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Think of some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect us in many ways—emotionally, physically and mentally.
But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera（歌剧）star Carol Vaness.
At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way she breathes.
“When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going underwater,” Carol explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs.”
According to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like speaking, and it’s lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often surprised by how the vibrations strike their ears—like waves on a beach, ”Carol says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth—it vibrates in your chest，the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”
Ever since she started piano lessons at the age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice-the highest singing voice for women.
Carol decided to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions（情感）expressed by words and music come to life.
Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe and she has song for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she started singing in the first palace.
“Put your heart into your singing and enjoy it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings.”
According to the passage, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

A．is a five-story building	B．can seat 4,000 people
C．has no microphone in it	D．can project the singer’s voice

What is the best title for this passage?

A．Opera Singing and Pop Singing	B．The Way an Opera Star Sings
C．An Opera Star	D．Singing without a Microphone

Which statement is true?

A．A pop singer’s lungs are usually stronger than those of an opera singer’s

B．Opera singing is more like speaking.

C．A pop singer takes in much more air than an opera singer when singing.

D．An opera singer breathes differently from a pop singer when singing.

From the passage you can conclude all the following EXCEPT that.

A．Carol once learned to play the piano

B．Carol worked as a music teacher

C．Carol has been singing opera for 20 years or so

D．Carol is popular with Americans and Europeans

E
Welcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.

Timetable
Sunday 8:30---11:30 Personal Inventions You can see many inventions by the students; you may also bring your own inventions.	Monday 19:00---21:00 Space and Man Dr. Thomas West If you want to know more about the universe (宇宙).
Wednesday 19:30---21:00 Modern Medicine Mrs. Lucy Green Would you like to know medical science?	Friday 18:30---21:00 Computer Science Mr. Harry Morison from Harvard University Learn to use Windows XP.

72. You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on _________.
A. Wednesday B. Monday C. Sunday D. Friday
73. The person who teaches Computer Science is from___________.
A. CanadaB. Australia C. New Zealand D. America
74. You may learn something about a disease (疾病) called TB from __________.
A. Dr. West B. Mr. Morison C. Mrs. Green D. Mr. Thomas
75. If you want to learn something about satellites (卫星), you can go to the class from______.
A. 8:30 to 11:30 on Sunday B. 19:00 to 21:00 on Monday
C. 19:30 to 21:00 on Wednesday D. 18:30 to 21:00 on Friday

D
The Internet has become part of teenage life.
A new report on 3,375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities found that 38 percent of them believe they use the Internet often.
While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way.
In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behaviour (行为) has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. The book uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. The book gives useful advice such as it’s good to read news or find helpful information to study.
Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend offline, make sure your parents know. Teachers and parents all think the book is of great help. A teacher said the book would be a guide for teens using the Internet. She believes it will keep students away from bad sites. “Many students are using the Internet without guidance from their parents,” she said. “The book will teach students how to be a good person in the online world.”
68. The textbook mainly tells us ______.
A. why we should use the Internet B. how to study using the Internet
C. how to use the Internet correctly D. how to get help from others
69. What’s the attitude of teachers and parents towards the textbook?
A. They are against it. B. They are for it.
C. They don’t care about it. D. The passage doesn’t mention.
70. According to the passage, teenagers are NOT encouraged to ______.
A. read online news B. go online
C. find helpful information online
D. meet a friend offline without letting their parents know
71. From this passage we know that _______.
A. more and more students have given up visiting bad Web sites
B. schools and teachers begin to pay attention to students’use of the Internet
C. no more homework will be given in Shanghai middle schools
D. less and less information can be found on line

C
Of all the things we eat and drink, water is the most important. Not all people realize this, but it is quite true. The human body can live without food for a long time, but two or three days without water usually result in death.
Many people do not understand how much water the human body needs, but many people do not drink enough, especially in the hot weather. Most people drink when they are thirsty but often need more water after exercises.
65 to 70 percent of the human body is water. Water is important in several different ways. Most people need five to seven litres of water every day, but we need not drink this amount because a lot comes from the food we have. If we don’t have enough water, however, we will feel tired and many become ill. Do you know what the best drink is? Yes, you are right. Cold water!
64．Do most people drink five litres of water every day?
A. Yes, because water is the most important
B. No, because what we eat contains water
C. Yes, because we can’t live without water
D. No, because we are not thirsty
65．How much water are there in the human body?
A. About three fourths of the human body is water.
B. Nearly a half of the human body is water.
C. Less than a half of the human body is water.
D. Almost one fourth of the human body is water.
66．When do we need more water?
A. In cold weather or after exercises.
B. In hot weather or after exercises.
C. Before breakfast, lunch and supper.
D. When we feel tired or become ill.
67．Which of the following is not right?
A. Cold water is the best drink.
B. Few people understand how much water the human body needs.
C. Not all the people realize water is the most important.
D. When we feel tired or become ill, we never need any water.

B
About a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel. I didn’t want to carry too much money with me, so I asked the desk clerk to put a hundred- dollar bill in the safe for me.
The next morning, however, the clerk said he knew nothing about my money. I didn’t have any proof that I had given the man the money. There was nothing I could do but go to the nearest lawyer.
The lawyer advised me to return to the hotel with him and give another hundred-dollar bill to the clerk. This I did. An hour later, I went back to the desk and asked for my money. Since I had the lawyer as an eyewitness to the second hundred-dollar bill, the clerk could not say he knew nothing about it.
Another hour later, I put the second part of the lawyer’s plan into action. This time both the lawyer and I went to the hotel. I asked for the hundred-dollar bill once again, and when the clerk insisted he had already given it to me, I denied（否认）it. The lawyer said to him, “I saw this gentleman give you a hundred dollars. If you don’t hand it over immediately, I’ll be forced to call the police.”
The clerk realized he had been tricked, so he gave me back the first hundred-dollar bill.
“I don’t know how to thank you enough for getting my money back,” I said to the lawyer. And what you suppose he answered?
He said, “Oh, don’t thank me. That will be a hundred dollars, please.”
60. The man went to a Detroit hotel one day to___________.
A. get his money backB. put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe
C. ask to be a desk clerk D. stay for the night
61. The hotel clerk at last returned the first hundred-dollar bill to the man because _________.
A. he knew the lawyer’s plan very well
B. he found the lawyer tricking him
C. he didn’t want to get into trouble with the police
D. he wanted to give the man a surprise
62. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The man didn’t get his 200 dollars back.
B. The lawyer was happy that the man got both his bills back.
C. The lawyer asked for 100 dollars.
D. The man thanked the lawyer by paying him some money.
63．The man was _______.
A. wise B. foolish C. happy D. sad

A．has a sign inside it	B．has two sets of brakes
C．is big enough to hold five persons	D．can’t run very fast.