2024年4月21日发(作者：)

Passage One

Pop means popular, and a pop singer is supposed to work very hard to become popular. He

must either give the public what they already want, or he must find a new way of singing that will

1 their attention. Even when he has succeeded, and his 2 are sold everywhere, he cannot 3

_. Then he must work harder than ever to _4_ popular, because there are always younger singers

trying to become famous and to steal some of the popularity.

The life of a successful pop singer isn't at all easy. He can only relax when he is 5 , because

everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper, written for the fans. The fans

are the most 6 people in the world for the singer. They buy his records, they go to his conceits,

and they make him rich and famous. But they can be very 7 too. Sometimes the tans become so

crazy that they do anything to get a "souvenir". They steal handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and

they even cut off pieces of the unfortunate singer's hair. Many singers have been forced to hide, and

some have not been so 8 as to escape being stripped practically 9 by their fans. A pop

singer has to spend a lot of money on clothes, because he must always look smart, or, at any rate,

_10__. He must have an expensive car. And--most important –he must always keep smiling for the

benefit of his public.

A. alone D. important G. records J. panic M. different

B. remain E. relax H. attract K. secondary N. rear

C. naked F. orderly I. lucky L. annoying O. sin

Passage Two

The United States is full of 1 . There are still many families without cars, but some families

have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are _2_ part of life.

Cars are used for 3 . They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other

way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in

order to carry their 4 . Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.

Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school 5 are used only

when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that

6_, their mothers _7_ turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own

children and neighbors’ children as well. Another drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays, and

so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also _8 car pools, with three or four men taking

turns driving to the place where they all work.

More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and to use less

9_. Parking is a great problem, and so is the _10_ in and around cities. Too many cars are being

driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.

A. automobiles D. gasoline G. take J. far M. justify

B. business E. traffic H. necessary K. finally N. liable

C. form F. buses I. products L. earthquake O. organize

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Passage Three

Don't try kicking the tires on a very modem and strange car developed by students at Coventry

University. Not only does the car have no tires, it has no 1 wheel, either.

The Coventry Concept Car, as it is called is a __ 2__ new design that looks more like a snail

than an automobile. No working model, or functional form of the _3 exists yet, but its designers

recently introduced a life-sized model and explained how a real one would work.

Electric motors would move rapidly undulating pad (形成波浪状气垫) 4 the car; moving

the vehicle in any direction at speeds up to 480 km per hour. The motion would be a much faster

way of 5 , the way snails move. (Muscles in the bottom of a snail's flat foot _6__ in waves that

push the snail along the ground.)

Steering of the snail car would be _7 automatically by an onboard computer, which would

receive signals from orbiting satellites. Those signals would help guide the snail car along a

preprogrammed _ 8__,

Even the car's color could be computer-controlled, the student designer suggested. Instead of a

painted-out _9_, the snail car would sport (显示) an electronically sensitive film that changes color

according to its _10_ .

A. underneath D. vehicle G. surroundings J. route M. substantial

B. steering E. neglect H. handled K. contract N. hostile

C. completely F. logical I. appearance L. crawling O. finding

Passage Four

Not all language is verbal. Some of our 1 occurs without words. We often use our entire

bodies for communication. We may raise our eyebrows to 2 surprise. Perhaps we nod our heads

to show that we agree with something. There are hundreds of nonverbal 3 that can be used to

communicate. These signals are part of language, and they are 4 by rules in the same way that

our spoken language is. For this reason, people who speak different languages often use different

nonverbal signals as well.

In addition to verbal communication and the type of nonverbal communication discussed

above, there are other message 5 that we use to communicate. When we speak to some people,

we may stand very 6 to them, while we may stand far away from other people. Use of space,

then, is a way we can communicate the 7 we feel with another person. The way we _8_ can also

communicate for us. The person who wears dirty jeans and a T-shirt communicates a different 9

from a person who wears neat trousers and an attractive shirt. We can even use time to

communicate. The person who is on time for an 10 shows a different attitude from the person

who is an hour late does. Can you think of other message systems we use in communication?

A. close D. dress G. governed J. communication M. radiation

B. relationship E. attitude H. signals K. strengthen N. pressure

C. indicate F. appointment I. systems L. ratio O. neutral

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