Some years ago when I was in my first year in col?lege,I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The mo?ment was exciting. Salome's 32       filled the room and brought the theatre to life. I was so 33        that I decided to write an article about her.

I 34       Salome Bey,telling her I was from Essence magazine,and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She 35       and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up,I was scared out of my mind. I 36       I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn't even written a grocery list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there 37       ,taking notes and asking questions that all began with " Can you tell me ... ”.  1 soon realized that 38        Salome Bey was one thing,but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The39       was almost unbearable. I struggled for days 40      draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large enve?lope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn't take long. My manuscript 41       . How stupid of me!I thought. How could 42      in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn't 43        the rejec?tion letter,I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.

Five years later,I was moving to California. While 44       my apartment,I came across the unopened enve?lope. This time I opened it and read the editor's letter in 45       

Ms Profit,Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet xve need some 46        materials. Please add those and return the arti?tie immediately,We voould like to 47        your story soon.

Shocked,it took me a long time to48      Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly,I lost years of 49        writing. Today,I have become a fulltime writer. Looking back on this 50       ,I learned a very important lesson; you can't 51       to doubt yourself.

32. A. joy   B. voice   C. speech   D. smile

33. A. proud   B. active   C. satisfied   D. moved

34. A. visited   B. emailed

   C. phoned   D. interviewed

35. A. agreed   B. refused   C. hesitated   D. paused

36. A. replied   B. discovered   C. explained   D. knew

37. A. seriously   B. patiently   C. nervously   D. quietly

38. A. blaming   B. fooling   C. inviting   D. urging

39. A. hardship   B. failure   C. comment   D. pressure

40. A. with   B. by   C. on   D. in

41. A. disappeared   B. returned   C. spread   D. improved

42. A. compare   B. struggle   C. survive   D. compete

43. A. ignore   B. deliver   C. face   D. receive

44. A. decorating   B. repairing   C. cleaning   D. leaving

45. A. disbelief   B. anxiety   C. horror   D. trouble

46. A. subjective   B. relevant   C. private   D. reliable

47. A. broadcast   B. create   C. publish   D. assess

48. A. recover   B. prepare

   C. escape   D. concentrate

49. A. energetic   B. endless   C. typical   D. enjoyable

50. A. experience   B. success   C. benefit   D. accident

51. A. attempt   B. afford   C. expect   D. pretend

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all―milk. At the same time,a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk.

She buys it. But,she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband's niece.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains. It is simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking,men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at a time is often called "multitasking," a very popular word these days.

A recent study has proved what we have known all along―men and women think differently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain. In the female brains,they found more activity and connec?tions between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of "reason". The right one is known as the "creative" side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She cowrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men,she adds,generally use just one side of the brain.

As a result,men generally deal directly with a prob?lem. Women,however,might include other parts of the brain,like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity (敏感) when solving a problem.'

Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

23. What's the writer's purpose of telling the story?

   A. To make readers happy.

   B. To advise readers to buy things.

   C. To introduce the topic of the text.

   D. To encourage readers to read the text.

24. How does the woman deal with a problem?

   A. Directly. B. Indirectly.

   C. Strongly. D. Carefully.

25. What's the main idea of the text?

   A. Men and women really think differently.

   B. Women use two sides of the brain to think.

   C. More people believe and support a familiar story.

   D. Men generally use one side of the brain to think.

26. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

   A. There were 949 old people taking part in the re?search.

   B. The people taking part in the research were verj young.

   C. Male brains have more connections on right sick of the brain.

   D. Male brains have strong connections on both side; of the brain.

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all―milk. At the same time,a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk.

She buys it. But,she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband's niece.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains. It is simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking,men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at a time is often called "multitasking," a very popular word these days.

A recent study has proved what we have known all along―men and women think differently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain. In the female brains,they found more activity and connec?tions between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of "reason". The right one is known as the "creative" side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She cowrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men,she adds,generally use just one side of the brain.

As a result,men generally deal directly with a prob?lem. Women,however,might include other parts of the brain,like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity (敏感) when solving a problem.'

Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

23. What's the writer's purpose of telling the story?

   A. To make readers happy.

   B. To advise readers to buy things.

   C. To introduce the topic of the text.

   D. To encourage readers to read the text.

24. How does the woman deal with a problem?

   A. Directly. B. Indirectly.

   C. Strongly. D. Carefully.

25. What's the main idea of the text?

   A. Men and women really think differently.

   B. Women use two sides of the brain to think.

   C. More people believe and support a familiar story.

   D. Men generally use one side of the brain to think.

26. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

   A. There were 949 old people taking part in the re?search.

   B. The people taking part in the research were verj young.

   C. Male brains have more connections on right sick of the brain.

   D. Male brains have strong connections on both side; of the brain.

School of Athens 

This wall painting,located in the Vati?can,contains pictures of many famous phi?losophers. Plato and Aristotle are the two in the middle. As an inside joke,Raphael based Plato's face on his fellow artist Leonardo da Vinci. He also included Michelangelo and himself elsewhere in the painting.

The Night Watch 

Rembrandt is one of the most famous Dutch painters. This painting is huge (11 ft X 14 ft) and shows a group of soldiers leaving for a battle. Unlike earlier paintings which show people looking stiff (僵硬的) ，this picture captures their movement. Also,the way he painted the light em?phasizes the three men in the front as well as a young girl. The girl has a dead chicken hanging frdm her belt―a sym?bol that they will defeat their enemy.

American Gothic 

This is likely the most famous American painting of all time. "Gothic" refers to the top window of the house in the background. During the Great Depression,this paint?ing became a symbol of the hardworking and determined American people. Note that the pitchfork (干草叉) is mirrored on the man's overalls (夕卜套) .

The Son of Man 

This painting is an example of surrealism (超現(xiàn)實(shí)主義) ，a style that captures strange dreamlike feelings. Magritte explained this painting as follows, "Everything we see hides another thing,so we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest be?cause which is hidden does not show us."

20. Raphael played a joke in his painting School of Athens by       .

   A. painting philosophers of different times in one painting

   B. painting himself in this painting

   C. basing Plato's face on the artist Leonardo da Vin?ci

   D. putting Plato and Aristotle in the middle

21. What do we know about Rembrandt's The Night Watch？

   A. It is a wall painting located in the Vatican.

   B. It contains pictures of many philosophers.

   C. It is one of Rembrandt's early paintings.

   D. It shows some soldiers leaving for a battle.

22. The painting American Gothic most probably shows      

   A. philosophers   B. farmers

   C. artists   D. soldiers

A The summer I was ten,my mother de?cided to bring us to the world of art. My brother and I were not very excited when we realized what my mother meant. What she meant was not that we could take drawing classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with her at the Fine Arts Museum. Before each visit to the museum,she made us read about artists and painting styles. It was almost as bad as being in school. Who wants to spend the summer thinking about artists when you could be with your friends at the swimming pool?

First we had to read about ancient Egyptians and their strange way of painting faces and then go to look at them at the museum. My 12-year-old brother thought this was so funny,but I was not interested. Later we had to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange long clothing. We had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly (蜂曲的) hair and with no clothes on flying around the edges of paintings. I cer?tainly couldn't see what was so great about art.

On our last visit to the museum,something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary. In it,a woman was reading to a child. The colours were soft and gentle,and you could tell by the mother's expression how happy she was just to be with the child. I couldn't stop looking at this painting!I wanted to see every painting Mary had ever made!It was really worth looking at so many paintings to find a painter who could interest me so much.

16. The aim of the mother's plan was to         .

   A. take them to visit the museum

   B. introduce them to the world of art

   C. ask them to read about artists

   D. show them different painting styles

17. What was the writer's experience in the museum be?fore the last visit?

   A. She came to feel her mother's love.

   B. She liked many paintings.

   C. She hardly enjoyed herself.

   D. She could understand the pictures of fat babies.

18. What made the writer go through a change that sum?mer?

   A. One of Mary's paintings.

   B. A strange way of painting.

   C. Artists in the Middle Ages.

   D. Her mother's instruction.

19. From the text,we can see       .

   A. the importance of curiosity

   B. the effect of art

   C. the value of learning

   D. the power of family education

15. The world today would be different        the amazing discoveries produced by great scientists.

14. ―The zookeeper was really annoyed with me.

―How could he have been        you hadn't thrown stones at the animals?

13. To appeal        the world for help,Hollywood stars led a huge fundraising drive for Haiti.

12. Instead        doing more exercise to lose weight,many teenagers would rather be a couch potato.

11. "Every time you eat a sweet,drink green tea. " This is        my mother used to tell me.