64. The first paragraph of the passage is used to _________.

　 A. remind readers of found photographs　　　　　　

B. advise reader to start a new kind of business

　 C. ask readers to find photographs behind sofa　　　　

D. show readers the value of found photographs

55. What is the main idea of the text?

　 A. Storytelling can influence the way people think.

　 B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business.

　 C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school.

　 D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.

答案　 52.D　 53.A　 54.B　 55.D

Passage 34

(07·湖南C篇)

Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!

　 In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1, 248, 000.

　 Prince is certainly not the only contemporary artist to have worked with so-called “found photographs”-a loose term given to everything from discarded(丢弃的) prints discovered in a junk shop to old advertisements or amateur photographs from a stranger’s family album. The German artist Joachim Schmid, who believes “basically everything is worth looking at”, has gathered discarded photographs, postcards and newspaper images since 1982. In his on-going project, Archiv, he groups photographs of family life according to themes: people with dogs; teams; new cars; dinner with the family; and so on.

　 Like Schmid, the editors of several self-published art magazines also champion (捍卫) found photographs. One of them, called simply Found, was born one snowy night in Chicago, when Davy Rothbard returned to his car to find under his wiper(雨刷) an angry note intended for some else: “Why’s your car HERE at HER place?” The note became the starting point for Rothbard’s addictive publication, which features found photographs sent in by readers, such a poster discovered in our drawer.

　 The whole found-photograph phenomenon has raised some questions. Perhaps one of the most difficult is: can these images really be considered as art? And if so, whose art? Yet found photographs produced by artists, such Richard Prince, may riding his horse hurriedly to meet someone? Or how did Prince create this photograph? It’s anyone’s guess. In addition, as we imagine the back-story to the people in the found photographs artists, like Schmid, have collated (整理), we also turn toward our own photographic albums. Why is memory so important to us? Why do we all seek to freeze in time the faces of our children, our parents, our lovers, and ourselves? Will they mean anything to anyone after we’ve gone?

54. Pugh has practised storytelling with _____ groups of people.

　 A. 2　　　　　　　 B. 3　　　　　　　 C. 4　　　　　　 D. 5

53. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.

　 A. start a new life　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. settle down in another place

　 C. direct films　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. become good actors

52. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?

　 A. They share the same way of storytelling.

　 B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.

　 C. They learn their stories from the American natives.

　 D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.

75. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker

B. How to Make a Perfect Speech

C. Don’ I Expect a Perfect Speech

D. Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech

答案　 72.B　 73.A　 74.B　 75.C

Passage 33

(07·浙江D篇)

Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.

People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.

“ Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “ Cinderella(灰姑娘), or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”

Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoner too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “ there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.

Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.

“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says, “ What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”

74. It can be inferred from the passage that_____

A. giving a speech is like giving a performance

B. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

C. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

D. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be

73. You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because_____

A. your attention is on the content

B. you don’t fully understand the speech

C. you don’t know what the speaker plans to say

D. you find the way of speech-making more important

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.