black and white film has left a long-lasting impact on filming. Still, audiences today always tend to associate the black and white film with classic Hollywood storytelling and also admire the bright colors of early color movies. 36. What can we know about color movies?

A. They hardly have a clear boundary with the black and white ones. B. They will replace the black and white films sooner or later. C. They lead to the developments in art and technology. D. They are more popular with film fans. 37. Which of the following is a color film? A. RagingBull. C. Schindler’s List

B. A Visit to the Seaside.

D. The Artist

What does the underlined word “misconception” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. That The Wizard of Oz was shot in 1939. B. That T he Wizard of Oz is the first full-color movie. C. That T he Wizard of Oz was shown in black and white. D. That T he Wizard of Oz took advantage of bright colors.

38. What accounted for the failure of many theaters to use Kinemacolor? A. The lack of enough finances. B. The complex process of using colors.

C. The difficulty in installing necessary equipment. D. The unsatisfying color effect of Kinemacolor movies.

39. What does the author want to convey in the last paragraph? A. The significance of the black and white film. B. The possibility of replacing the black and white film.

C. The popularity of the black and white film among audiences. D. The applicability of shooting classic stories in black and white.

B

I needed to get some money so, after Christmas, I took a job in the clothes

department at Graham’ s for the first fortnight of the January sale. I can’ t say that I enjoyed it, but it was all experience I'll never forget.

I could never understand why there were so many fillings in the sales;

where did they all come from? Now I know the secret. Firstly, there is the special winter stock and the stock that people buy all the year round; some of these things are slightly reduced. Secondly, there are the summer clothes they couldn't sell last year; these are heavily reduced to clear them. Thirdly, there are cheap clothes bought in specially for the sales; these are put out at high prices ten days before the sale begins and then are reduced by 60% in the sale. Clever! Lastly, they buy in “ seconds ” (clothes not in perfect condition) for the sale and they are sold very cheaply.

When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale,

there was already a queue among three sides of the building. This made me very nervous.

When the big moment moved to open the doors, the security guards,

looking less confident than usual, came up to them, keys in hand. The moment they had unlocked the doors, they hid behind the doors for protection as the noisy crowd charged in. I couldn’t believe my eyes: this wasn’t shopping; it was a battlefield! One poor lady couldn ’ t keep her feet and was knocked over by people pushing from behind.

Clothes were flying in all directions as people searched for the sizes, colors

and styles they wanted. Quarrels broke out. Mothers were using their small children to crawl through people's legs and get hold of things they couldn’t get near themselves.

Within minutes I had half a dozen people pushing clothes under my nose,

each wanting to be the first served. Where had the famous English queue gone? The whole day continued like that, but I kept my temper! I was taking money hand over fist and began to realize why, twice a year, Graham's were happy to turn their expensive store into a battlefield like this.

In the sales campaign, people were spending money like water without

thinking whether they needed what they were buying. As long as it was a bargain it was OK.

You won't believe this but as soon as I got home I crashed out for four

hours. Then I had dinner and went back to bed, fearing the sound of the alarm which would tell me to get ready for the second day of the sale. 40. What kind of clothes is likely to be sold 5 % cheaper? A. Last summer's clothes.

C. Clothes bought in specially for the sales.

condition. 41. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Small children enjoyed crawling through people's legs.

B. The customers kept their temper while looking for clothes they wanted. C. The customers gave up the queuing, for which the English are famous. D. The security guards were fearless of the crowd.

42. In the author's opinion, why were Graham's happy to make their expensive

store into a \A. There were too many clothes and they wanted to clear them in the sales. B. They were eager to show that they were clever at doing business. C. They wanted to make more money by having sales.

D. They could take the chance to raise the prices of all their clothes.

43. The underlined expression \. A. slept soundly B. chatted with her friends C. broke down

44. What would be the best title for the passage? A. The Best Bargain B. Hunting for a Job C. A Pleasant Fortnight D. Sale Fever

D. dined out

B. Clothes for winter. D. Clothes not in

perfect

C

Despite living in it, we hardly know exactly how big the Milky Way is. But new research has provided us with an answer. Using a large survey of stars instead of just models (as previous researchers did), astronomers have now determined the disk of our galaxy to be 200,000 light years across twice as large as was believed a decade ago.

Astronomers know the Milky Way to be a spiral (螺旋状的) galaxy with a flat central disk composed of spiraling arms and a thin outer cloud of stars called the halo ( 光 晕 ). Most of the stars are found in the disk, which rapidly thins out at the edges. The size of the galaxy is measured from the point at which the number of stars in the disk significantly drops, so finding disk stars is key to determining the Milky Way’s size.

Coincidentally, disk stars tend to be much younger than the halo stars. Since stars gradually build up elements over generations, the disk stars’ composition can be different from that of the halo stars, allowing astronomers to figure out which stars belong to which population.

With a process known as spectroscopy ( 光 谱 学 ), researchers studied the chemical composition of over 4,600 stars from two surveys, and mapped out which stars are part of the disk and which belong to the halo. The results clearly show disk stars much farther from the center of the galaxy than before.

The researchers still believe the density of stars in the disk gets lower in an exponential ( 指数的) manner— just farther away from each other than previously thought. Although the galaxy has been supersized, it is still smaller than its neighbor Andromeda, which measures over 220,000 light years across. While our galaxy is looking larger, it ’ s not putting on much weight. Because the outer reaches are much less dense than the center of the galaxy, the additional area is only thinly populated with stars. These few extra stars are only a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the galaxy, so overall the mass of the Milky Way remains largely unchanged.

45. What has new research found about the Milky Way? A. It's hard to know its size.

B. It can be measured by using models. C. It has grown much larger than before. D. It’s much larger than previously thought. 46. Where is the size of the Milky Way measured? A. At the end of the halo. B. At the edge of the disk. C. At the start of the disk stars. D. At the point of the spiraling arms.

47. How can researchers distinguish disk from halo stars? A. By studying their chemical composition.

B. By measuring their distance to the sun. C. By measuring their weight. D. By comparing their size.

48. The underlined part in the last paragraph probably refers to A. the speed of the stars’ moving B. the weight of the stars in total C. the number of stars in an area D. the size of the Milky Way

49. What can we infer about the stars in the Milky Way? A. They are unevenly distributed.

B. They are heavier than previously predicted. C. They make the Milky Way larger than others. D. They mainly stay in the outer ranges of the disk.

D

Hot after “ smart email” comes “ digital wellness”, the umbrella term

for trying to reduce our addiction to technology — and its grim effects on our health, productivity and politics— by means of that technology itself. One hugely popular app, Forest, displays a tree on your phone when you put it down, which then gradually begins to grow, and is only to die if you pick it back up. Using fire to fight fire in this fashion is an appealing thought. And given the endless data these firms collect about how we use their products, nobody could be better placed to help us use them more healthily.

And yet, increasingly, digital wellness triggers in me a response aware of those kinds of things I meet in bad American reality TV shows. In the shows, some teenagers are sent to the Colorado wilderness to learn self-discipline through self- love. If you hate how much you use your phone, just stop using your phone so much! Relying on Big Tech to help you do so is a problem, for one thing, because of the obvious conflict of interest. However concerned for your wellbeing they might seem, Apple and Google need you to use their products. But it ’ s also funny, as the author Cal Newport explained on his blog. “ I’ m a grown man,” he wrote. “If I’m checking my phone every five minutes or playing video games instead of paying attention to my kids, I don't need an existence of a dying tree to help me toward better habits. I actually need someone I respect to knock the stupid thing out of my hand and say, ‘Just stop using it!’”

To put it differently: digital wellness aims to reduce your dependency on your devices—but at the cost of increasing your dependency on the corporations behind those devices. It closes off the idea of a more basic rejection of using them, which may be the right answer for us. More generally, it seems likely to weaken your self-discipline muscle, by giving the job of managing your time and attention to a third party.

50. What does the app seemingly want to do by displaying a tree? A. To go after the design fashion of beauty. B. To ask us to make full use of our phones.

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