There exist cruel wars, fighting and sadness in the world today, so it's not only necessary, but also essential to have a good sense of humor just to help us tide through difficult times in our lives. Putting a smile on someone's face when you know they are feeling depressed, as the saying goes, makes me feel good and warms my heart.

　 How would you feel if you could not joke around with your wife, husband, child, co-worker neighbor, close friend, or even just someone that you are standing in line with at your comer store? I am always saying things that make others smile or laugh, even if I don't know the person I'm joking around with. My Grandma always found humor in everything she did, even if it was the hardest job anyone could imagine. This not only relieves stress in any situation, but also is common courtesy (禮貌) to speak to others that are around you.

　 I know of a few people that don’t have a funny bone in their bodies, as they say. Everyone around them could be rolling on the floor after hearing a great joke and they would sit there without the slightest smile on their face. They don't get the joke that makes others laugh. I am busting a gut while they just sit there, looking at me as if I were from outer space. How can people not get a really funny joke?

　 Laughing is essential to keep your stress levels under control. Without humor we would find ourselves with a lot of psychological problems, or on a lot of medications to keep us from going crazy. There is too much sadness in this present world. It drives people crazy. We all need to find a way to bypass the sadness and bring a little light into our lives. So, I believe our best medicine is to get together and tell some jokes and have some fun laughing together.

61. According to the author, humor is useful in the aspect that ____________.

　 A. it can pick up people' s spirits　 　　　　　B. it can help people get on well with others

　 C. it can help get rid of the cruelty in the world　 D. it makes people more confident

62. The author answers the question in the second paragraph with ___________.

　 A. facts and descriptions　 　　　　　　　　　 B. evidence and argument

　 C. examples and conclusion　 　　　　　　　 D. stories and persuasion

63. The underlined phrase “busting a gut" in the third paragraph can be replaced by __________.

A. keeping silent 　 B. speaking loud 　　 C. laughing hard　 　　　 D. explaining carefully

64. In writing the passage, the author mainly intends to __________.

A. talk about his own understanding of humor

B. encourage people to be humorous in daily life

C. introduce a practical way to get through daily life

D. convince people of the power of being optimistic about life

65. What is the author' s attitude towards the present world?

A. Indifferent 　　　　　　　　　　 B. Positive　　　　　　　　　 C. Satisfied　　　　　 D. Critical

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科目：高中英語 來源：福建省廈門市2010屆高中畢業(yè)班適應(yīng)性考試英語試題 題型：050

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　　“There's no other way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime,”said Bigelow at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday．She has become the first female ever to win a Best Director Oscar．

　　Bigelow was up against the top-selling film of all time, Avatar．But Bigelow's smallbudget film, The Hurt Locker, swept the awards with six trophies(獎杯), including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Mixing and the big one：Best Picture．

　　Many Hollywood insiders are calling this year's awards the“Indie Oscars”, with smaller films taking the other top awards．This was due in large part to outstanding individual performances：Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart(Best Actor)and Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side(Best Actress)．But all eyes were on Bigelow, as her movie The Hurt Locker beat Avatar to the major awards．This was sweetened by the fact Avatar's director, James Cameron, is her ex-husband．

　　Bigelow was only the fourth female ever to be nominated(提名)for Best Director．She followed in the footsteps of Lina Wurtmuller, for Seven Beauties(1976); Jane Campion, The Piano(1993);and Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation(2003)．

　　Bigelow played down the important occasion last week, telling CBS,“There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do．I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can．So in that sense it's very similar．On the other hand, I think the journey for women, no matter what field it is－politics, business, film －it's a long journey．”

　　Ironically Bigelow's filmography is filled with action movies that are low on female leads and high on guns and steel．Her films such as Point Break and The Hurt Locker focus on the fears of men．

　　And is there an entertaining end to the story of Bigelow's victory?She won on International Women's Day．

　　It is, after all, Hollywood．

(1)

Of all the awards mentioned in Paragraph 2, the most important one is ________．

[　　]

A．

Best Picture

B．

Best Sound Mixing

C．

Best Director

D．

Best Original Screenplay

(2)

We may learn from the passage that ________．

[　　]

A．

four people have been nominated for Best Director

B．

The Hurt Locker cost a large sum of money

C．

only big films such as Avatar can take top awards

D．

Sophia Coppola was a woman director

(3)

What Bigelow said in Paragraph 5 indicates that women ________．

[　　]

A．

can't compete with men in any field

B．

have to make greater efforts in whatever field

C．

are weaker than men in the film industry

D．

don't have to make a long journey until their careers take off

(4)

What would be the best title for the passage?

[　　]

A．

Oscar Awards Ceremony

B．

First Female Oscar Best Director

C．

Hollywood Best Actress

D．

The Hurt Locker Beat Avatar

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　　As the train approached the seaside town where I was going to spend my holidays, I went into the corridor(走廊)to stretch my legs．I stayed there a short while, breathing in the fresh 　　1　　 air and exchanging a few words with one of the 　　2　　, whom I had met earlier on the station platform(站臺)．

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cold

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sea

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B. He worked as a house-sitter to raise charity funds.

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Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no?body is desperate enough to drink it.
　　There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex?perts usually put the minimum at fifty li?tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every?where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

    1. A.
      a village
    2. B.
      a small town
    3. C.
      the part of a town that lacks water badly
    4. D.
      an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings
  2. 2.

    Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

    1. A.
      there is no electricity
    2. B.
      the weather is bad
    3. C.
      there is no water
    4. D.
      people don’t want the dirty water
  3. 3.

    A person needs at least ______ litres of water a day

    1. A.
      forty
    2. B.
      four hundred
    3. C.
      a hundred
    4. D.
      fifty
  4. 4.

    The passage mainly tells us ______.

    1. A.
      how India government manages to solve the problem of water gets their water
    2. B.
      how women in Kesum Purbahari
    3. C.
      how much water a day a person deeds
    4. D.
      that India lacks water badly

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