2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Happy news.

B．A new neighborhood.

C．A video of a zookeeper.

2. How did the woman feel about the national news?

A．Happy.

B．Upset.

C．Interested.

3. What was the woman's favorite story about?

A．Animals.

B．Sports.

C．Charity.

4. What did the kids perform for their neighbor?

A．Some music.

B．A play.

C．A dance.

3 . Visitors with limited mobility are encouraged to use the covered drop-off lane (车道) at the Main Street entrance to the Beck Building. From the Beck Building, most public areas of the Museum, including the galleries, Brown Auditorium Theater, Visitor Center, café, and shop are wheelchair-accessible. The Cullen Sculpture Garden is also accessible.

The MFAH has wheelchairs that visitors may check out free of charge with a valid photo ID. The wheelchairs are available from the bag-and-coat check desks in the lobbies of the Beck Building, Law Building, and Visitor Center on a “first come, first served” basis.

Parking Information

A new underground parking garage, located at 5101 Montrose Boulevard, is open, joining the existing parking garage at 1144 Binz. The outdoor lot across from 1001 Bissonnet is closed permanently.

We recommend that guests with limited mobility use the covered drop-off lane at the Main Street entrance to the Beck Building. Both the Montrose and the Binz parking garages feature wheelchair-accessible parking, but please note that the garage at 1144 Binz is closer to a Museum entrance.

As you head toward the Museum from the Montrose garage, enjoy the art and nature in the Cullen Sculpture Garden, created by sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

Parking Garage Hours

6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Parking Fees

*Parking payments may be made only with a major credit card.

Time	MFAH members	Visitors
0-30 minutes	FREE	FREE
31 minutes - 4 hours	$6	$10
4 - 12 hours	$10	$18
12 - 24 hours	$35	$35

*Parking is free in both garages for MFAH visitors who enter the Museum between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Thursdays. General admission to the Museum is free on Thursdays.

1. Where can free wheelchairs be found?

A．Brown Auditorium Theater.	B．5101 Montrose Boulevard.
C．The Cullen Sculpture Garden	D．Law Building.

2. What is the advantage of going through the Montrose garage?

A．Having a chance of enjoying arts.	B．Having a good parking place.
C．Walking the shortest distance.	D．Getting a wheelchair for free.

3. How much should a MFAH member pay for parking five hours on Monday?

A．$6.	B．$10.
C．$18.	D．$35.

4 . The next time a giant Big Mac or Coke flashes into your mind when you’re walking home from the pub, you may not simply have the snacks.

A British hi-tech company has created a new advertising system that uses lasers (激光) to project images up to 200 metres tall from the sides of tall buildings, enabling advertisers to reach people from virtual billboards in the sky. Passers-by will see each image for only between one tenth and quarter of a second, as their eyes catch the light from certain angles.

Advertising agencies and big businesses have already signalled their interest, but Skyline campaigners have branded the technology “greedy” and said that it could fill our skies with showy and tasteless brands.

The Echo system uses a high laser projector to bounce light off a narrow reflective strip fixed to the side of a building, visible up to 1km away. This creates large-scale images that are captured briefly in the viewer’s eye as a result of the “persistence of vision” effect: the same effect that leaves an imprint (印记) of a light source on your vision after you’ve turned away.

Daniel Siden, the technology’s inventor, explained: People often think this could be subversive, but it’s actually less invasive and more fun than traditional advertising. Mr.Siden said that the system was safe because of the distance between the projector and passers-by. And images would be above the line of sight of drivers and cyclists and below the field of vision of airline pilot. The images have been tested and shown not to cause epileptic seizures (癫痫发作).

Because it uses only one strip of reflected light, the system needs a small amount of the power, about one-twentieth of a standard 96-sheet digital outdoor display for an image of the same height.

Still, some Skyline campaigners dislike the technology and believe it delivers subliminal advertising (隐形广告). Barbara Weiss of the Skyline Campaign, said: “It’s actually offensive. London’s latest tall buildings are not particularly well-built or well designed, but unfortunately people are forced to look at them. Adding stupid advertising that’s invasive in its nature will only make it worse.”

1. Why does the writer use the example of Big Mac, Coke in paragraph 1?

A．Because he attempts to promote these products to potential consumers.

B．Because he wants to introduce a new advertising technology to readers.

C．Because he studies the association between products and images in advertising.

D．Because he tries to illustrate the effectiveness of flashing images of advertised goods.

2. Which of the following statements about the Echo system is true according to the passage?

A．Pedestrians can see the flashing images from specific angles.

B．It’s a new system developed by an advertising agency.

C．The image will no longer exist in vision after you’ve turned away.

D．The system consists of a laser projector, a reflective strip and a physical billboard.

3. The underlined word “subversive” in paragraph 5 probably means ________.

A．subconscious

B．damaging

C．harmless

D．imaginative

4. Which party is likely to set obstacles to the application of the Echo system?

A．Environmentalists worried about energy consumption.

B．Drivers, cyclists and pilots whose sight might be affected.

C．The Skyline Campaign regarding the technology as flashy.

D．The patients who suffer from epileptic seizures.

5 . The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, pure, unprejudiced, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more: it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is a very important assignment facing American journalists - to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing as "local" news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in the financial market, political circles, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life. There is in journalism a widespread view that when you start an interpretation, you are entering dangerous waters, the rushing tides of opinion. This is nonsense.

The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall limit themselves to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions: What are the facts? Are the bare facts enough?

As for the first question, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall make up the beginning of the article, which is an important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large influence, or on page twenty four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three.

Thus in the presentation of a so-called "factual" or"objective" story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporters and editors, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and heir "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.

The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective and subjective processes. If an editor is determined to give a prejudiced view of the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that support his particular viewpoint. Or he can do it by the place he gives a story - promoting it to page one or dragging it to page thirty.

1. According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．If a reporter makes clear the facts he writes, he will no doubt get into trouble.

B．Journalists must select facts objectively to make current events clear to the readers.

C．The most important task of reporters is to provide unprejudiced facts for the readers.

D．For reporters, interpretation of facts is no less important than presentation of the facts.

2. The beginning of the article should present the most important fact because________.

A．it will influence the reader to continue

B．many readers read only the first paragraph

C．it details the general attitude of the writer

D．it's the best way to write according to the schools of journalism

3. Where a story is presented in a newspaper shows________.

A．the editor's prejudice

B．the reporter's background

C．the story's factual matter

D．the story's effect on the readers

4. Which of the following can best express the author's attitude toward objectiveness?

A．Objectiveness is controlled by editors rather than writers.

B．Properly choosing facts prepares a solid ground for objectiveness.

C．He doesn't think there exists complete objectiveness in news writing.

D．To make clear the news is a way to be objective and responsible for the readers.

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