Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day privileges at four of America’s

Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day privileges at four of America’s

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Use your American Express Card to enjoy one-day privileges at four of America’s greatest museums. Note the participating museums, and their exciting special exhibitions that you will not want to miss, listed below.
Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Chairs
February 11 — May 8, 2005
Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetisan-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.
For more information:www.gardnermuseum.org
New York    
The Noguchi Museum
Noguchi and Graham
December 1, 2004 — May 1,2005
Noguchi’s long-term collaboration with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.
For more information:www.noguchi.org
Philadephia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
In Full view:American Painting (1720 — 2005)
January 11 — April 10, 2005
Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. 2005 at the Academy begins with the largest exhibition of the Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.
For more information:www.pafa.org
Seattle
Seattle Museum of Glass
Murano:glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection
Through November 7, 2004
This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the Hot Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.
For more information:www.museumofglass.org
小题1:Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?
A.www.pafa.orgB.www.museumofglass.org
C.www.noguchi.orgD.www.gardnermuseum.org
小题2:We learn form the text that Martha Graham is ______.
A.a dancerB.a glassblower
C.a painterD.a photographer
小题3:If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit ______.
A.The Noguchi MuseumB.Seattle Museum of Glass
C.Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumD.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

答案

小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:D
解析

小题1:本题考查理解细节信息的能力。根据第一段黑体字下的chairs 可判断出选项D正确。
小题2:本题考查理解细节信息的能力。根据第二段黑体字下的dancer Martha Graham 得出Martha Graham 的职业是舞蹈家。
小题3:本题考查理解细节信息的能力。根据第三段黑体字下的最后一句话“2005 at the Academy begins with the largest exhibition of the Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history”可判断出答案。
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When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was badly crippled (跛脚), and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare, I would be ashamed of the unwanted attention. If ever noticed or bothered, he never let on.
It was difficult to walk together—and because of that, we didn’t say much as we went along. But as we started out, he always said, “You set the pace. I will try to follow you.”
Our usual walk was to or from the subway, which was how he got to work. He went to work sick, and even in bad weather. He almost never missed a day, and would make it to the office even if others could not. It was a matter of pride for him.
When snow or ice was on the ground, it was impossible for him to walk, even with help... Such times my sister or I would pull him through the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., on a child’s sleigh to the subway entrance. Once there, he would try to grasp handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice free. In Manhattan the subway station was the basement of his office building, and he would not have to go outside again until we met him in Brooklyn on his way home.  
When I think of it now, I am surprised at how much courage it must have taken for a grown man to suffer from shame and disability. And I am also surprised at how he did it—without bitterness or complaint.
He never talked about himself as an object of pity, not did he show any envy of the more fortunate or able. What he looked for in others was a “good heart”, and if he found one, the owner was good enough for him.
Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don’t know exactly what a “good heart” is. But I know the times I don’t have one myself.
He has been away for many years now, but I think of him often. I wonder if he sensed my reluctance to be seen with him during our walks. If he did, I am sorry I never told him how sorry I was, how unworthy I was, how I regretted it. I think of him when I complain about my troubles, when I am envious of another’s good fortune, when I don’t have a “good heart”.
小题1:How did the man treat his father when he was young?
A.He helped his father happily.
B.He never helped his father.
C.He helped his father, but not very happily.
D.He only helped his father take a walk after supper.
小题2:As a disabled man, his father____.
A.didn’t work very hard
B.didn’t go to work from time to time
C.hated those who had good fortune
D.was happy and satisfied, and never lost hope
小题3:What does the underlined word “reluctance” mean in the article? It means ____.
A.angerB.sadnessC.happinessD.unwillingness
小题4:How did the father get to work usually?
A.By subway. B.By bus. C.By wheelchair. D.By bike.

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November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated(期待) eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men:Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.
Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal Legacy(遗产) of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary master’s trilogy(三部曲)investigating the many complexities of love. This trilogy began with Beloved(1988), which deals with a black mother’s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy(1993), the second volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the 1940s and 50s.
The emotional center of Love is Bill Cosey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey’s Hotel and Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as “the best and best-known vacation sport for colored folk on the East Coast.” We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl.    
The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as “Morrison’s most accessible work since Song of Solomon.” This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was an effective selling point.
小题1:What would be the best title for the text?
A.Toni Morrison’s latest novels
B.Toni Morrison and her trilogy
C.Toni Morrison and her novel Love
D.Toni Morrison, the Nobel prizewinner
小题2:What can we learn about John Steinbeck?
A.He was a black writer.
B.He was born in America.
C.He received the Nobel Prize after Morrison
D.He was the first American novelist to win a Nobel
小题3:The similarity between Love and Song of Solomon is that they both _____.
A.belong to the same trilogy together with Beloved
B.concern families of more than one generation
C.deal with life of blacks under slavery
D.investigate life in 1920s Harlem
小题4:The novel Love mainly describes ______.
A.the best-known vacation spot for blacks
B.the life of an outstanding black family under slavery
C.the miserable experience of the five women in Harlem
D.the memories of five women about Bill Cosey

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Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless, “he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits(成就).Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many peiole dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are completely crazy, ’”Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
小题1:The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____
A.he started to play ball games
B.he got a mountain bike at age 15
C.he ran his first marathon at age 18
D.he started to receive Ridgway’s training
小题2:We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.
A.dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy
B.built up his body together with Saunders
C.hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D.won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic
小题3:What do we know about Saunders?
A.He once worked at a school in Scotland.
B.He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
C.He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D.He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.
小题4:The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.
A.ExcitedB.ConvincedC.DelightedD.Fascinated
小题5:It can be inferred tat Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.
A.was accompanied by his old playmates
B.set a record in the North Pole expedition
C.was supported by other Arctic explorers
D.made him well-known in the 1960s

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C
Napoleon, as a character in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, is more than once described as having “fat little hands.’’ Nor does he “sit well or firmly on the horse.’’ He is said to be “undersized.’’ with“short legs’’ and a “round stomach”. The issue here is not the accuracy of Tolstoy’s description--it seems not that far off from historical accounts but his choice of facts:other things that could be said of the man are not said. We are meant to understand the difference of a warring commander in the body of a fat little Frenchman. Tolstoy’s Napoleon could be any man wandering in the streets and putting a little of powdered tobacco up his nose—and that is the point.
It is a way the novelist uses to show the moral nature of a character. And it turns out that, as Tolstoy has it, Napoleon is a crazy man. In a scene in Book Three of War and Peace, the wars having reached the critical year of 1812,Napoleon receives a representative from the Tsar(沙皇), who has come with peace terms. Napoleon is very angry:doesn’t he have more army? He, not the Tsar, is the one to make the terms. He will destroy all of Europe if his army is stopped. “That is what you will have gained by engaging me in the war!” he shouts. And then, Tolstoy writes, Napoleon “walked silently several times up and down the room, his fat shoulders moving quickly.’’
Still later, after reviewing his army amid cheering crowds, Napoleon invites the shaken Russian to dinner. “He raised his hand to the Russian’s…face,” Tolstoy writes, and “taking him by the ear pulled it gently….” To have one’s ear pulled by the Emperor was considered the greatest honor and mark of favor at the French court. “Well, well, why don’t you say anything?’’ said he, as if it was ridiculous in his presence to respect any one but himself, Napoleon.
Tolstoy did his research, but the composition is his own.
小题1:Tolstoy’s description of Napoleon in War and Peace is _________.
A.far from the historical factsB.based on the Russian history
C.based on his selection of factsD.not related to historical details
小题2:Napoleon was angry when receiving the Russian representative because _________.
A.he thought he should be the one to make the peace terms
B.the Tsar"s peace terms were hard to accept
C.the Russians stopped his military movement
D.he didn’t have any more army to fight with
小题3:What did Napoleon expect the Russian representative to do?
A.To walk out of the room in anger.B.To show agreement with him.
C.To say something about the Tsar.D.To express his admiration.
小题4:Tolstoy intended to present Napoleon as a man who is _________.
A.ill-mannered in dealing with foreign guestsB.fond of showing off his iron will
C.determined in destroying all of EuropeD.crazy for power and respect
小题5:What does the last sentence of the passage imply?
A.A writer doesn’t have to be faithful to his findings.
B.A writer may write about a hero in his own way.
C.A writer may not be responsible for what he writes.
D.A writer has hardly any freedom to show his feelings.

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1996 Production of the United States
Director: Charles Russell
Major Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger (As John Kruger)
Vanessa Williams (As Lee Cullen)
James Caan (As Robert Deguerin)
After Last Action Hero, Junior and True Lies have been warmly received by the whole world, the best known film actor Arnold Schwarzenegger once again stars as an unbeatable and witty tough man. Together with the pop star Vanessa Williams, he has made it among the 1996’s best movies as well as The Rock and Mission : Impossible. John Kruger, an agent for the Federal Witness Protection Program, is to protect Lee Cullen, an employee of the Cyrez Corporation. Cyrez is supposed to be developing technology for US defense, but they are secretly selling it to the Russian Mafia. Cullen has two computer disks as proof and she is willing to testify (作证). However the disks she gives to the Feds have disappeared and she herself is in danger. Kruger hides her in New York’s Chinatown. Robert Deguerin, Kruger’s director, turns out to be a spy for the Cyrez Corporation. He tries to cheat Kruger into taking them to Cullen. Kruger gets on the plane with Deguerin but gives him the wrong address. A gun battle is started and Kruger parachutes (跳伞) out of the plane. Kruger is reported to be a spy! He is forced to escape and finds Johnny and asks for his help. The three of them break into the Cyrez Corporation to read the disk. Deguerin and the others are waiting, but are outsmarted. In a shipyard of Baltimore, Deguerin and Kruger battle it out. The shipment is stopped and Kruger clears his name.
小题1:The film is directed by _____.
A.Michael BayB.Brian De PalmaC.Charles RussellD.Robert Deguerin
小题2:According to the introduction, Arnold Schwarzenegger once took an important part in the film _________.
A.The RockB.True LiesC.Mission: ImpossibleD.All the above
小题3:The Cyrez Corporation is unlawful because ______.
A.it is developing technology for US defence.
B.It is secretly selling some disks to the Russian Mafia.
C.It is selling technology for US defence to others.
D.It is to protect witness for the Feds.
小题4:Kruger, Johnny and Cullen break into the Cyrez Corporation in order to ______.
A.steal the lost disk
B.find out where Deguerin is
C.stop the shipment
D.find some necessary information from the disk
小题5:What does the underlined word “outsmart” mean?
A.foolB.killC.catchD.find

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