根据短文内容,回答问题(10分)Ayumilivedwith-优题课

根据短文内容,回答问题(10分)
Ayumi lived with her mother when she was a kid．She couldn't remember her father because he left the family when the girl was five and never came back．Ayumi's mother gave her much freedom to do whatever she liked，because the mother was always at work．
Ayumi was a model when she was young．After graduating from junior high school，she left home to take entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo with her friends，but to her surprise，she was the only one that failed．
After that，when someone offered her a chance to be a singer，Ayumi refused，because she thought she wasn't good at singing． But later，she changed her mind — she couldn't find any other jobs．
Her first song came out in 1998 and soon attracted attention．Her first albums(唱片) A Song for ×× came out in 1999 and quickly sold over one million copies． Each of her albums has sold very well since then．She has become "the Queen of Pop" in Japan．
根据短文内容回答下列问题。
Why did Ayumi's mother give her much freedom?
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What result did Ayumi get in her entrance exams to an art school in Tokyo?
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At first, why did Ayumi refuse the chance to be a singer?
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What's the name of Ayumi's first album?
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When did her first song come out?
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Do you want to be an artist ( 艺术家 ) ?
Do you want to be an artist? Come to our club, and you can find yourself in happiness(快乐). We have lessons about the guitar, the drum, the violin and the piano for just ¥20 each. You can also learn to sing, to dance for ¥25 each. If you like art, you can be satisfied（满意的）, too—it’s just for ¥30 each!
How many instruments（乐器）does the ad（广告） mention（提到）?

How much is it for a piano lesson?

We can’t learn about ________ in the club.

If you want to learn about the guitar and dance, you should pay（付款）_______.

What does “lessons” mean（意思是）in the ad?

Chris Rock was born in the state of South Carolina in the United States. When he was a child, his family moved, and he grew up in a poor area in Brooklyn, New York.
As a teenager, Rock left high school and started telling jokes in comedy clubs in New York City, Even at age 18, Chris Rock was very funny. He told jokes about his family (his parents were very strict) , and about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. Many of his jokes were also about high school, which Rock says was terrible.
Famous comedians went to see Rock’s performances. One comedian (Eddie Murphy) helped him get work on television and in the movies. Chris Rock still acts in movies, but he does not want to be a serious actor. For him, comedy is more important. It makes people laugh, but it can also make people think.
Today,Chris Rock still does live comedy shows around the world. He also created a TV show called "Everybody Hates Chris. " It is about his teenage years growing up and going to school in Brooklyn. In 2006, it was considered as one of the best comedy shows on American television.
Chris Rock was ____
A.born in America B ,from London
C,from a rich family. D. from Canada
What is this passage mainly about?

A．How to tell a good joke,

B．Where the best comedy clubs are.

C．One comedian's life,

D．The funniest people in the United States,

Chris Rock tells a lot of jokes about_________.

A．South Carolina	B．Brooklyn
C．Los Angeles	D．Texas

Which sentence about Chris Rock is true?

A．As a teenager, he was not funny.

B．He started working in clubs after he graduated from college.

C．He loved going to high school.

D．A famous comedian helped him get work on TV and in the movies.

Today, what does Chris Rock say is the most important?

A．Being a serious actor.	B．Making people laugh.
C．Helping teenagers.	D．Having his own club.

How much do you know about London? Now let me tell you.
London has about 7, 000, 000 people. About the year 1800 , London was a very big city in the world.
London is famous for many things. Tourists come from all over the world to visit its famous buildings and listen to the famous clock, Big Ben.
Like many big cities, London has problems. there are to many cars and people. Every day about 1, 000, 000 people come and go by underground, but there are still too many cars and buses in the streets. So the air isn’t clean. However, it is cleaner than it was 100 years ago.
For me, the best things in London are the parks. There are five parks in the city centre. But my children’s favourite place is Hamleys, the biggest toy shop in the world.
Maybe London became a very big city in the world in______.

What does the underlined word “underground” mean?

What are the best things in London for the writer?

A．Famous buildings.	B．Parks.
C．Cars and buses.	D．Toys.

---What’s Hamleys in London according to the passage? www.21-cn-jy.com
---It’s a______.

Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE? ________.

A．London has a population of about 7, 000, 000

B．London is famous for buildings and Big Ben

C．The traffic in the city is easy because of the underground

D．The air in London is cleaner than 100 years ago

Tom and Fred are talking about the year 2020. “What will our world be like in the year 2020?” asks Tom.2·1·c·n·j·y
“I don’t know,” says Fred.
“What do you think?” asks Tom.
“Well, no one knows, but it’s interesting to guess,” says Fred.
“In the year 2020 everyone will carry a pocket computer. The computer will give people the answer to all their problem. We will have telephones in our pockets, too, and we will be able to talk to our friends,” says Tom.
“A lot of people will live and work under the sea. Machines will do most of the work, and so people will have more holidays. They will be able to fly to the moon by spaceship and spend their holidays there,” says Fred.
“And I hope I will be able to live under the sea,” says Tom. “Won’t that be very interesting? Just like a fish.”
Tom and Fred are talking about _______.

A．their school life	B．some interesting information
C．their life now	D．their life in the future

Machines will do _______ of the work.

A．most	B．some
C．much	D．little

In 2020, we’ll talk to friends at all times and everywhere, because we’ll have ______.

A．pocket computers	B．more holidays
C．pocket telephones	D．Go on sale

Tom says _______.

A．he likes fish very much

B．he’d like to live under the sea like a fish.

C．he will go fishing under the sea.

D．he will spend holidays on the moon.

Which of the following is NOT mentioned?

A．People will be able to fly to the moon in a spaceship.

B．People will have more holidays.

C．Many people will live and work under the sea.

D．People will build farms under the sea.

Life in Britain
Homes and families
Many British people live in houses, not flat(公寓). Most(大多数的) houses have gardens.
Daily Life
Most office workers start work at about nine in the morning, and finish at about five or six in the afternoon. Most people don’t go home for lunch, and they just have a quick meal.
School life
Children start school at about nine am and finish at about three thirty pm. Most children have lunch at school. All children go to school when they are four or five years old, and leave when they are sixteen or seventeen.
Shops
Most shops open at about nine am and close at about six pm. Usually, they don’t close for lunch.
Many British people live in __________

Most offices start work at about __________ in the morning.

Most office workers and school children don’t have lunch____________.