they all run to Roger, depending on him to defend them.
And he does, with his second defense: confronting(对抗) the coyote. Llamas are very curious and will run at top speed to investigate anything that looks interesting. When a coyote sees a three-hundred-pound llama rushing toward it, the coyote will not usually wait around to see what the llama wants.
And once a llama realizes that a coyote is threatening the flock, the llama will stand between the coyote and the sheep to defend them. Often, the llama will charge toward the coyote with its head down. As it runs, it will sometimes call out an alarm to the flock in a high-pitched voice. Since Roger’s arrival, coyotes haven’t gotten any sheep from the Lortons.
小题1:The purpose of the passage is to tell us that ________________.
- a llama helps guard sheep
- coyotes are sheep’s main enemy
- llamas are much smarter than coyotes
- some types of dogs can’t protect sheep
小题2:The following words can be used to describe Roger Except_____________.| A．protective | B．curious | C．brave | D．patient |
小题3:It can be inferred that the Lortons are __________________.
- scientists studying llamas’ behavior
- farmers using a llama to guard sheep
- citizens keeping a llama as a pet
- businessmen selling llamas to farmers
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Jean—Francois Millet (October 4,1814----January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founder of the Barbizon School in rural France. Born of a peasant family, Millet was encouraged by his father to study art in Cherbourg, France. He can be categorized as part of the movement called “naturalism”(自然主义). His understanding of the peasant’ hard life was perfectly expressed in his choice of subject and natural preference for powerful but simple drawing and coloring.
One of the most well—known of Millet’s paintings, The Gleaners(《拾穗者》)，first came in a vertical composition(垂直式构图) painted in 1854,and then there came the horizontal version in 1856, which is now preserved in the Musee d’Orsay. It depicts women bending over in the fields to collect the leftover’s from the harvest, and it is a monumental composition devoted to the working class.
Previously, servants were depicted in paintings as obedient to a noble or a king, and picking up what was left of the harvest was regarded as one of the lowest jobs in Millet;s times. However, Millet offered these women as the heroic focus of the picture. Besides, in the painting, light lights up the women’s shoulders as they carry out their work. Behind them, the field that stretches into the distance is bathed in golden light, under a wide , magnificent sky. The forms of the three figures, standing against the lighter field, show balance and harmony.
小题1:According to the passage , we can know that Millet________.| A．was born in rural France | | B．belongs to neither naturalism nor realism | | C．became famous for his love of the countryside | | D．received his high school education in Barbizon |
小题2:As for the painting The Gleaners, ________.| A．it is originally a horizontal composition | | B．it is based on the effort of Musee d’Orsay | | C．it presents women in the field as the chief focus | | D．it shows how women are stopped from working in the field |
小题3:In the painting, the viewer can appreciate Millet’s_________..| A．crazy interest in blue color | | B．strong focus on the city life | | C．absolute respect for the king | | D．particular choice of main characters |
小题4:In which of the following books can we probably find this passage?| A．Kings and Nobles in France | | B．A Guide to French Painting | | C．French Agricultural History | | D．The Founder of Musee d’Orsay |
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