Passage One
Imagine a world in which children would be the rulers and could decide not only the outcome of each and every occurrence, but also dictate the very structure and form of the environment. In this world, a child’s wildest thoughts would become reality limited only by the extent of his or her imagination. While such a world might sound both fantastic and frightening, at least from a logical, adult perspective, it does exist. What’s more, it has been in existence for some time and is populated by hundreds of thousands of children who spend hours within its boundaries experimenting and learning. This world is not real, at least not in the traditional sense, but exists within a computer and is generated by an educational programming language called LOGO. Unlike other computer languages and programs that are designed to test children and provide applications that formally dispense information, LOGO allows children, even preschool children to be in
A. an education testing program
B. a computer language
C. an information dispenser
D. an unreal world
Passage 2
It is one of the world’s most recognized phrases, one you might even heat in places where little English is spoken: ’The name’s Bond, James Bond.’ I’ve heard it from a taxi driver in Ghana and a street sweeper in Paris, and I remember the thrill of hearing Sean Connery say it in the first Bond film I saw, Goldfinger. I was a Chicago schoolgirl when it was released in 1904. The image of a candy-colored London filled with witty people, stately bid buildings and a gorgeous, ice-cool hero instilled in me a deeprooted belief that Britain was OK.
When Ian Fleming created the man with the license to kill, based on his own experiences while working for the British secret service in World War II, he couldn’t have imagined that his fictional Englishman would not only shake, but stir the entire world. Even world-weary actors are thrilled at being in a Bond movie. Christopher Walken, everyone’s favorite screen psycho,
A. When Ian Fleming created James Bond, he believed that his fictional Englishman would shake the entire world.
B. In the Bond films, England is always portrayed as stylish, elegant and classy.
C. Ian Fleming began to write his spy stories before world war Ⅱ.
D. James Bond seldom epitomized Britishness.
Today’s trumpet is one of the world’s oldest instruments. It is result of many centuries of development. Although it looks nothing like its ancestors, there are many similarities. All trumpets are bellow tubes. They all use the player’s bps to produce the basic sound.
The trumpets developed as players and makers worked to improve its design, size, shape, material, and method of construction. They wanted to create an instrument that would produce a beautiful and attractive tone, enable the performer to play all the notes of the scale, extend the range higher and lower, make it possible to play more difficult music, and, in general, be easier to play well. The remarkable way in which the modem trumpet achieves these goals is a measure of file success of all those who struggled to perfect this glorious instruments.
The trumpet is actually the leading member of an entire family of related instruments. There are trumpets of several different sizes, an
A. It has a long history.
B. It has a large family.
C. It produces a beautiful tone.
D. It is the most popular musical instrument.
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