5. 5. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A) A) British TV advertising fulfils a useful function.
B) B) British TV advertising accurately reflects modern life. C) C) British TV advertising is too old-fashioned.
D) D) British TV advertising concentrates on unimportant things.
答案：
Passage Three
1. 1. A. 从第一段第一句可得知，电视广告展示的是一种平静舒适的境地，故答案为A 2. 2. D. 第三段的例子说明一些广告在制作时，只注重广告的意境，而未能表现广告所要宣传的产品。故答案为D。
3. 3. B. 从上下文可以看出看电视的人只顾欣赏电视的画面，而忘了电视所要传递的信息。因此， “reveled in”与B项最接近。
4. 4. D. 在第三段的最后，作者将英美两国商业广告作比较：美国商业广告更注意所要传递的信息，而英国商业广告则不然。故答案为D。 5. 5. A. 从文中最后一段所述可知答案为A。作者在此阐述了过去美好的东西在人们生活中的重要行，而英国电视商业广告为人们对过去美好的东西保持联系提供了一种方式。
Passage Four: Isadora Duncan
摘要：本文叙述了Isadora Duncan 不幸的一生以及她对舞蹈事业的热爱及舞蹈事业给她带来的巨大荣誉与幸福。
Dance, sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man has always carried it with him. Ballet, which transformed dancing into a controlled dramatic art, arose out of the lavish efforts of the Italian Renaissance court to entertain itself. By the beginning of the 20th century, American pioneers of modern dance were declaring independence from the ballet. Their prophet was Isadora Duncan (1878---1927), who at age 6 was teaching neighborhood infants how to wave their arms gracefully, explaining to her mother that she was running a dancing school.
Born in San Francisco, the fourth child of a reckless businessman who abandoned the family, Isadora led a vagrant childhood as her mother moved her brood about to evade unpaid landlords, all the while instilling in the children a love of drama and music. At age 19, Isadora became “the pet of society” in New York, dancing on private occasions for wealthy ladies. She studied Greek vases and sculptures in museums for the figures of ancient dancers and developed her own ideal of Greek dance, shocking society audiences in London and Paris with her bare feet and legs, her clinging and revealing costumes and her free movements. “Toe walking deforms the feet,” she declared, “Corsets deform the body; nothing is left to be deformed but the brain.” In France, she arrived at her own simple dance formula, which made “solar plexus” a familiar phrase among those who could not locate it. “For hours I would stand still, my two hands folded between my breasts, covering the solar plexus… I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement.”
Bolshevism and Bugattis. Performing her “ free dance” in European capitals, she jolted the classic ballet of imperial Russia. Prince Peter Lieven, the patron of the ballet, saw in Isadora “the beginning of the new outlook… she was the first to dance the music and not dance to the music.” With her scanty costumes, she was always controversial when touring in America and never more so than in the 1920s, when she was viewed as a “Bolshevik agent” for teaching dance to Soviet children and creating dances for Lenin’s funeral. Her life was full of passionate love affairs and tragedies. She lost a husband to suicide: her two children drowned with their nurse when their automobile ran into the Seine.
In 1927, penniless and at the end of her career, she pretended that she wanted to buy a flashy Bugatti sports car, which she had delivered to her for a test ride with the handsome driver. Wearing a long red scarf wrapped around her neck, she climbed in announcing “ Adieu, mes amis. Je vais a la gloire.” (Farewell, my friends, I go to glory.”) As the car lunched forward, the scarf caught in the spokes of a wheel and she was strangled.
“I shall not teach the children to imitate my movements---I shall help them develop those movements natural to them.” Isarado once said, but she preaches the liberation of the dance less effectively in her words than in herself. “ When she raised her arms, it was an incredible experience.” The English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton remembered. “ She could also stand still---and often did---but it was an alive stillness and it was dancing.” Notes:
1. 1. Corset n. 束腹，妇女的胸衣 2. 2. solar plexus 太阳神经丛
3. 3. Bolshevism and Bugattis 汽车牌号名 4. 4. Lunch 东歪西倒
1. 1. What is the main contribution of Isadora Duncan to the American dance? A) A) She declared its independence from the ballet. B) B) She prophesied its independence from the ballet. C) C) She taught neighborhood infants how to dance. D) D) She ran a dancing school.
2. 2. Isadora got her first education about dance from _______. A) A) her mother
B) B) Greek vases and sculptures in museum C) C) London and Paris
D) D) The classic ballet of imperial Russia
3. 3. She said “ Toe walking deforms …… deformed but the brain.” to show ________. A) A) that dance does great harm to human body B) B) that she hated dance very much C) C) one of the characteristics of dance
D) D) why she chose clinging and revealing costumes
4. 4. In general, we can say Isadora had a ______ life. A) happy B) miserable C) dramatic D) tragic
5. 5. The passage, as a whole, is mainly about ________. A) A) dance as the original art
B) B) ballet as a controlled dramatic art C) C) the art of dance in America
D) D) the American dancer Isadora Duncan
答案：
Passage Four:
1. 1. B. 文中第一段说20 世纪初美国现代舞蹈的先锋们从芭蕾舞中宣布独立出来，而
Isadora是他们的预言家，所以选B），她预言这一独立，而C、D虽也是她的作为，但并称不上是她对美国舞蹈的主要贡献。
2．A. 文中第二段提到Isadora出身于一个不幸的家庭，父亲弃家不顾，是母亲带着她到处
躲避债主，并同时向她灌输对戏剧与音乐的热爱，所以她的舞蹈方面的启蒙教育应来自于她的母亲。
3. D. Isadora说那句话主要是向外界解释她为什么穿又薄又少的衣服，并且赤足跳舞
4. C. 通读全篇，我们可以看到Isadora 的生活并不幸福；她童年很不幸，中年又失去了丈
夫和孩子；但也不能说悲惨 (miserable) 或有悲剧性(tragic)，因她的舞蹈事业给她带来了巨大的荣誉与幸福，所以选C）dramatic。
5. D. 虽文章的前两句话是关于舞蹈艺术及芭蕾艺术的，但整篇文章主要是关于 Isadora的
一生的，所以选D）。
Passage Five:
Unemployment Problem
摘要：文章主要阐述：我们应该投入更多的人力和财力帮助解决失业问题。
Opinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to say. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.
But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future work.. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm”? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work.. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they live.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were exclude---a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change.
The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. Notes:
1. 1. daunting adj. 使人畏缩的
1. 1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A) A) Employment became widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries.
B) B) Unemployment will remain a major problem for industrialized nations. C) C) The industrial age may now becoming to an end.
D) D) Some efforts and resources should be devoted to helping more people cope with the problem of unemployment.
2. 2. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a factor contributing to the spread of
employment?
A) A) The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries. B) B) The development of factories.
C) C) Relief from housework on the part of women. D) D) Development of modern means of transportation.
3. 3. It can be inferred from the passage that.
A) A) Most people who have been polled believe that the problem of unemployment may not be solved within a short period of time.
B) B) Many farmers lost their land when new railways and factories were being constructed.
C) C) In preindustrial societies housework and community service were mainly carried out by women.
D) D) Some of the changes in work pattern that the industrial age brought have been reversed
4. 4. What does the word “daunting” in the third paragraph mean? A) Shocking B) Interesting C) Confusing D) Stimulating
5. 5. Which of the following is NOT suggested as a possible means to cope with the current
situation?
A) A) Create situations in which people work for themselves. B) B) Treat employment as the norm.
C) C) Endeavor to revive the household and the neighborhood as centers of production. D) D) Encourage people to work in circumstances other normal working conditions.
答案：
passage Five 1. 1.D. 文章首末段呼应点题。 2. 2.C. 文章第四段首句便提到了工作普及的三点原因，没有提到C，所以选相应为C。 3. 3.A. 根据第三段第二句话“The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed.”可排除选相D；根据第四段可知两个结果发生在不同时期，所以可以排除C；根据地五段第二句话可以排除B；根据第一段内容可推出选相应为A。 4. 4.A. 此词出现在第三段第三句话。通过第四句话“但实际上它可以为工作提供一个更好的前景。”中的转折含义可以断定最接近的词义应为A。 5. 5.B. 文章第三段提出了解决办法，故选B。