PUTTING ON A STAGE SHOWThe opening night of a stag...

PUTTING ON A STAGE SHOW

The opening night of a stage show means excitement and glamour. EXCITE

Often it also means【C1】______ problems suddenly arising. And that is even EXPECT

more true if you are planning to take 50 total【C2】______ and produce the STRANGE

【C3】______ South Pacific in two days. But that's what mother-and-daughter MUSIC

team Linda and Nicki Metz are【C4】______ offering as a weekend course. CURRENT

The plan seems 【C5】______ although the two leading parts in the show will be AMBITION

taken by【C6】______ actors. Technical staff will be on hand to give expert PROFESSION

advice to【C7】______ Linda says: "It will be a great weekend for people to do PERFORM

something【C8】______ and achieve something at the same time. People have ENJOY

a【C9】______ to work better if they have a deadline. A lot of people also TEND

discover talents that they were 【C10】______ of." AWARE

【C1】______

He was afraid that the others might think he was showing______or being superior.

A．in

B．up

C．out

D．off

He was afraid that the others might think he was showing______or being superior.

A．in

B．up

C．out

D．off

He was afraid the others might think he was showing______or being superior.

A．in

B．up

C．out

D．off

听力原文：Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing because of a sickness at the age of 19 months, even before she had learned to talk. For the first seven years of her life she was like a wild animal. She wanted to communicate with other people. Finally her parents sent for a teacher, Miss Ann Sullican. Ann taught her how to learn about the world through touch and smell and feeling, and eventually she became a teacher, a writer and lecturer.

What is true according to the passage?

A．Helen was born blind and deaf.

B．A sickness caused her to be blind and deaf.

C．Helen lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19.

The old man stood there at a loss, his sunken eyes staring at the man seated behind the table. Raising his hand, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and heavily wrinkled face. He didn't use the traditional kerchief and headband as usual, though he could feel the sweat running down his temple and neck, and he gave no reply to the man seated behind the table who went on asking him, "Why did you go in opening all the doors of the wards looking for your wife? Why didn't you come directly to Enquires?" The old man kept silent. Why, though, was the man seated behind the table continuing to open one drawer after another? His eyes busy watching him, he said, "I came here the day before yesterday wanting the hospital and looking for the mother of my children."

The man seated behind the table muttered irritably, blaming himself for not having ever learned how to ask the right question, how to get a conversation going, and why it was that his question, full of explanations, and sometimes of annoyance, weren't effective. He puffed at his cigarette as he enquired in exasperation, "What' s your wife' s name?" The old man at once replied, "Zeinab Mohamed." The man seated behind the table began flipping through the pages of the thick ledger; each time he turned over a page there was a loud noise that was heard by everyone in the waiting room. He went on flipping through the pages of his ledger, pursing his lips listlessly, then nervously, as he kept bringing the ledger close to his face until finally he said, "Your wife came in here the day before yesterday?" The old man in relief at once answered, "Yes, sir, when her heart came to a stop." Once again irritated, the man seated behind the table mumbled to himself, "Had her heart stopped she wouldn't be here, neither would you." With his eyes still on the ledger, he said, "She' s in Ward 4, but it' s not permitted for you to enter her ward because there are other women there." Yawning, he called to the nurse leaning against the wall. She came forward, in her hand a paper cup from which she was drinking. Motioning with his head to the man, he said, "Ward Number 4 -Zeinab Mohamed." The nurse walked ahead, without raising her mouth from the cup. The old man asked himself how it was that this woman worked in a hospital that was crammed with men, even though she spoke Arabic. Having arrived at the ward, the nurse left him outside after telling him to wait; then, after a while, she came out and said to him, "There are two women called Zeinab Mohamed. One of them, though, has only one eye. Which one is your wife so that I can call her?"

The old man was thrown into confusion. One eye? How am I to know? He tried to recall what his wife Zeinab looked like, with her long gown and black headdress, the veil, and sometimes the black covering enveloping her face and sometimes removed and lying on her neck. He could picture her as she walked and sat, chewing a morsel and then taking it out of her mouth so as to place it in that of her first-born. Her children. One eye. How am 1 to know? tie could picture her stretched out on the bed, her eyes closed. The old man was thrown into confusion and found himself saying, "When I call her, she'll know my voice." The nurse doubted whether he was in fact visiting his wife; however, giving him another glance; she laughed at her suspicions and asked him, "How long have the two of you been married? Again, he was confused as he said, ' Allah knows best — thirty, forty years ..."

What does the title of the passage "The Unseeing Eye" suggest?

A．The old man had very poor vision.

B．The old man' s wife had an eye problem.

C．The old man failed to see what be should have seen.

D．The old man' s wife was not easy to recognize.

The aim of a letter of application(求职信) is to help you to "sell" yourself. It should state【21】the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have【22】. It should be simple, human, personal and brief without【23】out any necessary facts. In writing a letter of application, keep in【24】that the things a possible employer is most【25】to want to know about are your qualifications(条件), your achievements(成绩) and your aims. The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part.【26】the first few sentences fail to【27】the reader's attention, the rest of the letter may not be【28】at all. Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer not【29】your own need or desires. For example, instead of beginning with "I saw your【30】in today's newspaper," you might say "I have made a careful【31】of your advertising during the past six months." or "I have made a survey(调查) in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives【32】your product and why they like it."

Try not to look ordinary. Be clear【33】the kind of job for which you are now【34】. College graduates looking for their first positions often ask, "What can I【35】in a letter? Employers want experience--which, naturally, no【36】has." The answer is that everything you have ever done is【37】

It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter.【38】a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something certain to do or expect. An excellent【39】is to enclose(内附) a stamped, self- addressed envelope with your letter. That makes it【40】for a possible employer to get in touch with you.

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A．clearly

B．carefully

C．obviously

D．easily

How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you might see the Moon, some planets,and thousands of sparkling stars. You can see even more with a telescope. You might see stars where before you only saw dark space. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see more and more objects in the sky. And you can see those objects in more and more details. But scientists believe there are some things in the sky that we will never see. We wont see them with the biggest telescope in the world, on the clearest night of the year. Thats because theyre invisible. Theyre the mysterious dead stars called black holes. You might find it hard to imagine that stars die. After all,our Sun is a star. Year after year we see it up in the sky burning brightly,giving us heat and light. The Sun certainly doesnt seem to be getting old or weak. But stars do burn out and die after billions of years. As a stars gases burn,they give off light and heat. But when the gas runs out,the star stops burning and begins to die. As the star cools,the outer layers of the star pull in toward the center. The star squashes into a smaller and smaller ball. If the star was very small, the star ends up as a cold, dark ball called a black dwarf. If the star was very big.it keeps squashing inward until its packed together tighter than anything in the universe. Imagine if the each were crushed until it was the size of a tiny marble. Thats how tightly this dead star, a black hole is packed. What pulls the star in toward its center with such power? Its the same force that pulls you down when you jump—the force called gravity. A black hole is so tightly packed that its gravity sucks in everything—even light. The light from black hole can never come back to your eyes. Thats why you see nothing but blackness. So the next time you stare up at the night sky,remember: theres more in the sky than meets the eyes! Scattered in the silent darkness are black holes—the great mystery of space.

According to the article,what causes a star to die?

A．As its gases run out.it cools down.

B．It collides with other stars.

C．It can only live for about a million years.

D．As it gets honer and hotter, it explodes.