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nument on Mount Rushmore are true EXCEPT:

A．Lincoln Borglum completed the project his father began.

B．It took less than fifteen years to complete the monument.

C．Few deaths occurred as a result of the construction.

D．The monument was created, in part, by the use of dynamit

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. His father was an entertainer and although not one of the big names, he was doing very well. His mother Hannah was also an entertainer. While they were by no means rich, the music hall provided the Chaplins with a comfortable living.

Unfortunately happy life didn't last long. Father's alcoholism was slowly, but surely destroying his marriage. Finally it ended in divorce. But Hannah was indomitable (不屈不挠的). Without her, Charlie Chaplin would have become just one more child lost in the poverty of Victorian London. Somehow she not only managed to keep Charlie and his brother Sydney clean and warm, clothed and fed, but she conjured (变戏法)little treats for them. She would sit at the window watching the passers-by and guess at their characters from the way they looked and behaved, spinning tales to delight Charlie and Syney. Charlie took in her skills and went on using them all his life.

Charlie had always believed, even in the worst time, that he had some special potential inside him. He took his courage and went to see one of the top theatrical agents. With no experience at all, he was being offered the part of Billy, the pageboy (小听差) in a new production of "Sherlock Holmes". "Sherlock Holmes" opened on July 27, 1903 at the enormous "Pavilion Theatre". Charlie seemed to change overnight. It was as if he had found the thing he was meant to do.

In 1910, when Kamo set off on its yearly American tour, Charlie was regarded as "one of the best pantomime (哑剧)artists ever seen here. " They had reached Philadelphia when a telegram arrived and he was being offered the chance to replace a star in the Keystone film company.

Cinema was born in the same year as Charlie, though people still believed it was a passing fad (一时的狂热，时尚), and would never replace live shows. He was kept hanging about for several weeks and he used the time to watch and learn. He was determined to master this new medium. It offered him the chance of money and success and it would set him free from the unpredictability of live audience.

Charlie's first film, released in February 1914, was called "Making a living". Though it didn't satisfy Charlie, the public liked it. After that he made ten films and he learned a lot. The public loved him and distributors were demanding more and more Chaplin films. In an incredibly short time, Charlie had become a very important man in motion picture.

In Charlie's childhood, his mother played an important role.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

A.took

B.had taken

C.were taking

D.would take

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16. 1889 in London. His father was an entertainer and although not one of the big names, he was doing very well. His mother Hannah was also an entertainer. While they were by no means rich. the music hall provided the Chaplins with a comfortable living.

Unfortunately happy life did't last long. Father's alcoholism was slowly, but surely destroying his marriage. Finally it ended in divorce. But Hannah was indomitable(不屈不挠的). Without her, Charlie Chaplin would have become just one more child lost in the poverty of Victorian London. Somehow she not only managed to keep Charlie and his brother Syney clean and warm, clothed and fed, but she conjured(变戏法)little treats for them. She would sit at the window watching the passersby and guess at their characters from the way they looked and behaved, spinning tales to delight Charlie and Syney. Charlie took in her skills and went on using them all his life.

Charlie had always believed, even in the worst times, that he had some special potentials inside him. He. took his courage and went to see one .of the top theatrical agents. With no experience at all, he was being offered the part of Billy--the pageboy (小听差) in a new production of "Sherlock Holmes". "Sherlock Holmes" opened on July 27, 1903 at the enormous "Pavilion Theatre". Charlie seemed to change overnight. It was as if he had found the thing he was meant to do.

In 1910. when Karno set off on its yearly American tour, Charlie was regarded as "one of the best pantomime(哑剧)artists ever seen here. " They had reached Philadelphia when a telegram arrived and he was being offered the chance to replace a star in the Key- stone film company.

Cinema was born in the same year as Charlie, though people still believed it was a passing fad(一时的狂热，时尚), and would never replace live shows. He was kept hanging about for several weeks and he used the time to watch and to learn. He was determined to master this new medium. It offered him the chance of money and success and it would set him free from the unpredictability of live audience.

Charlie's first film, released in February 1914, was called "Making a living". Though it didn't satisfy Charlie, the public liked it. After that he made ten films and he learned a lot. The public loved him and distributors were demanding more and more Chaplin films. In an incredibly short time, Charlie had become a very important man in motion picture.

第 16 题 In Charlie's childhood, his mother played an important role.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

e from？

M: I come from the Rez, an Indian reservation. I grew up there, lived there until 18.

I lived on and off the reservation for the next 6 or 7 years during college. I lived there after I graduated, worked at a high school exchange program. I thought I do that kind of job to support my writing. Day jobs that require no emotional investment beyond 8 hours a day where I wouldn't need to bring work home. I didn't want to be part of management or anybody important at the job. I wanted to be completely replaceable, that is what I thought I would be doing for most of my life and writing. Then I got a ground and my first book got a frontpage review in the New York Times Book Review.

W: When did writing enter your life？

M: Books are always being in my life. My dad love books and most of what he read were westerns-spy novels, mysteries. I grew up loving books, copying my father's love for books. But nobody has showed me a book written by an Indian, not even one piece of poem. Nothing. At that time I was going to be a physician. I loved math and science. I got to college, couldn't handle physiology, and was looking around for options and took a poetry writing class for fun.

W: Poetry was your way in？

M: Yes, that's where I started. I took the class and honestly, I just thought it would be an easy grade. But I completely underestimated poetry and what it would do to me and the realm of possibility for it. I took the class and was hooked about ten minutes after reading my first contemporary poem.

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A．He might do some evening teaching.

B．He could bring unfinished work home.

C．He might have time to pursue his interests.

D．He could invest more emotion in his family.

took considerable liberties with meter.

A.Leaves of Grass

B.blank verse

C.free verse

D.American poetry

rows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other. Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places. Terry had great hopes of the middle tree, now set in the memorial spot where Herry, his cat, run over, had been laid to rest a year before. The pine trees made an avenue down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteen-foot stone wall between the garden and the back-yards of the Jenkins Street houses.

"Why do we want a row of trees as well as a wall？" Terry asked his father.

His father said, "For privacy. These trees grow very thickly."

His father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here. The houses in Jenkins Street were on higher ground. His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall.

"Will the trees grow higher than the wall？" Terry asked then.

"Oh. Yes, twice as high if not more. It'll take a few years but they'll grow.

So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being over-looked. Terry wondered why this was so desirable. He said, "Our garden is very pretty. Why can't we let the people over the wall see it？ That wouldn't be showing off, would it？"

"No, I don't think it would be," his father said, "Yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that isn't theirs. We don't want to be the cause of any jealousy if we can help it."

This consideration for other people's feelings must be a grownup thing, Terry thought. It was no his idea of how to run things. He said, "These trees—it seems a lot of trouble to go just to stop people being jealous of us."

His father looked at him. "It isn't much trouble. Terry. "He said, "These trees will grow without help from us. They'll be beautiful. And listen to them. You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind."

The passage mainly deals with the topic of ______.

A．protection of environment

B．relationship between neighbors

C．generation gap

D．cause of jealousy

What special things did Lang Lang do for his father？

A．He sent his father a special gift.

B．He invited his father to play a duet at his Carnegie Hall solo debut.

C．He took his father to Hawaii for sightseeing.

D．He helped his father find a job in America.

What did his father do when the speaker missed cutting some weeds？

A．His father scolded him severely.

B．His father took back the six dollars.

C．His father made him do the cutting again.

D．His father cut the weeds himself.