Which piece of operatic music do people usually associate with Pavarotti？

Section B

In, this section, there is one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summary below by choosing no more than three words from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.

My mother started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949, two years before I was born. This was the year my mother and father left China with one stiff leather trunk filled only with fancy silk dresses. There was no time to pack anything else, my mother had explained to my father after they boarded the boat. Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants.

When they arrived in San Francisco, my father made her hide those shiny clothes. She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two hand-me-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women. The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. And because of their gifts, my parents could not refuse their invitation to join the church. Nor could they ignore the old ladies' practical advice to improve their English through Bible study class on Wednesday nights and, later, through choir practice on Saturday mornings. This was how my parents met the Hus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs. My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English. Or at least, my mother recognized the numbness in these women's faces. And she saw how quickly their eyes moved when she told them her idea for the Joy Luck Club.

Joy Luck was an idea my mother remembered from the days of her first marriage in Kweilin, before the Japanese came. That's why I think of Joy Luck as her Kweilin story. It was the story she would always tell me when she was bored, when there was nothing to do, when every bowl had been washed and the Formica table had been wiped down twice, when my father sat reading the newspaper and smoking one Pall Mall cigarette after another, a warning not to disturb him. This is when my mother would take out a box of old ski sweaters sent to us by unseen relatives from Vancouver. She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard. And as she began to roll with one sweeping rhythm, she would start her story. Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.

"I thought up Joy Luck on a summer night that was so hot even the moths fainted to the ground, their wings were so heavy with the damp heat. Every place was so crowded there was no room for fresh air. Unbearable smells from the sewers rose up to my second-story window and the stink had nowhere else to go but into my nose. At all hours of the night and day, I heard screaming sounds. I didn't know if it was a peasant slitting the throat of a runaway pig or an officer beating a half-dead peasant for lying in his way on the sidewalk. I didn't go to the window to find out. What use would it have been? And that's when I thought I needed something to do to help me move. "

"My idea was to have a gathering of four women, one for each corner of my mah-jong table. I knew which women I wanted to ask. They were all young like me, with wishful faces. "

"Each week one of us would host a party to raise money and to raise our spirits. The hostess had to serve special dyansyin foods to bring good fortune of all kinds—dumplings shaped like silver money ingots, long rice noodles for long life, boiled peanuts for conceiving sons, and of course, many good-luck oranges for a plentiful, sweet life. "

"We decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren't allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck. "

SUMMARY

The San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club was founded by my mother【51】my birth. In 1949, my parents left China for the U. S., where my mother was forbidden to wear【52】What she did wear was dresses offered by the【53】, which was run by a group of old American missionary ladies. Later, my mother got acquainted with some families also of Chinese origin. The women from the families also had【54】that they could not express. With these women, my mother started the Joy Luck Club to hold【55】and to forget wrongs done to them.

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Section B

对2050年亚洲气候的预测就像一部关于世界末日的电影剧本。

(81)很多气候学家和绿色组织担心这一切会变成现实，除非全球的人们能够达成共识，协力控制温室气体的排放。

在未来几十年里，亚洲的气候将倾向另一个极端，(82)贫困的农民将和干旱、洪水、疾病、食物短缺以及不断升高的海平面进行斗争。

“这不是一幅美丽的图画。”阿姆斯特丹“绿色和平”组织的气候政策顾问史蒂夫?索伊尔说。(83)全球变暖和天气模式的改变已经发生：大气层中过量的二氧化碳和其他温室气体体足以加速未来几十年的气候变迁。

索伊尔和一些研究气候问题的知名团体认为，目前在亚洲已经能察觉到某些变化，但以后的情况可能会更糟。(84)这种变化还可能导致大规模的移民和普遍的人道主义危机。

据推测，冰山会加速融化，太平洋和印度洋上的一些海岛将被迫疏散岛上居民，或者修建防浪堤。(85)随着全球越来越温暖，暴风雨会更加猛烈，由昆虫和饮水传染的疾病将扩散到新的地区。

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esty. You should describe the phenomenon first and then give some reasons and possible measures to take.