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Of course, some people have unusual chances which lead to fame and success without this long and dull training. Connie Pratt, for example, was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle factory. A film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop, as he drove past in his big car. He told the driver to stop, and he got out to speak to the girl. He asked her if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test, and at first she thought he was joking. Then she got angry and said she would call the police. It took the producer twenty minutes to tell Connie that he was serious. Then an
appointment was made for her to go to the studio the next day. The test was successful. They gave her some necessary lessons and within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day. Of Course, she was given a more dramatic name, which is now world-famous. But chances like this happen once in a blue moon!
52. According to the passage, the main reason why young people should be discouraged from becoming actors is ______.
A) actors are very unusual people B) the course at the drama school lasts two years
C) acting is really a hard job D) there are already too many actors
53. An assistant stage manager's job is difficult because he has to ______.
A) do all kinds of stage work B) work for long hours
C) wait for a better company D) act well
54. According to the context, the sentence \at the end of the first paragraph means ______.
A) they don't care if their job is hard B) they like the stage naturally
C) they are born happy D) they are easily satisfied
55. Conie Pratt soon became a famous actress after ______.
A) learning some lessons about the art of speaking B) playing her part in the \
C) successfully matching the most famous actors
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D) acting a leading part with a most famous actor at that time
56. The phrase \
A) all at once B) once for a long time C) once in a while D) once and for all
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The home service industry in Beijing is expected to become more attractive both as a job and as an industry.
Sources at the Beijing People's Political Consultative Conference said resistance to home service work is melting away from minds of the city's laid-off workers. The Conference suggested the establishment of municipal centers which supervise property management, household mending and installation, and house keeping services. Modern city life is creating a need for industrialization home services. This will create job opportunities for laid-off workers, said Vice director of the Social Judicial Committee of the Conference.
Beijing residents have long desired a home service industry. The demand is expected to drive new economic growth. There are few high quality home help services in Beijing and customers are always complaining.
In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home helpers, jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside. At the same time, some city residents have not felt safe trusting rural girls with modern household machines or with their small children. Many people would pay more for reliable house keepers who are more familiar with city life, but they have had no way of getting one, even though the city is home to thousands of laid-off workers.
By the end of June this year, there were 30,600 jobless workers in the city. Most of them are women in their 40's, who are not blessed with particular skills and who have had their work ethics shaped by the planned economy. Many of them were at a loss when they first realized they had lost their jobs and a way of life they had got used to for decades.
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They never imagined being laid-off by state-owned enterprises; they never considered other kinds of employment. For them, the private sector meant taking risks; housekeeping implied lower social status. Gao yunfang, 44, is a pioneer who is breaking the ice. She sells the Beijing Morning Post in the morning, and works at two households in the afternoon. She earns 1,000 yuan per month. So she no longer worries about her daughter's tuition at a university in Shanghai.
57. What is talked about in the passage?
A) Home service. B) Modern city life. C) Laid-off worker. D) Social status.
58. What does the word \
A) Heavily-burdened. B) Old. C) Inexperienced. D) Jobless.
59. Why were many laid-off workers at a loss?
A) Because they didn't get used to the new way of life.
B) Because they are too old to find a new job.
C) Because they dislike being laid off.
D) Because they think they lost their social status.
60. Why didn't the laid-off workers like to do home services in the past?
A) Low salary. B) Lower social status. C) Dirty working condition. D) Too much extra work.
61. In which ways is home service industry good for our society?
A) It meets the needs of modern life. B) It provides work opportunities for the laid-off worker.
C) It is a new industry. D) A and B.
Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that?s life. It's a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!
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62 ___positive through the cold season could be your best 63____ against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that 64____ healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a 65_____ sunny disposition were less likely to 66 _____ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence 67_____ a \the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness 69____ immune function and subjective as in happy people being less 70_____ by a scratchy throat or runny nose. \positive emotional style may have different immune _71___ to the virus,\Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. \___-their illness as being less severe.\
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a 73____ study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, 74___- some questions remained as to 75_____ the emotional trait itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality traits, self-perceived health and emotional \easy-going were judged 77 having a positive emotional style, 78 those who were often unhappy, tense and hostile had a negative style. The researchers gave them nasal drops 79 either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the 80 reported on any aches, pains, sneezing or congestion they had, while the researchers collected __81 data, like daily mucus production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
62. A) Living B) Staying C) Pulling D) Surviving
63. A) safeguard B) immunity C) caution D) defense
64. A) excluded B) expelled C) exposed D) exiled
65. A) generally B) commonly C) frequently D) genetically
66. A) feel B) fall C) fell D) fall
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67. A) that B) which C) what D) why
68. A) keep B) warn C) ward D) avoid
69. A) boasting B) boosting C) receding D) reducing
70. A) suffered B) troubled C) disturbed D) hindered
71. A) function B) ability C) response D) reaction
72. A) thought B) related C) interpreted D) translated
73. A) formal B) former C) previous D) precious
74. A) and B) but C) so D) for
75. A) which B) whether C) where D) how
76. A) tended to B) inclined to C) apt to D) subject to
77. A) by B) with C) in D) as
78. A) while B) however C) what's more D) therefore
79. A) comprising B) consisting C) containing D) covering
80. A) patients B) adults C) volunteers D) researchers
81. A) objective B) subjective C) positive D) negative
Part Ⅵ Translation
Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
82. _______________________(如果我是你的话), I would have accepted such an offer given by the manager.
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83. He hurried to the house ______ (结果房内空空如也).
84. Living in the desert has many problems, _______________________(缺水并不是唯一的问题).
85. Both boys and girls put much emphasis _______________________(有足够的钱以便到外面去痛快享受).
86. The students now _______________________(宁愿单独一个人玩电脑，也不愿意到图书馆去查阅资料).
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