Hollywood suggests glamour(诱惑力),(31)( ) Hollywood suggests luxurious houses with vast palm-fringed swimming pools cocktail bars and furnishings fit for a millionaire. And the big movie stars were millionaires. Many spent their fortunes on yachts, Rolls Royces and diamonds. A few of them lost their glamour quite suddenly and were left with nothing but emptiness and colossal(巨大的) debtsMovies were first made in Hollywood before World War. The constant sunshine and mild climate of southern California made it(32)( ) Hollywood's fame and fortune reached its peak in the 1930s and 1940s, the golden days of the black and white movies. Most of the famous motion pictures corporations of those days, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia and Warner Brothers are still very much in business and great stars like Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin Gary Cooper, and many others besides, have become immortal.In those days Hollywood was like a magnet, (33)( ) Most of them had only their good looks to recommend them and had no acting experience-or ability-whatsoever. Occasionally they got jobs, (34)( ) Gary Cooper was one of the few who was noticed. He started as a stunt(特技表演) rider, and from there rose to be one of the great stars of the early Westerners. Many of the girls got jobs in cafes or gas stations, and as they served their customers they tossed their heads and swung their hips, hoping to attract the attentions of some important person connected with the movies. Most of them hoped in vain.As for the stars themselves, they were held on tight rein(受控) by the studio chiefs who could make or break all but the stars with really big appeal. The stars were "persuaded" to sign seven-year contracts, (35)( ) Under their contracts (36)( ) Their studios decided everything.No country in the world has developed so expertly the skill of advertising as the Americans.They advertise everything, (37)( ) The Hollywood studios, by means of advertising, turned starlets into superstars. Many studio chiefs were tyrants, determined to get their own way at all costs, no matter how unscrupulous(肆无忌惮的;不计后果的) the means.Stars were often typecast and if he or she appealed to the public as a lover, then he or she always played the part of lover. star who was hit(轰动一时的人物) as cowboy or bad guy, got the same kind of role again and again. There was little arguing. "You're the perfect dumb blond, baby, and that's how you're going to stay, "they would say. They even tried to interfere in their stars' private lives: "No, sugar! You just can't marry Mel Billigan. He's too intellectual. He'd destroy your image. "Only when they ceased to be stars did some of them discover that they were also good actors! Movie stars like Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and James Mason gave distinguished performances in character parts as well as leading roles.(38)( ) Most movies today are filmed on location that is to say, in the cities, in the countryside, and in any part of the world that the script.demands. The Hollywood studios are still standing, but most of them have been leased to television networks. About 80% of all American TV entertainment comes from HollywooD。 Yet Hollywood has not lost all its glamour. Movie stars still live there, or in neighboring Beverley Hills, and so do many of the famous and wealthy people who have made their homes in southern CaliforniA。 There is also the attractive Hollywood Bowl, the huge outdoor amphitheater(39)( )Hollywood, above all, has the glamour of the past. It is a name(40)( )_ and for many years to come the old Hollywood movies will be shown again and again in movie houses and on television screens all over the worlD。

A from ice cream to candidates for the PresidencyB an ideal site for shooting(拍摄) motion picturesC drawing ambitious young men and women from all over the worldD Hollywood really is the land of dreams to its visitors who can by visiting this site, learn all there is to know about Hollywood past and presentE. the stars did not have the right to choose their partsF. where every summer since 1922 Symphonies Under the Stars are played by America's best orchestras before packed audiencesG. which will always be associated with motion picture-makingH. during which time the studios built up their imagesI. Hollywood is no longer the heart of the world's motion picture industryJ. a place where the young star-truck teenagers could, with a bit of luck, fulfill their dreamsK. if they were lucky enough to be noticed

(63)And speaking of freedom is not the author free, as few men are free? Is he not secure, as few men are secure?The tools of his industry are so common and so cheap that they have almost ceased to have commercial value. He needs no bulky pile of raw material, no elaborate apparatus, no service of men or animals. (64)He is dependent for his occupation upon no one but himself, and nothing outside him that matters.He is the sovereign of an empire, self-supporting, self-containeD。 No one can sequestrate his estates. (65)No one can deprive him of his stock in trade; no one can force him to exercise his faculty against his will; no one can prevent him exercising it as he chooses.The pen is the great liberator of men and nations. No chains can bind, no poverty can choke, no tariff can restrict the free play of his mind, and even the Times Book Club can only exert a moderately depressing influence upon his rewards. (66)Whether his work is good or bad, so long as he does his best he is happy.I often fortify myself amid the uncertainties and vexations of political life by believing that possess a line of retreat into a peaceful and fertile country where no rascal can and where one need never be dull or idle or ever wholly without power. (67)It is then, indeed, that I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.It is then, indeed, that I feel grateful to all the brave and generous spirits who, in every age and in every land, have fought to establish the now unquestioned freedom of the pen.

For what reason is this capability for acquiring language remarkable?

Passage 4

Children display an amazing ability to become fluent speakers of any language consistently spoken around them. Every normal child who is not brought up in virtual isolation from language use soon comes to speak one or more languages natively.

 The child's acquisition of his or her native language is not dependent on any special tutoring. Parents may spend many hours "reinforcing every recognizable bit of their child's verbal activity with smile or some other reward. But there is no particular reason to believe that such activity affects the child's ultimate success in becoming a native speaker of his parents' language. Children can pick up a language by playing with other children who happen to speak it just as well as they can through the concentrated efforts of doting parents. All they seem to need is sufficient exposure to the language in question.

  This capacity for acquiring language is remarkable for number of reasons. It is remarkable firstly because of its uniformity throughout the human race. There simply are no cases of normal children who, when they are given the chances, fail to acquire native language. By way of comparison, it is not at all unusual for a child to fail to master arithmetic, reading, swimming, or gymnast a considerable amount of instruction. Language acquisition, in other words, is "inherently, It is also species specific

 Every normal person learns a human language but no other animals, not even the most intelligent apes, has been shown to be capable of making the slightest progress in this direction, although some animals can learn to solve problems, use tools, and so on. Language acquisition thus appears to be kind from acquisition of the other skills mentioned

 The progress is further remarkable for its comparative speed and perfection. When we actually attempt to take a language apart to see how it works, we find it is extraordinarily complex and it involves highly abstract organizational principles. Yet, within the first few years of his life, every child has succeeded in mastering at least one such system. Furthermore, the linguistic system that the child masters is identical to the one employed by the people around him or her. If a child is regularly exposed to two languages, he will very probably learn both. Moreover, they will succeed in keeping the two linguistic systems separate, which is a considerable achievement.

According to the passage, what is the children's amazing ability in learning any language? How do they acquire their native language?

(sincerity) She wasn't entirely( ) when she said she liked me.

meaningful meaningless consistent  publish truthful appreciate

embarrass figurative symbolically recover relevant loss

 What Bible reading I did was (51)( ) and superficial. Yet, if I had been asked, "What is the most important book ever (52) ( ) "I would say, "The Bible. "Nevertheless, I did not give it much attention.As a freshman in college, I took a course studying the Bible as literature. But rather than this experience leading me to a greater(53)( ) of the Bible, it convinced me the Bible was irrelevant. I remember wanting the Bible to really mean something to me and being disappointed that it did not. I did not talk about this disappointment; I guess I was ashamed or (54)( ) that this book so many said was great seemed irrelevant and out of date to me.so, placed it on the shelf, both literally and(55)( ) along with other souvenirs from the past. And it was not just the Bible that seemed irrelevant and meaningless to me, it was also church liturgy and church talk. And, of course, in the confidence of my youth I was sure that if I could not understand it, the Bible and church jargon must be just so much rubbish.

 I had grown up assuming life was(56)( )and assuming the Bible and the church would provide me with the key to discovering that meaning. So, when I viewed both the Bible and the language of the church as more or less meaningless I was on the edge of viewing life and my own life as more or less(57)( ) My viewing the Bible and the language of the church as (58)( )

 to contemporary life was a significant factor but not the only one)contributing to a crisis of faith and significant depression that described as the(59)( )of hope.

 My greatest motivation for going to seminary was the hope of finding hope. And just as there were more factors involved in my becoming depressed than my problems with the Bible, so there were more factors involved in my recovering hope than my (60)( ) of the Bible and meaning in church language. But these were significant factors.

(relax) The PC and TV will remain two different experiences: one you interact with and sit close to; the other you turn to for

(horrify) We were( )by what we saw.

(fortunate) I was( ) enough to lose my keys.

(occupy) She has many( )including gardening and wine-making.

(commerce) ( )television has mixed entertainment and advertising.