温州十校联合体2016届期中联考英语试题及答案(4)

* Do you want to be an actor?
* Improve your skills with instructions from professional actors & directors.
65．Which of the following classes suits those who want to be actors ?
A．Drama Days                      B．Acting－Just Acting
C．Laugh Out Loud                   D．Summer Scenes
66．It can be inferred from the text that all the four classes ________.
A．are intended only for Grades lst－2nd   
B．are all held at Rosewood Center for Family Arts
C．will take place in June or July
D．need students to bring a sack lunch and drink each day
67．If you want to attend Show Biz Summer 2015, you should be aware that ________.
A．there’ll be no refunds in any case
B．tuition must be paid at least before June 2
C．registration begins half an hour after class time
D．students had better be accompanied on the first day
68．What is the purpose of the text ?
A．To persuade readers to attend Show Biz Summer 2015.
B．To attract readers to attend Summer Scene.
C．To earn money from the text.
D．To teach readers how to register for Show Biz Summer 2015.
69．Where is the text most probably from?
A．A brochure. B． An entertainment magazine.
C．A guide book . D． A newspaper

C
Change is everything in the case of mobile phones. Recent research indicates that the mobile phone is changing not only our culture, but our very bodies as well.
    First, let’s talk about culture. The difference between the mobile phone and the fixed-line phone, is that a mobile number corresponds to a person, while a fixed-line phone goes to a place. If you call my mobile, you get me. If you call my fixed-line phone, you get whoever answers it.
    This has several implications（含义）. The most common one, however, and perhaps the thing that has changed our culture forever, is the “meeting” influence. People no longer need to make firm plans about when and where to meet. Twenty years ago, a Friday night would need to be arranged in advance. You needed enough time to allow everyone to get from their place of work to the first meeting place. Now, however, a night out can be arranged on the run. It is no longer “see you there at 8”, but “text me around 8 and we’ll see where we all are.”
    Texting changes people as well. In their paper, “Insights into the Social and Psychological Effects of SMS (Short Message Service) Text Messaging”, two British researchers distinguished between two types of mobile phone users: the “talkers” and the “texters”－those who prefer voice to text messages and those who prefer text to voice.
    They found that the mobile phone’s individuality and privacy gave texters the ability to express a whole new outer personality. Texters were likely to report that their family would be surprised if they were to read their texts. This suggests that texting allowed texters to present a self-image that differed from the one familiar to those who knew them well.
   Another scientist wrote of the changes that mobiles have brought to body language. There are two kinds that people use while speaking on the phone. There is the “speakeasy”: the head is held high, in a self-confident way, chatting away. And there is the “spacemaker”: these people focus on themselves and keep out other people.
   Who can blame them? Phone meetings get cancelled or reformed and camera-phones intrude（侵入）on people’s privacy. So, it is understandable if your mobile makes you nervous. But perhaps you needn’t worry so much. After all, it is good to talk.
70. The “meeting” influence of a mobile phone refers to the fact that ________.
A. people are able to meet someone at any place and any time
B. people have to make a firm plan about when and where to meet
C. people can arrange their meeting place and time more flexibly
D. people have to attend more phone meetings than ever before
71. According to the two British researchers, the Social and Psychological Effects are most likely to be seen on ________.
   A. talkers B. the “speakeasy” C. the “spacemaker”  D. texters
72. We can infer from Paragraph 5 that the texts sent by texters probably are ________.
   A. showing popular images to others             B. showing new images to others
C. showing the same images to others           D. showing familiar images to others
73. According to the passage, who is afraid of being heard while talking on the mobile?
A. talkers        B. the “spacemaker” C. the “speakeasy”  D. texters
74. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A. The Influence of Short Message Service B. Changes in the Use of the Mobile
C. Changes Caused by Mobile Phone Use D. Body Language and the Mobile Phone

D
“Ok,” I said to my daughter as she bent over her afternoon bowl of rice. “What’s going on with you and your friend J.?” J. is the leader of a group of third-graders at her camp－a position Lucy herself occupied the previous summer. Now she’s the one on the outs, and every day at snack time, she tells me all about it, while I offer up the unhelpful advice all summer long. “She’s fond of giving orders,” Lucy complained. “She’s fat,” Lucy mumbled（含糊地说）into her bowl. “We are going upstairs,” I said, my voice cold, “We are going to discuss this.” And up we went.