[A]. As we know, Beijing is an international city and many foreigners come to visit Beijing. The taxi drivers think it is kind to greet the foreigners in English. They need someone who can teach them English at night when they are not so busy.
[B]. Tom is crazy about on-line games that he cannot focus on his study like before. Now he often misses school in order to play games, and tell lies to his teachers and parents. He needs someone's help and advice.
[C]. Mane, a old woman, has to walk two miles to the nearest supermarket because she doesn't know which bus to take. Since she does not know words, she can not write out a shopping list and even can’t recognize the goods because she couldn’t read.
[D]. "Helping hand" organization will hold an event to help the starving（饥饿的） children in Africa. Those who take part in it will go without food for 30 hours in order to raise money for the poor children.
[E]. "Green Earth" cares a lot for the animals in danger. This summer holiday a lot of events will be organized to call on people to protect animals.
[F]. A group of young children in a remote village in southwest China are in great need of teachers. The villagers hope to have a teacher who can stay for at least a year, because they know knowledge can change the children's future.
以下是乐于提供帮助的人员信息介绍，请匹配他们与所对应的帮助对象。
（ ）1. Stephen: Last summer I joined in a training program and became a literacy(识字，读写能力) volunteer. When I found what other people's lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.
（ ）2. Ben: After graduation I plan to spend a year helping those poor children and improving their lives. You know, education is important to poverty relief(扶贫)
（ ）3. Susan: I'm a foreign student in Beijing University studying Chinese. I’d like to get in touch with Chinese people and get to know more about China. Although my study is busy, I can be free at night and at the weekends.
（ ）4. Tim: I understand young people's problems and I know how to listen patiently to others and offer some advice. But I can only spend two to three hours a day at night to help others.
（ ）5. Lisa: I burst into tears when I saw those children who are dying because of lack of food in a TV program. I realized how lucky I am with enough food and a good chance to get education. I hope I can do something for them.

B

For a song to become popular, people need to bear it.  In order for people　to hear it, the program directors at radio stations have to play it on the air. A song’s popularity is directly related to how often it is played. That is a big responsibility for program directors. How do they decide what gets played and what doesn’t?

In the past, disc jockeys(音乐节目主持人) decided what music was played on the radio. These DJs had an ear for music and an understanding of what their audience wanted to hear. Today, that is all changing. Most major radio stations are owned by a few large national businesses. The decision of what gets played on the radio is made by executives(主管) who have little or no interest in music. They do, however, know how to run a business, and they know what sells. So, the music industry designs and creates pop entertainers, and executives in the radio industry make sure that their music is played on the radio. This explains why you do not often hear anything new and fresh on the radio. The executives do not want to give air time to music that has not been tested on the market. It is too risky. They prefer to go with music that they already know will sell. They know it will sell because it sold last week and last month and last year. They just have to change it a little.

One of the most criticized(批评) practices in the music industry is the practice of “payola”. This is when record companies pay radio stations to play the music of a given artist. This practice makes many people lose trust in the music industry and is therefore against the law. A radio station can accept money in exchange for air time of a song, but they have to make it clear that the song is being played because its air time was paid for. They cannot present the song as if it were part of the normal play schedule(时刻表).

Payola affects both artists and audiences. The artists who work with small record companies that cannot pay a lot of money to radio stations have a much harder time getting exposure. It creates an unfair playing field. Music lovers suffer because they are not able to hear all the music that is available.

60. According to the passage, most major radio stations belong to       .

A. national businesses                      B. program directors   

C. pop entertainers                         D. record companies

61. “Payola” is the practice of        .

A. artists paying radio stations to play their songs

B. record companies buying air time for certain music

C. radio station paying record company for new songs

D. program directors deciding what music gets played

62. Who can make the largest profits from payola?

A. Disc Jockeys.                               B. The given artists.

C.  Business executives.                        D. Program directors.

63. It can be concluded from the passage that the author        .

A. has a positive attitude towards the practice of “payola”

B. is dissatisfied with the present situation in music industry

C. is calling for a change in the normal play schedule

D. thinks that the radio stations are doing the right thing

[A]. As we know, Beijing is an international city and many foreigners come to visit Beijing. The taxi drivers think it is kind to greet the foreigners in English. They need someone who can teach them English at night when they are not so busy.

[B]. Tom is crazy about on-line games that he cannot focus on his study like before. Now he often misses school in order to play games, and tell lies to his teachers and parents. He needs someone's help and advice.

[C]. Mane, a old woman, has to walk two miles to the nearest supermarket because she doesn't know which bus to take. Since she does not know words, she can not write out a shopping list and even can’t recognize the goods because she couldn’t read.

[D]. "Helping hand" organization will hold an event to help the starving（饥饿的） children in Africa. Those who take part in it will go without food for 30 hours in order to raise money for the poor children.

[E]. "Green Earth" cares a lot for the animals in danger. This summer holiday a lot of events will be organized to call on people to protect animals.

[F]. A group of young children in a remote village in southwest China are in great need of teachers. The villagers hope to have a teacher who can stay for at least a year, because they know knowledge can change the children's future.

以下是乐于提供帮助的人员信息介绍，请匹配他们与所对应的帮助对象。

（ ）1. Stephen: Last summer I joined in a training program and became a literacy(识字，读写能力) volunteer. When I found what other people's lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.

（ ）2. Ben: After graduation I plan to spend a year helping those poor children and improving their lives. You know, education is important to poverty relief(扶贫)

（ ）3. Susan: I'm a foreign student in Beijing University studying Chinese. I’d like to get in touch with Chinese people and get to know more about China. Although my study is busy, I can be free at night and at the weekends.

（ ）4. Tim: I understand young people's problems and I know how to listen patiently to others and offer some advice. But I can only spend two to three hours a day at night to help others.

（ ）5. Lisa: I burst into tears when I saw those children who are dying because of lack of food in a TV program. I realized how lucky I am with enough food and a good chance to get education. I hope I can do something for them.

B

For a 400-year-old art form, operas had a bad fame: overweight actresses singing the words which are hard to understand in one of those romance languages you were supposed to learn in high school. And with tickets costing as much as $ 145 a performance, opera goers also have a certain appearance in people’s mind: rich, well-dressed and old.

But now opera companies around the country are loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes in an attempt to bring the opera to the audience. It needs to keep it alive, the young and not-so-rich.

Opera producers have found that to attract this crowd, they need to make the opera closer to common people. That means no formal suits, old-styled theatre or band-breaking ticket prices. And because young people don’t or won’t come to the opera, companies are bringing the opera to them, giving performances in such unusual places as parks, libraries and public schools.

The Houston Grand Opera’s choice is the public library, where it performs “mobile operas”, shortened versions (剧本) of child-friendly operas. This summer’s production is Hansel & Gretel. By performing smaller versions of large productions, producers are able to make people interested while keeping costs at a reasonable level. The San Francisco Opera, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is staging Cinderella free of charge, keeping costs down by employing students from its Young Artists’ Training Program.   

45．Which is the main idea of this passage?

       A．Opera is famous for its long history.          

       B．Opera is only performed for rich people.

       C．Young people are not interested in opera.     

       D．Opera companies are trying to keep opera alive.

46．The underlined phrase “loosening their ties and kicking off their shoes” (paragraph 2) means ______.

       A．breaking up the old rules B．changing the formal suits

       C．making the audience at ease    D．advertising themselves

47．The San Francisco Opera Company employs student actors in order to ______.

       A．celebrate its 75th anniversary  B．reduce the cost

       C．attract young people D．make Cinderella popular

48．From the passage we can infer that ______.

       A．the tickets for operas are very expensive      

       B．operas are performed in a difficult language

       C．operas are not so popular an art form today  

       D．students enjoy performing operas very much

                                          B

      For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do？

      Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.

      In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends.

Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is— politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority — someone who actually knows something —and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

55. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?

     A. Both can continue for generations.

     B. Both are about where to draw the line.

     C. Neither has any clear winner.

     D. Neither can be put to an end.

56. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?

     A. The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.

     B. The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict.

     C. The teens accuse their parents of misleading them.

     D. The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents.

57. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ____

     A. give orders to the other

     B. know more than the other

     C. gain respect from the other

     D. get the other to behave properly

58. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

     A. Causes for the parent-teen conflicts.

     B. Examples of the parent-teen war.

     C. Solutions for the parent-teen problems.

     D.  Future of the parent-teen relationship.