No matter what kind of speech you are giving, the conclusion has the following functions:

If you think you are sick, you are sick no matter what anyone else says. On the other hand, if you have belief in your【21】,and if he tells you that you're going to feel better, you【22】will take the case (病症)of Mrs. Brown for example. She was【23】to get to sleep at night. She lacked(缺少) energy and was too【24】during the day even for the simple thing that she used to【25】. Occasional headaches, which were becoming more frequent (频繁的),【26】reading or watching TV. The more she thought about her condition,【27】she felt.【28】,she went to see her doctor,【29】she had known for years. The doctor listened to her complaints(诉说) and gave her a【30】thorough examination. Then, he said to her," There is【31】seriously wrong with your physical condition, but I【32】the fact that you don't feel well. I am going to give you some pills(药丸) that should【33】. I want you to take one after dinner and【34】a half hour before going to bed to night. Call me tomorrow and tell me【35】."

The next morning Mrs. Brown telephoned to say, "Doctor, it's very nice of you. I had the first【36】night's sleep last night in two months.【37】in those pills?"

The doctor said," It's an old formula(方子) I【38】for years, Just【39】taking them for a week. "Turning to his nurse, he said, "It's【40】what a little soda(苏打片)can do."

(56)

A．parent

B．doctor

C．friend

D．teacher

No matter what you write, your mother will always believe it's about her. So said author Ann Beattie a few years ago at a book talk in Connecticut. You could write about a family of dogs living on Mars, Beattie went on, and your mother will be convinced that she is the mother dog. (And who are we kidding, she probably is. )

Amy Tan is a writer who has fully embraced this concept. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, plumbed the gulf between American daughters and their Chinese mothers. Now, after the death of her own mother, Tan has returned to these themes with a renewed poignancy and lyricism in The Bonesetters Daughter.

In recent magazine interviews and the novel's foreword, she makes it clear how much she has drawn from her own life. Like her heroine, Ruth, Tan experienced yearly bouts of psychosomatic laryngitis--unable to speak for days at a time. And like Ruth, Tan didn't learn her mothers' real name until just before she died.

Ruth is a ghost write—a job she's been training for since she started editing her mother's English as a girl. "Ruth had always been forced to serve as Luling's mouthpiece," the narrator writes. "By the time she was ten, Ruth was the English-speaking 'Mrs. Luling Young' on the telephone, the one who made appointments for the doctor, who wrote letters to the bank."

As in her previous books, Tan captures the humiliated embarrassment of the assimilated child (as well as a parent's terror that her American girl is rejecting her home culture, and by extension, herself). "Her mother couldn't even say Ruth's name right. It used to mortify Ruth when she shouted for her up and clown the block. 'Lootie! Lootie! ' Why had her mother chosen a name with sounds she couldn't pronounce?"

But the writing turns out to be more than a figure of speech. In a ritual she has dreaded since she was a child, Luling has used Ruth as a medium, making her scribble in sand messages from a nursemaid, the bonesetter's daughter of the title, who killed herself in China when her mother was a girl.

Tan powerfully evokes the pain mothers and daughters cause one another, seemingly effortlessly, but redemption is always lurking a chapter away.

The novel begins with the pages Luling has frantically written to capture her memories before Alzheimer's strips them away. Ruth, not fluent in Mandarin, gave up trying to read them years before, but once Luling's disease is diagnosed, they provide a way for her to reunite with her mother.

"(The doctor) said the disease had probably started 'years ago'... Maybe there was a reason her mother had been so difficult when Ruth was growing up, why she had talked about curses and threats to kill herself."

The Bonesetter's Daughter shifts all the way into magical realism in one section, with not entirely believable results. Also, Tan's generally fine writing occasionally veers into the over-wrought: "She sensed her mother's life was at stake and the answer was in her hands, had been there all along."

Far more effective are Luling's experiences before and after the Japanese invasion of China and the sections where Ruth tries to care for her mother. Here again, Tan has drawn from experience, sharply detailing a child's fear in the face of a parent's growing helplessness.

For Luling and Ruth, Alzheimer's .acts like a "truth serum", allowing a lifetime of lies to fall away. In fact, Luling's narrative to her daughter begins: "These are the things I know are true."

Finding emotional healing in the face of disease has launched a thousand Movies of the Week, but in the hands of a writer as generous as Tan, it's a Subject that still resonates as an antidote to grief.

The passage is taken from______.

A．a book review

B．a novel-adapted film review

C．a scenario

D．a magazine interview

There has been a boom in“karaoke”in Japan．Many people，no matter what their age orgender，go there often to enjoy singing out loud，to seek relief from daily stress or just for fun．The“kara”of kara-oke means“empty”．while the“oke’’is a Japanese abbreviation of theEnglish word，“0rchestra．”These two words coming together mean an orchestra without a sinG—er，karaoke systems ate widespread in many countries nowadays．“karaoke bars’’are wellknown by Americans，but actuany we have few karaoke bars in Japan．What we call“karaokebox”is more popular in Japan． To relish karaoke is not difficult at all．All you have to do is to find some friends to gowith you．After you have settled into the room and gotten something to eat or drink，you are al-ready to sing．You look up one of the songbooks and choose a song you wish to sing in two dif-ferent ways：either by the singer's name or title of the song．Then enter the code numbers ofthe song into the remote contr01．Soon your music will start．Some karaoke sets even have avoice change system．You can change your voice from a woman’s to a man’s，or a man’s to awoman’s．This is very interesting．But the important thing here is you should listen to otherpeople singing at the sanle time．Usually people like to have audiences，and you want them tolisten to you while you are singing，too．You can feel like a real singer if you have someone tolisten to you，and that’s what people like when doing karaoke． Since you will have your own room and there will be no unfamiliar people watching you，you will feel more comfortable singing in a karaoke box than singing in front of many people，like in karaoke bars．You Call spend the time in a more relaxed atmosphere，which is more en．joyable． Once you have experienced karaoke，you might want to go again and again，though somepeople would not like singing in front of people even if they were friends or family．But you can still have a jot of．fun there，even if you don't sing．We make jokes and we talk as if we were athome．I personally like karaoke very much．I like singing and I have so much fun every time I go．I thilnk we are seeking a way to express ourselves to people whom ，we like． 根据以上内容，回答下列各题。 In Japanese，the word“Karaoke”come from“kara”and“oke．”What do these words mean?

A.Sing and together．

B.Sing and have fun．

C.Orchestra and singer．

D.Empty and Orchestra．

There has been a boom in“karaoke”in Japan．Many people，no matter what their age orgender，go there often to enjoy singing out loud，to seek relief from daily stress or just for fun．The“kara”of kara-oke means“empty”．while the“oke’’is a Japanese abbreviation of theEnglish word，“0rchestra．”These two words coming together mean an orchestra without a sinG—er，karaoke systems ate widespread in many countries nowadays．“karaoke bars’’are wellknown by Americans，but actuany we have few karaoke bars in Japan．What we call“karaokebox”is more popular in Japan． To relish karaoke is not difficult at all．All you have to do is to find some friends to gowith you．After you have settled into the room and gotten something to eat or drink，you are al-ready to sing．You look up one of the songbooks and choose a song you wish to sing in two dif-ferent ways：either by the singers name or title of the song．Then enter the code numbers ofthe song into the remote contr01．Soon your music will start．Some karaoke sets even have avoice change system．You can change your voice from a woman’s to a man’s，or a man’s to awoman’s．This is very interesting．But the important thing here is you should listen to otherpeople singing at the sanle time．Usually people like to have audiences，and you want them tolisten to you while you are singing，too．You can feel like a real singer if you have someone tolisten to you，and that’s what people like when doing karaoke． Since you will have your own room and there will be no unfamiliar people watching you，you will feel more comfortable singing in a karaoke box than singing in front of many people，like in karaoke bars．You Call spend the time in a more relaxed atmosphere，which is more en．joyable． Once you have experienced karaoke，you might want to go again and again，though somepeople would not like singing in front of people even if they were friends or family．But you can still have a jot of．fun there，even if you dont sing．We make jokes and we talk as if we were athome．I personally like karaoke very much．I like singing and I have so much fun every time I go．I thilnk we are seeking a way to express ourselves to people whom ，we like． 根据以上内容，回答下列各题。 In Japanese，the word“Karaoke”come from“kara”and“oke．”What do these words mean?

A.Sing and together．

B.Sing and have fun．

C.Orchestra and singer．

D.Empty and Orchestra．

If you think you are sick, you are sick no matter what anyone else says. On the other hand, if you have belief in your doctor, and if he tells you that you’re going to feel better, you _1_ will. Take the case of Mrs. Brown for example. She was _2_ to get to sleep at night. She lacked energy and was too tired during the day even for the simple thing that she used to enjoy doing. Occasional headaches, which were becoming more frequent, _3_ reading or watching TV. The more she thought about her condition, _4_ she felt. At last, she went to see her doctor, _5_ she had known for years. The doctor listened to her complaints and gave her a fairly thorough examination. Then, he said to her, “There is _6_ seriously wrong with your physical condition, but I accept the fact that you don’t feel well. I am going to give you some pills that should _7_. I want you to take one after dinner and one a half hour before going to bed tonight. Call me tomorrow and tell me how you feel.” The next morning Mrs. Brown telephoned to say, “Doctor, it’s very nice of you. I had the first _8_ night’s sleep last night in two months. What on earth is in those pills?” The doctor said, “It’s an old formula I have used for years. Just _9_ taking them for a week.” Turning to his nurse, he said, “It’s _10_ what a little soda can do.” [共10题]

(1)

(A) certainly (B) really (C) immediately (D) probably

(2)

(A) able (B) unable (C) going (D) about

(3)

(A) helped her with (B) separated her from

(C) prevented her from (D) about

(4)

(A) the worse (B) the more

(C) the better (D) the happier

(5)

(A) whose (B) whom

(C) that (D) which

(6)

(A) everything (B) anything

(C) nothing (D) something

(7)

(A) do (B) use (C) help (D) take

(8)

(A) good (B) strange (C) bad (D) short

(9)

(A) give up (B) remember (C) start (D) keep on

(10)(A) necessary (B) wonderful (C) important (D) harmful

In fact, no matter what lengths others go to in their attempts to destroy your arguments or ______your confidence, you are certain to remain unmoved and unimpressed.

A．erode

B．undermine

C．deprive

D．underestimate