While firing off pictures of a curious five-month-old fox, photographer Simon Czapp soon realized his subject had quite an interest in photography herself. The clever fox was so curious about the camera equipment that she
climbed right on top of it. And while she was supposed to be the subject of the shoot, the fox stood on the shutter release button (快门按钮) and took her own frames.
Mr Czapp visited the New Forest Wildlife Park to capture images of new arrival Jessie. She has been at the animal park in Ashurst, Hampshire — home to wolves, deer and other animals in 25 acres of ancient woodland — after being abandoned by her mother.
Mr Czapp said, “Jessie was very playful and curious and not at all camera shy. Soon after I arrived she was chewing my shoes and everything seemed to be a game to her. Then she started exploring the camera I had set up on a tripod (三脚架). She balanced her front paws on it and at one point knocked it over.”
He put the camera back on the tripod and Jessie soon jumped back up. At one point she had all four paws on the camera and was keeping her balance. Mr Czapp added, “She jumped up there several times and I realized it could make a good picture. As I was leaving with the public’s viewing window behind me, I thought I heard the camera go off but didn’t think much of it. But when I checked the memory card afterwards, I was amazed to see Jessie had actually taken two pictures of me photographing her. I couldn’t believe a fox had gained an advantage over me! Jessie is a lovely little fox. There were some lovely photos of her but she obviously thought the photographer was worthy of a picture too!”The underlined word “frames” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_________”.
| A.photographers | B.pictures | C.buttons | D.advantages |
What do we know about Jessie from the passage?
| A.She arrived at the park five months ago. |
| B.She lives at the park together with some other foxes. |
| C.She was sent to the park because her mother left her. |
| D.She loved the life in the park so much that she left her mother. |
What is the RIGHT time order of the following steps in Jessie taking a photo?
a. Jessie pr
essed the shutter release button.
b. Mr Czapp left the camera to take a photo.
c. Jessie climbed onto the camera and balanced herself.
d. Mr Czapp set up his camera on a tripod.
e. Jessie stood up to look at the back of the camera.
| A.d, e, c, b, a | B.a, b, c, d, e | C.c, b, e, a, d | D.d, e, b, c, a |
From the passage we can infe
r that __________.
| A.foxes are better at photographing than men |
| B.some foxes are more friendly than humans |
| C.Mr Czapp and Jessie took photos for each other |
| D.Jessie gained an advantage over Mr Czapp in photographing |
475 Riverside Drive
New York N.Y. 10027
Jan.15, 2011
Dear John,
I'm sorry you didn't get the part you tried out for in that play. I know how much you wanted to be in the play. Now you feel that maybe acting isn't the right future for you. I think you're wrong. You're a good actor. Do you remember when you played Caesar in your summer theatre group's play? You were excellent . People clapped(鼓掌)every time you walked on stage(舞台). Even the other actors loved you.
All actors have to get used to being turned down for a job. It's part of an actor's life. Even famouse actors don't get every part they want. I think you should give acting another chance. You love it so much, and you're good at it. Don't be discouraged because you lose one part in the play. Wait a bit, and try for another one. After all , you can always give up some other time.
Love,
JaneJane wrote this letter because____.
| A.she wanted John to get a part in the play he was trying out for |
| B.she wanted to tell John that he shouldn't give up acting. |
| C.she wanted to tell John how to become an actor. |
| D.she was unhappy with John. |
Jane talks about other actors to show Jon that ____.
| A.they are as bad as he is | B.acting is a hard life |
| C.they sometimes get turned down for parts they want | D.they are lucky enough |
What does Jane think of John?
| A.He is a good actor, and some day he will be successful. |
| B.He is too easily dicouraged to become a good actor. |
| C.He is a better actor than the person who has got the part. |
| D.He is as unlucky as the other actors. |
The person who wrote this letter probably ____.
| A.is an actress. | B.cares about John |
| C.wants to be an actress some day | D.envies at John's success. |
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class:he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play:they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.What is the text about?
| A.How to become a good teacher. |
| B.What a good teacher should do outside the classroom. |
| C.What teachers and actors could learn from each other? |
| D.The similarities (相似处) and differences between a teacher’s work and an actor’s. |
The word “audience” in the fourth paragraph means ____.
| A.students | B.people who watch a play |
| C.people who not on the stage | D.people who listen to something |
A good teacher ____.
| A.knows how to hold the interest of his students | B.must have a good voice |
| C.knows how to act on the stage | D.stands or sits still while teaching |
In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?
| A.The teacher must learn everything by heart. |
| B.He knows how to control his voice better than an actor. |
| C.He has to deal with unexpected situations. |
| D.He has to use more facial expressions. |
The main difference between students in class and a theatre audience is that ____.
| A.students can move around in the classroom |
| B.students must keep silent while theatre audience needn’t |
| C.no memory work is needed for the students |
| D.the students must take part in their teachers’ plays |
When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.
Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Oper
a, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.
Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”
On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003,
Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit the orphanages (孤儿院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.Without Mr. Clark, the writer .
| A.might have been put into prison | B.might not have won the prize |
| C.might have joined a women’s club | D.might not have moved to Atlanta |
The Essential 55 is
.
| A.a show | B.a speech | C.a classroom rule | D.a book |
How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?
| A.None | B.Three | C.Fifty-five. | D.All. |
What can we learn in the short reading?
| A.It was in Harlem that we saw The Phantom of the Opera for the first time. |
| B.Mr. Clark taught us not to talk with our mouths full, and we did. |
| C.Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year in Los Angeles. |
| D.In 2003, Mr. Clark moved to Atlanta, and he always kept in touch with us. |
In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that .
| A.Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling |
| B.Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs |
| C.a good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores |
| D.a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students |
Read the following advertisements and then choose the correct answers.
(China Da ily, March 3, 1996) the biggest shopping center will open on March 8.Every body with today's China Daily will get a small present that day. You are welcome.Telephone: 38990688; address: No. 6 Xidan Road …… |
| (ENGLISH NEWSPAPER, March 19) English Newspaper needs a foreign editor. He (She ) must have worked in China for more than 2 years. British nationality is necessary. The salary is $ 100,000 a year. The term is 3 years. In ten days this piece of advertisement will not be useful. Telephone: 3890666; addresses: No. 6 Xinling Road … |
| (CHINA FOOTBALL, February 3, 1996) Shanghai Shenhua Team Vs Beijing Guo'an Team TIME: February 8.Sunday (3:00) PLACE: Hongkou Stadium TICKET PRICE; RMB 25 yuan (for adults ) RMB 15 yuan (for students) NAME: China Cup Football Contest COACHES: Xu Genbao, Jin Zhiyang … |
If an Englishman who has worked in China for 3 years comes to English Newspaper office to ask for the job in April, he will _____.
| A.get the job | B.not get the job |
| C.be a good editor | D.not be useful |
If three adults and six students went to watch the match, the tickets would cost them _____ yuan.
| A.165 | B.135 | C.196 | D.255 |
Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
| A.The shopping center is at NO. 6 Xidan road. |
| B.The telephone number of English Newspaper is 3890666. |
| C.The match was between Beijing Team and Guo'an Team. |
| D.Xu Genbao is a coach. |
As if there weren’t enough of them in the world already, scientists have succeeded in cloning flies. The alike fruit flies are the first insects ever cloned, says the Canadian team that created them. The question everyone asks is why anyone would want to clone flies in the first place. She hopes that the insects , which are very easy to experiment with , will help to adjust the cloning process in other animals and even in humans, where the technique is being researched to aid production of therapeutic (治疗的) stem cells.
In cloning, the DNA-containing nucleus of an adult cell is injected into an egg whose own nucleus(细胞核) has been removed. At the moment, the majority of cloned mice, sheep and other animals die before birth. It is thought this is because the adult DNA is not properly ‘reprogrammed’.
Using flies, researchers might discover genes that are important for this reprogramming, and that have matches in other animals. That is because it is relatively easy in flies to knock out the function of a single gene and then attempt cloning with these cells, which will test whether that gene is important. If such genes are confirmed, then in theory cloned mammalian embryos(晶胚) might be grown in selected solutions that change the activity of those genes to improve the technique’s success rate. Although some groups have attempted to clone insects before, Lloyd says this is the first time it has been successful. The team used a slight difference on the standard cloning process: they transferred nuclei taken from embryos rather than fully-grown adult cells. They sucked several nuclei (pl)out of developing fly embryos, and injected them into a fertilized(已受精的) fly egg. From over 800 early attempts, they cloned five adult insects, the group reports in the journal Genetics.The best title of this passage probably is _______.
| A.The importance of clone |
| B.First insects are cloned |
| C.The disagreement in clone |
| D.The advantages of clone |
The scientists cloned flies because________.
| A.there are fewer and fewer flies in the world |
| B.flies are easy to find and cheap to use |
| C.they can gain some experience before cloning other animals |
| D.it is safe to clone flies |
The failure of most cloned animals is due to _______.
| A.the difference of other animals’ genes |
| B.the improper technique of clone |
| C.the complex of other animals |
| D.the improper rearrange of the adult gene |
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
| A.the clone of insects before used grown-up cells |
| B.the clone of insects were never experimented before |
| C.this time scientists cloned flies successfully and easily |
| D.based on this success, other animals will be cloned in large quantities. |