STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with People In America in VOA Special English. Today we remember the singer and actress Lena Horne. During her sixty-year career performing, Lena Horne entertained people with her beauty and rich, emotional voice. She used her fame to fight social injustices toward African-Americans.
Lena Horne was born in New York. At sixteen, Lena became a dancer at the famous club in New York City in 1933. After taking voice lessons, she soon became a singer. In 1940, Lena Horne became the first African-American to perform with an all-white jazz hand. After performing at a club in Hollywood, California, she caught the attention of filmmakers. She soon began making movies. Her films became very popular. In the 1940s, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sing a long -term contract with a major movie studio. Her deal with MGM stated that she would never play the role of a servant. She refused to play roles that represented African-Americans disrespectfully.
Lena Horne once said that World War II helped make her a star. She was popular with both black and white soldiers. She sang on army radio programs and traveled to perform for the troops. These experiences led to Lena Horne's work in the civil rights movement.
Lena Horne sang at rights gatherings. She took part in the march on Washington protest in 1963. It was during this event that Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. She protested racial separation at the hotels where she performed. She took action so that she and her musicians would be allowed to stay in those hotels. B1ack musicians at the time generally stayed in black neighborhoods.
At the age of eighty, she said she did not have to act like a white woman that Hollywood hoped she would become. She said: "I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."
Lena Horne died in New York in 2010. How old was Lena Horne when she died?
| A．93 years old. | B．98 years old. |
| C．86 years old. | D．88 years old. |
We can infer from the passage that_____
| A．black women were forbidden to perform in the film in the 1940s |
| B．Lena Horne didn't make any films in the 1960s |
| C．Lena Horne liked staying at hotel very much |
| D．black actresses often played roles of servants in the film in the 1940s |
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Lena Home became the first African-American in Hollywood in her forties. |
| B．Dena Horne was a friend of Martin Luther King. |
| C．Lena Horne was involved in civil rights activities in the 1960s. |
| D．Lena Horne took an active part in sports activities. |
This text is developed
| A．by space | B．by time |
| C．by process | D．by comparison |
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节，阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。（满分10分）
Jim: What’s wrong, Ann? You don’t look good.
Ann: I’m OK. I’m just (76) t_______. I didn’t sleep well last night 76. t ________
Jim: That’s too bad. (77) W______ couldn’t you sleep well? 77. W_________
Ann: Well, I had a dream. I (78) w_______ up at three in the morning, 78. w________
and I couldn’t get (79) b_____ to sleep. 79. b__________
Jim: Do you (80) r______ the dream? 80. r________
Ann: Yes, I do. (81)F______, a big lion came into my room and 81. F________
jumped on my bed. I thought it was going to eat me. I was really frightened.
Jim: What happened next?
Ann: Well, then I started talking to the lion. I said, “ Please don’t eat me.
Get off (82) m______ bed, and I will give you some food. Then maybe you 82.________
will be happy and go away.”
Jim: How did the dream end?
Ann: Well, I closed my eyes and counted to one hundred.
Then I (83) o_____ my eyes, and the lion was gone. But… 83. o_______
Jim: But what?
Ann: My cat, Poco, was sitting (84) o______ my bed. He was watching me. 84 . o_______
Jim: Oh, now I understand. I think you should give Poco a lot of (10) f____ tonight. 85. f_____
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
The advantages and disadvantages of a large population have long been a subject of discussion. It 31 (argue) that the supply of good land is limited. To feed a large population, inferior land must be cultivated and the good land worked 32(intensive). Thus, each person produces less and this means a lower average income than could be obtained with 33 smaller population.
One of the 34(difficult) in carrying out a world-wide birth control program is that official attitudes to population growth vary from country to country. In a developing country 35a vastly expanded population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, 36 will be the first concern of government to place a limit 37 the birthrate, whatever the consequences may be. A decreasing birthrate may lead to unemployment because it results in a37(decline) market. When the pressure of population on housing declines, prices also decline and the building industry is weakened. 39(face) with such considerations, the government of a developed country may well prefer to see a slowly increasing population,rather than one which is stable 40in decline.
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and have more respectable jobs. But in the executive(主管的) circle, 31 can become a disadvantage.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is 32
(harm) to a woman. Handsome male executives are considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability usually lead 33 their success. Attractive female executives are considered to have less honesty than unattractive 34 ；people do not connect their success with ability 35 with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives are thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. However, interestingly, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes 36 (connect) more to personal relationships and less to ability.
Attractive women are not thought to be able. This is true even in politics. Anne Bowman, a writer,
37 recently made a study, asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. And then the students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote 38 them. The results showed that attractive males 39 (complete) defeated unattractive men, but the women 40 (rank) most attractive by the students unchangeably received the fewest votes.
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Habits,whether good or bad,are gradually formed．When a person does a certain thing again,he 31(drive)by an unseen force to do the same thing 32 (repeat);then a habit is formed．Once 33 habit is formed,it is difficult,and sometimes 34 (possible),to get rid of．It is therefore very important that we pay great attention to the formation of habits．
Children often form bad habits,some of 35 remain with them as long as they live． 36
(lazy),lying,stealing and so on are all easily-formed bad habits．However,there are many 37 habits formed in early life that are of great help．Many successful men say much of their success has 38 to do with certain habits in early life,like early rising and honesty．We should keep away 39 all the bad habits and try to form such habits 40 will be good for ourselves and others．
第二节语法填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
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The Amber Room, which took about ten years to make, 41____(consider) one of the wonders of te world. It was originally built for the palace of Frederick William the I, 42___ gave it to Peter the Great as a gift. 43____return, he got a troop of 44____Czar’s best sodiers. In Russia, the room first served as a small reception hall for important 45____ (visit) and later moved and redsigned by Catherine II. 46_____(sad), the Amber Room mysteriously disappeared 47_____ the Nazi Germany and Russia were at war and up till now nobody knows 48_____ happened to it. In the spring of 2003, however, a new Amber Room, 49_____(build) by the Russians and Germans on the basis of old photos, was ready for the people of St Petersbur 50_____(celebrate) the 300th birthday of their city.