She always wore a flower in her hair. Always, Mostly I thought it looked  1  . A flower to work? To my knowledge no one had questioned the young woman why a flower  2  her to work each day. In fact, we probably would have been more curious if she had   3  without it.

She did so one day   4  . She delivered a project to my office. “I   5  there is no flower in your hair today,” I said   6  . “I’m so used to seeing you wear one   7  it almost seems as if something is   8  .” “Oh, yes” she replied quietly, in a rather sad voice. This was far from her   9  bright personality, I knew I had questioned something   10  than a lost flower.

“Today is the anniversary（周年纪念）of mother’s death. I miss her so much I guess I’m a bit   11  . Oh, and about the flower you asked about. When I was a little girl, my mother   12  often put flowers in my hair. But when I was 15 she died of cancer, I’ve just always worn a flower in my hair   13  -it made me feel as though she were   14  me, if only in spirit. Today, however, I think she would like a   15  that I am becoming self-dependent, after ten years of her death. And it seems that it is the flower that has to   16  .”

She met my eyes then smiled sadly. “I don’t need to wear a flower to be   17  her. It was just an outward sign of my treasured   18  ---they’re still there even with the flower gone…Oh, here’s the   19  I hope it meets with your agreement.” She handed me the neatly prepared document, signed, with a hand–drawn   20  , below her name.

1．A．stupid                   B．childish               C．strange                D．rare

2．A．accompanied         B．brought               C．allowed               D．encouraged

3．A．shown up              B．made up              C．done up               D．dressed up

4．A．before                   B．after                    C．when                  D．until

5．A．sense                    B．discover              C．doubt                  D．notice

6．A．casually                B．firmly                  C．calmly                 D．worriedly

7．A．as                         B．that                     C．but                     D．and

8．A．missing                 B．going                  C．happening            D．changing

9．A．normal                  B．general                C．common             D．usual

10．A．prettier                B．better                  C．bigger                 D．earliter

11．A．  grey                  B．yellow                 C．white                  D．blue

12．A．would                 B．should                 C．could                  D．must

13．A．too                     B．since                   C．then                    D．ever

14．A．upon                   B．for                      C．in                       D．with

15．A．word                  B．sign                    C．label                    D．model

16．A．melt                    B．die                      C．go                      D．pass

17．A．thought about      B．reminded of         C．remembered as    D．cared for

18．A．impressions         B．memories            C．secrets                D．emotions

19．A．story                   B．ending                 C．project                D．outline

20．A．mark              B．paint                   C．date                   D．flower

 (08·湖南D篇)

Celebrity(名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture.Fans used to be crazy about a specific film,but now the public tends to base its consumption(消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product.Besides,fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces.As a result,celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential,

moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.

Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon,but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers,and limited to a few TV actresses.Today  they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands.The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style.As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market,they expand their production scale rapidly,covering almost all the poducts of daily life.

However,for every success story,there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal.No matter how famous the product’s origin is,if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing.And once the initial(最初的) attention dies down,consumer interest might fade,loyalty(忠诚) returning to tried-and-true labels.

Today,celebrities face even more severe embarrassment.The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever,but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well.Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life,and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears.Still,the ego’s(自我的) potential for expansion is limitless.Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition,many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered.As the saying goes,success and failure always go hand in hand.Their success as designers might last only a short time,but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary.

69.Fashion magazines today         .

A.seldom put models on the cover

B.no longer put models on the cover

C.need not worry about celebrities’market potential

D.judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly

70.A change in the consumer market can be found today that         .

A.price rather than brand name is more concerned

B.producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements

C.producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements

D.quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned

71.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly         .

A.decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products

B.damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public

C.cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business

D.influence the price of a celebrity’s products

72.The passage is mainly about         .

A.celebrity and personal style

B.celebrity and market potential

C.celebrity and fashion design

D.celebrity and clothing industry

The Linguistic Habits of a New Generation

       In the year of 1914 a young girl named Monica Baldwin entered a convent（女修道院）,remaining there until 1941 when she returned to the outer world. During these twenty-eight years wars and revolutions had come and gone in Europe. Her uncle, Stanley Baldwin, had led his country for some time. Technical developments had changed the conditions of everyday life almost beyond recognitions, but all these events had left as a matter of fact untouched the small religious community to which she had belonged. In 1949 Miss Baldwin published her impressions of those bewildering（令人困惑的）years of her return to a world in which the motorcar had replaced the horse and carriage and where respectable women showed their legs and painted their faces.

       Yet it was not only these odd sights that surprised her, for she was more puzzled by what she heard. During a railway journey the term “luggage in advance” meant nothing to her, so in desperation she asked the porter to do as he thought best. Reading the newspapers made her feel very stupid, because the writers of reviews and leading articles used words and phrases such as Jazz, Hollywood, Cocktail and Isolationism. These and many others were quite incomprehensible to Miss Baldwin, who was really bewildered when friends said: “It’s your funeral or Believe it or not.” This is a rare and valuable reminder to the rest of us that the English language does not stand still. All language changes over a period of time for reasons which are imperfectly understood. Or rather since speech is really a form of human activity, it is more exact to say that each successive generation behaves linguistically in a slightly different manner from its predecessors（前辈，祖先）. In his teens the young man likes to show how up-to-date he is by the use of the latest slang（俚语）, but as the years go by some of his slang becomes standard usage and in any case he slowly grows less receptive（乐于接受的）to linguistic novelties（新颖，新奇）,so that by the time he reaches his forties he will probably be unware that some of the expressions and pronunciations now being used were frowned upon by his own parents. In this respect language is a little like fashions in people’s dress. The informal clothes of one generation become the everyday wear of the next, and just as young doctors and bank clerks nowadays go about their business in sports jackets, they are allowed into their normal vocabulary expressions which were once limited to slang and familiar conversation.

71．Miss Baldwin found the world totally changed because          .

       A．she had worked for a religious community for a long time

       B．she had been cut off from the rest of the world for many years

       C．the community where she lived had been in war for many years

       D．there had been too many technical developments

72．During a railway journey Miss Baldwin          .

       A．found the porter’s words hard to understand

       B．found her luggage too heavy to carry

       C．did not know how to talk with the porter

       D．had to ask the porter to look after her luggage

73．Young people like to use the latest slang because          .

       A．they feel it is easier to use

       B．they believe it will soon become standard usage

       C．they want to show they have caught up with the time

       D．they find it more powerful in expressing feelings

74．Miss Baldwin’s experience shows us that          .

       A．the English language has not changed much

       B．the English language has entirely changed

       C．language doesn’t change at all in the religious world

       D．language changes with the passage of time

75．By the time a man is forty, he will          .

       A．be speaking the same language as his parents do

       B．have changed his way of speaking

       C．not use the slang he liked to use when young

       D．be using less new slang in speech and writing