Read the passage a second time, ___________ the meaning won’t become clearer to you.

A. and        B. so         C. or        D. but

       Tiring as it might be, the military training ______ the best opportunity to make lifelong friends.

     A. is believed to be                                    B. believes as

              C. is believed to being                               D. believes

     Jessica Tandy probably is best known for winning an Academy Award in 1989 for the movie Driving Miss Dairy. She was the oldest person to have won the award. But for many years, she had received praise for her great performances.

     Jessica Tandy was born in London in 1909. After her father died, her mother taught and took other jobs at night to make extra money to raise her, three children. Jessica’s older brothers showed an interest in the theater and often put on shows at home. Jessica said later that she was terrible in all of them. But she said taking part in those plays as a child created a desire in her to be someone else.

     Jessica loved going to the theater. This love led her to attend an acting school in 1924. She performed in her first play called The Manderson Girls at 18. But few people watched this play. In 1932, she married the famous actor Jack Hawkins. Their wedding pictures were on the front page of many British newspapers. In the same year, critics in London recognized her great acting skill in her performance in the play Children in Uniform.

     In 1940, Jessica ended her first marriage and moved to the USA. In New York, she met actor Hume Cronyn. Two years later, they married and moved to Hollywood.

     Her turning point came in 1947 when she played the lead part in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. Tandy won the first of her four Tony awards for best actress in it. After that Hollywood producers began to choose her to be in the movie.

     Jessica Tandy said she hated seeing herself in the movies. She was surprised when she won the Academy Award for Driving Miss Daisy. She said that the wonderful part she had made up for her lack of experience in movies.

68. Jessica’s early interest in acting came from __________.

   A. her natural gift for acting                   B. her brothers’ influence

   C. her hope of helping raise her family          D. her mother’s encouragement

 69. What made Jessica first widely known to the public?

   A. Attending an acting school.             

   B. Her first play The Manderson Girls.

   C. Her marriage with Jack Hawkins.        

   D. Her wonderful performance in Driving Miss Daisy.

70. Which is the correct order of the following events?

   a. Jessica performed in The Manderson Girls.

   b. Jessica married Hume Cronyn

   c. Jessica played the lead part in A Streetcar Named Desire.

   d. Jessica moved to the USA.

   A. a, d, b, c         B. a, b, c, d         C. b, d, a, c          D. b, c, a, d

71. From the last paragraph, we can learn that __________.

   A. Jessica wasn’t interested in acting in movies

   B. winning the Academy Award was a surprise to Jessica

   C. Jessica would perform better if given a better part

   D. Jessica was as confident as commonly considered

It is generally considered unwise to give a child ___________ he or she wants.

   A. however       B. whatever      C. whichever      D. whenever

James Cameron’s movie Avatar, set in 2154,         place on a planet called Pandora.

       A．will take   B．will be taken    C．takes D．is taken

Have you ever wondered why some of the smartest students in your class sometimes ____ failing exams?

       A．take up          B．pick up    C．come up   D．end up

I don’t think math                 

    A. easily to be learned                B. easily to learn

C. easy to be learning                 D. easy to learn

 I lay in the sofa, enjoying the beautiful music John had _______ out of his DVD．

      A. come         B. it come        C. it coming            D. coming

    What does it mean to day that we live in world of persuasion? It means that we live among

competing interests. Your roommate’s need to study for an exam take priority（優(yōu)先）over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade. And the object of your romantic interest may have other choices.

  In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence what others believe and how they behave. We may not always prevail（占優(yōu)勢(shì)）--other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merits of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.

Some people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome approach to their lives or as a control. In contrast, we believe that persuasion is inevitable--to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be moral or immoral, selfless or selfish, inspiring or discouraging. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or make us hurt. Moral persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, an essential part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.

  Beyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is a need to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the basic principle of the American political system.

60．What’s the author’s attitude towards persuasion?

       A．Critical.    B．Uninterested.    C．Supportive.      D．Neutral.

61．The passage states that some people are against persuasion because they think it is       .

       A．a(chǎn)n unwelcome influence         B．difficult to do well

       C．not trustworthy at all                  D．never successful

62．We can conclude from the passage that persuasion means         .

       A．getting people to act according to your will

       B．exercising power over other people

       C．making use of your past wise experience

       D．getting other people to consider your reasonable points of view.

63．According to the passage, we can infer that            .

      A．we can learn how to persuade in school

       B．only society can benefit from persuasion

       C．persuasion plays an important role in America

       D．persuasion is considered to be an inborn ability

        71    It might understand more than you think．

    A dog named Rico recognizes the names of about 200 objects, say researchers in Germany．   72   Its word-learning skills are as good as those of a parrot or chimpanzee．

    In one experiment，the researchers took all 200 items that Rico is supposed to know and divided them into 20 groups of 10 objects．   73   In four tests，Rico got 37 out of 40 commands right．As the dog couldn’t see anyone to get clues，the scientists believe Rico must understand the meanings of certain words．

In another experiment，the scientists took one toy that Rico had never seen before and put it in a room with seven toys whose names the dog already knew．   74    

The correct object was chosen in seven out of 10 tests．suggesting that the dog had worked out the answer by process of removing．A month later，Rico remembered half of the new names，which is even more impressive．

       75   Even if they do，they can’t talk back．Still，it wouldn't hurt to sweet-talk your dog

every now and then You might just get a big，wet kiss in return!

    A．The owner then told Rico to fetch the object，using a word the dog had never heard before

     B．Do dogs more understand us than some friends?   

     C．It’s hard to know if all dogs understand at least some of the words we say．

     D．Be careful what you say around your dog．

    E．The dog also appears to be able to learn new words

    F．Then the owner told the dog to go and fetch one of the items and bring it back．

    G．Rico is thought to be smarter than the average dog．