This is a good novel, except for the long and（)ending.

A.better

B.the best

C.good

D.best

The last novel of his is by far ______ he has written. (good)

A.worth

B.worthy

C.worthy of

D.worth while

immediate audience by reflecting the concerns and values of that audience. A novel can achieve success over months or even years, but a play must be a hit or perish. Successful drama of the Restoration period, therefore, is a good index to the typical tastes and attitudes of its time. The author of the passage above assumes that

A．plays written for Restoration audiences do not appeal to modern audiences.

B．plays are superior to novels as a form. of narrative art.

C．Restoration audiences were representative of the whole population of their time.

D．playgoers and novel readers are typically distinct and exclusive groups.

E．Restoration drama achieved popular success at the expense of critical success.

le with【C2】______ knowledge of literature may miss a lot【C3】______ reading a novel, short story, poem, play, or essay. These readers are【C4】______ to the【C5】______ at a football game who watch the game and enjoy it without really understanding the complex movements【C6】______ on the field. Although they may enjoy the【C7】______ , many spectators watch only the ball【C8】______ , missing entirely the【C9】______ of other members of the offences【C10】______ the total play as well as the【C11】______ occurring with in the defense. A person who understands football-- 【C12】______ better yet, has played the game -- is more capable of judging when a team is playing well or【C13】______ and is als0 likely to enjoy a" good" game more. The

【C14】______ is true of reading literature.

Most people have read numerous【C15】______ works, but many do not understand or【C16】______ the author's skill in communicating. This book【C17】______ intended to help you learn to concentrate【C18】______ attention not only on what happens, but on【C19】______ it happens and how the author has presented it to analyze and【C20】______ literary works So that you can fully experience and appreciate them.

【C1】

A．instruction

B．tradition

C．demonstration

D．aspiration

le with【1】knowledge of literature may miss a lot【2】reading a novel, short story, poem, play, or【3】. These readers are comparable to the【4】at a football game who watch the game and【5】it without really understanding the complex movements【6】on the field. Although they may enjoy the【7】, many spectators watch only the ball【8】, missing entirely the contribution of other members【9】tile total play as well as the intricacies occurring within the【10】. A person who understands football-【11】better yet, has played the game -is more capable【12】judging when a team is playing well or【13】and is also likely to enjoy a "good" game more. The【14】is true of reading literature. Most people have read numerous【15】works, but many do not understand or【16】the author's skill in communicating. This book【17】intended to help you learn to【18】attention not only on what happens, but on【19】it happens and how the author has【20】it -to analyze and evaluate literary works so that you can fully experience and appreciate them.

(1)

A．abundant

B．informal

C．necessary

D．limited

of high-speed Web. For decades, Americans have anxiously (1)_____ each war through a new communications (2)_____, from the early silent film of World War I to the 24-hour cable news (3)_____ of the first Persian Gulf War.

Now, (4)_____ bombs exploding in Baghdad, a sudden increase in wartime (5)_____ for online news has become a central test of the (6)_____ of high-speed Internet connections. It is also a good (7)_____ both to attract users to online media (8)_____ and to persuade them to pay for the material they find there, (9)_____ the value of the Cable News Network persuaded millions to (10)_____ to cable during the last war in Iraq.

(11)_____ by a steady rise over the last 18 months in the number of people with high-speed Internet (12)_____, now at more than 70 million in the United States, the Web sites of many of the major news organizations have (13)_____ assembled a novel collage(拼贴) of (14)_____ video, audio reports, photography collections, animated weaponry (15)_____, interactive maps and other new digital reportage.

These Internet services are (16)_____ on the remarkable abundance of sounds and images (17)_____ from video cameras (18)_____ on Baghdad and journalists traveling with troops. And they have found a (19)_____ audience of American office workers (20)_____ their computers during the early combat.

A．notified

B．publicized

C．followed

D．pursued

others fail, often with great losses7 The answer is not simple, and certainly we cannot say that "good" products succeed while "bad" products fail. Many products that function well and seem to meet consumer needs have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes, virtually identical products exist in the market at the same time with one emerging as profitable while the other fails. Mc. Neal Laboratories' Tylenol has become successful as an aspirin substitute, yet Bristol Meyers entered the test market at about the same time with Neotrend, also a substitute for aspirin which quickly failed.

The nature of the product is a factor in its success or failure, but the important point is that they should aim at meeting the customer's need, and the introductory promotion should seek to communicate that need satisfying quality and motivate the customer to try the product. Often, attitude change is involved, and, in the extreme, changes in life style. may be sought.

Here the company walks a tightrope. A new product is more likely to be successful if it represents a truly novel way of solving a customer problem, but this very newness, if carried too far, may ask the customer to learn new behavior. patterns. The customer will make the change if the perceived benefit is sufficient, but inertia is strong and consumers will often not go to the effort that is required. During the late sixties and early seventies Bristol Meyers met with new product failures that exemplify both of these problems. In 1967 and 1968 the company entered the market with a $ 5 million advertising campaign for fact toothpaste, and an $11 million campaign to promote resolve. Both products failed quickly, not be cause they didn't work or because there was no consumer need, but apparently because consumers just could see no reason to shift from an already satisfactory product to a different one that promised no new benefit.

The first sentence of the first paragraph is a question, to which the answer is______

A．that the good products succeed while the bad fail

B．that the "good" are not really good but the "bad" are actually bad

C．that new products will succeed if they function well and fail if they don't

D．not given in the paragraph

al. I think that you might be interested if I told you some of them.

The world I entered at the age of eighteen when I became a medical student was a world that knew nothing of such advanced things as planes, films, radios or telephones. It was a very cheap world. Prices were stable. When I entered St. Thomas' hospital I rent a set of rooms in Vincent Square for which I paid 18 shillings a week. My landlady provided me with a very good breakfast before I went to the hospital and a dinner when I came back at half past six. I only had to pay for the breakfasts and dinners twelve shillings a week. For four-pence I lunched at St. Thomas' on bread and butter and a glass of milk. I could be able to live very well, pay my fees, buy my necessary instruments, clothe myself, and have a lot of fun on fourteen pounds a month. And I could always pawn (当掉) my microscope for three pounds.

I spent five years at St. Thomas' hospital. I was a bad student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it. I wanted, I had always wanted to be a writer, and in the evenings, after my dinner, I wrote and read. Before long, I wrote a novel called "Liza of Lambeth" , which I sent to a publisher and was accepted. It came out during my last year at the hospital and it was successful. It was of course an accident, but I didn't know that. I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession; so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I left for Spain to write another book. I did not realize, at that time, that I was taking a great risk.

The text is a talk given by the author when______.

A．he was 18

B．his first novel was published

C．he graduated from the school of medicine

D．he was at an advanced age

阅读理解。

Net Library is a library that lends out digital (数字化的) books. It treats a digital book like a paperback copy. It charges libraries per book per copy and gives publishers a cut of the total income. From the consumer's (消费者) point of view, this means that if more than, say, five people want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel, other people who request that book will get a message saying the title is unavailable. It's a model many publishers seem to haveembraced. More than 350 gave the company rights to hand out their digital works, and McGraw-Hill Corporation and Houghton Mifflin Corporation have put money in the company. The California public libraries and about 1, 800 others across the US are trying out the Net Library service. Some librarians criticize the New Library model. Stanford University librarian Michael Keller argues that the company is creating an unnatural fear of digital works, which is contrary to the ideas of the Internet. Keller and some other librarians argue for the e-book vision set forth by EBrary. EBrary is starting a service that lets us users read books for free. But it will charge about 25 cents a page when a person tries to print out material or copy and paste it into a different file or tries to download a copy onto a computer. Christopher Warnock, chief executive of EBrary, believes most consumers won't want to buy entire books, only the parts that interest them. "There's not really a lot of good in owning an electronic file and having to store it and manage it. It doesn't make sense," he said.

1. How do publishers get money from the Net Library？

A. They get money from selling their books to the Net Library. B. They share the money with the Net Library. C. They get money by cutting the cost of the books. D. They get the money from the readers.

2. The underlined word "embraced" in the 3rd paragraph means ______.

A. taken something willingly B. held something tightly C. disliked something badly D. tried out something hard

3. From the 2nd paragraph we can see consumers ______.

A. don't care if they are charged money B. enjoy the service of the Net Library C. don't like other people borrowing books D. complain about the limited number of the new books

4. What does the last paragraph mean？

A. Net Library is not a good way for the consumers. B. There is no need for consumers to have a whole book. C. EBrary is not a good library for the consumers. D. It's reasonable to charge the consumers money for copying some pages.