:翻译句子(共5小题, 每小题2分，满分10分)

1. 当老师要求他们分组讨论时，整个课堂活跃起来。(come to life)

2. 车祸中乘客的死亡应该归咎于醉酒的司机。（be to blame for---）

3.因为有这么强的决心，难怪无论何时他处于困境都能克服种种困难。(no wonder;    whenever; various)

4.最终他们得出结论，争论没有意义。(draw a conclusion; make sense)

5.（让）儿童接触暴力电视是不恰当的，这很可能会伤害他们的身心健康。(expose---to---; be likely to)

Think of some of your favorite singers. When you listen, they can make you happy or sad, peaceful or angry. They can make you relax or want to get up and dance. Gifted singers have the power to affect us in many ways—emotionally, physically and mentally.

       But becoming a great singer isn’t as easy as listening to one. It takes practice, devotion and strong lungs! Just ask the well-known American opera（歌剧）star Carol Vaness.

       At the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she often sings, Carol’s voice must be loud enough to be heard by four thousand people. It must reach every person in the theater, without a microphone, even when she’s singing softly. The reason Carol can project her voice that far is the way she breathes.

       “When you breathe, it’s like a swimmer taking a deep breath before going underwater,” Carol explains. “You have to take a lot of air into your lungs.”

       According to Carol, the main difference between pop singing and opera is “how you breathe, how much air you take in, and how you control it coming out. Regular singing is more like speaking, and it’s lot softer. When I sing for children, they’re often surprised by how the vibrations strike their ears—like waves on a beach, ”Carol says. “In opera, the air doesn’t just go out of your mouth—it vibrates in your chest，the way a guitar vibrates when it’s played.”

       Ever since she started piano lessons at the age of ten, Carol has loved music. As she got older, she decided to become a music teacher. When she went to college, she took singing lessons as part of her studies. Her voice teacher discovered that nineteen-year-old Carol had an exceptionally beautiful soprano voice-the highest singing voice for women.

       Carol decided to make opera her goal, not only because she loved to sing but also because she loved the drama. Opera is a play in which the characters sing the words instead of speaking them. The stories of opera can be tragic or comical. They can be personal stories about two people falling in love or grand stories about kings and queens who lived long ago. As the characters in an opera sing, the emotions（情感）expressed by words and music come to life.

       Today, Carol performs throughout the United States and Europe and she has song for almost twenty years. But she has never forgotten where she started singing in the first palace.

       “Put your heart into your singing and enjoy it,” says Carol, “because singing is a great joy. That’s why I sing. In fact, that’s why everybody sings.”

According to the passage,  the Metropolitan Opera in New York City      .

       A．is a five-story building    B．can seat 4,000 people     

       C．has no microphone in it   D．can project the singer’s voice

What is the best title for this passage?

       A．Opera Singing and Pop Singing     B．The Way an Opera Star Sings 

       C．An Opera Star         D．Singing without a Microphone

Which statement is true?

       A．A pop singer’s lungs are usually stronger than those of an opera singer’s   

       B．Opera singing is more like speaking.     

       C．A pop singer takes in much more air than an opera singer when singing.

       D．An opera singer breathes differently from a pop singer when singing.

From the passage you can conclude all the following EXCEPT that      .

       A．Carol once learned to play the piano     

       B．Carol worked as a music teacher    

       C．Carol has been singing opera for 20 years or so    

       D．Carol is popular with Americans and Europeans

The quiet girl has_____ since she  modelled  herself _______ Yanglan .

A. come to life… on                       B. come to oneself… as

C. come to light…like                      D. come to nothing… as

根据句意选出合适的动词或词组，用其适当的形式完成句子

1.Ted looked up briefly, and then ___________with what he was doing.

2.Memories that she would rather forget came ___________.

3.This picture was taken a long time ago. I wonder if you can ___________ my father.

4.These exercises are good for ___________ leg strength.

5.It was foolish of him ____________ his notes during that important test, and as a result, he got punished.

6.When they got to the concert they ___________because they didn't have a ticket.

7.In the springtime, everything ___________ again.

8.His bad health has prevented him from ___________ effectively in recent weeks.

9.The death of Yue Yue shocked the nation and ___________ much soul searching(深刻反省) about people’s willingness to help others.

10.Obama’s financial plan ___________ to improve the current economic situation．

When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very  31  .Some stories are told 32 they were true. Real people who live in a 33 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not  34 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 35 for us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 36 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter ,we  37 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than  38 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of  39 . When we read or write something ,we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 40--which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 41  the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 42  realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we  43 that we are real and they are  44 . It sounds 45 ,but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and  46 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by  47 that what we read is like real life. In a way, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our 48 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose  49  in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel  50  we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.