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                                A

Taking the Baton(指挥棒)

    You may know Li Yundi as one of the leading Chinese pianists, but he is about to take on another role. The pianist will pick up the baton for the first time, leading the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for a five-city tour in China, which started in Chongqing on Aug29, followed by Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai through September.

    7:30 p.m, Sept3, Concert Hall, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 300-1,380($45-200)

Dutch Masters Exhibition is Closing

    An exhibition showcasing masterpieces of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age will come to an end during the weekend. The 17th century Dutch Golden Age had several significant artists and a range of great pieces produced during the period, including Fan Vermeer’s Young Woman at a Virginal, Fan Lievens’ Boy in a Caper and Turban and Remebrandt’s Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes. It is the first time some of the most famous examples of the time have been shown in China.

    (1)a.m.-5p.m.,through Sept3(closed on Monday). National Museum of China, 1 Wusi Avenue, Dongcheng district. 010-6400-1476.

    Ticket: 50 yuan.

    Rickshaw Boy (Mandarin)

    The opera Rickshaw Boy, adapted from a novel of the same name by famous Chinese writer Laoshe, will be played in Beijing next week. The opera is filled with Chinese musical elements, including Peking Opera and folk songs, to bring to life memories of old Beijing. First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy tells the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. His greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw rental agency. Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted(挫折) in attempts to improve his life.

    7 p.m. , Sept 7-10. Opera House, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-880 yuan.

And Give Us the Shadows (Swedish)

    In 1941, US author and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O’Neill wrote an autobiographical(自传的)piece, Long Day’s Journey into Night. The title says it all. All readers are witness to a day in the life of the Tyrone family. Father, mother and two sons are struggling with their addictions(alcohol and drugs), demons (邪恶的事物)from the past and with each other. It will be played in Swedish, with Chinese subtitles. 

    7:30 p.m. , Sept 7-9. Theater, National Center for the performing Arts,2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-500yuan.

Which of the following works describes the life struggling of a country boy in old Beijing?

第一节  (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

                                A

Taking the Baton(指挥棒)

    You may know Li Yundi as one of the leading Chinese pianists, but he is about to take on another role. The pianist will pick up the baton for the first time, leading the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for a five-city tour in China, which started in Chongqing on Aug29, followed by Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai through September.

    7:30 p.m, Sept3, Concert Hall, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 300-1,380($45-200)

Dutch Masters Exhibition is Closing

    An exhibition showcasing masterpieces of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age will come to an end during the weekend. The 17th century Dutch Golden Age had several significant artists and a range of great pieces produced during the period, including Fan Vermeer’s Young Woman at a Virginal, Fan Lievens’ Boy in a Caper and Turban and Remebrandt’s Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes. It is the first time some of the most famous examples of the time have been shown in China.

    (1)a.m.-5p.m.,through Sept3(closed on Monday). National Museum of China, 1 Wusi Avenue, Dongcheng district. 010-6400-1476.

    Ticket: 50 yuan.

    Rickshaw Boy (Mandarin)

    The opera Rickshaw Boy, adapted from a novel of the same name by famous Chinese writer Laoshe, will be played in Beijing next week. The opera is filled with Chinese musical elements, including Peking Opera and folk songs, to bring to life memories of old Beijing. First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy tells the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. His greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw rental agency. Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted(挫折) in attempts to improve his life.

    7 p.m. , Sept 7-10. Opera House, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-880 yuan.

And Give Us the Shadows (Swedish)

    In 1941, US author and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O’Neill wrote an autobiographical(自传的)piece, Long Day’s Journey into Night. The title says it all. All readers are witness to a day in the life of the Tyrone family. Father, mother and two sons are struggling with their addictions(alcohol and drugs), demons (邪恶的事物)from the past and with each other. It will be played in Swedish, with Chinese subtitles. 

    7:30 p.m. , Sept 7-9. Theater, National Center for the performing Arts,2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-500yuan.

If you happen to be free after 7 p.m. on Sep. 3, whose works can you enjoy?

                                B

This giant insect can be used as a toy. 

    A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around. The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world. 

    The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel. 

    African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

We know the Goliath beetle is a true insect because it _______.

                                B

This giant insect can be used as a toy. 

    A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around. The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world. 

    The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel. 

    African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

What made the whirring sound that the child heard?

                                A

Taking the Baton(指挥棒)

    You may know Li Yundi as one of the leading Chinese pianists, but he is about to take on another role. The pianist will pick up the baton for the first time, leading the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra for a five-city tour in China, which started in Chongqing on Aug29, followed by Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai through September.

    7:30 p.m, Sept3, Concert Hall, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 300-1,380($45-200)

Dutch Masters Exhibition is Closing

    An exhibition showcasing masterpieces of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age will come to an end during the weekend. The 17th century Dutch Golden Age had several significant artists and a range of great pieces produced during the period, including Fan Vermeer’s Young Woman at a Virginal, Fan Lievens’ Boy in a Caper and Turban and Remebrandt’s Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes. It is the first time some of the most famous examples of the time have been shown in China.

    (1)a.m.-5p.m.,through Sept3(closed on Monday). National Museum of China, 1 Wusi Avenue, Dongcheng district. 010-6400-1476.

    Ticket: 50 yuan.

    Rickshaw Boy (Mandarin)

    The opera Rickshaw Boy, adapted from a novel of the same name by famous Chinese writer Laoshe, will be played in Beijing next week. The opera is filled with Chinese musical elements, including Peking Opera and folk songs, to bring to life memories of old Beijing. First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy tells the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. His greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw rental agency. Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted(挫折) in attempts to improve his life.

    7 p.m. , Sept 7-10. Opera House, National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-880 yuan.

And Give Us the Shadows (Swedish)

    In 1941, US author and Nobel Prize winner Eugene O’Neill wrote an autobiographical(自传的)piece, Long Day’s Journey into Night. The title says it all. All readers are witness to a day in the life of the Tyrone family. Father, mother and two sons are struggling with their addictions(alcohol and drugs), demons (邪恶的事物)from the past and with each other. It will be played in Swedish, with Chinese subtitles. 

    7:30 p.m. , Sept 7-9. Theater, National Center for the performing Arts,2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010-6655-0000.

    Ticket: 100-500yuan.

If you are interested in the masterpieces in the 17th century, how much can you pay to book a ticket?

                                C

    When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. 

    Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about? 

    Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue. 

    Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went. 

    Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!” 

    Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through .

                                B

This giant insect can be used as a toy. 

    A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around. The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world. 

    The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel. 

    African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

The African Goliath beetle is _______.

                                B

This giant insect can be used as a toy. 

    A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around. The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world. 

    The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel. 

    African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

When flying, the Goliath steers by_______.

                                C

    When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. 

    Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about? 

    Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue. 

    Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went. 

    Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!” 

    Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life? 

    a. Point 1.  

    b. Point2.  

    c. Point3.  

    d. Point 4.  

    e. Point 5.

                                C

    When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. 

    Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about? 

    Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue. 

    Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went. 

    Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!” 

    Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?

                                C

    When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. 

    Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about? 

    Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue. 

    Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went. 

    Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!” 

    Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(存取) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

The best heading for the passage is .

                                D

    “Some day, there will be no Americans left in the NBA.” Said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school’s team two years ago, after watching Yao in a televised NBA game. “The players will all be Chinese, like Yao!”

    To China Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players. To the NBA, the 2.23-metre centre offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market.

    Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million households in China. By contrast （对照）, there are only about 105 million households in the US. That game might have been a bit of a let down to  Yao’s fans. He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds and got no points.

    Compare that with his performance on December 19, and also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory.

    “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, who is based in Hong Kong. “That makes the dream seem achievable for other people in China.” 

    The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA; Wang Zhizhi broke down that wall as a player with the Dallas Mavericks（小牛队）in April 2001. But Yao’s combination of modesty and his skills make him a favourite back home.

What’s the main idea of this passage?

                                D

    “Some day, there will be no Americans left in the NBA.” Said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school’s team two years ago, after watching Yao in a televised NBA game. “The players will all be Chinese, like Yao!”

    To China Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players. To the NBA, the 2.23-metre centre offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market.

    Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million households in China. By contrast （对照）, there are only about 105 million households in the US. That game might have been a bit of a let down to  Yao’s fans. He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds and got no points.

    Compare that with his performance on December 19, and also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory.

    “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, who is based in Hong Kong. “That makes the dream seem achievable for other people in China.” 

    The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA; Wang Zhizhi broke down that wall as a player with the Dallas Mavericks（小牛队）in April 2001. But Yao’s combination of modesty and his skills make him a favourite back home.

What’s the direct reason for Xing Tao to join the school’s basketball team?

                                D

    “Some day, there will be no Americans left in the NBA.” Said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school’s team two years ago, after watching Yao in a televised NBA game. “The players will all be Chinese, like Yao!”

    To China Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players. To the NBA, the 2.23-metre centre offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market.

    Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million households in China. By contrast （对照）, there are only about 105 million households in the US. That game might have been a bit of a let down to  Yao’s fans. He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds and got no points.

    Compare that with his performance on December 19, and also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory.

    “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, who is based in Hong Kong. “That makes the dream seem achievable for other people in China.” 

    The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA; Wang Zhizhi broke down that wall as a player with the Dallas Mavericks（小牛队）in April 2001. But Yao’s combination of modesty and his skills make him a favourite back home.

What does the underlined words“letdown” in paragraph three mean?