广东省华南师大附中2007—2008学年度高三综合测试(三)(5)

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46．Americans use _______ to hold their fork to pick up the salad.

A．the right hand B．the left hand

C．both hands D．either of the two hands

47．As the masters of the New World, Americans use a different cutting method from that in the Old World to __________.

A．show their independence of Mother England

B．show their disrespect to Mother England

C．add a new tradition to those in Mother England

D．show off their creativeness to Mother England

48．The underlined word “juggle” in the last sentence probably means A．hold B．lay down C．pick up D．play with

49．Also in the last sentence, the two “them” refer to _________.

A．Americans

B．Europeans

C．Americans and Europeans separately

D．Europeans and Americans separately

50．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．European people hold the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hand .

B．The zigzag eating method is related to American characteristics.

C．The Zigzag eating method has become an American feature.

D．European people will use the American method because of its efficiency.

C

In the age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.

Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6.

The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version（改写本）of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs’on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act.

Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That’s good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: the off-key singing; the blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high; the terrible dancing; the hips jerking （摇摆）to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad. But, it was this very bad act that sold well.

Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Everyone of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America. ”

is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station.

So, what does Hung think of this?

“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean ” Now, he says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour（魅力）or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn’t been easy.

51．What is the main idea of this passage?

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