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In the mid-1940s, the young ambitious Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden
picture frames. In 1945, Ruth and Elliot joined their close friend Harold Mattson to form a company that
would be known for the most famous and successful doll ever created. This company would be named
Mattel after Mattson and Elliot.
In the mid-1950"s, while visiting Switzerland, Ruth Handler purchased a German Lilli doll. Lilli was a
shapely, pretty fashion doll first made in 1955. She was originally fashioned after a famous cartoon character
in the West German Newsletter, Build.
Lilli is the doll that would inspire Ruth Handler to design the Barbie doll (芭比娃娃). With the help of her
technicians and engineers at Mattel, Barbie was born. Ruth then hired Charlotte Johnson, a fashion designer,
to create Barbie"s wardrobe. It was in 1958 that the patent for Barbie was obtained. This would be a fashion
doll unlike any of her time. She would be long-limbed (长肢的), shapely, beautiful, and only 11.5 inches tall.
Ruth and Elliot would name their new fashion doll after their own daughter, Barbie.
In 1959, the Barbie doll would make her way to the New York Toy Show and receive a cool reception
from the toy buyers.
Barbie has undergone a lot of changes over the years and has managed to keep up with current trends in
hairstyles, makeup and clothing. She is a reflection of the history of fashion since her introduction to the toy
market.
Barbie has a universal appeal and collectors both young and old enjoy time spent and memories made with
their dolls. |
| 1. What can we know about Barbie from the passage? |
A. She was fashioned after a famous cartoon character.
B. She reflects the history of fashion.
C. She was first made in 1958.
D. She was Ruth"s daughter"s doll. |
| 2. When Ruth and Elliot created the first doll, _____. |
A. they had learned about the toy market
B. they asked a fashion designer to help
C. the doll had a universal appeal
D. the doll had created a promising market |
| 3. The Barbie doll is well received because _____. |
A. she is always keeping up with fashion
B. she stands for the toy tendency
C. she is popular with children
D. she has a large market in the world |
| 4. Which is the best title for this passage? |
A. Barbie Doll-Symbol of Fashion
B. Barbie Doll-Toy of New Time
C. Current Trend of Barbie Doll
D. Birth and Popularity of Barbie Doll |
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| 1-4: BBAD |
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People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet-the story of Velvet
Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race, At first, the producers of the movie told
Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as
she exercised and trained-and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet
is still considered the best by a child actress.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business
reasons. When World war II started, the Taylor moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started
acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult (成人) roles and
won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Taylor"s fame (名声)and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to
demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra-the highest
pay received by any star up to that time.
Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (传奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been
lucky, she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acts in movies any
more. Instead, she puts her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others-several years ago,
she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education. |
| 1. The producers didn"t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she _____. |
A. was small in size
B. was too young
C. did not play well enough
D. did not show much interest |
| 2. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____. |
A. popular all their lives
B. famous actresses
C. successful when very young
D. rich and kind-hearted |
| 3. Taylor became Best Actress at the age of _____. |
A. 12
B. 28
C. 31
D. 34 |
| 4. In her later life, Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to _____. |
A. doing business and helping others
B. turning herself into a legend
C. collecting money for the poor
D. going about research and education work |
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century.
Miller"s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many others by the "Great
American Dream". However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined
in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Millers"s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system,with its
aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In
Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his worth. Willy is "burnt
out" and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can"t do the work, then he is no
good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at loss as
to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the
end.
When it was first staged in 1949,the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony
Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was
the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005,
the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway. |
| 1. Why did Arthur Miller"s father move to the USA? |
A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the"Great American Dream.
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed. |
| 2. The play Death of a Salesman _____. |
A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business |
| 3. What can we learn about Willy Loman? |
A. He treats his employer badly.
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system.
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues. |
| 4. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _____. |
A. achieved huge success
B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists |
| 5. What is the text mainly about? |
A. Arthur Miller and his family.
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.
D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play. |
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Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing
when he was just eight. "You need 1 ," his father said. "But if you don"t work hard, no fortune will come".
What made him sad was 2 his piano teacher in Beijing didn"t like him. You have no talent (天赋). You
will never be a pianist. 3 a nine-year-old boy. Lang Lang was badly 4 . He decided that he didn"t want lo
be a 5 any more, For the next two weeks he didn"t touch the piano. 6 , his father didn"t push, but waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to 7 some holiday songs. He didn"t want to, but as
he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he 8 that he could show others that he had talent 9 . That day he
told his father 10 he had been waiting to hear-that he wanted to study with a new teacher. 11 that point on,
everything turned around.
He started 12 competitions (比赛). In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it was 13
that Lang Lang had won, he was too 14 to hold back his tears. Soon 15 was that he couldn"t stay in China
forever-he had to play on the world"s big 16 . In 1997 Lang Lang 17 again, this time to Philadelphia U.S. There
he spent two years practising, and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his 18
performance at Chicago"s Ravinia Festival, gigs (特邀演出) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie hall started 19 Lang
Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots (发现) him. and lets him 20 . |
( )1. A. exercise
( )2. A. whether
( )3. A. Like
( )4. A. hurt
( )5. A. singer
( )6. A. Hopefully
( )7. A. play
( )8. A. seemed
( )9. A. in all
( )10. A. that
( )11. A. From
( )12. A. receiving
( )13. A. told
( )14. A. excited
( )15. A. this
( )16. A. concerts
( )17. A. started
( )18. A. successful
( )19. A. pulling
( )20. A. brighten | B. fortune
B. why
B. With
B. weakened
B. pianist
B. Patiently
B. sing
B. admitted
B. above all
B. what
B. At
B. accepting
B. mentioned
B. encouraged
B. it
B. tours
B. left
B. cheerful
B. breaking
B. shine | C. knowledge
C. when
C. To
C. ruined
C. conductor
C. Wisely
C. write
C. noticed
C. after all
C. which
C. Since
C. winning
C. announced
C. shocked
C. that
C. competitions
C. moved
C. respectful
C. falling
C. admire | D. wealth
D. that
D. As
D. frightened
D. player
D. Painfully
D. study
D. realized
D. at all
D. when
D. After
D. beating
D. recognized
D. satisfied
D. what
D. stages
D. performed
D. meaningful
D. pouring
D. develop | | 阅读理解。 | Danielle Steel, America"s sweetheart, is one of the hardest working woman in the book business. Unlike
other productive authors who write one book at a time, she can work on up to five. Her research before
writing takes at least three years. Once she has fully studied her subjects, ready to dive into the book, she
can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk.
Danielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education. After graduation, she
worked in the public relations and advertising industries. Later she started a job as a writer which she was
best fit for. Her achievements are unbelievable; 390 million copies of books in print, nearly fifty New York
Times best-selling novels, and a series of "Max and Martha" picture books for children to help them deal
with the real-life problem of death, new babies and new schools. Her 1998 book about the death of her work
shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out. Twenty-eight of her books
had been made into films. She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for one of her books being
the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.
Not content with a big house, a loving family, and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Danielle Steel
considers her readers to be the most important resource (资源) and has kept in touch with them by e-mail.
While she is often compared to the heroines (女主人公) of her own invention, her life is undoubtedly much
quieter. But, if she does have anything in common with them, it is her strength of will and her inimitable (独
特的) style. There is only one Danielle Steel. | | 1. Danielle Steel is different from other writers in that _____. | A. she can write several books at the same time
B. she often does some research before writing a book
C. she is one of the most popular American women writers
D. she can keep writing for quite a long time without a break | | 2. Children who have read "Max and Martha" picture books may know _____. | A. how to deal with affairs at school
B. what to do if Max and Martha die
C. what to do when new babies are born into their families
D. how to solve the difficult problems in their writing classes | | 3. One of Danielle Steel"s achievements is that _____. | A. some TV plays were based on her books
B. her picture books attracted a lot of young men
C. one of her books became a best-seller in 1998
D. she wrote the Guinness Book of World Records | | 4. We can learn from the passage that Danielle Steel _____. | A. lives an exciting life
B. values her readers a lot
C. writes about quiet women
D. is pleased with her achievements | | 阅读理解。 | Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested
in the memoir (回忆录) of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.
Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph
Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major
from medicine to education.
Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd
and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became
a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.
Tyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from
Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.
Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a
position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an
independent (独立的) spirit in their work.
Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational
organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers
and management people on how to set objectives (目标) that develop the best teaching and learning within their
schools. | | 1. Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler"s memoir? | A. Top managers.
B. Language learners.
C. Serious educators.
D. Science organizations. | | 2. The words "hooked oh teaching" underlined in Paragraph 2 probably mean _____. | A. attracted to teaching
B. tired of teaching
C. satisfied with teaching
D. unhappy about teaching | | 3. Where did Tyler work as the leader of a research center for over 10 years? | A. The University of Chicago.
B. Stanford University.
C. Ohio State University.
D. Nebraska University. | 最新试题
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