1 . I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old. My brother and his friends were all _______ of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday. When they _______that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought _______for performance. However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn’t go, so my brother _______me the ticket. I was really _______!
I remember the buzz (嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our _______After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became _______. I could barely make out the stage in the _______. We waited. Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band _______the stage. My brother leaned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn’t ____________what he was saying. The first song was already starting and the music was as ____________a jet engine. I could ____________the drum beats and bass notes in my stomach.
I can’t recall any of the songs that the band played. I just ____________that I really enjoyed the show and didn’t want it to ____________. But in the end, after three encores (加演), the show finished. We left the ____________and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement. I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just ____________from a long sleep. My ears were still ____________with the beat of the last song.
After the ____________, I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music. Once in a while, ____________, I listen to one of their songs and ____________I’m back at that first show.1.

A．members

B．friends

C．fans

D．volunteers

2.

A．guessed

B．discovered

C．thought

D．predicted

3.

A．flowers

B．drinks

C．clothes

D．tickets

4.

A．booked

B．offered

C．returned

D．found

5.

A．relaxed

B．embarrassed

C．excited

D．encouraged

6.

A．seats

B．entrance

C．spots

D．space

7.

A．comfortable

B．quiet

C．serious

D．nervous

8.

A．silence

B．noise

C．darkness

D．smoke

9.

A．fell upon

B．got through

C．broke into

D．stepped onto

10.

A．forget

B．hear

C．repeat

D．bear

11.

A．loud

B．hard

C．sweet

D．fast

12.

A．feel

B．touch

C．enjoy

D．digest

13.

A．realize

B．understand

C．believe

D．remember

14.

A．continue

B．delay

C．finish

D．change

15.

A．party

B．theatre

C．opera

D．stage

16.

A．escaped

B．traveled

C．benefited

D．woken

17.

A．aching

B．burning

C．ringing

D．rolling

18.

A．competition

B．performance

C．interview

D．celebration

19.

A．though

B．otherwise

C．instead

D．besides

20.

A．decide

B．regret

C．conclude

D．imagine

2 .         It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.

Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important—sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.

That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.

We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.

Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.

1. In which year did the author first live in a place with an air conditioner?

A．1952.

B．1962.

C．1972.

D．1982.

2. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The heat

B．The theater.

C．The Music Man

D．The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

3. What do we know about Mr. Bellow?

A．He loved children very much.

B．He was a fan of John Wayne.

C．He sold air conditioners.

D．He was a movie star.

4. Why did the author and his/her brother see the same movies several times?

A．The two movies were really wonderful.

B．They wanted to avoid the heat outside.

C．The manager of the theater was friendly.

D．They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater.

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The author turned out to be a great singer.

B．The author enjoyed the heat wave of 1962.

C．The author’s life has been changed by the two movies.

D．The author considers the experience at the theater unforgettable.

3 . Young adult filmmakers all hope to show their works in international festivals like Sundance and Toronto. But what about really young filmmakers who aren’t in film school yet and aren’t, strictly speaking, even adults?
They are at the heart of Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival, tomorrow, in a setting any director might envy: Lincoln Center. Complete with “red carpet” interviews and various awards, the festival has much in common with events for more experienced moviemakers, except for the age of the participants: about 8 to 18.
“What’s really exciting is that it’s film for kids by kids,” said Cori Gardner, managing director of Wingspan Arts, a nonprofit organization offering youth arts programs in the New York area. This year the festival will include films not only from Wingspan but also from other city organizations and one from a middle school in Arlington, Virginia. “We want to make this a national event,” Ms. Gardner added.
The nine shorts to be shown range from a Claymation biography of B. B. King to a science fiction adventure set in the year 3005. “A lot of the material is really mature,” Ms. Gardner said, talking about films by the New York City branch of Global Action Project, a media arts and leadership-training group. “The Choice is about the history of a family and Master Anti-Smoker is about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Dream of the Invisibles describes young immigrants’(移民) feelings of both belonging and not belonging in their adopted country.”
The festival will end with an open reception at which other films will be shown. These include a music video and a full-length film whose title is Pressures.
1. Wingspan Arts Kids Film Festival ______.

A．is organized by a middle school

B．is as famous as the Toronto Festival

C．shows films made by children

D．offers awards to film school students

2. Which of the following is true of Wingspan Arts?

A．It helps young filmmakers to make money.

B．It provides arts projects for young people.

C．It’s a media arts and leadership-training group.

D．It’s a national organization for young people.

3. The underlined word “shorts” in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.

A．short trousers

B．short kids

C．short films

D．short stories

4. Movies to be shown in the festival ______.

A．cover different subjects	B．focus on kids’ life
C．are produced by Global Action Project	D．are directed by Ms. Gardner

5. At the end of this film festival, there will be ______.

A．various awards

B．“red carpet” interviews

C．an open reception

D．a concert at Lincoln Center