倒數第七周星期

　　A

　　The dyed bun scandal (染色饅頭丑聞) deals another blow to shoppers' confidence in buying food products, as well as the reputation of local sellers. Li Zhen reports on shoppers’ reactions in Shanghai.

　　An investigation by the municipal government revealed that Shanghai Shenglu Food Company produced more than 3,000 steamed buns daily. These were then sold across the city, including large supermarkets such as Hualian, Lianhua and Dia.

　　Fewer steamed buns were for sale at this Lianhua Supermarket. More than 32,000 buns were taken off store shelves when the scandal emerged.

　　Mr. Wang, Sales Manager of Lianhua Supermarket, said, “We removed the dyed steamed buns produced by Shenglu as soon as we learned of the incident. We gave customers who had bought the steamed buns from our outlets refunds with their receipts. Despite the scandal, our sales volume has been fine so far.”

　　However, most customers we met remained concerned about food safety. Steamed buns are a regular breakfast food for Ms. Gao. She used to buy them mostly from supermarkets because she felt it was in a clean and safe environment.

　　But now, she has second thoughts about buying the popular snack.

　　Ms. Gao, Shanghai shopper, said, “I can’t believe that even steamed buns from the supermarkets are no longer safe. The only places I trusted to shop at were major supermarkets and specialist shops. But now even there, product quality cannot be guaranteed. I really don't know where to buy my goods from in the future.

　　Shoppers at supermarkets who still bought steamed buns said they had few options. “I feel like giving up supermarkets. But I really don’t know where to do my food shopping. I can't make these things myself.” said Ms. Tang, Shanghai shopper.

　　61. The colored buns were sold in some large supermarkets EXCEPT ______.

　　A. Hualian

　　B. Lianhua

　　C. Shenglu

　　D. Dia

　　62. What Ms. Gao and Ms. Tang said suggests that ______.

　　A. they still trust major supermarkets when shopping

　　B. they will make food by themselves

　　C. they will never go to supermarkets

　　D. they feel confused about where to buy safe food

　　63. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by ______.

　　A. choices

　　B. ideas

　　C. hints

　　D. marks

　　64. What is the main idea of this passage?

　　A. Major supermarkets removed the dyed steamed buns.

　　B. Dyed steamed buns brought great loss to major supermarkets.

　　C. Famous supermarkets are involved in the bun scandal.

　　D. Dyed bun scandal hurts consumers’ confidence.

　　65. Where can you most probably read the passage?

　　A. In a fashion magazine.

　　B. In a newspaper.

　　C. In a guideline book.

　　D. In an official document.

　　B

　　You wake up in the morning，the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings，you say hello, and the drama starts．The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to．You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

　　Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness．It may not change what you think，but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time．

　　Life brings ups and downs，but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer．They only feel glad when they make others feel bad．No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect．

　　When you communicate with positive people，your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted．When the dagger(匕首) of a negative person is put in you，you feel the heavy feeling that all in all，brings you down．

　　Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people．This could be a co-worker，or a relative．In this case，say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person，but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that．

　　Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized．The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附著) you throughout the rest of your day，which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness．Life is too short to feel negative．Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible．

　　66. The purpose of the first paragraph is to ______.

　　A. make a comparison

　　B. offer an evidence

　　C. introduce a topic

　　D. describe a daily scene

　　67. How can negative people have effect on us?

　　A. By influencing our emotion．

　　B. By telling us the nature of life．

　　C. By changing our ways of thinking．

　　D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours．

　　68. Some negative people base their happiness on _______.

　　A. other people’s pity for them

　　B. making other people unhappy

　　C. building up a positive attitude

　　D. other people’s respect for them

　　69. According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us，we are advised to ____.

　　A. change negative people’s attitudes to life

　　B. show our dissatisfaction to negative people

　　C. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

　　D. communicate with negative people as little as possible

　　70. What is the author’s attitude towards negative people?

　　A. Favorable．

　　B. Critical.

　　C. Indifferent.

　　D. Supportive.

　　C

　　London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.

　　So how does it work？First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes，which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go，for the length of time you use the bike.

　　Transport for London，which runs the scheme，are hoping to have 6，000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year. The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion (擁擠) in London and is expected to create up to 40，000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been “filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses”.

　　However，there have been a few problems since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found they couldn’t dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not registered. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few “teething problems” and have said they wouldn’t charge for the first day as a “gesture of goodwill”. Some other people have criticized the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.

　　Despite the comments，the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things，saying，“My campaign for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a big pedal-powered push forwards.”

　　71. London Mayor boris Johnston launched the new bike scheme in order to _________.

　　A. reduce the air pollution of the city

　　B. encourage the citizens to take exercises

　　C. deal with the city’s traffic problems

　　D. increase employment opportunities

　　72.If you want to hire a bike, in which order will you do？

　　a. pay for the bike according to the time you use it

　　b. pay for the key to a bike

　　c. cycle in and around central London

　　d. sign up as a member to get a key

　　A. b-d-c-a

　　B. b-c-a-d

　　C. d-c-b-a

　　D. d-b-c-a

　　73.All the following are the problems of the scheme EXCEPT

　　．

　　A. the high cost to hire a bike

　　B. not registering their usage of the bikes

　　C. not charging for the first day of the scheme

　　D. docking the bikes properly

　　74. From the passage we can infer that

　　.

　　A. the London Mayor is confident in the scheme

　　B. the scheme will be cancelled because of the problems

　　C. all the citizens in London support the scheme

　　D. the cycling revolution is not successful

　　D

　　Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough working-class neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side. But Hell's Kitchen lies right next door to Broadway, and the bright lights attracted Bobby from the time he was a teen. Being stage-struck was hardly what a street kid could admit to his partners. Fearing their ridicule, he told no one, not even his girlfriend, when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you were a kid from the neighborhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal. Not an actor.

　　Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east. He studied acting, turned out for all the cattle calls -- and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of $2,000. "I wasn't a good actor, but I had a driving need to do something different with my life," he says.

　　He moved to Hollywood, where he drove a cab and worked as a bartender. "My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' “But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

　　Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony of Hell's Kitchen. Half-Deserted Streets, based on his brother's killing, opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

　　His reputation grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash when he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. Haggis wanted help writing a film about the country after September 11. The two worked on the writing, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept pitching it. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see a severe, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

　　Moresco believed so strongly in the script that he borrowed money, sold his house. He and Haggis kept pushing. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance, but the upfront money was too little, Moresco delayed his salary.

　　Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three -- Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Paul Haggis and the kid from Hell's Kitchen.

　　At age 54, Bobby Moresco became an overnight success. "If you have something you want to do in life, don't think about the problems," he says, "think about other ways to get it done."

　　75. Rearrange the following statements in terms of time order:

　　a. His work Half-Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small Off-Broadway theater

　　b. Unexpectedly Crash became both a hit and a huge success.

　　c. He moved to Hollywood to be a taxi driver and a waiter.

　　d. He started learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something different.

　　e. His younger brother Thomas was killed in conflict among bullies.

　　A. d; c; e; a; b

　　B. d; e; c; b; a

　　C. c; d; e; a; b

　　D. c; e; d; b; a

　　76. Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?

　　A. He wanted to give his girlfriend a surprise.

　　B. His girlfriend did not allow him to do this.

　　C. He was afraid of being laughed at.

　　D. He had no talent for acting.

　　77. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?

　　A. His father did not support his work as a bartender.

　　B. Before he became an overnight success, his life experienced ups and downs.

　　C. His brother’s death inspired his writing Half-Deserted Streets.

　　D. Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen which is a few blocks east of Broadway.

　　78. The Studio executives turned the script Crash down because ______________.

　　A. they thought the script would not be popular.

　　B. the script was not well written.

　　C. they had no money to make the film based on the script.

　　D. they thought Moresco was not famous.

　　79. What’s the best title of the article?

　　A. The Road to Success

　　B. Try It a Different Way

　　C. A Talented man—Moresco

　　D. Moresco’s Perseverance

　　80. Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

　　A. initiative (主動) and persistent

　　B. shy but hardworking

　　C. caring and brave

　　D. aggressive and modest

　　參考答案

　　61-70CDADBCABDB 71-80CDCAACDABA

　　倒數第七周星期

　　A

　　The dyed bun scandal (染色饅頭丑聞) deals another blow to shoppers' confidence in buying food products, as well as the reputation of local sellers. Li Zhen reports on shoppers’ reactions in Shanghai.

　　An investigation by the municipal government revealed that Shanghai Shenglu Food Company produced more than 3,000 steamed buns daily. These were then sold across the city, including large supermarkets such as Hualian, Lianhua and Dia.

　　Fewer steamed buns were for sale at this Lianhua Supermarket. More than 32,000 buns were taken off store shelves when the scandal emerged.

　　Mr. Wang, Sales Manager of Lianhua Supermarket, said, “We removed the dyed steamed buns produced by Shenglu as soon as we learned of the incident. We gave customers who had bought the steamed buns from our outlets refunds with their receipts. Despite the scandal, our sales volume has been fine so far.”

　　However, most customers we met remained concerned about food safety. Steamed buns are a regular breakfast food for Ms. Gao. She used to buy them mostly from supermarkets because she felt it was in a clean and safe environment.

　　But now, she has second thoughts about buying the popular snack.

　　Ms. Gao, Shanghai shopper, said, “I can’t believe that even steamed buns from the supermarkets are no longer safe. The only places I trusted to shop at were major supermarkets and specialist shops. But now even there, product quality cannot be guaranteed. I really don't know where to buy my goods from in the future.

　　Shoppers at supermarkets who still bought steamed buns said they had few options. “I feel like giving up supermarkets. But I really don’t know where to do my food shopping. I can't make these things myself.” said Ms. Tang, Shanghai shopper.

　　61. The colored buns were sold in some large supermarkets EXCEPT ______.

　　A. Hualian

　　B. Lianhua

　　C. Shenglu

　　D. Dia

　　62. What Ms. Gao and Ms. Tang said suggests that ______.

　　A. they still trust major supermarkets when shopping

　　B. they will make food by themselves

　　C. they will never go to supermarkets

　　D. they feel confused about where to buy safe food

　　63. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by ______.

　　A. choices

　　B. ideas

　　C. hints

　　D. marks

　　64. What is the main idea of this passage?

　　A. Major supermarkets removed the dyed steamed buns.

　　B. Dyed steamed buns brought great loss to major supermarkets.

　　C. Famous supermarkets are involved in the bun scandal.

　　D. Dyed bun scandal hurts consumers’ confidence.

　　65. Where can you most probably read the passage?

　　A. In a fashion magazine.

　　B. In a newspaper.

　　C. In a guideline book.

　　D. In an official document.

　　B

　　You wake up in the morning，the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings，you say hello, and the drama starts．The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to．You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

　　Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness．It may not change what you think，but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time．

　　Life brings ups and downs，but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer．They only feel glad when they make others feel bad．No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect．

　　When you communicate with positive people，your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted．When the dagger(匕首) of a negative person is put in you，you feel the heavy feeling that all in all，brings you down．

　　Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people．This could be a co-worker，or a relative．In this case，say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person，but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that．

　　Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized．The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附著) you throughout the rest of your day，which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness．Life is too short to feel negative．Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible．

　　66. The purpose of the first paragraph is to ______.

　　A. make a comparison

　　B. offer an evidence

　　C. introduce a topic

　　D. describe a daily scene

　　67. How can negative people have effect on us?

　　A. By influencing our emotion．

　　B. By telling us the nature of life．

　　C. By changing our ways of thinking．

　　D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours．

　　68. Some negative people base their happiness on _______.

　　A. other people’s pity for them

　　B. making other people unhappy

　　C. building up a positive attitude

　　D. other people’s respect for them

　　69. According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us，we are advised to ____.

　　A. change negative people’s attitudes to life

　　B. show our dissatisfaction to negative people

　　C. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

　　D. communicate with negative people as little as possible

　　70. What is the author’s attitude towards negative people?

　　A. Favorable．

　　B. Critical.

　　C. Indifferent.

　　D. Supportive.

　　C

　　London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London.

　　So how does it work？First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes，which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go，for the length of time you use the bike.

　　Transport for London，which runs the scheme，are hoping to have 6，000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year. The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion (擁擠) in London and is expected to create up to 40，000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. London Mayor Boris Johnston launched the scheme and said London had been “filled with thousands of gleaming machines that will transform the look and feel of our streets and become as commonplace on our roads as black cabs and red buses”.

　　However，there have been a few problems since the scheme was launched last Friday. On the first day some people found they couldn’t dock their bike properly and their usage of the bike had not registered. Transport for London did admit they had been expecting a few “teething problems” and have said they wouldn’t charge for the first day as a “gesture of goodwill”. Some other people have criticized the lack of docking stations and locks for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles.

　　Despite the comments，the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very positive about things，saying，“My campaign for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a big pedal-powered push forwards.”

　　71. London Mayor boris Johnston launched the new bike scheme in order to _________.

　　A. reduce the air pollution of the city

　　B. encourage the citizens to take exercises

　　C. deal with the city’s traffic problems

　　D. increase employment opportunities

　　72.If you want to hire a bike, in which order will you do？

　　a. pay for the bike according to the time you use it

　　b. pay for the key to a bike

　　c. cycle in and around central London

　　d. sign up as a member to get a key

　　A. b-d-c-a

　　B. b-c-a-d

　　C. d-c-b-a

　　D. d-b-c-a

　　73.All the following are the problems of the scheme EXCEPT

　　．

　　A. the high cost to hire a bike

　　B. not registering their usage of the bikes

　　C. not charging for the first day of the scheme

　　D. docking the bikes properly

　　74. From the passage we can infer that

　　.

　　A. the London Mayor is confident in the scheme

　　B. the scheme will be cancelled because of the problems

　　C. all the citizens in London support the scheme

　　D. the cycling revolution is not successful

　　D

　　Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough working-class neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side. But Hell's Kitchen lies right next door to Broadway, and the bright lights attracted Bobby from the time he was a teen. Being stage-struck was hardly what a street kid could admit to his partners. Fearing their ridicule, he told no one, not even his girlfriend, when he started taking acting lessons at age 17. If you were a kid from the neighborhood, you became a cop, construction worker, longshoreman or criminal. Not an actor.

　　Moresco struggled to make that long walk a few blocks east. He studied acting, turned out for all the cattle calls -- and during the decade of the 1970s made a total of $2,000. "I wasn't a good actor, but I had a driving need to do something different with my life," he says.

　　He moved to Hollywood, where he drove a cab and worked as a bartender. "My father said, 'Stop this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.' “But Moresco kept working at his chosen craft.

　　Then in 1983 his younger brother Thomas was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony of Hell's Kitchen. Half-Deserted Streets, based on his brother's killing, opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988. A Hollywood producer saw it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

　　His reputation grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash when he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. Haggis wanted help writing a film about the country after September 11. The two worked on the writing, but every studio in town turned it down. They kept pitching it. Studio executives, however, thought no one wanted to see a severe, honest vision of race and fear and lives in collision in modern America.

　　Moresco believed so strongly in the script that he borrowed money, sold his house. He and Haggis kept pushing. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance, but the upfront money was too little, Moresco delayed his salary.

　　Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three -- Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Paul Haggis and the kid from Hell's Kitchen.

　　At age 54, Bobby Moresco became an overnight success. "If you have something you want to do in life, don't think about the problems," he says, "think about other ways to get it done."

　　75. Rearrange the following statements in terms of time order:

　　a. His work Half-Deserted Streets drew attention as it opened at a small Off-Broadway theater

　　b. Unexpectedly Crash became both a hit and a huge success.

　　c. He moved to Hollywood to be a taxi driver and a waiter.

　　d. He started learn acting in spite of hardness with the belief of doing something different.

　　e. His younger brother Thomas was killed in conflict among bullies.

　　A. d; c; e; a; b

　　B. d; e; c; b; a

　　C. c; d; e; a; b

　　D. c; e; d; b; a

　　76. Why Bobby Moresco did not tell anyone that he started taking lessons at age 17?

　　A. He wanted to give his girlfriend a surprise.

　　B. His girlfriend did not allow him to do this.

　　C. He was afraid of being laughed at.

　　D. He had no talent for acting.

　　77. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?

　　A. His father did not support his work as a bartender.

　　B. Before he became an overnight success, his life experienced ups and downs.

　　C. His brother’s death inspired his writing Half-Deserted Streets.

　　D. Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen which is a few blocks east of Broadway.

　　78. The Studio executives turned the script Crash down because ______________.

　　A. they thought the script would not be popular.

　　B. the script was not well written.

　　C. they had no money to make the film based on the script.

　　D. they thought Moresco was not famous.

　　79. What’s the best title of the article?

　　A. The Road to Success

　　B. Try It a Different Way

　　C. A Talented man—Moresco

　　D. Moresco’s Perseverance

　　80. Which of the following can best describe Bobby Moresco?

　　A. initiative (主動) and persistent

　　B. shy but hardworking

　　C. caring and brave

　　D. aggressive and modest

　　參考答案

　　61-70CDADBCABDB 71-80CDCAACDABA