72. The underlined part and the first paragraph means that no one will ______

A. be smarter than you

B. notice your mistakes

C. do better than you

D. know what you are talking about

75. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. History of the arts. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Basic questions of the arts.

C. New developments in the arts. 　　　　　　　　 D. Use of modern technology in the arts.

答案　 71.C　 72.C　 73.B　 74.D　 75.B

Passage 32

(07·辽宁E篇)

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious(明显的)to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you Lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’ t really matter. If you have ever listen to Martin Luther King’ s famous speech-“I Have a dream ”, you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) his words twice during the speech, Most likely. however. you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.

People care a lot about makings mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication(交流). They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in (act • the listeners are not looking for a period performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or he can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.

As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

74. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A. They express people's curiosity about the past.

B. They make people interested in everyday experience.

C. They are considered important for variety in form.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

73. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

72. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because .

A. they are close in style to works in ancient times

B. they look like works by 19th-century painters

C. they draw attention to common things in life

D. they depend heavily on color photography

71. The underlined word “poetry” most probably means __________.

A. an object for artistic creation 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. a　collection of poems

C. an unusual quality 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. a natural scene

63. Which would be the best title for this passage?

　 A. We’re Alone on the Internet.

　 B. We’re Communicating on the Internet.

　 C. We’re Alone Together on the Internet.

　 D. We’re in the Imaginary World of the Internet.

答案　 60.D　 61.A　 62.C　 63.C

Passage 31

(07·重庆E篇)

Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

62. It can be inferred from the Pew study that _______.

　 A. people have been separated from each other by using computers

　 B. the Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely

　 C. the Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication

　 D. a lot of people regard the person-to-person communication as a good thing

61. According to the Pew study, what do many people rely on to make major life decisions?

　 A. Networks.　　　　　　 B. Friends.　　　　　　　 C. Phones.　　　　　　　 D. Parents.

60. The underlined phrase “networked individualism” probably means that by using computers people ________.

　 A. stick to their own ways no matter what other people say

　 B. have the rights and freedom to do things of their own interest

　 C. do things in their own ways and express opinions different from other people

　 D. are able to keep to themselves but at the same time reach out to other people