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Unit 11 The Media
一、单项选择
1. --- Do you think I could borrow your dictionary? (1997年高考题)
--- ____.
A. Yes, you may borrow    B. Yes, you could
C. Yes, help yourself     D. Yes, go on
2. --- Good morning, Grand Hotel. (2001高考题)
 --- Hello, I'd like to book a room for the nights of the 18th and 19th.
 --- ______
A. What can I do for you?  B. Just a minute, please
C. What's the matter?   D. At your service. 
3. --- I think you should phone Jenny and say sorry to her. (2003高考题)
  --- ______. It was her fault.
A. No way B. Not possible C. No chance D. Not at all
4. — I’d like to go home now.
 — Why not stay here for the night? It is so late now. ____, it is raining so hard.
A. Besides B. Therefore C. Instead D. As a result
5. — May I take your order?
  — Yes, I’d like a cup of coffee, a hot dog and some salad. What about you, Lisa?
  — ____.
A. Me too B. Same again, please
C. It’s all the same to me D. The same to me
6. The surface of the table ___ smooth enough.
A. hasn’t felt B. doesn’t feel C. isn’t feeling D. isn’t felt
7. Such plants never ___ in this part of the world.
A. have grown B. are growing C. grow D. are grown
8. These kinds of shoes ___ well.
A. were not sold B. won’t be sold C. are not sold D. don’t sell
9. Tom was said to ___ Mary for 40 years.
A. have been married to B. have married with
C. has been married D. had married with
10. I remember ___ for the job, but I forget the exact amount.
A. to be paid B. being paid C. to pay D. paying
11.The bridge was named ______ the hero who gave his life for the cause of the people.
A. from B. with C. by D. after
12.—The disease he suffers is not easy to cure.
—I know, but is he ______ better?
A. much B. rather C. any D. little
13.No matter what you say, I shall ______ my own opinion.
A. carry out B. keep up C. insist on D. stick to
14.No one enjoys________at.
A. laughing　 B. to laugh　 C. being laughed　 D. to be laughed
15.You must do something to prevent your house_________.
A. to be broken in 　 B. from being broken in
C. to break in　　　　 D. from breaking in
16.They insisted on________another chance to try.
A. given　　　 B. giving　　　 C. being given　　D. to be given
17.—Where is my passport? I remember__________it here.
　—You shouldn't have left it here. Remember_______it with you all the time.
A. to put；to take　 B. putting；taking
C. putting；to take D. to put；taking
18.His room needs_________, so he must have it______.
A. painting； painted　　 B. painted； painting
C. painting； painting　 D. painted； painted
19.After finishing his homework he went on________a letter to his parents.
A. write　　 B. writing　　　 C. wrote　　　 D. to write
20.The young trees we planted last week require_____with great care.
A .looking after B. to look after
C. to be looked after　 D. taken good care of
21.Only_____English doesn't mean________the language.
A. to learn；to learn 　 B. learning；learning
C. learning about；learn　 D. learning about；learning
22.She returned home only to find the door open and something __.
A. missed　　　B. to be missing 　 C. missing　　　　 D. to be missed
23.She decided to devote herself______the problem of old age.
A. to study 　B. studying　 C. to studying 　 D. study
24.Remember_____the newspaper when you have finished it.
A. putting back 　 B. put back　 C. to put back 　　D. be put back
25.As she is looking forward to 　　from me, please remember 　　this letter on your way to school.
A. hear；post　 B .hearing；to post　
C. be heard；posting 　 D. be hearing；to posting
二、完形填空
I’m a newspaper reporter. I don’t have    26    money, but I meet a lot of interesting people. Some are rich,    27    are poor. One or two are dishonest, but the others tell the truth most of the time. On the whole, I like my job and I am good at it. I type fast. I have a good   28   . I don’t talk, but I’m a good    29   . I’m probably the best listener in the entire city and I    30    stupid. I have a very stupid face. People look at me, and then they explain things to me very slowly. Other reporters ask people a lot of questions and    31   them angry, but I just look stupid and soon I am getting a lot of    32    : many uninteresting ideas, many irrelevant(不相关的) facts, but always    33    interesting news for my newspaper.
I have a method for   34    news from the ordinary men in the street. Let me give you    35   . Yesterday afternoon I needed information about recreation for elderly    36    people in the city. I went to the park, sat on a bench    37    the sun, and waited. Soon, an old lady came and sat next to me. She carried two large paper bags and an old handbag. I sat quietly beside her for about ten minutes, and then I   38   a chocolate bar slowly. I made a lot of    39     with the paper wrapping. Next, I offered her a piece of my chocolate. After that, she told me about    40   . She doesn’t have real home.  She and two friends sleep in the bus station; on warm days she comes to the park with her few belongings in two paper bags. Later, we went to a restaurant for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. I    41   , of course, I didn’t   42    any notes. I asked her a few questions about recreation, but she wasn’t interested in    43  . She needed money and a place to live in, she said. She told me a lot about the bus station. I gave her a dollar and some    44   . Finally, I    45   her in the park, went back to the office, and typed up some notes for my newspaper.
26. A. many B. much C. little D. any
27. A. others B. the others   C. the other    D. another
28. A. brain   B. thinking     C. mind       D. memory
29. A. listener   B. speaker C. reporter     D. lecturer
30. A. seemed    B. look     C. am         D. must be
31. A. get     B. let     C. cause       D. make
32. A. reasons B. ideas   C. information D. experience
33. A. little   B. a little C. a few       D. few
34. A. getting   B. having     C. receiving   D. accepting
35. A. a model   B. an example C. an idea   D. a story
36. A. rich    B. bad        C. poor      D. wealthy
37. A. under   B. below     C. at         D. in
38. A. took   B. unwrapped   C. made     D. ate
39. A. sound   B. voice     C. noise      D. voices
40. A. her     B. hers     C. herself     D. of her  
41. A. bought   B. cost       C. spent       D. paid
42. A. take     B. write       C. put     D. get
43. A. which    B. what     C. them       D. that
44. A. money B. bill C. change D. cheque
45. A. left   B. kept     C. took       D. stopped
三、阅读理解
A
Popular music is very popular with American students. Almost every student carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio stations in many places broadcast (广播) . Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a pop star.
There are other kinds of music that are popular among Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
1. _____ kinds of music are mentioned in this passage.
A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five
2. When pop singers ______, they are regarded as pop stars.
A. make much money
B. make a CD or tape
C. become popular with their fans
D. are wanted to sing on the radio
3. From the passage we know that country music is about the______.
A. common life of Americans
B. country life and love stories
C. life of cowboys
D. school life in America
4. Which of the following is true?
A. Few students in America like popular music.
B. Students with cars in America like to listen to music while driving.
C. Adult drivers in America only listen to music while driving.
D. Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go.
5. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. American Music B. Popular Music
C. History of Music D. Western Music
B
Music is an art that almost everyone enjoys. Everyone can make sounds by singing, banging a stick, plucking a tight string or blowing through a pipe. All over the world, many kinds of music have developed as people found out how to make sounds in different ways. There are so many kinds of music to hear that you can soon find a kind that you like.
People can get all kinds of feelings hearing music. Music can make you march or dance, it can make you feel happy or sad. More than other arts, music can affect (影响) your moods and feelings. This is why music is so popular.
Every country has its own kind of music. In France many people like dance-music played on the accordion (手风琴), and many Americans enjoy banjo music. Spain is famous for its guitar music, and India for the twanging sound of the sitar.
Many people like music in their own national style. But there are also people who enjoy classical music and pop music, which has spread throughout the world with the help of the record—player and radio.
However, there are still great differences between the music of the west and that of the east. Many of the instruments are very different. The guitar and the sitar are both instruments in which strings are plucked by fingers, but they do not sound alike.
The musical differences between east and west are not only in the instruments, but also in the ways the notes are put together.
6. Music is an art that is very popular in the world because______.
A. everybody can make beautiful
B. people can get different feelings from music
C. music can only make people happy
D. music is much better than other arts.
7. If you are very good at playing the guitar, you may be popular in______.
A. America B. Prance C. India D. Spain
8. In the opinion of the writer of this passage, ______.
A. all countries and races have the same kind of music
B. the musical differences between east and west are only in the instruments
C. all the French people enjoy dance-music played on the accordion
D. different people like different music
9. From the passage we can infer that differences between eastern and western music come from______.
A. in the ways the notes are put together.
B. different instruments
C. different language
D. A and B
C
His teacher thought he was dumb (愚笨的). Talent spotters (星探) thought he was ugly. But Jay Chou, 24, is now one of Asia’s hottest pop stars.
Last week he had the honour of being the first Asian male singer to make the cover of Time, a popular magazine based in the US. He has won more than 30 entertainment awards over the past two years.
Chou released (发行) his first album Jay in November 2000, and with two follow up albums — Fantasy and Eight Dimensions— his music has come to rule the Asian pop world.
The entertainment industry has nicknamed him “a small heavenly king”. But Chou says, he is not a king, at least he wasn’t before he shot to stardom. As a boy, he was called “stupid”. His high school English teacher said young Chou had a learning disability. “He had very few facial expressions (面部表情). I thought he was dumb.”
Chou did poorly at maths, science and English. But his mother noticed the quiet, shy boy was sensitive to music: when he heard western pop music, he seemed to vibrate (摇摆). So she took Chou to a piano school at four years old. He practiced all the time, focusing on the keys the way other children focus on ice-cream. At the end of the high school, he failed his exams and didn’t go to university.
In a show he was seen playing the piano by a major Taiwanese entertainer, Jacky Wu. The 18-year-old Chou became a contract (签约) song writer for Wu’s music studio. There he spent one and a half years writing songs for famed artists such as a Valen Hsu and Coco Lee.
He proved that he could be more than a songwriter. His catchy tunes have mainstreamed (成为主流) rap and R&B in the Mando-pop world (华语音乐). And his success proves that the music still matters more than looks and image.
10. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Jay Chou was thought to be clever when he was a boy.
B. Jay Chou is now one of Asia’s hottest pop stars.
C. Now Chou is nicknamed “a small heavenly king”.
D. Chou did poorly at maths, science and English in high school.
11. Chou’s teacher thought he was dumb because _____.
A. he was ugly
B. he liked music
C. he had learning disability and he had very few facial expressions
D. he didn’t pass the exam
12. From the passage we can learn that _____.
A. Jay Chou thinks he is the King of Asian pop
B. Jay Chou was hard working at practicing playing piano although he did poorly at his studies
C. Time is a popular magazine based in the UK
D. Jay Chou had written songs for famed artists for two years before he became a famous singer himself
13. The underlined expression “shot to stardom” means _____.
A. fire a gun
B. throw a ball in a game
C. became famous
D. damage or wound by shooting
14. The author wrote the passage mainly to _____.
A. tell us something about Jay Chou
B. tell us the new album of Jay Chou
C. tell us Chou is the first Asian male singer to make the cover of Time
D. tell us Jay Chou is a very successful singer
四、改错：
In tropical(热带) countries people do not discuss about
1. ________
the weather very much because one day often very much like
2. ________
the last one and the next one. But in temperate(温和的)
3. ________
areas, the weather changes much more rapid. At 6 a.m., the
4. ________
sun may be shining; at 7 a.m. it may be poured with rain; at