59. It takes you about one and a half hours________.

　　 A. to get to the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street

　　 B. to buy Jane Austen related books, cards and gifts

　　 C. to find a guide to take you to the Centre

D. to look around the city of Bath on foot

答案　 56.A　 57.C　 58.A　 59.D　

Passage 26

(05·浙江E篇)

When Lew Alcindor was 13, and obviously still growing, a group of schools began offering him scholarships (獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金) . The Alcindors decided to send their only child to Power Memorial Academy, a small school on Manhattan’s West Side.

At Power, Alcindor came under the control of Coach Jack Donohue, a strict young man who already gained his fame as one of the best coaches in the city. Donohue brought Alcindor along slowly. As a first-year student, the boy was not able to do much but wave his long skinny arms and shoot a basket now and then. But by the second year, when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, Alcindor was quick and skillful enough to make the high school All-American team and to lead Power to an undefeated season.

From then on he simply got better. Some rival coaches (對(duì)方教練)used to take their teams quickly away from the floor before Power warmed up so that their players would not see him any sooner than they had to. Wearing size 16D shoes and sucking a lollipop (棒棒糖), Alcindor would loosen up by starting his leaping lay-ups (擦板球). Then he would casually shoot the ball with either hand, to the delight of the fans.

When reporters and photographers began to follow Alcindor closely, Donohue protected his boy firmly. He simply ordered Lew to talk to no member of the press, and this suited Lew fine. He was not comfortable talking to grown-ups, perhaps because he towered over them. Discouraged photographers began following him in secret as though he were an easily-frightened giraffe. Once after ducking into a subway to escape, Alcindor told a friend that it was all becoming like policemen and robbers. “People want you not for yourself,” Donohue warned him, “but because you’re a basketball player. Don’t forget that.”

58.The author writes this passage in order to________.

A. attract readers to visit the city of Bath

B. ask readers to buy Austen's books

C. tell readers about Jane Austen's experience

D. give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society

57. What can we learn about Bath from the passage?

　　 A. Bath has greatly changed since Jane Austen's death.

　　 B. The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.

　　 C. Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen's time.

　　 D. No changes have taken place in Bath since Jane Austen's time.

56. Jane Austen paid two long visits to Bath________.

　　 A. in her early twenties　　　　　　　　　 B. in her early teens

　　 C. in her late twenties　　　　　　　　　　 D. in her late teens

63. In her later life , Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to 　　　　　　.

A. doing business and helping others

B. turning herself into a legend

C. collecting money for the poor

D. going about research and education work

答案　 60.A　 61.C　 62.B　 63.A

Passage 25

(05·江蘇A篇)

Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16,

1775, and died on July 18, 1817. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously ( 匿名 ).

　　　 But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local people and visitors. She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home. Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, keeping in its streets and public buildings the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels. Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced (增強(qiáng))by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen's time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.

The Centre has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society. After your visit to the Centre, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts. Jane Austen quizzes are offered to keep the children busy.

　　 You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen's Bath, which is a great way to find out more

about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath. The tour lasts about one and a half hours. The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and

shopped.

62. Taylor became Best Actress at the age of 　　　　　.

A. 12　　　　 B. 28　　　　　　　　　 C. 31　　　　　 D. 34

61. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____.

A. popular all their lives 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　B. famous actresses

C. suecessful when very young　　　　　　　　　　 　 D. rich and kind-hearted

60. The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she ____.

A. was small in size 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　B. was too young

C. did not play well enough 　　　　　　　　 　　D. did not show much interest

75.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________-.

　 A.　 a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

　 B.　 her lifelong watchword ：seriousness

　 C.　 publishing books on morals

D.　 enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

答案　 71.D　 72.D　 73.A　 74.B　 75.A

Passage 24

(06·安徽B篇)

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet-the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race, At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained-and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World war II started, the Taylor moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult(成人)roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1966)

Taylor’s fame(名聲)and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra-the highest pay received by any star up to that time.

Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (傳奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been lucky, she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acts in movies any more. Instead, she puts her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others-several years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.

74.As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit , she __________.

A.　　　 misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B.　　　 re-examined old positions

C.　　　 argued for an openess to pop culture

D.　　 preferred morals to beauty