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Some authors have made some predictions (预测) about what our modern life could become. Here are four books that, somehow, managed to predict the future.

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

This novel was published in 1935. It’s about a dance marathon competition. Competitors who last the longest can get prize money. It’s just like reality TV shows. In reality shows, people voluntarily do things that are physically and mentally tiring or embarrassing.

Neuromancer

William Gibson’s 1984 novel, Neuromancer, not only gave birth to the cyberpunk genre, but it also predicted cyberspace (网络空间) and the Internet. In 1984, there was already a network, but only several universities used it. Gibson predicted the rise of technological addiction and people’s need to be online.

Earth

In 1990, Brin published the novel where the story takes place in the year 2038. A black hole has fallen into the Earth’s core. Scientists have a year to fix it, or the earth may be destroyed. And Brin correctly predicted the World Wide Web (Web) that was invented a year after the book was published. In Earth, the characters don’t think they would find any Earth-like planets. In reality, we have found several Earth-like planets.

Childhood’s End

Childhood’s End is about an invasion (入侵) of Earth by aliens called the Overlords. They help advance human technology. One of those technologies they introduce is a type of virtual reality that is like a movie. The author also predicted that in the early 2000s, people might watch TV for three hours a day.

【小题1】Which of the following books predicts a new kind of TV shows?

A．They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?	B．Childhood’s End
C．Neuromancer	D．Earth

【小题2】What was predicted by Neuromancer?

A．A special way of communication.	B．People’s eagerness for new things.
C．People’s need for the Internet.	D．The invention of the computer.

【小题3】What do we know about the novel Earth?

A．It is about the exploration of the Earth-like planets.

B．One opinion of its characters has been proven wrong.

C．Only it made predictions about aliens.

D．It was written after the Web was invented.

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The writer Margaret Mitchell, who wrote under the name Peggy Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936.Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started writing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer's life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900.She started writing stories when she was a child. She once worked as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal newspaper. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men towered over her, but she seemed very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains, "Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as 'Would you really marry a woman who works？' And today it'd be ‘Would you marry one who doesn't work？’"

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it "The Dump".

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

【小题1】The book Gone with the Wind was ________.

A．first published in a newspaper

B．awarded ten Academy Awards

C．written in "The Dump"

D．adapted from a movie

【小题2】Which of the following can replace "towered over" underlined in Paragraph 2?

A．Were very pleased with.

B．Showed great respect for.

C．Were much taller than.

D．Showed little interest in.

【小题3】Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A．Because she got an award for her book.

B．Because she was injured then.

C．Because her husband didn't like it.

D．Because she wanted to write books.

【小题4】Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success

B．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer

C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House

D．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell

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My name is Jane Eyre and my parents died when I was a baby. For ten years I lived a(n) _____ life with my aunt and cousins who treated me unfairly. My cousins teased me and my aunt never showed me any _____. The only person who cared about me was the maid, Bessie. One day my cousin John shouted at me, "You should go and beg, not live with _____ folks like us!"After fighting with him I was locked in a room, where I _____ for hours crying.
Things _____ the same until a tall gentleman called Mr Brockehurst came to visit. My aunt told me that I was going to a school owned by the gentleman. "Train her to be _____ and modest,"said Aunt. Two days later I _____ my home.
At first my _____ at Lowood School was hard. The food was bad and I was often cold but I made _____ and enjoyed studying. But after an illness killed several students, new owners ______ the school and my life improved. Six years later I ______ a teacher and was very happy. But eventually I felt that I should explore more of the world and found a job as a private teacher in a ______.
Before I left Lowood, I was ______ by Bessie, who told me that seven years ago my father's brother had come looking for me but left again to go abroad. "He looked like quite a gentleman,"said Bessie. I ______ if he would ever look for me again.
My new life ______ at Thornfield Hall, a large country house, where I ______ a little girl called Adele. She was the adopted daughter of the owner of the house, Mr Rochester. He ______ stayed at Thornfield and ______ my time was mainly spent with Adele and the servants. My life was quite ______ now although there was something ______ about my new home. Often I heard odd sounds come from the top floor of the house.

D．comfortable

C．troublesome

D．contradicted

C．unfortunate

D．unsatisfying

A．interesting

C．instructive

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Comfort is comforting, but it might narrow our experience at work — and beyond.
In our modern world, discomfort is considered a terrible thing. If not terrible, it’s at least a thing of the past. Dishwashers, washing machines, computers, remote controls—yes, they add convenience, but also a level of comfort our forefathers did not enjoy.
As pain of any kind discourages happiness, we tend to reason anything that prevents us to feel good must be bad. And that’s also particularly true for our careers. Success makes us feel great, not terrible. Such a view, however, is a matter of personal opinion. And it may blind us to hidden opportunities.
Artists throughout history have tried to experience suffering, instinctively(本能地) if not consciously(有意识地), to produce works that explore the darker hidden sides of the human condition. This was done, in part, because pain is a reality of life for everybody in some form at some time. Pain is something everybody can relate to. And pain makes a person very real. For such artists, to deny pain would be to block the creative thinking, which drives them to explore and express. In fact, Germans have a term(术语) for this, “Weltschmerz”, which means “suffering from the world.” Writers, from Lord Byron to Kurt Vonnegut, have used the term to describe the psychological pain along life’s roller-coaster journey. It was not to be avoided; it was to be understood and employed.
So I believe that discomfort is good for us. Or, put another way, it tells us that something needs to be attended to. It develops us by forcing us to view our circumstances(环境) through a wholly different view. Because we’re attracted by safety and security, we do our best to create pleasant comfort zones for ourselves and our loved ones through the cars we drive, the houses we live in, and the places we work. But by resisting discomfort, we deny ourselves an important opportunity: the chance to shake ourselves out of our predictable perspectives(视角) and allow ourselves to make knowledgeable observations that we could not possibly have made before. Discomfort gives us fresh eyes.
【小题1】Which of the following is NOT a reason why artists throughout history have been exploring sufferings?

A．Pain is a mirror that can reflect the life of everybody.

B．Pain is something that no one can escape from.

C．Pain can strengthen the feeling of existence of a person.

D．Pain can help them to avoid the creative thinking.

【小题2】The term “Weltschmerz” couldn’t be used to describe something like __________.

A．social inequality

B．great achievements

C．racial discrimination(歧视)

D．mass killings

【小题3】The author believes that by challenging discomfort, one may _________.

A．lose an important chance to make a big fortune

B．feel upset and fail to think calmly

C．control the situation properly when things go wrong

D．judge and think about the world in a new particular way

【小题4】By writing this passage, the author tries to __________.

A．explain why discomfort is good for us

B．criticize(批评) a world full of comfort

C．persuade people to lead a life full of discomfort

D．blame those who enjoy an easy life

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Tang Dynasty poets sang for about three centuries in different tones. There were many famous poets living in the Tang period such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin. Quan Tangshi edited in the Qing Dynasty is a collection of about 48, 900 poems that were written by over 2, 200 poets. But it doesn't cover all the poems of the Tang Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, poems were recited when lovers walked under the moonlight. Poems were also recited when soldiers fought on the battlefield. People recited them in the open air or at temple fairs.

In the Tang Dynasty scholars（学者）had to be poets. Their readers were not only people of high social position but also common people. Poets recited poems；women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.

Tang poetry is a most brilliant page in the history of ancient Chinese literature. It's a miracle（奇迹）in the cultural history of mankind. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful empire with a vast territory. It inherited（继承）Chinese civilization that went back to ancient times, and was combined with the best of other cultures and adopted the benefits of other nations in the world. Tang poetry wasn’t the only spiritual wealth created by people of the Tang Dynasty. Philosophy, handwriting, painting, music and dance all gained new peaks of development. Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and the greatest achievement in the Tang Dynasty.

【小题1】It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that ________.

A．there were more than 48, 900 poems written in the Tang Dynasty

B．in total there were four famous poets in the Tang Dynasty

C．only people of the Tang Dynasty created poems

D．in the Tang Dynasty most common people were poets

【小题2】The underlined word "adjacent" in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.

A．neighboring	B．strong
C．poor	D．western

【小题3】What does the author really want to tell us in Paragraph 3?

A．In the Tang Dynasty all poets were scholars.

B．In the Tang Dynasty poems were quite popular.

C．Many foreigners came to the east during the Tang Dynasty.

D．In the Tang Dynasty many poems were sung by women singers.

【小题4】What can we know from Paragraph 4？

A．The reasons for the poets to create poems in the Tang Dynasty.

B．Tang poetry, the greatest spiritual wealth in ancient China.

C．The significance and influence of Tang poetry.

D．The editors of Tang poetry in the Qing Dynasty.

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In certain countries of the world，the king or queen is still the head country。The UK is one of these countries。So that does the British royal family(皇室) represent for the British people today? Well，a large number of things。The royal family are of course a part of British history and tradition。They still have an important and meaning for many people today。It just wouldn’t feel the same if there were no royal family。In addition to that，the queen has important formal duties：
●as head of the state，the Queen represents the UK on visits other would leaders to visit the UK.
●as head of the armed force，only the Queen can declare when the UK is at war or when the war is over。
●as head of the Church of England。
Not just the Queen，the royal family spend a great deal of their time traveling up and there should be royal family。Sometimes the press and media criticize（批评）the royal family as well。One criticism is that the British people should not have to pay for the royal through their taxes。Another is that the Buckingham Palace should be open to the public more often，in order to pay for the building repairs that are necessary。
【小题1】Today，the British royal still represents ____of the UK。

A．the honor and pride	B．history and tradition
C．function and law	D．politics and culture

【小题2】Which is one of the Queen’s formal duties？

A．Visiting foreign countries.

B．Fighting in wars.

C．Writing government documents.

D．Repairing the church.

【小题3】Why are royal family criticized by the press and media？

A．Because the royal don’t do anything for the country.

B．Because more people want to visit Buckingham Palace.

C．Because some people don’t want their taxes to be used for the royal family.

D．Because the Queen is too meet busy to meet with her people.

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