Dear Edward,
I have been very busy recently with some really exciting new developments．If you visit my main website you will see various new items there．
The first is a tab called Food for Thought．This is a short daily email which raises a question or makes a statement or provides something for you to think about．Some regular readers may find these emails quite basic．However, you would agree with me that there are many people who reject anything spiritual simply because it means venturing(冒险进入) into the unknown．
There is also a tab called Please Help Me．I will be hosting tele-discussions soon-yes, and I am really excited about that!
Here I ask you to propose topics for tele-discussions．If you are concerned about missing out, don’t worry．The proceeds will be recorded and made available as MP3 recordings．Please let me know what burning issues you have or what you are curious about．
I am providing a free mystery gift to the value of £9.95 for each successful suggestion． And please don’t think your issue is meaningless-there may be a number of other people who may have the same issue．
You may not be aware that I have also published a number of guided meditations(思考) on-line．Please have a look at this website for a free guided meditation as well as an explanation of what meditation is about．
And watch this space for more exciting things to come in the next month．I am now in a space where my hobby has become my work-how lucky can a girl be!
I also want to thank you for your support and interest over the past years-you have helped me immensely on my own journey．
Love and Light,
Elsabe
64．What does the item “Food for Thought” mainly focus on?
A．How to eat reasonably． B．Ideas for people to think about．
C．Where to have enough food． D．Ways to enjoy adventurous journeys．
65．How can one get a free mysterious gift from Elsabe?
A．By offering acceptable advice． B．By sending as much email as possible．
C．By sending him £9.95． D．By telling him what you are interested in．
66．What does Elsabe ask Edward to do?
A．Offer topics for the tele-discussion．
B．Record the content of the website．
C．Concern and participate about the issues on the website．
D．Help him find more people to help him．
67．What can we infer from the whole passage?
A．Edward doesn’t know Elsabe at all． B．Many people join in Elsabe’s program．
C．People are afraid to surf Elsabe’s website． D．Everything on Elsabe’s website is free．
The Internet has come a long way in the last couple of decades, and we’re seeing some noticeable generational trends. For instance, one of my friend’s aunts ”friended me” on Facebook, and I noticed that she had three times the number of Facebook friends as her nephew, despite the fact that she has only recently started to spend more time on the Internet. She spends more time on Facebook than he does. Yet he is part of the younger generation that grew up using the Internet.
The beauty of Facebook is in the packaging of the service. Almost every facet of Facebook is technology that existed from years before: e-mail, instant messaging, photo galleries, personal Web pages, RSS, etc. Facebook has taken these functions, which young people have been able to do for the past decade, and made them more user-friendly, more accessible—for young and older generation alike.
Facebook is the second act in the people’s Internet Revolution; the first being America Online, which spurred the adoption of the Internet in the homes of ordinary Americans. In a similar fashion, Facebook is spurring the adoption of Internet use in demographics that have been dismissed as the non-Internet users. It gives people a reason to be online in a way that simply checking e-mail, the 1996 equivalent, did not. Facebook is active in a way that the general population may find more rewarding.
The ability to communicate (or not communicate) with your friends in different ways also heightens the ‘stickiness’ of the service. For example, it tells you who else is using Facebook right now. You can then exchange instant messages with any of them. There’s always one more thing to check, see, or do on Facebook. It’s like a never-ending dinner party and all your friends and family are invited.Compared with the aunt, the nephew ___.
| A．had 3 times the number of friends |
| B．has spent more time on the Internet all the time |
| C．spends less time on Facebook |
| D．had the access to the Internet only when he grew up |
What does the underlined word in the second paragraph refer to?
| A．Young people |
| B．Old people |
| C．These functions |
| D．Young and old people |
Which is true according to the third paragraph?
| A．Facebook accelerated the adoption of the Internet in the ordinary families. |
| B．America Online was the first act in the Internet Revolution. |
| C．Facebook has spurred the application of the Internet use in demographics. |
| D．America Online spurred the ordinary use in all od the world families. |
Using Facebook, you can ___.
| A．communicate with whoever is using the Facebook right now |
| B．do one thing every time |
| C．have dinner together with your friends and families |
| D．tell you anyone who is not using the Facebook |
What is the main idea of the passage?
| A．The drawbacks and the strengths of the Facebook. |
| B．Facebook makes the communication more convenient for the old and the young. |
| C．People’s Internet Revolution: Facebook. |
| D．Facebook and America Online |
Movie Music
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.
As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown(if indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as ”pleasant”, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where on piece led into the next.
Certain films had music especially composed for them. The famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D.W Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.When the Lumiere films were shown in the United States ___.
| A．a band was playing there |
| B．a cellist was playing there |
| C．a pianist was playing there |
| D．a violinist was playing there |
From the context of the passage we can know that with the development of films ___ and became more important.
| A．the cinemas increased in number |
| B．the number of musicians grew |
| C．the time of concerts reduced |
| D．the conductor of a band was needed |
The musical cue sheet was used for ___.
| A．directing music accompaniments of silent movies |
| B．composing special music of a special movie |
| C．composing music for all kinds of concerts |
| D．showing directions how to get to a place |
What can be inferred from the passage about the majority of films made after 1927?
| A．They were truly “silent”. |
| B．They were accompanied by symphonic orchestras. |
| C．They incorporated the sound of the actors’ voices. |
| D．They corresponded to specific musical compositions. |
My son is growing up and it scares me. My chances of decrease day by day. I fear that my influence will be
by someone else. Still, I repeat the basics and the possible
in life to him even though he doesn’t want to
. And I keep my
that my guidance will save
of us.
I know that I haven’t lost him , not yet anyway, because of the
he gave me the other day when I
him off at school.
“I love you,” I said as always, as he took out his schoolbag. , he would say, “I love you, too. Bye.” But he didn’t this time, and I was OK with it. He’s fourteen; what can I
? Then he looked straight at me. “I love you,” he said
. He looked into my eyes to see that I had heard him.
His and the expression in his eyes happened unexpectedly. I couldn’t even believe my ears. I know him
than anyone else in the world. I could hear what he was not saying, “I love you, too, Mom. I wanted to say it back to you
yo u said it, but there were some people walking by and they might
me, and then teased(取笑) me. But I didn’t mean to
your feelings, and I didn’t want you to leave without hearing it, because I
do love you. Please
.”
I do understand. I understand that I can’t be with him or him every second. Now, I have tried to prepare us both for the separation since he is growing up.
A. guidance B. meeting C. criticism D. care
A. repeated B. reminded C. replaced D. remained
A. problems B. answers C. mistakes D. employments
A. listen B. study C. work D. attempt
A. review B. belief C. promise D. decision
A. neither B. each C. either D. both
A. completely B. quickly C. party D. exactly
A. letter B. gift C. look D. smile
A. took B. put C. saw D. rang
A. Usually B. Rarely C. Sometimes D. Never
A. imagine B. expect C. suppose D. think
A. quietly B. loudly C. proudly D. sadly
A. cleverness B. feelings C. happiness D. words
A. fewer B. worse C. less D. better
A. when B. until C. unless D. before
A. stare at B. laugh at C. hear D. praise
A. influence B. show C. hurt D. ignore
A. hardly B. really C. greatly D. often
A. realize B. understand C. recognize D. know
A. prevent B. protect C. teach D. reject
When I was small and my grandmother died, I couldn’t understand why I had no tears. But that night when my dad tried to cheer me up, my laugh turned into crying.
So it came as no surprise to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing come from the same part of the brain. Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that so, too, does crying.
Whatever it takes for us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional health, and crying seems to work well. A study has found that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men report feeling better after crying.
Besides, tears attract help from other people. Researchers agree that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendlier and they are more ready to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to understand our emotions better; sometimes we don’t even know we’re very sad until we cry. We learn about our emotions through crying, and then we can deal with them.
Just as crying can be healthy, not crying-holding back tears of anger, pain or suffering-can be bad for physical health, studies have shown that too much control of emotions can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illnesses. If you have a health problem, doctors will certainly not ask you to cry. But when you feel like crying, don’t fight it. It’s a natural-and healthy-emotional response.It can be inferred from the text that ___.
| A．there are two ways to keep healthy |
| B．crying does more good to health than laughing |
| C．laughing plays a more important role than crying |
| D．emotional health has a close relationship to physical health |
According to the author, which of the following statements is true?
| A．Crying is the best way to help from others. |
| B．Fighting back tears may cause some health problems. |
| C．We will never know our deep feeing unless we cry. |
| D．We must cry if we want to reduce pressure. |
What might be the most suitable title for the text?
| A．Power of Tears |
| B．How to Keep Healthy |
| C．Why We Cry |
| D．A New Scientific Discovery |
Biomass energy(生物能)，often forgotten as a promising alternative(替代物) to oil, received its day in the sun with the gathering of the Bio-Energy World Congress and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, late in April, 1990. Nearly 1,700 scientists, businessmen, and policy-makers, one-quarter from the foreign nations, gathered for a week to discuss various means of squeezing usable energy out of trees, crops, manure, seaweed, algae, and urban waste. Biomass in the United States contributes 2.5 percent of the total supply, but this amount can be doubled by 2000 and then doubled again by the year 2010.
Eight percent of Sweden’s energy supply, for example, is presently coming from wood bark and pulp remainings. Sweden intends to raise this percentage by more intensive harvesting of waste food lying around in forests, and through the planting of so-called energy forests of fast-growing trees such as willow and birch.
Brazil is frequently pointed to as a nation with a major successful investment(投资) in energy coming from grains: it presently runs 330,000 automobiles on a water and alcohol(酒精) mixture, replacing 10 percent of its previous oil supply. Brazilian representatives(代表) at the conference said they wish to double this in five years, with a final goal of total replacement. Most of the cars are built at the factory to use the mixture, while older models are changed through low-cost government programs.In Line 2, the phrase “received its day in the sun” most probably means “___”.
| A．come to the public mind |
| B．had its turn in the sun light |
| C．was regarded as a solar energy |
| D．came from the energy of the sun |
Of the total supply in 2010, biomass in the U.S. will be ___ .
| A．5% |
| B．20% |
| C．10% |
| D．15% |
Which of the following is not regarded as biomass energy?
| A．Willow and seaweed |
| B．Wood and grains |
| C．Water and alcohol mixture |
| D．Crops and oil mixture |
A suitable title for this passage would be ___.
| A．An Energy Conference |
| B．Approval of Biomass Energy |
| C．Bio-Energy for Automobiles |
| D．Keys to Energy Crisis |
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