Five years ago, Steven Gerrard fulfilled a boyhood dream when he was made captain of   Liverpool, the football club he   had supported all his life. As one of the best teams in the English Premier League, the captain's armband weighed heavy on a player who had only turned 23.

  But through a combination of individual brilliance on the pitch (球场) and a growing awareness of what being a skipper (队长) is all about, Gerrard has gone on to make the captain's role his own.

He performed a rescue act for Liverpool by twice scoring as they came from 2－0 down to draw 2－2 against Hull City on December 13.His efforts steered (带领) the team to the top of the Premier League. “It's  easy for me to say we're a great team  and the squad's great，” said Gerrard.  “The hardest thing is to actually go out there and prove it on the pitch. I call the Premier League the bread and butter and I'm desperate for the title.”

Liverpool enjoyed some real success during the five years when Gerrard has been captain of the club—they've been to two Champions League finals and an FA Cup final, winning two out of three. But Gerrard believes he has learned more from being a captain “when things haven't gone too well”．

“You learn more from bad experiences really. Bad defeats, going out of competitions or failing short in the league, as captain, I feel more responsible, particularly when we get beaten，” he said. “I remember all those experiences and learn from all of that.”

 Gerrard grew up watching Liverpool. He joined the club's youth academy as a school boy. He then had tryouts with various clubs at 14, including Manchester United, which he claimed in his autobiography (自传) was “to pressure Liverpool into giving me a contract.” He signed with the club in 1997.

 Gerrard has dedicated his entire career to Liverpool and he is confident that the club will start another legend soon. “You just expect that dynasty to come，” he said.

1．The passage is mainly about ________.

A．Gerrard's love of Liverpool

B．what kind of person Gerrard is

C．Gerrard's latest performance on the pitch

D．Gerrard as captain of the Liverpool football club

2．From the text, we can see that ________.

A．Gerrard has outshone other captains of Liverpool

B．Gerrard did quite a good job in leading his team

C．Gerrrad intended to make the captain's role his own

D．Gerrrad has been confident of being a captain since chosen

3．Gerrard admitted that he learned more from ________.

A．try outs with various clubs

B．unsuccessful experiences

C．steering the team to the top

D．striving for the league title

4．From the last two paragraphs, we know that ________.

A．Gerrard compared Liverpool with other football clubs and finally decided on it

B．Gerrard was made captain soon after he signed with Liverpool

C．Gerrard believed the next season would be his dynasty

D．it was Liverpool that Gerrard had his eye on all along

Gu Changwei was the first Chinese cinematographer to be nominated (提名) for an Oscar, and he is regarded by Zhang Yimou as the best cinematographer in China. Gu was behind the camera for many of Zhang Yimou’s famous films including the one that rocketed Zhang to fame: "Red Sorghum (高粱)". And now this master of the visual has taken on his first directing role with the film "Peacock". So Gu Changwei has come out from behind the camera into the spotlight (聚光灯).

Gu Changwei is very serious about his directing "Peacock". To get the authentic atmosphere, Gu took his film crew to the city of Anyang in central China’s Henan province where the story took place, to shoot the film. He chose all new actors because he didn’t want "stars" appeal to weaken the power of the story, and he also had his actors trained in the local dialect. For this film Gu has been able to get out from behind the camera to manage every aspect of the film, and to realize his own ideals in movie-making.

"Peacock" is about the life of an average family in a small town in Henan province in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Gu chose this story for his first movie because he grew up during this same pe??riod and it struck a chord with him.

“Peacock” wrapped up production in June, 2004. It’s aimed at the foreign film market and will be entered in February’s Berlin Film Festival, and released in China at the same time. But at the end of last October, Gu took “Peacock” to his Alma Mater, the Beijing Film Academy, one of the most fa??mous film colleges in China, to hold a preview. The film was warmly received by both teachers and students.

The underlined word “cinematographer” refers to a person who ________.

A. has been nominated for an Oscar     B. uses a camera to shoot films

C. directs first-class films                    D. arranges for cinema shows

Gu didn’t employ “stars” in his film because ________.

A. tars usually stick to their own acting styles

B. the stars may not be able to speak the local dialect

C. the stars may share the audience’s attention with the story

D. it was not easy for him, a fresh hand, to invite stars to join him

Gu chose such a story for his first movie because ________.

A. he was born in the early 1970s              

       B. he grew up in Henan province

C. he was popular in Henan province  

D. the story had something to do with his own experience

From the passage we can learn that "Peacock"________.

A. is the film for which Gu is likely to win an Oscar prize

B. has already become popular both at home and abroad

C. has its production started last summer

D. will be publicly shown in spring, 2005

Please choose a proper title for this passage.

A. rom behind the camera into the spotlight

B. Chinese cinematographer to be nominated for Oscar

C. New faces to appear in “Peacock”

D. "Peacock" to enter foreign film market

What on Earth about Chinese Football?

      Do you like playing football? Do you know what on earth about Chinese football? Are you in  

__1__ of watching Chinese football? If you are,you will know that China's football world is a mess (混乱) recently. It looks as if only an earthquake  2   the system and a reform has to   3  . Last week, the fa'st steps towards change might have been  4   when the Chinese Football Association(CFA) agreed  5   out the reform of the Chinese Premier League (中超联赛). For example, no team will leave the league for its bad performance this year. The move came following pressure from both clubs and the fans.

    The story starts when the Beijing Hyundai Football Club quit a match (罢赛) on October 2,2004 in protest against a penalty kick (违规点球). The club disagreed   6   their punishment made by the CFA,  7   included a fine and a points cut. It warned it might leave the league. Many fans and clubs supported Beijing Hyundai's position. They said that the fault did not lie   8   the club but the troubled Chinese football world. Scold of match fixing and" black whistles" have been frequent since the late 1990s. In an important match  9  Yanbian Hyundai and Sichuan Quanxing in 1995, one side gave up defending to protest   10   unfair referees(判罚) and watched the other side score almost freely. Some teams lose   11   purpose because it  12  the same owner with its opposition. Most football fans are losing interest in such games because of their lack   13   professional spirit.

    Most football clubs are   14   and some cannot pay their players. Smaller and smaller crowds means ticket sales, their other main income,   15   falling. All the facts show that Chinese football has come to its most critical point for years. "There is no choice   16  . The CFA will help those clubs which are losing money to  17   confidence  l8   a profit ",said Yan Shiduo, the vice president of the CFA. Wang Wen,  19   of Beijing's Football Fans Association said," The fans are  20   by Chinese football and we hope for effective reform of the league."

1.A.habit B.a habit  C.the habit           D.habits           

2.A.will shake up     B.shake up C.would shake up    D.should shake up  

3.A.carry out   B. be carried out      C.make    D.be made      

4.A.made          B.carried C.taken    D.brought                 

5.A.to carry      B.carrying         C.with carrying       D.on carrying             

6.A.with   B.to C.on D./            

7.A.it        B.which    C.that       D.this                

8.A.in        B.on C.at D.with              

9.A.between    B.among  C.in  D.on                  

10.A.at     B.for         C.against D.in          

11. A.for  B. on         C. in D. with    

12.A. shares    B. spares      C. owns         D. wants          

13. A. for B. of C. with             D. to                  

14. A. on debts         B. in red        C. in the debt          D. in the red             

15. A. is    B. are       C. was              D. were            

16. A. but reform     B. but reforming      C. but to reform       D.other than to reform

17.A.build         B.build up         C. set up             D. put up         

18.A.to make   B. making              C. make         D.made            

19.A.head         B.thehead        C. a head            D.heads            

20.A.harmed   B.hurt       C.injured  D.destroyed             

A dense wave of smog began in the Chinese city of Harbin and the surrounding Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning Provinces on 20 October 2013. Unseasonably warm temperatures with very little wind across northeastern China coincided with the smoke from local farmers’ burning straws and the start-up of Harbin’s coal-powered central heating system.

Record densities of fine particulates(微粒)were measured in the city. In Harbin, the levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter) rise to 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter, worse than Beijing’s historic highs. Visibility was reduced to below 50m in parts of Harbin, and below 500m in most of the neighbouring Jilin Province. On Fa Yuen Street in Harbin, visibility of less than 5m was reported. The smog reduced after October 23, 2013 and completely broke up on October 28, 2013 by the first local snow and icy rain due to a cold front moving in from Russia.

Harbin lies in the north of China where winter temperatures can drop to -40℃, demanding a six-month heating season. Daily particulate levels of more than 40 times the World Health Organization recommended maximum level were reported in parts of Harbin. The smog remained till 23 October, when almost all monitoring stations in Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning Provinces reported readings above 200μg/m³forPM2.5. PM2.5 is the amount of particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter in the air, with the WHO recommending a maximum 24-hour mean (平均值) of 25 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³). On the morning of 25 October, PM2.5 measurements in Harbin had fallen to an average of 123μg/m³.

All highways in the surrounding Heilongjiang Province were closed. In Harbin, all primary and middle schools were closed for three days and authorities stopped flights at the airports. Hospitals reported a 23 percent increase in admissions for breathing problems. However, this smog will have no influence on Harbin Ice Festival events later in December 2013.

Air pollution in Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China’s leadership. Particulates in the air can affect human health and also have influences on climate and rainfall. Pollution from the burning of coal has reduced life expectancy by 5.5 years in the north of China, as a result of heart and lung diseases.

1.One cause of the heavy smog in the northeastern Chinese cities may be _____.

A. the lasting cold weather                         

B. farmers’ burning of forests

C. too much strong wind                              

D. the start-up of heating system

2.One serious influence of the heavy smog was that_____.

A. Harbin Ice Festival would be cancelled    

B. highways in Heilongjiang were free of charge

C. all flights at the airport were cancelled    

D. doctors in hospitals were kept from working

3.The harmful smog was most serious on ______.

A. October 20      B. October 23    C. October 25     D. October 28

4.What measure might be practical to reduce the happening of heavy smog?

A. Forbidding people to own their private cars.    

B. Advocating people having one meal a day.

C. Using natural gas to cook instead of coal.      

D. Encouraging family’s coal-fired heating.

 

       England’s shameful defeat in the race to host the 2018 World Cup caused a bitter new “Cold War” with Russia last night.

       The & 15 million bid — accompanied by David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham — didn’t even get past the first round.

       It secured just two of the 22 votes by committee members of football’s world governing body Fifa in a secret ballot (投票) — one of which was cast by England’s own FA Chairman Geoff Thompson.

       Among strong suspicions of shady backroom deals, the tournament went to Russia.

       Last night Downing Street did little to hide its anger and said Mr. Cameron had no plans to congratulate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally “at the present time”.

       Shortly after Fifa president Sepp Blatter declared Russia the winner for 2018, he announced that Qatar, a tiny desert country which has never even qualified to play in the World Cup, would host the 2022 tournament, beating bids from Australia, the United States and a joint bid from Japan and South Korea.

       Fifa’s controversial decisions strengthened suspicions that the voting process was corrupt and that the sport’s world governing body had submitted to the energy-rich countries’ billions, meaning that England’s bid never stood a chance.

       A “bitterly disappointed” and visibly furious Mr. Cameron said England had the best technical bid and what he believed was the strongest commercial bid, adding: “It turns out that’s not enough.”

       Asked what more England could have done to secure the tournament, the Prime Minister replied: “I think that’s for others to say.”

       When Mr. Cameron met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he had challenged him to a “good clean fight” but last night the Prime Minister’s official spokesman refused to say the voting process was either good or clean.

       Number 10 aides were furious with the outcome after Mr. Cameron had made two flying visits to Zurich where the vote was held and been up into the small hours yesterday like crazy lobbying for critical votes.

       So despite three days of intense lobbying in Zurich by the Three Lions, the England bid team feared they had been damaged by an accusation of corruption against Fifa members by BBC’s Panorama and The Sunday Times.

76.According to the passage, which of the following countries bid for the 2018 World Cup?

A、England                  B、Qatar               C、The United States                  D、Australia

77.The underlined word “Furious” is closest in meaning to “_______”.

A、angry                            B、worried            C、guilty                             D、confused

78.According to the passage, _______ voted for England during the secret ballot.

A、David Cameron                                   B、Geoff Thompson           

C、David Beckham                                   D、Sepp Blatter

79.By saying “It turns out that’s not enough.” Mr. Cameron really means ________.

A、England still has a long way to go to host the bid of the 2018 World Cup

B、England hasn’t been fully prepared for the bid of the 2018 World Cup

C、Russia has done far better than England to bid of the 2018 World Cup

D、there were dirty deals behind the decision

80.As can be concluded from the passage, one of the reasons for England’s failure might be _______.

       A、its lack of experience                          

B、its bad economic

C、its lack of energy                                

D、an accusation by BBC’s Panorama and The Sunday Times