During London’s 8-minute show at the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, fans were thrilled by the performance of a young British singer with the famous rock guitarist Jimmy Page. Who was that curly-haired singer?
She’s Leona Lewis, a 23-year-old pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and the winner of the 2006 UK television talent show The X Factor. Her UK debut single（首张单曲唱片）, A Moment Like This, broke a world record after it was downloaded over 50,000 times within 30 minutes.
Leona was a working-class girl from London, with a normal family, a steady boyfriend and a job as a receptionist when she tried out for the show. Her father was a part-time DJ, and there was always music in the house. From an early age, she was always jumping on the coffee table, singing along to Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. When she went to stage school, everyone else in her class was richer than she was. But she didn’t feel left out. She just focused on her singing. Lewis wrote her first song at the age of twelve, and won a number of talent competitions. After leaving school, Lewis took a number of jobs to pay to get into a recording studio, including waitressing and several receptionist job.
Her efforts finally paid off. Her first album, Spirit, released in several countries in 2008, went to No.1 in the US, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Germany, South Africa and Swizerland. A second album is planned for release in 2009, and it has been reported that she is planning a £15 million （190million Yuan） world tour in 2010.
Leona has succeeded before everyone’s eyes, turning from a pretty 21-year –old in 2006 into a star singer in 2008. But to some degree, she still seems to be the girl next door. Leona has her feet on the ground. She hasn’t changed. She is very polite and respectful, but she knows what she wants.
1．The first paragraph is written to ______.
A．introduce the topic B．ask readers a question
C．make a brief summary D．bring in a discussion
2．Besides Leona’s continuous efforts, _____ also contributes to her success.
A．her boyfriend’s support B．family music environment
C．guitarist Jimmy Page’s help D．her working-class background
3．From the passage we know Leona _____.
A．sang her first song at the age of twelve and won a number of prizes
B．still works as a receptionist though she is a famous singer now
C．took interest and put a lot of efforts in music when still a child
D．was born into a working-class family and became a DJ at an early age
4．This passage mainly tells us _____.
A．London’s 8-minute show at the Closing Ceremony
B．the successful performance of Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page
C．Leona Lewis’ early life story, career and achievements
D．Leona Lewis’ albums A Moment Like This and Spirit
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A supersonic airliner（超音速客机）like the Concorde（协和式）flies at twice the speed of sound． A passenger can leave London at noon and arrive in New York at ten o'clock that same morning. There is a five-hour time difference between the two cities, and the Concorde can cross the Atlantic in only three hours That evening the passenger will feel it is time to go to bed when it is only six o'clock in the evening． Airline pilots suffer from this jet lag very much． It may be in the middle of the night in Hong Kong but their stomachs are still on London time, where it is dinner time．Pilots and other airline crew have to adjust to （适应）constant changes in time． That is why they often look fifty years old when they are only forty． This adjustment to sudden changes causes all sorts of problems． Businessmen who travel from one side of the world to the other in one day are told never to make important decisions during the first twenty-four hours after landing．
Air travel is getting faster all the time． Engineers say that soon people will be shot to their destinations（目的地）in huge rockets, which will be able to carry 170 passengers at a time． They will be able to cross the Pacific Ocean, from Los Angeles to Honolulu in only eighteen minutes．
(1) When it is twelve o'clock in London, it may be ______ in the morning in New York．
[ ]
A．ten B．eight C．five D．seven
(2) Suppose a supersonic airliner reaches New York at 10 a．m．, it is already _____ the same day in Lon．
[ ]
A．3 p．m． B．4 a．m． C．9 p．m． D．11 p．m．
(3) An airliner like the Concorde can fly at twice the speed of ______．
[ ]
A．sound B．light C．a rocket D．a spaceship
(4) It will take the passengers ______ to cross the Pacific Ocean in huge rockets．
[ ]
A．half an hour
B．three hours
C．more than a quarter of an hour
D．less than ten minutes
(5) Which of the following is Not true?
[ ]
A．There is, a five-hour time difference between London and New York．
B．The Concorde can fly across the Atlantic within three minutes．
C．The pilot and the crew suffer a lot from jet lag．
D．Midnight in Hong Kong may be around 6 p.m. in London．
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The earliest surviving Jane Austen's manuscript (手稿），a handwritten draft for a book with the name of The Watsons that was never published ，sold for 993，250 pounds in the Lon- don sale.
The sale of The Watsons draft has provided a chance to have a deep understanding of how the author wrote it and her reworkings on it, which this manuscript uniquely displays. Probably written in 1804, the novel tells the story of Emma Watson, the youngest of four sisters who is raised by a wealthy aunt but then forced to return to her family while two of her sisters search for husbands.
The novel is only a quarter complete but critic Margaret Drabble described it as “a delightful and highly complete novel, which must surely have proved the equal of her other six novels, had she finished it. ”
The Watsons contains themes found in other Austen's works and also displays her wisdom. The Watsons displays Jane Austen's unique writing style and the influence of this novel on her later works can clearly be seen. It was Austen's only literary work during the period between finishing Northanger Abbey in 1799 and starting Mansfield Park in 1811. It is not known why Austen abandoned the manuscript, though it was possibly related to her father's death in 1805.
Besides the sale of The Watsons in the London sale, the earliest rules of soccer, part of the archive (档案)of the oldest football club in the world, Sheffield FC, sold for 881,250 pounds, which attracted many people.
The Sheffield soccer sale included handwritten drafts from 1858 and the only existing copy of the printed "Rules, Regulations Laws of the Sheffield Football Club” dating from 1859, two years after the club was formed.
64. According to the text, the value of the sale of The Watsons draft lies in ____.
A. making more readers interested in the novel
B making readers know the author's writing process
C. making readers know the author's sad life better
D. making readers know the story of the novel better
65. It can be inferred from what Margaret Drabble said that ____.
A. most of the novel, The Watsons, had been finished
B. Austen wrote seven novels at the same time
C. Austen's father's death made her give up completing The Watsons
D. it is a pity that The Watsons was not finished
66. Which is TRUE about The Watsons?
A. It was Austen's first novel.
B. It was Austen's only literary work.
C. The writing style in it influenced that in Northanger Abbey.
D. It has similar themes to other Austen's works.
67. What character do the two sales share in common?
A. Both of them have handwritten drafts.
B. Both of them date back to the 18th century.
C. Both of them were widely read at the same time.
D. Both of them told us the reason for writing them.
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