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一、用所给单词的适当形式填空。

1．It can be ________ to write a short summary after reading a passage，because it will be of great ________ to your writing.(usage)

2．Do you like the films ________ by Zhang Yimou？He is a well?known Chinese ________.(direction)

3．The band played many songs，________ some of my favourite.(include)

4．It is ________ to turn your back on someone who is speaking to you.He was famous for his ________.(polite)

5．The children are taught to respect different ________.The orchestra is very important for the ________ life of the city.(culture)

二. 阅读理解

As a solo artist, Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here (Britain) — the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber (he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.

The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”

Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property developer who later committed suicide), she says,“I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.

Brightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞）Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance,Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.

Brightman says she felt hostility(敌意) “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”

1. The first paragraph tells us that           .

A. Brightman is very popular around the world except in America

B. Brightman’s musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazz

C. the British people don’t like her for her style of music

D. Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber

2. Brightman decided to give up having children because           .

A. she could adopt one

B. her life and career were unbelievably rich without children

C. she felt it normal not to have children

D. she was too busy

3. The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means         .

A. located   B. admired    C. followed       D. found

4. What does the author try to say in the last paragraph by quoting Brightman’s words?

A. Brightman has accepted the fact that she is unwelcome in Britain.

B. Brightman lives in America but she loves her own country.

C. The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homeland.

D. Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain.

B

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has recovered his spot at the top of the US money heap, taking the place of investor Warren Buffett as America’s richest person, Forbes magazine’s latest list reveals.

With 57 billion dollars net worth Gates again leads the list of 400 richest individuals in the world’s wealthiest country. He displaced Buffett who briefly held the position this year but who has seen his Berkshire Hathaway investment group’s shares slip 15 percent since February and is now worth 50 billion.

According to Forbes, whose list was published late Wednesday, the golden 400 have 1.3 billion dollars net worth or more. However, their combined net worth rose only 30 billion dollars, or two percent, to 1.57 trillion dollars.

Forbes said that rising oil and dizzy art prices fuelled the entry of 31 new members into the ultra?rich club and the return of eight previous members.

A notable arrival was Mark Zuckerberg, 24, founder of the social networking site Facebook（脸谱网）. Forbes estimates his worth at 1.5 billion dollars.

Meanwhile, turmoil（动荡）on the stock and housing markets saw 33 others drop off the list, including the former head of the troubled insurance giant AIG, Maurice Greenberg, and a former head of the online auction site eBay, Margaret Whitman.

Biggest gainers were led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who took eighth place with 20 billion dollars worth after a transaction（交易）put a new value on his Bloomberg media and financial data network.

The biggest loser was casino（赌场，娱乐场）tycoon Sheldon Adelson, whose fortune fell 13 billion dollars over 12 months — the equivalent to 1.5 million dollars an hour — although he still has 15 billion dollars and occupies 15th place.

About two thirds of the list are self?made billionaires and just over 10 percent are women, led by television star Oprah Winfrey whose fortune rose 200 million dollars to 2.7 billion dollars.

5. According to Forbes, Warren Buffet is worth         .

A. 57 billion dollars          B. 50 billion dollars

C. 1.5 billion dollars         D. 20 billion dollars

6. 31 new members entered the ultra-rich club as a result of        .

A. turmoil on the stock and housing market

B. media and financial data network

C. rising oil and dizzy art prices        D. investment

7. The purpose of the author using the television star Oprah Winfrey as an example is to        .

A. tell the readers that television stars make money easily

B. prove that a millionaire can become a billionaire

C. women can also be billionaires

D. tell the readers that most of the billionaires are self-made

8. It can be inferred from the story that            .

A. one earns much and also loses much

B. stability of markets has much effect upon people’s wealth

C. the computer industry makes more billionaires

D. young people can also be billionaires

9. What is the BEST title of the passage?

A. Bill Gates Leading World’s Richest People Again

B. What Made Billionaires        C. Self-Made Billionaires

D. Biggest Gainer and Biggest Loser

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