which life continues year after year without obvious changes,

Today we have an （) need to recognize a new phase of life that comes after high school

(), continues through college, and then leads to starting a family and having a (), the so-called () years. Recent trends show radical changes as young people are following a different (). They take breaks from school, live with friends and often () to living with their parents. (), they fall in and out of love, quit one job and try another or even () to a new career. So, we need to () this new stage, the odyssey years, which many now consider to be an unavoidable stage in reaching ().

s the city' s people who add that extra dimension which makes it vibrant, memorable, famous and much-visited. London is such a city, and a major exhibition about its people makes this point by pulling together paintings, drawing and prints by artists over the centuries to show Londoners from all walks of life and in all manners of setting. The capital' s renowned old markets, most now gone, like Covent Garden and Billingsgate, captured the eye of painters because of the extraordinarily disparate range of characters mingling together. Processions and ceremonial events were popular subjects, although many artists were inspired by the individuals they saw: the street traders, laborers, merchants, craftsmen, society folk, servants, visiting foreigners, the very poor, the old, and the criminals. There is a book which accompanies the show and from which In Britain has chosen its illustrations. Londoners is published Thames and Hudson, 30-34 Bloomsbury street, London WC1B 3QP. Telephone 01- 636 5488. It has 237 illustrations, 20 in color: ￡20 in hardback, ￡9.95 paperback. Available post-free direct form. the publishers to addresses overseas, or form. bookshops in the UK.

The exhibition continues until August 2 at the Museum of London. Open Tuesday to Saturday,

According to the advertisements, the element which adds the real color to a city is ______.

A．the city itself

B．its inhabitants

C．the buildings

D．the markets

A subject （)is the mechanism of that equipment.

A.which there continues to be intense debate

B.which continues to be intense debate

C.on which it continues to be intense debate

D.what continues to be intense debate

eriod, which of the following statements concerning the credit is correct？

(1)( ) It continues to be available for that instalment only.

(2)( ) It continues to be available for that and other instalments.

(3)( ) It ceases to be available for that instalment only.

(4)( ) It ceases to be available for that and other instalments.

ome museums. Americans, however,【M1】______ attend to bring an either-or mentality to most things. The invention【M2】______ of television led to predictions about the demise of radio. The making of movies was to be the funeral bell of alive theater;【M3】______ recorded music, the end of concerts. All these forms still exist—sometimes overshadowed by their siblings, but not smothered by them. And with the direst predictions, reading【M4】______ continues to be part of the life of the mind. Theres no question that reading off-paper, as I think of it, will increase in years to come. A library that got 10 as gifts【M5】______ reported that within a half hour they had all checked out. And【M6】______ theres no question that once again we will be treated to lamentations suggesting that true literacy has become the lost art. The difference this time is that we will confront with elitism from【M7】______ both sides. Not only have literary purists now complain of the【M8】______ evanescent nature of letters onscreen, the tech fanatics have become equally disdainful of the old form. Perhaps we should look past both sides to concern ourselves with function instead of form. I am cheered by the Gallup poll in【M9】______ which asks a simple question: do you happen to be reading any books or novels at present？ In 1952 a merely 18 percent of【M10】______ respondents said yes. The last time the survey was done, in 2005, that number was 47 percent. So much for the good old days.

【M1】

fears of closure. The report says the theatre does not meet modem standards for arts events and the site is capable of a larger-scale (更大规模的) development. While it promises to plan for a neighborhood center, it fails to make any mention of a new theatre, which has left many asking why.

Leading figures from the arts circle have come togther to fight for the 21-year-old theatre.

Barbara Windsor, chairman of the Performing Art Society, said: "If they have to tear it down it would be a waste of a good theatre. Every town needs a heart."

John Stevens, of Sutton Theatre Company, said the theatre had suffered from a lack of money and business support. "There's a crying need for a theatre in Sutton and the public will lose out if the Secombe goes."

Peter Geiringer, a city government official also argued that a neighborhood center was not the same as a theatre. "It's silly; this is the death of the Secombe. They're going to replace (代替) it by a hall so no one in Sutton will be able to go to a real theatre."

Leslie Coman, member of city committee for the arts, said: "The Secombe has played an out- standing role in the cultural life of this town over many years. It is only right that the committee continues to look at how it can provide new buildings for artists' workshops, and performances."

Sutton Arts Committee Chairman Tony Kerslake said: "At some stage a building comes to the end of its life. If a new one was built in the same place, I would accept that as progress."

The government report makes people wonder whether the theatre will be______.

A．replaced

B．closed

C．rebuilt

D．enlarged

The word () means "the joining together of two corporations in which one corporation transfers all of its assets to the other, which continues to exist. In effect one corporation "swallows" the other, but the shareholders of the swallowed company receive shares of the surviving corporation".

A、merger

B、director

C、cquisition

D、takeover

Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A．Tori Amos didn't write any songs.

B．Y Kant Tori Read was a great success.

C．After childbirth, Tori Amos continues to produce new songs.

D．Under the Pink didn't sell as well as Little Earthquakes.

tant in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby' s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in profile. This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew people with mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are carried on their mother' s back, infants do not acquire as much attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals, that the proper place to focus one' s gaze during a conversation in Japan is on the neck of one' s conversation partner.

The role of eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined; speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second, then glance away as they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener or reassure themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they be looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker re-establishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational flow becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses: there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.

The author is convinced that the eyes are ______ .

A．of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas

B．something through which one can see a person' s inner world

C．of considerable significance in making conversations interesting

D．something the value of which is largely a matter of long debate

Which statement is the true description about IWC？

A．The purpose of the foundation of IWC is to protect whales from being killed.

B．All the members of IWC have a history of whaling.

C．IWC decided to stop commercial whaling in the mid-1960s.

D．IWC has no right to exert any punishment on Japan even if Japan continues the slaughter.