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　　BY TELEPHONE

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　　BOX OFFICE

　　01789--295623　9:00 a. m.--8:00 p.m. (Mon.--Sat.)

　　0541--541051　 (24 hours, 7 days, no booking charge)

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　　Booking opens for all other plays on September 19.

　　IN PERSON

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　　CHEQUES

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1．In which of the following ways of booking does one probably have to pay extra money?

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A．In person.　　　　　　B．By telephone.

C．By fax.　　　　　　　D．By post.

2．One has to wait for 2 days or longer for a reply if he/she books _____.

[　　]

A．in person　　　　　　B．by telephone

C．by fax　　　　　　　D．by post

3．Which is a useful number to call at 11:00 a. m. on Sunday?

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A．01789--295623.　　　　　　B．0541--541051.

C．01789--261974.　　　　　　D．01862--387765.

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　　Culture means any human behavior that is learned by human society. All of the meaningful parts of a culture are passed on to different generations through“tradition”or social learning. From this viewpoint, all human groups have a culture. Culture exists in agricultural as well as industrialized societies.

　　Culture is necessary for the survival and existence of human beings. Practically everything humans know, think, value, feel and do is learned through taking part in a social cultural system. This statement is well supported by some well-written cases. Here's one of the cases of children growing up apart from human society. In the province of Midnapore in India, the director of a children's home was told by the local villagers that there were“ghosts”in the forest. Upon looking into the case, the director found that two children, one about eight years old and the other about six years old, appeared to have been living with a group of wolves in the forest. These children were the ghosts described by the local people. In this diary, the director described his first view of Kamala (as the older child named) and Amana (the name of the younger child).

　　Kamala was a terrible being, the head, a big ball of something covering the shoulder. Close at its heels there came another terrible creature exactly like the first, but smaller in size. Their eyes were bright and sharp, unlike human eyes. They were very fond of raw milk and raw meat. Generally, as they got stronger, they began going on all fours, and afterwards began to run on all fours, just like squirrels.

　　Children learn human languages in the same way they learn other kinds of human behavior--by taking part in a cultural community. They learn a certain human language as well as certain kinds of human behavior through their membership in a certain cultural community.

1．From the passage we can learn that _____.

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A．human beings can only develop human abilities if they are raised by their biological parents

B．Amana and Kamala were raised in a forest by ghosts

C．human beings won't grow up human unless they're raised by human in human society

D．culture refers only to the high art and classical music of a particular society

2．The“ghosts”in the Midnapore forest seen by the local villagers were _____.

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A．two children, Amana and Kamala, who ran on fours

B．two squirrels, Amana and Kamala, who ran on fours

C．two young wolves, Amana and Kamala, whose eyes were bright and sharp

D．two children. Amana and Kamala, who were growing up in a children's home

3．The underlined sentence“they began going on all fours”means“_____”.

A．they began to continue with all their four eyes

B．they started walking with their four feet

C．they began walking with their hands and feet

D．they started walking with their four hands

4．What would be the best title for this passage?

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A．Wolf-children

B．Culture and Human Behavior

C．A Director's Diary

D．Culture and Language Learning

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　　Like other heavily populated nations, India is trying to find new ways to produce more food to feed its ever increasing population. But one of the methods India recently has taken is as old as the Upanishads. It's called simply storing grain. Today in India, they are calling it the“Save Grain Campaign”and it seems to be working.

　　By planning ahead, the country has opened more land and increased grain production from 51 million tons in 1995. India can now depend on its own grain supply. To reduce post-harvest losses, estimated at 9.33 percent of the nation output, the Indian Ministry of Food has taken several steps to let more people know more about scientific methods of grain storage.

　　The“Save Grain Campaign”, a pilot program in 1965, now is gaining popularity. There are 17 campaign offices across India. Campaign workers work closely with provincial governments to teach farmers scientific methods of storing food and pest control.

1．What do the Indian do to have more food?

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A．Increase its population.

B．Open more farmland.

C．From 17 campaign offices in every province.

D．Buy more food from foreign countries.

2．Now there is _____ farmland and _____ grain and there are _____ people than over in India.

[　　]

A．more; more; more　　　　　　B．more; more; fewer

C．more; less; fewer　　　　　　D．less; less; more

3．The“Save Grain Campaign”is a program _____.

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A．popular since 1965　　　　　　B．popular since 1951

C．widely known now　　　　　　D．dealing with pest control

4．If there were no post-harvest losses, maybe the total output of grain in India would be _____.

[　　]

A．over 9 percent more　　　　　　B．51 million tons

C．192 million tons　　　　　　　 D．243 million tons

5．The scientific methods of grain storage have to be taught because _____.

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A．a lot of grain is wasted after the crop harvests

B．a lot of grain is wasted during the crop harvests

C．a lot of farmland is wasted

D．farmers know nothing about the“Save Grain Campaign”

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　　Tristan da Cunha, a 38-square-mile island, is the farthest inhabited island in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1510 miles southwest of its nearest neighbor. St. Helena, and 1950 miles west of Africa. Discovered by the Portuguese admiral(葡萄牙海军上将) of the same name in 1506, and settled in 1810, the island belongs to Great Britain and has a population of a few hundred.

　　Coming in a close second--and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land---is Easter Island, which lies 1260 miles east of its nearest neighbor, Pitcairn Island, and 2300 miles west of South America.

　　The mountainous 64-square-mile island was settled around the 5th century, supposedly by people who were lost at sea. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1000 huge stone figures, called moai, for which the island is most famous.

　　On Easter Sunday, 1722, however, settlers from Holland moved in and gave the island its name. Today, 2000 people live on the Chilean territory(智利领土). They share one street, a small airport, and a few hours of television per day.

1．It can be learnt from the text that the island of Tristan da Cunha _____.

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A．was named after its discoverer

B．got its name from Holland settlers

C．was named by the British government

D．got its name from the Guinness Book of Records

2．Which of the following is most famous for moai?

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A．Tristan da Cunha.　　　 B．Pitcairn Island.

C．Easter Island.　　　　　D．St. Helena.

3．Which country does Easter Island belong to?

A．Britain.　　　　　B．Holland.

C．Portugal.　　　　 D．Chile.

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　　By the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 the United States bought from France a vast area of some 828 000 square miles. This was one of the biggest land purchases in history. The area stretches from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the United States--Canadian border in the north. This territory(领土)makes up a third of the United States. It included, before territorial adjustment, all or parts of what were to become 15 States.

　　This huge region was explored in the 16th century by the Spaniard. A Frenchman, in 1682, named it Louisiana in honor of his king, Louis ⅩⅣ(1638-1715). Early in the 18th century the French founded settlements along the Mississippi River. The most important one. New Orleans, was founded in 1718 on the east bank of the river, 90 miles from its mouth. In 1732 the French Government took control of Louisiana.

　　At the end of the French and Indian War(1754-1763) in North America, French lost its lands east of the Mississippi to the Britain. In an agreement France gave up Louisiana--the French lands west of the Mississippi, and New Orleans--to Spain.

　　In the late 18th century Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821) rose to become the first emperor of France. He dreamed of creating a new French colonial empire in North America. In 1800 he persuaded the Spanish rulers to sign the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. This treaty transferred Louisiana back to France. On October 15, 1802, the king of Spain finally gave the order transferring Louisiana to France.

　　When President Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826) learnt of the secret agreement, he was very worried. He did not welcome the idea of having a strong France as a neighbour in the west in place of the weak Spain. Jefferson was also afraid that when the French controlled New Orleans they would close the Mississippi to America trade.

　　Jefferson ordered Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), the America minister to France, to explore the possibility of purchasing New Orleans and part of West Florida near the mouth of the Mississippi. Jefferson used psychology to force Napoleon's hand. He permitted to fall into the hands of the French Emperor some false secret letters, saying that the United States would join Britain for all attack on Louisiana. In March, 1830, James Monroe(1758-1831) went to Paris, who was empowered to offer Napoleon up to $10000000 for New Orleans and a tract of land on the Gulf of Mexico.

1．What is the main idea of the text?

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A．The history of Louisiana.

B．The purchase of a piece of land.

C．The wars between different countries for Louisiana.

D．The great wisdom of Thomas Jefferson in winning Louisiana for the United States.

2．The author is most likely to agree with which of the following statements?

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A．Louisiana was by far the largest state of the United Stares at that time.

B．The name Louisiana was most commonly seen in Spain.

C．France lost its control of Louisiana to Britain after losing the French and Indian War.

D．Thomas Jefferson wanted to have Louisiana because he felt that with such a vast region in his hand. France could be a threat to the United States.

3．What is the main reason that made Napoleon sell Louisiana to the United States?

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A．Louisiana was too big for France to control.

B．Thomas Jefferson was so clever that Napoleon could not match his wisdom.

C．Napoleon was deceived by the false letters and was afraid of the attack by Britain and the United States.

D．The native people in Louisiana would not be ruled by foreign rulers.

4．What will the paragraph immediately following the last paragraph discuss?

[　　]

A．How did France sell Louisiana to the United States.

B．What happened to Louisiana after it was purchased by the United States.

C．How Thomas Jefferson was respected by his people for the important purchase he made.

D．What was the effects of the purchase on American developments.

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　　Sabine Island, near Greenland, was first discovered by the British geographer Sir Edward Saltine in 1823, but an 1869 map showed it was actually a quarter of a mile farther west than its discoverer had mapped. This interested Alfred Wegener, a young geographer working in Greenland in 1910. He thought the error was too great to be explained.

　　Wegener himself took measurements and found that since 1869 the island had moved another five-eighth of a mile. After checking the position of other Arctic landmasses, he concluded that all of them were drifting westward at different speeds.

　　From this finding，Wegener developed his floating continent theory. He imagined an original super-continent making up the infant(未成年的)earth, finally the mass broke up into several pieces--the present continents. The continents do seem to fit together like pieces of a puzzle, and what's more, some of the mountain ranges(山脉)of different continents line up rather well, as if the landmasses were at one time connected. However. believable as Wegener's argument appeared, many geographers refused to accept it. Exactly how the continents were formed is still a leading mystery in geography, though today many geographers are returning to the continental drift theory.

1．Sabine Island was first discovered and mapped by _____.

[　　]

A．the map makers of 1869

B．geographers of Greenland

C．a British geographer

D．Alfred Wegener

2．Wegener's discovery led him to conclude that _____.

[　　]

A．both the two earlier maps were in error

B．the Arctic landmasses were slowly drifting westward

C．all the continents were drifting slowly away from one another

D．Sabine Island was one part of Greenland

3．From the passage we can conclude that _____.

[　　]

A．Wegener liked to make things for granted

B．Wegener had a true scientific attitude

C．how the continents were formed is found out

D．the continental drift theory needs further testing

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　　Scattered around the globe are more than i00 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world's volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth's surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases, the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.

　　That the plates are moving is now beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complimentary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth's interior. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. For an analysis of the hot-spot population it appears that the African plate is stationary and that it has not moved during the past 30 million years.

　　The significance of hot spots is not confined to their role as a frame of reference. It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe. When a continental plate comes to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layers creates a broad dome. As the dome grows, it develops deep fissures(cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean. Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability(inconstancy).

1．The author believes that _____.

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A．the motion of the plates corresponds to that of the earth's interior

B．the geological theory about drifting plates has been proved to be true

C．the hot spots and the plates move slowly in opposite direction

D．the movement of hot spots proves the continents are moving apart

2．That Africa and South America were once joined can be deduced from the fact that _____.

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A．the two continents are still moving in opposite directions

B．they have been found to share certain geological features

C．the African plate has been stable for 30 million years

D．over 100 hot spots are scattered all around the globe

3．The hot-spot theory may prove useful in explaining _____.

[　　]

A．the structure of the African plates

B．tile revival of dead volcanoes

C．the mobility of the continents

D．the formation of new oceans

4．The passage is mainly about _____.

[　　]

A．the features of volcanic activities

B．the importance of the theory about drifting plates

C．the significance of hot spots in geophysical studies

D．the process of the formation of volcanoes

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　　In 1728 there arrived in Philadelphia a penniless young man, eager for work and for knowledge. As the years passed, this man, Benjamin Franklin, contributed greatly to his city and to his country. He became a printer and a publisher, and a learned man in many subjects. He also helped to spread learning by establishing a public library and by founding the American Philosophical Society, which is an important academy of great scholars to this day.

　　Franklin initiated many improvements in the city of Philadelphia, making it one of the world's first cities to have paved and lighted streets as well as a police force and a fire-fighting company. He also made many practical inventions such as the Franklin stove, which was a very efficient heater, and the lightning road to protect buildings in electric storms. His scientific work with electricity earned Franklin world fame.

　　Franklin played an important role in the early history of the United States. He took part in drawing up the Declaration of Independence and tile Constitution. He was the first ambassador to France，and he helped negotiate the treaty of 1783, which ended the Revolutionary War.

　　As an active member and as president of the Abolitionist Society, Franklin devoted the last years of his life to the movement to end slavery.

1．When Franklin arrived in Philadelphia, he had _____.

[　　]

A．a little money but no work

B．no money and no work

C．a job and a lot of knowledge

D．a job and a lot of money

2．The American Philosophical Society is an important academy of great scholars _____.

[　　]

A．at Franklin's time

B．until he died

C．up to now

D．before the birth of the USA

3．Franklin became famous because he _____.

[　　]

A．invented the lightning road to protect buildings in electric storms

B．was the first ambassador to France

C．took part in drawing up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

D．was president of the Abolitionist Society

4．“He also made many practical inventions…”means he _____.

[　　]

A．imagined lots of useful things

B．made clever things

C．invented a lot of useful objects

D．invented a lot of expensive things

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　　Location

　　The University is in Princeton(普林斯顿), New Jersey. It is an hour's train ride south of New York City and an hour's train ride north of Philadelphia.

　　Students

　　There are 4600 undergraduates(本科生). There are also 1900 graduate students, but Princeton is unusual among universities in having a student body made up largely of undergraduates.

　　Faculty

　　Princeton has about 700 full-time faculty members(教员). There are another 300 or so part-time and visiting faculty. All faculty members at Princeton are expected to teach and research.

　　Degrees

　　Princeton offers two undergraduate degrees: the bachelor(学士) of arts (A.B.) degree and the bachelor of science in engineering(B.S.E.) degree.

　　Academic Year

　　An academic year runs from September to late May and lasts two terms(fall and spring). A normal course load is four or five courses per term, although many students take extra courses.

　　Residences

　　Princeton provides housing for all undergraduate students. Freshmen and second-year students are required to spend their first two years in one of five colleges. Each college has its own dining hall, common rooms and computer centers.

　　Fees and Expenses (Academic Year 2004～2005) Tuition(学费): $29910

　　Room and board: $8387

　　Other expenses (books, telephone, etc.): $3083

　　Total: $41380

1．How many kinds of faculty members are there in Princeton University?

[　　]

A．One.　　　　B．Two.

C．Three.　　　D．Four.

2．In Princeton University, an undergraduate will pay at least _____ for the Academic Year 2004～2005 besides tuition.

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A．$41380　　　　B．$52850

C．$11470　　　　D．$8387

3．In what way is Princeton University different from other American universities according to the text?

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A．It has five colleges.

B．Its students are mainly undergraduates.

C．It provides housing for all undergraduate students.

D．All the faculty members at Princeton are expected to teach and research.

4．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Princeton offers two undergraduate degrees.

B．An academic year lasts about nine months in Princeton University.

C．Undergraduates should spend their first two years in one of five colleges.

D．It's about an hour's train ride from Princeton University to the north of New York City.

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　　Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised,“Barbara, be enthusiastic(热情的)! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”How right they were!

　　“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”Wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers,“I can do it!”When others shout,“No, you can't!”It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of slopping.

　　We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote,“Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied,“My father, a lawyer, long ago told me,‘I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.’”

　　If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career (职业), we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,“I am tempted to call Layton a genius.”

　　We can't afford to waste tears on“might-have beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after“what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses--finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.

1．The author holds the view that _____.

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A．enthusiastic people will never get old

B．enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

C．enthusiasm is more important than experience

D．enthusiasm can give people more success and fame

2．Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

[　　]

A．Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficuh times.

B．If you don't have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.

C．Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.

D．Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor.

3．The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that _____.

[　　]

A．music can arouse people's enthusiasm

B．enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

C．enthusiasm can make people feel young

D．enthusiasm can keep people healthy

4．How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

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A．Three.　　　　　　B．Two.

C．Four.　　　　　　 D．Five.