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第1题
【C7】______many of the best 'serious' British writers manage to be popular as well as pro found, the vast【C8】______of the books could not be classified as 'serious' literature. Britain is the home of【C9】______might be called 'middlebrow' literature.(That is, mid-way between serious and popular fiction)Many British authors write novels【C10】______as 'romances' , one of the middlebrow types. The British publisher which sells more books than any other is Mills & Boon,【C11】______books are exclusively【C12】______this type.
Poetry at the end or the twentieth century is【C13】______popular in Britain after it stopped being the normal【C14】______of literary self-expression 200 years ago. Books for poetry sell【C15】______comparatively large numbers. Their sales are not【C16】______as large as sales of novels, but they are large【C17】______for a few small publishers to【C18】______entirely on publishing poetry. Many of these poems are not academics and they are【C19】______to non-specialists. Perhaps the 'pop' idiom and the easy【C20】______of sound recording have made more people comfortable with spoken verse.
【C1】
A．route
B．road
C．path
D．way
第2题
A.A teacher teaching creative writing.
B.A publisher in Brooklyn.
C.An engineer on the Hubble space telescope.
D.A member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
第3题
A．In a shipping company office.
B．In Professor Benson's office.
C．In a publisher's office.
D．In a university store.
第4题
听力原文：W: Excuse me, I'm looking for the textbook for Professor Brown's course.
M: I'm afraid they are out of stock. You'll have to order them, and it will take the publisher three weeks to ship them to us.
Q: Where did this conversation probably take place？
(13)
A．In Professor Brown's office.
B．In a university bookstore.
C．In a publisher's office.
D．In a shipping company office.
第5题
From the passage we may infer that the author is most probably ______.
A．a professional writer
B．an instructor of writing
C．an educator
D．a publisher
第6题
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York
Accompanying a plan of Sunnyside (unprinted here), a former residence of Washington Irving in New York, is the following text.We have left out its title, which indicates clearly its purpose, in the hope that the reader will reconstruct it after reading the text.
Sunnyside is one of the few surviving and best-documented examples of American romanticism in architecture and landscape design.Andrew Jackson Downing featured Sunnyside in his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841) as an example of the "progressive improvement in Rural Architecture..." which, he explained, strives to be in "perfect keeping" with "surrounding nature" by its "varied" and "picturesque" outline.'Architectural beauty," he taught, "must be considered conjointly with the beauty of the landscape,"
Walking the 24-acre grounds is a pleasure in every season.Swans glide on the pond Irving called "the little Mediterranean", and a stone flume delights the ear with the sound of rushing water.A path leads up a small rise and from there down into "the glen," and up to the house.Behind the house, another path winds along the Hudson for views of the river at its widest point, the Tappan Zee.
The modest stone cottage which was later to become Sunnyside was originally a tenant farmer's house built in the late-seventeenth century on the Philipsburg Manor.During the eighteenth century, the cottage was owned by a branch of the Van Tassel family, the name Irving later immortalized in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Irving purchased the cottage in 1835 and directed the remodeling, adding Dutch-stepped gables, ancient weathervanes, and developing Gothic and Romanesque architectural features for other parts of the house.He was so pleased with his home that in 1836 he wrote to his brother, Peter: "I am living most cozily and delightfully in this dear, bright little home, which I have fitted up to my own humor.Everything goes on cheerily in my little household and I would not exchange the cottage for any chateau in Christendom."
Today's visitor to Sunnyside sees Irving's home much as it appeared during the final years of his life.The author's booklined study contains his writing desk—a gift from his publisher, G.P.Putnam and many personal possessions.The dining room, in which Irving and his dinner guests often gathered to enjoy the beautiful sunsets over the Hudson River, adjoins the parlor.Here Irving played his flute, while his nieces, Sarah and Catherine, accompanied him on the rosewood piano.The piano and other original furnishings still grace the room.The small picture gallery off the parlor contains some original illustrations for Irving's work.The kitchen was quite advanced for its day, having a hot water boiler and running water fed from the pond through a gravity-blow system.The iron cookstove was also a "modern convenience," replacing the open hearth in the 1850's.
The second floor of the house contains several bedrooms, each of which has its own personal character.The guest bedroom is furnished with a French-style. bed and painted cottage pieces.The ingenious arches in this and other rooms were designed by Irving.His bedroom, where he died in 1859, contains the author's tester Sheraton bed, along with his walking stick and a number of his garments and personal effects.The small, bright room between the bedrooms might have been used by Irving's nephew and biographer, Pierre Munro Irving, who cared for his uncle during the last months of his life.The room was used originally to store books and papers.The bedroom used by Irving's nieces contains an Irving-family field bed with hand-made bobbin lace hangings, a chest of drawers, sewing stands, and an ornamental stove.The guest room contains a cast iron bed probably made in one of the foundries along the Hudson.
Write True (T) or False (F)for the following questions.
1.Sunnyside is the former residence of Washington Irving in Washington D.C.()
2.Sunny side is a typical representative of Romanticism of American city architecture.()
3.According to Andrew Jackson Downing , architectural beauty must be in harmony with the beauty of the surrounding landscape.()
4.During the 18th century ,the cottage was owned by Van Tassel who was mentioned by Irving in his book “the Legend of the Hollow” .()
5.Irving didn’t make any change to the cottage after he purchased it.()
6.Today’s Sunnyside has changed a lot compared with its appearance in Irving’s time.()
7.Sunnyside was built near the Hudson River.()
8.The study , the dining room , the parlor and the kitchen are all on the first floor of Irving’s house.()
9.All the bedrooms on the second floor are almost furnished in the same style.()
10.Washington Irving was cared for by his daughter during the last period of his life.()
第7题
听力原文： A man who tells a story does not always try to base it on facts. He may not believe that facts are necessary in a stow. He may want to make people laugh or make them cry; he may even want to make them think.
A good story is often told in many different languages. It may live through many centuries, and millions of people may enjoy telling it or listening to it. It is not the facts of a story which make it live. The value or a story does not come from its facts, but from human interest or the way it is told.
An English novelist wrote a new book, and a month after it was published his publisher told him that 1,000 copies had already been sold. That evening the novelist had a meal with his publisher and an American friend. They talked about the new book, and the novelist told the American that 10,000 copies had been sold. Later the publisher asked him why he had not told the exact number. "To an American," said the novelist, "a thousand is nothing. I multiplied the number by ten to give him a true idea of success of the book." This novelist was famous not for his accuracy but for his novels; he knew how to tell stories. His best novel will probably live for a long time.
(33)
A．He may want to make people believe the facts.
B．He may want to make people doubt the facts.
C．He may want to make people feel happy or sad, or think.
D．All of the above.
第8题
听力原文：M: Excuse me, I'm looking for some books for professor Johnson's course.
W: I'm afraid they are not available. You'll have to order them, and it will take the publisher three weeks to ship them to us.
Q: Where did this conversation probably take place？
(14)
A．At a news-stand.
B．In the college bookstore.
C．In the library.
D．At a department store.
第9题
Passage 4
America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a paywall around its digital offering, _1_ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have _2_ a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the charging side of an _3_ wide chasm (鸿沟）in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not _4_ internet readers. The New York Times&39;s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, _5_ that the move is a gamble. Boasting a print _6_ of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can claim _7_ scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a _8_ financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but _9_ a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million _10_ from a Mexican billionaire， Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
A) national
B) interactively
C) circulation
D) loan
E) crude
F) exceeded
G) charge
H) ascend
I) abandoning
J) suffered
K) serious
L) deducting
M) increasingly
N) evaluation
O) acknowledged
第1空答案是：
第10题
Struggling【C3】an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, TheNew York Times【C4】to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have【C5】a set number of its online articles per month.
The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【C6】the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not【C7】internet readers, and certain papers,【C8】London's Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions【C9】.
The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger,【C10】that the move is a gamble: "This is a【C11】, to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going. "
Boasting a print【C12】of 995, 000 on weekdays and 1. 4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third-bestselling American newspaper,【C13】the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.【C14】most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can【C15】national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and【C16】26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
But【C17】many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a【C18】financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but【C19】a loss of $ 70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million【C20】from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
【C1】
A．set in
B．set out
C．carry over
D．carry away
第11题
A．One at a time.
B．In small groups.
C．By waiting for the shepherd.
D．By a small boat.
