Section C (12 marks)
Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
China has ordered a ban on advertisements during television drama programs. An ad will not be allowed to run in the middle of a program running 45 minutes in length, beginning on January 1st. The authorities say 48. ban is important for the growth of culture. Television stations say this will cause 49. a loss in revenue(收入). Most audience feel glad 50. finally such a policy has been carried out. 51. some still doubt whether this is an effective policy or not. Simply banning TV stations from broadcasting inserted advertisements is no use. Even if SARFT completely banned domestic TV stations from broadcasting advertisements, they could still implant advertisements 52. TV shows. Why can China not learn some lessons from western TV channels such as NHK and BBC? They are public channels 53. any advertisements. But they charge their viewers. In China, TV viewers only need to pay cable Television fees, 54. is rather low. And TV stations make profits through broadcasting advertisements. If we can learn some lesson from western countries, 55. will be rather helpful to the final solution of the conflict between audience and TV stations.
Part III Reading comprehension (30 marks)
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
A
Welcome to the Kids’ Science Challenge!
Do you like science projects and winning some awesome gifts? This is the challenge for you. What’s even better is that you don’t have to build anything-Simply come up with an original idea or design that relates to one of three topics given below.
56.Where can we most probably read the above passage?
A.In a history textbook. B.In a travel diary.
C.On a web page. D.In a city government report.
57.The Kids’s Science Challenge may be .
A.a competition for kids B.a private unit of a school
C.an organization of a school D.a social club for kids
58.Probably the Dig In section can to kids about the three topics.
A.send a gift B.give an inspiration
C.tell a truth D.find a specialist
59.Which topic will Tom probably choose if he shows interest in biology?
A.Wonderful Sounds. B.Super Material for Sports.
C.Magical Microbes. D.All the three.
60.What’s the purpose of the Kids’ Science Challenge?
A.To discourage kids’ curiosity. B.To dig kids’ creativity.
C.To get kids join an activity. D.To challenge kids’ ability.
B
Susan Sontage(1933—2004)was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything---to read every book worth reading ,to see every movie worth seeing .When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life ,trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art .With great effort and serious judgement. Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontage’s lifelong watchwords(格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name ,she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”,she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’, ‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.
By conviction(信念)she was a sensualist(感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者),and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward. In illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被压抑的性格), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact , re-examining old positions was her life long habit.
In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless all-purposer cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending …is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end ,she made us take it seriously too.
61.The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________.
A.was a symbol of American cultural life
B.developed world literature, film and art
C.published many essays about world culture
D.kept pace with the newst development of world culture
62.She first won her name through ___________.
A.her story of a Polish actress
B.her book illness as Metaphor
C.publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review
D.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings
63.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
64.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________.
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
65.According to the passage, Susan Sontag__________.
A.was a sensualist as well as a moralist
B.looked down upon the pop culture
C.thought content was more important than form
D.blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed
