PUTTING ON A STAGE SHOWThe opening night of a stage show means excitement and glamour. EX

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PUTTING ON A STAGE SHOWThe opening night of a stag...

PUTTING ON A STAGE SHOW

The opening night of a stage show means excitement and glamour. EXCITE

Often it also means【C1】______ problems suddenly arising. And that is even EXPECT

more true if you are planning to take 50 total【C2】______ and produce the STRANGE

【C3】______ South Pacific in two days. But that's what mother-and-daughter MUSIC

team Linda and Nicki Metz are【C4】______ offering as a weekend course. CURRENT

The plan seems 【C5】______ although the two leading parts in the show will be AMBITION

taken by【C6】______ actors. Technical staff will be on hand to give expert PROFESSION

advice to【C7】______ Linda says: "It will be a great weekend for people to do PERFORM

something【C8】______ and achieve something at the same time. People have ENJOY

a【C9】______ to work better if they have a deadline. A lot of people also TEND

discover talents that they were 【C10】______ of." AWARE

【C1】______

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What is the movie Bird Man about？

A、A love story.

B、A hero.

C、Saving the world.

D、The putting on the stage of a drama.

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The reason why religious leaders assumed the task as performers was ______.A．to prevent se

The reason why religious leaders assumed the task as performers was ______.

A．to prevent serious mistakes in performing rites

B．to have the chance of putting masks and costumes on the stage

C．to separate audience and performers

D．to provide a proper site for performance

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第4题

Which of the following best describes how the writer feels about stage schools？A．He favour

Which of the following best describes how the writer feels about stage schools？

A．He favours an early start in the training of performing arts.

B．He feels uncomfortable about children putting on night shows.

C．He thinks highly of what they have to offer.

D．He doubts the standard of ordinary education they have reached.

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听力原文：M: Hey, Linda, you won't believe this, but here is an article about a professiona

l pickpocket Bob Arno and his wife travel the world to learn the fundamentals of stealing.

F: Are they crazy？ Don't they know that is breaking the law to steal？

M: But they didn't do this in order to steal. At first, the husband, Bob, studied to improve his skills as an onstage pickpocket performer, and that is how he has made his living for most of his life.

F: Where has he been to give performances？

M: He started as a stage pickpocket in his native Sweden, and then entertained troops in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He became so skillful that the trade eventually led to him to a career performing at nearly every major Strip hotel as an entertainer.

F: This is really a strange profession. Is he going to do this kind of performance all his life？

M: No. Actually, he studies with the goal of documenting the artistic form. of thievery that dates back almost to the beginning of time. He and his wife are in the process of putting together a book on all of the different pickpocket skills.

F: I guess they hope that through their studies and the upcoming book, they can inform. others on how to avoid becoming victims？

M: That's right.

F: Have they given any advice on how to prevent being stolen from？

M: The simplest advice he offers is to be aware and to keep a wallet in a safe place, preferably in a pouch underneath clothing.

F: I think it: it's common sense.

M: But people tend to neglect it, especially when they are on vacation. He also suggests people should move at a fast pace, and act like you have a purpose. If you look confused, the pickpocket will sense that in a second and they will be all over you.

F: That quite makes sense.

What's the purpose of the husband when he first studied the skills of stealing？

A．To steal to make living.

B．To write a book.

C．To be an entertainer.

D．To warn people to be careful with thieves.

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听力原文：M: Hey, Linda, you won't believe this, but here is an article about a professiona

l pickpocket Bob Arno and his wife travel the world to learn the fundamentals of stealing.

F: Are they crazy？ Don't they know that is breaking the law to steal？

M: But they didn't do this in order to steal. At first, the husband, Bob, studied to improve his skills as an onstage pickpocket performer, and that is how he has made his living for most of his life.

F: Where has he been to give performances？

M: He started as a stage pickpocket in his native Sweden, and then entertained troops in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He became so skillful that the trade eventually led to him to a career performing at nearly every major Strip hotel as an entertainer.

F: This is really a strange profession. Is he going to do this kind of performance all his life？

M: No. Actually, he studies with the goal of documenting the artistic form. of thievery that dates back almost to the beginning of time. He and his wife are in the process of putting together a book on all of the different pickpocket skills.

F: I guess they hope that through their studies and the upcoming book, they can inform. others on how to avoid becoming victims？

M: That's right.

F: Have they given any advice on how to prevent being stolen from？

M: The simplest advice he offers is to be aware and to keep a wallet in a safe place, preferably in a pouch underneath clothing.

F: I think it: it's common sense.

M: But people tend to neglect it, especially when they are on vacation. He also suggests people should move at a fast pace, and act like you have a purpose. If you look confused, the pickpocket will sense that in a second and they will be all over you.

F: That quite makes sense.

What's the purpose of the husband when he first studied the skills of stealing？

A．To steal to make living.

B．To write a book.

C．To be an entertainer.

D．To warn people to be careful with thieves.

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America's space agency has a legendary love of paperwork. Consequently, NASA has published

over 6,000 pages about the contracts for its Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), the craft that will put people into orbit around Earth, allowing them to carry out tasks such as visiting the international space station after the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. But the CEV is also central to the agency's new vision of putting people back on the moon.

Frank Sietzen, a journalist and coauthor of "New Moon Rising", a chronicle of the development of the new NASA vision, has spent the better part of the past six months leafing through these contracts in order to divine the agency's plans. He says that because the CEV must be compatible with other components of the vision, the contracts give de tails of how NASA is planning to explore the moon and Mars.

According to Mr. Sietzen, the new moonships will have three components that will be launched separately and then bolted together in orbit—unlike NASA's previous moon rocket, the Saturn 5, in which everything went up at once. One component will be the CEV. The second will be an Earth-departure stage—a rocket that provides the oomph needed to push the ship on its way to the moon. The third will be the "lunar surface access module", or lunar lander, to the man in the street.

The decision to assemble the new moonships in orbit lowers the cost of developing the rocket needed to get them off the Earth's surface. Mr. Sietzeen predicts that in about a month's time, when NASA picks two bidders for a CEV, it will announce what this rock et will be—and that it will be based on the technology now used to launch the shuttles.

It is also, he adds, possible to work out from the contracts what the masses of the different components will be. These suggest that four astronauts will travel to the moon and six astronauts to Mars, and that the access module will sometimes fly as an unmanned truck carrying cargo to the moon's surface.

He predicts that there will be three phases of lunar exploration. Initial landings of two to three days will pick up where Apollo left off. Subsequent trips to rougher terrain will last for a week to ten days. And eventually a base camp will be established at one of the poles. This will be occupied for periods ranging from 90 days to a year, and will lead to a permanent manned presence that would act as a prototype Mars base.

The best title for this text could be

A．CEV and NASA's lunar plan.

B．Frank Sietzen's legendary affection.

C．CEV and its earth orbit.

D．Frank Sietzen's astronomical feats.

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第8题

While virtual reality systems are getting better at immersing us in a simulated experience

of reality, one UK business has developed a visually arresting yet surprisingly simple solution. Born out of the collaboration between Will Cavendish, an architecture student at Edinburgh University, and Oliver Collier, studying music technology, the PufferSphereTM, and soon to be released Puffer Immersive Mobile Sphere (PIMS), provides a 360-degree viewing window. Their company Pufferfish Ltd was formed in 2004 to commercialise (使商业化) their ideas for portable visual display systems.

The PufferSphere system includes projection (投影), specific lens technology and computer equipment fitted in to a base unit box from which the screen inflates to an imposing three metres tall. Cavendish says, "It's like a balloon. All of our products at this stage involve inflatables. "

He continues, "We can use the screen in any way that we can use a flat screen. Because it's inflatable it's a very tactile (有触感的)product, people are often surprised when they approach the display. It's a dramatic sight in its own right but when you add the impact of moving imagery it takes on a life of its own. "

The PufferSphere experience means that "audiences can see the same film but from different perspectives and in different time frames," explains Cavendish. "Some of the best uses have been for disparate (异类的)audiences, where we've been doing music events or fashion shows using the displays to enhance the environment. Collier refers to it as a digital campfire because it takes a central role in an environment and captures the audience's attention. "

Cavendish describes the PIMS as the natural next step. "There's a huge growth in 3D modeling software but little development of how we can view it. Our latest product allows us to take the immersive experience of virtual reality and take it to the client. The PIMS can be set up on site and allows a group of people to be fully visually immersed within an environment at a human scale. "

"What we're doing is taking technology developed for the virtual reality industries such as military, oil and gas, construction and we're creating our own software and putting it into mainstream products." And, with the Puffer Immersive Mobile Sphere, we will literally be able to enter another sphere of virtual reality.

What is the most striking feature of the PIMS？

A．Its simplicity on structure.

B．Its special window for display.

C．Its commercialization since 2004.

D．Its music technology.

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第9题

Putting on his father’s old hat.

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第10题

Whose job is putting tickets on parked cars？（)

A、Nick’s

B、Judy’s

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