The following is the information about plays which will be on these days.     

Big and Little

It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves.

A dreamlike journey in search of identity ...

When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校园)

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (优惠票价) $5

You can get the tickets at the door.

Love Play

It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students.

First-year Performing Arts students present

Love Play. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love.

When:17-19 April, 8 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5

You can get the tickets at the door.

Smashed

It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for TheAge, Helen Thomson calls the play "a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge (边缘) of adulthood."Smashedp raises invention, imagination and girl power.

When: 24-26 April, 8 pm

Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus

Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door.

1. We can know from the passage that Moira Buffini ______.

A．is a character in Big and Little

B．is the director of Smashed

C．wrote the play Love Play

D．once wrote for The Age

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．All the plays begin at 8 pm on Clayton campus.

B．The tickets have different prices but all are sold at the door.

C．Love Play is a comedy which has a different idea about love.

D．All the plays are performed by second-year Performing Arts students.

3. The play Big and Little is mainly about _________.

A．friendship, time travel and death

B．the life experience of a lonely woman

C．the life of a Performing Arts student on Clayton campus

D．unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years

 

（BBC）The "father of the personal computer" who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of 68. Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a machine that led to the home computer age.

Gates and Allen contacted Dr Roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and offered to write software for it. The program was known as Altair-Basic, the foundation of Microsoft's business. "Ed was willing to take a chance on us - two young guys interested in computers , and we have always been thankful to him," the Microsoft founders said in a statement.

 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told technology website CNET that Dr Roberts had taken " a critically important step that led to everything we have today". [来源:学,科,网Z,X,X,K]

Dr Roberts was the founder of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), originally set up to sell electronics parts to model rocket hobbyists. The company went on to sell electronic calculator parts, but was soon overshadowed by bigger firms.

In the mid-1970's, with the firm struggling with debt, Dr Roberts began to develop a computer kit(配套零件) for hobbyists. The result was the Altair 8800. The $395 kit (around £1,000 today) was featured on the cover of Popular Electronics in 1975, resulting in a flood of orders.

Amongst those interested in the machine were Paul Allen and Bill Gates. The pair contacted Dr Roberts, offering to write software that would help people program the machine. The pair finally moved to Albuquerque - the home of MITS - where they founded Micro-Soft, to develop their software.

Dr Roberts sold his company in 1977. He died in hospital on 1 April after a long period of pneumonia．(肺炎)

 

1.Why did Dr Roberts probably decide to sell his company?

A. Because he was in heavy debt in the mid-1980's .

B. Because he wanted to take a chance on Gates and Allen.

C. Because he wanted to develop a computer kit for hobbyists.

D. Because he had difficulty competing with big companies. 

2.What do we know about MITS?

A. It was set up by Steve Wozniak.

B. It sold electronics parts to big firms.

C. It is located in Albuquerque.

D. It is a technology website.

3.We can learn that Popular Electronics is likely to be  ____.

A. a newspaper   B. a magazine   C. a Website   D. an organization

4.What is the best title of this passage?

A. The story of the Altair 8800

B. The founder of MITS

C. Father of the personal computer died

D. The story of Dr Roberts

 

    When a close friend dies, it often forces you to consider your own death. The more you have in common with the friend, the more his death will make you wonder about your own. Sometimes you will naturally say to yourself, "It could just as easily have been me." Such a death has a way of reminding us how fragile life is, and it may cause you to reassess（重新评价） the direction of your own life.

Jack's story is a good example. A successful businessman making a lot of money, Jack didn't spend as much time with his family as he wanted. His job required him to work long hours. But three years ago one of his best friends, a man who worked in the same office, had a heart attack. He died while celebrating his daughter's eighteenth birthday in a restaurant. He was only fifty years old.

Not long after his friend's death, Jack started to have a chest pain. Finally he had a good physical check-up. He received a clean bill of health. But the chest pain continued. He kept thinking of the death of his friend. Jack thought about how much his friend missed in life and he saw how hard it was for his friend's family to manage after he passed away.

Jack realized that he didn't want to end up his life that way. He talked his feelings over with his wife and children, and decided to change his way of life. The family moved to a small town where he started a simple life. Now he is running a small art gallery（画廊）. He is relaxed, and says he has never been so happy in his life, and he has got no more chest pain.

63. Your close friend's death is __________________ to you.

A. a warning           B. common            C. a direction of life     D. an example

64. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means "________________".

A. The doctor didn't write a word on his bill

B. The doctor didn't want Jack to pay for the bill

C. The doctor didn't find anything wrong with him

D. The doctor didn't want to treat his pain

65. His friend's death made Jack ________________.

A. lose much interest in life

B. realize that he missed the friend very much

C. doubt his way of life

D. ill for some time

66. While living in the small town Jack ________________.

A. earns less money    B. gets more time  K^S*5U.C#O%

C. has a happier life    D. does all these mentioned above

 

 

       A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal's office．The vice principal, Steve Gallagher, told the boy he needed to focus on the teach- er, not his cellphone．The boy listened politely and nodded, and that's when Mr．Gallagher noticed the student's fingers moving on his lap．He was texting while being scolded for texting．"It was a subconscious act," says Mr．Gallagher, who took the phone away．"Young people today are con-nected socially from the moment they open their eyes in the moming until they close their eyes at night．It's compulsive．"

       A study this year by psychology students at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Ga．, found that the more time young people spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to have lower grades and weaker study habits．Heavy Facebook users show signs of being more sociable, but they are alsomore likely to be anxious, hostile or depressed．

      Almost a quarter of today's teens check Facebook more than 10 times a day, according to a2009 survey by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group that monitors media's impact on families．Will these young people get rid of this habit once they enter the work force, or will employers cometo see texting and 'social-network checking' as accepted parts of the workday? Think bac．k．Whentoday's older workers were in their 20s, they might have taken a break on the job to call friends andmake after-work plans．In those earlier eras, companies discouraged non-business-related calls, and someone who made personal calls all day risked being fired．It was impossible to imagine the con-stant back-and-forth texting that defines interactions among young people today．Educators are alsobeing asked by parents, students and educational strategists to reconsider their rules．"In past gen-erations, students got in trouble for passing notes in class．Now students are good at texting withtheir phones stiU in their pockets," says 40-year-old Mr．Gallagher, the vice principal,  ”and they're able to communicate with someone one floor down and three rows over．Students are just fun-amentally different today．They will take suspensions rather than give up their phones．"

1.The underlined word“a subconscious act" in the first paragraph refers to an act

       A．on purpose                              B．without realization

       C．in secret                               D．with care

2.Young people addicted to the use of Facebook                ．

       A．are good at dealing with the social relationships and concentrate on their study

       B．have high spirits and positive attitudes towards their life and work

       C．have been influenced mentally in the aspects of behaviors and habits

       D．are always in bad mood and have poor performance in every respect

3.Through the situation of today's older workers in their 20s, it can be inferred that        ．

       A．the employers will not accept young people's sending text messages

       B．a cellphone is a must for today's older workers instead of young people

       C．the employers prefer older workers to young people

       D．the employers will find it hard to control the interaction among young people

4.Mr．Gallagher reminds us that the students in the past and ．those today            ．

       A．like to break rules and have the same means of sending messages

       B．are alwa）-s the big problem for the educators and their parents

       C．like sending text messages but those today do it in a more secret and skillful way

       D．cannot live without a ceUphone

5.What's the best title of the passage?

       A．Teenagers and CeLl．Phones

     B．Teenagers' Texting Addiction

       C．Employers and Teenagers

       D．Teenagers' Education

 

The following is the information about plays which will be on these days. 　　
　　Big and Little
　　 It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves.
　　 A dreamlike journey in search of identity ...
　　When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm
　　Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校园)
　　 Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (优惠票价) $5
　　 You can get the tickets at the door.

Love Play
　　 It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students.
　　 First-year Performing Arts students present

Love Play. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love.
When:17-19 April, 8 pm
　　 Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
　　 Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5
　　 You can get the tickets at the door.

Smashed
　　 It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for TheAge, Helen Thomson calls the play "a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge (边缘) of adulthood."Smashedp raises invention, imagination and girl power.
　　 When: 24-26 April, 8 pm
　　 Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
　　 Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door.
59. We can know from the passage that Moira Buffini ______.

A. is a character in Big and Little

B. is the director of Smashed

C. wrote the play Love Play
D. once wrote for The Age

60. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. All the plays begin at 8 pm on Clayton campus.

B. The tickets have different prices but all are sold at the door.

C. Love Play is a comedy which has a different idea about love.

D. All the plays are performed by second-year Performing Arts students.

61. The play Big and Little is mainly about _________.
A. friendship, time travel and death

B. the life experience of a lonely woman

C. the life of a Performing Arts student on Clayton campus

D. unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years