----_______are you going to______ it?

---- Keep it, of course.

A. What, deal with  B. How, deal with  C. How, do with      D. What, use

The life of an actor appears attractive and many young people dream about becoming one. But the truth is, it is very hard work. If you’re successful, there are deadlines to be met, appointments to keep and the press to deal with. If you’re not successful, then life is extremely tough.
I remember when I started out, I had to search the advertisement board at my drama school every day to look for acting jobs. Drama school was expensive and I needed extra cash to help pay the fees. I welcomed every small job. I played extras in many crowd scenes and became a confident participant in a lot of TV commercials for hair shampoo, soap and washing powder.
I had been working for about two years before I got my lucky break. One day, as I was passing the drama school, I decided to go in to check the notice board. There was nothing on it and I was just leaving when the secretary came along the corridor with a piece of paper. She asked me how I was and I told her life was hard and work was difficult to find. The next moment, she put the paper in my hand and walked away. My hands were shaking as I unfolded the paper, full of expectation. To my surprise, it was an audition (试演) for a clown（小丑）for the Canadian circus. I couldn’t stop myself from laughing. I had expected an audition with a famous director for a new film!
When I was at drama school, there had been a course in acrobatics and clown tricks. I had gained top marks in this course for originality and daring. Later I went to the audition feeling very strange. This was not what I’d had in mind when I enrolled in drama school. To my surprise, the job as a clown turned out to be exactly what I wanted. I loved every moment of getting dressed up and putting on the make-up. I had the opportunity to travel the world and I was more than an actor, I was an entertainer as well. I had visited over 32 different countries and entertained millions of people.
【小题1】The first paragraph is about how _______ it is to be an actor, whether you’re successful or not.

A．easy

B．attractive

C．enjoyable

D．difficult

【小题2】According to paragraph 3, the writer went into the drama school __________.

A．to look for a job

B．to see the secretary

C．to collect a piece of paper

D．to put a notice on the notice board

【小题3】Which of the following can best describe the author’s feeling when he unfolded the paper?

A．Extremely frightened.	B．Feeling anxious and excited.
C．Very worried.	D．Trembling with fear.

【小题4】From the whole passage, we can tell that the writer is ___________.

A．sad that he was not a famous actor

B．happy to travel the world

C．feeling very strange to be a clown

D．very content with his life

【小题5】Which of the following would be the best title?

A．The Life of a TV Actor	B．Acrobatics and Clown Tricks
C．More than an Actor	D．Going to Drama School

The life of an actor appears attractive and many young people dream about becoming one. But the truth is, it is very hard work. If you’re successful, there are deadlines to be met, appointments to keep and the press to deal with. If you’re not successful, then life is extremely tough.

I remember when I started out, I had to search the advertisement board at my drama school every day to look for acting jobs. Drama school was expensive and I needed extra cash to help pay the fees. I welcomed every small job. I played extras in many crowd scenes and became a confident participant in a lot of TV commercials for hair shampoo, soap and washing powder.

I had been working for about two years before I got my lucky break. One day, as I was passing the drama school, I decided to go in to check the notice board. There was nothing on it and I was just leaving when the secretary came along the corridor with a piece of paper. She asked me how I was and I told her life was hard and work was difficult to find. The next moment, she put the paper in my hand and walked away. My hands were shaking as I unfolded the paper, full of expectation. To my surprise, it was an audition (试演) for a clown（小丑）for the Canadian circus. I couldn’t stop myself from laughing. I had expected an audition with a famous director for a new film!

When I was at drama school, there had been a course in acrobatics and clown tricks. I had gained top marks in this course for originality and daring. Later I went to the audition feeling very strange. This was not what I’d had in mind when I enrolled in drama school. To my surprise, the job as a clown turned out to be exactly what I wanted. I loved every moment of getting dressed up and putting on the make-up. I had the opportunity to travel the world and I was more than an actor, I was an entertainer as well. I had visited over 32 different countries and entertained millions of people.

1.The first paragraph is about how _______ it is to be an actor, whether you’re successful or not.

A．easy             B．attractive          C．enjoyable         D．difficult

2.According to paragraph 3, the writer went into the drama school __________.

A．to look for a job

B．to see the secretary

C．to collect a piece of paper

D．to put a notice on the notice board

3.Which of the following can best describe the author’s feeling when he unfolded the paper?

A．Extremely frightened.                    B．Feeling anxious and excited.

C．Very worried.                          D．Trembling with fear.

4.From the whole passage, we can tell that the writer is ___________.

A．sad that he was not a famous actor

B．happy to travel the world

C．feeling very strange to be a clown

D．very content with his life

5.Which of the following would be the best title?

A．The Life of a TV Actor                    B．Acrobatics and Clown Tricks

C．More than an Actor                      D．Going to Drama School

 

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阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital (数字的) dividethe division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive (积极) forces that work against the digital divide.

　　There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized (商业化), it is in the interest of business to increase the number of customersafter all, the more people online, the more interest there is. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next ten or twenty years, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for defeating world poverty that we've ever had. Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. To take advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial ideas. Countries that still think foreign investment (投资) is an invasion (侵略) of their sovereignty (主权) might well study the history of infrastructure (基础设施) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is why America's Second Wave infrastructure-including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so onwere built with foreign investment. The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain's former colony. Guess who owns them now? The Americans. I believe the same thing would be true in places like Brazil or anywhere else for that matter. The more foreign capital you have helping you build your Third Wave infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the richer you're going to be. That doesn't mean lying down and becoming fooled, or letting foreign corporations run uncontrolled. But it does mean recognizing how important they can be in building the energy and telecom infrastructures needed to take full advantage of the Internet.

1．Digital divide is something ________.

[　　]

A．getting worse because of the Internet

B．the world must guard against

C．the rich countries care for

D．considered positive today

2．The writer mentioned the case of the United States to support the policy of ________.

[　　]

A．providing financial support overseas

B．preventing foreign capital's control

C．building industrial infrastructure

D．accepting foreign investment

3．It seems that now a country's economy depends much on ________.

[　　]

A．how well developed it is electronically

B．whether it is against immigrants (移民)

C．whether it follows America's industrial pattern

D．how much control it has over foreign corporations

4．Which is the most important for a developing country according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Protecting the national industry.

B．Setting up lots of factories to meet the needs of the society.

C．Introducing foreign capital in to build the electronic infrastructure.

D．Developing green agriculture so as to keep people healthy.