One of the biggest new bands in the UK at the moment is Arctic Monkeys. Their first two singles went straight to number one in the charts and their first record album Whatever People Say I Am,That's What Vm Not has become a recordbreaking album. It's the fastestselling debut album in UK chart history.
Arctic Monkeys are not only wellknown because of their massive success. They achieved their success thanks to the Internet. Usually a new band signs to a record company and it is through marketing and promotion that people then buy singles. The single sales then get the band into the charts and they become popular that way.
However,Arctic Monkeys became wellknown in a slightly different way. Back in 2003 when the band first started,they handed out CDs at their concert. Certain fans liked the music so much that they put the music up on the web. The general public gained access to this music because it was on the Internet and,because people liked the music,the band's popularity increased.
The band's popularity was starting to get noticed by major radio stations in the UK. When the band appeared at two major UK music festivals in the summer of 2005,they were quite lowdown among the programmes. However,an unusually large crowd turned up because music fans knew the band's music from the Internet.
Arctic Monkeys released their first single in October 2005. Previous to that,their music had only been available to download on the Internet. When they did finally release a single and an album,they both shot to the top of the charts. Music fans welcome the use of the Internet this way and Arctic Monkeys became popular simply because people liked their music when they heard it. There was no too much promotion and no marketing campaign. Many people are saying this is a taste of things to come. As music downloads continue to increase in popularity,we can expect to see more and more bands make it big in this way.
( ) 1. What is mainly introduced about Arctic Monkeys in the passage?
A. The way it became popular.
B. Its great success in Britain.
C. Popular records made by it.
D. The personal life of its members.
( ) 2. Which of the following statements about the band is true?
A. When first started,they put their music on the web themselves.
B. Their first record sells most in UK history.
C. Most people didn't get to know the band from radio stations.
D. The band became popular with the help of a record company.
( ) 3. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. A school band. B. Internet band.
C. A new band. D. International band.
( ) 4. The last paragraph in the passage is to show .
A. Why Arctic Monkeys are liked by many people.
B. The best way to be popular is to sign to a record company.
C. More and more new bands will appear to take the place of it.
D. Internet will play an important role in the music popularity.
( ) 5. Which of the following best show the structure of the passage?
A. Introduction-Discussion-Supporting example
B. Topic-Argument-Explanation
C. Introduction-Description-Conclusion
D. Opinion-Discussion-Description
1. A本文主要講述的是Arctic Monkeys樂隊通過網絡，迅速躥紅的過程，所以，主要講述的是樂隊成名之路。
2. C從文章中可知，人們熟悉這個樂隊是通過在網上下載他們的音樂，并非通過收音機等媒體。
3. B Internet band最能體現(xiàn)本文講述的中心。
4. D末段表明這種通過網絡，非傳統(tǒng)而成名的樂隊，以后會越來越多。
5. C本文的文章結構就是引人話題,描述成名之路，再給出結論。
題目來源：高考英語組合訓練（完形填空 +閱讀理解） > 組合訓練11-20
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David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle explores the silent world of the novel's hero,Edgar Sawtelle,living in Wisconsin during the middle of the 20th century. Born unable to speak,the boy seems to prefer the language of dogs more than the words of people. From his earliest memories,his favorite job on the farm was to name the new born dogs. As he grows older,his connection with the dogs becomes deeper. He helps to train them through sign lan?guage.
The novel begins with Edgar's grandfather,telling readers about how the dog farm began. When Edgar's father,Gar,dies strangely,Edgar blames his uncle,Claude,his father's younger brother,who has meant nothing but trouble for the family. When Claude falls in love with Edgar's mother,Trudy,Edgar is shocked and very angry.
The story is filled with loving family memories until Claude arrives,returning to the farm he abandoned long ago. Edgar finds Claude to be twofaced. The man presents his best side to Edgar's mother. She falls in love with him,allowing him to fill in the vacant spaces left behind from her husband's death. Edgar sees the other side of Claude,a side that Edgar finds danger?ous.
When tensions become too strong between Edgar and Claude,Edgar takes his favorite dogs and runs away from home. For the story itself,this tension raises the level of curiosity for the reader. It is at this point that the novel takes on the form of a mystery or a sort of detective story. Edgar fears that the police are looking for him because of an accidental death that he played a part in. Readers may worry that Edgar might be caught because Claude tells local offi?cials that Edgar committed murder. In the end,it is Edgar against Claude―a fight to the finish. Unfortunately,there are no winners.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle was Wroblewski's first novel. It took him ten years to com?plete it. Literary critics praise the author's writing,especially in the first half of the story. Some critics,however,hold the opposite opinion. And,some have found the second half to be too artificially operated.
( ) 1. As a whole,this passage is . ,
A. a news report B. a horrible story
C. a book review D. a research paper
( ) 2. Which of the following is true about Edgar?
A. He is badly treated by the police.
B. He is good at training different kinds of dogs.
C. He is angry that his mother doesn't love his father at all.
D. He thinks Claude is possibly linked to his father's death.
( ) 3. According to the passage,Claude's arrival .
A. makes the family surprised
B. disturbs the happy family life
C. immediately causes Edgar's anger
D. leads to the death of Edgar's grandfather
( ) 4. From the passage,we know that .
A. the opinions about the novel are mixed
B. in fact,the novel is a very good detective story
C. David Wroblewski wrote the novel in Wisconsin
D. on the farm,all the dogs are trained through sign language
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Once a month the nun marched us to the church,where we would stand in line to say our confession (懺'海) .Bless me,Father,for I have sinned (豸巳罪) ，my last confession was a month ago. These are my sins: "I stole a magazine and I called my younger brother a fucking head."
I thought it a great bargain that a few "Hail Marys" forgave me of my sins. Sometimes the kid ahead of me in line stayed a long time inside the confessional,and I wondered what horrible crimes he had committed. Now we can know what sins others commit,there are Web sites suddenly appear all over the Internet that allow penitents (悔罪者) to publicly confess their sins.
A woman kept her secret for nearly two decades. Finally ready to confess,she turned not to a minister,but to her computer： " I am sorry,God,for not keeping that baby”，her confession reads. "I had kept that secret for over 18 years. I feel so ashamed. Please forgive me!"
The confession appears at ivescrewedup. com,a website launched by the Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City. It's one of a growing number of such sites across the country that offer a place to spill out ugly secrets or just make sins public.
Online confessions are a wonderful thing for a poor soul burdened with guilt,it allows him to clear his conscience without the mediation (調停，斡旋) of a priest. When a sinner confesses his evil ways to his favorite god,he doesn't receive an email notifying him that his prayer has reached its destination.
But when you post your sins online,they are visible to the whole world,and at the very least you know that others have read your confession.
If you feel the need to confess your shortcomings online,feel free to visit dailyconfession.com or mysecret.tv.
( ) 5. The underlined word "bargain" in the passage means .
A. an agreement made between two people
B. an advantageous deal
C. something for sale
D. a pleasing thing
( ) 6. Online confessions are different from the traditional ones in the aspect that .
A. you might get the forgiveness of more people
B. they can help remove the burden on your mind
C. on no account will anybody else know your guilt
D. they are more timeconsuming because you need to find a computer
( ) 7. Which of the following words has nothing to do with online confessions?
A. Penitents. B. Priest. C. Computer. D. Public.
( ) 8. The writer writes this passage in order to .
A. confess his sins to gods
B. ask more people to confess
C. introduce a new way to confess
D. call on people not to confess in the church
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The speaker,a teacher from a community college,addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs. " He described the inadequacies of his students,all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determine from his answers to my questions how this grade 9 level had been established.
My topic is not standards nor its decline (降低) .What the speaker was really saying is that he is no longer young;he has been teaching for sixteen years,and is able to think and speak like a mature adult.
My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable. It is also human nature to look for the reasons for our dissatisfaction. Before English became a school subject in the late nineteenth century,it was difficult to find the target of the blame for language deficiencies (缺陷) .But since then,English teachers have been under constant attack.
The complainers think they have hit upon an original idea. As their own command of the language improves,they notice that young people do not have this same ability. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years,they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect. To the eyes and ears of sensitive adults the language of the young always seems inadequate. .
Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not noticed as a generational phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today's young people,it naturally follows that today's English teachers cannot be doing their jobs. Otherwise,young people would not commit offenses against the language.
( ) 1. The speaker the author mentioned in the passage believed that .
A. the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to that of the older generation
B. the students had a poor command of English because they didn't work hard enough
C. he was an excellent language teacher because he had been teaching English for sixteen years
D. English teachers should be held responsible for the students' poor command of English
( ) 2. In the author's opinion,the speaker .
A. gave a correct judgment of the English level of the students
B. had exaggerated the language problems of the students
C. was right in saying that English teachers were not doing their jobs
D. could think and speak intelligently
( ) 3. The author's attitude towards the speaker's remarks is .
A. neutral B. positive C. critical D. compromising
( ) 4. In the passage the author argues that .
A. it is unfair to blame the English teachers for the language deficiencies of the students
B. young people would not commit offences against the language if the teachers did their jobs properly
C. to eliminate language deficiencies one must have sensitive eyes and ears
D. to improve the standard of English requires the effort of several generations
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Before Microsoft came along,there really was no software industry~just a few companies selling very highpriced software only to companies,big companies. The idea of lowcost software that would be empowering (賦予.... 權力) for individuals and that there could be literally around the world hundreds of thousands of these successful companies―that was part of the Microsoft dream. And in fact,the software industry is 10 ,000 times bigger because of the work we do. Microsoft has a uniform platform that has gotten out to go around the world. And so in every country we've helped companies grow up,create jobs,pay taxes around the software world. The main competitors who don't like us are actually hardware companies who have been used to charging very high prices for the hardware and the PCs changed that.
It's hard to think of a business that's had a more positive effect for customers than the PC business. The rate of product improvement provides its ability to create and stay in touch. You know the closest comparison is when publishing came along and people had books. Of course books created a problem. You know,the people wanted to control things didn't like books;the people who wanted to sell highpriced hand written things didn't like the printing press. But actually it was something that people knew really that it was very positive. The same thing's happened with the P C. There's no company that in terms of our work has gotten as positive feedback and has gotten as broad a set of users. Those users are always telling us what they'd like to see us make better,and that's partly why it's a fun business because we get to make new versions of the software all the time.
Well,the vision of Microsoft is about information as you want it,any time,anywhere,any place. And this is an overall strategy about making it easier to write software,easier to share data,revolutionizing user interface with the speech and handwriting. And making reading off the computer as good or better than paper and so today we will see that the horizons for software will let us get so much more than even what we have now.
( ) 5. How did Microsoft change the software industry?
A. By selling highpriced software to the big companies.
B. By offering free classes on computer to individuals.
C. By selling all kinds of software to single person directly.
D. By making a competition with the hardware companies.
( ) 6. Which of the following is NOT the Microsoft dream?
A. Producing more and more lowpriced software.
B. Paying more attention to some big companies.
C. Making the computer easier for ordinary people to use.
D. Reading on the computer better than paper.
( ) 7. Why did the writer offer the example of books in Paragraph 2?
A. To show the great effect of the PC business.
B. To show the development of science.
C. To show the problem the books created.
D. To foretell the computer will take the place of the book.
( ) 8. What's the writer's attitude towards the future of Microsoft?
A. Positive. B. Suspicious. C. Negative. D. Critical.
( ) 9. What will the following part of the passage be about?
A. The developments on PC in the future.
B. The ways to sell software in the world.
C. The history of software in America.
D. The strategy about writing software.
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One of the things teachers dread is to have charge of a class dominated by a large,stupid,bullying boy. David Horsey gives such a young rude truly nightmarish (垂夢般的) proportions in today's cartoon：too large to fit in the room.
The teacher in the cartoon is trying to interest her pupils in a violin. There are many ways in which to think about a violin：how it is played,how it makes those sounds,the kind of music that one can play on it,how the violin was crafted,who produced it,the historical origin of the violin,its beauty as an object,attitudes toward violins and violin music,etc. The violin is a perfect tool for stimulating curiosity and imagination,for encouraging experiment,for exciting wonder,for training taste. And such undertakings as these are fundamental to the best Western concept of education,just as important as the mastery of facts. Facts are important,but facts are also dead in themselves. Good education must include giving children experience in using facts to explore the unknown,in groups and on their own,and also to formulate opinions and impressions,and to defend them in debate.
But progress in such matters as imagination,creativity and responsiveness cannot easily be tested,at least not numerically,while success in memorizing facts can be measured in neat ways to satisfy the bureaucrats (官僚) .Now President Bush has promised to improve American primary education,and most observers would agree that it needs improvement. He sides with the people who emphasize the use of tests to guarantee that pupils are reaching certain minimums in math and reading. That is the approach taken in the "No Child Left Behind" Act passed by Congress early in the Bush presidency：forced testing of children and schools,with published results for the schools and punitive (懲罰性的) measures for under performers.
But Horsey sympathizes with teachers who complain that teaching to tests has little to do with true education. Education in fact is easy to organize;education for life―in using all the capacities of one's mind to meet the challenges of life―is an art that bureaucrats,like the class bully,know nothing about and want to hear nothing of.
( ) 5. What does the underlined word " bullying boy" probably mean in the first paragraph?
A. A smart but poor person.
B. A rough and violent person.
C. An honest but hottempered man.
D. An intelligent but talkative one.
( ) 6. The passage is mainly about .
A. how to teach a violin in an effective way
B. what good education is like
C. an argument about a law
D. how to help students pass tests
( ) 7. From the passage we can infer that .
A. some officials don't know much about education
B. creativity and responsiveness can easily be tested
C. the students just need to learn what will be tested
D. the testing can improve American primary education
( ) 8. The writer's opinions are as follows EXCEPT .
A. It's good to take "No child left Behind" Act passed by Congress
B. Education is more than test. In some way,it's a kind of Art
C. We can test the facts but can't test the capacities of the students
D. Teachers should let the students know more than tested facts
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One of the most expected anticipated revolutions in aviation (航空) is to take off in 2008,as new superfast,relatively cheap airplanes called "very light jets" finally go into service.
Thanks to breakthroughs in the performance of engines for small jets,along with better airplane manufacturing techniques,companies such as Eclipse Aviation,the Albuquerque,N. M.，and Adam Aircraft of Denver are promising a new kind of aircraft for a new category of travel：jetspeed transportation between as many as 5 ,500 US airports,in planes that cost as little as $1. 5 million.
That's a part of the price of today's private jets.
Waiting for final certification by the Federal Aviation Administration,which is now expected in the second quarter of 2008,Eclipse's sixseat E500 could be in the hands of pilots this July.
A private charter service based at Hanscom Field in Lexington,Mass., Linear Air LL C. already has ordered 30 of the Eclipse very light jets and plans to put them in service between August and late 2009. The planes can fly at more than 400 mph,twice the typical speed of private propellerdriven planes.
"This is the absolute future,and everybody in the aviation business knows it," said Arthur Allen,chairman of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission,which oversees 38 smaller airports around the state.
Because VLJs weigh as little as a minivan (微型車) ，they can land on runways as short as 3 ,000 feet―compared with the 4 ,000 or 5,000 feet required by the smallest private jets today. Allen envisions (預測) them opening up new markets for air taxi and charter services.
"It's like an executive car service,with wings," said Bill Herp,Linear Air's chief executive. " VLJs are going to revolutionize the way a large percentage of the traveling public gets around."
Part of Linear's plan with scheduled charter service is to introduce passengers to the private plane experience and turn them to future customers for $1,500 or $3,000 charter flights,either for business or vacation travel for rich consumers.
For Herp,the huge advantage of VLJs is they will cost a third as much to buy and half as much to operate per hour as traditional small jets,vastly broadening the market for air taxi and charter services.
( ) 5. What is the best title of the passage?
A. New Jets May Change Air Travel
B. The Bright Future for New Jets
C. The Advantage of the New Jets
D. Fast and Cheaper Jets
( ) 6. What is NOT the advantage of the new jets,compared with the private jets today?
A. They can cost less both in buying and using.
B. They can carry more people on the board.
C. They can fly faster and can be more convenient.
D. They need shorter runway.
( ) 7. We may learn from the passage that .
A. they are beginning to sell the new jets at lower prices
B. they will let some people experience the travel of the new jets
C. they will make the course and the price of the tickets of the jets
D. they are making contracts with taxi business
( ) 8. What does the underlined phrase "charter services" mean in the passage?
A. To hire the plane for a particular purpose.
B. To make a chart while flying.
C. The first flight.
D. A pleasant flight.
( ) 9. We can infer from the passage that .
A. the jets can be operated by an ordinary car driver in the future
B. the new jets can only be used by the rich as their private planes
C. the new jets will have a promising market
D. all the companies will use them to take the place of the cars
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If you have a watch,don't repair it!I know it 1 Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch 2 perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to 3 it up. Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be 4 by the exact time. The watchmaker 5 my watch and said, "The regulator (校準器) is to be pushed up as your watch is four minutes 6 ."
I tried to stop him and tried to 7 him understand that my watch kept perfect time,but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It 8 faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it had 9 all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately 10 he asked me to come in a week's time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to 11 down. And I began to be late for trains,business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to a 12 watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch,he 13 it to pieces and said that he could finish this work 14 three or four days. I could do nothing but 15 . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept 16 my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not 17 the time by my watch. The thing was getting 18 . My watch had cost two hundred dollars 19 but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I 20 to buy another watch,which I did.
( ) 1. A. for ever B. for once C. for certain D. for free
( ) 2. A. kept B. told C. observed D. struck
( ) 3. A. turn B. wind C. pick D. put .
( ) 4. A. turned B. taken C. put D. set
( ) 5. A. examined B. checked C. studied D. observed
( ) 6. A. fast B. short C. ahead D. slow
( ) 7. A. get B. persuade C. make D. explain
( ) 8. A. gained B. lost C. went D. won
( ) 9. A. remained B. left C. stayed D. fallen
( ) 10. A. however B. and C. but D. therefore
( ) 11. A. go B. walk C. slow D. fall
( ) 12. A. third B. second C. first D. fourth
( ) 13. A. broke B. took C. tore D. cut
( ) 14. A. after B. before C. over D. in
( ) 15. A. follow B. agree C. refuse D. depart
( ) 16. A. taking B. bringing C. carrying D. fetching
( ) 17. A. recognize B. tell C. know D. understand
( ) 18. A. terrific B. pleasant C. funny D. serious
( ) 19. A. average B. usually C. originally D. separately
( ) 20. A. decided B. continued C. prevented D. hoped
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8. It seems that you ，or you can see what I questioned just now. (read)
你似乎沒讀這份報告，否則你能明白我剛才問的是什么。
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