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47.In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?

    A.1934                          B.1960

    C.1964                          D.1994

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46.What is the title of the first American political cartoon?

    A.Join or Die                      B.Pennsylvania Gazette

    C.What Hath God Wrought            D.Kentucky Dorby

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45.We know from the text that Buchanan is         .

    A.Isaac’s father                    B.a(chǎn) winning horse

    C.a(chǎn) slave taking care of horses         D.the first racing horse in Kentucky

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44.Which would be the best title for the text?                           

    A.The Invention of the Jazz Music

    B.The Father of the Jazz Style

    C.The Making of a Musician

    D.The Spread of Popular Music

答案  41.B  42.C  43.C  44.B

Passage 19

(06·全國ⅡB篇)

May: Happenings from the Past

May 5,1884

Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.

May 9,1754

Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon(漫畫), showing a snake cutsin pieces, with the words “ Join or Dic ” printed under the picture.

May 11,1934

The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl , the result of years of drought(干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.

May 19,1994

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.

May 24, 1844

Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What Hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D,C, to Baltimore, Md.

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43.Which statement about Armstrong is true?                               

    A.His tale begins in New Orleans.    

B.He was born before jazz was invented.

C.His music was popular with his listeners.

D.He learned popular music at a boy’s home.

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42.The third paragraph is developed      .                           

    A.by space           B.by examples     C.by time        D.by comparison

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41.Armstrong was called Pops because he     .                        

    A.looked like a musieian        B.was a musician of much influence

    C.showed an interest in music       D.traveled to play modern music

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59.In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that      .

A.Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked travelling

B.Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

C.a good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores

D.a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

答案  56.A  57.D  58.A  59.D

Passage 18

(07·陜西A篇)

Louis Armstrong had two famour nicknames (綽號). Some people called him Bagamo. They said his mouth looked like a large bag, Musicians often called him Pops,as a sign of respect for his influence (影響) on the world of music.

    Born in 1901 in New Orleans, be grew up poor, but lived among great musicians. Jazz was invented in the city a few years before his birth. Armstrong often said,“Jazz and I grew up together.”

    Armstrong showed a great talent (天賦) for music when he was taught to play the cornet (短號) at a boy’s home. In his late teens, Armstrong began to live the life of a musician. He played in parades, clubs, and on the steamboats that traveled on the Mississippi River. At that time, New Orleans was famous for the new music of jazz and was home to many great musicians. Armstrong learned from the older musicians and soon became respected as their cqual.

    In 1922 he went to Chicngo. There, the tale of Louis Armstrong begins. From then until the end of his life, Armstrong was celebrated and loved wherevet be went Armstrong had no equal when it came to playing the American popular song.

    His cornet playing had a deep humanity (仁愛) and warmth that caused many listeners to say, “Listening to Pops just makes you feel good all over.”He was the father of the jazz style(風格) and also one of the best-known and most admired people in the world. His death, on July 6,1971, was headline news around the world.

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58.How many students’names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?

A.None              B.Three             C.Fifty-five.                 D.All.

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57.The Essential 55 is      .

A.a show                              B.a speech          

C.a classroom rule                       D.a book

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